Dec 13 2013

Beyoncé’s 17 new music videos

Beyoncé and Blue Ivy in Blue (Picture: YouTube)
Beyoncé’s fifth studio album dropped last night and like the rest of the world, we didn’t see it coming.

The self-titled record features 14 tracks and every single one of them has its very own music video ready and waiting. And she’s also thrown in a few extras, too.

In total 17 30-second previews have gone up on YouTube and we’ve trawled through the lot of them so you don’t have to.

Here’s our verdict…

Five worth a watch:

Blue

This is definitely a feel-good video and it also features a quick glimpse of Bey’s most closely-guarded secret, Blue Ivy. We’re not too sure how this is going to work but one-year-old Blue is also credited to the song so we’re hoping to get a better look at the pair of them in the full version.

Pretty Hurts

Bey has always been open about her body hang-ups and the message in this beauty pageant-themed video is bound to resonate with lots of young girls. On first impressions it’s reminiscent of Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful.

Partition

Bey’s in her undies, dancing, writhing and looking HAWT! if you look closely Jay Z’s also in there too. What’s not to love?!

Mine

This one looks like a few high-energy dance routines could come later which most of the other songs appear to be lacking. There’s topless male dancers but more of Drake please!!

Ghost

The track doesn’t actually feature on the album but we’re pretty sure Beyoncé took a leaf out of Lady Gaga’s book for this one. It’s a stripped back, no frills jobby and Bey appears to be possessed. It’s definitely a bit weird and eccentric but we’re desperate to see what comes next.

Five you can skip:

Drunk In Love

If you’ve seen Rihanna’s Pour It Up – and you probably have – then you don’t need to watch.

Yoncé

This one doesn’t appear to be on the album, either, and there’s not enough Beyoncé. End of.

Grown Woman

We know all the words to this already, it’s a bit repetitive.

‘I’m a grown woman, I can do whatever I want…’ Got it!

Heaven

Bey sounds as though she’s talking about her miscarried baby in this one. It’s moving and deep but not one to watch if you’re getting ready for the weekend.

Rocket

Lots of sensual close-ups, black and white and a bit slow. A bit dull, really.

MORE: Beyoncé Knowles treats fans to surprise ‘visual’ album featuring Blue Ivy and Jay Z

Dec 9 2013

Beyonce’s ‘Grown Woman’ Video Leaks

Beyonce’s ‘Grown Woman’ Video Leaks
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Earlier this year, Beyonce debuted her new track, “Grown Woman” during the launch of her Pepsi Now campaign, but to her fans’ disappointment there was no real radio push, nor did she create a visual for the track.

However, a video for the track is on the way and a teaser for the single has now surfaced. The tribal-themed video shows Queen Bey showing off her dance moves in ’80s video-like fashion. It’s safe to say we can expect a good amount of booty shaking for this one.

Check out the video by clicking here. http://vimeo.com/m/81314765

May 11 2013

Few pic of the saved Boutique team hard at work at the love life festival and birds yard music and fashion show

May 8 2013

Foxy Brown says that Jay-Z chased trannies and gave her gonorrhea when she was just 15

Hot Dog!!!! Now you know DivaWhispers does not like MESS and that’s just what this is. DivaWhispers has much respect for Jay Z, his wife Beyonce and Foxy Brown. With that being said my girl Foxy has opened up a can of worms that I don’t think she will be ready to handle when it comes back to her. Details inside……

Our friends over at TattleTailzz are reporting that Foxy Brown (after a long hiatus) is starting some rumors about her mentor who jump started her career Jay-Z.

Foxy Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, has revealed that her ticket to rap success came at a price — and that it all happened while she was underage. She says the man who put her on to the rap game, Jay Z (then 27-years-old), took her virginity when she was just 15-years-old — adding Hova (who she says has a ‘horse d*ck’) funded her shopping trips and pampering at hair and nail salons while she was still in high school…all to get into her panties!

But that’s not all!!! Foxy claims Jay Z is an undercover tranny chaser. She says she learned that after a tranny began calling and harassing her, not long after Jay Z gave her gonorrhea. WTF?!?! Foxy says one of her sex sessions with Jay Z was all caught on tape. That’s when Foxy says she and Jay weren’t alone. Their company was the real “Wanda” from In Living Color…Mr. Jamie Foxx. According to Foxy, Jay Z signed her to “multiple gag orders for where she, Jamie and Jay engaged in a threesome” and that not long after the incident the tape was ironically robbed from her home. Foxy insists Jay Z had everything to do with that robbery.

Besides alleging that Jay Z chases tranny’s, Foxy says there was one constant man in Hova’s life. According to Foxy, Jay Z and Larry Johnson were ‘f*ck buddies.’ This doesn’t seem so far fetched given the fact that Jay once shared an apartment with the NBA baller who once repped Rocawear.

During her no holds barred account of her experience with Jay Z, Foxy was reported to clearly display a strong disliking for Jay’s wife, Beyonce.

Here’s what Foxy had to say about Mrs. Hova:

“Now he is with Beyonce…Fuck that halitosis-infected heffa.”

Now did you get all that? In no way does DivaWhispers believe any of this and this is for pure entertainment. You make your own opinions on these whispers. I’m thinking she’s stirring up the hype because she’s getting ready to come out with a single with Nicki Minaj or something like that. Only time will tell. SMH….

May 4 2013

Sierra leonean couple found dead in luxury hotel

Widow of man who drowned in luxury hotel pool with girlfriend is ‘in bits’, says family friend

Gurpreet Kpakiwa, from Kent, is struggling to cope with husband’s death
Komba Kpakiwa and girlfriend Josephine Foday, drowned on Saturday
Pair died at Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, Essex
Miss Foday’s grandmother Theresa Farma confirms they were a couple
Described second year nursing student as ‘loving granddaughter’
Fellow guests thought police arrival was part of murder mystery weekend
One said: ‘We just thought hotel had gone to a lot of expense’

By JOHN STEVENS

PUBLISHED: 16:13, 1 May 2013 | UPDATED: 15:28, 2 May 2013

Gurpreet Kpakiwa, whose husband Komba died at the weekend while away with his lover, is said to be in shock

The widow of a man who drowned during a weekend away with his girlfriend is ‘in bits and struggling to work out what happened’, it was reported today.

Gurpreet Kpakiwa was said to be in shock after hearing that her husband, Komba Kpakiwa, 31, had been found dead in a hotel pool with his lover, Josephine Foday, 22, last weekend.

She is said to be finding it hard to cope and barely speaking to anyone following the death of her shop-keeper husband, by whom she has two young children.

Mr Kpakiwa and Miss Foday both drowned at the pool at Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, Essex, on Saturday.

Mr Kpakiwa had taken Miss Foday, a nursing student, away for a surprise weekend break to celebrate her birthday on Friday.

Today a family friend said that Mrs Kpakiwa was distraught.

He told the Evening Standard: ‘She is in bits and struggling to work out what happened to Komba on Saturday.

‘She’s in a bad way and is hardly talking to anyone.’

Meanwhile Mr Kpakiwa’s brother Sahr, who lives in Erith, Kent, said that Miss Foday was a family friend, and his brother had taken her away for a birthday weekend.

He said: ‘What I know about my brother is that he was a nice and loyal man and he was respectful of his family and always proud of them.’

He said his family did not yet know the circumstances surrounding the drownings, and said his mother was flying to England from her family home in Sierra Leone.

Josephine Newahun Foday, who was found dead in the swimming pool of Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, Essex.

Komba Kpakiwa, who was found dead in the swimming pool of Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, Essex

Josephine Newahun Foday, left, and Komba Kpakiwa, right, were found drowned at the Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield, Essex

They had gone out for the day, before returning to the hotel room they were sharing and then going down to the pool, the inquest at Chelmsford Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

A hotel guest saw the pair floating in the ten-metre indoor pool but presumed they were playing a game and went into the sauna, it was claimed last night.

When the guest returned to the pool he saw they were face down in the water and dialled 999. The pair were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police are not treating the deaths as suspicious and preliminary post-mortem examinations found they had drowned.

A picture posted on Twitter by a hotel guest showed the swimming pool area cordoned off by police

Last night, Miss Foday’s grandmother, Theresa Farma, 61, said Mr Kpakiwa had surprised her granddaughter with the getaway to celebrate her birthday.

She said he had met her at the corner shop at the top of her road where he worked as a supervisor and they started seeing each other in February.

Josephine Newahun Foday and her grandmother Theresa Farma who described her as a ‘loving granddaughter’

Speaking from her home in Plumstead, south-east London, Mrs Farma said: ‘She called me on Friday to say that she had arrived at the hotel. They were looking forward to spending time at the hotel.

‘They were supposed to come back on Sunday but instead the police came. Everyone is upset, distraught. I can’t believe she has gone.’

Miss Foday was a second year nursing student at Canterbury Christ Church University.

She fled to England with her grandmother from their native Sierra Leone in 2001 when both her parents disappeared in the country’s civil war.

Mrs Farma said: ‘We don’t know where her parents are, we think they are dead. I grabbed the child and left.

‘I am so sad, now my granddaughter has been taken away too.’

Abdul Conteh, a family friend, said a man saw the pair floating in the water, but thought they were just fooling around.

He said: ‘According to an eyewitness, he saw the couple in the pool, he went to the sauna and eight minutes later he came out and saw Komba’s face in the pool and Josephine was lying on his back.

‘He thought they were mucking around, a couples thing, he didn’t take any notice of them. But then he came back again and he saw the two of them going down and saw the man’s face was underneath the water, so he raised the alarm.’

Mr Kpakiwa, who was also from Sierra Leone, lived with wife Gurpreet, in Erith, Kent.

The couple, who had been married for four years had two children, a son, seven, and a daughter, six.

His cousin, Teresa Kpakiwa, 52, last night said she knew nothing of Miss Foday, adding: ‘This is so awful, they’ve got young children.’

Mr Kpakiwa had been taking his girlfriend Josephine Foday on a surprise weekend away for her 22nd birthday

Miss Foday had been living with a 23-year-old man in Chatham, Kent. It is not known what their relationship was. It is thought Mr Kpakiwa was studying for a law degree alongside his work in the corner shop.

Miss Foday had posted cryptic messages on Twitter before her death, including: ‘You have to accept not everyone is going to love you back, that’s why it’s most important to love yourself.’ She also wrote: ‘If you really knew me, you’d know that I will make myself miserable to make someone else happy.’

Debra Teasdale of Christ Church University said: ‘We were very saddened to hear about Josephin

Apr 21 2013

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Apr 21 2013

Musicalize KANO, K-KOKE, TYLER JAMES & SWAY + MORE AT MUSICALIZE

SATURDAY 4TH MAY
INDIGO2, The O2, London

With the likes of Professor Green, Chip, Misha B, Dappy, Tinchy Stryder, Ms Dynamite and Angel having already headlined the Musicalize stage so far in 2013, we are pleased to announce the line up for our next event.

Confirmed acts for the show:

Kano – http://www.twitter.com/TheRealKano
K-Koke – http://www.twitter.com/KokeUSG
Tyler James – http://www.twitter.com/TylerJames777
Sway – http://www.twitter.com/SwayUK
Ghetts – http://www.twitter.com/JClarke_Ghetts
Scorcher – http://www.twitter.com/ScorchersLife
Lunar C – http://www.twitter.com/LunarC
…with more special guests to appear on the night!

As is always the case with Musicalize events networking and socialising will be a big part of the event. Attendees can expect to meet, mingle and enjoy drinks with a host of other musicians that have supported Musicalize so far.
Doors open at 6.45pm on Saturday 4th May 2013
Tickets start at £12.50 and are on sale now via:

The Ticket Sellers – http://bit.ly/12n4AvZ
AXS – http://bit.ly/16UfZ39
Ticketmaster – http://bit.ly/16OOZE6

If you missed Musicalize in March here’s what went down when Dappy, Tinchy Stryder, Angel, Ms Dynamite and others took to the Musicalize stage…

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Apr 20 2013

My inspiration 2PAC

LEGEND

Tupac Amaru Shakur was an inspiration to millions.

While 2Pac was most famous for his rap career, he was also a gifted actor, poet and thoughtful while outspoken advocate for the poor and the overlooked in America. During his life, he produced an immense amount of artistic work, which included studio albums, major Hollywood feature films, and published works. He was most prolific in the music industry, selling over 75 million albums. 2Pac’s unapologetic lyrics were relevant, important, and reflective of the hard lives led by many. His music earned attention and respect through a poetic style that embraced street vocabulary while being innovative. Today, 2Pac is still considered by many to be one of the biggest influences on modern hip-hop.

2Pac’s career has earned him six Grammy nominations and three MTV Video Music Award nominations. In 1997, Shakur was honored by the American Music Awards as the Favorite Hip Hop Artist.

Born on June 16 1971 in New York City, Shakur’s parents were both members of the Black Panther Party whose militant style and provocative ideologies for civil rights would come to influence 2Pac’s music. At an early age, Tuapc’s love for performance and the arts began to show, as he began acting at age 13 and later enrolled in the Baltimore School of the Arts before dropping out at 17. Shakur broke into the music business with rap group Digital Underground as a back-up dancer and roadie. Eventually Shakur released his first solo album in ’91, 2pacalypse Now. 2Pac’s music career began to grow as his second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z included two top 20 pop chart tracks: I Get Around and Keep Ya Head Up.

Shakur’s legal battles began after he established his rap career. In the early nineties Shakur faced a wrongful death suit which settled out of court, accusations of assaulting police officers where charges were ultimately dropped, and even an incident where Shakur sustained five gunshot wounds from shooter Dexter Isaac. In 1995 2Pac was sentenced one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison for sexual abuse. However, not even prison could slow the success of Shakur’s career.

While incarcerated 2Pac’s latest album at the time, Me Against the World, was number one in the pop charts and would later go double platinum. Shakur became the first artist to reach number one in the pop charts while serving a prison sentence. Making the most of his time in jail, 2Pac became a passionate reader. Among his favorites were the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian Renaissance writer whose works were in part the foundation for western political science. Shakur’s appreciation of his work inspired the nickname: Makaveli.

After serving only eight months of his sentence, 2Pac was out on parole thanks to a 1.4 million dollar bond paid by Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records. Now signed with Death Row Records, Shakur went on to create All Eyez on Me, which featured hits How Do You Want It and California Love.

2Pac’s life was cut short in September of 1996 when Shakur became the victim of a drive-by shooting while his car waited on a red light. While Shakur survived the surgery that followed he was pronounced dead almost a week after the attack.

Even today, 2Pac’s influence is wide-spread. From the Library of Congress where his song Dear Mama was added in 2010 to the National Registry, to artists like 11 time Grammy winner Eminem who in an interview with MTV said:

“He made you feel like you knew him. I think that , honestly, Tupac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.”

2Pac leaves a legacy of honesty and passion in his songs. Respected by many, 2Pac has become an inspiration for artists and a standard in rap music.

Apr 20 2013

Nigerian oil tycoon takes Oprah’s place as richest black woman in the world

Oprah Winfrey has lost her long-held title as the richest black woman in the world to a Nigerian oil tycoon, according to a report by an African business magazine.

Edging out Oprah is Folorunsho Alakija, a 61-year-old woman from Nigeria who is reportedly worth at least $3.2 billion, or roughly $500 million more than Oprah’s $2.7 billion net worth, Ventures Africa reported.

Alakija is the founder and owner of Famfa Oil, which owns a 60 per cent interest in OML 127, an offshore oil field that produces roughly 200,000 barrels of oil per day and is worth an estimated $6.44 billion.

Wealthiest: Folorunsho Alakija, a 61-year-old oil tycoon from Nigeria, is reportedly worth at least $3.3 billion, or $500 million more than Oprah’s $2.7 billion net worth

Also a fashion designer and philanthropist, Alakija is married and has four grown sons, as well as one grandchild. She owns at least $100 million in real estate and $46 million private jet, Ventures Africa reported.

Born into a wealthy Nigerian family, Alakija started out as a secretary in the mid 1970s at the now defunct International Merchant Bank of Nigeria.

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Several years later, she quit her job and moved to London, where she studied fashion design. She later returned to Nigeria and launched her fashion line, Supreme Stitches, which caters to upscale, high-society women.

While she was building her name as a fashion designer, Alakija in 1993 applied for an Oil Prospecting License — an expensive permit that allows for oil exploration in a specified area.

The Nigerian government granted her request and allocated a 617,000-acre block of land to Alakija for oil exploration — but she knew nothing about finding and extracting oil.

No longer No. 1: Oprah Winfrey has long been considered the richest black woman in the world, but Alakija now has her beat

So in September of 1996, she appointed Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited — a subsidiary of Texaco — to act as a technical adviser for her business.

In 2000, Star Deep Petroleum determined that Alakija’s land contained an excess of one billion barrels of oil. When this was discovered, the Nigerian government tried to re-acquire half of the oil-rich block it had sold to Alakija.

The Nigerian government was successful and Alakija lost control of all but 10 percent of her oil company until 2012, when Nigeria’s highest court reversed the government’s actions.

With Alakija now back in control of 60 percent of the oil company, her net worth has shot up to $3.2 billion, an estimate that Ventures Africa calls extremely conservative.

Alakija’s sons now run Famfa Oil and her husband, Modupe Alakija, is the chairman of the company.

She recently purchased a $102 million property at One Hyde Park in London, as well as a Bombardier Global Express 6000 jet, which she bought earlier this year for $46 million.

Her charity, Rose of Sharon Foundation, gives out small grants to widows and orphans.

Assets: Oprah owns this lavish $8.8 million estate in Kula, Hawaii

Other homes: Oprah also owns this Montecito, California home, which sits on 42 acres. She bought it for an estimated $50 million.

Apr 19 2013

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Break A Billion

The Carters have reportedly become the first billion dollar couple in music.

Here’s one more reason to “Bow Down” when Beyoncé hits the stage at the Staples Center on Friday June 28 to kick off the BET Experience. Mrs. Carter and her man are officially the first billion-dollar couple in music history.

The International Business Times is reporting that the profits from Young B’s Mrs. Carter tour (reportedly $116 million) as well as her recent H&M campaign have pushed the power couple over the nine-figure threshold.

In case you’re keeping score, Beyoncé has also done endorsement deals with L’Oreal and Tommy Hilfiger, racked up 17 Grammy Awards, and sold over 75 million records worldwide. And that’s not counting her film career.

All that plus she’s raising her daughter Blue Ivy and buying her man private jets for father’s day. (Of course Jay’s got a few assets of his own, but you already know about Roc Nation and the New Jersey Nets.) So when she says “I Been On” you’d best believe her.

Get ready for the BET Experience, featuring Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg, R. Kelly, Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar and many more. Go here for more details and info on how to buy tickets.

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