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Oct 2010
Ebony turns 65 and brought stars like Usher, Mary J. Blige, Nia Long,Taraji P. Henson, and Samuel L. Jackson to help celebrate this milestone in their November issue. I personally think the color scheme is great! The silver/grey looks with the red lettering really makes a strong statement.
I can say the same about the November issue of Essence Magazine which features the beautiful, talented, and fashionable Kerry Washington.
This cover is simply amazing. Everything from Kerry’s hair to her nail polish just make you stare. This issue is about race in America. Kerry Washington was recently on broadway starring in the play Race (I heard mixed reviews, but didn’t get a chance to check it out myself) and in this issue she states “…I don’t want to ignore my Blackness. I just want to get to the point where my racial identity is simply what makes me unique…” This should be an interesting read.
If I’m not mistaken (correct me if I’m wrong) this is Kerry Washington’s first cover issue for Essence Magazine. It is quite nice to see a refreshing face on the cover. It is also quite nice that Essence is covering a real topic unlike last months issue with Blair Underwood, Boris Kodjoe, and Lance Gross where they “teach” black women how to keep their man from cheating. That’s an entirely different issue…
Kerry has two movies coming out “Night Catches Us” and “For Colored Girls” which hits theatres November 5th.
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Jun 2010
This past Sunday, I attended Hot97’s Summer Jam concert. I swore back in 2006 I would never go to Summer Jam, but this year’s line up was crazy. There were performances by Juelz Santana, Gucci Mane and Wacka Flocka, Fabolous, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Usher, Trey Songz, Ludacris, and a host of special guests (Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Vado, Lloyd Banks, Baby, T-Pain and more.)
I actually missed the first hour and a half because of traffic. A 40 minute trip actually took me about 3 1/2hrs and don’t get me started about my 4hr ride home.
All in all I had a great time at the concert. I was disappointed in some of the performers, Nicki Minaj being one of them. She was really boring. I am not a fan and I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but she has ZERO stage presence, Drake was pretty dry also smh. Trey Songz, Luda, Usher, and DJ Khaled (before he brought the hood out on stage *literally*) all did an excellent job. Here are a few pics:
This was at the end of the night….the wind got a hold on my pony tail..smh. I wore a pair of black culotte shorts (they are so comfy) and this black and white vintage print top with some black wedged sandals.
Performances
I was expecting a lot more from these two. Nicki Minaj’s shoe game is crazy!!! But I think that is what limits her performances because she can’t move in the shoes! She has to do better…
Trey delivered a great show…as usual. Some lucky fan actually got to go on stage with him! He sang all of his hits from Ready and gave an R rated sex demonstration…smh. Only Trey
I must say that DJ Khaled had one of the best song performances of the night. “All I Do Is Win” had the stadium rocking. all 55,000 hands went up and they stayed there (literally). Then he brought out the entire hood. There had to be at leat 100 goons on stage smh. Ludacris also had a great performance. He performed many of his hits and of course Nicki Minaj come out and they did “My Chick Bad.”
I was extremely excited to see Usher because I had never seen him in concert. I was upset at this little 35 minute teaser! I wanted more! He is truly talented! He is definitely one of the greatest performers. He performed many of my favorites like “Nice and Slow” “You Make Me Wanna” and of course my two favorite songs right now “OMG” and “There Goes My Baby.”
Despite missing the first few acts, I had a really great time.
