Drake Hits The Road

Instead of dropping an album in the early part of this year, Drake has decided to get in touch with his fans. “The Away From Home Tour” will hit college campuses and various other stops throughout the U.S., while spreading a message of sustainability. Drake’s tour bus will be equipped with biodiesel fuel and an eco-village will be created at each tour stop to educate concertgoers.

“The Away From Home Tour” Dates

April 6 – Charleston, IL – Eastern Illinois University
April 7 – Columbus, OH – Private Location
April 9 – State College, PA – Penn State University
April 10 – Boston, MA – Private Location
April 11 – Lock Haven, PA – Private Location
April 14 – East Lansing, MI – Michigan State University
April 15 – Rochester Hills, MI – Oakland University
April 16 – Morgantown, WV – West Virginia University
April 21 – Orlando, FL – University Central Florida
April 22 – Greenville, SC – Furman University
April 23 – TBA
April 24 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
April 26 – New Orleans, LA – University of Missouri-Kansas City
April 27 – Lexington, KY – University of Kentucky
April 29 – Lowell, MA – University Mass Lowell
April 30 – Syracuse, NY – Private Location
May 1 – Boston, MA – Private Location
May 4 – East Rutherford, NJ – Bamboozle Festival
May 5 – Towson, MD – Holy Cross
May 6 – Cheney, PA – Towson University
May 7 – Ithaca, NY – Private Location
May 8 – Plymouth, NH – Private Location

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Sperry Top-Sider 2010 Autumn/Winter

I will be getting the first pair. Photos from Ibn's blog.

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Black History Month Spotlight: Coleman Entrepreneurial Scholarship

Donald Coleman, Chairman of GlobalHue, the nation’s largest minority-owned, full-service marketing communications agency, announces the second year of the Coleman Entrepreneurial Scholarship. Designed to provide scholarships for African-American and Hispanic college students majoring or concentrating in entrepreneurship, the Coleman Entrepreneurial Scholarship will award up to 10 scholarships of $5,000 each.

“After a successful kick-off year in 2009, we thought that it was time to expand the CES reach and amplify our entrepreneurial message,” says Kelli Coleman, Vice President of Business Development at GlobalHue. “This year, we are offering scholarships to African-American and Hispanic students at all four-year accredited colleges and universities.”

For more information, visit www.thecolemanscholarship.org or call Scholarship Management Services at 1.800.537.4180 and ask for The Coleman Entrepreneurial Scholarship.

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Valentines Day Fresh

413 Edition Skytop Heartbreaker


Standard X Good Wood Red Jesus Piece


A Bathing Ape Love Baby Milo Tee

With the holiday approaching fast, here's some gift ideas for you ladies stuck on what to get that guy in your life.

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Congratulations Saints!!!!

I'm sure Drew Brees was listening to this all night! Who wants to go to N'awlins??

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Juelz Santana "I Wanna Rock" Freestyle

He went in real quick...CRACKISH!

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New Orleans Elects First White Mayor In 30 Years

Louisiana Lt. Gov, Mitch Landrieu was elected the first white mayor of the city of New Orleans since 1979, the year his father left office. Landrieu won 66% of the vote in what turned out to be a landslide over the other 10 mayoral candidates.

Landrieu lost to current term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin four years ago, but Nagin's popularity fell sharply in the years following Hurricane Katrina. Landrieu held his victory party at the Roosevelt hotel, which recently reopened after post-Katrina restoration. He had a brass band playing Mardi Gras music as he led a "Who Dat" chant for the Super Bowl bound New Orleans Saints.

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Black History Month Spotlight: AT&T 28 Days

AT&T is once again embarking on an incredible initiative developed around the celebration of Black History Month. Instead of solely focusing on the accomplishments of the past, AT&T is encouraging those celebrating Black History Month to focus on forward momentum. Through their online community (http://twentyeightdays.att.com), AT&T is providing a forum where users can create action plans, register to attend speaking engagements throughout February and engage in enlightened discussion.

Prominent speakers for the series include Russell Simmons (Washington D.C., 2/10), Jeff Johnson (Atlanta, 2/24), Laila Ali (Oakland, CA, 2/9) and Erin Patton (Chicago, 2/16).

Be sure to check out the wealth of information over at http://twentyeightdays.att.com.

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Don't Get Got: America's Biggest Rip-offs

1. Text Messaging: The messages cost carriers only about one-third of a cent to deliver, but typically cost 20 cents outgoing and 10 cents incoming for consumers, i.e. as much as a 6,500% markup.

2. Popcorn: Know that when you go to a movie, the popcorn is what is keeping your local movie house open for business. A medium bag of popcorn costs 60 cents to make, but on average retails for $6.

3. Freecreditreport.com: A service that continuously advertises it's free service had to be a rip-off, right? Well, it is. By signing up you are automatically enrolled in a 14.99 per month service that lasts for one year.

4. Brand Name Painkillers: A 50-ct bottle of Tylenol on average will cost you about 9 bucks, where as a generic painkiller will run you about $5. You are paying 60% more for the same thing. The FDA has requirements of generic drugs that they use the same active ingredients as the more expensive brand name offerings.

5. Restaurant Wine: "Restaurants mark up cheaper bottles by an average of three times the retail price, while the prices of higher end wines are typically doubled" says Ronn Wiegand, a master sommelier who runs the industry newsletter RestaurantWine. So that means a bottle of Sutter Home which costs $4 will run you about $12 or more.

See the full list of Rip-offs at CNN.

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Drake Covers Complex

Go Behind The Scenes for Drake's Complex Magazine shoot in Atlanta.


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I Miss the Halftime Show

Dear Superbowl Folks,

I'm one of the games biggest fans. I've been tuning in to the big game ever since I can remember. I was there for some of the highest highs, like when my favorite musician, Prince, murdered the halftime show with the Purple guitar. I was also there for one of the lowest lows, when Janet Jackson's milk-maker popped out of her shirt. Now I'll be honest, I was in college and at that age and I couldn't have been more excited about what I'd just seen. But now that I'm older, I understand the conservative reaction to the Superbowl's immediately following that one. The infamous wardrobe malfunction couldn't happen again, and I humbly agreed with that.

However, it's been years, six to be exact. We've suffered through Bruce Springsteen halftime shows, and this year we have to deal with The Who...who? Two things are synonymous with the Superbowl; halftime shows and commercials. Well the commercials suck now, but that's not your fault Superbowl people. However you do have control of the halftime performers, and I promise you everybody watching the game is not 45 or older. STOP with the middle aged rock and roll artists. There are plenty of people who can perform and not be as risque as Janet Jackson. I'll take Beyonce over Bob Dillan. I don't want to see the Bee Gee's, or Sting, or Elvis every year for the rest of my life.

Let's put some young blood back into the halftime show. The fans have suffered long enough. One booby don't stop no show.

Thanks,

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If You're So Perfect, Why Are You Single?

One thing that irritates me about a lot of single women is when they act as if having a boyfriend/fiance/husband is something that they're supposed to have. As if when they were born, God promised them a relationship by the time they turned 25. Then they'll use the tired excuses like, "all the good men are taken," as if they themselves are the definition of the perfect woman. You can be educated, independent, and have a job that pays you hundreds of thousands of dollars, but does that make you a good woman? Not particularly.

Single women have a habit of blaming the world for them being single instead of looking at themselves. They think that their "stats" make them a catch, and while on paper they may be appealing, a real man is looking for more than something that looks good on the surface. Dudes have been around long enough to know that pretty, long hair, and a nice body doesn't equal perfection. In sports, just because you're eligible to be drafted doesn't mean that a team wants you. Those players who aren't drafted continue to work on their game to make themselves a better player until the time comes where a team feels as if they can't let this player pass them up. In life, just because you're single doesn't mean men will be waiting at your doorstep begging you to be their next franchise player. So until then just work on your game, continue to make yourself a better, more well-rounded person, and eventually a man will come along and treat you as if he couldn't let you pass him by.

Instead of sitting around wondering when your man is going to come along, try sitting around and considering what you'll really be able to bring to the relationship when he does come. Some women, and people in general, convince themselves that they are the ideal person and that anybody who is with them should consider themselves lucky. Everybody who's single got there for a reason. Maybe they have problems with commitment, they're selfish, they're too much of a workaholic, or they're overbearing. Figure out why you're single and how you can work on that. Nobody is perfect, and nobody is entitled to being in a relationship, and as long as you think you're the perfect catch, you'll be sitting at home wondering why nobody is chasing after you in the first place.

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Kid Cudi Shows How To Make It In America

On the heels of his successful debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, Kid Cudi is set to start in the Mark Wahlberg produced HBO sitcom, How To Make It In America. The HBO series will center on the lives of young New Yorkers grinding to achieve success in the city that never sleeps. Tune in to How To Make It In America on February 14th at 10 PM.


























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Needs A Splash of Color

Is this how young Hollywood looks to you? According to Vanity Fair the new wave of talented actresses are extremely pale, scarily thin caucasian women.

Nobody over there thought that Zoe Saldana might be a good mention. She was only a star in the highest grossing film ever made (Avatar) and a co-star in last summers extremely well received Star Trek remake. Maybe Freida Pinto from the Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire could've gotten a nod for the issue. Possibly Gabourey Sidibe, who in her first role ever just received an Oscar nomination for Precious. Hell maybe even America Ferrera from the Emmy Award winning series Ugly Betty could have made it.

Mainstream America just showed the world once again that looking like you can star in one of those silly ass melodramatic vampire love stories is more important than recognizing actual talent. Hell two of the girls on the current cover were already featured on the "Hollywood's New Wave" issue from two years ago, so I'm sure there was room to swap them out.

My issue lies with the fact that it's still commonplace to believe that thin white and mildly attractive remains a better magazine seller than black/hispanic/asian and talented. I hate that when given an opportunity to do something different than what was previously done, the higher-ups still sign off on the norm. With only a few actresses of color who actually get respectable roles, it wouldn't have hurt Vanity Fair to include one in this issue, especially when there is a whole new crop of young up-and-coming minority actresses who would've been perfect for it.

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Kick Off Your Shoes & Relax Your Feet...

Who wouldn't want to call this home? All furniture by Cantoni.

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