FWIW--

1. She was Glady's Knight's niece too.

2. There was a "tribute" on VH1 that ran some of her videos. She was talented and in some songs you could hear a blues influence. I think she was far and above most hip-hop artists I have heard in musicianship, taste of material, and singing skill. I would not have pasued to see it except for this thread, and it changed how I see hip hop (or whatever they are calling that type of music).

3. The OBIT prefix is VERY NEW and we are still all learning how to use it.

4. What we DON'T need is a running argument on "What does OBIT mean?" like the one on "What does BS mean?". Has it actually helped anything to persist in that debate??? What we DO need is people posting what they think ought to be posted, and fewer people judging one another as people or as writers, by their posts.

5. What we also need is people responding more to the opening posts of threads and then saying what THEY think, and less infighting among posts once the thread gets going. People saying what they think are not always looking for a debate. They are looking for others' best INDEPENDENT thinking, not their knee-jerk reaction to this post or that.

I wish we would discuss the TOPICS more and the OPINIONS of others less.

~Susan