Rihanna - Pour It Up (Remix) Feat Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Juicy J & T.I.

Props To Rihanna For getting Young Jeezy and Rick Ross on a track together again.   Forget the beef, Get Money And Make Those HITS!  

Anyway, Pour Up Remix featuring Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Juicy J and T.I.

We Are In The Trap...and we love it.

Rihanna - Stay Feat Mikky Ekko (Official Video)

I could be wrong, but I think we have all wanted some to stay at one point or another.

Rihanna - Diamonds (Remix) Feat Kanye West (Audio)

Perfect Timing.  Perfect song.  Perfect time to start blogging again.  I can always tell when its November (Scorpio Season and My birthday) by my luck seeming to fall my way, like that one time bumping into Usher's Uncle for Tickets to the concert, but I digress.

I think Kanye West and Rihanna must have seen my TRILLION tweets Begging for this remix.  Or maybe not because I did ask for Jay as well.  I thought the THREE of them together ran the town? Oh well.  Beggers can't be choosers.

Rihanna - Where Have You Been (Official Video)

#Finally, all Dance Crews can unite.

Rihanna - You Da One (Official Video)

In the spirit of  "keeping it moving", and reveling in the essence of grinding, Rihanna might be the modern day Bad Girl taking notes from Diddy.  Rihanna can't stop and won't stop making hits for the people. 

Fresh off a successful album, Rihanna is not stopping the momentum.  Talk That Talk, Rihanna's 6th studio album, continues on right where Loud left off.

To be honest, I am wondering if she can stop.  A lot of times when an artist takes a trip on the success train, the ride becomes addictive.  

For the fans, I'm hoping that she continues on with her addiction to reigning on top, and seeing as I'm sure all of Rihanna's navy would love to be sprinkled with a little RiRi dust, it seems that would be a good thing for everyone.

The visuals that recently dropped for her latest video You Da One sets RiRi in black and white with blonde hair, a top hat and cane similar to that of a Charlie Chaplin, Vaudeville silent film. Seems like it would be fun on that set.

Anyway, as always enjoy and leave your thoughts.

Eminem - The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna (Official Video)

Why is it that sometimes no matter how much certain things hurt us, we continue to come back to the same things over and over again? Almost like we like the way the alcohol bath stings the cut, it burns ohhhhh so good! Or does it?

Eminem tackles this dilemma with his new video called "The Way You Lie" featuring the vocal stylings of Rihanna.

www.vevo.com recently premiered the video for the world and of course I had to post the update here.

Rihanna - Rockstar 101

Red carpets, backdrops, flashes, cameras, velvet ropes, celebrities, pretty PR Girls, standing on VIP couches, Bottle service, shades in the club, and blackberry/iphones scattered over the cabanas after a night of insanely, overly excessive fun sounds like something straight out of a video shoot.

The truth is I actually live that lifestyle but most definitely on a mighty small scale. As I watch these new visuals to one of my favorite songs on Rihanna's new album, she actually might have me beat by just a little bit as she sings in her new video Rockstar 101 featuring legendary guitarist Slash.

When I first heard this song off of Rated R, I automatically started relating to my antics with some of my California peeps, but in reality I still have a long way to be a rockstar and that's why I continuously take notes from Rihanna in this song.

Rhianna's new video is very rockstar-esk, yet artistic and reminiscent of a young Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince combo back in the day, i.e. the "I'm a star and I know it" attitude.

Honestly, I can't be mad because when you work hard towards a goal and accomplish your dreams, you should be entitled to a different lifestyle as a celebration.

I mean you can and should still remain humble because it could easily be taken from you, but you still should take advantage of the candy store while you're in there!

Oh well, it is what it is...The Life.

Here's the video.

Rihanna - Rockstar 101

*video courtesy of http://justjared.buzznet.com/

Rihanna & Shy Ronnie...

Rihanna made her SNL debut this past Saturday doing a skit with Adam Sandberg. I don't know who is making Sandberg's beats but they are hot!

First, Sandberg scored the infamous sketch-turned-hit, I'm On A Boat with T-Pain and now Shy Ronnie with Rihanna. Hopefully Kanye or someone can get on the remix, but either way its a pretty funny, cool song. Oh well, check it out.

Rihanna & Shy Ronnie - Fire & Ice

*video courtesy of http://www.hulu.com/

*Adam Sandberg photo courtesy of ISH for http://www.mavrixphoto.com/

Earlier in the month, I posted a new song from Jay-Z's forthcoming album Blueprint 3 called Run This Town featurng Rihanna and Kanye West. With this new song and video, it seems as if Jay-Z is trying to assert his claim as Hov, the God by showing that "my teams too strong for yall".

Frankly, Kanye West and Rihanna stand alone as stars in their own right, so the three of them quite possibly could do what they say set out to do which is put The R...O...C. on the T...O....P. Here is the Video from the ROC conglomerate. Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 is set to drop September 11, the same day his original Blueprint album dropped 8 years ago. Let's see if the God MC still has the glow! As always, only time will tell.

Jay-Z - Run This Town

View New Video here

*Video Courtesy of www.WorldStarHipHop.com

Who's Gone Run This Town Tonight...

Happiness is a subjective journey, like a double edged sword if you will. First off, happiness means something different from one person to the next so to categorize what happiness is would be almost impossible to do. I think the pursuit of this happiness is all based off of hype and that's where I am hear to say SSD!

Society has sold us on the fact that happiness IS almost soley based on having material possessions, but what about the person that has it all, but has no time to spend with loved ones? Or what about the person that makes millions, BUT HATES what he or she has to do in order to make that money? To me, happiness is doing something you love to do, PERIOD. I love being the person that's able to tell a story regardless if it is through a photo, verbally or through my writing. That's what makes ME happy.

To be honest, searching for happiness can make you become a manic depressive, i.e. extreme highs and lows. On one side, you feel happy to be able to set a goal and then accomplish that goal but on the other hand you're stressed constantly wondering when will it be your turn to shine from all the hard work you have put in. Eventually your confidence in your ability leads you to believe you are the best, or your failure will be your ultimate demise.

People say to me all the time I must be happy because of the life I live, and usually, I would respond no. I have heard I party like a star, hang out with stars, take pictures of stars, and I know some would die to be in my position, but that is also the selling dreams element of the industry, although I have never once claimed anything, except that by law I am Ivan S. Harris, the I.S.H., I do realize my job is full of glitz and glamor as well as hardships. As far as I'm concerned, I've already made it, just waiting on the Hype to arrive, late as usual. If you don't believe in yourself, who will? This is where the subjective part comes in. If happiness is subjective and art is definitely subjective then how can anyone proclaim what and who is the best at something.

To quote Rihanna in my new favorite song, "Life’s a game but it’s not fair, I break the rules so I don’t care, So I keep doing my own thing, Walking tall against the rain, Victory’s within the mile, almost there don’t give up now, Only thing that’s on my mind, Is who gon’ run this town tonight"

This song hits home for me and I believe it is HOT, so I know I could be biased and thats why I want your opinion.

Jay-Z - Run This Town Featuring Rihanna & Kanye West

*song supplied by www.5starhiphop.com