This Post is Not About a New Cell Phone!

Okay, my lovely people, today I feel like ranting because this has been on my mind for a couple of days. To begin, I would gladly love to take out text messaging from my cell phone plan if I could get back the connection I have lost with the people I care for most. Text messaging has indirectly ruined the relationship that I could have had..simply because some dumb f~~ks think that speaking on the phone makes it seem too intimate. But it's okay to sleep with a person because it's just "sex!" WHAT kind of world are we living in?So, I took sometime to self evualate...and I came to the conclusion. It really IS not him, but me. Why, you ask? Because it seems that he thinks the same way that most of the world thinks like. Call me old skool, but I feel it is necessary to converse with a person by hearing their voice in order to understand whetther they are being serious, funny, sarcastic etc. Text messaging only leaves space for misunderstanding and annoyance. So the purpose of this message is that if you say you are "feeling" someone just give them a call once in a while. It's not clingy, it just means that you are smart!

CurT@!n$-Black Floks

So a couple days ago or should I say a few I posted about the NY rapper CurT@!n$ and the track black folks.....well he just posted this trailer for the track and I just wanted to share it with all of you.

Part One via Hypetrak

via Hypetrak

Still Life Still

So my friend Tor is friends with a band called Still Life Still that I got a chance to hear today she has been talking about them for a while and I wanted to hear some of the tracks.... and I actually dig them they are pretty cool from the tracks that I have heard so far she describes them as a mix of Broken Social Scene and a laid back relaxed type of vibe and something you can also dance to which is pretty cool...They have a show coming up Friday Feb.27 at The Sliver Dollar on Spadina just North of College the go on at about 9:30pm... is worth checking out i will for sure be showing up ....check out the myspace for more info www.myspace.com/stilllifestill
PEace Trica

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH CHRIS "WOMAN BEATER " BROWN : Pics of Rihanna

So i am a social worker that is my major anyway and after hearing that C"WB"B beat Rihanna up I was pissed not because they are popular or whatever but because she is a female a human being and does not deserve it no one does but than people started feeling sorry for him and saying everyone makes mistakes but after this photo I think people will understand that this guy is an asshole and a monster he is a poor excuse for a man.. I have disliked him for a very long time and for those people who like him good for you but understand this could have been your moms, sister,aunt,etc.

RAPHAEL SAADIQ

Raphael Saadiq is coming to the dot and I just can't wait I love his style and love love love love did I say love his music he will be at the Phoenix on March 16th at 9pm which I am really looking forward to ... I am posting this because I think he is just lovely and I wanted to share how happy I am about him coming lol. Check out his video of "100 Yard Dash" and his performance for that "Love that Girl " on Tavis Smiley below.
PEace Tricia

100 Yard Dash

Love That Girl Tavis Smiley Live
by yardie4lifever2

Kid Cudi -this is for you Ryan

So my best friend Ry is like the biggest fan of Kid Cudi and is like crazy about his music and I am starting to think he is dope as well..it has taken me a bit to actually come to that conclusion, but after listening to his mixtape for a couple of weeks I have come to like him as well (YES IT TOOK ME THAT LONG RY ) but any who I like his style and I have been made fun of because i find him very handsome but since I sawhim in his Ray Bans i have been commenting on how good he looks ...anywho enough about the mans looks.... I like his tracks and I think people need to explore him passed Day n Nite which he released a video for today and check him out on a much better level and call me late or whatever for just talking about him now but it takes time for me to warm up to some artist. Enjoy the video for Day n Nite below and check him out on 106 and Park with Kanye.
P.S if you like Wale and Cudi check out this track called Look up in Da Stars
Kid Cudi ft. Wale - Look Up in Da Stars
PEace Tricia

kid kudi - day 'n' nite
by 75_prod

New York Fashion Week Picks for me so far

Boy by Band of Outsiders

Bibhu Mohapatra

Anna Sui

Badgley Mischka

CurT@!n$ - Black Folks

Say what you will but I am kind of in love with the NY scene right now and I am guessing is because I lived in the NY for a while before coming to the Dot but whatever the reason is ...I am really feeling this track from CurT@!n$ right now called Black Folks this is the real ish (message) have a listen .. If you have not heard his mixtape (The Great Adventures Of Dope Boy C) well this is the time to check him out I think he is really dope check out his blog and the mixtape ...PEOPLE this man's swagg is mad dope as well I love his style he is a mixer of vintage and the new ish out and he does it well.
CurT@!n$ - Black Folks
http://highsocietylife.blogspot.com/

Theophilus London

Is been a while eh been gone for a min. but I am back school and personal ish is killing us all .. but is reading week(march break) for us so we can kind of breath. So a couple of days ago I was chillin on facebook at work and booked that Theophilus London is heading to Tdot in March(march 1st at the drake) I am mad happy about this... I'hve been listening to him for a while and I am in lust with his music...I been dancing to This Charming Mixtape all week can't stop playing it...I even made a ringtone from my fav. tracks. I love the mix he has on the tape tracks like Aint no Sunshine got me in a daze..I love dancing my ass off to Hum Drum, Crazy Cousins and the crazy mix of I Will Always Love You in my room and when I am with my friends lol. but if you havn't heard about him I think you really should get at his mixtape check out the myspace to download it. http://myspace.com/londonwave



PEace Tricia

HOOD LOVE

So today I was talking on the phone with the coolest sisters that never take me anywhere and I blabbing on about something and I saw a picture of my new hero: TAZ ARNOLD.  He was always a person who I thought was really "fly" and had an amazing style that he presented to the world.  He is a person I can learn a lot from and look up to in terms of fashion.  Check out his line TI$A which he is working with PHENOMENON and SWAGGER based in Japan which are two amazing brands. 

BEST I EVER HAD!

A lot of people aren't ready to believe that Toronto has produced an artist besides form Kardi that can role with our neighbors to the south.  Well we have Drake aka Drizzy Drake Rogers aka Heartbreak Drake and any other silly name Lil' Wayne has conjured up while smoking massive blunts in the studio.  Anyways this mixtape my friends in blog land is pretty DOPE it is a good listen and Drake reminds us once again he is here for three things: To take become successful, show that Toronto has some talent and last but certainly not least watch out because he might take your girl.  

FYI: I actually met Drake at Ransom one day, but to be honest with you it wasn't that big because I just finished talking to Zeb Munir who I honestly think is one of the coolest cats in the city, yeah Audbrey's cool and all but ZEB!! Shout out to Nomad.  Writing this makes me feel like a loser....

Back like Black in 1980

It has been a couple gillion, million, sextillion (thats a real number) days, hours and blogging minutes I have been M.I.A (ha she is below this post) and it is due to my ever growing agenda.  So let's start with New York fashion week the great Tim Hamilton. O-M-G! This collection is DAMM.  I never knew shorts could be so cool. This is his Fall Collection for 2009 and might I say he did a swell job at it.  A MUST BUY.

Grammy's

So, i didn't bother watching the Grammy's because it was too predictable and i figured it would be boring. Talking to Pat confirmed my prediction. All the top selling artist were performing, and occasionally there would be tributes. YAWN! Predictable! Instead i opted to watch a doc on TLC about a woman with massive legs (very interesting might i add). Anyways, I will be mos def catching the M.I.A. performance on youtube because i couldn't be bothered to watch the whole show. Apparently, M.I.A. was amazing and full of energy considering she was due to give birth Grammy evening. She has had an amazing year with Paper Planes in Pinneaple Express and Slumdog Millionaire. Jay Z also made a remix to BOYZ. I've been listining to M.I.A. for about 7 years now and she never fails to amaze me. It gives me hope that a dork like me can make it out! I'll raise a glass to her and hope for a safe delivery. Let's hope The Cool Kids will make it to the Grammys in the near future.

P.S. M.I.A. is mos def the flyest yummy mummy, sorry Gwen!

Peace and Love

Annita

The World is Coming to an End

The Sesame Street Dancing R&B cool kid, Chris Brown, which by the way took the shine away from Omarion (my other boo) has turned himself into the "PO PO" after being idenified by a woman as being the person who assaulted and threatened her after an argument had erupted with the singer in a car. After the assault, he zipped out of the scene. Has he gone MAD! To make matters more interesting it wasn't Rihanna...is he cheating on her? Im not trying to start anything...im just saying ; ) Well, Chris and Rihanna were suppose to make an appearance at the Grammy's, but decided to sit this one out. They didn't miss out! It's official Christopher Brown is a felon. Good job! Now he can consider himself "hood", because we all know that tat's don't legitimize a bad boy. Best believe i'll be watching TMZ for an official update on the story!

Annita

Kenna, Kenna, Kenna, Kenna

Don't forget this name, please! This Etheopian born dude grew up in Virginia alongside Pharrell, Chad and Shay (yes, N.E.R.D.) and im guessing that talent is oozing out of those Virginia fountains. You heard of the fountain of youth, well Virginia has the fountain of talent! Kenna's album "Make Sure They See My Face" was by far my favourite album of 2008, it carried me through some great times. You may remember him from those PSP commercials a while back. Anyways, his music is a fusion of rock, funk and soul. There's no sound like it. It becomes hip hop minded with the spirit of Chad Hugo flowing through the production. Kenna recently released a remix to "Loose Wires" with The Cool Kids. It's a fun song to get you ready for any event. Sooooo....Check out the link, here’s the song, my gift to you, because that’s my JAM!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5478935376574bd9/

Annita

Beatz that are so Sweet!

Swizz Beatz by far makes some of the best mind boggling music ever. He and Lil Wayne have teamed up...of course, and have given the world a wonderful gift. Interestingly, Lil Wayne only sings on this song... because rappers sing now...through synthesizers. Beatz lays out rhymes alongside his intriquate production. Sooooo...Check out the link, here’s the song, my gift to you, because that’s my JAM!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/547887979844ed42/

P.S. it has a Little Mermaid feel to it!

Annita

You thought frosh week was bad on Res.....

Christianity has gotten a bad rep because of how people have perversed the religion to propel their own greedy movements. It has been used in most forms of slavery, ethnic cleansings and genocides. Yesterday, it hit me hard when they connected genocide to Residential Schools in Canada. We are discussing about the Aboriginal culture in Canada at Uni, and some of what we are hearing is baffling. On the surface, residential schools were meant to assimilate Aboriginal children into European culture in order to make them more "civilized." These bording schools taught them to be domestics and fall into the entrapment of gender roles. Beneath the surface, the schools neglected and abused the children. They used every opportunity to harm the children including forcing healthy aboriginal children play with childen that were infected with small pox and tuberculosis. They were sexually abused and emotionally abused. Until last year, the government did not acknowledge this form of genocide and the residential schools worked hard to hide bodies and any form of evidence that would show any mistreatment of aboriginal children in the schools. This is a disgusting part of Canadian history, but there are more stories. Canada prides itself on being a peaceful nation, but it's a lie. No nation on this world is peaceful due to colonization. Colonization brought violence and false promises to the natives. The last residential school closed in 1998, and June 11, 2008, the government issuesd an apology. As of now, residential school survivors are being monetarily compensated but on the condition that they can prove their abuse and how they will manage the money. I don't know if it's a genuine apology or a slap in the face. But i would like Rick James to come and give Harper a SLAP! Anyways, check out this site http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/ the information is amazing. Please spread the knowledge, education and wisdom creates power, it overpowers money! My wish is that the Harper government keeps it real in '09 and we should too! Much love and Peace, Annita.

Cool Kids -Pennies

Ya Boy-“I Got The Power”

CurT@!n$ - The Dope Supremacy

Boys, Please Behave!

This week we had some mad issues with boys, men, whatever. We had ISSUES! So, I decided to dedicate a moment to it and them! I think it is absolutely wonderful that men are persistent, we need more of that in this world. But if a woman offers you a look of disgust or disfavour, please do not follow it with a sense of triumph. What I mean is, if we tell you we don't like you, we actually mean it. WHY? Because it takes a lot for us to be blunt in telling you that we are horrified by your behaviour. In addition, pay attention to body language! If we keep a great distance from you or we have our arms are crossed, you should know that mentally we are trying really hard to run FAR from the situation, and hoping that we can make a getaway that will preserve our integrity and yours. Please people lets keep it real in '09. If someone is not feeling you or you're not feeling someone be absolotulety honest and polite. Because karma is a b....!

Annita

Mystic Bounce

Soooo, yesterday, with a lot of time on my hand, I started to organize my itunes which consisted of a lot of deleting....i had to S Club 7 was taking up too much space. Luckily for me I found an album that was tucked away and hidden in the archives. Madlib made a beautiful jazz and hip hop fusion album back in 2005. It is to date one of my favourite albums, what I like most about it is that I can blast it in my mom's minivan without having to duck for cover when profanity is blurted. Once and a while especially on warm summer mornings i'll put on this album as a soundtrack to my new day and watch the sun rise. Sounds mushy, well that's what I was going for. Here's one of my fave songs from the album, "Mystic Bounce". Check out the link, here’s the song, my gift to you, because that’s my JAM!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/540536374fe8c243/

Annita

Illecism :Even if your last name Williams kid you is not on my hype

New music is kind of my thing I like asking people who they listen to and checking out new artist, so yesterday one of my co-workers Juice(www.thepeanutbutterandjellyeffect.blogspot.com) and I were having our usually music convo. and he started to talk about this kid from D.C (that is my home ppl) named Illecism (Eurazmus Forh government name) now I think ppl need to really take notice he is 19 and his flow is ill word play is mad dope. I am kinda hooked I am the type that likes to listen to ish over and over again to just hear it right, not a lot of these artist take time to explain ish they go off about and I like that he does that he is on a different tip I like him and not just because he is a D.C kid (lol) but because he is real with it and because he is funny.. he did a cover of Common's track faithful which I am really feeling and chick please is a funny track..and wylin is a dope track for all those slow ppl he slows it down for you . But check out his myspace (www.myspace.com/illecism).
Peace Tricia Y

GOOGLE ME!

During the cold, busy afternoon in the streets of College and Spadina there was a sample sale during the biggest day of shopping and consumption.  This is when a internet celebrity was born, ME!  

My two close friends Matthew To (In the middle) and Andrew Ma (Right side) were checking out this sample sale on College St.  It had your streetwear basics like 10 Deep, Mishka, Crook and Castles, The Hundreds and many more.  Unfortunately there wasn't anything we liked but we did take a picture for them and got on formatmag.com.  Really cool picture check it out.  

Shout out to Ron who is also on there and shoot out to formatmag.com for allowing us to be on their blog.  

michael N

The Gaza children whose pictures are not shown on American TVs

I think the pictures should speak for themselves this is genocide...
763 Palestinians murdered by Israel in Gaza (more than 230 children & 100 women) & 3100 injured.

Out of this World

Although Lupe Fisco stated that he would be retiring, it hasn't deter people from maintaining their interest in his music, and rightfully so! Especially those exclusive mixtape songs that you literally have to go to Chicago to get, because Toronto streets never sell the authentic versions. Anyways, I came across a song he recorded called "Space Love" and it is by far one of my favourite Lupe songs to date. So, Check out the link, here’s the song, my gift to you, because that’s my JAM!

P.S. Rumour is is that this song could be a fake, you be the judge!

Annita

http://www.zshare.net/audio/53878682a4cf2134/

Paris is burning!

The title has not thing to do with the Mjolk's Spring/Summer '09 it is Ladyhawke's song by the same name.  

Melbourne based brand Mjolk has been doing fashion for a little bit, but I only really found out about the during the summer when there previous season was released.  I love this collection!   It is such a strong collection of clothing that can all work well together in an outfit.  Especially the bar bow tie and the oversized sweater.  This piece of art is something to really look forward to if you live in England of Australia, unfortunately we don't get it here in Canada. 

P.S. If there are any European or Australian readers can someone send me a piece from the collection.  I am a medium or small, and I wear size 12 shoes.  THANKS

michael N

Polka-Dot-Heavy !!!

pics via style.com

The dots are back for the spring sweethearts.... If you are a fan style.com you would have noticed the cover story on polka-dots for the up-coming spring. If you are not a fan of polka-dots it looks like you will be crying this spring (kind of i guess). They are a classic and this spring according to style.com this trend has gotten a fresh twist. Polka-dots have become a staple on the runway and is been shown in different ways. Much more retro bigger dots I must say I am really feeling the retro vibes that I have been seeing on the runway very much so my style.

Peace tricia Y.

I like Japanese Cartoons

If you know me I have a love for Japanese things, mainly Japanese cartoons and games.  Anime and Manga is what I love and to this day watch and enjoy.  Note I am not some kind of loser or anything OKAY!!

Anyways to the real topic at hand.  Today I logged onto my msn and got a message from my Anre who is also a regular reader to this blog and a BIG fan of Lupe Fiasco. (Just like the people on this blog.) It was a link to his new work and at first I didn't think I was going to like it, because after the release of The Coolest and listening to it for about two weeks I have come to the conclusion that it was pretty boring and it made me lost confidence in Mr. Jaco's skill as an artist.  Moving on now, this link was to Lupe's new 'band' known as 'Japanese Cartoon' where Lupe is the lead singer to a post-punk band with a heavy english accent.  After hearing this I was happy to actually hear something GOOD by Lupe after Food and Liquor.  As I do with all new music I find out I had to do some research, so I googled it and found out that it was too good to be true.  It seems that Lupe Fiasco is not even IN the band and the guy singing is known a Percival Fats who actually talks with a british accent.  Now I am disappointed, but what can we do?  I guess just wait for the THREE DISC album by Lupe in the near future.  IT BETTER BE GOOD!! You can also check out Japanese Cartoon here.

michael N

"Barack Obama is pussy! Yo mama is pussy!"

http://www.myspace.com/kesediam

So if you know me well than you will understand my love for poetry.. So I have been a fan of Kesed for a very long time this man's word play is way dope and he speaks the truth and if you are one of the people I call my friend (i am a bit picky aboutmy friendships) you have peeped his work I guess one might say I am kind of in love and maybe I am..... in love with his work. But that is the truth they don't call him fire spitter for no reason he got made skills and i think people in the TDOT need to take notice. Don't get me wrong I love our poetry scene in the T.dot thanks mad people like Dwayne Morgan and Travis Blackman and spaces like Train Studio... But I just had to share this with all of you he has made talent so check him out ..you have my blessings.

this is my fav. poem: Pussy


Peace Tricia Y

NINJASONIK WITH THE 'K' NOT THE 'C'

So if your like me and have been searching very hard for a unique sound to leave you singing to all you teachers before exam time, then the search is OVER.  I have the right remedy for you.  

Ninjasonik a duo of DJ/producers from New York have been making a buzz for their CRAZY, BANANAS live shows and their tight pants.  Jah Jah Brown aka Rev McFly and Kevin Ross aka DJ Teenwolf have put together this incredible punk/club/dance/rap group.  If you are unsure or unconvinced please youtube them or check out their myspace here.

michael N