Saturday, August 25, 2012

Rick Ross shoots ‘Hold me back’ video in Lagos


 







Rick Ross announced via micro-blogging site Twitter on Friday, August 17, 2012, that while in Lagos for his Summer Jam Fest performance, he would use the opportunity to shoot a music video.

The Maybach Music boss kept true to his words as he went to the streets of Obalende, specifically Sura market area, to film the Nigerian version of his single ‘Hold me back‘. ‘Hold me back’ is a single off Rozay’s recently released fifth album ‘God Forgives, I Don’t‘.

Filming in the slums in Lagos.i just bought out the whole grocery store and gave it to the village. #MMG presence strong in our homeland‘, @rickyrozay tweeted.

The shoot, directed by Maybach Music official films director Spiff TV, started at about 1PM and lasted for 2 hours. ‘Nigeria!!! We In The Streets‘, @SPIFFTvFilms tweeted.

The US version of  ’Hold me back‘ was released in July and generated controversy when it got banned by music network BET.


 Rick Roos on stage at the Summer Jam Fest in Lagos NIGERIA
Rick Ross and some NIGERIAN stars at the summer jam feast in Lagos NIGERIA 

“Waving Flag ” crooner, K’Naan to publish children’s book



 





Somalia-Canadian singer, K’Naan “Waving Flag is set to publish a book for children that will talk about his life.
The book ‘When I Get Older’ is the story behind K’Naan’s global hit ‘Wavin Flag and will be released in Canada and United States of America in hardcover and as an eBook, on Tuesday, September 25, 2012.
When I Get Older talks about the rapper’s immigration to Canada and escape from the Somalian conflict. The hardcover and eBook will also include lyrics and sheet music of the musician’s hit song  ‘Wavin Flag’ in a 32-page, full-colour book illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez.
Now 34 and a successful father-of-two, K’Naan began his career with a chaotic start while growing up in Somalia. After the outbreak of the 1991 civil war in Somalia, his family fled to begin a new life in Canada.
I think of empathy as a muscle in the soul, which develops through the nutrition we provide for it. The stories we hear as children can be that nutrition, said K’Naan in a press statement.
I wanted to write a children’s story that reflects the new immigrant’s sense of family and identity, which can sometimes be lost in translation. In this book, the main character is ‘Wavin Flag’ a song whose ownership has been long claimed by children all over the world.
The book’s release comes at a perfect time, as the musician will also be releasing his third album, ‘Country, God or the Girl’, this September.
K’Naan’s ‘Wavin flag’ was chosen by Coca-Cola as promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA world cup.
crooner, K’Naan to publish children’s book
Somalia-Canadian singer, K’Naan “Waving Flag is set to publish a book for children that will talk about his life.
The book ‘When I Get Older’ is the story behind K’Naan’s global hit ‘Wavin Flag and will be released in Canada and United States of America in hardcover and as an eBook, on Tuesday, September 25, 2012.
When I Get Older talks about the rapper’s immigration to Canada and escape from the Somalian conflict. The hardcover and eBook will also include lyrics and sheet music of the musician’s hit song  ‘Wavin Flag’ in a 32-page, full-colour book illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez.
Now 34 and a successful father-of-two, K’Naan began his career with a chaotic start while growing up in Somalia. After the outbreak of the 1991 civil war in Somalia, his family fled to begin a new life in Canada.
I think of empathy as a muscle in the soul, which develops through the nutrition we provide for it. The stories we hear as children can be that nutrition, said K’Naan in a press statement.
I wanted to write a children’s story that reflects the new immigrant’s sense of family and identity, which can sometimes be lost in translation. In this book, the main character is ‘Wavin Flag’ a song whose ownership has been long claimed by children all over the world.
The book’s release comes at a perfect time, as the musician will also be releasing his third album, ‘Country, God or the Girl’, this September.
K’Naan’s ‘Wavin flag’ was chosen by Coca-Cola as promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA world cup.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

26 year-old girl who had 26 abortions tells her sex stories







I am 26 years old. I simply got into sex out of ignorance like millions of young people today. My addiction placed me as the highest abortionist in the world at age of 26 and now, I have a sad story to tell.
Until I found myself in a total mess, I never really had any Idea what premarital sex was all about. I never knew it was so useless and killing. Before I got into it, I use to think it was some fun and I dreamt of it more often than not. I wished with all my heart to have a boyfriend whom we would explore it together, little did I know that I was being nasty to myself.
Because of things I see on TV and magazine, I thought having sex was so much fun, I fantasized about it each time I felt lonely. Only if I had known that everything I see in movies and soap operas were just acting and make belief; only if I had known that there is nothing in sex after all, the only thing in it is self destruction; I think my life wouldn’t be this miserable.


It’s a pity i really had to learn the hard way and I really wish I had never been born, I wish I had not come out into this deceitful world where nobody cares about young people, all the so called adults do is how they would play on the intelligence of young people in a bid to exploit and use them to satisfy their insatiable sexual passion. I really feel bad about this wicked world.
My plight started when I was sixteen, then I was still a virgin and in secondary school, I was ignorant of many things but because I see it every day on the TV and internet. More so, a couple of so called Anti AIDS people visited us in school a couple of times for lectures, but all they did was introduce sex to us even more because they really had nothing but condoms to show.
Fine, they told us about AIDS, but at the same time, they also told us about condoms, they never really said anything real about sex, they said we could contact AIDS not through sex, but unprotected sex, which means there was nothing wrong with sex as long as you could use condoms, but all of that I now know very well are lies, and I wonder why men and women would enjoy telling teenagers deadly lies like that.
Even though I can’t blame those people totally for my plight because they weren’t really the ones that said I should go into sex, I still never forgive them for encouraging me and other young people like me into sex with their preaching of protected sex or condom. Even though I wanted to see what sex was really like and I fantasized about it, some were within me, I was still very scared of what may happen to me afterwards if l tried it, and it was that fear that actually kept me away from it until I was sixteen.
By the time I was sixteen, my fantasy had gotten enough boost to express itself with reliance to said to myself one day, “free yourself baby girl, there is nothing terrible in sex, can’t you see everyone is doing it, by the way, you can always use condoms nothing will happen”. So, I finally decided to let go of my fears and embrace in totality my silly fantasies, and that was how I took the very first step into this miserable life of illicit sex. I had absolutely no idea of what I was going into.
I finally agreed to date this guy who had been disturbing me for more than a year, his name was Andrew. Andrew was five years older than me. Both of us began enjoying sex, - we did it every seconds, every minute; - I became addicted that I do not love doing it with condom anymore. Within the period, I had 14 abortions for Andrew, and not only that, I cheated on him in several occasions, I felt doing it with other guys will give me better sensation but all were the same.
My school teacher got me and at the end of the day I had 6 abortions for him. And worst among was my sexual affairs with my close relations, which resulted to 5 abortions. Then I felt I was at the top of the world. I will never forgive my friends who introduced me into partying and sleeping with old men with potbelly and rough skin only in the name of sex.
Right now, all those men have gone, and then shadow of my past sexual life still follows me around. All this pills and tablets I took are now telling on my blood stream. At times I felt like committing suicide each time I remember what the doctor told me, “Tessy, I am sorry, your womb is automatically damaged on account of the several abortion you had”, “I’m sorry, you will never conceive again in your life, but just thank God, you don’t have HIV or AIDS”.
I therefore, advise every young girl reading this piece today, to over look every fantasy towards sex. Sex is good but it has time. And that is in marriage. Keep yourself away from men. Make friends with those who mean good for your future.