NYE cancelled in DUBAI

wooow.. my uncle just sent me this a second ago...

"Sheikh Mohammed has ordered the cancellation of NYE celebrations.



New Year's Eve celebrations have been cancelled in Dubai. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered the cancellation of all forms of celebrations marking the New Year in Dubai emirate, as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

In support of the Palestinians in Gaza Sheikh Mohammed has instructed all concerned authorities in Dubai to put this order in place and take necessary procedures to circulate the decision to all concerned parties.."

Sheikh Mohammed=not wavey

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While, everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone."


Went to check this out last night, what a great movie.. Kinda long but you dont even notice, its one of those movies that you almost don't want to end..Brad Pit is born with a disease where he ages backwards. When he's born his mother dies during labor and his Father abandons him on a doorstep. The movie follows his trials and tribulations, from birth to death. Its told from the POV of 'Daisy' as she's dying in a hospital bed during Katrina in New Orleans. Daisy is the character played by Cate Blanchett, who Pitt is in love with from the moment they met at a young age. This is def one of my favorite movies of 08. There's so many great quotes from this movie I couldnt remember, cant wait for it to come out on dvd. If you havent seen it already go check it out! Hit me up maybe i'll go again lol To anyone who's seen it, what is the relevence of hurricane katrina?


Some good quotes:

"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit… start whenever you want… you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

"we are defined by opportunities. even the ones we miss...."

Sickamore Interview..

For your listening pleasure. This is an interview done by Prolifik who runs a national radio show that airs in the biggest markets in the US. Dope Interview....

Colin & Fnk 12-12-2008

2009 Spring/Summer Nike Look book

Looks dope, Congrats to my girl Christina of the famous firm (second from the right)!

5 am Thoughts Part 1

Is it better to spend every second of your free time with a beautiful girl that you love... or spending every second of your free time running around with your closest friends doing the things you love...? It seems there is no medium..Sure there's that girl that goes out every night but who really wants that? You're in a relationship partly because you wanted to settle down.

"God damn she's fine but she parties all the time.." smh I think i should get that tattoo somewhere on me lol

I feel that naturally I am always trying to out do myself.. and in some ways this is a great trait but also in others its the worst.

For example:
I once worked at wendy's, but wendy's wasn't good enough so I went to Best Buy, Best Buy didn't pay me enough so I started doing misc construction work. That wasnt good enough either, then we built the bar..I thought about this in the lobby of atlantic records, waiting to go into a meeting with sickamore..GOOD

Here it is again:
I once dated a beautiful girl, but instead of focusing on how great she was and how much she loved me I focused more on how I could get a prettier girl, with better style and a better personality.. now i have no girl. BAD very bad. Im constantly searching for BETTER.

you see what im saying?

I read a couple of weeks ago in a book that peoples success is based of off what month of the year they were born in. The author backed it up with great facts, but i wonder... Is this really true? Was I born to be successful because my birthday is in February?

All I want for christmas is....

YOU!!

LOL I gotta stop posting these so I dont look like a psycho when I meet her... If you're on here reading one day and all my Mila posts disappear, you know what that means.....

Soooooner or Later it all comes...

One of my fav songs of '08... DOPE!

Jay Z & Leo Dicaprio came to see Colin

"So hot newbies Wale and Collin Monroe performed at the Highline Ballroom on Wednesday and none other than Jim Jones gave a surprise performance. What we didn’t know was that Jay-Z was in the balcony with Leonardo Dicaprio enjoying the show."

Shyne po...

Cant wait for shyne to get released, one of my favorite artists...

Colin in todays paper

"When young wannabe rock stars/rappers/songwriters try to create something new by making a bouillabaisse of all possible influences, the potential for poisonous stinkage is through the roof. Every once in a while, though, artists like New London's Flowers and Kain or breaking Canadian sensation Colin Munroe offer great hope for the whole concept of stylistic cut and paste.

Munroe is on a brief preparatory tour in anticipation of the January release of “Don't Think of Me as Less,” his debut major label release for Universal Motown. He appears Friday at Hanafin's Irish Pub in New London.

And Flowers and Kain open the show. This could be really great.

Munroe, with his yearning, Howie Day-style pop melodies and truly clever approach to urban music arrangement and production, has already garnered the endorsement of such folks as Kanye West, MTV, and Pitchfork Media. The songs are fresh and fun to listen to, whether on a dance floor or over headphones.

And we already know Flowers and Kain deserves similar national attention.

- RICK KOSTER

Colin Munroe, Flowers and Kain, 8 p.m. Fri., Hanafin's Irish Pub, 310 State St., New London; $10; 437-9724, hanafinspub.com"

CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE

Jim Jones stole my guest list spots

Heres some video from the overly sold out show last night at Highline ballroom in nyc. The roster was Colin Munroe, Kid Cudi, Mark Ronson, and Wale and Guest performers included; Jim Jones, Freeway, Young Chris and a few others.. The show was so sold out that there were literally hundreds of people standing outside trying to get in. It sucked because I was on the guest list but the Russian Mafia promoters shut down the guest list and wouldnt let me bring anyone else in with me. So I ran inside for like 10 minutes to check it out... Anyway heres some video, shout out to Double G@Q105 digiwax media and Nah Right.com

Jim Jones And Colin backstage


Jones and Kid Cudi


Freeway, Young Chris and Wale

You can catch me in the city where the skinny....

This is gonna be a dope show tonight... Im excited to check out Mark Ronson. He's one of my favorite producers...See you there!

What I was reading yesterday and today...

Outliers - The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell



"It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. Its the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And its the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call 'accumulative advantage."


Dope book, def a must read!! My barnes and noble guru Sickamore put me on.

BROOKLYN WE GO HARD!

JAY Z FT SANTOGOLD - BROOKLYN WE GO HARD (CLICK HERE)
Produced by Kanye for the upcoming film "notorious"


"Tomorrow...The sun dont come out for many, like anne.."

Blahh.. Jay musta wrote that shit while he was racin bugattis in monaco.....WHERES ICEBERG SLIM?!

been twitterin since 07

My first twit was aug 22, 2007.. Who knew it woulda blown up like it did.. I shoulda bought that stock lol     

Update:  Still taking over the world... Emergency Rooms are for old heads, pulled the 12 stitches outta my hand with tweezers from cvs. 

My drop tops in the parkin lot and i wanna take....

I know im a little late on posting this but when I was down at asylum/badboy last week with mike and sick we were lookin over the slim cd credits. This is a great look and made me feel real good about the progression we're making.. The firm boys in the buildin tonight! ooowww

Thanksgiving

I usually never have too much fun on holidays, they're normally boring but this past thanksgiving was much different.. Wednesday night I worked at the bar till 1am.. It was PAAACKED from 9 till 1 you couldnt move, It was a beautiful thing. The beer and liquor couldnt pour fast enough. All my friends and fam were there for the most part and everyone was having a great time. When one o'clock rolled around the party was just getting started so we all went back to Fausto's spot to finish the night off. Heres some video and pictures from what went on..

J, Peedi, And Me
Cassie and Me
Theresa and Peedi
Me and Quad

Videos comin soon...Shout out to everyone that was partyin with us!! Josh, Niko Fausto, Geza, V, Theresa and Peedi, Q, Rod, Cassie, J and Maria, Hansen, Mech, Melissa and everyone else I mighta forgot..

So after the best night of the year so far, I was sitting with Geza, Fausto and the rest of the fam about to eat thanksgiving dinner and It got me thinkin... What more could I ask for? Why waste so much time and energy on negative people when I have the best people in the world already on my side...I have so much to be thankful for: My friends and Family, the bar, Sickamore and all my Famous Family: Jay, Nina, Mike, Sterling, Hovain, Phella, Sakwe, Sean, Christina, Markus, Aaron, Nisarg, Jaz and Bash..

Follow my lead!

Viva Las Vegas!

Decided Saturday night I was gonna slide out to Vegas for a couple days, get some stuff done, work from the macbook, chill out by the pool, drink mojitos, catch some shows etc etc you get the idea.. So I closed the bar Saturday at 2, ran to my apartment filled the louis bag with V necks, swimmin shorts, and sunblock and jumped in the charger. Hit a little traffic in the BX but nothin crazy enough to stop the wave.. So I run up in JFK get to gate 1 and hop on the plane.. Put the new Kanye on repeat, put my seatbelt on and start to zone out.. As we're in line to take off the plane starts moving then POW it sounds like we crash.. The TAIL FALLS OFF THE PLANE...wow, everyone starts spassin out, they tow us back to a gate, we evacuate the plane everyone back into the terminal and I retreat to the bar.. 6 hours later we take off.....VIIIIVA LAS VEGAS!


Checked out Chris Angels show... which was a mistake, what a snooze fest

Stayed at Treasure Island so the pool was extra wavey, it was around 80-85 everyday so I was prefect pool weather..Hit up this DOPE russian bar called RED SQUARE in Mandalay Bay

The bar is named after the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world. The decor inside was crazy, and the bar was made of ice.. They have a "vodka room" where if you buy a bottle you go into this special room, which is actually a cooler, and drink the bottle wearing a russian fur coat and hat because its 0 degrees inside..Big mistake lol I got TWISTED! and got a cold..

Ran into Chuck Zito, celebrity body guard/Actor/Former president of the hells angels...you might recognize him from the HBO series OZ.

But the highlight of this trip was watching Mr. Las Vegas aka Wayne Newton's show. Seeing him talk about the rat pack and sinatra from a round table drinking champagne 10 feet away made my year....

The Unsung Hero

Colin Murnoe Is The Unsung Hero produced by The Famous Firm

COLIN MUNROE IS THE UNSUNG HERO MIXTAPE & TOUR DATES


NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 12, 2008 – In anticipation of the release of his debut LP, Don’t Think Less of Me, via Universal Motown in early 2009, artist/producer Colin Munroe has put the finishing touches on a 14-track mixtape, Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero, slated for digital release on December 1, 2008.

Produced in partnership with Sickamore & The Famous Firm, the mixtape was crafted over a two-month period in Dallas Austin’s Atlanta-based recording studio, the project includes appearances by Wale, Mickey Factz, Joell Ortiz, Blaqstarr and Skyzoo and showcases Colin’s wide-ranging influences, from a revox of Bob Dylan’s “Who Killed Davey Moore” to a remake of Q-Tip’s J-Dilla-produced “Fever”. Munroe supplied the bulk of the production with additional contributions by Detroit’s Black Milk and Dallas Austin.

Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero will be available for download on Monday December 1, 2008 via www.unsunghero.tv as well as OnSmash.com. The first release from the set, the “Will I Stay Remix feat. Wale & Dallas Austin” will be available online November 19, 2008.

In support of the mixtape, Colin has scheduled the following tour dates with Atlanta duo Proton. URB Magazine is the official media partner of the December 2 through December 6 dates.

12-02 Toronto, ON – Tranzac Club w. Proton

12-03 Los Angeles, CA – Viper Room w. Proton

12-04 New York, NY – Studio @ Webster Hall w. Proton

12-06 Atlanta, GA – Lenny’s w. Proton & Spree Wilson

12-09 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom (supporting Wale, Mark Ronson (DJ Set) & KiD CuDi)

12-12 New London, CT – Hanafins Pub w. Flowers & Kain


IM SELLING TICKETS STARTING MONDAY (17th of Nov) THERE IS ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE SO HIT ME UP IF YOU WANT ONE!! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A MAJOR ARTIST (Universal/Motown) IS PLAYING AT A BAR DOWNTOWN, COME BE PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!

I NEED THESE WATCHES!!

Spotted this on Steve O's blog.. I love automatic watches



This nixon gold watch is soo 80's dope.. very lupe fiasco-ish...

Kanye West conference call

So i was on this Def Jam conference call this afternoon with Ace hood, DJ Khaled, and Kanye West (shout out to hov and nisarg) The point of the call was to promote and discuss kanye's new project "808s and heartbreak.." Here's a little bit of what was said on the call via thisis50...

Current Mood...

Just how im feelin at the time..

I GOTTA MAKE HISTORY

NEW JAY




"Success is like lust... she's good to the touch,
she's good for the moment but she's never enough
everybody's had her, she's nothin like b..
but success is all I got, unfortunately.."

HOW COULD YOU BE SOO HEARTLESS...

Lovin this...

Heartless from kwest on Vimeo.


THEY DONT KNOW BOUT ME AN YOU!




fixed

Cant do new things with old phones...

Yessir, bye bye iPhone.. November is definitely a time for change! I think when they dropped the price of the iPhone and every 90's baby and their cousin bought one it left a sour taste in my mouth...It took away the classy-ness of the phone and turned it into the new sidekick.. I paid half a stack for mine, and if you count the new one i bought after loosing my first one that=$1000.00/ONE STACK. How am I supposed to look wavey when every little ham an cheese eatin 15 year old is running around with one?


Soo after an hour on google and cingular.com I introduce........

"Good Lovin" Behind the scenes

"GOOD LOVIN" STARRING SLIM, FABOLOUS, RYAN LESLIE, SICKAMORE AND THE FAMOUS FIRM...

here's some behind the scenes clips of the video shoot courtesy of Sickamore and cee the photographer





For more video and pictures click here

What if.....

Flowers & Kain Photoshoot

Here's some quick photo's of the photo-shoot with the famous firm and flowers & kain..It was FREEZING in bed sty and even worse in manhattan but besides the cold weather the shoot was a great success. Shout out to kieno the stylist and Aston the super photographer for making the band look mega fly. Shout out to Nisarg for screamin on the bougie eastern european doorman that was body bluffin and tryin to stop us from shooting!! LOL big up to Fausto for pushin the whip around the city and keepin the girls entertained!!! ENJOY!

Move Over Mila

Just spotted Stacy Keibler in the new maxim.. holey moley






Its all good tho, I still love you mila

Laugh Out Loud Mondays

Obama / Mccain Dance Off



Terry Tate/ Sarah Palin: READING IS FUNDAMENTAL

The 10 Freshmen

If you havent already, you should check out the new XXL featuring the 10 hottest rappers that are next up. The magazine will come out with 3 different covers, kinda like the pharell/cassie edition. Whats dope about this is that The Famous Firm will be working with some of these artists in the coming months. Google them or search myspace for them. The issue includes; Mickey Factz, Charles Hamilton, Wale, B.o.B., Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, Curren$y, Ace Hood, Corey Guns, and Blu.





Im personally feelin kid cudi, mickey factz, Charles Hamilton and B.o.B the most.. pause.


PS CHECK OUT KID CUDI ROCKIN KANYES NEW SNEAKER COLLAB WITH NIKE "Nike Air Yeezy."

SHOUT OUT TO JEN THE PEN!

Today...

Heres whats on the table today.. in more ways than one...

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to build a product or service into a world-class brand.



Flowers & Kain is a reggae/hiphop /rock band from New London that Im working on with sickamore and the famous firm.

Got the cd on repeat on my phone, laptop, and car..