New music videos (Beyonce, Drake) July 9, 2009
Posted by J.C. in New Music.Tags: Beyonce, I Am Sasha Fierce, Sweet Dreams video, Drake. So Far Gone mixtape, Best I Ever Had music video
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Artist: Beyonce
Song: “Sweet Dreams”
Album: “I Am… Sasha Fierce”
Beyonce is back with ANOTHER music video. She doesn’t ever stop. This is one of my favorite tracks off the album, although I first heard the song nearly a year before the album came out when the track was titled “Beautiful Nightmare”on Concreteloop. The video is definitely… different. Not in a bad way though.
Song: “Best I Ever Had”
Artist: Drake
from “So Far Gone” mixtape
If you haven’t seen Drake’s latest video by now, you are late ass hell. But that’s fine. So, many people DESPISED the video and called it this and that and whatnot. First of all, Kanye West directed it, so if you feel that strongly send your hate mail via his blog. Some are saying that Kanye intentionally made the video that way it is to “sabotoge” Drake’s carreer and I can’t say I agree with that but it did pass my mind that this was a HUGE track provided with a very lackluster video. Although the video isn’t romantic or cute and sweet, it’s not THAT terrible. It was pretty funny during the dialouge scenes. As for exploitation of women, almost EVERY fuckin rap AND R&B video out now have half dressed women grinding. Why not playing basketball–then losing? HAHA!
Someone who wants to find out all that I have to give July 9, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Soul Live.Tags: I Need Girl live performance video, Ready, Trey Songz, twitter
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Trey Songz performed his latest single “I Need A Girl” on 106 and Park yesterday. This is definitely a difficult song to sing, especially live and Trey still killed it. I love to see artists perform with a live band. It makes the music feel more organic and brings the song to life. Catch the interview below. If y’all are ‘Ready‘ for new music be sure to pick up Trey’s album August 4th. For real, some of us fans and bloggers should get paid for how much we promote our favorite aritsts haha! Be sure to hit Trey up at Twitter as well.
She worth the trouble y’all July 6, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Soul Live.Tags: birthday, concert, J. Valentine's Day, Kyla Pratt One on One, Letoya Luckett, Tank
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This weekend, J. Valentine, Letoya Lucket and Tank will be performing at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. I would DEFINITELY attend, if it weren’t my nephew’s bday! Show some birthday love to bay area’s J. Valentine as well as check out some of the best and underrated acts in R&B today. Kyla Pratt from the TV show ‘One on One’ will be hosting.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson June 25, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Just Random.Tags: Beat It, RIP Michael Jackson
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Today, Michael Jackson passed away. My first reaction was: shit happens. When I found out, Twitter was over capacity and every twit was a sad one about how someone felt about the death. Then I thought of how I felt when Aaliyah died, and I understood how people who don’t personally know someone can become affected by someone they feel a connection to. So definitely, Rest In Peace MJ. He was only 50 years old. =[ On a lighter note, below is one of my favorite Michael Jackson song/video! I loveee the choreography, ha!
New Music Vids (The Clipse, Amerie & Ciara) June 25, 2009
Posted by J.C. in New Music.Tags: amerie, Ciara, Kinda Like A Big Deal, The Clipse, Why R U, Work
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Song: ‘Kinda Like A Big Deal’
Artist: The Clipse ft. Kanye West
The Clipse have got to be my favorite hip hop duo since Outkast. If I don’t love their shit, I ate least like it. What’s interesting about this video in the angles the director used as well as the colors. Something different. Also love the fact that we got Kanye back WITHOUT autotune!
The little slacker who wouldn’t… June 25, 2009
Posted by J.C. in In This Life.add a comment
Alright friends, I’m back. Obviously, I’ve been slacking on EVERYTHING. Haven’t been to the gym in over two weeks and everything I’ve been posting on the blog is music videos lately. First of all, I’m just tryna keep some of y’all aware of current music. Secondly, I’m just tryna live my life and enjoy my summer so I haven’t been wanting to post anything worth reading. Although, I have decided I want to write more about the things in my life and my views on things. Recently my niece Nancy turned 21st so I saw some friends & family on her birthday. I also got to chill with one of my best childhood friends Mary who was in town for summer vacation from school. I should be starting school in fall (no, for real-for real.) Things seems to be moving, not necesarily fast, but there will be some changes made. P.S. If you ever felt some people around you aren’t being supportive and are straight up hating, most likely IT’S TRUE. To all of y’all trying extra hard to come down on me, good luck! It’s gonna take a lot to bring me down biiiiiiitches!
Ain’t got to be afraid, my broken heart is free June 19, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Videos.Tags: Beyonce, Broken-Hearted Girl music video, Ego Remix, I Am Sasha Fierce, Kanye West, Sweet Dreams
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Artist: Beyonce
Song: “Broken-Hearted Girl”
Album: ‘I Am… Sasha Fierce”
Keep reading to see behind the scenes footage of the “Sweet Dreams” music video as well as the official remix video to ‘Ego’ (Kanye verse/performance scene added). Beyonce is griindiiiing. Above & Beyonce DVD coming soon, obviously.
Apple finally decided to smarten up: iPhone 3G S June 9, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Soul Digital.Tags: Apple, iPhone 3G S
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The new iPhone 3g S will be released on June 19th at the price of $199 for a 16 gig or $299 for a 32 gig. Too bad, current 3G users can’t upgrade until December. OR you can pay an “early upgrade fee” of the low-low price of $399. I’m glad they decided to add video without us having to hack our iPhones, added copy and paste as well as multi-media messages. They also added voice control, which is a cool feature. Doubt they fixed the bluetooth though. I may have to sit this one out. Apple is doing an annually update and I can’t afford to buy a new phone every year. Check out the video below for more details.
Video spotted at RealTalkNY
I always knew that one day, they’d try to bring me down June 9, 2009
Posted by J.C. in Videos.Tags: Brandy, Bring Me DOwn, Kanye West
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A great collaboration from my girl Brandy aka B-Rocka and KanYe West. One of my favorite things about Kanye as a person is that he is very passionate and emotional. It definitely show in this performance. I can’t tell but it seems like this is an old song. I hope not.
Positivity June 5, 2009
Posted by J.C. in In This Life.add a comment
These past few years I’ve learned many things about myself and my environment. The most important lesson I’ve learn so far is that sometimes we have no control over certain situtations and we just have to accept it. It sounds simple enough, but it can get deeper because this affects us in many ways. We often plan things to go a certain way or want to do things accordingly. Unfortunately, we can not control the weather or how other people act and accidents can and will happen. Shit happens! Many some of us strive for perfection and sometimes life surprises us with spontaneous adjustments and changes everything you had hoped for. You can be mad, yell, fight, talk shit–whatever. Or you can be optimistic and just deal with what life gave you. In this moment, I am so grateful to be alive and have support from family and friends who love me. Not everyone has that. Some families barely have food or shelter. This is what important, not materialistic shit. So now my mission is to have a positive outlook on everything and try to spread the positive energy. I want us to teach each other to love ourselves again because only until then can we love someone else. That’s where the acceptance and good attitude starts.
