
9.05.2007
50 vs Kanye Pt.2 (via The Sly Show)...

50 vs Kanye
This is the real cover of the Rolling Stone...Not the one below which has been circling the net for days now...If 50 ain't got the sloping forehead of prehistoric man I dunno who does...I swear I think he was frozen for a million years and recently thawed out...That's the only explanation as to how evolution skipped him...I've actually heard Kanye's album (and the Japanese bonus tracks) and all I know is everything sounds better than anything 50's released off his album yet but what do I know? Maybe he's holding some heat waiting to release it at the last minute...I sho hope so or he's go'n be crying when Kanye outsells him and if that happens neither one of them is ever go'n shut up...
Shaq Has Filed for Divorce...
I never like seeing a black couple split but for some reason this one is making me a lil more sad than most...Crazy thing is HE filed for divorce...That's a lil strange...And according the the Miami Herald "Shaquille O'Neal is asking Shaunie O'Neal to provide a "correct accounting of all money, funds, stocks, bonds, and other securities" that she had access to or obtained during the marriage."...Hmmm...Someone dip her hand into the cookie jar without letting big man know? Rumor is she was stealing...I hope it's not true...How can you steal from the man that gives you the world? I'll never understand...
9.04.2007
P. Diddy Makes a Man Strip in Public...LOL!

9.03.2007
Tokidoki X Onitsuka Tiger Collabo
We know I love Tokidoki and Tokidoki collabos (if you click collabos at the right about 4 tokidoki one's show up) but a Tokidoki X Asics Collabo?! It's like the collabo from heaven...I can't even believe it's happening...I've looked everywhere but there aren't any pics anywhere on the net to give hint as to what they might actually look like...Guess we'll hafta wait and see...Over at the Tokidoki blog Simone answers a few questions regarding the collabo in the comment section of his Sneaker Pimp post...Tell you one thing... I'm coppin' them when they come out...And yeah...I can say this without seeing the shoe...That's how much faith I have in Tokidoki and Asics...There will be 2 styles, 4 colors dropping in Spring 2008...Man that seems like a long time away...9.02.2007
Jovovich-Hawk X Target Collabo

In other collabo news...Milla will also be designing a line of evening gowns and handbags for Mango (who Jovovich-Hawk have already done a collabo with) under her own name to be released this winter...
New Amerie Joint is HOT!

"want you to turn the lights off...ME... on..."
9.01.2007
LAlife
So I just left the Alife LA store opening event and it was mos def fun...The ginger drinks (this recipe is close...don't remember any pineapple tho) provided by 10 Cane were off the chain and the DJ's made sure to keep the crowd rockin'...My forgetful ass forgot to bring a camera so I have no pics to share but the store is hot...It's about time they opened a store in LA...Now whateyesaygoes doesn't have to fly to NY to shop and I know for a fact he thinks that's good ish...Check it out yourself...You'll be pleasantly surprised... ALIFE LA
451 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
www.alifenyc.com
* Update...Apparently I didn't need to bring my camera...Someone over at Hypebeast thoughtfully put me in the opening shot of their recap...

Y3 Boots at eLuxury...
A couple years ago I wanted a pair of Y3 navy boots...They kinda resembled these but they weren't so tall... They were maybe 3 or 4 inches shorter... I thought they were fly and I was very upset when they sold out and I couldn't find them... I just stumbled across these Y3 Runway Nagatabi Boot over at eLux and while I didn't fall in immediate love with them like I did previous seasons I still think I can rock the ish outta these (even tho they are a bit super hero-ish)...The red is a HUGE deviation from anything I'd ever wear (I don't rock red at all) but the illness of the boots overcomes the color...I might hafta cop these but first I'm go'n do a Google search and maybe some eBaying and see if I can find the navy one's from a couple years ago...My Lip Gloss is Cool...My Lip Gloss be Poppin'...

8.31.2007
Kendo and Toms Make a Difference...

We know I love anything charity related... And besides that Kendo parties are always real ill...
7128 Melrose Ave
KENDO
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- New York magazine has a model manual online...Just in time for fashion week...They also have video posted of the 5 worst falls in fashion...That used to be my biggest fear in life falling on the runway...
- Aw Lawd...Foxy claims she is suffering on Rikers Island ...Ummm... It's jail...You're supposed to suffer...
- HollyHood Filmz has acquired the motion picture rights to Dear Mama: The Life Story of Afeni Shakur...I hope this project will actually make it...The youth need to know the history of their past leaders if we are ever go'n get ahead...Especially since I'm sure the only thing they know about Afeni from Tupac's lyrics is that she was once a crackhead...
- Check out Murs' new video "Murray's Revenge"...Ya'll know I love Murs...His video for L.A. been on my myspace page for about 3 years now...
- It's Britney Bitch!
- No matter how Jennifer Lopez acts or who she dates or marries (whatever)...This right here shows that she'll always be hood...She is COMEDY!
LA County Fair Time!!!
I'm a simple girl and it's the simple things in life that make me happy...With that disclaimer aside...Can I say I LOVE THE LA COUNTY FAIR?!!! I know I always say I LOVE things but that's cuz I do really love things that make me happy and the County Fair is definitely one of those things that fills my soul for a million not so obvious reasons but I'll focus on the main one...I have gone to the Fair every year since I was a kid...My mom dragged me and even as I kid I loved it...The rides, the games, the animals...It was sooo much fun...When I entered my teenage years I started going 'cuz there were always guys around you could flirt with and maybe if you were lucky and went the right night there'd even be a makeshift club going on and of course 'cuz my mom dragged me...But as I got older I realized that I still love the rides and the super slide but what really makes to go to the County Fair these days (and I say county fair and not just LA 'cuz I hit up the OC County Fair when it's going down too...It's cheaper to get in and the only real difference is it's a lil smaller which is fine by me...Who really walks the whole fairground anyway? Have you seen the whole thing? But I digress...) What really makes me go to the County Fair these days is the food!

And if you don't believe me....Check...People of all ages seriously love The LA County Fair...I can't wait to go there and eat! I'm so excited!
Bookswim vs The Library

Fly Girls...

Fly Girls: Original Edits + Remixes
August 31, 2007
Thanks SlamXHype...
Blog Day 2007
Today is Blog Day. The idea is to share 5 of your favorite blogs with your readers in an attempt to get them to explore new blogs...I like the idea... I'm down... So here are 5 of my favorite blogs (in no particular order)...1- WhoWhatWearDaily - A daily update "with immediate access to fashion as portrayed by the world's finest trendsetters." Honestly I'm not sure if it qualifies as a blog but what the hell...I check for it daily when I'm going through my blogroll... It's filled with fashion fashion and more fashion and that's all that matters...As they say... "We don't care who you date or if you eat. We only care about what you wear."
2- I Heart That - Another fashion blog which brings you the latest in fashion and comment on the current trends that the celebrities and models are wearing. They identify clothes that celebs have on and point you on where to go cop them...And I like that... It's kinda like giving you a head start on your shopping mission and that's good ish...
3- Gadget Chick - The nerd in me will always love gadgets..
4- YBF - I stay up on pop culture (or I should say I try)...I blog around...I glance at the InTouch and other gossip mags and this site provides me with the ability to stay up on "black" pop culture...Trust me it's not as easy as it seems...
5- Wooster Collective - A Celebration of street art, stickers, posters, grafitti and culture jamming...This site feeds my need for art and inspiration in my life...It gives my creative side a boost and makes me feel as if I'm part of some cool subculture...
Since they said 5 I'm going to stop at 5...Altho I just realized I don't have a music or sneaker blog listed which is strange 'specially since 95% of the time I'm looking at blogs they're about sneakers or music...Anyway...Check them out peoples! Take a trip into my world...
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8.30.2007
'kicks...Sneaker Freaker Edition...



8.29.2007
Grafh Speaks Out About Jena 6

8.28.2007
I Can't Believe...

Famous Stars And Straps MAGIC Party 2007
I'm REALLY go'n be heated...
8.26.2007
8.25.2007
Daydreaming...
I got my first Coach backpack near the end of high school...It was a gift from my mother and I cherished it to death...After I hit my early twenties I decided Coach is a brand that all the rats wear and I'd rather not be lumped into that category...This Coach bag however appeals to my artistic side with the crazy shapes and bright colors...This is actually a Coach bag I can carry...
Dooney and Burke is another brand I swore I'd never get caught dead in again...My mother got me a pebbled leather one in my early college years and again I cherished it to death but it was so plain and so boring I outgrew it quickly...When they revamped the brand a couple years ago and put out a logo print that's when I knew my relationship with Dooney was over...Then I saw this...The colorful handprints remind me of preschool when I wasn't afraid to get dirty and I painted with passion and again my artisitic side took over... It just can't get enough of this purse...
Cereal 101

I love cereal...I didn't get to eat it as a kid because my mom hardly ever fed us processed food...She cooked breakfast for me every day all the way through high school...As soon as I was on my own, my love for sugary cereal blossomed...Now I take my cereal very seriously...Being that I'm the only one eating out the box I never finish the box before it starts to get soggy so as soon as I open a box of cereal I put the entire bag inside a ziploc freezer bag and put it back inside the box...This way I can ensure my cereal will never be stale when I reach for it AND it even allows me to have two different boxes open at once so I can have some variety...You can imagine how happy I was when I found this gadget 'The Box Topper Lid' from Buddeez.com...
It fits most cereal boxes, holds the liner bag open inside and keeps cereal fresh...
The other problem I have with cereal is that it's really hard to eat it once you've left the house...You can buy those individual cereal bowls and a small carton of milk at the convienence store (which is what I usually do if I want to eat cereal at work) OR you can use this Portable Cereal Bowl I found over at dormbuys.com...

It keeps your milk cold and separate from your cereal. The milk stays cold by keeping the gel filled cup frozen and it even comes with a portable spoon...I like it because I can put any kind of cereal in it like my Kashi Go Lean so I can eat it on the run even though they don't make it in individual serving size... Seriously I love when gadgets make my life easier and both are under $5 which is good ish 'cuz breakfast really is the most important meal of the day...
8.23.2007
All Over for Allover Prints...

8.22.2007
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- THIS is why I LOVE Samuel Jackson...This and the fact that on the low he's always dressed real ill... He's usually rocks that Rosasen and tries to show the young'ns how to stay fly when they get older...On another note read the trivia on his IMDB page...Did anyone know he took hostages while protesting the lack of black trustees on the board or lack of a black studies program while he was in college? I dunno which fact is more insane...The fact that he took hostages or the fact that the school was MOREHOUSE! Oh yeah...Hey Sam...Power to The People...
- Lawd Chance got that reality show he was auditioning so hard for on 'I Love New York'...Guess actin' a fool does pay off sometimes...And can I ask how you take a clown and embrace it? I know this fool knows Saaphyri called him seashells 'cuz he looked a hot mess...(FYI - I was so happy she won...I happen to be from 54th and Crenshaw too...ROLLIN'!)
- You know...peeps (me included) give Superhead (or is it Supa?) a hard time but I read this article over at Essence and all I have to say is I feel the girl...The quote about Lil Wayne really hit home and made me realize that she and I aren't as different as I'd like to think...I have the same kind of relationship with a certain skateboarder and you know what? I wouldn't change it for the world...
MOCA X Murakami Collabo
I was soooo excited when I ran across this article in the LA Times...MOCA will be having an exhibit with Takashi Murakami this fall...The exhibit starts in October and will run until February...What's unusual about this exhibit is that there will be a Louis Vuitton pop up store in the middle of the museum...According to the Times, the items being sold at the pop up store will be marked around $300 higher than at the LV store...There will be at least one new item available at MOCA that will not be available anywhere else...A lot of people think this is some sort of conflict in interest but very honestly...I dunno... I think the melding of art and fashion is always good ish...Hey maybe they can get Kanye to perform at the opening reception...Now THAT would be hot...
8.21.2007
For The Masses...

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8.20.2007
Crooked I Mixtape...'Bout Damn Time...

8.19.2007
Inga might be goin' down...

8.17.2007
Questions About I Get Money...


I'm sitting here loading my CD's in to iTunes for the third time...I always lose my music and I can never get back to my original 7,984 but I was back to 4,682 and I recently loss those (so sad)...But I found my 50 cent 'No Mercy No Fear Collectors Edition' and I was listening to it while it was loading and this is where the questions start...OK two questions...
1 - Why is it a collectors edition? WTF does that mean? Mine was free...It's a promo copy but they're selling the same thing on Amazon for $10...I did peep Amazon says the original release date was October 31,2006 and I know I got this in like 2002 so maybe that's why it's collectors edition...I dunno...
2 - Is it known that 50 used this 'I Get Money' sample/line before? Track #12 'Say What You Want' the very first line he says 'I gets money, Money I got' ...Am I the only one not in on the reference? I'll admit...Every now and then I get a lil dense and a reference will go over my head until pointed out...Or is he just hoping since this mixtape is so old no one will realize? If I knew how to convert mp4's to mp3's I'd post a link...
8.16.2007
The Evolution Of Common

Growing up in LA you knew who Common Sense was...You remember the infamous beef with Ice Cube and you knew Common for the lyricist he was and you always knew he'd be a force to be reckoned with but never in a million years would you have seen the evolution of Common Sense coming...
The man we see now is Common Sense grown up...He's come full circle...Of course he's always been a great lyricist but in the "Can I Borrow A Dollar?" days he was a lil hardcore and a lil thug...He was young and proving his manhood...He was caught up in beef with gangster rappers and doing things that you could never imagine Common doing today...Then the battle for the name persued and he had to drop the Sense and he became Common (which is crazy...'cuz he's anything BUT common)...Then Common fell in love with a woman with such a strong soul the men she dates can't help but let her soul permeate theirs and let their souls meld (at least for a hot sec)...During this time we got Common in love...In love with her, with himself, with hip hop...We got albums like "Electric Circus and Like Water For Chocolate"...Then it was over and he was a free man...He was no longer the young Common Sense or Common in love...He was a grown Common who had now experienced a lil more life and had a lil more loot but he was also single and so in his new found glory we got the album "BE" which was liberating but this new album "Finding Forever" shows Common is back to his roots...Back to the people...Back to the music that both he and I love so dearly and it's classic hip hop that will be loved forever...
- Quick Common Fact: He's the first rapper to have his album sold in Starbucks
*NOTE: I wrote this BEFORE I went to the Heineken Red Star Soul Concert last night...All I can really say is after that show I love Common even more...His freestyle is still sick...His stage show entertaining...He's what hip hop is all about...
8.03.2007
Blackle-iscious...

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7.27.2007
Marcel Wanders X Puma Collabo







