The Cake Mamas|1st Annual Girls Helping Girls Event

This past weekend my client, The Cake Mamas hosted the 1st Annual Girls Helping Girls Female Entrepreneur/Girls Scouts Event in Glendora,CA.  It was awesome!!!! We had over 30 participant/vendors, DJ Jiji Sweet of 102.3 , 2 food trucks, performances and sooo much more.  Below is the video from the event created by Jorge Martinez from JMZ Films.


Check it out! 


The Cake Mamas + Girl Scouts L.A. 1st Annual 'Girls Helping Girls' from Jorge on Vimeo.

New Music: Grip Plyaz "WHATDAHELLRDOZE"

Grip Plyaz featuring Tuki ( of Hollyweerd) "WHATDAHELLRDOZE"

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I like this guy right here! He reps the south to a T, with that Southern "Gripalect" ( Grip Dialect). Tuki of Hollyweerd, joins him on this track for a traditional roasting session. I've hung out with these two dudes before, and this song if definitely reflective of atypical nite out with these two, roasting on the fashionably challenged.

-SB

New Video|Hollyweerd|YellowPages

You gotta love these guys... maybe I'm biased because they are family. But here's a video from the dynamic four entitled YELLOW PAGES. This song took me back with a great feeling of that good ole'  90's hiphop from Cali groups like Pharcyde and Souls of Mischief.

Take a look. Embrace the movement. Follow them on Twitter to stay up to date on new music and shows.

Hollyweerd "Yellow Pages" from 3 Little Digs on Vimeo.

Trailor: The Kendrick Lamar Experience

The revitalization of West Coast Music


Somebody has been sleeping.... I dare admit it was me...









Post courtesy of www.Greedmontpark.com

Tattoo Tic Tac Toe

I love my ATL City of Ink fam, they never cease to amaze me with the level of energy that they live their life all for the sake of art and passions...

Check out Corey Davis as he gets tatted by other City Of Ink artist Chris Macadoo and Melvin Todd...

Ya gotta love it!

|Brown Paper Dolls| Love.Dream.Go.|

Who| Asha Kamali May, Dana Gills, Jeanette McDuffie

Why are they fly| These ladies are the founders of Brown Paper Dolls,an L.A. based film, t.v. and multimedia  production company and the creative minds behind the new Milk + Honey Series.   

What| Milk + Honey is the story of four African-American women living in LA and it shows the spiritual, professional and romantic journeys they take, to make their dreams a reality. It is executive produced by Idris Elba.

This series stars some of your favorite actors ; Lance Gross, Faune Chambers, Bryce Wilson and features Debbie Allen.  

When| On January 18, 2011 you can catch the trailer for Milk + Honey  HERE! 

Follow on Twitter: @MILKHONEYSERIES

RIH Mary Christine Brockert

March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010

Some years ago I had the opportunity to work with some personal footage of Rick James, that gave a birds eye look into his life and journey. One of the most astonishing pieces in this footage was an interview from a young girl at the time, who would later be recognized as Teena Marie.  In this interview she revealed how she would come up with songs, how she would actually visualize the person singing the song in her dreams. She would awake, write and that would soon be the persons next hit record.  Teena Marie, writer, composer, musician,producer...she blessed many with her melodic imagery.

Lady Tee, you will forever be missed.

Yelawolf|DCMA Laws

So I recently posted on Yelawolf and someone complained about my post, alerting blogger and the post was taken down.  I'm not sure was was infringed  so I will halt on my @yelawolf posts for now....


And to think I logged in to post some new stuff about him today....

Well check out "The Bamma Who Cried Wolf" Mini Documentary done by Yours Truly about @Yelawolf over at  Miss Info!


-Starrstrukksoul

New Music|Fashion: EarLace|Alkhemi Jones

|Megan Good earlaced by Lace by Tayana|

I'm not sure who invented this earlace but I have spotted it around lately... and i like it!!! It's a combination of a pair of earrings and necklace tied in one. It's very 80's influenced.  I have seen many variations of it, including leather.  

And it's always dope when you see new artists that can either rock the newest trends or absolutely KILL the things that not everyone would be able to pull off.  

New songstress Alkhemi Jones does just that!!

And I know you're wondering "Who is Alkhemi Jones? A dope songstress on the rise whose music is Hip Hop|Rock|R&B|Alternative| and everything in the middle.  Some say she is an undeniable mix of Erykah Badu, Laury Hill, Andre 3000 and a twist of UGK. I believe she's just pure doPeNess!

Peep the behind the scenes footage for her video "Dreamin"....

For more on Alkhemi Jones Go HERE NOW!!!

A Colored Girl Vents....

                                                                  (Image of Tiffany Armstrong)

So this bitch said she couldn’t relate.

Last night I had the unpleasing pleasure of sitting across from a black girl who almost looked like me. But never will I say had the same poise or demeanor as me.  But she did look like me. Had her body garnished with tattoos like me. Earrings similar to a pair on my dresser dangled from her ear. Three or four inch heels secured her feet, sort of like the one of hundreds that lay one on top of the other in my closet. But this bitch said she couldn’t relate.

She couldn’t relate to me, not actually me, because I dare have shared that I too had once called out from work because the bruise over my eye would had absolutely killed my sales for the day. I was selling men shoes at that time in my life; Or that I had witnessed men who hopped in and out of the box of heterosexual and homosexual activities. Or that I’ve shared stories with friends who had either lost their virginity at a young age or had their hearts once broke or twice.

So yeah it was me too that she couldn’t relate to, not just the shells or examples of many women that were portrayed.

And offended I was.

And I guess my dismay was more my fault for relating too much. But honestly it’s not so much of being able to RELATE

BUT understanding that these situations are relative to “colored girls” or women in general not born in lily white shell flanked sugar and spice and everything nice.

Now I’m not going to front or even “high-side” and tell you that I read the book or experienced the play.

But I will tell you that I have the compassion, understanding, and plain right sense to know of the possibilities of such situations and to hold my judgment or p.o.v- lips shut- to avoid parading that ignorance

My friend had to tell me to just “eat my dinner” to avoid the heightened conversation that was about seven seconds from happening with this “bitch”

And please excuse my vulgarity; it’s simply my disbelief from the audacity of this “bitch”

But I suppose her audacity comes from never being called “colored”; you know that shit happened to me during my Spring 10’ Marketing 302 course and I was left sitting their dumbfounded

But I wonder what she could relate to. You know there was just a new movie called RED that came out, was that relative to her. Or what about those new artists Nicki Minaj, VV Brown, Muffy, were they relative to her life.  Oprah, Keyshia Cole, Nina Brown, maybe Cameron Diaz. Hell Nautica De La Cruz… I just wondered.

And I just had to take a deep breath< insert SMH here> because if a story like that isn’t in someway relative to your life in 2010, hats off and kudos and bravos to being oblivious to LIFE. 

and by the way... the movie was awesome.

New Music Leak |Greg Nice| Put Your Drinks Up

Check out this new leak from Legendary Hip Hop Head Greg Nice.... (btw boo is lookin good!!!) His latest project, The Popcycle, is set to release late summer 2010. It reflects a dance, bmore  that some may think is a little bit of a different side... but if you remember the 2001 Zoolander track, "Star the Commotion" by the Wise guys featuring Greg Nice on the hook,  you'll know that this is nothing foreign for Greg N.I.C.E. 

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HOLLYWEERD|EDIBLE PHAT 2.0

HIPSTER WHAT? 

 The Atlanta foursome Hollyweerd. These guys do it again with their umteenth? mixtape entitled Edible Phat 2.0, hosted by DJ Don Cannon. EP 2.0 features collaborations from Gripplyaz, Pill, Rapper Big Pooh, and more; with production from Operation ADD, The Weathermen, SMKA and others. 

I'm really diggin Miss America...but these dudes never seem to let me down. They make it look so Supa Easy!!

Download it Edible Phat 2.0

Hollyweerd - Edible Phat 2.0 Tracklist

01. Cannon Intro
02. Operation HOLLY [prod. OPERATION ADD] / Glow in the Dark (ft. Grip Plyaz) [prod. Scoot Beatz]
03. Lost Love [prod. The Weathermen]
04. Fixxin [prod. The Weathermen]
05. Love Me (ft. Rapper Big Pooh) [prod. OPERATION ADD]
06. Narrow-Minded Bending w/ Yesterday New Quartet
07. Supa Eazy [prod. OPERATION ADD]
08. 7:39pm [prod. The Weathermen]
09. Miss America (ft. Joe Scudda) [prod. Scoot Beatz]
10. Yah-Yah [prod. Vic&Shaff]
11. Stay True [prod. Corey Moten]
12. Cut it Out (ft. Rozzi Dame & Grip Plyaz) [prod. Dam-Funk]
13. Don’t Believe the Hype [prod. Scoot Beatz]
14. So What! (ft. Aleon Craft) [prod. SKMA]
15. Monkey (ft. DJ Wreckineyez) [prod. C.Jesus]
16. Life’s Funny [prod. Super Dave West]
17. The Rooftop w/ Lupin III
18. So Check It (ft. Pill) [prod. Corey Moten]