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Top 10 Valentine’s Day Movies

shaesawriter — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:19:15 +0000

Here are 10 movies that you and the boo may want to keep on deck this weekend according to the urban daily. Check them out:

10. She Hate Me (2004)

Anthony Mackie gets paid to impregnate a group of lesbians, two of which are his former fiancé and her lover.

9. Mo Betta Blues (1990)

Spike Lee oldie but goodie.

8. Brown Sugar (2002)

My personal favorite; Lathan and Diggs hip hop best friends and never knew it was really love at first sight

7. I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

Very witty. Chris Rock questions if he really loves his wife and the temptations of cheating…

6. The Wood (1999)

Classic song: “If This World Were Mine”..Luther and Cheryl Lynn

5. The Best Man (1999)

Sleeping with your boy’s woman can cause a big stink even thru printed pages

4. Boomerang (1992)

Love Triange between Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, and Halle Berry.

3. Jason’s Lyric (1994)

Nude Jada Pinkett and Treach torturing folk

2. Love and Basketball (2000)

Strip basketball is hot! Sanaa and Omar star in the classic story of love and basketball.

1. Love Jones (1997)

I can say so much about this movie. Pure urban romance and one of the best of all time. The soundtrack is timeless and a classic as well as the movie.

Happy Valentine’s Day (weekend) to you and yours….

shaesawriter — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:05:41 +0000

Let’s pretend I’m your marriage/relationship counselor for a minute. I want to speak to the men, but also to the women as well if they need this message.

Monday is Valentine’s Day, which I know a lot of people go all out on that day, but don’t forget about every other day of the year. Valentine’s Day is a special day for your lover and you and to show the person you care about how much you appreciate and love them. It’s not about the money or materialistic things, at least not to me. It’s about time and acknowledgement. Don’t get me wrong the material things are nice when you can do so, but if not just a simple “Happy Valentine’s Day, I love you, appreciate you, and I just want to spend time with you to show you just how much I mean it”, is good enough to me.

My message to the world is if you have somebody in your life and somehow along the way the relationship failed regardless of reasons, call that person up on Valentine’s Day and let them know you love them and if you need to apologize do so for whatever it may be! At the end of the day you know you did your best and if they don’t accept your apology they have to live with that, but at least that burden will be free off your mind thinking about that person day in and day out that you can’t live without. Don’t let another day pass you not telling that person how you feel, because life is too short and nobody is promised tomorrow. Even if this is someone you have a crush on and want to tell them so bad, let Valentine’s Day inspire you to do so.

If it’s broke, fix it! If it’s wrong, make it right! I don’t care if it’s a simple phone call, not text message because no one can truly feel you thru a message. Make the effort is all I’m saying. If that person is worth it to you, and if you messed up, clean it up! Show that woman or man they are appreciated for all they do or have done, how you love everything about them from their head to toes and you don’t ever want to let them go, how much you miss them, how much they matter to you, and you don’t want to go another day without them. Let this Monday inspire you and days ahead. Alicia Keys said it best, “Love me like you’ll never see me again”. Real talk!

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Be Boo’d up this year:

~Buying or sending flowers is always sweet (I don’t always get into flowers myself, but I always would appreciate them)

~Dinner plans, doesn’t have to be anywhere very expensive if funds don’t allow, but somewhere thoughtful and sweet and not cheap either (hahaaa!)

~Have dinner at home, pop popcorn and watch movies like Love Jones, Brown Sugar (reminds me of still the love of my life and myself), The Best Man, or others. Then top off the night with dessert if you know what I mean…..

~A card is even good; just make sure it says everything you want to say to that special person.

~Ladies you can do lingerie for your man or some four play. Try something different! He’s worth it!

~Men if you have it like that, buy your woman what her heart desires, women you too! If it’s a diamond ring, then diamond ring it is! (No it’s not about the material things at all, but if you have it to do it then do it!

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There are so many other things that can be done on this special day, but don’t forget most importantly if you are gonna do it on V-day then you can love any other day as well. Men don’t be afraid to show some emotion. I think that’s something a lot of mean feel that they can’t do. You have feelings to and you shouldn’t be ashamed or afraid to face them.

Ladies I know when we love, we love hard and that’s okay, but let that man be a man. You deserve it and men you deserve it to!

Happy Valentine’s Day beautiful ppl! Whatever you do, please hold on to this message and be blessed!

Legendary Teena Marie passed at age 54

shaesawriter — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:42:43 +0000

Teena Marie

I know the entire world is as deeply saddened as I am about the sudden news of Teena’s death. I know for myself I thought it was a rumor so I had to do my research for sure. No one expected Teena to go so soon; she just released an album not long ago and I thought was working on new music appearing to be in good health, at least that’s what we on the outside looking in thought.

With not many details about the death of Teena Marie surfaced, the world is left in awe knowing that she was found Sunday morning, Dec. 26th by her 19-year-old daughter Alia Rose, who just celebrated a birthday over the weekend. Her manager Mike Gardner confirmed her death and stated her body was at the coroner’s office after allegedly dying in her sleep. Stated also was that the singer suffered a seizure last month.

Teena and daugher Alia Rose

Teena Marie was known for her classic hit, “Lovergirl”, but one that will never be forgotten is her duet with her Casanova Brown himself, the late Rick James. Marie released 13 studio albums, in which six went platinum. They all were timeless and will live on forever in her memory. Many celebrities have posted their condolenses on twitter followed by CNN analyst Roland Martin’s tweets posted announcing the singer’s death yesterday evening. With a voice like the wind and skin that’s ivory, but a soul that’s ebony, Teena you are one in a million.

Rick James and Teena Marie performing "Fire & Desire" before his death

R.I.P. Teena Marie..your life and music will forever live on..we love you..and will surely miss you!

"A Rose By Any Other Name" video

Amerie feat. Fab “More Than Love” and Jay-Z feat. Mr. Hudson “Forever Young” Music Videos + Lil’ Wayne “On Fire” Behind the Scenes

shaesawriter — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:08:32 +0000

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhEz45ZSe5m3bxf0WV

This song and video is HOT off third studio album “In Love & War” in stores now

Jay-Z announced on Monday, December 28th that the next video from Blueprint 3 will premiere during “NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly.” Jigga is set to debut a clip for “On to the Next One”, MTV calls a futuristic number produced by Swizz Beatz. The clip will be the fifth from the album, following “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, “Run This Town”, “Empire State of Mind”, and the latest that hit the internet last week “Forever Young”, directed by Anthony Mandler.

The New York rapper will also appear on NBC’s New Year’s Eve special, alongside Rihanna. They both pre-taped performances of “Umbrella” and “Run This Town” a week ago in New York at Rockefeller Plaza during a snowstorm. In addition to Jay-Z and Rihanna, Green Day are also scheduled to appear on the Carson Daly-hosted celebration.

“The real star of any New Year’s Eve show is New York City, and Jay-Z is New York,” Daly said in a statement. “Green Day and Rihanna were already an impressive lineup, and now, with the addition of Jay-Z, it’s our most exciting lineup yet.”

Source: MTV

“Rebirth” has suffered yet another setback now to be released on February 1, 2010, but Lil’ Wayne hasn’t let anything stop him this far and not starting now. Weezy fronts a rock band in the new clip for “On Fire”, directed by Chris Robinson.

Check out more pictures at: http://tharealderickg.blogspot.com/2009/12/behind-scenes-of-lil-waynes-on-fire.html

Here is a video behind the scenes “On Fire”:

*Random Thought* Wonder if they’ll do a video for “Drop The World” featuring Eminem (THE HOTTEST SONG ON THE ALBUM!)

Vacation Obama and Carter

shaesawriter — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:22:15 +0000

A Holly Jolly Christmas indeed is what the Obamas and the Carters had!

Barack and Michelle Obama

Barack Obama went on his first vacation since the White House where he spent his last one on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. According to Global Grind, the White House said the Obamas will have the “traditional” dishes for Christmas dinner such as: roast beef, potatoes, and Barack’s favorite taro chips.

Beyonce and Jay-Z

Beyonce and Jay-Z vacationed in Maldives for Christmas.

Check out the pics of the Obamas in Hawaii vacationing in warm weather for Christmas:

Secret Service informs jogger that part of beach is closed

Well-wishers greet the Obamas on Christmas Eve

This palm frond is the Secret Service's eco-friendly, Hawaiian-style marker to indicate a security perimeter around the first family's vacation rental. The Obamas share a laugh with marines during Christmas dinner at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

: President Barack Obama at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

The Coast Guard leaves after telling a surfer he can't come any closer to the Obama's vacation rental in Hawaii.

Neighbors offer to let the first daughters borrow their bikes while in Hawaii for Christmas.

A crowd hopes to catch a glimpse of the Obamas on vacation.

It was much colder back east when the Obamas left for their Christmas vacation in Hawaii.

Sources: Global Grind and Huffington Post

Guess what gift Obama got for Christmas?

http://globalgrind.com/channel/news/content/1243966/Obamas-Christmas-Present/

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

shaesawriter — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:09:07 +0000

Happy Holidays to you all!

I just want to take a second and thank everyone for your support and checking out the site with all the latest this year. 2010 is going to be a good year; you wait and see!

Happy Holidays to you and your family! Most importantly be blessed and safe this holiday season!

With all my love,

Ericka Bates, Publisher

Rihanna on GQ and Glamour and “Hard” Music Video

shaesawriter — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:56:36 +0000

Rihanna on the cover and inside the latest and new issue of GQ:

Good Girl Gone Badass
Yes, Rihanna’s back: With a new album, a new willingness to speak about Chris Brown, and a new look so sexy that…well, take a peek yourself. Lisa DePaulo sits down with Pop’s reigning princess to talk about all of that—and to ask a few tough questions she hasn’t answered anywhere else.
By Lisa DePaulo

rihanna is running late. Several hours late. Her fluffy bronze poodle, Oliver, arrives before she does, with his own entourage. There is much fussing over the dog (“You smell like your mommy” outside the soundstage in Burbank, where the musicians and crew for her upcoming world tour are waiting and pacing. Almost everyone but the poodle is chain-smoking cigarettes. It’s been one of those weeks. A few days before, Rihanna spilled her guts to Diane Sawyer about the “whole Chris Brown thing,” as the musicians call it, and though the interview hasn’t aired yet, the buzz is on. She has also been saying things like, “I’ve put everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music,” which might explain some of what’s emanating from the studio. Is that Rihanna, the sweet girl from Barbados, dropping the N-bomb? Her new album, Rated R, is, to put it mildly, edgier than the under-my-umbrella stuff that sold 12 million records. One song, called “G4L” (Gangsta for Life), sounds like a revenge fantasy, with her homegirls arming themselves with guns to go out and fuck somebody up. On another track, she talks about getting her hair pulled during sex. She’s made her point.

But apparently not enough. Rihanna’s image—so carefully crafted and handled and managed from the moment she was plucked, at age 15, from a girl group in Barbados by a producer who would squire her to his home in Stamford, Connecticut, get her a record deal with Def Jam, and send her on her way to superstardom—had gotten all twisted up in the “Chris Brown thing.” In the record business, domestic violence isn’t just a tragedy; it’s an image crisis. So now Team Rihanna had to decide how to “handle it.” Their plan was this: She’d talk about it for the release of the album. She’d do Diane and Glamour and announce that she wanted to help young women who’d been in her position. Even if that meant addressing what really happened that ugly night last February, when she and Chris Brown left a pre-Grammy party, gorgeous, smiling, and posing, got into his car, and she later emerged bloody, bruised, and bitten.

Before I even meet Rihanna, I feel for the girl. It’s bad enough to have the guy you’re madly in love with beat the shit out of you. It must be quite another thing to have this whole apparatus surrounding you (and your poodle), making you confront this horrible episode on public terms. And then what? If you say you want to help young women, can you really stop talking after the publicity blitz is over? And should you have to go through any of this? Not to get all domestic-violence preachy, but what Robyn Rihanna Fenty endured, at the tender age of 20 (when Chris Brown beat her up, she was two weeks shy of her twenty-first birthday), is not something that is likely to go away after the world tour.

On the lot in Burbank, the star’s new single, “Wait Your Turn,” keeps blasting through the walls of Studio 10. And finally, a flurry of excitement outside. Rihanna has arrived, in the backseat of an Escalade. Her driver pulls up to the double doors of the soundstage and idles for a good ten minutes while she slowly, extravagantly, applies mascara. Then she emerges, in the dramatic fashion that stars like Rihanna do naturally when exiting vehicles. The pause, then the ta-da. Like there are paparazzi waiting. (There aren’t.) The first impression is pure tough girl. The overly zippered jeans, the black boots, the gray hoodie, the big silver metallic bag that she swings over her shoulder like it’s a weapon, and the new hair (shaved and brown on the sides, pineapple blond on top). “That is the fucking bomb, that hair,” one of the crew tells her. I introduce myself. “Sweet,” she says, not very sweetly, and turns toward the studio. She wants to be alone first to say hello to her crew. “I’ll meet you down there, okay?” she says. Okay. “Sweet,” she says again.

“Down there” is another huge studio, filled with naked mannequins—something about the promo for the album launch. And now she is ready. Her manager, who is dressed in a faux version of Rihanna (boots, jeans, hoodie), accompanies her. We each take a seat on a wooden crate. Except for the manager, who stands two feet away. And stays there.

You’ve had a crazy couple of days.
Yeah. [nervous giggle]

Now that you’re talking about everything, is it hard, or is it liberating?
Very liberating. It’s relieving. Because it was built up for so long, and all these thoughts and emotions have been running through my mind for the past eight months. And now it’s like I finally get to let go and move on.

Is it therapeutic to talk about it?
Um, I don’t like talking about it a lot. But every time I do, it’s better; it’s easier each time.

Because you said something about wanting to give some insight to young women.
Mm-hmm.

And that’s a brave thing. You could have said nothing.
Mm-hmm.

What made you decide that this was the right thing to do?
Because I wanted to move on. And I knew that was the only way I could have done it. And I wanted people to move on with me. ‘Cause the last big thing they know about me is That Night. And I don’t want that to be what people define me as.

Before I came here—I live across the street from a pretty tough public school in New York City. And I went to talk to the girls there.
Oh, wow.

Just to say, “Hey, I’m going to meet Rihanna. What would you like to know?” And it was interesting, because a lot of them had been in your situation, and they wanted to know how you handled it. Are those the insights you’re talking about?
I guess definitely. I just knew I’d be good one day. I just knew it. So I just kept waiting for that day. Like, you know, even though it was tough the entire time, there were ups and downs, I just kept knowing: I’m gonna get over it one day. I’m gonna get over it.

Who helped you through it?
Nobody.

Really?

The Hovering Manager interrupts for the first time. “Ri, can you come over here for two seconds?” she asks. Rihanna looks at her quizzically. “There’s an issue with a track,” says HM. “What track?” says Rihanna. HM’s eyebrows raise. “Can you just come over here for a second?” she says tersely. Rihanna obeys. The two move a few feet away. Much whispering ensues, but there’s no communication with the people working in the soundstage. Then Rihanna returns to her wooden crate. The first thing she says is “I’m sorry.”

You were saying, before you had to walk away, that nobody helped you through it. Really?
Nobody. Really just music. And working. ‘Cause I didn’t really want to be around anybody, for them to stare at me and stuff, and feel sorry for me. So I just—I stayed in the house a lot. Then I started to get cabin fever. I was like, I’m going crazy in here.

But what about all the friends you’ve met…you have a great relationship with Jay-Z. With Justin Timberlake. Were all these people supportive of you through the past eight months?
Absolutely.

But you still felt alone?
Me and Jay-Z, we have a very close relationship, so he was there helping me through it and giving me advice and guidance, and just words of support. Like, strength.

Were you in shock?
Initially. I would say the first…the first seventy-two hours after I realized, it hit. The entire thing was kind of a daze. I was confused. It was a little weird, but…but then, after, I was getting bored of being in the house and sittin’ around. I called Jay Brown—he’s my A&R—and I was like, “I want to get back to the studio. I want to get back.”

In one of the tracks on the album, you sing about thinking you might die…did you think you would die that night?
No…no. [long silence]

It must take a lot of strength to deal with all this. I mean, just the basic things. Like, how did you have the presence of mind to call 911?
I didn’t call 911. No. I know everybody thinks I did, but it was someone else…It was…

Rihanna looks at the Hovering Manager and then mutters something about having just spoken to Diane Sawyer about all this. But here’s the weird thing: You get the feeling that Rihanna still has a lot to say. Her eyes are wet when anything Chris Brown-related comes up. She has a tendency to stare off into the distance when she talks about It—but then she meets the glare of the manager. Maybe she does want to go there—and can’t. Or perhaps it is dawning on Rihanna that to really step out and be the kind of advocate she says she wants to be is another burden altogether.

When you say you want to give insight to young women—what was the biggest insight you got? What did you learn?
Um…really really really that love is blind. It took a lot of strength to pull out of that relationship. To finally just officially cut it off. It was like night and day. It was two different worlds. It was the world I lived for two years, and then having the strength to say, “I’m gonna step into my own world. Start over.”

What was harder, the physical pain or the emotional pain?
Definitely not the physical pain. The physical pain comes and it goes. The bruises fade away. But the thing that stays with you is the emotional scars.

You were in love.
Yeah.

And you were a kid.
Yeah.

Do you think you two will ever be friends?
Mmm. Maybe in like ten years, you know? But it’s not something that I’m depending on. I’m not depending on his friendship.

Right. How do you ever trust again?
I can trust. I mean, I don’t like to stereotype; I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions. There are people in the world who will love you and people in the world who will hurt you, and there are people in the world who will do both.

Do you think a man who does something like that can change?
Absolutely. Yeah. Some of them won’t change and some of them will—but you know, very few of them change.

By the way, did you ever graduate high school?
No. I wanted to. I just got really busy.

You know, when I talked to those high school girls…and this illustrates how difficult a problem it is: Their first question was “What did she do to get hit?”
Mm-hmm.

And I thought, Oh God, how awful is it that they’d ask that question.
Mm-hmm. After everything happened, it was a wake-up call to me…I didn’t realize how much of an effect it had on young girls’ lives, and that’s part of the insight that I wanna give. Stop blaming yourself for that outcome. There’s nothing you can do, ever, to excuse a man’s behavior like that.

Did you blame yourself?
Initially? I mean…actually, no, I never blamed myself, but I wondered what, what did I do to provoke it?…

This is the breaking point. Hovering Manager chimes in with “You’ve exhausted it now.”

Okay. Well then. How did the cover shoot go? I heard the pictures are really hot.
[giggles] It’s very sexy, yeah. At one point [chairman, Island Def Jam Music Group] L.A. Reid came into the shoot, and he was like, “Rihanna, put some fucking clothes on!”

These are pretty. [She is wearing a couple of dozen bangle bracelets.]
Thank you.

They’re very Michelle Obama.
Yeah? I love her. She’s so fly.

Tell me about these tattoos. Here [in her left ear, the one Chris Brown bit] we have a star. And this one [on her ring finger] says “love”? And you have a gun, too, right?
Mm-hmm. It’s here. On my side. [opens her sweatshirt; it is under her right armpit] You see it?

What was up with that? A gun?
You know, I just…I think I’m too cool for school.

Didn’t it hurt?
Yeah, tattoos hurt. But when you want something, you will take the pain.

Let’s hope not. [HM hovers closer] So what do you want to put out there that you haven’t gotten a chance to talk about?
Uh, there’s nothing that I, like, specifically think to put out there. There’s not a lot more that I can possibly put out there. Everything’s out there. I mean, people are just, you know, they misperceive me.

How so?
They just don’t understand me. I just think people straight up don’t know who I am; they just know what I look like, they know the idea of me. But—they’ll learn more this time, because now I let my guard down, and I’m more comfortable just being myself. That’s exactly what I want to be. And even on the album, you definitely get a gist of my personality.

More than with your previous songs?
Definitely. Definitely. It tells my story a lot.

Because in a weird way, no one should have to go through anything that bad to get to another level, but it does seem to have gotten you to another level.
It absolutely does.

But I’m curious. What exactly do you think people think about you that’s wrong?
It’s not really anything that’s wrong. It’s just weird when I read about myself. Like how one simple thing can be turned into something different.

Like when people were talking about communicable diseases?
Hmm?

When people were bringing up herpes, for instance. Saying that’s why he hurt you—
Right. And it’s not true. It’s a fucking scar. On my lip. That’s there every day of my life.

It must be hard reading that kind of stuff.
It’s not like it’s hard. It’s more ignorant. At first I was like, Are you serious? First I thought people were gonna definitely know that that’s not…But when I read it, and I see that people just buy into that…Like, the minute they see it, it forms something in their head.

And that was all over the Internet.
Mm-hmm.

But you read it all.
Mm-hmm.

Why?
Because. I learn a lot from reading it. A lot.

So how do you keep grounded? Everyone I talked to before you got here all commented on how nice you were to work with.
Oh, nice! You’re asking me how I—

Yeah, how do you do that?
I’m just me. Like, I don’t feel a reason to change.…But that means a lot. For you to tell me they said that. That’s cool.

Is there anything else you want to throw out there, Rihanna?

“No, I don’t think so,” says HM, adding, “We need to wrap this up.”

Is there anything else you want to throw out there?
Your shoes are cute.

Thanks, honey. It’ll be fun to watch what happens to you.
Thank you so much. [big hug] And that’s sweet what the band said. But they totally lied. I’m such a bitch.

lisa depaulo is a gq correspondent.

Ri Ri also on the latest issue of Glamour:

Rihanna is so hard in her new video for her third single “Hard”. The video aired December 17th on MTV and VH1.

Check out some captures from the video as well as the music video feat. Young Jeezy:

Source: Thanks rihannadaily.com

Cause the hottest b**** in heels right here….

Chris Brown Claims Stores Are Blackballing “Graffiti”

shaesawriter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:06:54 +0000

Graffiti was released Dec. 8th (just 15 days after Rihanna’s “Rated R” release). I personally was excited to see Chris Brown’s comeback and to hear the album, although I did have my opinion that it may have been too soon. Chris may be feeling that very same way right about now! According to Rolling Stone, Chris is projected to to land at Number Three on the Billboard Top 200 this week with sales of 95,000-110,000 albums, per Billboard. His last album, Exclusive, moved 294,000 copies its debut week in 2007. That is a major difference. Lets see what CB had to say.

He used his Twitter account to vent throughout last week and shouting out his real fans that have supported him. He has recently shut down his Twitter @mechanicaldummy thanks to his trip to the Wallingford, CT Wal-Mart where he witnessed himself his album not being on the shelf. This is what he had to say: “JUST WAS AT WALMART IN wallingford CT,844 north colony.. the didnt even have my album in the back… not on shelves, saw for myself…we talked to the managers and the didnt even know anything. wow!!! but they had Alicia Keys album ready for release for this tuesday comin…no disprespect to alicia at all.. just givin an example to whos album is loaded and ready to go next week.”

Apparently the store has released a statement in response to Chris’s actions online:

“We are surprised at the comments online, all Walmart stores nationwide have carried the CD since its release, including the Wallingford, [Conn.], store mentioned in the post. This store actually sold through its initial shipment over the weekend. The majority of our stores today are showing they do have copies available.”

His last words for Twitter before he mysteriously deleted his account were: “I WANNA THANK MY FANS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT. I LOVE YALL. GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Enough tough love people…everybody deserves a second chance! I have Chris and Rihanna’s album and they are both on my Top 10 played right now. WE LOVE YOU CHRIS!

What advice do you have for Chris right now?

Source: therundown.tv

Here are Wednesday 12/16 Weekly Sales: http://globalgrind.com/channel/music/content/1223177/WEDNESDAY-WEEKLY-SALES/

Alicia Keys “The Element of Freedom” Tracklist

shaesawriter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:24:06 +0000

“The Element of Freedom” is due out December 15th and here is the official tracklist to the upcoming album:

1. The Element Of Freedom (Intro)
2. Love Is Blind
3. Doesn’t Mean Anything
4. Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
5. Wait Til They See My Smile
6. That’s How Strong My Love Is
7. Unthinkable (I’m Ready)
8. Love Is My Disease
9. Like The Sea
10. Put It In A Love Song feat. Beyonce’ Knowles
11. This Bed
12. Distance And Time
13. How It Feels To Fly
14. Empire State Of Mind (Part II)

I know you have heard “Doesnt Really Matter”, the first single and “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”, the second single. She now has a video for the second single as well:

Also, a song “Dreamin” listen here:

http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/66107374/file.html

I’m excited for this album and in particular excited to hear Empire State of Mind Part II and the song with Beyonce. Regardless, when A. Keys drops an album whether she is gone for 10 years, I’m 99.9% sure her music will still be hot!

Be and Jay all affectionate at the MTV Europe Music Awards…”There is only one person I want to thank”….

shaesawriter — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:42:38 +0000

There was so much love in the air at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin, Germany where the Carters expressed just what they mean to each other. They both performed at the Nov. 5th event at O2 Arena, Jay-Z performed “Empire State of Mind”, and Beyonce “Sweet Dreams”. They both took home awards as well; Beyonce, Best Female, Best Song, (“Halo”) and Best Video, (“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).” She used that moment to thank Jay for “putting a ring on it”. Jay-Z won an award for “Best Urban Act”. Guess it was truly a night to celebrate….literally!

Awww so sweet!

Performances:

Be's Arrival

Jay-Z’s performance “Empire State of Mind” feat. Bridget Kelly:

Be’s performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koW8kAQPHM0

Awards Acceptances:

Be thanked Jay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quq1PRO3iRw

Sources: concreteloop.com and necolebitchie.com