She sounds heavenly in this video & her eyes are gorgeous!!!
I can listen to this song over and over and over again.

positive energy is the only thing that surrounds me.

Love of my life.

Pharrell talking about the "Window Seat" video. He's a funny dude.

I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree
doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my appletree

do yourself a favor and click on the album up there and DL this doppppe Erykah & Jill Scott mixtape. I am jammiinnnn right now!

"They play it safe...Are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups, less guilt to swallow. They are US! This is what we have become, afraid to respect the individual. A single person within a circumstance can move one to change, to love our self, to EVOLVE.”

--Erykah Badu (Window Seat) (via doorknockers)


Window Seat

Turn Me Away (Get Munny)

So excited for the album to drop.
I'm glad that there are only a few artists that can move me like Erykah does.
Everyone else can stay in their own (crappy) lane.
Real recognize reaaaal.

Erykah Badu & Goapele concert in Oakland, CA --Fox Theater

There is something about the realness and soul in these women that has made my respect and admiration for them grow tenfold after seeing them live in concert. Like Erykah Badu's "Orange Moon", they truly reflect the light of their sun and I can BELIEVE when seeing them on stage that they are sharing every real bit of pain, identity, past and truth that lies within them.

They are so FREE on stage and it's like a breathe of fresh air to see real women with REAL talent. I will forever be a fan of these women!

Now besides seeing Erykah Badu, Goapele and Lauryn Hill, I MUST now see Mary J Blige and Alicia Keys next!!!

lovely women

I want to hold their creative minds hostage.
:)

Kings & Queens

Give me a woman that get down for me, my one and only
That don't fuss or fuck around on me, or leave me lonely
Not just a honey, but a homie, just wanna hold me
Cuz she got alotta love for me, and put it on me
If I need that, plus she understand me when I beat that
It's sweet like candy, this time, I might just eat that
You steal my heart, sweetheart, then you can keep that
Let's bar hop and find us a spot where we can chief at
Push the seats back, you got the kinda body niggaz beep at
Try to speak at, but get no feedback
Sophisticated, Miss Highly Edumicated
Living well, lady that made it, type of woman you stay with

Give me a queen that respects a "king", just like Coretta
Get everything except the ring, for worse or better
Even through the stormy weather, rain, sleet, snow
Whatever, see if it go down, we go together
Like Twix bars, ain't no problem that we can't fix
-Method Man 4ever

Phenomenal Woman

My jam right now is the remix to Miss Independent by Ne-Yo.. "She Got Her Own". Finally, a song I can respect. For all the ladies who handle their OWN, work hard for what they have, don't depend or expect anything from any man, want but DON'T need && compliment their man with their OWN swaaag... it is the jam for you. I wish all guys would appreciate that type of woman, apparently there are still some dumbfucks out there who think that keeping a female entails removing all her freedoms to do as she pleases and allowing all their OWN insecurities to be the reasons why she cannot be trusted. Shit, appreciate your woman for NOT having time to talk to you all day on the phone because she's busy gettin hers (i.e, WORKING TO BUY HER OWN SHIT). Let her make her own damn decisions to go wherever she pleases with whomever she pleases. I've never been the type to be attached to the hip and I'd be DAMNED if I ever had to ask permission to do something I was old enough to decide for myself. No way jose. But thats just my two cents on that, I should stop now before this turns into a raging blog about how females need to change the game up or atleast realize their role in it. Hahaha! I'll just leave you all with one of my favorite poems by Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman.

PHENOMENAL WOMAN
by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
I'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion size
But when I start to tell them
They think I'm telling lies.
I say
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips
The stride of my steps
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please
And to a man
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees
Then they swarm around me
A hive of honey bees.
I say
It's the fire in my eyes
And the flash of my teeth
The swing of my waist
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say
It's in the arch of my back
The sun of my smile
The ride of my breasts
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say
It's in the click of my heels
The bend of my hair
The palm of my hand
The need for my care.
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally
Phenomenal woman
That's me

ANYWAY... on a completely different note..

- Thanks to everyone who came out last night for my brothers birthday. Twas another great evening in the presence of good company... must happen again, for my birthday!
- I got The Alchemist in the mail today after ordering it used from Amazon.com. I think that will be my new cheap & easy way to stock up on books... buy them USED. I don't know why I never thought of that before. But anyway, I've read a lot of good things about this book so hopefully I'll be on that same wavelength.
- I still keep Erykah Badu's New Amerykah album on rotation. That album was on mad rotation during some forgettable moments in LA. A personal song to me on that album was "Me"...

I use to pray to God above
But now Im filled with so much luv
But even if the world cant see
Its still me
Will I escape this vanity?
Or will I keep on smoking trees?
But I'll just let it go and be, be, be Me