B~Wood Chronicles . . .: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Little Left of Center ~ Pharrell Williams

Side Bar ~ I love his eccentricity. . . Little Left of Center is a beautiful thang!

New Music ~ Shakira Feat. Rihanna "Can't Remember To Forget You"

Side Bar ~ Sexy ass video!

The Brutally Honest ~ Ms. Jenifer Lewis

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Ms. Fantasia Barrino ~ "Stormy Weather"

Side Bar ~Pretty damn good Ms. Barrino . . . She really shines on songs like this!

Trisha Show ~ I Am Not My Hair!

Side Bar ~ Weaves vs. Natural . . . Ladies & Fellas are weaves and epidemic?

New Music ~ Jennifer Hudson Ft. T.I. "I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel)"

Side Bar ~ Once again her songs are just okay to me!

I just can't see myself buying her cd.

2014 Grammy's & Grammy's After Party

Tamara Mowry Housley

Traci Braxton

Duane Martin

Aj Johnson

Keyshia Cole

Emeli Sande

Kat Graham

Chrisette Michelle

Regina King

Chris Brown's girlfriend Karrueche

Golden Brooks

Debra Lee

Toni Braxton & Tamar Braxton

Sevyn Streeter

Beyonce

Ashanti

Ciara

Whiz Khalifa & Amber Rose

Tamar Braxton

Swizz Beatz & his wife Alicia Keys

Ceelo Green & his daughter

Tyrese & his artist Kristal Lyndriette

Miguel & his girlfriend Nazanin

Robin Thicke & his wife Paula Patton

Paris Hilton

Mack Wilds

Rita Ora

Madonna & her son David

Fantasia

Rocsi Diaz

Shaun Robinson

Faith Evans

John Legend & his wife Chrissy Teigen

Nelly

Billy Ray Cyrus & Dionne Warwick

Monday, January 27, 2014

Friday, January 24, 2014

New Music ~ E-40 Feat. T.I. & Chris Brown "Episode"

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Devil Baby!

Side Bar ~ Now ya'll know they wrong for this!

The Beautiful Tia & Tamera

Courtesy of Oprah.com

Tamera Mowry Responds to Critics of Her Interracial Marriage:

"Tamera Mowry, one half of the identical twin leads of the '90s television sitcom Sister, Sister, married Fox News Channel correspondent Adam Housley on May 15, 2011. Since then, Tamera says, she has experienced intense hatred on social media for marrying outside her race. Watch as Tamera shares her response to the comments as well as what she's learned from the experience."

Friday, January 17, 2014

Is Honey B, Just A Basic Bey?

Courtesy of Curatorsofdopenessblog.tumblr.com

*****Disclaimer!!!! Before all of the BeyHive Stans come for me, I encourage you all to please read to the end, this ain’t a dis blog, it’s a real blog. I really enjoyed “Beyonce” I brought it the moment it dropped on iTunes and I plan to incorporate one of the tracks in my upcoming nuptials.*****

Beyonce is Queen Bey….of the Basics. She is easily one of the most basic women in the history of the music industry. People give Beyonce credit for a lot of things that I don’t think she herself has much to do with. She isn’t very deep, as a matter of fact I would venture to say she’s shallow. There’s not much there.

BUT with that being said, it is her basic-ness thats makes her a genius, it makes people love and drip off her every word. When you think of the term, “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist” Beyonce really is the personification of this. She understands that hard work and dedication will take any skill you have to the next level. Let’s be honest: she can sing but there are better singers, she can dance but there are better dancers, and she is beautiful but….nah even I’m not fucking with that, she is gorgeous. You get the point though. She doesn’t do one thing great expect that she has mastered the art of doing a lot of things thoroughly. I do believe Fantasia is a better singer, but it’s doesn’t matter because her ethic will never be anywhere near Beyonce.

There’s a part in the Bible, where Paul says, “To all men, I became all things”.Beyonce speaks very little and that’s on purpose. First off, if she says too much, you’d figure out that she talks in circles and never really tells you anything (some people think it’s intentional, I believe they aren’t her thoughts so she can’t really expound on them). Also, by saying nothing, it allows us to assume everything.

Be honest: none of really know Beyonce, we don’t know what she’s passionate about, we just try to put together our idea of Beyonce that best suits our lifestyles. To the married women, she’s the model wife and mother, wearing a cape and handling it all. To the married men, she’s the perfectly balanced wife, bringing money to the table while still being arm candy and sucking penis in the backseat. To the single women, she is a beacon of hope, that they can tell these dudes to put a ring on it or move around, and that they don’t need a man to get it done. To the Gays she is Jesus. To white people, she’s mixed race and sorta not all black (reference L’Oreal commercials).

As a Houston native, I know Beyonce. I see versions of her everywhere. She is a regular Houston get it girl. Replace her globetrotting fashion sense with trips to the Galleria and Jay-Z with Top Dope Boy/ Club Promoter A. Replace her career with a beauty license and photo shoots with club pics on INDMIX / All the Parties. Keep everything about Blue Ivy the same, weird name, dressed in Jordans, hair unkept while momma is fresh to death and you have any girl from any hood in Houston.

Basic, it screams basic. that’s why the basics love her. She gives them hope. She makes the dream attainable. The Beyhive protects her because she is their one that made it, and deep down when she made it, they all made it. She is the storyteller of a generation lost. Not overly educated not overly privileged, just a regular girl who got a chance, and ran that bitch around the world.

She is so far up there now it seems silly to waste breath on hating her, who hates hard workers any fucking way?!?! Its the simple things that make life enjoyable and that’s what makes Beyonce perfect, her team has mastered simple, which isn’t easy and can be in fact complicated. I look forward to what’s next from the Queen Bey. It’s always love on my part, signing off Houston’s(other) Hometown Homegirl.