Pink Friday!!!!!!

When I first  heard of Nicki Minaj back in 2009, I was very skeptical of her talent. The claim to Barbie immediatly put me off. The very 1st song I heard her on was Gucc Mane's Five Star Chick, I found myself turning the radio up when her part came on, and I would get upset if I turned and her part had already past. Still, I wasn't ready to jump on her bandwagon just yet, the whole Barbie thing I still wasn't feeling. It wasn't even her claim to Barbie that was upsetting it was the throngs of girls (and guys) on my twitter page claim to Barbie Nation. Everybody wanted to be a damn Barbie!

Nicki kept being featured on everybody's tracks from Lil Wayne to Robin Thicke to Trey Songz. I began to realize that I really did like Nicki's music, she's like a lyrical beast. Then she came out with her own two songs and I was right there singing them word for word and I still was not ready to say I was a fan.

Pink Friday came out and I was excited to hear the album and when I did, I was hooked! This girl has mad skills and I'm no longer hiding in the background not giving her her props. On every track she is killing um with the lyrics! I love the way she does characters by changing her voice, this plays into her unique style and makes it great. I love Nicki Minaj, she is the truth!

As for this Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj battle of the Barbie, Lil' Kim needs to give it up, her time has passed. As Nicki says in Roman's Revenge "If you ain't shitting then get off the pot". Lil Kim haven't put anything out in years, and she's to far gone to even attempt a comeback. Sorry Lil' Kim but WE DONT CARE!

*signed*

Nicki Minaj Fan

Song Of The Day: David Guetta feat. Makeba If We Ever

I've been though it all in my love life and I'm sure I can't deal with anymore bullshit, my heart can only take some much. When I love, I give what is undoubtedly too much of myself, I love hard. I've made many terrible decisions and dealt with so much shit all in the name of "love". I'm scarred for life because of some of the experiences I've had, and vowed never to love again. I'm afraid of someone taking advantage of my open heart and destroying what has taken so long to heal. I can, now, go without dealing with pains from old wounds, and even though it still hurts, I'm better and stronger each day.

A few days ago I was given this song to listen to and I almost cried, (yeah, I'm very emotional like that) because the words touched me. Just when I thought I've heard the song to describe what I feel, something else comes along. The very 1st part of this song had my eyes full of tears.

I've been fragile for a long time
A big ol' hole inside my heart
And I was searching through the valley
Stumbled on love in the dark


Was afraid to try, but afraid to never know
What it feels like to be loved
Had a hill to climb
But the places we could go
Oh, I gotta know

I've found myself falling again, somehow. I kinda know how, but then again, I don't.  I'm afraid of love but I'm also afraid if I don't take a chance on what I'm feeling, I could loose out on something that could be wonderful. Anyway, enough of my #emo spill. Here's the song, listen, enjoy.

Song of the Day: Alicia Keys f. Drake I'm Ready

This song describes everything I am currently feeling. I have been jamming to the Alicia Key’s new cd, The Element of Freedom for a minute now and I have always loved this song. She was coming straight from the heart with this one, the lyrics are beautiful and she sings it with so much passion. Just recently this song has begun to mean something more to me.

After looking into it, comes to find out Drake wrote it. *Blankstare* Does he really have this much talent? Sure does seem like it. That song makes [you] feel like he looked into [your] heart and wrote what he saw, not to mention A.Key’s sings it like she’s singing from [your] heart as well.

I was wondering maybe

Could I make you my baby

If we do the unthinkable would it make us look crazy

Or would it be so beautiful….

This is my personal favorite part of the song. I’m stuck right there and I want to know the answer. I think I know, but I want to be sure. I’m not one for being in love with love, I’ve seen it, think I have lived it a couple times, but I don’t plan on living it anymore. I want something real and true for a change.


Statuses are going up everywhere; lovers are quoting the song with one simple line. Every lovers question maybe different, but …the answer seems to be the same.... “If you ask me I’m Ready”

Song Of The Day: Daddy's Home Usher

I melt when I hear usher's seductive voice singing this song, he hit the nail dead on the head with this jam here. I mean who don't want to be sitting waiting anxiously for the one you love to come home and handle bizness...lol Im waiting for my daddy to come home... Where you at daddy?

Quote of The Day: Wednesday

...tell that girl like Doritos thats Nacho Cheese... - Kanye Lollipop Remix

Lady GaGa "I'LL FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU LOVE ME"

Lady GaGa has become my favorite performer. This chick is so EMO on stage and I love it! Born March 28, 1986 she barely slipped passed us Pisces, but she def has some of it in her. Her performance of Paparazzi on VH1 awards left me speechless. I was glued to the screen as she ended her performance with the blood and "hanging". So beautifully EMO, I only wish I could express myself the way she does. She is considered out there when it comes to her style and how she perform but me, they would lock me up in a psych ward because I don't have a stage to cover up my craziness. I loved her performance on the AMA's also, I would love to break a glass box and play a burning piano. This chick is awesome. I love her album but I have been slacking on actually following her as an artist, this will be changing. I think she is a free spirit, and I love how she gets down. Like when she made the comment about the Jonas Brothers and have them all at once. You gotta love this chick for her rebel, emo ways. Rock on Lady GaGa!

Song Of The Day: Superwoman Alicia Keys

This morning I was having a conversation that lead me to Superwoman. We all know the many scenario's that we as woman have to put that S on our chest. We do it daily and we have been doing it for years. I'm not male bashing cause I'm not that kind of lady, but I will say; we can do it, with or without you. The choice is yours. As women and mothers we fight for whats best for our children and we fight to give the best of the best. Its sad to say that our men fall short of helping us meet this goal of the best.

Everywhere I'm turning Nothing seems complete

I stand up and I'm searching For the better part of me

I hang my head from sorrow state of humanity

I wear it on my shoulders, Gotta find the strength in me

I grew up in a single parent home, well for the most part. Dad disappeared at 9 and my mother raised me and my brother solo. I love my mom she was my first example of Superwoman, she did everything she could for me and my brother not once did we go without. She has always worked 2 jobs my whole life to support me and my brother and for that I love and respect her. I myself am "daddy" to my little girl. I am the only daddy she has every known and the only one she will know. I stepped up to the plate when she was 3 and became that "father" figure in her life. No I'm not a man but she knows (as a father would) I take care of business.

Cause I am a Superwoman

 Yes I am Yes she is

Even when I'm a mess; I still put on a vest

With an S on my chest

Oh yes I'm a Superwoman

 So to all the Superwomen out there this is to you! We gone make it do what it do!

My Music: Songs of the Day Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love & Better In Time

My Emo side is coming out with these songs....Who am I kidding? LOL My Emo self shows throughout this blog!! Anyway, I love Leona Lewis' two songs Bleeding Love and Better In Time.

Bleeding Love
When I first heard this song it helped me through one of the darkest and toughest times I was going through with my girlfriend at the time. Everything she said in this song was exactly how I was feeling. The video was on point too just in general. I love to watch it to this day. To have truly loved and lost really does feeling like you are bleeding from deep within. My favorite part in the song is below This is how i felt at the time, love at all cost. 

I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you

They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth

My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing

You cut me open

And I keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love

Better In Time

Listening to 93.3 Kiss lately and they play this song alot. Once again I love this song, its what I have been dealing with lately. Learning to let go of the past and move on to a brighter future. Things have been hard but learning from my mistakes. Time is doing its healing job but it takes just that: TIME. My favorite part of this song is all of it. If I had to chose though this would be it

Since there's no more you and me

It's time I let you go so I can be free

And live my life how it should be 

No matter how hard it is I'll be fine without you

Yes I will

My Music: Beyonce as Etta James "I'd Rather Go Blind"

We all know Beyonce is not the best actress in the world but in Cadillac Records she did exceptionally well in the role of Etta James. Being in the music industry im sure she was able to put the more believable spin on her performance. I feel in love with the song I'd Rather Go Blind and the scene to go along with it in the move. No, I haven't listened to the Etta James version and I give her all the credit due for the song but I didn't grown up during her era and this was my first time hearing it. I remember turning the part back over and over again. I can relate to the words in the song now, but then I just love the emotion Beyonce was able to put behind the song. I felt the love she had for him and I was put right there in the moment with her. Watch.

My Music: Song of the Day Khandi Dont Think Im Not

Why do people always think they are getting over when cheating? Most of the time if you are stepping out, its a pretty fair assumption that your mate is too. Some people step out because they're not satisfied in the bed, or just because they feel like they can get away with it. I believe that some truly forget that two can play that game is not just the title of a movie. I was going through my itunes library and I ran across Kandi's (former Xscape member, current Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member) Don't Think I'm Not.

My favorite part in the song:

When you're feeling good in somebody's spot, getting hot, don't stop Just don't think I'm not, cause I'm out getting mine

Something to think about next time you feel like cheating. Johnnie Taylor said it best, "Who's making love to your old lady, while you were out making love?"

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My Music:Song Of The Day Heather Headley In My Mind

I was watching re-runs of The Game on BET. The Sabers were away at the championship game, Derwin was injured and couldn't attend. His girl Janay attended the game of course, she couldn't miss out on the glitz and glam of being a Sabers' girlfriend. Melanie and her boyfriend at the time were hosting a Sabers Game Day Party. Derwin was out shopping (on crutches) and Melanie ran out to get some more salsa for the party. They meet in the store for the first time since Melanie chopped her hair off. In the background played In My Mind softly as they talked. The very next scene Melanie is at Derwin's door he opens it and they began kissing passionately In My Mind is playing loud now as they make out.

In my mind, I'll always be his lady.

In my mind, I'll always be his girl.

Melanie and Derwin were both in relationship with other people. Im sure in those moments of that kiss, they felt like they still belonged right there in that place. It didn't take long though for reality to set in when Melanie's cellphone goes off the ringtone for her significant other. It made me think that there are alot of things in our minds but the reality of the situation is totally opposite. We can dream though can't we? Heather Headley - In My Mind (Official Music Video) - A funny movie is a click away

My Music: Bag Lady Erykah Badu - "Who wants that?"

"...bag lady, you gone miss your bus, You can't hurry up, Cause you got too much stuff. When they see you comin, They just take of runnin, From you, it's true, oh yes they do..."

Its such a good metaphor the baggage that women or men carry from one relationship to another. The bag lady with all her different types of baggage whether its garbage bag, baby bag, etc.

I was 14 when this song came out. I didn't know what the hell Erykah was sing about nor did I care back then, i just loved the song. It was catchy. 9yrs later and I know exactly what she was talking about. It had been a minute since I heard this song, and prior to now I still may not have gotten it.

I had a late night conversation with a friend.. me all boo hoo and teary eyed. She said "who wants that?" A few days later I heard Bag Lady by chance and it hit me like a ton of bricks.

"...One day all them bags gone get in your way, One day all them bags gone get in your way...SO PACK LIGHT"

Its hard to shake some of the things you feel or what you have been through in past relationships. I assume for some it takes more time to let go of the "bags". Im learning that instead of holding on, take what you need to do better in the next relationship and leave those bags behind.

My Music: Motivation T.I. - NO EXPLANATION NEEDED

Better get on yo job, tell'em, haters get on yo job, nigga (Motivation)

Nigga, get on yo job, tell'em, haters get on yo job, nigga (Motivation)

Haters better get on yo job, tell'em, haters get on yo job, nigga (It's motivation)

Sucka nigga, get on yo job, if ya, hatin' get on yo job, nigga

You can look me in my eyes, see I'm ready for whatever

Anythang don't kill me, make me better

I ain't dead nigga, you can take the fame and the chedda

And the game, and the deal, I'm still a go-getter

Take my freedom for the moment but it ain't fo-ever

I got the spirit of a god, heart of a dope dealer

I'm a king, seen hangin' with some cold killas

I ain't never back down or ran from no nigga

I ain't sat down yet, pimp, standin' gorilla

Even if I'ma all alone or standin' with four niggaz

Tell'em jump, pimpin' it don't get no realer

5'9" with the soul of a 6'4" nigga

I separated the fakes, paralized from the waist down

From the real stand up guys of the A-Town

Can't even look me in my eyes, put yo face down

I'm outta jail nigga, whachu gotta say now?

Motivation

Niggaz fakin' only gonna inspire (Motivation)

All yo hatin' is fuel to my fire (It's motivation)

Niggaz plottin' on the crown soft droppin' (It's motivation)

Hey but I ain't slowin' down and I ain't stoppin' (Motivation)

Now nigga don't stop my show (Motivation)

You ain't know I don't stop, I go (It's motivation)

Sucka niggaz can't make me suffer

Just make me stronger and make me tougher (It's motivation)

To be locked in a box niggaz happy to see

Put anybody on top, any rapper but T, I, P

But back to reality G, O.D. still carryin' me, nigga I run this

Spread yo rumours, kick all yo lil' dumb shit

Tell lies, laugh 'bout the time that I'm gon' get

If it make you feel better, picture me over and done with

Punk bitch, come with all the gossip you can come with

Small thang to a giant, I can overcome this

Jail, I don' done this, rap I'm just havin' fun with

I could be a local joker, never have one hit

Nigga, "New Finish" alone'll get me dumb rich

While these rappers sellin' records gettin' pennies

If Grand Hustle sell any, I'ma get plenty

If God with me, who could be against me sucka?

Can't make me suffer, just make me tougher

My Music: Song of the Day

When I was about 12 or 13 I went through a country music stage. Something about country music moves me. A lot of the songs tells a story that you can relate to and stir up emotions or feelings from your own personal experiences. My musical song of the day is Deana Carter's Strawberry Wine. First love and loosing your virginity and all... I can't say my first time was like strawberry wine but I was definitely 17.