Lovely photos from singer, Waje's new shoot

Waje looks pictured at her shoot for her new music, Omini Knowest. See more photos after the cut..

 

Photos: Imagine how all the Bible's icons and characters will look if they were black!

There are photos shot by James C. Lewis, C.E.O oF Noire3000 Studios, Atlanta, from his book 'Icons of the Bible'. He used black models. See more photos after the cut...

 

 

 

 

Lol! Here is the article that got Kanye raving mad! Written by music producer Bob Ezrin

Kanye West this morning took to Twitter to bash music producer Bob Ezrin. Ezrin is known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel and Phish. Ezrin wrote a scathing post two days ago blasting Kanye, saying that his music will not be quoted 20 years from now and that other rappers including Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore were more socially relevant than Kanye. 

Replying, Kanye said the 66 year old veteran doesn't know anything about music and even going as far as saying that his kids will be ashamed of him. Read the letter that got Kanye mad after the cut..

Kanye in the NYT? WTF???

I feel like opening with “What kind of crazy, fucked up world is it where this guy is considered to be culturally important!!???” But that’s your line.

Sure, he made some great music for himself and others. But in spite of what the aspirationally-cool media keeps saying about him, unlike other creators in his genre like Jay-Z, Tupac, Biggie or even M.C. Hammer for that matter, it’s unlikely that we’ll be quoting too many of Kanye’s songs 20 years from now. He didn’t open up new avenues of public discourse like NWA, or introduce the world to a new art form like Grandmaster Flash, or even meaningfully and memorably address social issues through his music like Marshall, Macklemore and Kendrick. In my opinion, his productions are his best work – and I admit I’m jealous of several of them – but I don’t think he’s on quite the same level as Timbaland and Rick Rubin among several others. His songwriting – meaning the stuff with melodies – is sophomoric at best. I was embarrassed for Sir Paul – one of the greatest Artists of our era – by their collaboration, though it was pointed out to me that this got him his highest chart position in decades. So I guess he didn’t mind. But I kind of did!

Instead Kanye’s greatest achievements have been in the form of excessive behavior, egomaniacal tantrums and tasteless grandstanding. What he is a true artist at is living his life out loud – and shoving it down the throats of the rest of us whether we give a shit or not. He’s like that flasher who interrupts a critical game by running naked across the field. Is that art??? Maybe it is. Maybe as Caramanica says, life as “an unending data stream” is a new art form. But should it be, honestly? Hell, Forbes named this guy one of the 100 most influential people IN THE WORLD in 2005 and 2015!! Seriously??? Influencing WHAT exactly?

In the review of the endless new album, Caramanica wonders if “being slightly finished is the new finished.” And that just makes my blood boil. The great musicians, writers, poets, rappers, performers, dancers, players, conductors, directors and producers work all their lives for that one moment of complete perfection – that one brilliant performance, that one perfect song, that one enduring and life-altering work. 10,000 hours is peanuts in comparison to the real amount of time spent by true artists in their lifelong pursuit of excellence. But no one else that I have seen is this happy to have the audience watching all along the way. They are working to the culmination of something; to the exquisite feeling of completion that comes from working and reworking until that moment when their creation, or their performance, is as good as it could possibly be. This guy is just feeding the media machine and I’m not even certain to what end. Maybe he JUST needs the attention, like that flasher, and isn’t happy unless he’s the center of it.

What galls me the most though is the thought that he and others – especially the media – might actually BELIEVE that he’s an artist. With a capital “A.” That what he’s doing is of any real consequence besides for the sheer train wreck gawker value of it.

I don’t even know why I’m so angry about this. Except maybe I lament for a world where being truly, world-shakingly excellent at anything – at least in the field of popular music if not elsewhere – is no longer absolutely necessary. You can be a star today just by creating a public life that people pay attention to. That’s it. All you have to do is be interesting or likable or shocking enough and you can have your 15 minutes of fame…even if that means that no one will remember you or what you’ve done in just a few years. Line ‘em up. How many “popular artists” have come and gone in just the last decades. In my mind (which is a pretty busy as often too judgmental place, I will admit) real artists make stuff that changes the world and LASTS.

I haven’t heard it yet. Is that what The Life of Pablo is? If so, then I take it all back.

I just needed to rant to someone.

Cheers, B

'I love watching porn': Carmen Electra talks about her sex life

The 43 year old glamour model shared details about her sex life on an episode of Kocktails with Khloe. She revealed that she loves the kinkier side of bedroom fun and also loves using a rhinestone whip on her man.

When Khloe grilled Carmen on what type of adult movies she likes to watch, Carmen responded :

"I do a lot of porn watching myself. It may be a little addiction,' 'I watch it. I love porn. I like S&M, I like a little hardcore.'

She also revealed that she often indulges alone and her housekeeper sometimes catches crazy videos on her computer.

'I have to just call my s**t out. Yeah, that's some porn I was watching the other night.'

 She goes deeper revealing that she owns a cane, which was given to her as a gift, and that she likes that it helps her dominate during sex:

'Sometimes I like to be dominant and sometimes I like to be dominated

Khloe then chimed in to say she has her own rhinestone whip which she keeps by her bed.

  'I've used it,'  'I like it used on me'

Read this interesting story about an Indian Multi Millionaire named Vijay Mallya

Nirbhay Narula, took to Facebook to share this interesting story. He claims it really happened. If it did, then whoever this Vijay guy is, he's a genius. Read the post after the cut...

An Indian man walks into the New York City bank and asks for the loan officer. He tells the Loan Officer that he was going to India for some business for 2 weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The Loan Officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan.

So the Indian man hands over the keys and the documents of the new Ferrari car parked on the street in front of the bank. The loan officer consults the president of the bank, Produces all the required items and everything check out to be OK. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as a security for the loan.

The bank president and the Loan Officer had a good laugh at the Indian For keeping a $750,000 Ferrari as a security and taking only $5,000 as a loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari Into the banks underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the Indian returns and pays $5000 and the interest which comes to $15.41. Seeing this, loan officer says, “Sir, we are very happy to have your business And this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you are away, we checked you out and Found out that you were a multi millionaire. What puzzled us was why would you bother to borrow $5000?”

The Indian replies "Where else in New York City can I park my car for 2 weeks and For only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return?".

This is a true incident and the Indian is none other than... "VIJAY MALLYA"

Biya and His wife travels to Europe for a brief private visit

The President of the Republic His Excellency Paul BIYA and his wife Mrs. Chantal BIYA left Yaoundé on the morning of Tuesday 23 February 2016 for a brief private visit to Europe.


The Head of State is accompanied by his close collaborators, notably the Director of the Civil Cabinet, Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU; the Special Adviser, Rear Admiral Joseph FOUDA and the Chief of State Protocol, Simon Pierre BIKELE.

At the Nsimalen International Airport where he was greeted by a crowd of enthusiastic militants, President Paul BIYA had brief audiences with the President of the Senate, Marcel NIAT NJIFENJI; the Speaker of the National Assembly, Honourable CAVAYE YEGUIE DJIBRIL; the Prime Minister Head of Government, Philemon YANG; and the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand NGOH NGOH.

Nigerian Arrested In Bertoua Over Ivory Trafficking

A Nigerian national was arrested in Bertoua in the East Region for illegal possession and commercialization of elephant ivory tusks and pangolin scales. The 43-year-old man was arrested during an operation carried out by officials of the East Regional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife in collaboration with the Gendarmerie. The Last Great Ape Organisation – LAGA provided technical assistance during the operation.

He had boarded a taxi with the contraband loaded in the boot and as he stopped, stepped out and was heading towards a bar, he was met by wildlife officials. The man heading the operation Azemte Mbemo Alain Patrice, is the East Regional Chief of Wildlife and he declared that “The suspect had hired a taxi and was heading for a transaction with a client when he was stopped. He tried to resist but was quickly brought under control by the gendarmerie who were assisting us and taken to our office. This operation was carried out thanks to the collaboration with the Non Governmental Organisation LAGA that assists us in busting wildlife trafficking networks”.

He was found with five bags containing 12 ivory tusks and over 200 kg of giant pangolin scales which are parts of protected wildlife species according to the 1994 wildlife law. According to Azemte Mbemo, the man is known to law officials and is suspected to have been trafficking wildlife species since 2013. He was born in Bertoua and masters the region very well. He used the front business of car spare parts dealer as a cover for his illegal activities but his shop rarely had any car parts.

His principal clients are Chinese buyers and he had a list of Chinese contacts and names which indicate the extent of his business and professionalism. According to sources close to the case, he buys the products from poachers in the East but equally in Congo and Gabon and then sells to Chinese and Nigerian buyers while also transporting the products to Nigeria. The buyers come from Yaounde and Douala.  He owns a storeroom close to Garoua Boulai where he keeps the products according to the sources.

The illegal trade in pangolin scales is fast becoming a huge problem for wildlife officials and in a bid to arrest this situation the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Ngole Philip Ngwese, signed a circular letter in June 2013, suspending the issuing of permits enabling the circulation of pangolin species in the country.   Law enforcement efforts are being focused to hamper the trade and this operation is one of several others that have been carried out within the last couple of years under the framework of the convention signed between the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and The Last Great Ape Organisation (LAGA).
International partners are equally engaging efforts in this direction. And one of such initiatives is the Mentor PoP Fellowship Programme of the US Fish and Wildlife service that seeks to train emerging conservation leaders from some three Central African countries and Vietnam and develop their capacity for pangolin conservation. These are young and dedicated people who are currently in Yaounde undergoing the mentor programme that shall equip them with skills necessary in tackling threats such as scales trafficking that is menacing the survival of the pangolin.  The project is hosted by the Zoological Society of London at their Bastos office in Yaounde.

source: Eden Newspaper

Man accidentally kills his lover after using a cucumber as a sex toy

A salesman who accidentally killed his lover while using a cucumber as a sex toy has gone on trial for negligent homicide in Germany. Oliver Dietmann, 46, could be jailed for five years for the bedroom death of his lover Rica Varna, also 46

He told the court he and his lover 'often used vegetables' as a substitute for sex toys, the Mailonline reports.

He said he had met Rica in 2004, their relationship turning sexual five years later. He invited her around to his place where the cucumber was used 'to pleasure her.'
He admitted that they had drunk four bottles of wine between them and several glasses of schnapps. A post mortem later showed that she was nearly four times over the legal limit to drive a car.

He told the court how after the cucumber had served its purpose

 'I put it it in her mouth. But suddenly I saw there was smoke coming from the kitchen. I forgot that I had put a piece of meat on the stove for my dog.'I ran to the kitchen, fed my dog and then went on to the balcony to smoke a cigarette.' He said when he returned to the bedroom, Rica was unconscious.'I tried to get the cucumber pieces out of her mouth,' he said, 'but they were so mushy I couldn't get any purchase at all.'

Medical experts later said that the cucumber got wedged in her throat, cut off her air supply and plunged her into a coma.

'The defendant must have known that he should not have left her for so long on her own, said prosecutor Reinhard Hoffmann.