BREAST CANCER BENEFIT SHOWCASE!

Come thru to Fat Baby in NYC Monday 10/25 and show your support for Breast Cancer Awareness. the night will be filled with performances by many NYC artists and will be hosted by Charlie Blanco and ME! to be honest, it is my first hosting gig so i'm kind of nervous! i hope you can make it out, it's for a great cause and all proceeds go to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation....check out the flyer for more info!

BIRD GANG!

How dope is this picture??? Birds are taking flight from the incoming tide at the Snettisham Nature Reserve in Snettisham, U.K.

CMJ 2010

Here are just a few showcases you can checkout this week for CMJ 2010. Show love to my boys Children of the Night, Lloyal, Cody B. Ware, Prince Supreme, and Jeff Donna and come hang with me TONIGHT at Santos and Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Friday at Gallery Bar. These showcases surely wont disappoint! You can check out more line-ups at cmj2010.com

Fit for a Queen

while i'm not a girl that like to wear heels all the time, i think i'd sleep in these! peep toes are def one of my favorite styles and the gold wings are FIERCE! These shoes by Alexander McQueen run about $1285! if i had that kind of money, they would be SO worth the purchase! christmas is coming soon...who's buying?!

Damn they dont make em like this anymore!

i know ya'll probably watched the awards and concluded that this was one of the best cyphers of the show, but my question is, why are we only doing stuff like this for award shows? i'm sure all these "freestyles" are pre-written, which is cool because sometimes when i hear one of my favorite artists freestyle, i hate that i am sometimes disappointed at their skills. some people are just meant to write shit down vs. rhyming off the top of their head. we can't all be Jay. i just wish BET would have a show or SOMETHING dedicated to cyphers...i always loved Rap City: The Basement where the artists would come through and shut shit DOWN with the freestyles in the studio. i love to see the raw talent that gives reason why these artists are in the famous positions they are in now. for me, i think freestyling comes hand in hand with being an emcee, and i'll admit that i do judge those certain artists who dont have the ability to do so. so much of this culture has do to with showing off your skills at the drop of a dime, with nothing written, just a beat and the bob of your head. and dont try and fool us, most people can tell when you're spittin something you've written prior. Tashy aint no fool!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY URSHER!

just a little birthday shout-out to one of my fave R&B acts of all-time....USHER! i was gonna hit u guys with a throwback but i wanted to put u on to a song off of his latest album, Raymond vs. Raymond. Here's "Guilty" featuring T.I.

THROWBACK!

This might just be my most favorite indian song of all time. i remember watching this with my mom when i was young wishing i was the woman singing and dancing in all those amazing outfits. to translate loosely, she's saying "what am i hiding behind my blouse" which can be interpreted as she's telling dude to find her heart. i dont wanna butcher the song too much, but you dont need to know Hindi to feel this song, the beat is so tough and her singing compliment it so well. You may recognize the chorus, Jay-Z sampled it in "The Bounce" off of The Blueprint.

CODY B. WARE - THE BLUE DEMON

This is the latest project from queens native Cody B. Ware! you can read about him in an extensive interview on http://www.21-7magazine.com/ and download his latest at http://www.codybware.com/

Also lookout for this crazy Queens collabo project called WORLDS FAIR that consists of Cody B. Ware, Children of the Night, Prince Supreme, Jeff Donna, Hannibal King and PDA....it it sure to be INSANE!

PROP 19! If this goes down, I'm moving to Cali!

November marks an EPIC month in our nation's history, as well as for stoners everywhere! California residents will be voting that month on whether to legalize marijuana for personal use ^_^. if the law is passed, it would allow residents over the age of 21 to grow and travel with as long as it is for personal use. and of course, all the dispenaries would be taxed by the state for their distribution. here are some clauses of the new law:

-a person may hold up to one ounce of marijuana at any given time

-you may not smoke in public, nor can you be in the presence of a minor while smoking

- police will still be able to arrest anyone who is driving under the influence of marijuana

-they are also estimating that the price of marijuana could fall my as much as 80%

-they are not sure yet whether the federal government will intervene because up until now, they have only left it up to each state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes only.

if California was in debt now, i'm sure they may have an influx of people moving there once/if this this law is passed. i know i will definitely be making plans in the near future to spend sometime in the pot smoker's mother land.

RUNAWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN

When it comes to anything Michael Jackson related, you know i'm all ears. so when i read about Kayne's film 'Runaway' had the inspirations of Michael's iconic place among music videos, i was ecstatic that someone is trying to emulate his accomplishments. I love that he is trying to bring back that era where music videos could almost make or break a song, as well as having them being featured as short films. Michael was once quoted in his book (Moonwalk, 1988) saying, "I was determined to make music as visually as possible...my goal is to do the best i can in every area, so why work hard on an album and then produce a horrible video?...i dont even like to call them videos. on the set i explained that we were doing a film, and that was how i approached it." this resonates so much with what Kanye says about his film, which is ultimately to "bring real culture to popular culture." remember always looking forward to MJ's latest video, for the latest dance moves, his newest fashion, as well as what kind of artistic interpretation he had for his songs. if Kanye is trying to bring any of this back, i'm WIT IT. i wont sit here and spoil the movie for you, as most blogs have spilled the beans on the content, but i do think it's going to be AMAZING.

MIAMI P.D. PINS JAY-Z AS A GANG MEMBER!

i HAD to post this because it absolutely hilarious....check out this anti-gang banner posted on the Miami P.D. website...dont 2 of the "gang bangers" look a little familiar? I'm pretty sure that Jay-Z front and center! as well as the dude standing to the left of him! If they wanted to non chalantly throw a rapper in the banner, they could have picked someone who really is more gang affiliated (like snoop or weezy). after EVERYONE noticed the resemblance, Miami P.D. removed it from their site. did they really think they were gonna get away with that? i wonder if Jay even caught wind of this and what he thinks about it...