Here are a few snaps....
Showing posts with label Vibe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vibe. Show all posts
Da Brat....in Vibe Magazine....looking good...
If you are old enough to remember, we HAVE seen Da Brat 'dress up', so this shouldn't be new. That said, she looks great.
Maliah Michele is trying to shut it DOWN I see...
The last 'set' from those Vibe pictures. You know it was tough if they had to release them in a series. Good thing too. You get to appreciate each set for what they are.
Shoutout to Maliah too for showing love on Twitter in regards to the other post. Much appreciated. For those of you who wondered, 'I wonder what she thinks of this...'..lol
Here are SOME of the shots. (Yes there are MORE THAN THESE. I just picked a FEW..)
Maliah Michel behind the scenes of the Vibe shoot..
Add ons:
The last pictures are proof that sometimes, YOU SHOULD REVISIT POSTS. You never know what else might pop up in them. I add a lot of stuff as opposed to making twenty million posts about the same thing. So that said, you should CHECK back on a post from time to time.
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Said 'add ons'.......
Cassie...Vibe...Modeling...
Even though I am not totally smitten with the hair cut, the gal is doing what she actually does BEST. Modeling. Not mad about it.
Maliah Michel...Vibe...pictures and video
I know I am a little late on the pictures themselves. I wanted the video. So I waited.
Nicki Minaj in '08ish or so....
She looks great. She looks different yet the same. Kinda like what happens when you get that last little 'womanly' spurt. I know ....I know..All you crack doctors out there have her pegged for surgery by Dr. 90210. I am not saying 'nothing' was done. I am just saying some of it was simply her losing that 'little girl' look that she had when she was sitting on those steps. Alas, what do I know. Everyone is fake. Everyone is enhanced. (Throws up hands)
?uestlove on the cover of VIBE..
#4 on Itunes yesterday as well. Congrats to the Legendary Roots Crew!
Piece of the article..
"Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson can literally talk your ear off. Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, the outspoken leader, producer and drummer of the acclaimed hip-hop band The Roots exhibits as much passion when he breaks down studio engineering secrets for making live instrumentation sound like a sample as he does explaining why mainstream rhyme darling Drake deserves to be taken seriously by true rap aficionados. But it’s the Root’s bold and times uncompromising new release How I Got Over that evokes the most intensity from Quest. He calls the veteran Philadelphia outfit’s ninth album hip-hop’s most serious over-40 statement to date. The influential beat man discusses staring down rap’s midlife crises and more.—Keith Murphy
VIBE: There’s a lot of talk among critics and fans that How I Got Over is the first album to address turning 40 in a truly serious manner. Do you agree with that assessment?
Questlove: Well, we are not the first to do it. That’s Jay-Z’s whole mark…Ma, I did good..I’ve grown up. But Jay’s 40 is more of an aspirational 40; like a victory lap. Whereas the Roots’ 40 is definitely one long, hard look in the mirror. With most rap records it’s like, Alright, let me do my girl jawn; let me do my political jawn; let me do my party jawn. You know, the tried and true subject matter. But this album asks some serious questions. There’s a book that guided us through this record. It’s Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. Which for those who follow the Roots, Malcolm’s second book, The Tipping Point, is what we named our last album after. But Outliers is a sort of an exercise in how to perfect your craft.
What was the most challenging aspect when it came to recording How I Got Over?
The fact that this is the first album since Tipping Point that I had little to do with the engineering. I knew if I would have went in there with that itch that De Niro had in Heat…that just-one-more-score, I-can’t-leave-it-alone itch. If I had listened to that itch then I would have overproduced the record. To me, it was more important that people understand that the Roots is still a band. I knew that our engineer would actually present what we gave to him, which is a band type of album.
Would you say its your first garage band album, given the record's raw, one-take sound?
Yeah, I’ll say that probably since Organix, this marks the first time the entire band jelled together and played at the same time in the studio. There are diehard fans for a lot of phases of the Roots. For every fan of Things Fall Apart, there’s a Do You Want More? fan that’s like, “Now, this is what y’all should be sounding like.” Then there are people who live and breath with Prenology. But I’m very careful not to mislead fans of Organix and Do You Want More? as a return to that form, simply because there are no jazz elements on How I Got Over. There’s no upright bass or scatting.
Another thing that stands out on this album is the drum sounds. They are the hardest I’ve heard on a Roots album. It sounds like you were trying to kill the drums.
I told the engineer, “Please, make my shit sound banging.” At the end of the day, I would just come in at night and approve the mix as opposed to just standing over his shoulder. But I did give myself one song to really go ape shit on. And that was “Web 20-20.” Because that’s that one song that both Tariq [Black Thought] and I had to get out our hip-hop aggression. For Tipping Point it was “Web.” For Rising Down it was “75 Bars.” Now if I had engineered the entire album the whole record would have sounded like “Web 20/20.” I just really wish that people understood that damn near 95 percent of everything they’ve listened to by the Roots was created by us. It’s just that we had the engineering know-how. It’s like a chef that knows how to turn soy into chicken. That’s our craft in the studio."
Uh oh...Slim Thug's comments starting a firestorm...
You can go here for the rest...
Here is what he said though....Thoughts?
"The way Black people think in general is messed up. Both men and women need to change their way of thinking. It’s hard to trust a Black woman [sometimes] because a lot of Black women’s mind frame is that the man gotta do everything for her⎯ he gotta pay for this, he gotta pay for that, and if it ain’t about money then a lot of them ain’t fucking with him. If that’s what you’re here for then I don’t want to be with you.
Most single Black women feel like they don’t want to settle for less. Their standards are too high right now. They have to understand that successful Black men are kind of extinct. We’re important. It’s hard to find us so Black women have to bow down and let it be known that they gotta start working hard; they gotta start cooking and being down for they man more. They can’t just be running around with their head up in the air and passing all of us...."
Here is what he said though....Thoughts?
"The way Black people think in general is messed up. Both men and women need to change their way of thinking. It’s hard to trust a Black woman [sometimes] because a lot of Black women’s mind frame is that the man gotta do everything for her⎯ he gotta pay for this, he gotta pay for that, and if it ain’t about money then a lot of them ain’t fucking with him. If that’s what you’re here for then I don’t want to be with you.
Most single Black women feel like they don’t want to settle for less. Their standards are too high right now. They have to understand that successful Black men are kind of extinct. We’re important. It’s hard to find us so Black women have to bow down and let it be known that they gotta start working hard; they gotta start cooking and being down for they man more. They can’t just be running around with their head up in the air and passing all of us...."
Say it again Diggy- Number sign Jojo must feel like a proud brother, is all I gotta say.
Pretty sick of people telling everyone and their momma how someone else must feel. What niggas need to do is just say 'THAT IS HOW I WOULD FEEL..' 'cause that is what they really mean. Newflash though people, everybody doesn't get in their baby feelings and blame the World like you do.
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Looks like March is ending on a high note for Diggy Simmons. The teen rapper—who recently gained a strong buzz for his takes on Drake’s debut single “Over” and the Nas classic “Made You Look”—celebrated his 15th birthday on Sunday, but received the real icing on his cake yesterday when he announced his official signing to Atlantic Records.
Although Diggy says he had also received offers from Def Jam, Jive, Universal, and Epic, he shared with VIBE why he feels confident in his label choice.
“[Atlantic is] really hip to my vision and they work the way [artists] want to work by giving them a lot of creative freedom. And their team is amazing; everybody’s real cool and just as excited as me to get started on my project,” he says. “Honestly, I’m just super duper thankful for the opportunity that Atlantic gave me and every other label. I won’t even say that it was overwhelming. It was just surreal.”
Wondering what the details are of Diggy’s new venture? Ask the adults. “Honestly, I’m not even sure [how many albums I’m contracted to], that’s like what my lawyers and pops handle. I’m just making good music until they say stop and even after that I’ll just keep going [laughs].”
But it’s far too early for Diggy to worry about when his contract is up. Instead, Rev Run’s middle son is already thinking about label-mate collabos. “Lupe is my favorite hip-hop artist, so sharing a label is something to be excited about. I think Lykke Li would be a dope collaboration as well because I’ve always been a fan of hers and Trey Songz or Estelle would be really dope as well.”
As for the crass Twitter trending topic #JojoMustFeelLike that showed face the same day as Diggy’s signing, the young rapper stood unamused.
“Number sign Jojo must feel like a proud brother, is all I gotta say. Everything everybody was saying [about him being jealous]… he didn’t even feel that way. The jokes on them, cause they’re stupid. People always like to put a negative play on a positive thing. But he was super excited for me.”
