DAiLY SToRY...

I'm Graduating!

Class of 2009...

HEY YOUNG WORLD!!! Today in school I found out I am graduating which SUCH a relief! I honestly thought that I wasn't going to be able to graduate because my attendance this year was SO horrible and if you have bad attendance you CAN NOT graduate BUT luckily I made it and I am SO thankful to God that he has bought me thus far. LOL my friends were like "Yo Antwan sit down before you past out" and if you were in my shoes yo you would have felt the same. The Teachers had a list and if your name was on that list you had to leave Senior homeroom and go find out why you are not graduating. Simply put...this was the day you did NOT want your name to be called because if it did it was like the horrible END to a LONG and TIRING year. My heart was racing the WHOLE time and just the waiting part was hard enough. My friends though I tell you, they are the BEST friends in the whole world honestly and I am SO glad that I went through my Senior year with great people like them. They comforted me in such a rare time of need and I thank them SO much for their help. We all was hype when they didn't call my name lol and I'm still befuddled about the fact that I am graduating. Can't wait to see what the real world has in store and can't wait to take life by the hair and conquer all!

iCONQUER!!!

The Daily Artist Spotlight...

Today's Daily Artist Spotlight comes from one of my FAVORITE singers from my collection of favorite unknown singers who WON'T be unknown for long. Today's artist is a pretty, petite and dainty little songbird with a voice as strong as an eagles call so i guess little songbird wouldn't be a way to describe her because babygirl got chops. Without further or do Young World here she is....Introducing....SUAI!!!! YAY...CLAP CLAP!!! haha Now Suai, pronounced like Sway, is new on the scene and I discovered her when I was flipping through a magazine. Now everytime I kept on dropping the magazine it KEPT popping open to the page of NEW STARS TO WATCH and Suai was one of them. Her whole look just stood out from the rest of the other wannabe popstars and her name gave her a different appeal then the other already popstars out here in the game now. So I took her name down and went home and googled her and I found her website, myspace and some other informational sites about who she is and where she comes from and all. I found some tracks of hers online and once I heard the first line to her popular online song, "OH SNAP!" i was like OH SNAP!!! lol She really had me hooked on what she was saying lyric for lyric, word for word, harmony for harmony. She was just THAT good! On "OH Snap!", Suai sings about meeting a guy that she thought would ONLY be her friend UNTIL all of a sudden and out of the blue she starts catching feelings for him and realizes that she maybe, just MAYBE might be in love. It's a really catchy song and VERY relateable and I think anyone who has a Love Jones that wasn't supposed to happen can relate. Another great song of hers that is pretty popular online is the song entitled "Am I Alone?" On "Am I Alone" Suai SANGS about the MANY oppurtunities at a better life we have today going bad with people killing each other, mothers and fathers not raising their kids properly and children in places in the world who have no food to eat or shelter to hide from the rain. It is a VERY touching song and I think is the REALIST song since Mary J. Bliges "No More Drama". At the end of Am I Alone you hear our NOW president Mr. Barack Obama speaking and saying that in order to last as a nation and to have piece on earth we MUST sacrifice ourselves for each other, "All for One and One for All", which is so true. To get more if an insight about Suai here is a short bio that she gave to her fans via Myspace.....

i've been interested in music since i was a really little girl. mom is a singer/songwriter/musician and kinda gave me a gentle nudging towards music when
i was about 3 years old.we'd sing songs in the bathroom in front of the mirror (for acoustic purposes of course). about
11 years later i wrote my first songin our living room, it was called...ummmm...wow, i really can't remember. it was good tho!! shortly thereafter, partly because of the great response to my songs and partly because i loathed high school,
i decided to dedicate myself completely to music!! i even picked up the guitar and wrote a few folky tunes (hopefully they'll be revisited someday). i made it through high school, recorded a demo and started shopping around for a record deal.
after i signed with Motowni thought things were gonna change overnight....not!! 3 years later i'm
working at Starbucksand still living at home. the time has been good for me though. i've recorded an AMAZING album, performed in more than a few cities, including my own, and i've
developed a strong sense of the kind of artist i want to be...something i wasn't totally sure of a few years back....so yeah, about the music..
"suai, when i buy your album, what can i expect?"you can expect awesomenesstivity!! no seriously, if you love music, you'll love this album. it's all the things you love about music right now, used to love and will love in the future all packaged up together for your listening pleasure! every song has it's own individual vibe but the glue that holds it all together is...well...me.
"who have you worked with?"everybody and their mamas too!! lol, i've been recording for almost 3 years. i've been all over the map collaborating with a ton of producers and writers. but you're lookin for names, right? ok, here ya go: Linda Perry, Akon, Dre & Vidal, Carvin & Ivan, Dallas Austin, B. Cox, Polow (da don, lol), Ne-yo, Neffu, Harold Lilly, Madd Scientist, Claude Kelly and Jevon "Duvall" Hill to name a few.. oh and yours truly did some production work too!! (don't believe me? check the credits..)
"what's the album called? and when is it droppin'?!?!"we've got a few working titles and it's droppin' soon!!!
"should i bootleg? or buy?"omg, BUY!! if you bootleg, you won't get to read my liner notes, see pictures or have a firm plastic surface to fill out your bank deposit slips on. also, i won't be able to have a huge tour and create jobs by hiring a huge crew...then that huge crew won't have money to recycle back into the economy. so you see, it's imperative that you BUY MY ALBUM!
"ok, i'm sold! where can i see you perform?"well, i'm glad you asked. i've got a bunch of videos on youtube (youtube.com/eighty8kees) and i post all of my upcoming performances on my official website (suaionline.com). i hope to see you at a show!! thanks for checkin me out! love ya! be blessed! s.

xoxo

*So there Ya Have it Young World!! Another great voice of the future. I am hoping to hear BIG things from Ms. Suai and I HOPE that she does not get overshadowed by these no singing wannabe popstars out now. I'm praying for her lol. SO SERIOUS!!! To find out more about Suai just visit her OFFICIAL Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/suai or http://www.twitter.com/suai OR http://www.suaionline.com. You won't regret your research on this GREAT artist....

iConquer Daily....

Hey YOUNG WORLD!!! Today's post is a NEW one you will see floating around the blog now and I got the inspiration from it when I was just sitting in my room one day and I was all types of sad because I was upset about the fact that I was graduating in a week. Not knowing that reality would hit me dead in my face as fast as it did I realized, why am I sad? I went through 4 great years at a Semi-GREAT school and I met some GREAT people along the way. Aside from that I also got involved in some great activities and clubs and I graduated with awards and honors to my name I NEVER thought I would get when I was a freshmen starting out. So as I write to you Young World I must say that you should never let fear hold you back because at the end of the day it is ONLY the Devil saying that you can't do more then you know you can. So the first iConquer for the day will be iConquer...Fear and Negative Outlets Saying that I Can't or that I Won't because at the end of the day iCAN!! Now that VERY same pic you see of Muhammad Ali is the same one I have on my wall and he was my inspiration in the past to push forward past the walls of the box people try to out me in and keep me out and this time I had to push past the box that I put myself in and tried to keep myself out. I realized that life is all about changes and if you fear to change now then you'll always be the same old person with the same old things that life has given you in the past. You gotta conquer fear and let it know that you aren't going ANYWHERE until it moves out your way and that's the truth!!

*If you guys have ANY iConquer's that you feel you are VERY proud about and thought you'd never do in a million years then get them off your chest and hit me up on my Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/datboitwane with your name, age and short story of what your iConquer may be...look forward to hearing from ya.....

Daily Music Buzz...

HEY YOUNG WORLD!!! So today in the crazy world called the Music Industry, ALOT has been going down. Now a few posts are recent and a few are past due because of the fact that I've been lazy posting DAILY like I SHOULD!!! Bad Me i know, but nonetheless if you haven't heard any of the news I am posting then GREAT because I really tried my best to give them to you guys on time before they OFFICIALLY turned into old news and IF you have read some of these posts already then ACT like it's new news and read it AGAIN!!! haha enjoy....


Last week 3 music videos were finally premiered after much buzz around the singles released. Now the first video comes from our ol' home girl Amerie. Last week on Tuesday, June 9 she came to BET's 106 & Park and premiered her video for her new single which is entitled Why R U and it will be included on her new album which is entitled In Love And War, but I honestly thought she was planning to change the title of the album...?? IDK. The video for Why R U can be described more along the lines of a performance video and but of course it shows the beautiful Amerie frolocking around dancing, singing, and sporting high fashion just like the rest of the performance videos do to make the video look interesting. I was kind of disappointed because I kind of envisioned a old school feel to the video since the song sounds like an old school throwback from the 90's but I was COMPLETELY let down to find her just stand there in front of various walls. But even though my vision didn't come through with the video I MUST say that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though because TRUST me i seen WORSE. My only hope for the rest of Amerie's career is that she doesn't EVER try that good girl gone bad image again like she did in Touch because it just wasn't working for our ol' girl. Be sure to pick up a copy of In Love & War when it comes out sometime in mid-summer. I have heard a few leaked tracks from the album and I must say that she definately has taken a TREMENDOUS turn away from the formula she used on Because I Love It. The best leaked song that I have heard so far would have to be Dear John. She coo's and sangs over a smooth mid-tempo beat about how she is writting a Dear John letter to her bf who goes by the name of John, coincidence?, and she is letting him know that EVEN THOUGH he may have THOUGHT he broke her heart, in the end she is stronger and WILL find better even though he told her she wouldn't. Very proud of the girl Amerie...expecting BIG things from her....

The NEXT video comes from our girl Jordin Sparks, who just revealed her album cover for her upcoming cd, Battlefield due out July 21, 2009, last Monday, June 8. I didn't even KNOW she had a video out until I flipped on the tv one day and caught the ending of it so if you guys haven't found out and are surprised then believe me you are just as shocked as I am because I was like what?!? When did this happen?! She just gave a sneak preview of it the other day! But the video must have premiered last Monday OR the Friday before last Monday, which was June 5. Now the video in my opinion is a TOTAL fail because I expected more from a video with the title of Battlefield and with such a heavy guitar driven sound on the chorus, I just feel Jordin gave nothing but a rushed performance just to catch up with a climbing single and anticipating album. When I saw the sneak peak of the video I was REALLY digging the little bit I saw because I thought that she was gonna lay in the field after she got out the car and imagine she was in a actual battlefield with explosions and fire and etc. Now I KNOW we are in an economic chrisis BUT DOES THAT MEAN that the videos have to look like what they are...low-budget?? Who knows if this video was low-budget but it definately was a boring mess. But regardless of a rushed video i WILL still support Jordin because in my opinion she is one of the few good girls that we have around the industry who know how to keep their goodies ACTUALLY locked in the jar so yeah...love Ms. Jordin Sparks!

The Last video comes from the Bad Girl of Bad Boy Entertainment herself, Cassie!! Cassie's video for her new single, Must Be Love, premiered last Friday, June 12 and I must say that it was VERY abrupt due to the fact that she has no buzz on the radio about the single NOR does she have much promo going around about her album so I was kind of curious and mad as to why Cassie would do this because a few months back I recall her saying that THIS time around she was gonna give an album NO ONE forgot....they weren't he EXACT words BUT that's what she might as well had said with how she was talking. Now the video I MUST say was the pretty good and it was kind of a throwback of what the videos used to look like back in the early 2000's or late 90's. Even though the video had a different vibe from the rest that were out I felt that the concept was missing but GO FIGURE so is the concept in other videos. Cassie has a cameo by Diddy all up and throughout the video and yes people, he is just being the regular Diddy we know....trying to rap and TRYING to show off his "swag"...?? IDK, but he is also the love interest in the video which I think is ironic because OF COURSE we ALL know that they are together behind closed doors, but i honestly think they should of had Diddy at a bar or something in his own location with his own love interest and Cassie in her room with the guy she likes in the other and them just vibing off each other's presence between the walls. And if you want to know what I am talking about when I say in between the walls you will see when you watch the video because the whole thing is shot with the two of them being in seperate rooms and one single wall dividing them. Also Cassie's new haircut she got really messes up the video's vibe because the song is SO old school R&B with a feel good vibe to it and she has the look of an Rolling Stones fan WTF?!?...not a good match!! BUT i will say the ending is pretty sick with the furniture and piano setting itself on fire. I think that was SO sexy and dope at the same time so Cassie DEFINATELY gets brownie points for that. If you are a fan of Cassie's then you can check Cassie's new album, Electro Love, in stores sometime mid-summer or late this year...

BUT Moving On To Other News In The Music World.........

Today via his Twitter page Monday morning, ATL photgrapher, Derek Blanks, premiered some new and VERY eye-catching images of our girl Ms. Fantasia for some promo. No word on what the images could be for BUT hopefully they are for her new album expected out sometime late this year. I must say Ms. Fantasia is bringing it in these pics and definately looks like wifey type in that Red-Satin dress. But the one pic with her in the bow-tie is too reminascent of Janelle Monae's style and I feel NOBODY can rock it the right way BUT her, but I'd still marry Fantasia if she asked lol. Fantasia will be going on a major city tour of the Color Purple and will touch the stages of city's in Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, of coarse, and personally i'm HOPING Philadelphia because i'd REALLY like to take my Mama with me to see what all the buzz is about with this play...since 2006 it's been highly talked about!! Gotta see it before my time runs out ya know?? Enjoy the pics....

Also Today MTV VJ and the Famous wife of Nuggets basketball player Carmelo Anthony, LaLa Vasquez, posted via her Twitter her new haircut she will be sporting. If you seen the "famous" cut that Cassie got and jocked then you will know what cut I am talking about. She posted on her Twitter page "Yes, Cassie made this cut famous now I'm just putting the LaLa Remix onto it. Who will be next in the movement??....It just feels good to let go." Yea....okay?? Pretty interesting...Now my question is why the HELL did she do that to that gorgeous head?? I bet Cassie felt stupid for shaving her head and it being a failure so she probably called up everybody she knew to help her out to make it something stylish to be worn when really it looks like a squirrel hat shaven in half. I honestly think they shavin they head because Diddy and Carmelo stressing them out and they losing they hair over it lol. I'm just saying! But anyways the pic that Ms. LaLa posted wasn't as bad as I thought it would look and I must say i am actually pretty impressed because it looks pretty descent on her and in my opinion, probably any hairstyle can look descent on her because she so damn gorgeous!! BUT is it me OR does she look a little bit like Keri Hilson?? IDK...i'm just saying lol....

BACK TOGETHER???

Also last Thursday word was that Mr. Chris Breezy and Princess Rihanna were at Game 4 for the 2009 NBA FINALS between the Lakers and Magic last week TOGETHER BUT Seperately at the same time...if that makes sense? lol Word is that Rihanna, who is rumored to be dating Mr. Best I Ever Had himself aka Drake, was spotted at the game along with some friends just watching the game, sipping some beers and having a good time while Chris did the same. HOPEFULLY he didn't have any beer though because he still underage of the drinking age and i also heard drinking makes you a VERY angry and agressive person sometimes and we KNOW how he can get when he is angry and agressive lol he probably would have courted Rihanna off to the side and gave her round 2 of what she got the night before the Grammy's LOL okay okay I am going to stop, making jokes is not nice! Bad ME!! haha But anyways, word is Rihanna is working swiftly on her return to the music scene but dipping in and out of studios with various producers and Mr. Brown is putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album, Graffiti, which is expecting a fall 2009 release. Good to see them moving on from the pain...

Lastly this week I just wanted to inform those who DIDN'T know that Jay-Z and Mr. Kenneth Edmonds himself aka Babyface, have started new record company's. Jay-Z left Def Jam about a month ago and is building up another empire to distribute more blazing talent from like he did back in the day. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you....Roc Nation!!! CLAP CLAP! I must say I am impressed with Jay-Z's decision to start fresh again because is it me or did it seem like Jay-Z hit a little snag in the road as far as music goes?? He ain't making them albums sound like they did back in his Reasonable Doubt/Dynasty days now is he? And don't ya'll lie and say he is because we ALL know Kingdom Come was undersold, Jay said so himself and American Gangster was underbuzzed. I just want the old Jay back when he was "Big Pimping" and telling those living the "Hard Knock Life" that they could have "Anything" even if they did make a "Song Cry" from their story. I just want that feeling back that I had when I heard "Ain't No Ni**a" featuring Foxy Brown for the first time, don't you? Hopefully this new label can bring back the good old sounds of back in the day. The management for Roc-Nation is going by the name of Star-Roc Management and word is Beyonce will serve as President of A&R and Rihanna and Brandy will be apart of the label as artist as well. I also heard that big time producer, Stargate, will also be apart of the label serving as the head of production and songwriting. Sounds promising BUT I honestly think that if the rumors being A&R are right ALL hell is going to break loose because she is NOT gonna let any cute, danceable, and good singing girls get next to her man Jay. I smell a catfight lol.....

In the other corner we have Mr. Babyface himself and word is the name of his new label,which is being distributed by Def Jam, coincidence?, will be named SodaPopMusic and will have my past Daily Spotlight Artist, Kristinia Debarge, as his first artist. Edmonds wrote and produced many of the songs on her debut album, including the current first single "Goodbye." The singer is scheduled to shoot a video for the track in Los Angeles during the coming weeks. SodaPopMusic is a full-scale label start-up for Babyface, one of his first since LaFace Records (home of Toni Braxton, OutKast, TLC, and Usher). This sounds promising and I look forward to hearing what Babyface has to dish out because when you think about it he did give us some our BEST songs in the 90's by producing and writing them. Hopefully BOTH record labels can pick up off the ground and eventually take off somewhere...

Daily WTF?!?!....

Okay so it's been awhile since I have posted a daily WTF?!?! So I thought I'd let you guys know what has been up and going on in the my WTF?!?! world lol. Umm...lets see....there have been a few WTF?!?! moments that have happend with me lately so I'm gonna pick out the top ones that I think are REALLY worth the shine time and I'll post the rest of them later okie doke??

Okay so Sunday night I come home to just chill and relax. While I'm doing me and just coolin', I get a call from my cousin, her friend, and my ex-friend. Now i know why they called me. Earlier that day I had seen my ex-friend, who i talked about in my Fake Friend post a little while back, he was fake friend #1 but yeah anyways he was chillin at the park with some girl who looked like his ex. To make a long story short they call me up and ask me if I seen him around my neighborhood and if he was with anybody or anything and i told them yeah I think he was with his ex but I am not sure why? And once I ask why this stupid fool, my ex-friend, comes outta nowhere and goes "oh for real though? You lying now?" WTF?!? And THEN when I got loud in the voice with him, he goes "don't get smart with me boy". Boy? haha ok WTF?!?! Hold up Number 1, where did you come from?! And Number 2, who the hell you think you talking to because I dont think its me homie?! So he says to my cousins like "okay, I see where ya'll get ya'll "sources" from with all this now". I'm like oh okay so you think I'm the big mouth who told? Number 1 fool, there are other people who live in my neighborhood that know you and there are MANY that don't like you so WTF?!? And number 2, make sure you got your information right because I ain't that one who told on you. So anyways to make a long story I told him off, he felt stupid, and then TRIED to say sorry lol WTF?!? So the next day in school he looked at me like he had something to say to me, like he wanted to say sorry to me but nah homie! WTF?!? Number 1, You already disrespected me by calling me a liar and yelling at me first and also Number 2, you a fake and a BIG phoney so yeah...WTF?!? Lame people I tell you....

My NEXT story is about my trip to Target and when I was there I was looking at the DVD's rack. Now the DVD aisle is VERY wide and it has ALOT of room and enough room for people to walk in their own lane. Now I am looking at the DVD's and I was VERY close up on the rack looking at what movies they had because I can't see worth a dime because I need to renew my contact prescription, so yeah I was pretty close lol. And while i'm looking at the rack this IGNORANT man walks RIGHT in between me....WTF?!? How they heck don't you see all the other space you could have used to walk by to where you were going? But I guess walking in front of me seemed like the right thing to do huh? Now I wouldn't have minded it but the guy was SO rude about it. Number 1, he walked in front of me without an "Excuse Me Sir" or "I'm Sorry". Number 2, there was no room for him to get by between me and the rack so that meant he had to bump me out my way and he did! WTF?!?! Everytime I think about it i get mad and wanna grab his dumb behind because how in the world can you be an adult and be rude like that? I would have expected that from a teenager or someone younger then me but NOT an "Adult", I expect more...WTF?!? But i guess ignorance comes in different shapes, sizes, colors, and age. Sad sad world we live in I tell ya....

LAST story Is about this girl who likes me. Now this girl was cool and I was feeling her for a bit until she started to playing game, so I decided time was up and I needed to waste the rest of my time on someone better. Now she told me the other week she texted me out the blue and asked me if I wanted a gf and I was like not really, right now I like being free BUT there have been some candidates who might have a chance of winning the race. And she all nosey type and starts asking me Who? Where They Live? What They Look Like?...WTF?!?! Are you my gf? And did I ever commit myself to being your man? Because IF so PLEASE tell ME when? WTF?!? Then she tells me "Don't be leading people on and all because that's bad" THEN turns around and texts me "I got a Bf!" Now how she gone talk about leading people on when she trying to lead me on to thinks he like me but REALLY in actuality is talking to another dude behind my back. So i'm thinking maybe she just joking like she always do and didn't think anything of it. I asked her who? She said my friend. I LOL'd because my friend didn't seem like he would go for someone like her. BUT i come to school the next week to find out that she does go out with my friend...W...T...F?!?! Now I'm thinking like WOW you mean to tell me that you were using me and my friend for the rebound? If he didn't want you, you was gonna come to me? AND if I didn't want you, you was gonna go to him? WTF?!? Nah being played ain't in my list of things i wanna do or have happend before I die and WILL NOT happen now so yeah....she's cut! Like how can some people do that? WTF?!? Don't you think that the other person would finally realize eventually that you ain't nothing but a two-timer?? And to those out there who act like ya'll don't see it I am SMH at you because you deserve better then some one who is a confused mess lost in the sauce who can't make up their minds. OH and THEN the funny part about her is how she be saying that she don't drink BUT says "Oh yeah, I was drunk and out of it the other night"....WTF?!? You aint nothing but a liar so why you keep talking to me like I'm dumb and like I don't see the real you? And then be having the nerve to hit me up on my phone and ask why ain't you talking to me anymore? HAHA get a life and keep it pushing because when i'm done with you "I Want You Back" will be what you are wishing...WTF?!?

*Remember If you have any Daily WTF's just leave me your name, age and message me one at http://www.myspace.com/datboitwane and I will DEFINATELY post it up here for the world to relate to....keep it clean though and if it's not clean PLEASE edit!! :)

Daily Quote...

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, but as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

-Booker T. Washington

Old School Film Daily...

This is a little something, something for the class of 1997. Love Jones was one of the rare yet real love story's that displayed the real sides to love and how it is SO complicating to keep it grounded and fresh. I really LOVE this movie and I get sad because we don't have ANY black love story's like this in today's society and if there are some out there they are ALWAYS straight to video's and they NEVER ever come close to the hipness and happeningness of Love Jones. This film will definately last for ages and will always be a classic for me and i DEFINATELY recommend you to go and rent it at a local Blockbuster or video store and see what happens after love at first sight! And by the way did i add that Nia Long looked SO booty-ful in this movie?? Because she did!!! lol I ESPECIALLY love when she tells Larenz Tate, "Take Your Clothes Off." If I were him I woulda had a heartattack with her asking me that lawd have mercy on my soul lol...