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YES THE 31 AND FOREVER YOUNG CELEBRATION WENT DOWN LAST THURSDAY AND AS I LOOKED AROUND AT THE TABLE I THOUGHT THAT EVERYONE WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE WAS THERE. MY COUSIN NIKI ONCE TOLD ME THAT YOU WILL LOOK AROUND ONE DAY AND THERE WILL BE FEWER FRIENDS AT YOUR TABLE. THE ONES WHO YOU GREW UP WITH AND HAVE KNOWN YOUR WHOLE LIFE MAY NOT BE THERE BUT THE NEW FRIENDS WHO HAVE ENRICHED YOUR LIFE AND LOVE YOU JUST AS YOU ARE RIGHT NOW ARE THERE! I HAD THE MOST AMAZING B-DAY STARTING ON WEDNESDAY WHEN A HOST OF MY CO-WORKERS CAME TO CELEBRATE WITH ME AT MY FAVORITE SPOT, THE BLACK MAN'S CHEERS AKA STANS THEN THURSDAY I WAS SURROUNDED BY MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY. IT WAS TRULY AMAZING AND IT MADE ME FEEL INCREDIBLY THANKFUL! YOU KNOW YOU CAN BITCH AND COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE IN THIS LIFE BUT FOR THAT DAY, I THOUGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING I DID HAVE. ALL OF MY FRIENDS WHO REACHED OUT TO ME FROM IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN AND EVEN FROM VACATION IN FRANCE....IT WAS TRULY A BLESSING!

HERE ARE SO MORE PICS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT AT ZENGO'S:

THESE ARE THE RIDE OR DIE FOLKS IN MY LIFE!


DIANNE AND BARBARA...ALL DAY! I LOVE THIS CHICK!


JAN AND LAUREN...MY GIRLS ALL DAY EVERYDAY!


THE THREE DOPEST DUDES I KNOW...MY FAM - CHINO AND CHRIS WIT MY MAN 100 GRAND..BREN!


THE PEOPLE AT ONE END OF MY TABLE...


MY GIRL ALVER WHO I CAN BE MY COMPLETE SELF WITH AND WHO IS ALWAYS SO MUCH FUN...LOVE HER TOO DEATH! Y'ALL SEE MY JAY LENO CHIN! LOL!


ZENGO'S MOJITOS ARE THE SHIIIIT...KT GETTING HER SIP ON!


WE DO IT CUZ WE USED TO IT....DRINK MF'S DRINK!


OUR CLAIRE AND HEATHCLIFF HUXTABLE....HAHAHA! NAH MY GIRL DANA DANE AND HER MAN DR. STAN! YALL SET IT OUT...THANKS A LOT!


WELL THE BADDEST BITCHES OF THE NIGHT MINUS A FEW OTHERS THAT WERE THERE...


GOT SOME MORE PICS WITH MY OTHER MAN 100 GRAND...PYT AKA JOSEPH WHO ALSO CAME THROUGH TO SUPPORT HIS FOLKS WIT MY FAVORITE COUSIN OF HIS, MIKE...THEY ARE COMING SOON!

NAS IS MY HERO!

NAS WIT HIS WIFEY KELIS MAKING THEIR STATEMENT!

Yes Nas is my HERO...that joint goes so damn hard and you know I am freaking loving it. My homegirl Danzy, our music expert, turned me on to the song and well I haven't stop playing it yet. You gots to respect Nas as a lyricist and a man. Standing up and even having the audacity in many people's eyes to try and title his album one of the most controversial words in America - NIGGER! We can say it here cuz well this is my shit and I do what I wanna. Anyway eventually Nas did end up having to suck it up and leave the album untitled but not without telling y'all how he feels about it and not without dropping one of the hottest albums I have heard in a minute. ALL MY HIP HOP HEADS STAND UP and all you WANKSTERS...go cop NAS's new album and learn something. Trust me, it is that fire!

For now though, my favorite song is HERO produced by my boy Polow Da Don. Polow is also doing his thing and getting that money for real...who would have ever thought the sexy dude from Jim Crow and the Shawty Swing My Way video would be producing damn near every hot ass track out now. I did...I always knew it was something special about his fine ass...keep holding it down for the A-Town! Back to Nasty Nas...here is the Hero video and also read my favorite lyrics below...he killed it.

HERO VIDEO


MY FAVORITE LYRICS IN THE SONG, HERO by Nas!

Young, rich, and flashy
Young, bitch, I'm nasty
All black clothes til ice lay on me so classy
And every time I close my lids
I can still see the borough, I can still see the Bridge
I can still see the dreams that my niqqas ain't never lived to see
Tell them angels open the door for me
From nine berettas and moving raw
To chilling in wine cellars
Sticks and humidors
That's what I call mature
That's what I call a g
That's what I call a pimp
That's what I call a gangsta
To the fullest, sh!t
I try to make more cream
By every September 14th, that's my dream
So I can be more clean, as I grow yearly
I can see things more clearly
That's why they fear me
This universal apartheid
I'm hog-tied, the corporate side
Blocking y'all from going to stores and buying it
First L.A. and Doug Morris was riding wit it
But Newsweek article startled big wigs
They said, Nas, why is he trying it?
My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as winning
Forgetting - Nas the only true rebel since the beginning
Still in musical prison, in jail for the flow
Try telling Bob Dylan, Bruce, or Billy Joel
They can't sing what's in their soul
So untitled it is
I never change nothin'
But people remember this
If Nas can't say it, think about these talented kids
With new ideas being told what they can and can't spit
I can't sit and watch it
So, sh!t, I'ma drop it
Like it or not
You ain't gotta cop it
I'm a hustler in the studio
Cups of Don Julio
No matter what the CD called
I'm unbeatable, y'all
HELL YEAH!

ART FOR LIFE: THE LAVENDAR AFFAIR!

The 9th Annual Art for Life Foundation party was held in the Hamptons this weekend by no one other than Mr. Russell Simmons and it looks like Yoga Chick has made her way back to Mr. Simmons' heart. She was there killin the game and looking hella fab...hang on to her Russell, she is a keeper!

Will you please take a look at this dress? OFF THE HOOK!


DIDDY AND HIS MAMA...I LOVE JANICE..SHE DOES HER!


ALSO MR. AND MRS. GRANT HILL WERE IN ATTENDANCE:


GAYLE KING IS GETTING HER GROOVE BACK AND IT IS NOT WITH OPRAH BUT EX NFL-BALLER, CURTIS MARTIN...GET IT GAYLE! I SWEAR THESE OLD MEN AND THEIR FOOLERY ARE BRINGING OUT MY COUGAR TOO....


JULISSA WAS ALSO THERE MINUS HER FINE ASS FIANCEE, LARRY JOHNSON...HIS SLIGHTLY SENSITIVE BUTT...


ALSO GOLD DIGGER EDMONDS WAS UP IN THE BUILDING...SCOPING OUT A NEW RICH BLACK MAN SHE CAN LOCKDOWN.


THE MAMA OF SOUL AND THE MAMA OF DIDDY GOT CAPTURED..RE RE WAS LOOKIN LIKE HURRY THE HELL UP PLEEZE!


THE BADDEST CHICKS AT THE PARTY WERE NO ONE OTHER THAN AOKI AND MING...THEY ARE THE FREAKIN CUTEST!


A FAB EVENT.... EAST HAMPTON STYLE....LOVES IT!

PRESS PARTY FOR CW, CBS, AND SHOWTIME STARS

SEXY ASS SHEMAR MOORE WAS IN THE BUILDING!

ALSO MY TWO GIRLS FROM THE GAME ON CW:

WENDY RAQUEL ROBINSON whose character on the show is currently sleeping with fine ass Rick Fox....can't wait to see what pops off next season with those two?


ALSO TIA MOWRY WAS THERE....LOOKIN HELLA CUTE!


ANOTHER ONE FOR THE PEDOPHILE FOLDER, TRISTAN WILDES, formerly of THE WIRE and currently the newest member on CW's new version of 90210....LOOKS LIKE SOME BLACK PEOPLE FINALLY MOVED INTO BEVERLY HILLS....I am sure Aaron Spelling is turning over in his grave at what happened in the neighborhood. :)

Fellow Cancer: QUEEN BEE AND HER MAN, YUNG J O C!

The Queen Bee...Lil Kim is a fellow Cancer like me and she recently celebrated her b-day with her new boo, Yung Joc at Club Crush last weekend. In true Cancer fashion, she had the girls out on display. Her face may be full of plastics but I still love and respect Lil Kim, she killed the game back in the day! "Young bitch out of the street, guaranteed to stay down...used to bring work out of town on Greyhound..now I am billboard bound." - KIM MURDERED THAT VERSE!!! Also she is a Cancer so I know she is a sweetheart and blowing JOC's mind in the bedroom. We have that effect....

Here are some pics of her and her man at her birthday celebration:

Cancer women love to flaunt their breasts if they have them...it is one of our erogenous zones!


Yeah that's right spit that game to us....


SHOTS OF PATRON....They make me keel over to Kim!


GOIN HOME TO GET IT ON...BYE KIM AND JOC!

Sunday Inspiration!

As many of you, my birthday was this past weekend. I received the most beautiful card from my mother and I wanted share with you what it said.

HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE!

Love yourself.
MAKE PEACE with who you are and where you are at this moment in time.

Listen to your heart.
If you can't hear what it's saying in this noisy world.
MAKE TIME for yourself.
Enjoy your own company.
Let your mind wander among the stars.

Try.
Take chances.
MAKE MISTAKES.
Life can be messy and confusing at times, but it's also full of surprises.
The next rock in your path might be a stepping-stone.

Be happy. When you don't have what you want, want what you have.
MAKE DO.
That's a well-kept secret of contentment

There aren't any shortcuts to tomorrow.
You have to MAKE YOUR OWN WAY.
To know where you're going is only part of it.
You need to know where you've been, too.
And if you ever get lost, don't worry.
The people who love you will find you.
Count on it.

Life isn't days and years.
It's what you with time and with all the goodness and grace that's inside of you.
MAKE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.....
The kind of life you deserve.

(Connections by Hallmark)

OH REALLY!

OH REALLY....I am definitely going to keep you up to date about the haters that are we fighting against in this election. This 25-year old grad student from NYU has designed a line of insulting T-shirts including the one pictured above and others that read Obama=Hitler, Jews against Obama, and Who Killed Obama? Bastard!

Well apparently he is now being sued because a young lady was assaulted when wearing the shirt pictured above. Her dumb racist ass purchased the shirt for 69 dollars at Apollo Braun's Manhattan Boutique. I have no sympathy for her and whatever beatdown she got as a result of her wearing the shirt is due purely to her own stupidity. She is dumb for two reasons - buying an ignorant ass shirt and really dumb for paying 69 dollars for it. Four teenage girls got in that ass when they saw her walking down the street with that ignorance on display. I put my money that they were black even though reports are not specifying their ethnicity.

Like I say frequently, LET THE HATERS HATE! Katt Williams told me you need haters! FEEL FREE TO HATE ON ME AND MY MAN OBAMA...It will only make us work harder.

T. HOWARD SANGIN NOW!

Well if you don't know...TERRENCE HOWARD is one of those men that I think is absolutely beautiful. I am feeling all of him even when he is rocking the process cuz he has that grown man out-of-the-box swag that I find incredibly sexy. I AM ON IT! So maybe I am bias but I am loving hearing his sexy ass voice sangin to me. I once had the pleasure of meeting him and my friends have heard this story a hundred times but I was in love after five minutes. This dude is just as charming, charismatic, and intriguing as he in on the movie screen. He is amazingly talented and music is his true passion so I am happy to see things coming together for my boo. His album, SHINE THROUGHT IT, drops on September 2, 2008...COP IT! A gifted guitar player with a voice reminiscent of old school Terrence Trent Darby. Y'all know Wishing Well was the freakin jam back in the day. I have a couple tracks of T. Howard right here...let me know what you think?

His FIRST SINGLE...SANCTUARY!


THE TITLE TRACK OF THE ALBUM...SHINE THROUGH IT!

WHO IS THE WHITE BOY?

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A KNOWLES' FAMILY FLASHBACK!

Looks like Ms. Tina was killing the game before B started too. Anyway just thought I would share...who doesn't have a picture like this with their fly mama from the 80s?

IF YOU A G THEN COME SEE RICKY?

Some rumors have recently popped up about Ricky Ross previously being a correctional officer and well Trick spoke on it as if he believed it to be true. You know something like this coming out will immediately ruin a rapper's street cred in a hot flash minute. Ricky let em know quickly that the rumor is completely false and the picture was photoshopped!

Ricky Ross is letting Trick Daddy know that he can come see him if it really is a problem. I guess Trick is mad that Ricky Ross is flossin like the boss that he is these days and anybody know what was Trick Daddy's last single? Exaaactly! Ricky Ross is walking around with shirt off and displaying his gangsta swag...I AM LOVING IT...you already know! DADE COUNTY REPRESENT!

Check it out:

JC PENNEY'S BLESSED WITH FABULOUSITY!

Last night, Kimora Lee and her man, Djimon, as well as the girls Aoki and Ming were out for the premiere of the new Fabulousity line at JC Penney's. I swear Kimora is the ultimate hustla and business woman, I am going to cop that book and get my Fabulousity hustle on POINT too!

Just her and the girls...I love that little Aoki..she cracks me up!


Our favorite partygirl was in attendance...Ms. Gabby! Lookin hella cute!


The Ex-Mrs. Beats aka Mashonda was out and about to in the silk jumper that I am loving...do it girl!


Fab time....Hit up that neighborhood JC Penney's and see whats really good?