Take a moment to give God thanks for those things in your life that you hold dear. Don’t just stop today…
Make everyday a day of thanksgiving. Enjoy your holiday!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Willow Smith, daughter of power couple Will & Jada, is making her mark on the music industry and is snatching wigs to take with her as souvenirs. Her debut single “Whip My Hair” premiered on the Internet a couple of weeks ago and since has seen huge success, as the nine-year-old has taken radio and Internet by storm. She even attracted the attention of mogul Jay-Z, who has signed her to his Roc Nation label and saying that she is a superstar in the making. The official video for “Whip My Hair” has just made its debut on the Internet hours ago and it is the cutest, flyest video I’ve seen in a while. The concept is creative yet literal and just enough without feeling like she’s forcing it. And, it’s age appropriate which I love. There’s no inappropriate booty shaking or half naked little girls here but what you will find is four minutes of paint splattering, colorful hair, dancing and pint-sized swag on overload. The spot was directed by Ray Kay and will officially be released to television outlets this evening when it premieres on BET’s 106 & Park. The fact that I’m not the only grown woman who is feeling this little girl so much just goes to show you how much star power she already has. Those Smith’s are about to dominate the world, mark my words on that! So while you watch the video above, excuse me while I whip my hurr back and fawf!
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It seems Willow Smith isn’t the only one whipping hair. She’s even inspired the Muppets to whip some hair too. Someone has remixed the I Love My Hair song, which teaches little Black girls to love their hair and lip-synched it with Willow’s “Whip my Hair”. The result, is nothing short of fabulous. Little brown skinned Muppets with braids whipping hair can do nothing but give life. The.Cutest.Thing.Ever.
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One of my favorite songs at the moment is Trey Songz’s “Cant Be Friends,” lifted from his Passion, Pain & Pleasure album. It’s something about this song that really draws me to it. It’s honest yet sexy, sensual yet rugid. But Jazzy’s version of the song is just as good as the original — maybe even better. Jasmine “Jazzy” Bailey has been in the background singing behind folks like Melanie Fiona but now she’s ready to step out into the limelight. She’s released her debut mixtape Beauty & The Beat and with it, released this here cover of Trey’s “Can’t Be Friends”. The song sports the original piano driven production with flipped lyrics that tell the story or remorseful love from a female’s perspective. She beautifully conveys her feelings about getting love so good from her man’s best friend that she wishes her man would just ease on out of the picture, and it is nothing shy of brilliant. Her vocals are flawless and she gives the track a romantic and salacious appeal that I’m really digging. Press play on the track below and let me know if you’re feeling it.
Jazzy – “Cant Be Friends”
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For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf is a 1975 play by Ntozake Shange. Initially staged in California, it has been performed Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and adapted as a book, a television movie, and now a film. The play is a series of 20 poems performed by a cast of seven women characters, each of whom is known only by a color: “Lady in Yellow, Lady in Purple,” etc.
The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion and is embodied by each woman’s unique story. Tyler Perry took on the task of adapting this play into a film titled ‘For Colored Girls,’ which will be released in theaters on November 5th. The official trailer for the film was just released moments ago and shows us what a dramatic, poignant film this will be. This is actually the first film Perry has done where he was not the writer of the script, so I’m sure to portray someone else’s vision appropriately was no easy feat but it looks like he may have done it justice.
The film stars a cast of heavy hitters including Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose and Phylicia Rashad to name a few. Check out the trailer below. From the looks of it, this will be something you won’t want to miss.
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It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything new from JoJo. Four years to be exact. After her release of her sophomore album, The High Road, she seemed to have disappeared from our ears. There’s been quite the bit of drama swirling around the 19-year old including a fair amount of label drama and a bunch of leaked tracks from her forthcoming album All I Want Is Everything. It seemed we had heard literally every track from the album months before it was supposed to be released, which is never a good thing.
But, like a true survivor JoJo went and regrouped, recorded some new music and is now back with a new mixtape titled Cant Take That Away From Me, which will drop September 7th. The leading track from the mixtape titled “In The Dark”(which you can hear below), was exclusively released today. [click to continue…]
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Nine years ago today the world lost Aaliyah Dana Haughton aka Babygirl to a tragic plane crash. No one would dare argue and say that she wasn’t gone too soon because we all know she passed at the height of her career. She was one of those talents that we probably won’t see come around again. She sang ( and well), she could dance and she could act. The true triple threat. I stumbled across this dope mix of nearly every one of her biggest tracks and in celebration of her life, I present it to you here. Seriously, you’d be doing yourself a favor by checking it out.
Rest in blissful peace, Aaliyah. We all miss you!
Extra: Click HERE to check out the post I wrote over at Sunkissed Mommy which details my top 5 tracks by Aaliyah.
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