Wish I was in the UK to see it. But for those in the UK check it out!

PHOTOS: DON'T CALL ME URBAN! THE TIME OF GRIME BY SIMON WHEATLEY

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DON'T CALL ME URBAN! THE TIME OF GRIME is a photographic record compiled over a 12 year period, focusing on the youth of London’s inner-city at a vital time, taking as its prism the genre of grime - the most significant and controversial musical expression to emerge from the UK since punk. Grime was essentially the UK’s own authentic response to hip hop, an angst-ridden, confrontational music conveying the hopes and frustrations of an apolitical generation locked into decaying housing estates. The book is a visual reflection of what grime represented, chronicling the conditions that spawned the genre. It is a combination of music portraiture, social documentary and architectural photography.

Had an exam yesterday and was in need of a pencil or pen so my friend GEMELIS loaned me her MARC JACOBS LIPSTICK PEN. Taking my exam in MARC JACOBS.

I should have probably been doing my work but you know I had to check up on my bad boy of a LAMBORGHINI. #justkidding However I would want a lambo.

Looking back at what I had listened to a kid growing up I can say for sure, I was bound to be a heavy UK music listener. I'm on a fucking rolling this time with the throwbacks! S CLUB 7, MIS-TEEQ, MS. DYNAMITE, and now CRAIG DAVID. I can't help but laugh at music choices. Not to say that my choices were bad but it's interesting. I heard about CRAIG DAVID while I was in Nigeria visiting my cousins in 2000 or 2001. I was watching MTV UNIVERSAL and I saw this video come on and I was like "Ohhh! He's cute". Besides him being cute, the song was good, and the video was humorous. The part where he pours the wine on the women around 3:55 is funny. If life had a rewind, press play, stop, pause button? Boy!? It would be great. And imagine being able to wake up at 11:00AM on Monday.

 I love guys! I do! I do! I do! I dooooo-oooooooh!
I Iove guys, guys, guys, guys! Guys I do adore! 

Guys! Guys! Guys! What can I say? They're a mighty fine species. Although they are weird at times. You can't help but sigh when you think of them. In my post MINDLESS RAMBLINGS: A SINGLE GIRLS DATING CHECKLIST , I talked about I'M BOY CRAZY's ALEXI CELINE WASSER list on guys every girl should at least date once. Check out my list like I promised to post a few weeks ago. The part two will be posted soon.

KATY B is an artist I've been listening to for a while and just today she released her video for his single EASY PLEASE ME. Absolutely love her! The video has cute humor to it and cute guys in it. I definitely peeped that one. Especially the babe in the black and yellow snapback. Babeee?!

RAEKWON is currently on tour and he hit up CHICAGO last night. But besides hitting the stage, he apparently found time to connect and politic with Illinois Republican Senator CHRISTINE RADOGNO because during a State budget meeting today, Radogno took the floor of the Senate to quote the Wu-Tang member. She even claimed that last night Rae told her, "NOWADAYS WE ALL KNOW CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND US, C.R.E.A.M. GET THE MONEY. DOLLA, DOLLA BILL Y'ALL." Guess Radogno grew up on the foul side too, huh?

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A few days ago I posted my list on things to do before my big move to the UK. Like I stated before in my recent I've been a listener of TINIE TEMPAH music for a while even from his first album HOOD ECONOMICS. Saturday evening my good friend MOE gave me word that TINIE would be performing at the APPLE STORE in SoHo not knowing that I was a huge listener of him. But because I thought the show was Sunday I was a tad discouraged  on going because of last minutes events. A few minutes later I checked my twitter timeline and saw that the show was on Monday not Sunday. Elated and relieved that I had the see the UK chart topper live and for FREE. Yes, F-R-E-E!

Woi! Diplo! Diplo! Diplo! *SIGH* Babeeee!?

Nickeloden use to be the shit in 90's. Ahh the memories! I remember this performance so clearly. Nasty Nas! Haha!

A few weeks ago I headed off to WEST NYC to snap some photos of the store for an upcoming online UK magazine. Recently, RAKIM teamed up with the store to make a shirt. Shirt is pretty dope! You can visit the store at the address below and pick up a shirt along with your visit.

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147 West 72nd Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 787-8595

Haha! This really sums up my summer of '09. *BUST INTO A MIGRAINE SKANK* For those who aren't aware of SKANKING. Allow me to introduce you to what it is.

Recently I got into two of the five universities I applied to. After being elated with the news I automatically had to put some victory music on. This called for some LIL B. Sheen! Winning! Swag!

No need for a full passage on this post for the title says it all. But, I'll tell you anyway what happened. While hanging out with my friends in Brooklyn we came across a man selling a shitload of cds. magazines, and books. Some old, some new and some barely used. We took a look at the books and magazines being sold. That's when I stumbled upon CODE MAGAZINE. Of course I was very happy to see CODE MAGAZINE. CODE MAGAZINE is a magazine set on documenting fashion photography. Fashion photography with real people wearing authentic styles. The magazine I picked up was their 2008 issue. Also, I have never seen CODE MAGAZINE in New York being sold so being able to purchase it for just $2 was a deal. I can't reveal my magazine/book/cd joint. Confidential information my friends!

I don't think I entirely told what's going on with me and my plans after my graduation of school. But I guess I could use this post to do just that. Ever since my trip to the UK in 2009 and being in total awe with the city of London. I made it my mission to attend university in the UK. Now a senior in high school, I've placed my applications in for 5 universities and so far 2 universities have responded to me with 1 rejection. Fuck off to the university who rejected me. You know who you are, No names need to said! Back to the topic. I am set to start university in September. I have composed a list of things I would like to do before my departure.

Last week Friday I took a quick trip to MISHKA NYC to snap some photos of the store for an upcoming online UK magazine and with my BLACKBERRY these are the photos I took. Pretty good trip along with a good chat.

In my last THROWBACK post I had said that my encounter of UK music was MS. DYNAMITE. After that I started thinking about things I use to listen to as a youth and  I realized I listened to a lot of UK Music. Which is quite funny because now that I'm older I mainly listen to UK music. When I was younger one group I couldn't get enough of was MIS-TEEQ. MIS-TEEQ came onto the US music scene around 2003 with their smash hit SCANDALOUS. I absolutely loved them unfortunately the UK girl group broke up and haven't made music ever since. I enjoyed them while they lasted but SCANDALOUS was the song. In fact in December 2010 the song was used in a GIORGIO ARMANI's ARMANI CODE FOR WOMEN perfume ad.

Huhh! What a fine make of man?  I came across RYAN GOSLING a few years back while watching REMEMBER THE TITANS and ever since then I've been in awe with his acting as well as him. He's a babe! Check out the new film he stars in called BLUE VALENTINE.

"You're young, you're beautiful and everybody wants to fuck you! -Tom Ford"

Today while indulging myself on my daily blog reads. I came across an interesting post on one of my favorite blogs called IMBOYCRAZY. Ran by ALEXI CELINE WASSER, she blogs about everything boy crazy. In this particular post called ONE OF EACH: A SINGLE GIRLS DATING CHECKLIST she gives a list in which every girl should have. Single or not single. At times I catch myself thinking or discussing with friends what it would be like dating certain guys or what kind of guys we would go after.  With summer time around the corner and university in a few months, the post struck a chord with me that I should probably create my own list. After viewing her list I realized summer 2011 is going to be babetastic and as well as that it led me to conduct my own list. Part of me is telling me to post my list up and part of me is telling me not to. Maybe I will, maybe I won't but for now check out ALEXI's checklist which is quite good.

For a while I've been very big on following interesting blogs and tumblrs and I was always intrigued by the ability of posting cool finds via smartphones. Being that I just joined the BLACKBERRY team with my purchase of the 9530 I can twitter, facebook, tumblr, and blog at anytime about any thing I see. So with further ado I present BLACKBERRY DIARIES. Blackberry Diaries is a categories which captures everything I see, think is absoluted cool or instant moments. Expect some very soon!