So with all of that said and done I loved it! I was on the edge of my seat eating popcorn and raisinets (if you have not tried it, it is the BEST) wondering what was going to happen next. It was a good mix of characters and action, it was like The Matrix meets The Transporter meets Mission Impossible meets. . .
It’s a must see and maybe more than once! 
What’s up to everyone out there in cyberland. Fresh off a trip from vegas. Damn I love vegas just that 114 degree heat is hard on a brother. Anyway 1st and foremost lemme shout out my girl Julia Beverly of Ozone Magazine. It was her birthday so thanks for the invite had a blast and from the looks of it you did to…LOL.
And Too Short along with Thizz Hosted the event. Now a few years back E-40 droped a song that had the whole country wondering what was he talking bout when he said Ghost Ride the whip? So when I linked up with Da Bay area Boss J-Diggs I asked him to show me what Ghost Riding was all about? So here its world Watch the video. Good Looking J pericate ya showing me how bosses do it. When you get back out to Atlanta I gotcha holla at me fam if you need anything… (click on the picture to view the whole gallery)
Some go to church on holidays only, some might go every once and awhile; I’m proud of me for going the past few Sundays and tonight! So here is a recap for the ones that might need this:
Pastor Sharon Crank “When I Get Through This” Luke 22:31-32
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.”
Some of us have gone through the same battles and the same struggles just at different intensities. If you are going through a tough time in your life you need to understand that GOD “Must be up to something!” These trials are to help us draw closer to him and further away from the worldly things; we go through these things to push us to the next dimension not the next level. The difference is the next level is just going from one floor to the another, staying in the same place but when you are taken to the next dimension then you are pushed out of where you are thus you are in a different place! We want to be taken to the next dimension, so STAY FAITHFUL and HOLD ONTO YOUR FAITH!
Satan wants to ’sift’ (shake, strain and seperate one substance from another) us from GOD; this is his only goal in life! Satan wants us to be disloyal to GOD, he wants us to prove that we are fake and discredit GOD by using us. We need to refer to 1 Peter 5:8 “Be careful- watch out for attacks from Satan, your great enemy. He prowls around like a hungry, roaring lion, looking for some victim to tear apart.” And remember that GOD has already ‘pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail!’ So remember that despite anything and everything you need to TRUST IN GOD!
Be blessed and remember that what you are going through now does not represent your future! 
Did you think that D.L Hughley was funny?
Usher opened the Awards performing “Love In This Club” and he danced etc it was cool, but I don’t think that it was all of that…
Keyshia Cole looked nice as she performed “Heaven Sent” and Lil Kim came out to perform “Let Go,” this was a good show but the mic wasn’t working.
Ne-Yo, looked nice as he normally does, and killed the live performance. His dancers were doing thier thing and he had the Jabbawockeez, the winners from the MTV Dance Show, help end his performance.
Young Jeezy ripped it with Kanye performing his new joint! It was classic just them two but it was HOT!
Alicia Keys looked like a teenager, as she performed “Teenage Love Affair” then segwayed into SWV’s “I Get So Weak” then segwaying into EnVogue’s “Hold On” and lastly TLC’s “Waterfalls.” They all looked great but I did over hear a few people say that Alicia’s make up looked nice but those jeans and that wig was not a good look on her, lol. She paid homage to her favorite female groups (who all performed with her) and I must say that they all sounded good! I’m so thankful that she took that wig off when she accepted her award for Best Female R&B Artist.
Kanye won the award for Best Hip Hop Artist and brought Lil Wayne on stage with him and congratulated him on selling over a million albums in his opening week and called him his “fiercest competition!” I hear you Kanye!
T-Pain performed all his joints and brought out Flo Rida, Rick Ross, Big Boi, Ludacris and ended with “I’m So Hood,” personally I love this song!
Marvin Sapp brought a lil soul with “I Made It,” with you I made it; AMEN! GIVE IT UP FOR GOD!
Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton and Maxwell all sang individually to do a tribute to Al Green. Al Green brought it back with “Love and Happiness” and told all couples that they need to “Stay Together!”
Chris Brown started it off slow with “With You” and off course true to nature had to get his grind on with Ciara in their remix “Take You Down,” as Rihanna clapped with a smile on her face
Rihanna sung “Take a Bow” as she looked elegantly fine and sounded great!
Ashanti, looked nice with her BIG hair, as she ripped the mic from D.L and made a point to introduce her man Nelly, who performed with J.D, their Jordan song (sort of like his Air Force song, lol) with Ciara. Fergie (with her lovely baby bump, I think E News reported that she is expecting) got
on stage with him to perform their song together.
Lil Wayne, closed it out with T-Pain to rap “Got Money” and off course “Lollipop” in ode to Static, his final song was of course “A Milli”. . . as he raps, “Hip Hop is alive don’t worry I got it!”
Best New Artist: The Dream
Best Male Hip Hop Artist: Kanye West
Best Video of the Year: UGK featuring Outkast
Best Male R&B Artist: Chris Brown
Best Female R&B Artist: Alicia Keyes
Best Group: UGK
Best Female Hip Hop Artist: Missy Elliot
Best Collaboration: “I’m So Hood”
Best Gospel Artist: Marvin Sapp
Best Male Actor: Denzel Washington
Best Female Actress: Halle Berry
Viewers Choice: Lil Wayne
BETJ Award: Raheem Devaughn
What’s up with all the winners not being at the show to accept their awards? I must say some of the performances were HOT but the dialog before they announced the awards was a lil’ corny, it was like they were trying to hard to be funny!
Check out some of the best and worst dressed, from my point of view!
Who’s house? Run’s House ! You know in my opinion one of the best shows on MTV is RUN’S HOUSE. To those who say there’s no good quality family-oriented TV shows left, I say they haven’t seen this show. Check it out it airs every Thursday night at 10pm. If your a reader go to your local book store and pick up a copy of his book Words of Wisdom. I found this book quite hard to put down! Rev Run has put together a great combination of quotes to keep you focused, motivated, and strong in faith, in this nice size book. His Daily Words of Wisdom are quotes I find uplifting and hope they’ll be a blessing to you. So from Rev to me and now me to you.
Monday June 23, 2008
Good morning. Feel good about you! (Without swagger you’re pretty much doomed on this planet.). -Rev Run
God is Love
Rev Run
Friday at The Tabernacle “The Art of Love” tour presented Solange, Chrisette Michele and Raheem Devaughn who blessed the stage to a sold out audience. I had never really heard Solange nor Raheem’s music but I must say that though Solange was not up there long she sounded good; and Raheem ROCKED IT! Originally from D.C, he played songs from both of his albums “The Love Experience” and “Love Behind the Melody.” He jumped around the stage, got down in the crowd and walked around in a cape and crown, lol! Towards the end he played a lil’ Go Go music (which hit home to me considering I was born and raised in VA,
Being a Chrisette fan I truly now know that I will be at any live appearance that she performs here in Atlanta, lol! She sounded great, looked great and had the audience jamming to songs from her debut album “I Am.” She hit low and high notes and also got on the piano to perform “Golden,” awesome performance!
Future Dates:
June 22: Miami (Fillmore)
June 26: Atlantic City, N.J. (House of Blues)
June 27: Hampton, Va. (Hampton Jazz Festival/Coliseum)
June 28: Raleigh, N.C. (Progressive Energy Theatre)
June 29: Columbia, Md. (Merriweather Post)
So I as I was browsing through the many sites that I normally check out I came across a site with a article entitled “What’s The Big Deal?” with a picture of Lil Wayne intrigued me so I read on.
Okay to answer the title the BIG deal is nobody has sold a million albums since 50 Cent in 2005! “The Massacre” sold 1.14 million copies in its first four days of release, 
making it the sixth fastest-selling album since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991.
The next point I must address is regardless of if you like Lil Wayne or not you still have to give him his props, in two years nobody was able to do what 50 Cent accomplished in 05. Even if the record label did buy 300,000 copies and stored them in a shed or gave them away nobody else’s record label backed them the way that Wayne’s label did so don’t hate! Let’s compare Wayne’s platinum album in a week to other album sales for the first week that released this year Mariah Carey sold 463,000, Usher sold 433,000 and Danity Kane sold 236,000; I’m sure they would of loved their label to buy 300,000 c.d’s and throw them overboard if need be.
So to answer your question “What’s The Big Deal?” the BIG deal is it hasn’t been done in 2 years! I never understand why the need to bring people down, let’s congratulate him and everyone that helped to make the c.d and be happy for them!
(2 see pictures of weezy in the studio click on the picture to the left to see Dr. Carter let the beat build)
Lil Wayne now has official numbers to back up his bragging - the rapper’s new CD has sold a spectacular 1 million copies its first week.
“Tha Carter III” is easily the best selling first week of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. Even Kanye West’s “The Graduation” didn’t eclipse that mark in its first week last year (though it was only about 50,000 copies short).
A prolific rapper who’s been ubiquitous on the mixtape scene and on other acts’ records, Lil Wayne is generally regarded as one of rap’s most gifted performers - but he’s never had a multiplatinum album. His last two albums, “Tha Carter” and “Tha Carter II,” sold 1.1 million and 1.4 million copies, respectively. “Tha Carter III” was anticipated as the CD that would send the New Orleans rapper into superstardom.
“I’ve been saying a million all along, and I’ve been telling people, and they’ve been looking at me crazy,” said Ron Williams, co-founder of Lil Wayne’s record label, Cash Money Records.
“He worked hard. He just came with something different. He let his skills show on a lot of mixtapes. He’s featured on a lot of people’s records,” Williams said. “It just made people anticipate his record more than ever.”
Already, Lil Wayne’s had a No. 1 smash for several weeks - the sexually explicit “Lollipop” - and has been featured on numerous hits over the past year, including the recent remix to Usher’s “Love in This Club.”
In a slumping industry where selling 200,000 albums in one week is becoming a rare feat, Lil Wayne’s achievement is not only a triumph but a much-needed boost - the last CD to sell 1 million or more in its first week was 50 Cent’s “The Massacre” in 2005.
Expectations for “Tha Carter III” were high, and it delivered - selling 423,000 copies in its first day of release. It achieved blockbuster numbers despite being heavily bootlegged and leaked on the Internet; past leaks of material for the CD caused parent label Universal Motown to delay its release several times.
Lil Wayne, 25, has been a star on the rap scene since he was a teen, but only in recent years has his star rivaled that of contemporaries like West, a contributor on his new CD.
