Throwback Thursdays: Ballet

At five years-old you could find me in a tutu, tights, a leotards, and a pair of ballet slippers shuffling around a Sante Fe, NM ballet studio. Those were the good days. Thinking back on those years, I am remiss for not sticking with ballet because I think I had serious potential to be one of those dancers that just make you go "wow" when you see them peform. Alas....

Nearly a decade and a half later, I found myself at the bar, grande plie-ing, feet in first position, feeling like my five year-old self again---except I wasn't surrounded by pint-sized prima ballerinas. Nonetheless, the return was nice. I felt the strength as I relev-ed and the quite zeal as the in-house pianist's fingers danced across the keys, filling the room with a playful melody that paced our excercises. Like Arnold Schwartzenegger, I'll be back and this time I just might be there to stay.

*rLa.

John Lass!

Ok so this maybe the tightest tape i've heard in a while....and i'm not just saying that because i speak some poetry on the joint. John Lass's new mixtape Out of the Box(soon to be released) really is pure craziness. I'll definitely be posting the official release date but in the mean time check the boy's flow
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Daily Life

It's close to 4am on a Thursday night...I mean what can I say, it's spring break! My last spring break of high school & I'm sitting here with my co-author just vibin'. We've listened to a lot of dope music tonight and just marveled at the pure talent and creativity that people our age possess. Photographers, writers, dancers, poets, wrappers---anything really. Simply amazing. Be on the lookout, cuz we're here.

Candidness....a new trait in hip hop

This video shows Wale, 9th Wonder, and Joe Budden candidly speaking about internet comments, jay, kid cudi... and other subject. Wale is hella funny.



Keep the sincerity kids....

There Ain't Nothing Like A Morgan Girl...

I was perusing through Charles Hamilton's blog today and saw that he was giving props to the Flyy Society...a maryland outfit and these dudes... They remixed Brooklyn Girls for Morgan. So my personal love for anything Charles Hamilton and HBCU related alone gave this mix realease space, but its also very good.



Keep it black kids...

A World Of Pure Imagination

Ok so i was obsessed with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when i was a youngin' and this video made me go back to that obsession for a bit. This is the process of making favored wall paper...how baller is that shit? I peep'd this earlier today via Hypebeast and i had to give it some realease space.



Dope as shit.

Keep making dream worlds realities kids....

QuEST goes retro

QuEST teams up with Mike Waxx of ILLRoots.com to put out the Distant Travels into Soul Theory . The tape takes old school tracks and gives them a new birth with QuEST's slick interpretation on this guy meets girl concept. If you don't have it get it, now. Click HERE to download.

Keep the old school new kids....

R&B Swagg

The other day i peep'd Mateo's cinematic mixtape presentation of his Underneath The Sky and i was thoroughly impressed...but more so mesmerized by the swagg that is Mateo. I mean I am a Hip Hop type of chick but i couldn't stop watching this video and bumpin' his mixtape. I love Mateo...no groupie. And if you haven't peep'd him yet get on it.



Keep on watchin' kids....i mean how could you not?

Quit Drake...think not

In Chrisette Michele's new video, Epiphany she kicks her video co-star Aubrey Graham out of the crib....If you're not a Degrassi fan Aubrey Graham is Drake...would you quit him? Think not



Keep on watchin kids...

I &hearts Hip Hop

I love Hip Hop on some Sanaa Lathan Brown Sugar tips...so when i hear something like Nero's Alive and Vibrant it always sounds more like a love note. So returning the love, I gotta post about the magnificence that is this mixtape. So if you're ready to fall in love go download it immediately

http://www.zshare.net/download/54387261355ef303

Keep on lovin' kids...

The Return

♪♪ It's been a long time since I left you...without a dope beat to step to, step to. ♪♪


RIP Aaliyah, and RIP the days when I go for weeks without postings! I'm back and I'm....


letting goo! Boys, though I really can't stand them sometimes, are good teachers because they teach some of the most unforgettable lessons. Straight up. That heartache last year that you still feel today? Lesson learned. That betrayal that still has you second guessing brothas to this day? Lesson learned.


After awhile, you get tired of learned the same lesson over and over again until you get the point that you've got to just CNL---Cut Niggas Loose! Let 'em go. You'll thank yourself for it.


*If he only calls you once a month,late at night, when it's convenient for him, or only after you've called him first....it's time to ask why. Or just stop calling him. Don't waster your time.


*If he claims college, sports, etc. as an excuse...it's just that, an excuse. Don't excuse it. There are plenty of guys out there who will make time for girls. He just might not be the one.


*If you give him an ultimatum, after much thought and consideration, and he can't handle it, you know you've made the right decision. Don't let his faulty arguement change your mind.


I could go deeper on this...but my heart is a little overloaded with emotions right now so I'll save that for another time.....


*rLa.

This Nigga Kanye

This is his official renaming....the Louis Vuitton Don is no more he is now Martin Louis the King, Jr. If you don't get the humour in this and you choose to instead get upset...please no comments




Keep on Laughin' Kids

Peace

Why I Still Love Hip-Hop

There are times when i look at the the top 2o "hip hop" records and i feel like common....wonderin' why i still love this nigga lls

but there are the moments when he slips me stuff like a cipher between cudi and asher roth and i fall head over heels again

keep on lovin' it kids

peace

Sans Noir

As I sat watching The City the other day, I began to think about how there is a serious paucity of African-Americans in the fashion industry. Here Whitney Port is, a 24 year-old, white female with a degree in Gender Studies, working for Diane von Furstenburg. How does that happen? Before her gig with DFV she worked for The Peoples Revolution, a Public Relations powerhouse that is well known in the fashion world, and for Teen Vogue before that. All with a degree in yes, you heard right, Gender Studies. It doesn’t make much sense to me. If I aspire to work for a well-known designer, do I too have to be white, wealthy, and have connections? I have seen maybe one or two black people on the show. None of the girls she works with are black, nor are any of her friends (at least from what I’ve seen on the show) black.

Is it impossible for blacks and whites to travel in the same circles, for an equilibrium to exist among careers? It somewhat of the same case with regards to gymnastics. I believe black people are naturally acrobatic, but often times we do not have the money to finance a child’s gymnastics career. That’s why you see one, maybe two of us peppered among the Olympics gymnastics team every four years. As there needs to be more Dominique Dawes, there needs to be more Angela and Vanessa Simmons, but they wouldn’t even be where they are today with Pastry if their father wasn’t Rev Run and if their uncle wasn’t Russell Simmons.

We need more BLACK.

The Coolest Kid, Ever(?)

Pretty soon M.I.A will give birth to her first child. One has to stop and think about how this baby will come into the world. I mean his mom will be M.I.A....he'll be rocked to sleep by the sounds of electronic club dubs. He'll be dressed as an african punjab from Brooklyn in 1988. His babysitters will all rock Do the Right Thing Jordans and Hi-Top Fades. He'll get three cuts in his eye brows before he gets his first haircut. His first words will be BANG BANG. From the moment this kid pops out he'll be the coolest kid ever lls(laughin' like shit). Well even if none of that happens he'll still be the child of M.I.A....which pretty much guarantees dopeness. Peace & Blessing to Maya and Ben and good luck on the kid.

Keep on laughin&imaginin kids...

Peace

haaha...

every so often i do some shit that i think is hilarious enough to share
and thus....this post comes into existence

Recreational Drugs...a stoner's retreat
big up to kid cudi

Recreational Drugs (stoners retreat) - Couturah

Star Power

The mayhem begins Friday.



Over 1.5 MILLION people will begin flocking to our Nation's capital (&my hometown) for an Inauguration like no other.



&&Did I mention the Star Power?



Beyonce. Mary J. Blige. Mariah Carey. Faith Hill. Jay-Z. Alicia Keys. Shakira. Stevie Wonder. The Jonas Brothers. Miley Cirus. Demi Lovato. Bow Wow. Common. Diddy. Young Jeezy. T.I. Akon. Oprah. Denzel Washington. Jamie Foxx. James Taylor. Usher. Shaq. will.i.am. John Legend. Heather Headley. Herbie Hancock. Queen Latifah. Bruce Springsteen. Wynton Marsalis.



I mean really??



For everyone who isn't on one of "Those Lists," you can join Wale & Bun B at Stussy DC at 6pm on January 19th for a FREE Inauguration Party. Hors d’œuvres and drinks will be served. LOVE Nightclub [ http://www.lovetheclub.com/ ] will be having 21+ events from Friday until Tuesday. VIP tickets are running about $150. Regular cover fee should be about $20 but might be raised due to the expectance of large crowds. Expect long, LONG lines. The Youth Ball, one of 10 official Inaugural Balls, costs $75---but you have to search out where to find tickets. Scour http://www.pic2009.org/.

YES WE DID!!!

Wale on XXL

Wale!

That dudder Wale is puttin on more efficiently than anyone else out the DMV. So if you are..or aren't from area make sure u cop XXL december issue. Besides Wale it profiles alot of other up and coming notables Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, Mickey Factz, Blu, Charles Hamilton....go do that

keep the DMV on deck

love&peace

Feed the Children

"I know its hard but who does God choose to go through it worst?

usually its the prophets

ask a cat what matters nowadays usually its his pockets"

-Talib Kweli, The Nature

Hearing the sight of silent sounds,

Make stares of need so loud.

It radiates through my ears,

pray that help will soon be here.

Know that God...must hear, and he has to be near,

because i'm so blessed.

But i can't help but wonder how he decides who gets less.

It can't be chance,

cause its all fate.

Just hate i see infomercials i can't change

Barack=Black Genius

Dude Dahlak from ill-literacy...definitely a black genius, big ups on creating this amazing joint. This goes out to you Mr.Obama, god bless the blackness.



support the ingenius....

love&peace

Jus Wanna Dance

I love movements that take it back to fun eras....right now i'm diggin' hard the whole retro shit, this is the a little video of the retro kidz doing their thing....jacked, i mean courtesy of karmaloop tv





keep on dancin' kidz....

love&peace

The Facebook Complex

"Has our generation been ruined by social networking groups?" It was just one of the fleeting thoughts that occurred to me on one of the countless occassions when a supposed five minute glance on my prefered network, facebook, turned into an hour of nothingness. But, unlike the other numerous thoughts running through my mind in these sessions...this thought might have some actual depth to it. I mean come on...who thinks intelligently while zoning out over facebook?

Thinking deeper into the actual reality of "social networking" the whole concept is slightly awkward, paricularly the setting up of a profile. We are the first generation to try to present ourselves in such a trite way. We give ourselves one page in which we try to explain our being to the world---or at leasst the part of the world interested enough to look at it. Quotes are picked, likes combed through, and pictures carefully selected. We give ourselves a piece of the web and try to explain who we are in a nutshell. We released pictures of our lives, accounts of everything from drunken evenings to fights to break up's. Even the best of us facebook stalk people we have never even talked to in real life. We update statuses, volunteerly so our peoples can peep what we're up to...We laugh, cry, and get mad all at some shit we see over the web. The use of social networks has allowed for an exposal of self not previously had by any generation prior.

Maybe we want to share our lives more fully, or perhaps diaries were just becoming obsolete, or maybe this is just the beginning. Perhaps our kids will have every moment of their lives published on the next generation's facebook instanteously...

Who knows? I gotta go check my facebook

love&peace

One of 15,000

After running into a cute guy working at the Travelex counter in Union Station who changed my 25.00 Euro for $27 and some change, I boarded the train to Gallery Place so I could make the brisk walk from there to the Washington Convention Center. The man that stood next to me while waiting to cross the street ending up entering the Convention Center with me. Volunteers donning signs directed us to register and sign in, while one lady seemed to think that I wasn't old enough to volunteer. I AM 18, and I DO have a right to serve my country when opportunities present themselves, so yes, "Brenda IS 18," and no, "I didn't bring you dinner."

Seated amongst a myriad people, I struggled to fathom that I was one of 15,000---out of a pool of over 80,000 people---to be chosen to volunteer for a truly historic weekend. Even though my role may be directing hundreds of spectators to the nearest bathroom, I'll be proud to do so because it is a privilege to serve. Although...I'm not so sure about the hats the gave us...They're basically red, dollar store cotton hats, with lettering that couldn't have cost more than $0.25 a hat. They can easily be duplicated. But I guess nonetheless, I'll wear that hat with pride on January 20, 2009.