Check out the pictures from Beyoncé's new campaign for the fall 2010 collection of Deréon. She tranformed into an edgy rockstar and killed in these pictures. I love Bey...probably will just look at the clothes in stores though. For a supposedly affordable line, Deréon is mad expensive! But it's cool that Bey has branched out beyond music. She has fashion, her new perfume, and her acting too, so it's definitely an understatement to say that she is THE TOTAL PACKAGE! Heard she was recording her new album too...can't wait for that to drop! Shoutout to The Beyoncé Network for this! Check more pics after the jump!



      

WORK IT BEY!!!!!!!!



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Kanye just dropped this today. The song features Miss Beyoncé and Charlie Wilson. And it's mad catchy! Completely different style from "Power." It's not going to be Kanye's next single, just something he let out for the summer. It should be though! I like it a lot! And of course Bey did her thing. I like Charlie on this too. LOL at the end. Kanye's a mess.





You can download it here.

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Ok, Wale is the love of my life in the music industry right now LOL, and he's from DMV, so I have to highlight him. Here's a video put together for a bit of "The Number Won" off his newest mixtape More About Nothing. It was shot outside of Commonwealth, a store in DC. So mad I couldn't go! The video's not much, but for me, it's good enough. Cuz I love him :)



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Good morning people...hope everything is good with you. Half way through this week already!

Ok, so I thought I would give my take on the Fantasia overdose. For those of you who don't know, Fantasia was hospitalized in North Carolina on Monday after a medication overdose. "She took an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid," her manager said in a statement to Access Hollywood. "Her injuries are not life threatening. She was dehydrated and exhausted at the time," the statement went on. "Fantasia is stable now. She will be released from the hospital soon."

Now, everyone knows about the love triangle with Fantasia, her lover Antwuan Cook, and Antwuan's wife Paula. Now Paula is supposed to suing Fantasia (which is apparently legal in their area) and going for custody of the kids, plus child and spousal support from Antwuan. Fantasia says she thought that Antwuan was legally separated. Paula calls her a homewrecker, talking about possible sextapes, la di dah. Real messy situation. And it's been reported that Fantasia took the medicine in the first place because of all this.


Ok, so first of all, commenting on the homewrecker situation. And this is the same way I feel about the Mashonda-Alicia-Swizzy mess. If a man wants to be free, FREE HIM. That's just my mentality. If somebody don't care about me, why am I gonna try to get him to? You can go. If he gonna cheat or leave, then let him go. Whatever. I know it's hard to let go of someone you deeply love and care about, but if he's gonna mess around, then what's the point? Ain't no need to make a big spectacle of it. Just make sure that the kids are taken care of, and call it a day. No point making a mess even messier. That's just me.

Second, people are really really insensitive nowadays. It was reported by police to be attempted suicide, but people are already saying she did it just to get attention. I don't care if she did it on purpose or not. Either way, the woman needs prayer and love sent her way. She's a human being, just like the rest of us. So I just pray that Fantasia gets better. And that this whole situation blows over soon.

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Hey guys, happy Monday! Like I told my Twitfam, I know it's Monday (blehhh) but it's another day we've been blessed to see. Somebody would kill to be in your shoes, so make the best of today and this week! LOL I guess I'm just mad happy cuz this is my last week of work for the summer! Chillin til I head back to Loyola on September 5 haha.

Anyways...back to the post. Here is another artist on the rise. I'm proud to present the first female artist that I have had the opportunity to interview: MARiE darapper. Originally from Detroit, MARiE originally got into started getting into music after she won a poetry contest in elementary school. "No one around me was a rapper so I found things to rap about which made me versatile like I am," MARiE said.


In addition to her older brothers having an influence over her rhymes, MARiE has another big time rapper that inspired her to rap: Eminem. "Him being from my city, he would have to be my biggest inspiration," she admitted. She also stated that there are two female rappers that she looks up to as well. "Remy Ma, and right now Nicki Minaj is holding it down, so I watch and learn from her."

So far, MARiE has done several different features on songs and she is presently working on her mixtape entitled Rappem Up. "The feedback I get keeps me going," she said. "Positive feedback lets me know I'm in the right direction and negative feedback lets me know I need to work harder." That's a good mentality to have. Check out her song "K.R.F (Killin Rappaz FAST) BMF Remix" below.



Love her attitude on this song man...Check more of her songs on her YouTube channel and follow her on Twitter!


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Ok...Kanye has been saying all week that his video wasn't a video. It was a painting. But umm...I thought he was speaking metaphorically. I was wrong LOL. This 90 second clip is legit a moving painting with Kanye standing at what seems to be the gates of heaven.



Looking at people's tweets on Spotlight's Twitter, this video might be a tad controversial for Kanye. It kinda makes it seem like he's some kind of god...but I get the concept. It's just...weird. You're expecting this grand video, or at least I was, and then you get this. I get the concept, but I think that many fans are kinda disappointed. We were expecting something epic. And I was kinda weirded out staring at Kanye's face for a minute and a half. What do you guys think about the "video?"

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Glad to see Eminem back...Here he is with Rihanna with "I Love The Way You Lie" off his album Recovery...




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