Blonde Hair DON'T Care...

For those who know me personally, you know that I like to get creative and try different things. I once had real life nose piercing. I've rocked mo-hawks, fo-hawks, fades, tapers, cornrows [what I like to call my "urban days"] afros, you name it! However I never dyed my hair blonde before. It is still changing colors everyday but the light bright it warming up to me. Hate it or love it cuz blonde hair DON'T care haha.

Man, WHAT Recession?!

Facebook Chat is a very interesting piece of work. Most of the time I get crazy women and men who I let slip though the cracks of the "Friend Request" process trying to get at me and tell me how much they miss me (although we have never met... don't get it!) How do we have so many mutual friends?! [Questions that I will never understand and need to be tossed into the ibis!]

HOWEVER, tonight Facebook Chat benefited me and opened my eyes to what it really happening in the youth of America. Despite the recession, young America is really starting to step it up and start their own businesses and projects and find their own means to financial stability. Someone hit me up on FB chat making general convo. He brought up a "slow jam" mixtape entitled "Cuffing Season 2" that his friend was releasing and sent me the link. I recongnized the title because I had seen it earlier on my friends Twitter profile picture. Let me say, it was pretty GOOD! Brought me back with some Maxwell, Ne-yo [Say it], and a few other songs that I was listening to for the first time. I really was 45 straight minutes of hot and sweaty baby making music! Sweet Baby Jesus!

I had mentioned my blog with him and me directed me to another blog that he was a part of. After reading a couple articles, I discovered that that too was legit piece of work. The wheels in my head began to crank and made me realize that the recession is not phasing the youth of America. Instead, they are starting their own clothing lines, becoming music artist, creating event management businesses, and flippin the "broke mentality" into an opportunity to use their talents and capabilities to find a way to make money. As a society, the typical "9-5" is not looking so hot after graduation. We are starting to use our creative ideas and with a money making mentality, people are doing what they want and getting paid for it. Perfect Job #pointblankperiod

Many times I find myself getting annoyed with the constant invites to parties I know I am more than likely NOT going to attend on Facebook. In fact I don't even know how many messages I have in my inbox, my iPhone [Becky] literally reads "99+". And now Direct Messages on Twitter, which used to be the strictly the booty call box, is now mass promotions and invites to events. I realized that yes, at times it can be VERY annoying, but young people are doing what they have to do to use their resources to network and get their message out. Even with this blog I promote it on my Facebook account and Twitter. As a Comm major we were always thought to network, network, NETWORK! Just as long as you do not "network" anything on my FB wall... I'm all smiles!

I have a friend who is a dancer and recently left to Canada to train as a Disney character and will be dancing on a cruise ship to the Bahamas for months. Another friend is leaving for a tour for his band next week. Everyday, we are seeing young people living their dreams and doing what they need to do to make rent next month and build up a business that may one day become an empire. Times are changing guys... older people say that they are scared for tomorrow, but we got this FOLKS! ;)

LINK TO CUFFING SEASON 2 CHECK IT OUT!:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7262637995bd3716/

LINK TO THE THE FRESH XPRESS BLOG:

http://thefreshxpress.com/

Still A L I V E

Wow... it has been a minute since I wrote on this badboy. I missed my blog baby!

Just wanted to write a light-hearted "I'm back" blog to catch everyone up. I've been extremely busy with life. School, work, internship at NBC Universal... but I don't want to talk about that witchcraft!

I cannot believe graduation is right around the corner. I feel like I was just in Vegas yesterday walking the strip for News Years Eve by myself, cup in hand [longgg story, let's just say I'm coo off Vegas at this point in time! Haha]. Its already March tomorrow, kids!

College has been everything people said it was. I really have become the man that I am today... and just a man period. I am not the same 18 y.o. boy walking around campus lost in life... People have entered (and then some left) my life and with each a new lesson I learned a little more on the way the world works. "Regret" has never been in my vocabulary because everything that I have done and has happened to me molded me into the person that I am today. Yes, SH*T really does happen and I have gotten the bad end of it in some cases, but life is a series of lessons that are to be learned and applied to the next. God won't put you through anything you cannot handle. [TTSP] = This too shall PASS! Amen now!

So yes, I've 'parlayed', Facebooked, face planted [true story], and celebrated life for the past four years of college and now it is time to say "buh bye". I didn't really want to spend my last semester of college so freakin busy... but that's what life threw at me and I'm catchin it!

And isn't my stepmom's new dog a cutie. Her name is "Bettina!" Ole!

Much Love,
Jayce

P u r s u e L o v e

I recently got the newest addition of ink this Thanksgiving week. It's a simple tattoo that reads "Pursue Love." Something that I always make sure about my tattoos is that they have a deep and powerful meaning to me, whether I decide to share that meaning with the world or not (which I honestly never give a full story, it's too exhausting). I know I wrote a blog about "Tattoo's in Corp. America", clearly no one can see this one while a shirt is being worn! lol

With this tattoo, a different type of love comes to mind when people first see my chest. I am a single man and have been for years and enjoy my life outside of a relationship for various reasons. The love I am referring to is God's Love. I was in a relationship for two years and have experienced many title-less relationships and always wondered why they all seemed to come to a tragic end that would leave me feeling alone and bitter toward the person and even myself. I have even come to a point in my life where I feel my heart is emotionally broken to pieces and do not know if I can even love again...

But I can... Once upon a time years ago while in church, right after I was newly dubbed "single" and feeling emotionally exhausted after a failed attempts to share my heart, my pastor said something that I will never forget.

"No one will ever love you like God can."

I have heard this statement 5 million and two times, but this time it hit. My entire life, I was searching for the world's definition of "love" and wondered why nothing worked out in the end. At times, I felt so alone and could physically feel it in my heart, but at that moment realized that I have never been alone. God has been with me this entire time and still walks with me and will walk with me til the day I die. All I am able to do is be all that I can be as a person and pursue His Love... the best love out there.

One day I'm sure I will meet the one and once again my heart will be reopened to love another again, but I know forever, God's Love will be the greatest Love JBS knows... and you know I Love me some Jesus! :)

LESS IS MORE! Beyonce Slows it Down at the Wynn...

My grandmother informed me that the "Sex Goddess has a special program tonight on the television." After numerous question trying to figure out who exactly the "Sex Goddess" was, my mother was able to figure out that this seasoned woman was referring to my wife Beyonce (how did I not get that!?) I had the great pleasure of watching the "Sex Goddess" work her perfectly shaped figure on the stage of the luxurious Wynn hotel in Las Vegas. We all know when Bey broke it down in the Sweet Dreams video and had a buck CRUMP dancing session against herself... AND WON! Who can pull that off?! "The Sex Goddess" can!!!

In my hype over learning this new dance move I, and I'm sure many others, overlooked the amazing lyrics to this song. For her intimate Las Vegas performance, she made the smart decision of acoustically performing that song... Thank you Bey for slowing it down and opening my eyes to the true meaning behind this wonderfully written song! I already liked the song and loved the crump part of the video, but this made Sweet Dreams 10X better...



SWEET DREAMS by [BEYONCE]

Every night I rush to my bed
With hopes that maybe I'll get a chance to see you
When I close my eyes I'm going out of my head
Lost in a fairytale, can you hold my hands and be my guide?

Clouds filled with stars cover the skies
And I hope it rains, you're the perfect lullaby
What kinda dream is this?

You could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Somebody pinch me, your love's too good to be true

My guilty pleasure, I ain't going no where
Baby long as you're here I'll be floating on air
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you

I mention you when I say my prayers
I wrap you around all of my thoughts
Boy you're my temporary high
I wish that when I wake up you're there
To wrap your arms around me for real
And tell me you'll stay by side

Clouds filled with stars cover your skies
And I hope it rains, you're the perfect lullaby
What kinda dream is this?

You could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Somebody pinch me, your love's too good to be true

My guilty pleasure, I ain't going no where
Baby long as you're here I'll be floating on air
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you

Tattoo your name across my heart so it will remain
Not even death can make us part
What kind of dream is this?

You could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Somebody pinch me, your love's too good to be true

My guilty pleasure, I ain't going no where
Baby long as you're here I'll be floating on air
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you
Either way I don't wanna wake up from you

ORIGINAL VIDEO (Crump session @ 1:29!!!)

Sweet Dreams (Beyonce) Music Video

Boyz II OLD Men

I recently was at Sushi chowing down on a 50% off spicy tuna roll w/ eel sauce when Becky (my iPhone) began to do a vibrating table dance for us. It was a good friend of mine calling to say that he had an extra ticket to the Boyz II Men concert in a few hours and if I would like to attend. Being the nice person that I am (haha), I made a couple phone calls to ask permission to forfit previous plans and $2.95 later I was smashin' down the 57 to the House of Blues blasting to the Rihanna's new joint w/ Jeezy "Hard", and I actually LOVE this one! Ri Ri is BACK in my heart, but that's a whole other blog entry!

I was not informed prior to arriving, and even before we entered at 7PM, that Boyz II Men were not going on until 9! So we met up with a couple friend, the DJ "spon that sh**" and we began to break it down in a sardine packed sea of white folks! (I guess we were the only ones feeling it lol.)

After being informed that one of the members had that H1N1 (the swine!) and wondering where my complimentary face mask was, the show finally began. I will say this, they did not look like they were going to pass out and die on stage, they looked good! It was weird that men that could be my father where doing "dance moves" and throwing roses that made girls my age scream at the top of their lungs as if a vein was about to pop. But hey, they did the damn thing.

One of my favorite moments of the concert was when he asked everyone to call their mother. Knowing that I had a low battery and 10:30 is well passed MamaLeita's bedtime, I did as the nappy-headed man said and dialed that "909" number. Obviously, my mom did not pick up, but I was able to leave her a voicemail of them singing "Mama", a song written for the Soul Food motion picture.

I love that fact that these men had been together for so long. Their friendship has to be like cast iron! After almost 20 years, they are still going strong and recognised as a legit music group that can sell out a concert. They have been together since I was 2 years old in 1991 and still win over the hearts of millions of fan doing what they love. Not any artist, especially music groups, can say that. I truly hope that I have friendships like this.

Overall, it was a great concert and a change of pace to the concerts I usually attend. Thank God I did not shed a tear (lol), but the songs did bring back some old memories and made me thing of past relationships. Just know, "I'm doing just fine"

Maybe Rihanna could have waited longer... (???)

With her first tweet saying "The wait is ova!" Rihanna is making her comeback after her ex-boo daddy Chris Brown went to work on her face this past February right before the Grammys and right after I met her (without makeup too!). With a new single "Russian Roulette" and new blonde cockatoo cowlick hairstyle, RiRi is ready to hit the "scene" again because she can be BAD all by herself! (oooweee!)

Now I don't know how I feel about the song yet (Perez Hilton already said it was boring lol), but this picture made me fall in love with Rihanna all over again. I don't know why, but after her and Chris Brown's rendezvous with each others fist and teeth, the edgy pop princess began to get on my nerve. Don't get me wrong, I felt for her in this tragic and highly publicised situation, BUT the broad was eerkin me!

The new album Rated R is set to release on November 23, 2009 and I am still debated on purchasing it at my favorite first week Target sale for $9.99. Her image was edgy with "Good Girl Gone Bad" but she may be a little too dark and emo for me know. I don't think I've seen her smile in two years. We'll see as the time gets closer!

UPDATE: I am in love with the album and Rihanna. I think releasing her first singe as such a depressing song was not a good move because it doesn't reflect the album well at all. It kind of wild! Rude Boy Is still my jam. Rihanna is already working on another album that will be released this year in 2010. Can't wait!

NEW SINGLE "Russian Roulette": http://www.rihannanow.com/