T.I. - Poppin Bottles Feat Drake (New Music)

I don't know where to start. After the birthday week I just had, I am so motivated to live the "Birthday Lifestyle" Year Around. I was treated like a king for a whole week. I have the greatest friends, family and business associates in the world.

The interesting thing is that some people live this birthday/king lifestyle daily, and once you get a taste of "the life", its addictive.

This year was definitely a motivational tool to keep me striving towards acheiving my dreams for sure. The thing I learned is the most important thing to this lifestyle is positivity, i.e. always believing "yes you can."

Through continuous positive energy I was able to start my birthday week off by going to Vegas on Monday to party with Mr. toot It and Boot it, YG.

Tuesday brought forth antics with Tre from Z90 FM and DJ Ironic. Wednesday, I was damn near front Row at the Usher OMG Tour thanks to Usher's Uncle Duron Raymond.

Thursday was my actual Birthday with a 3d Lightshow event hosted by Savvy Thursdays @207 Hardrock San Diego.

Friday, Shock G from Digital Underground hosted my official birthday party giving mad birthday shouts and even performed a 2pac birthday rap for me.

Saturday we were Popping Bottles at Barfly in the prestigious La Jolla, California area of San Diego.

Sunday was industry night at Hardrock with Mr. Mobeze Incorporated himself and Monday was the Chargers vs Broncos Monday Night Football game with my good friend Rosario.

I had a hell of a week for sure.

Now I am not bragging what so ever, but what I'm saying is motivation and positive energy are a motha....

Obviously, I won't live like that because every week can't be my birthday week, and I am thankful to have had that opportunity but then again if a person is focused and stays motivated towards his or her goals that person could live like Mariah Carey or Usher.

The funny thing about the birthday week is after it was officially over, T.I.s latest album would leak which is unfortunate but the hot song of the week would happen to be the song entitled Poppin Bottles featuring Drake.

After hearing this song, its obvious: time to get back to work in order to live the birthday lifestyle daily.

T.I. - Poppin Bottles Feat Drake

*credit www.globalgrind.com

Nicki Minaj - Moment 4 Life ft Drake

Today's I'm focused song is Moment 4 Life by Nicki Minaj featuring Drake. I wish that I could have this moment for life!!! Sometimes you have to sit back and realize all of the good things around you because one day they may no longer be there.

Friends, good times, money, life and all things can easily be taken away in an instant, so its important to cherish the life and people around you.

On Moment 4 Life, Nicki Minaj tackles this issue with sheer truth.

"I fly with the stars in the skies,
I am no longer trying to survive,
I believe that life is a prize,
But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive,
Don’t worry bout me and who I fire
I get what I desire it’s my empire
And yes I call the shots I am the umpire
I sprinkle holy water upon a vampire, vampire
And this very moment I’m king
This very moment I slay Goliath with a sling,
This very moment I bring
Put it on everything that I will retire with the ring,
And I will retire with the crown, Yes!
No I’m not lucky I’m blessed, Yes!
Clap for the heavyweight champ, Me!
But I couldn’t do it all alone, We!
Young Money raised me, grew up out in Paisley
Southside Jamaica, Queens and it’s crazy
cuz I’m still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me
shout out to my haters, sorry that you couldn't faze me
aint being cocky we just vindicated, best believe that when were done
This moment will be syndicated, I don’t know this night just reminds me
of everything that they deprived me of, kuhh!
ppppp put ya drinks up, it’s a celebration every time we link up
We done did everything they can think of
Greatness is what we wanna brink up." - Nicki Minaj

When you are striving for a goal, its important to feel exactly like Nicki in this song in order to be successful or you may get sucked up within the extra-curricular madness.

The downside of being an artist is often times it seems like people may tend to only use you for your gifts and what you can do for them but when you find real friends that don't care "who you are" its always good to be able to share this special time with them.

The fact that I am blessed to share two days celebrating my birthday with multiple groups of friends is the greatest feeling and a blessing in itself this weekend.

Anyway, make sure you cherish your moments and cherish this song...Do people still use ringtones??? HA!

Oh and shout out to @NicoleEssco for the heads up to this song.

Kanye West - Blame Game (Full Version)

Good morning Music Heads! #ScorpioSeason always brings me good fortune and cheer! So of course I have no choice but to share my birthday month celebration with you all.

Being in the entertainment industry, I am usually privileged and honored to get jewels before they officially drop and today was no different. I woke up and to my surprise the entire song for Blame Game has hit the streets.

I will say Kanye West has set a new standard for how your work ethic should be if you call yourself an artist. Too many times people get involved with something because of the commodity aspect of it. When that happens, the passion is lost and the over all product loses value because of the lack of heart and effort put in.

But Kanye with his non-stop motivation and hard working dedication towards honing and mastering his craft, "yeezy taught me" this is the only way to become great, regardless of the monetary gain that potentially can be involved.

By yeezy continuously dropping free music on G.O.O.D. Fridays, it shows his passion towards his art and I am compelled to buy his new album just because I want to support good work ethic as well as to pay homage to the actual heart and soul of a true artistic spirit giving everything to achieve a goal.

Or maybe it could just be because I like the music and want to give myself something G.O.O.D. for my birthday? Hmmmm...

Common Featured In New Blackberry Ad

The New Blackberry Style has recently launched for Sprint and other CDMA networks. The "Style" is the latest flip blackberry phone with 6.0 operating system.

Of course the new advertisements would be sure to follow promoting the latest edition to the blackberry smartphone collection.

I'm still working on being in one of those commercials seeing as I love what I do, so we will see how that works out.

Anyway, thanks to http://www.pocketberry.com/ for the headsup. I just love the fact that Common's song Be (a hip Hop classic) is featured in the latest ad.

Shout out to True Hip Hop and its fans!

Blackberry Style Commercial

Kanye West - Love Hate (Mixtape)

For all of those people (cough...me...cough) waiting for birthday gifts on November 18th, I have a solution...come to my party hosted by Shock G, then hang with me at the Chargers/Broncos football game and of course buy me a copy of Kanye's new CD. (What a busy birthday week I will have...).

Since its only November 8th, I have to wait 10 days for the debauchery to commence.

If you haven't figured out by now, yes this post is intended for me! I basically can't wait for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to drop so I searched the web for any type of snippets, unfinished, non mastered songs and to my surprise found this mixtape entitled Love Hate with some of the featured songs, snippets and full tracks from the Runaway Video.

What's cool is I KNOW with all the leaked songs out, Kanye will freak the tracks so the album versions will be completely different from the leaked versions we've already been hearing.

Anyway...

This should give me...you a fix until the album drops November 22nd.

Kanye West - Love Hate (mixtape)

*mixtape credit The Music Spot (www.kylekorpi.com)

DC FAM AND WU TANG - 11/01/10

Last Monday night was absolutely amazing. I got the pleasure of covering my boy K Street's concert with his group DC FAM at The Middle East in Cambridge, MA.

DC FAM opened for Masta Killa and Inspectah Deck from Wu Tang Clan and the night was purely hip hop at it's finest. The underground rap group performed their hits "Load Me Up" and "Definition Of Suede" along with their hit single known to many in Boston area as the city's newest anthem "B Fitted."

Meanwhile, Deck and Masta performed a variety of their solo hits as well as Wu Tang Classics such as "C.R.E.A.M," "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'," "Glaciers of Ice," and "Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit."

Kevin Coughlin took the above photos of DC FAM and Wu Tang, working his magic with the cameras in what was a very dark venue that many have labeled a photographers' nightmare around Massachussetts. However, Coughlin did a tremendous job getting some exclusive shots of the on stage performances along with some splendid backstage shots of DC FAM preparing for their performance.

DC FAM had a live band backing their vocals, showcasing their talents to the fullest and doing nothing short of proving that they just might be the breakthrough rap group that Boston has been waiting for.

The group consists of three emcees from the greater Boston area..... 3rd Degree, K Street, and Suits the Role Model and their upcoming single "Throw It Up" is currently one of the most anticipated tracks in the city and the group is hoping that it gets mainstream play on local airwaves.

Their recent video "Load Me Up" is comparable to early 90s rap videos, bringing back the street vibe that seems to be forgotten nowadays amongst all the glamor and glitz in the genre.

If the group stays consistent with recent efforts, they're sure to have their shot at fame sometime soon, but breaking through in today's music industry is always a difficult task. However, DC FAM is committed to their music's success and have an extremely bright future if they're able to build upon their recent success.

Masta Killa's performance was nothing short of brilliant, but Inspectah Deck involved the crowd more and even had local emcees get onstage to freestyle battle each other, with Deck later laying down a freestyle of his own and embarrassing the local emcee's for their subpar efforts.

The concert reminded me of the good old days of hip hop, when the music didn't rely heavily on beats with thunderous bass or catchy hooks, but rather the lyricism and storytelling that was so prevalent in the late 80s and early 90s.

However, music changes with times, for better or worse.