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Jun
30
R.I.P to the G.O.A.T
Just Watch……
Check out an amazing Mixtape that Cabbie posted on his Facebook the other day.
Jun
30
Today our girl Karla turns 17, and its a big deal because not only does it mean she’s getting older and wiser but she sets an example, like “if i can do it, anyone can” type of thing. If you don’t know about Karla aka Hustlegrl…where have you been hiding? Check her out here
One of the hardest working Teens on the planet Karla means a lot to us here at iluvlola.net for this website is a product of her and Lolas creative minds. Shes part of the reason that myself and my fellow contributors have a place to say whats on our minds and share new music , videos, mixtapes etc.
Shes family.
So on behalf of everyone here at iluvlola.net we want to wish you the Best. The Best in Life , Love, and the best in Work. Keep shining and continue to work as hard as you do, the world is yours to conquer young miss!
Jun
29
The 9th annual BET awards were last night in Los Angeles & as expected, a last minute show overhaul was done to include various tributes to the King of Pop. Censoring snags & mild chaos aside, it was a decent show. I personally missed a lot of the 1st half but saw the aftermath/red carpet arrivals this morning on the blog circuit.
Jamie Foxx in one of many Michael Jackson tributes:
To my fellow Toronto people, y’all know we waited ALL NIGHT for this. (No Jimmy jokes, Owww about the torn ACL, get better!)
Afterparty interview. Shouts to 1 Love TO for posting the video! Drizzy!
Jun
29
The video for DOA premiered right after the BET awards last night. This is the first single off his highly anticipated September 11th release “The Blueprint 3″. Two Words: Hovi’s Home.
Jun
29
Our girl Melanie Fiona will be at the Mod Club on Thursday, July 2nd to support the relase of her album The Bridge. Having heard amazing things about her live showings on tour in Europe (with Kanye West), and her New York showcase in February, I’m amped to see this lady live!
Her album drops June 30th so be sure to support!
Date: Thursday July 2, 2009
Time: Doors open at 7:00pm/Performance 9:00pm
Location: MOD Club (722 College St)
*Free event, open to the public
*19+ event
RSVP on Facebook here
Jun
29
Off of 808s & Heartbreak. Is he going for full album video anthology status? I vote Robocop next!
Jun
27
DJ Cosinus all the way from Germany dropped his latest mix RNB 2 VOL. 5 – HOSTED BY MIKE BLESS (Click to Download)
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Jun
27
New Music: Skateboard Squeez – Slumber Party
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The homies Dirty Swift & Bruce Wayne over at Midi Mafia dropped this little mix not too long ago.
SKATEBOARD SQUEEZ – SLUMBER PARTY (Click to download)
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Jun
26
THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 27th
SOUTHERN SMOKE & GOSSIP SATURDAYS
Presents …
DJ SMALLZ
Live from FLORIDA
&
THE OFFICIAL RE-RELEASE OF THE DRAKE “Room For Improvement” ALBUM
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As part of the weekly Gossip Saturdays Live To Air FLOW 93.5
@ Home Nightclub
Super DJ/Producer and notably known for introducing Toronto’s hip hop sensation DRAKE to the mainstream. DJ SMALLZ is visiting Canada for the 1st time to give you a taste of the Miami Club life. This is a show you don’t want to miss.
Alongside Residents -
ILL KIDZ – PLATINUM TOUCH
And FLOW 93.5 Hosts -
Jus Red – Scott Boogie – Jeni
FREE Copies of DRAKE’s first Mixtape Album
Jun
26
Im posting this for my own selfish reasons..Danny Fernandes is FINE and having this video is just an opportunity for me to stare.
Not to discredit the song, or the video or the artist because all are equally amazing and the song is beautiful but..He’s Fine and hes one of those people that even if he weren’t talented you’d love him anyway, you’d turn your sound off and enjoy his fineness.
Theres a little bit for everyone in this the ladies get Danny and the fellas have the lovely females in the video.
soo without any further delay..Enjoy.
Jun
26
The homie Hustle is DJ’ing this weekend for Mickey Factz at the infamous Rock The Bells tour in Chicago. Being the Hustle luvs LOLA so much, he suggested Mickey do a drop for us! Mickey was all for it! Thanks homie!! Check him out on Rock The Bells in Chicago, Boston, DC, NYC, San Francisco & LA and make sure you follow his journey via his Twitter
Jun
26
DJ SKEE JUST PREMIERED THIS RECORD VIA HIS TWITTER AND I HAVEN’T STOPPED CRYING SINCE
BETTER ON THE OTHER SIDE - DIDDY, USHER, THE GAME, POLOW DA DON, MARIO WINANS, CHRIS BROWN, BOYZ II MEN
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Jun
26
I said to myself when Aaliyah died (and later when Luther Vandross passed) that I would be no good to anyone when someone (of celebrity status) I grew up with died. Someone who’s music I couldn’t get enough of … and that day has come. That “someone” I used as an example is gone.
By now the world knows that the Greatest to ever grace a stage, record music and dance has left us. Michael Jackson was only 50 years old. His death, like a few others over the past 10 or so years, is one where I’ll remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. It’s inevitable. Sure, I made MJ jokes over the years, sure I grappled with the thought he may indeed be guilty of child molestation but at the end of the day, I loved the man for what he did for my childhood. When I think about growing up in the 80’s (a REAL 80’s baby I was) I think about how much I was influenced by him. I even got my mom to make my hair like his. I dressed like him, I sang all his songs and my first record (actual vinyl) that I bought with my own money …. was Thriller.
I remember as a child being so in love with Michael Jackson. I had the biggest crush on him. When he took shorty on a date and he smiled at her in the theatre, that HUGE mega watt smile, I was like, damn I love him. I also remember being scared to DEATH of Thriller and that same smile once he started to howl at the moon – lol. I had a poster on my bedroom wall at the foot of my bed and after watching the video thoroughly for the first time, I used to imagine seeing Michael actually turning into a zombie. I convinced myself that if I looked at the poster at the wrong angle, he’d change. To this day, I swear the poster changed – lol. It wasn’t my imagination. It was magic. Michael is magic. This post is peppered with present and past tense. I find myself struggling to speak of him in the past tense. This is all still surreal to me.
There is a picture I NEED to find now. A picture that depicts me and my cousin when we were about 6 years-old. We were at the park and we each had on a white sparkled glove and I had on my red leather MJ jacket and a pin of Michael’s face. I have to find it because that picture would completely explain my love for this man and how he affected my childhood. I’ve always been a lover of music. Michael Jackson MADE me love music.
I remember when Remember the Time “world premiered” and staring at the TV in complete and utter AWE. He spun around and turned into gold DUST, yo! I remember learning the choreography and still knowing a lot of the moves today and just revelling in the synchronization. I did this for Smooth Criminal as well. So many times he amazed me. He never failed to impress.
In the last few years, especially once the allegations of child molestation started, Michael had become a joke. People made fun of his lifestyle, appearance and more. He was always quiet and shy and kept to himself but he was now a recluse. You have to remember this is a man that’s been in the spotlight since FIVE. He can’t remember what it’s like to be normal or live a normal life because he never HAD one. He died at 50. That’s 45 years of scrutiny, pressure, fame and God only knows what else. Michael always had my sympathies. Even as I laughed at the jokes I’d hear, a part of me always felt so sorry for him. I used to look at pics of the “old” Michael and tsk and say, “damn, Mike … look at what you did to yourself”. But then I always always remembered that he didn’t know what it was like to be anything other than entertainment. He didn’t know how to NOT be a show and I realized how SAD that was.
It kills me to see all the people talking shit about him. He’s dead. You don’t sully the dead. If you have ill feelings towards him because of things he’s done (proven or not) you have every right to feel that way but ALWAYS remember to be respectful because no matter what he’s a human being and he is someone’s son. He’s a father, and a brother, an uncle. People are hurting because their loved one is gone. If you can’t be human and show compassion then keep your negativity to yourself!
Did anyone ever really love Michael? Man, I hope so. I hope he knows that he left this world loved. I hope he knows he wasn’t a joke to those closest around him. I hope he can now rest in peace.
Michael was MUSIC to me. Michael was my CHILDHOOD to me. Michael will be missed. I can name so many songs off his immaculately impressive catalogue and know, without a shadow of a doubt there will never be another like him.
NO ONE will ever sell as many records, units, singles and whatever as much as Michael Joseph Jackson. Not with the days of the world wide web. NO ONE will ever be as big as him. NO ONE is as big as him. NO ONE ever WAS as big as him. Not even The Beatles or Elvis. NO ONE had his universal fame. It’ll be hard pressed to find anyone that will argue me on this but take a look at this MAN that became a LEGEND. An ICON:
We will NEVER see a star like this again. Music lost a KING today. There isn’t even a PRINCE of Pop. Michael, you will be sorely missed. My heart is so heavy right now. I feel like a part of ME died because I feel like I’m mourning a HUGE chunk of my childhood. This isn’t RIGHT to me. This is too soon. Not yet. We all know you were gonna go sometime. We all know we all gotta go but not you. You aren’t supposed to leave us. Not this way. Not yet. But God has called you home. My thoughts and prayers are with your children and your family. May you now RIP, outside of the spotlight and prying eyes. May you TRULY truly truly REST IN PEACE, King.
Michael Joseph Jackson
(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
My Favourite Video Of All Time:
My Favourite Album Of All Time:
Jun
26
…Usually when I go through moments in life too difficult to show, I try to write and express my emotions through words.
Right now…I am feeling so incredibly devastated at the fact that such a musical icon has passed away without the opportunity to express himself to the public and to the fans once more time.
In recent years, Michael’s life and actions were under detailed scrutiny. I don’t think he ever got the chance to express his true feelings or to show the public that he still loved music just as much as he did 30 years ago…and we (voice breaking) never got a chance to show him how much we really appreciated him as an entertainer. Too many people pointed fingers at his actions as MJ – the icon, and not enough showed him the respect for privacy as an individual. I never had the privilege to find out who Michael Jackson – the person – was, but I was lucky enough to grow up in a time where his music and his showmanship was not only a leader, trendsetter, role model, but a cultural growth for pop, hip-hop, dance, and entertainment as a whole.
I appreciate Michael Jackson for his life. He showed us what it meant to be an entertainer; what you can truly achieve if you work hard. As Sway said on MTV earlier “he crossed ethnical boundaries and bridged age gaps all over the world.” His dedication, persistence, creativity, optimism, made him beyond King. To go under such extreme pressure and stress as an individual, and to have the ability to push that all aside, and have the courage and optimism to go out and perform again, takes a lot of determination. Not too many of us regular people who sit on the couch and watch such legends on TV give us our daily inspiration would be able to get back up on our feet and do it for the love. Yet he did. And we never showed him that we were SO excited to see him back on tour.
Seeing those performance videos of him now….is unbearable.
I’ve been in tears for the past 2 hours watching the Michael Jackson specials and I can’t stop feeling bad…for maybe not sending an e-mail or a message or a letter, or something when he was going through his hard times. I feel we as the public, the people who he dedicated his life to, were too busy standing on the sidelines and watching…even judging rather than doing something. We all sit here and talk about how great he was now that he has passed away, yet when he was alive we were unsure of whether he was right or wrong for his actions. When Katt Williams did his stand up comedy on HBO and said “Fuck Michael” people laughed. And it may have sounded funny then…but at whose expense? At the expense of this incredible icon we are all mourning so heavily now.
Life passes us by so quickly and sometimes we get so caught up that we forget to prioritize the important things in life. We spend too much time judging, watching, talking, pointing fingers, and we seldom spend time on bettering ourselves, accomplishing our goals and living out our dreams.
Michael Jackson is not only a musical icon for me, but a life icon as well. Watching him live his entire life in the spotlight as an entertainer, and still pushing and furthering himself to do better, makes me realize that I too…I can do more. I can reach and achieve more. One person CAN change the world. Michael did. And no one can take that away from him. He changed the lives of people all over the world…he inspired other musical legends, choreographers, video directors, entertainers and anyone who listened to his music. I only hope that people will respect him not only by celebrating his life, but by learning from his journey, and pushing themselves to make a difference in the world. We are all important, we all have something to give, and we can all make a difference. We can spend our lives watching as others live theirs, or we can appreciate what we are given and make the best of it all.
Rest in peace King.
Jun
25
Is it possible to feel so numb and so sad about a person who you’ve never met?
My answer is Yes.
I don’t even know where to begin.
Music and the world in general has lost a treasure.
Michael Jackson has passed away today and its like you can hear hearts all over the world breaking.
Its hard to find the words to describe what I and im sure a lot of people are feeling, Im in such shock im sitting here bawling like nobodys business hoping Ashton will come out and say ” You all got Punk’d” Im in total denial.
Despite what anyone says he WAS the Best. A Legend and a true treasure to music. No matter what anyone says or associates with him he was without a doubt talented and always put 100% of his everything into his music and into his charity.
Personally my heart is hurt, i’ve just lost someone whom ive respected and loved and looked up to almost my entire life.
I won’t ramble. I just ask that people have some respect and remember that above all he was a human being a son a brother and a father.
I find comfort in the fact that his legacy will never die as he now lives forever in our hearts. Heaven needed another angel.
Rest in Paradise Michael Joe Jackson
gone but NEVER forgotten.
On behalf of everyone here at iluvlola our thoughts and prayers go out to his entire family, especially his kids and his fans.
he said “If u enter this world knowing u r loved and u leave this world knowing the same,then everything that happens in between can be dealt with”
please feel free to let us know your favourite memories or videos or anything.
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Lola Plaku
Creator/Developer
I got in this industry because I feel I have what it takes to make a difference. I have been working hard, sleeping less, playing less and then playing more for the past few years…not too many. I write, consult, organize, plan, plot, entertain and work hard to make that difference I focused on in the first place. ILuvLola is a lifestyle…not just mine, yours too, so give what you can so that you can make that difference with me.
www.iluvlola.net
hustleGRL
Designer/Developer
hustleGRL is a phenomenon. This bilingual teen prodigy has accomplished more in her 16 years than many have in their entire careers. Complete with vision (and the tools to execute) it’s nothing short of a gift to watch this young entrepreneur create what will one day undoubtedly be her own empire.
www.hustlegrl.com
Cynthia Kusitor
Blogger/Contributor
Almost 20 years old. I love music (all types) and everything in that surrounding area from movies to TV to fashion: I love it all. I'm extremely opinionated which is a good thing but can sometimes be a bad thing. I hold no punches and I'm straight to the point, but I swear I'm a lovely person :D
Cori
Blogger/Contributor
I'm a 20-something full time student with a great passion for writing and love anything and anyone that will stimulate my mind. I enjoy the simple things in life with a lil' flair. You'll either love me or hate me, but I'm sure you'll love me. You won't catch me without my mp3 and my blackberry. THEY ARE LIFE. "To whom much is given, much is required". Play hard but always remeber to work harder.
www.corprah-lanfrey.com
Sajae E
Blogger/Contributor
I write, I create & I learn as I go. My ears feel naked without headphones and I'm a blackberry monster til death. I write CD reviews for fun on my phone & I see music videos in my head. X-style slow-mo, video chicks & all. I'm a little neurotic. No, a lot; but I'm your favourite daydreamer's favourite daydreamer.
www.twitter.com/jaefiasco
DDot Omen aka The Blog Bully
Blogger/Contributor
The DMV's Blog Bully has made his 2nd home with Toronto's finest. Transistioning from being just an Artist, DDot brings a strong personality to the world of journalism and online hip-hop realm.
www.ddotomen.com
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