The New Face Of The Renaissance ...

He seemed to be the type of artist that I simply wouldn't enjoy. I took pride in loving and understanding Hip Hop at a time when it meant something, before there were entire songs dedicated to jewelry or the like. This cat was young, fresh faced, clean cut ... does he sing? Yea I went there lol. However a couple of years after I dismissed this artist, without even taking the time to listen to his music, he was buzzin all over the net. I couldn't get online without seeing the name "ESSO" and although I was proud of the Harlem native for making a name for himself, I still refused to take a serious listen to his work. It wasn't until he was well into the process of making E-Day (his third installment of his mixtape trilogy) that I went to his Myspace page and was overwhelmed by what I heard. Simply put ESSO is a breath of fresh air ... he's a street wise, college educated, baseball player/model who can freestyle his face off, pour his heart out on a track and out perform some of your favorite mainstream artists. I downloaded everything I could possibly download with his name on it and I haven't been disappointed yet (trust me I was looking for the flaws lol) in fact his catalog consists of some of my favorite songs PERIOD! Lucky for you great readers you don't have to simply take my humble word for it. ESSO's music is free to download and his blog is witty and entertaining, go check him out for yourselves.Go to  ESSO's Blog   and ESSO's music you won't be disappointed

-Dina and I'm out!!

BlakRoc: Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) Ft. Mos Def and Jim Jones

I've been a fan of the Black Keys since the release of "Rubber Factory" back in 2005 which is actually pretty late considering that their first album "The Big Come Up" was released in 2002. Their sound can be described as a bluesy soulful form of Rock music, which makes them palatable to even those who aren't into rock at all. As a person who is surrounded by artists of all genres, I come across new and interesting music all of the time and I've noticed the gap between my musician friends and my friends who live "normal 9 to 5 lives" . The gap has widened over the years leaving me in an awkward position when discussing music amongst friends. I'm assuming that Damon Dash came across the same issue when he decided to merge "The Black Keys" and Hip Hop music. The former Roc-A-Fella co- CEO has either knowingly or mistakenly given Hip Hop music the sound that it had been missing for so long. Which is ironic considering that he helped bring the genre to it's breaking point with the constant drug, money, hoes, clothes references by his former business partner and friend Sean Carter (Jay -Z). Mr. Dash has been instrumental in creating BlackRoc an album which consists of the band "The Black Keys" with notable Hip Hop Artists such as Mos Def, Jim Jones, Ludacris, Q-Tip and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard amongst a host of others. The beauty and soul of this album is amazing and although Rock and Hip Hop aren't quite strangers I think we all can agree that it's time for them to get reacquainted.

If you enjoy this album, stay tuned because they are currently working on a follow up with The Cool Kids and Jay Electronica amongst others. Enjoy the video... Deuces

-Dina and I'm out!!

Sorry....

I had to get rid of that bullshit...but I'll be back with a great review on one of the best to ever do it!!!


-Dina

Either love em or leave em alone....

Alright let's discuss a touchy subject, would you leave your significant other if you found out they were cheating on you?? I'm going to give my 2 cents then you all can chime in.

As many people know I truly believe that monogamy is a learned behavior and is not necessarily natural. Most men agree with me on this point until they realize that I mean on both ends, women would love to step out with (insert male fantasy here)LOL. I'm not suggesting that monogamy shouldn't be practiced especially in today's society I'm simply saying that it's something that you have to work at or train yourself to do. If you are truly in love or believe that you've met your life's partner are you willing to leave because he or she gave into their flesh? Was Hillary (no matter how much u can't stand her ass now) wrong for believing that no matter what Bill did that he still loved her and that, that was enough to keep her in the marriage? I personally would feel more betrayed if my significant other were to befriend a female never sleep with her, but fell in love with her. To me that's the ultimate betrayal and of course no point in sticking around. Now don't get me wrong I'm not talking about a habitual adulterer, because that's just plain disrespectful, but an individual who makes a mistake once or twice. Ladies would you stay?? Even more interesting fellas would you??

-Dina and I'm out!

I'm back bidges......

Flirt Of The Week

This weeks flirt needs no introduction, it's Mr. DTP himself



Yes ladies and gents it's none other than Chris Bridges better known as Luda!!
It's a well known fact that I'm a flirt and would jump at the chance to flirt with Mr. Bridges however he brought his flirt game with him to the Olive Garden in Times Square and beat me to the punch. I love a man who sees it , likes it, and gets it and Luda is definitely one of those, so if you bump into him ladies, just put your mean walk on and you'll most likely get a smile and quick conversation from him. However this Georgia boy is not only aggressive and confident with the ladies but he's also on point with his business savvy , opening an upscale 2.7 million dollar Singaporean restaurant in Midtown Atlanta with his business partner Chris Yeo called "Straits ATL" . He also plans on opening 2 more in Atlanta but don't worry my fellow hip hoppers he hasn't left the music scene he not only renewed his contract with Def Jam but is also dropping his 6th album entitled Theater Of The Mind.

What the hell is going on in Hip Hop?

First let me start this one off with a picture shall we ...




LMAO!!! I'm not a Fat Joe fan and I'm a fickle 50 fan but dammit I couldn't help but laugh at this shit!!! Do you see Yayo's tattoo?!?!? OMG!!

However this is not the point of this entry. If you look at 50's Fat Joe Funeral Video TO VIEW CLICK HERE. You can see that not only is 50 a fool, but album sales are at an all time low, when did it become cool to brag about sales in the 200 thousands?!?!? Remember when artists were going platinum? 50 needs to do a funeral video for C.D's man it's looking pretty damn terrible out here.

I'll be back with some more things of interest like fashion, oh yeah I'm excited about my designer of the week spring/ summer of 08 is looking pretty damn sexy.

Burning the midnight oil

I am exhausted!!! I haven't slept since hmmmm..... I don't know but I started counting the hours exactly 34 hours ago. Thank God for Starbucks if anyone knows of a 24 hour Starbucks plz let me know I would give my right arm for one of those and if they had a drive thru I'd be in heaven.If you really want to impress me you can get me a pound of the good stuff in the picture up top, yea that'll work.

Well I had two kits to finish....done, I uploaded some of my old stuff onto my myspace page, which will motivate me to finish my new stuff because the old stuff sounds like shit in comparison. Now I have to do some more myspace tweeking and work on my book cover, well I don't really have to but as a control freak I should at least give them a really good idea of what I want.

-Dina and I'm out!!

Sickamore has been jacked!!!!

Yea I couldn't help it his blog seems like so much fun. Who cares if he has waaayyy more readers, not I said Dina!!! I'll keep you in the know on some new things starting with the new Book and Mixtape but I digress..... Alright so Sick is fly has his nice little cushy A&R gig and all that..... but hey dammit I'm fly too!!! I wanna blog!! So here I am world I always get what I want.....