Common has always pushed a conscious message in Hip Hop. However, his latest album, Let Love, comes with an extra dose of introspective gems. The album is dubbed as a musical companion piece to his latest memoir, Let Love Have the Last Word. Common’s latest collection of rhymes is less about conforming to trends and […]
Breakups can be a hard thing to get over, especially when the other person lied to you. However, knowing that someone else has been in your shoes can help heal the wound. Meet DJ Jovani. His latest release, “Figure it Out”, depicts those feelings we all have when love turns sour. The pop tinged ballad […]
I had the chance to visit San Francisco earlier this summer to celebrate one of my best friend’s birthday. Of course, a highlight of any trip is good food (well at least for me). Lao Table was one of the restaurants we tried. The restaurant specializes in Thai and Laotian cuisine. I love Thai food, […]
Sheri Nowrozi, a.k.a. Snoh Aalegra, has been giving us sunshine (check out her debut EP, There Will Be Sunshine) for more than 5 years now. The 31-year-old Swedish singer has always had a knack for conveying the complicated feelings of love. Now, she’s back with her uniquely mellow, signature songbird stylings on Ugh, those feels […]
The photo above was taken about 5 years ago. I wasn’t in my 30s yet. Oh, I was also 20 lbs smaller than I am now. I laugh every time I see it, because my trainer at the time used to always say, “get your stomach out your shirt!” On this particular day, I reached […]
Many of you may know by now that I recently released my third novel, When the Cookie Crumbles. The book marks the final chapter of the trilogy series. Ken takes center stage here as his perfect image is tarnished. Cookie never believed her husband would have any reason to lie to her. Now, she finds […]
Chelsea is one of the most loved fictional characters I’ve ever written. Many people have told me how much they like her character in my trilogy novel series. Here’s the background story on Chelsea. She’s Cookie’s firecracker sister who helps her with a mischievous plan that they keep secret for years. Fortune Cookie, my first […]
The summer of 1999. We were on the cusp of Y2K, leaving the last of the 90s R&B golden years behind. Destiny’s Child returned with a vengeance on their second album, The Writing’s on the Wall. The project boldly defied the sophomore jinx and became the group’s biggest selling album to date (over 8,000,000 units […]
This past weekend, I celebrated the closure of my first novel series. I say first because I have no plans on doing another one. However, I do like to leave room for chance since I never had any intention on writing the first novel. Cookie’s Last Stand was a celebration of the end of an […]
2019 has been a creative whirlwind to say the least. Coming out of 2018, one of the darkest years of my entire life, I dug deep into my writing for therapy. Those writing sessions eventually birthed my latest and most personal poetry book to date, Eleven: Things We Never Said. Just before then, I had […]