While watching this story abt how BET/MTV are loosing advertisers bc of their explicit rap content, I ended up listening then watching to the story that came next, on 23-year-old musician Esperanza Spalding. This beautiful afronista is doin her thing on a upright bass while singing jazz melodies that warm up your insides! Dopeness.
Esperanza’s tv debut on Letterman a few weeks ago:
in Copenhagen:
Love her!!! Definitely a new fav! If u want more, buy her album “Esperanza” on itunes!
It’s spring in New York and the itch to shed the black on black gear has finally been scratched. Traipsed along the city not too long ago with up and coming fashion designer Nikka Valentine- we ran into the most hype, representin yet another new generation of New York. Cat’s were chillin in Chinatown randomly and upon mention of a pick fro moment, all came together to show us what’s to come…makin me wanna pull out my purple hoodie and lime laces.
Friday night we went to our first Kiss-n-Grind and it felt like an Atlanta party for real! We hadn’t really seen the get sweaty dancing crowd since moving out here so it was nice to find out where to go for a serious dance party. Big ups to Rashida, Garth & Vikter. See ya’ll next time!
So… we went to check out the party and the clothes tonight in Hollywood at the LRG x Courvoisier Pop Up shop and caught a few fros & a lil known celebrity by the name of Perez Hilton! Tasty drinks, nice times, friendly folks, & cool clothes but it was hot and I kinda stopped taking pix so if you’d like to see the collection, you can see the clothes here.
Shouts out to KC for walkin us in on the smooooove tip. & to Sky Blaze Music & Zion I… Also, to Miss Golden Brooks who was in the house and a “Get Well Soon” goes out to MIke Parker!! See ya’ll tomorrow night at the Pete vs Primo showdown. (don’t call it a battle!)
about 18 cousins of mine (ok 6) and I crashed ThreeFro’s (really!) BK homeparty last weekend for an unanticipated fro-pickin and family bonding extravaganza. We forgave Josh (1/3 of the production company) for cutting his off just last week since he was able to produce polaroids and vowed to grow it back, big, by summer (plus he’s so darn cool we’ll take him fro less or fro full)…
Josh
