Personally i don't like the video, i think it's wack. Kanye could have done a way better job. Shit, I cld have done a better job wtf.. The song still goes so hard though. I had a totally different concept in my head for this video. Get at me Drake let's do some work lol...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If you want to be a successful person, use most of your time to associate with positive, happy, optimistic people who have goals. Virtually every point in your life someone is standing there to either help you or hinder you. Successful people make a habit of building and maintaining a network of high quality relationships in life and the as a result they accomplish vastly more than the average person.
The more people you know and know you in a positive way, the more successful you will be and the faster you will move ahead. 85% of your success in life is going to be determined by the quality of the relationships that you develop in your personal and business activities. More than 90% of your success will be determined by your reference group. Self-made millionaires network continually, they join their industry and trade association, they attend every meeting and get involved in every activities. They introduce themselves in business and social settings, handout their business cards and tell others what they do.
Here is one of the best strategies, whenever you meet a new person socially or in business, ask them to tell you about his or her business and especially to tell you what you would need to know to send a client or a customer to him or her. Then as soon as possible see if you cannot send some business their way. Always think of ways to put in before you start thinking of ways to take out. The very best way to network and build your relationships is to constantly look for ways to help other people to achieve their own goals.
Here is the rule, the more you give yourself without expectation or return, the more rewards will come back to you from the most unexpected sources.
Regards Brian Tracy
This was sent to me via facebook. I thought it was pretty interesting and actually very true, so I wanted to share it with everyone. Enjoy....
The more people you know and know you in a positive way, the more successful you will be and the faster you will move ahead. 85% of your success in life is going to be determined by the quality of the relationships that you develop in your personal and business activities. More than 90% of your success will be determined by your reference group. Self-made millionaires network continually, they join their industry and trade association, they attend every meeting and get involved in every activities. They introduce themselves in business and social settings, handout their business cards and tell others what they do.
Here is one of the best strategies, whenever you meet a new person socially or in business, ask them to tell you about his or her business and especially to tell you what you would need to know to send a client or a customer to him or her. Then as soon as possible see if you cannot send some business their way. Always think of ways to put in before you start thinking of ways to take out. The very best way to network and build your relationships is to constantly look for ways to help other people to achieve their own goals.
Here is the rule, the more you give yourself without expectation or return, the more rewards will come back to you from the most unexpected sources.
Regards Brian Tracy
This was sent to me via facebook. I thought it was pretty interesting and actually very true, so I wanted to share it with everyone. Enjoy....
BASKETBALL (NBA) FREE AGENCY
Ben Gordon - Guard
Charlie Villanueva - ForwardTHE DETROIT PISTONS HAVE JUST ADDED SOME NEW HEAT TO THEIR LINE UP BY RECENTLY ACQUIRING FREE AGENTS BEN GORDON AND CHARLIE VILLANUEVA. bEN GORDON SIGNED A 5-YR $55 MILLION DEAL WITH THE PISTONS WHILE CHARLIE VILLANUEVA SIGNED A 5-YR $35 MILLION DEAL WITH THE PISTONS. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PISTONS STILL HAVE RICHARD HAMILTON AND TAYSHAUN PRINCE, THESE TWO NEW ADDITIONS COULD MAKE THEMA FORCE TO RECKON WITH ON THE EAST ONCE AGAIN.
GREAT MOVE JOE DUMARS I THINK THIS ARE TWO GREAT PICKUPS AND THESE PLAYERS HAVE TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL.
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ALBUM COVER AND TRACK LIST FOR LIL WAYNE'S NEW ROCK/HIP-HOP ALBUM ''REBIRTH''
WHAT Y'ALL THINK ABOUT HIS ONE??? I WANNA HEAR IT THOUGH AND SEE WHERE HE TAKES IT MUSICALLY.
2009 Gullwing-America 300SL Panamericana
The classic Mercedes-Benz SL Gullwing is one of the most sought-after cars of all time, with its rarity and car collector appeal raising auction prices into the stratosphere. German tuner and coachbuilder Gullwing-AG and its American subsidiary, Gullwing-America, have just announced plans to offer a rebodied and thoroughly modernized variant of the classic SL to customers beginning soon
The 300SL Panamericana concept car gets a genuine-article Mercedes-Benz engine and driveline, a retuned version of the 5.5 liter 8 cylinder that has seen duty in AMG and SLR McLaren models. For the 300SL Panamericana, the powerplant spits out 370 horsepower and 530 Nm torque @ 5400 rpm.
With a light steel frame and an aluminum-fiberglass body, all that power will not have a whole lot of car to push around, and performance numbers should exceed those of the AMG Benz cars sharing this engine.
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Diesel DS0123 Men's Sunglasses
Price: $64.99Very affordable and I am actually feeling these, don't know y but I am..
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Villa Shamballa,
Villa Shamballa is in the town of Cap,D'Ail a seaside resort town in southeastern France that borders Monaco. The contemporary style villa was completed last year and spreads over 9,300 square feet. It has ten bedrooms, two terraces, a stone guest house and a wine cave. The home's hillside location delivers incredible views of the Mediterranean Sea. The home was built by retired real estate developer Jean-Claude Rahn and his wife Ursula Neuerberg, of the German cigarette manufacturer Haus Neuerburg and the home has been visited by celebrities including Prince Albert of Monaco, Claudia Schiffer, Michael Shumerer. The home is listed at 38.5 million euros.
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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Forged Carbon Watch For 2009
The "non initiated" who aren't watch enthusiasts won't be able to appreciate all that goes into this watch as it appears merely "nice." There are no visual clues that the case is so hard to make in this instance, and you have no idea that inside the watch a brand new Audemars Piguet in-house made caliber 3126/3840 automatic mechanical chronograph movement. The movement even has a solid gold rotor, also hidden from view. Watches like this are meant to impress the owner, and the few people they encounter who are aware of what the watch really is all about. The dial of the watch is Yellow-Jacket chic with the typical "Mega Tapestry" pattern on the dial that most Royal Oak Offshore watches receive. The tachymeter scale on the chapter ring is in yellow with black numerals while the strong looking Arabic hour numerals also enjoy the pleasant yellow hue. The crown and pushers are covered with natural rubber. Last is the sculpted alligator strap with deployment clasp and yellow contrast stitching. Certainly not love at first site for all watch lovers, but I have a feeling a few of you out there are taken by the bold looks of this watch - especially to match your yellow shoes. Price for the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Forged Carbon watch is probably in the $35,000 - $50,000 range.
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FASHION POLICE ALERT!!
WTF IS SHE WEARING, I MEAN REALLY THOUGH. ALL STYLISTS NEED TO CHECK IN ON THIS ONE AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS AND OPINIONS. I MEAN DAMN, THAT OUTFIT IS HORRIBLE...
Joell Ortiz - We Can Do It (Ft. Styles P)
A DOSE OF THAT REAL HIP-HOP. LIKE A COLD GLASS OF WATER, REFRESHING...
Jay-Z Confirms Roc Nation Deals With Sony, Atlantic
Jay-Z has inked a distribution deal with Sony for his Roc Nation label, the Brooklyn-born rapper confirmed to Billboard last week."Sony is Roc Nation. That's where Roc Nation's going through," Jay-Z told Billboard.com on Friday (June 29).
As for the deal he recently signed with Atlantic, he clarifies that it is a one-off situation for his upcoming album, "Blueprint 3," slated for a September 11th release. "That's pretty much just for this specific album. Roc Nation -- we're experts in marketing and making records. But we do distribution deals," he says. "On this one, we're working directly with the Atlantic staff, which is Julie [Greenwald], Lyor [Cohen], Kevin [Liles] and Kyse [Mike Kyser]. For the rest of the Roc Nation artists, we did a distribution deal with Sony."
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RIHANNA SPOTTED LEAVING HER NYC APARTMENT
DAMN YO, RIHANNA NEEDS AN AWARD FOR THE FLYEST FEMALE CELEBRITY, I MEAN C'MON LOOK AT THAT OUTFIT........LOUIS VUITTON SOBE CLUTCH
Named after South Beach, a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, the SoBe clutch is a must have accessory ideal for day to evening wear. Its crafted from patent calf leather with textile lining and it features a striking LV signature on the clutch's flap in stunning large golden brass letters. Now that's what you call a centerpiece!
SoBe Clutch measures 4.3" x 10.2" x 2.2", large enough to carry make-up, keys, coin purse and other small sized necessities. It comes in three lovely colors: Bleu Nuit, Amarante, and Orange Sunset. SoBe is exclusively available at Louis Vuitton and louisvuitton.com for $895.
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QUINCY JONES INTERESTING INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS MICHEAL JACKSON MEMORIES.
Q: How have you been holding up since Michael Jackson's death?
A: Oh, man. It's surrealistic. I went to Shanghai for the movie festival over there—I took Halle Berry—and then went back to Luxembourg, and in three days I lost Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael. And Michael's thing is still surrealistic to me. I can't process it, man. I don't know how to process it. It's just unbelievable—him leaving before me. I can't believe it.
Q: How did you learn that he had died?
A: Well, everybody in the world called me. I got 500 e-mails. I've never seen anything like it in my life. At first they said they'd taken him to the hospital, then they said he'd had a stroke or a heart attack—it just kept going back and forth and we didn't know what was really happening. And at first I thought he was just kind of freaked out by the coming concerts, because I was in London when they announced the 50 concerts and they sold out in four hours. . . We'd see each other all the time, and I just can't believe he's not here.
Q: Have you been crying?
A: Oh, man, it's more than that. It's way more than that. It hurts my soul, man. It's just a lump down there.
Q: You were there to witness the strange evolution in Michael's appearance. Did you ever step in and saying anything about it?
A: Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he'd come up with, "Man, I promise you I have this disease," and so forth, and "I have a blister on my lungs," and all that kind of b.s. It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man—he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff.
Q: Did you believe him about the disease?
A: I don't believe in any of that bullshit, no. No. Never. I've been around junkies and stuff all my life. I've heard every excuse. It's like smokers—"I only smoke when I drink" and all that stuff. But it's bullshit. You're justifying something that's destructive to your existence. It's crazy. I mean, I came up with Ray Charles, man. You know, nobody gonna pull no wool over my eyes. He did heroin 20 years! Come on. And black coffee and gin for 40 years. But when he called me to come over to see him when he was in the hospital on his way out, man, he had emphysema, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, and five malignant tumors. Please, man! I've been around this all my life. So it's hard for somebody to pull the wool over my eyes. But when somebody's hell-bent on it, you can't stop 'em.
Q: But it must've been so disturbing to see Michael's face turn into what it turned into.
A: It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be black.
Q: Is that what it was?
A: Well, what do you think? You see his kids?Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, "Michael, don't you want to be a black man?"A: No, no, no, please. That's not the way you do it.
Q: But he was beautiful before?
A: Man, he was the most gorgeous guy.
Q: But he seemed to have some deep-seated issue with how he looked?
A: Well, that comes about a certain way. I'm not sure how it happens. I'm just a musician and a record producer. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't understand all that stuff. We all got problems. But there's a great book out called Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart. Did you see that? That book says the statute of limitations has expired on all childhood traumas. Get your stuff together and get on with your life, man. Stop whinin' about what's wrong, because everybody's had a rough time, in one way or another.
Q: I've heard you say that you wanted Michael to sing "She's Out of My Life," the great pop ballad from Off the Wall, in part because you felt like he had to deal with reality.A: I just wanted to hear him deal with a romantic relationship with a human being rather than a rat. I'm saying that facetiously, but it's true. I saw him at the Oscars very emotional about "Ben." I wanted to hear him get in touch with a real human relationship. "She's Out of My Life" was written by Tommy Bahler from a very bad ending to a marriage. So it was very real. I was saving it for Sinatra. But I gave it to Michael. And Michael cried during every take, and I left the tears in.
Q: At root, what do you think killed Michael Jackson?
A: I don't know, man. I'm a musician. I'm not a psychiatrist. I would think that the pressure of the concerts and the debt and everything else . . . look, I've been in the hands of Nobel doctors for the last five years, in Stockholm, at the Karolinska hospital, which you can't even pay to get in. I've learned so much about the human mind and the body, and the doctors talk all the time about how you become your thoughts. It's true. With one thought it starts, you know, and if you sit there and just stay hung up on one negative thought, you will become that thought. I know that Lisa Marie Presley said that she always thought he was going to die like Elvis. You sit and think about that stuff, it'll happen to you. If you start thinking about darkness instead of light, or fear instead of love, you'll get in trouble. I really believe that.
Read the rest of this interesting interview here http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9937
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Drake ft. Mase- Best I Ever Had Remix
SO WHATS UP WITH MASE YO? IS HE A PASTOR OR A RAPPER. I MEAN HIS LYRICS ON HERE DON'T SOUND LIKE WHAT A PREACHER SHOULD BE SPITTIN LOL, BUT THEN AGAIN WHAT DO I KNOW LOL. CHEKC IT OUT FOR YOURSELF AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENT.
HOBERMAN'S TRANSFORMABLE SCREEN FOR THE U2 360 TOUR
Constructed of stainless steel and aircraft aluminum, the display is made of 888 LED screens, with 500,000 pixels spanning across them, providing concertgoers with clear and visually stunning images. It has a screen area of 3,800 square feet, and weighs approximately 120,000 pounds.
Hoberman Associates has teamed up with Innovative Designs to create the Expanding Video Screen, a transformable elliptical screen for the U2 360° Tour. Based on Hoberman's patented Iris structure, this "fusion of architecture, stage scenery and extreme technology" stretches upwards to form a 7-story cone around the band, displaying footage directed by the Irish artist Catherine Owens.
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KANYE WEST INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS LOUIS VUITTON SNEAKER COLLABO
COLLABORATION WITH LOUIS VUITTONHow did your collaboration with Louis Vuitton come about?
I already knew and looked up to Marc Jacobs. Then Louis Vuitton called me and said they had this idea for me to do shoes. I was really excited about the opportunity. I don’t know if they quite knew what they were getting into asking me to help create something!
How did you work with the teams from Louis Vuitton?
We’d fly out there. They’d have ideas. I’d have ideas and I’d start sketching. I just sketched every idea in my head, women’s, men’s, everything. In the end Louis Vuitton had to narrow it down because I had SO many ideas that I wanted to get out.
How many sneakers did you design?
Ten, but I would have done more.
What inspires you about Louis Vuitton?
They’re the number one fashion house in the world!
STYLE AND FASHION
How would you define your style?
An expression of what I’m feeling today.
Do you feel you’ve got your look ‘down’ perfectly?Actually I’m constantly trying to learn what looks good on me. It’s kinda hard. It takes a while to really get it, to figure out your style. Most people I know who dress ‘A Plus’ are 35 and older.
Who is an exception to that rule?
The singer, Rihanna, who is 21. She’s kind of like a genius because regardless of how many stylists she has, I know she does it on her own. That’s an innate talent, having style like that. It’s kind of like the way people play sport, some people just hit the shoots into the net better. Yeah. Fashion is a sport in a way.
How do you find the ideas for your music?
I get inspired by concepts, theories, philosophies.
Give me an example.
The saying ‘What Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger’ was an inspiration for the songStronger.
That’s from the philosopher Frederick Neitzche!Exactly.
If you hadn't been a successful Music artist, what would you have liked to be?
An author, maybe. Although I have already written a book.
What is it called?
Thank You And You’re Welcome.
What’s it about?It’s basically a manual to show you how to make every part of your life into a ‘thank you and you’re welcome’ moment. People say it’s a little like the book The Secret.
Give me one piece of advice from the book?Well, my axiom ‘Get used to being used’. People have such negative connotations about the word ‘Use’. To use is necessary. If you can’t use or be used you’re useless. It’s like, You use me? Yeah, well I’m glad to be of use.
Read the rest of the interview at http://www.ilvoelv.com/2009/06/kanye-west-x-louis-vuitton-collab.html
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
''YOUR REPUTATION IS REPITITION OF WHAT PEOPLE HAVE HEARD ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER.''
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