Saturday 7 April 2012

NEW MUSIC: MONICA FEAT. WALE - TAKE THAT CHANCE




Monica’s album, ‘New Life’, is dropping next week,



A FEW NEVER BEFORE SEEN PICS OF BEYONCE + HER TUMBLR ACCOUNT

Beyonce created this new tumblr page to celebrate her 4th year marriage anniversary to Jay. 

The photos were all taken in the span of the last few years and include shots of the couple on vacation, as well as a few through her various stages of pregnancy.






RIHANNA ELLE MAGAZINE COVER

OPRAH WINFREY WRITES LETTER TO HER 19 YEAR OLD SELF




The billionaire mogul has done some reflecting. She's written a very inspiring open letter to her younger self which will appear in the latest O-MAGAZINE issue that hits stands April 10th.


Read the letter below:

Dear beautiful brown-skinned girl,
I look into your eyes and see the light and hope of myself.
In this photo you are just about to turn 20, posing outside the television station where you were recently hired as a reporter. You’re proud of yourself for getting the job, but uncertain you’ll be able to manage all your college classes before 1 and arrive at the station by 1:30 for a full day’s work. Even so, your biggest concern is how to manage your love life with Bubba. Yes, you are dating someone named Bubba.
On this day you’ve brought him to the station to see where you work, hoping he’ll be proud, too. He seems less than impressed. The truth is, he’s intimidated. You don’t know this, though, because you can see yourself only through his eyes. A lesson you will have to learn again and again: to see yourself with your own eyes, to love yourself from your own heart.
You’ve spent too many days and years trying to please others and be what they wanted you to be. You will have to learn that the wounds of your past—rape, molestation, whippings for “stepping out of place,” and not being allowed to show anger or cry afterward—damaged your self-esteem. Yet through it all, you’ve held on to a belief in God and God’s belief in you.
That will be your single greatest gift: knowing there is a power greater than yourself and trusting that Force to guide you.
The trajectory of your life changed the day you answered the call from Chris Clark, the news director at WLAC-TV. Your response was ignited by the words of your then-favorite Bible verse, Philippians 3:14. “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Knowing there is a “high calling” is what will sustain and fulfill you.
From where I sit now, viewing your journey, there are few regrets. Only months before this picture was taken, you wrote a poem about a “woman becoming.” Even then you understood that success was a process and that moving with the flow of life and not against it would be your greatest achievement.
Love you deeply,
Oprah
A lot to learn from this. We should all try this sometime!

2 FACE IDIBIA IS TRAYVON MARTIN


MO'CHEDDAH MANIA MAGAZINE COVER

'DAT TRACE THANG' - PHOTOS FROM TRACE URBAN PARTY LAGOS

The first ever TRACE Party in Anglophone Africa went down on Friday, 30th March 2012 in Lagos

Photos below:

Lagos experienced a one of a kind party. The event was organized by Trace Urban, took place at Harbour Point.
                                                                                   

                            Yvonne "Vixen" Ekwere

                                         Freeze

                                        Dencia

                                       M.I.

                                     Kenny Saint Best

                                 DJ Jimmy Jatt

                                      Lami

                                                  Kas

                                 Jumai Shaba

                                        Mode 9

                                  DJ Caise

                             Julius Agwu

                                    Muma G

                                      2Shotz

                                 Kehinde Bankole

                                   Iceberg Slim

                                            Toke Makinwa

                               Samuel Onyemelukwe

                         Keke Ogungbe

                                      Mannie

                                Flowssickk

                                       Skales

                              Familusi Akin Babajide

                                                     Steel

                                      Sound Sultan

                                              Iyanya

                                           Dayo Ephraim

                                      Presh

                                           Vector

                                   Solid Star

                                    Zaina

                                  Bolanle Okhiria

                                    Niyola
More pics after the jump