Check out the new video from Drake for “Headlines”, the first single from his upcoming album Take Care, which hits stores on his 25th birthday, Oct. 24.
10.07.2011
Always Doing GOOD!
Businessman Jay-Z hosted The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation’s Carnival:Making The Ordinary Extraordinary, a charity event created to help raise money in hopes of providing financial assistance to teens experiencing socio-economic hardships, with hopes of seeking a higher education at a private or public college.
The star-supported Chrysler-sponsored event (held at NYC’s Hudson River Park’s Pier 54) reeled in celebrities like Sylvia Rhone, ?uestlove, Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Susan Taylor, Estelle, Kevin Liles, Andre Harrell, Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Stoute and Angie Martinez. After a night of rides, dart-throwing, fun & games and more, The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation raised $1,033,000!
If you wanted to attend the event, it would cost you $1,000. Yes, the price was definitely on the steep end, but the pro is that each ticket will one day pay for a child or teen’s tuition and books. Kudos to Mr. Carter for successfully raising a milli!
The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation was conceived in 2002 and officially established as a 501(c)3 public charity in 2003 by Shawn & his mother, Gloria Carter.
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Mag Cover #1
Tika Sumpter is the 2nd lady to pose for the cover of the revived digital magazine, VIBE Vixen.Tika Sumpter has gone from a soap opera actress to a bonafide "It" girl with roles on hit shows including BET’s The Game and Gossip Girl and spots in upcoming films such as Sparkle andThink Like A Man But with all her success, the actress, who covers Vibe Vixen , October 2011 issue. She admits she still feels the pressures of “maintaining a standard of beauty” in her industry.
“I think there’s pressure on everybody; let’s not deceive ourselves. It’s definitely a beauty business,” she told the magazine “It [matters] how your face looks, how your body looks, how everything looks.… The blogs and magazines will be quick to show what’s wrong with a person, so I think there’ s a lot of pressure to try to maintain themselves as much as possible.”
“I think there’s pressure on everybody; let’s not deceive ourselves. It’s definitely a beauty business,” she told the magazine “It [matters] how your face looks, how your body looks, how everything looks.… The blogs and magazines will be quick to show what’s wrong with a person, so I think there’ s a lot of pressure to try to maintain themselves as much as possible.”
The cover features a headshot of the actress — no fussy makeup, flashy clothes or piled on accessories, just her glowing skin, rosy makeup and softly curled hair. It really doesn’t look like Tika will be crumbling under the “pressure” anytime soon, but even if she’s aware of it, she also noted: “I don’t believe that everybody has to live up to this Hollywood beauty standard, because everybody’s not that.”
New Music !!!
T-Boz Opens Up
Nearly 5 years ago, T-Boz began experiencing frequent headaches and discovered that she had a non-cancerous brain tumor. Due to her sickle cell anemia, her doctor made it clear that surgery would be too dangerous and radiation would affect her career & quality of life.
With a strong step out on faith, Watkins found a surgeon to successfully remove her tumor, proving her relentless ability to defeat all odds. Check out her Human Factor feature on CNN’s blog, The Chart.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04/human-factor-tboz-and-survival-you-have-to-face-your-fears/
Below is a snippet of what she personally wrote about her experience and what she has learned about overcoming fear:
I don't believe in changing anything because I think everything happens for a reason. If I didn' have bad things happen, I wouldn't know the good things. I am wiser now. With age comes wisdom and I am looking forward to becoming wiser. I am not one of those people who is ashamed to say how old I am...i’m 41 because other people told me I wasn't even supposed to be alive at this age. It made me who I am and I'm happy with me and I am just glad I learned from my mistakes.
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