Best Songs of 2010

Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) - Alicia Keys
All I Want Is You - Miguel
What's My Name? - Rihanna feat. Drake
Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
Airplanes - BoB feat. Hayley Williams
Fancy - Drake feat. T.I. & Swizz Beatz
Hey Daddy - Usher
Your Love - Nicki Minaj
Aston Martin Music - Rick Ross feat. Drake & Chisette Michele
Nothin on You - BoB feat. Bruno Mars
Teach Me How to Dougie - Cali Swag District
Black & Yellow - Wiz Khalifa
All I Do Is Win - DJ Khaled
Show Me A Good Time - Drake
Deuces - Chris Brown feat. Tyga & Kevin McCall
Like a G6 - Far East Movement
Please Don't Go - Mike Posner
Dog Days Are Over - Florence & the Machine
Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner
Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) - Shakira

In the running for worst:
Pretty Girl Rock - Keri Hilson
No Hands - Waka Flocka Flame

Christmas Time Is Here

Wishing everyone out there a blessed and merry Christmas!

My fave song to depict this time of year:
Usher - This Christmas

Is Anybody Listening??

Waiting to see the light
Been waiting all my life
Show me a way
Won't you show me a way

I wanna come out of the dark
But breaking away is so hard
Show me a way
Won't you show me a way

Show me which way to go
Can't do this by myself
Can't do this oh oh no
Don't know how I should play
The cards that I've been dealt
Can't do this, anybody

Is anybody listening,
Can anybody answer my prayers
Please say yes
Does anybody feel the same
And is there anybody who cares
Life's unfair, its so unfair

I want something more than this
I've given all I can give
Show me the way
Won't you show me the way

I just wanna feel I belong
I just need the strength to be strong
Show me a way
Won't you show me a way

Show me which way to go
Can't do this all alone
I can't do this all alone
Don't feel like I know how
To make it on my own

Is anybody listening
Can anybody answer my prayers
Please say yes
Does anybody feel the same
And is there anybody who cares
Life's unfair, its so unfair

Is anybody listening
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Is anybody listening
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Can you hear me
Show me
Is anybody listening

Is anybody listening
Can anybody answer my prayers
Please say yes
Does anybody feel the same
And is there anybody who cares
Life's unfair, its so unfair

-- Danity Kane

Spotted: Fab Chicks Edition

Sanaa Lathan at Trousdale Lounge in Hollywood.

Keyshia Cole was spotted promoting her new album, "Calling All Hearts"

Tatyana Ali and Mel B at the NOH8 Campaign 2nd Anniversary Celebration at Wonderland, 12/13, in LA.


Kandi Kandi visited BET's "106 & Park"

LaLa at the 2010 Hollywood Style Awards last night.

Chanel Iman celebrated the launch of VS PINK National Football League Collection at Woodfield Mall, 12/13, in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Joy Bryant at the launch of Target & William Rast's Limited Edition Collection shopping event this past weekend in LA.

Gabourey Sidibe at the Cinema Society & Piaget screening of "Blue Valentine" at theTribeca Grand Hotel, 12/13, in NYC.

Anika Noni Rose and Teairra Mari were at the opening of the UGG store in Los Angeles at The Grove, 12/9.


Kerry Washington attended the 5th Annual L'Oreal Women of Worth awards at Hearst Tower, 12/9, in New York City.

Miss Keri Baby

Keri Hilson spotted by Chelsey Lately last night. During the interview Keri spilled why she doesn't date rappers and how she lost $16,000 in a basketball challenge.

Rev Run's Words of Wisdom

"When u compete with urself u become better, if ur continuously competing with others u become bitter #trustme"


Check out the Rev's twitter page for more words of wisdom → http://twitter.com/RevRunWisdom

I Get Out

I get out, I get out of all your boxes
I get out, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Father free me from this bondage
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change

Your stinkin' resolution
Is no type of solution
Preventin' me from freedom
Maintainin' your pollution
I won't support your lie no more
I won't even try no more
If I have to die, oh Lord
That's how I choose to live
I won't be compromised no more
I can't be victimised no more
I just don't sympathize no more
Cause now I understand
You just wanna use me
You say "love" then abuse me
You never thought you'd loose me
But how quickly we forget
That nothin' is for certain
You thought I'd stay here hurtin'
Your guilt trip's just not workin'
Repressin' me to death
Cause now I'm choosin' life, yo
I take the sacrifice, yo
If everything must go, then go
That's how I choose to live

That's how I choose to live...
Hehehehe, awhh
No more compromises
I see past your disguises
Blindin' through mind control
Stealin' my eternal soul
Appealin' through material
To keep me as your slave

But I get out
Oh, I get out of all your boxes
I get out
Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Oh, I want out of social bondage
Knowin' my condition
Oh, is the reason I must change

See, what you see is what you get
Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet
Oh, I don't care if you're upset
I could care less if you're upset
See it don't change the truth
And your hurt feeling's no excuse
To keep me in this box
Psychological locks
Repressin' true expression
Cementin' this repression
Promotin' mass deception
So that no one can be healed
I don't respect your system
I won't protect your system
When you talk I don't listen
Oh, let my Father's will be done

And just get out
Oh, just get out of all these bondage
Just get out
Oh, you can't hold me in chains
Just get out
All these traditions killin' freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change

I've just accepted what you said
Keepin' me among the dead
The only way to know
Is to walk then learn and grow
But faith is not your speed
Oh, you've had everyone believed
That you're the sole authority
Just follow the majority
Afraid to face reality
The system is a joke
Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul
Oh, when escape is mind control
You spent your life in sacrifice
To a system for the dead
Oh, are you sure...
Where is the passion in this living
Are you sure it's God you servin'
Obligated to a system
Getting less then you're deserving
Who made up these schools, I say
Who made up these rules, I say
Animal conditioning
Oh, just to keep us as a slave

Oh, just get out
Of this social purgatory
Just get out
All these traditions are a lie
Just get out
Superstition killing freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out
Just get out
Just get out
Let's get out
Let's get out
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out

- Lauryn Hill

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks, civil rights activist, refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to an order that she give up her seat for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind. But Parks' action of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott which coincided with the Civil Rights Movement.



I wonder who's job it is to create these google tags...

*Contest Time*

Design a pair of shoes for John Wall for the chance to win a trip to LA and see him sport your kicks.

Reebok is hosting a contest for the new ZigSlash shoe and NBA rookie John Wall (@jimmywa11), as the new spokesperson for the shoe, is supporting the contest.
Here's the deal:
Create a Reebok member account.
Design a customized ZigSlash shoe and save it. You do not need to purchase the shoe to be entered into the contest. Your saved entry will be submitted automatically. The last day to enter the contest is December 10, 2010.
The potential Grand Prize winner will be notified on or around January 5, 2011.
The 10 finalists will each win a pair of their customized ZigSlash shoes and the grand prize winner will get a trip to Los Angeles to see John Wall live in action during the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend, wearing their customized shoes.
Peep the official contest rules: http://www.reebok.com/US/customer-service/contests/JohnWall
Enter for your chance to win here:
http://www.reebok.com/US/walldesigncontest

Need some inspiration?
You can check out my design here: https://www.reebok.com/US/custom-shoes/product/1941741

Word of the Day

Quiescent

Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
Synonyms: asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still
Antonyms: active, alive, at work, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, impelling, in force, in play, in process, moving, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, simmering, streaming, traveling, working

"The poorest man in the world is not the one without a nickle, it's the one without a DREAM." - Jesse Duplantis

This is what my life feels like everyday. And then I realize that I have done nothing to change this. I don't know where to go from here, what to do with my life, what to make of it. Its so challenging, and sometimes very overwhelming, but I look forward to the future, because I know one day I'll have all this figured out. I should be working on that now, and well the process is very slow. I'm taking a class on conflict resolution right now, and apparently I'm a fact-finder, not that I didn't already know that, but it means that I like to have all the details before I jump into something and I am extremely organized. I like to have a clear vision of where I am going. And I realize that this is what makes this process so hard for me. Its like I'm afraid of the path that I choose. Because I don't know where it will take me, so instead I prefer to remain in familiar territory, which isn't going to get me anywhere. So, I have to jump if I want to make any sort of headway. A good friend reminded me, as I wage on in this war of finding myself and my ground, I must remember to have faith in myself and God's plan. In her words, "Don't worry about it . . . just get on the job [and] you'll have it! I'm confident in that just make a solid plan and it will come to pass.....there's a way trust! and what is meant will happen :)"