The much awaited official video for Nigerian afro-beat superstar D’Banj’s viral song, “Oliver Twist” is finally here. The video features cameo appearances of G.O.O.D music’s owner Kanye West and his crew (including Mannie Fresh, Big Sean, Will I am, Keisha Buchanan, etc.). However, Don Jazzy, is not in this video and it is the first time you see a dbanj video without Don baba J. I guess we will no longer be hearing “Don Jazzy again” from D’Banj.
The Koko Master was signed into Kanye’s GOOD Music Label in 2011. This recent video, “Oliver Twist” is a combination U.S hip-hop and Afro-beats. “Oliver Twist” is a novel written by British author, Charles Dickens. In the novel, Oliver Twist was never satisfied and for that reason, always asks for more just like D’banj sings he likes, Omotola, Genevieve, Beyonce, Rihanna and many more.
During the weekend, Don Jazzy tweeted that some of the rumors his fans have been hearing are true. He talked about the end of a long era and the beginning of a new one. The self acclaimed Don did not mention exactly what was true but many have guessed it is the end of his collaboration with the “Koko Master.”
Before Don Jazzy’s tweet, D’Banj had an interview with Ebony Magazine and stated that he was the owner of Mohits and Don Jazzy was his artist.
On the bright side, their friends would consoled with the saying that “nothing last forever”. The only thing that is permanent in life is change. Ww are wishing the both of them a brighter and bigger career!!! God luck guys!!!
For about nine years now, producer Don Jazzy and Artist D’banj have been the core center of the Mohits record label. However, there has been rumours flying about that the duo are about to or have separated and ready to go their seperate ways. Not long ago, D’Banj had an interview with Ebony Magazine in which he stated “I own Mohits, Don Jazzy is my artist.” That statement got fans and blogs talking.
As if that is not enough, Don Jazzy tweeted the tweets below on his twitter page saying some of the rumors are true. So, the question on everyone’s lip at the moment is, “Mohits – Is This the End of D’Banj and Don Jazzy’s collaboration?”
Stay glued while we get you the latest development on this issue.
As the likes of Kirk Frankin, Mary Mary, and KiKi Sheard have shown, “inspirational” isn’t just for the grown folk. This being an ethos and torch which burns brightly with Londoner Leké Akinyemi.
A staple in the ever-renown Writeway Music collective, the 21 year old serves up rousing new single ‘Rodeo’. It’s a stellar introduction to the talent which resides in the budding star; and one which should go some way furthering his cause beyond the Gospel arena.
‘Rodeo’ hits iTunes on March 19th.
Transcript of Lyrics
VERSE 1
For some time I’ve been meaning to holla
Thinking what this life’s gonna follow
Couldn’t tell you where my heart’s been
Not sure where I’m going
There’s a lot of pride I gotta swallow
No longer bout the Pounds & the dollar
But to Experience perfection
To experience Heaven
CHORUS
I know I ain’t running this race alone
I’ll search with my heart & find you
And when I find you I’ll know
That although life is a rodeo
I’ll search with my heart & find you
And when I find you I will never let go
VERSE 2
I told the world that you were my lover
Sadly I latched to another
And another one after that
Rekindle what we had
My mind is running & running straight to the grave
I feel like You don’t wanna see my face
I need to know that you never let you go
In the first place
CHORUS
I know I ain’t running this race alone
I’ll search with my heart & find you
And when I find you I’ll know
That although life is a rodeo
I’ll search with my heart & find you
And when I find you I will never let go
VERSE 3
If time flies I’m flying 1st class
Dreaming that this economy state of mind would boom blast out my past
Out of my present, out of my future
There’s no space for you to bar me, return to loser
See I ain’t saying this saying’s sake
I need God to reign in me, my brolly’s been keeping me dry for too long
I need to be drenched, soaked, saturated
Till your Word comes dripping out my skin, I got a calculation
Rather my time read quarter to destruction
Than death minutes past for eternity
Thought’s burning me
Knowing I had time but man wasted it
Missed my dates with Heavenly patriots
And hope’s a dream
Jesus freeing them & not knowing me
But the mighty rushing wind King up In His Glory
Is a risen Standard that my eyes shall see
Heaven’s the Mark, Christ is the key
Flesh has to die
I can’t live in shades of grey OAP
’Break My Heart’ hit-maker Estelle has certainly been seen making her rounds in support of her latest effort ‘All Of Me’ (which hit stores late February). Landing many-a-magazine feature, her latest comes in the form of Vibe Vixen where the U.K.’er earned covergirl status for its March digital issue.
While imparting info on her critically acclaimed offering, the brazen Brit also gave her two cents on the hot topic that was Rihanna and Chris Brown‘s reunion ‘Birthday Cake’ reunion.
As fans may know, Brown and his longtime friend/fellow Virginian Trey Songz both play guest star on Estelle’s ‘All Of Me’ track ‘International (Serious)’. And much like Songz, the ‘American Boy’ singer came to the defense of her American collaborator. Find out her thoughts below:
” I feel like Chris is an incredible singer, musician, dancer, entertainer, and brain box as far as business and that’s why I respect him and that’s where we meet at because I have nothing else to go on.”
”I get it, I understand, and I get the effects for young women. I can’t speak on it because I wasn’t there. Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids. Don’t let us raise your children. That’s my take on it,” she explains. “I respect him, I love him, he does amazing music, and has evolved. He’s worked his ass off, so why are people still crucifying him?”
It seems that Estelle thinks the media, and us as outsiders looking in, are too hard on Chris. When we asked, she said, “I just think people need to worry about their lives per say. Don’t worry about who he’s recording songs, who he’s doing this with if you enjoy the music. A lot of the same people were two stepping to ‘Look At Me Now,’ so it’s kind of like, keep your story straight or just don’t judge. Roll with it or don’t, but don’t dip in and out. We all make mistakes. A sin is a sin is a sin. It’s no big smoke, let the boy live. He does music.”
While everyone is buzzing about Jason Russell his naked meltdown in San Diego, we are going to take a look at some of the charming African styles that were showcased by Kiki Clothing at the just concluded Arise Magazine Fashion Week Lagos, in Nigeria.
African fashion and the ankara print fabric is becoming very popular. The ankara fabric, which was normally used for making traditional African clothing that were not practical to wear to work, for a casual outing, to a dinner party ad several other situation, is now hip and can be used to make almost any style one can think.
One of those African designers making this change possible is Kiki clothing, below are some of the charming African styles that were designed by the brand and rocked on the runway by models. Check them all out and see which one will fit your looks and personality. Good luck!!!
What do you think of these charming African styles that were showcased by Kiki Clothing at Arise Magazine Fashion Week Lagos 2102? Did you find any piece that you think you can rock and kill it? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
Back to Jason Russell, TMZ has a footage of “Kony 2012” honcho Jason Russell in the midst of his naked meltdown in San Diego … pounding his fists in anger and screaming maniacally.
As previously reported by TMZ, Russell was detained by police yesterday … after witnesses say he was running around naked and making sexual gestures.
Russell was held on a 5150 psychiatric hold … so authorities can decide if he poses a danger to himself or others.
A representative for Invisible Children says Russell was suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition as a result of a strenuous PR campaign.
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Here is the Guardian UK review of the Arise Fashion Week that was organised in Lagos. The write up by Eleanor was titled “Lagos fashion week: putting Africa on the fashion map”.
Amid the gridlock, the power cuts and the pay rows, African designers and models are making their mark on the fashion world.
The stress of travelling to shows at any fashion week can be compounded by bad traffic. Arrive late for a show and you may not get in and have to – God forbid! – watch it online. However, take this as gospel: you have never seen traffic until you go to Lagos in Nigeria, where I was for the Arise Magazine Lagos fashion week.
Here, a scheduled 10-minute journey can (and frequently did) take well over an hour. Cars form giant segmented beasts that chug along the potholed roads at glacial speed among packed buses and open-backed trucks with dozens of construction workers riding them like surfboards. It’s worlds away from being stuck in a taxi on the Champs-Elysées and, if you are prone to motion sickness as I am, quite tortuous. Especially in 35C heat with 80% humidity that, when you finally do open the car door, feels like you’re walking into a casserole.
The event itself was as chaotic as the main road outside its location: a series of tents outside a fancy hotel that foreign visitors nicknamed the “fashion cruise liner” because it resembled an enormous P&O ferry, swarming with fashion buyers, designers and journalists. The shows started almost two days late, due to problems with electricity – power outages are widespread in a city that largely depends on generators for power. So, with 77 African or African-influenced designers (including British labels David David and PPQ) scheduled to show, this meant quite a backlog.
Rumours circulating among designers staying at my hotel suggested delays were also due to local models storming out in protest when they learned that the international models were being remunerated substantially better than they were. And this wasn’t the only model-related issue. Upon arriving at the hotel from the airport, our rooms weren’t available due to a “clerical error”. The real reason? An international model agency offered to pay more for the booked rooms – 26 in total – and got them. That is, we were told, just how it works in Lagos, so we were moved elsewhere. It’s funny now but, after a bilious journey from the airport, patience was fraying.
When the shows finally began, the atmosphere was extraordinary. One of the marked differences to the major fashion weeks was just how many local people populated the audiences. In Milan, Paris and London, the public barely gets a look-in. Here, it’s all about the public. Seating was a first-come, first served affair so, along with the international buyers and journalists, the front rows were full of ridiculously glamorous people (mostly women) dancing animatedly along to the show music and rising from their chairs to applaud designers.
Glamour is something the women of Lagos do inimitably; their dresses come in fabrics the colours of the rainbow, their made-up faces are immaculate, and their nails – long and sculpted – are covered in jewels the colours of the ocean, reflecting the catwalk spotlights. They’re not messing around. In a sweaty T-shirt, with my hair having its ultimateMonica-from-Friends-in-Barbados moment, I’ve never felt dowdier. I asked a girl in the toilets how long it had taken her to get ready. “Three and a half hours,” she said, slicking her lips with more violet lipgloss.
Designers have had a love affair with Africa for decades, from 60s YSL to Derek Lam’s S/S 12 shows, but Nduka Obaigbena (aka The Duke), the Nigerian media mogul who publishes the This Day newspaper and Arise Magazine, and who funded the whole week as well as paying for more than 300 international visitors, sees Lagos fashion week as essential for putting Africa on the fashion map proper. “We are demonstrating that Africans can contribute, be the best and be world class,” he said, wafting around the crowds in a billowing white gown, martini in hand. “This is about putting Africa on the map.”
One of the standout designers, Central Saint Martins-educated menswear designer Buki Akib – who is hopefully showing in London next year – concurs, but says it’s also about Africa “losing its novelty factor.” Being an African designer should simply be about where you’re from. “Anyone can copy African design,” she tells me in the back of a car, “but hopefully platforms like this will show the industry that African designers can fit in internationally without having to be a separate entity.”
Her collection, based on intricately patterned monochrome knitwear with metallic leather panels and big, swooshy boxing gowns, was one of the most accomplished of all the shows I saw. Other highlights were Bestow Elan, a British Ghanaian whose chic, feminine dresses came splashed with vibrant, Christopher Kane-like prints and large plaited collars. Loza Maleombho was another high point, debuting a diverse collection inspired by traditional Afghan wear and the nomadic Tuareg people of the Sahara, but using the Ankara print fabric that’s hugely popular in Nigeria.
The main attraction of the event for many was Ozwald Boateng, the British couturier with Ghanaian parents and the first black tailor to move to Savile Row back in 1995, who presented a mostly black-and-white, super-masculine collection inspired by a trip to Japan he made in 1990 when he was starting out. At the end of the show, which closed the week, he got a standing ovation as he saluted and danced his way around the U-shaped runway.
It was a perfect distillation of the spirit of the whole week – where fashion creates a collective experience, rather than one of isolation. I met women from all over West Africa – from Ghana, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – who travelled to Lagos to see the shows. “We love fashion and come to be inspired,” said one, “and to support our sisters.”
The local fashion industry is still in its infancy, though, and it remains to be seen whether the African models will break through internationally. Certainly, the ones I spoke to backstage all want to, and were inspired by the presence of South Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek, now in her mid-30s, who modelled for designer Tiffany Amber, but they all have to keep day jobs to sustain themselves. As the week progressed, I felt ashamed of how few African models – whose frames are lean and muscular compared to the near-skeletal Europeans – there are in the fashion industry. It’s absurd.
The Nigerian models’ chances may be slimmer still with Obaigbena’s announcement that the next Arise fashion week may happen in Cape Town or Nairobi. It makes sense to move somewhere where fashion is the only focus, not maintaining an electrical supply. But I have a sneaking suspicion that Lagos fashion lovers may convince him otherwise. Despite their obstacles with power supplies and resources, designers across the country are determined to make their mark.
Beyonce takes her newly born, baby Blue Ivy Carter out for a stroll in New York City. Also with them was her mother Tina Knowles, who is Ivy Blue’s grand mother.
The debut collection from Prey Of London pays homage to the late-night London girl. The cult appeal flirts with a vintage rock attitude. Cue dark make-up, messy hair, super-skinny trousers, over-sized knitted tops, flashes of leather garb, black chiffon and an unruly attitude.
The Autumn Winter 2012 collection comprised of asymmetric dresses, high-waist leather shorts, over-sized knitted tops, cropped biker jackets and body-con dresses.
Whitney Houston daughter, Bobbi Kristina is in a relationship with Nick Gordon – the adopted son of Whitney Houston, ‘The Sun Magazine confirmed. The reporter said, Bobbi Kristina and Gordon’s relationship started when Gordon started living with the singer about ten years ago. Initially, Gordon was never officially adopted by Whitney but she had regarded him as her own son.
Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon do not consider themselves as brothers and sisters, regardless of Whitney Houston’s motherly love for both children. The report by the Hollywood Life site confirmed that Bobbi Kristina and 22 years old Nick Gordon, were spotted walking hand-in-hand last weekend while they were shopping.
Two eyewitnesses told Hollywood Life that they have even kissed, “Bobbi was kissing him on the mouth and holding hands. In addition, they were laughing and smiling and seemed so happy, according to eyewitnesses.
The Houston’s families are worried about the relationship. Grandmother Cissy has asked Nick Gordon to leave the family home in Atlanta ,but the young man has refused to go away.
Below is a Tweet in which Gordon confirmed they are in a relationship. According to his tweet “Yeah, we got a little closer and what!!!”
And here is a follower “Chloe Melas” asking if they were dating?
The Koko Master was signed into Kanye’s GOOD Music Label in 2011. This recent video, “Oliver Twist” is a combination U.S hip-hop and Afro-beats. “Oliver Twist” is a novel written by British author, Charles Dickens. In the novel, Oliver Twist was never satisfied and for that reason, always asks for more just like D’banj sings he likes, Omotola, Genevieve, Beyonce, Rihanna and many more.
