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This is my follow-up post to my previous Blog post titled: "Straight Outta". Just as I figured, the movie Straight Outta Compton blew the Box Office Records out the park. The movie's Gross Earnings for the opening weekend of August 14-16, 2015 was $56,100,000! Remember in my previous post I said, let's see how much the film will earn, who will reap the financial benefits of the film, and where will the money go? Well, it looks as though Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, & Universal Studios will earn the bulk of the Revenue generated from this film. With Ice Cube & Dr. Dre's collective earnings or Net Worth from over the years, they should start their own Distribution Company, which would allow more African-American Artists,  Producers, and Film Makers to capitalize on their investments! Yes, Ice Cube has his own Production Company called Cube Vision, but ALL Production Companies still need Distribution deals to Market & distribute the content. I still have not

The other day I found out about a woman in Geismar, La. (Just outside of Baton Rouge) who had been brutally killed by her estranged husband with a baseball bat. Yes, a bat! How cruel and vicious is that?!! Not only did the guy beat her to death with a baseball bat, but he hit her 18 year-old son with the same bat, causing injury to his arm. Now I can only imagine that this young man was trying to defend his mother when he was struck with the bat. Yes he survived the ordeal, but this young man will definitely need prayers, because now he has to live with this for the rest of his life. I pray that by the grace & strength of God he will continue to pursue all endeavors and go on to make his mother proud! The victim's name was Monica Johnson. She was a beautiful woman. She had actually taken the necessary steps to get away from her crazy husband. At the time of her death she actually had a restraining order against her husband. Unfortunately, he did not adhere to it as he chose t

Hmmm...how do I approach this? I'll just start by saying this.... The movie "Straight Outta Compton" will be hitting theaters this weekend. Yes, I used to listen to N.W.A. back in the day, hell most of us did at Henry Ford Junior High in Avondale, La. However, as you grow & learn...you change. People change. So, knowing what I know now about the music industry & how Hip-Hop has drastically changed over the years, I paused for a moment when I heard about the movie. I paused and thought, do I really want to go see this movie? Do I really want to contribute to the further destruction of our people? Then I paused again and thought...why NOT just look at it in a different perspective? Keedy, this would be another learning opportunity for your analytical brain. Think of it as a Research or journalistic approach. Don't Research Analysts & Journalists seek out facts? Don't they look for truth? Don't they seek out for answers or to validate stories? We

http://mediatakeout.com/274685/killed-by-a-fake-butt-beautiful-woman-who-worked-at-bet-died-getting-her-fifth-illegal-butt-injection-ladies-be-careful.html?mobile=1 This is such a sad and horrible story. Too many young girls and women are dying to "fit in" to a certain category. Sadly, many feel as though they are less than a woman or considered less attractive because they don't have a Big Booty comparative to a celebrity such as Beyonce.  Although, that's even questionable and debatable by many. However, when it gets to the point where girls start to seek outside of themselves to make themselves appear to be more attractive,  that's where it can become dangerous! As a woman myself, I know how hard it can be at times to feel the need to compete, but life's journeys has taught me differently. When we start to focus our attention more on ourselves,  our strengths, our beauties, our own Self-Worth, then and only then can we move forward towards our ultimate d

Have you ever heard someway say these words: "She's going from pillow to post"? Well, what that basically means is, the person has no stable home or has no stability in their life. I can remember a time when I too was from "pillow to post", just back and forth between my great-grandmother's and my mother's house as a child. Then there was a time in my teenage years when I was living with an older cousin, we moved quite a bit as well. Again, from pillow to post...from place to place...from apartment to apartment...from house to house. ...from house to motel/hotel. Yes, I said hotel! We stayed at a hotel for a brief moment of our "pillow to post" season. Although we can laugh about it to this day by calling it to roach motel, Lol, it wasn't a laughing matter at the time. You see what brings me to this topic is two things: Indecisiveness and being stuck in life. When you don't have stability in your life, you don't have clarity or

So, I was listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show this morning and the Strawberry Letter was read. Title: "My Husband Donated His Sperm to His Ex." My first reaction was: "What?!" Then as Steve began to read the letter, there were a few things that stood out to me: 1.) In order for her to find out 2 years AFTER the child was born, that let's me know that he failed to communicate the plans with his current wife. 2.) How did she find out about the child? 3.) If the husband was so quick & willing to run to the needs of his ex-wife, but brush the current wife off several times when she wanted to have a baby, that's a clear sign of his priorities.  The current wife is NOT his top priority. Now although she is contemplating divorcing her husband and he has apologized for everything,  it is Not going to be that easy to repair the broken trust & lack of Communication. My next thoughts were more in line with one of my husband's cousins: "I

Reintroducing....KISE! June 18, 2014 was when my brand KISE came to fruition. KISE started out as an acronym for "Keep it Simple Enjoy" your hair, but now I am Reintroducing it and extending the meaning! I believe we all go through rough times and seasons in our lives; but I also believe there are times when we can make things more complicated than they should be, by worrying and/or stressing when we don't have to. So, I posed this question one day: Why complicate it? Why not just Keep it Simple and Enjoy...life or whatever it is we want to enjoy?! So, I'm going to stick to the purpose of my blog of helping You move forward to become the Star that you were created to be. However, I'm going to take it up a notch by posing this question: How do You KISE? There are many ways we can KISE. Here's a few examples: *Mindset Matters - Grab hold of ALL thoughts & make necessary changes. Simplify what you can. *Daily Routine or Schedule - Do you have one? Is la

https://youtu.be/stuySQv7qw4 Ladies, don't get Dickmatized (sprung on a man's sexual performance), caught up in unhealthy soul ties... Wondering why... You can't let go Wondering why... You can't  grow You can't find Mr. Right when you keep running to Mr. Wrong. Yes, I know he got your mind blown off the way he put it down in the bedroom, but if that's the only place y'all hang out & explore...then it's time for you to explore & Get Gone! Time to explore your options by redirecting your focus. When you focus on what it is you truly want, then you'll be better equipped to make wiser decisions. We can't always see clearly when we're in the clouds, mesmerized by the "D". Gotta see past that & get to the mental & spiritual side of each other. Being dickmatized is another form of addiction, whereas you find yourself daydreaming & craving more of the temporary fix. By always allowing him to come on through fo

Greetings on this Wonderful Wednesday! Here's my TIP for today: Leave NO Money on the Table! When doors of opportunity knock, you need to be available to answer. I have been in the Healthcare Industry for the past 9 years, working in Accounts Receivables, and too many times I see doctors leaving "money on the table". All because his/her staff failed to do their job or go above & beyond to do their due diligence to bring in the Revenue! Case in point: I fight with health insurance companies all day to get claims paid. When I tell you most of the trends I find are Front End issues, you would not believe it! Doctors are losing so much money (I'm talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions) because of lazy or incompetent staff among various other reasons. Due to New HIPAA Laws, All providers (doctors) must have a unique National Provider Identification Number (NPI) on file with various medical insurance carriers. Well, in most cases, the issue I

Last week my husband asked me a question: "Why did you quit those jobs years ago when you were with your ex-husband?" My Answer: "I was young & naive. " He was referring to the time when I worked two jobs. Yep, I worked two jobs at one point in my life...when I was single. I had dreams & visions of getting the things I wanted in life, by doing what I had to do. We continued the conversation, and I elaborated by explaining how a certain disagreement forced me to quit one of the jobs. Furthermore, I had already quit the first job due to time. You see, I made the decision to let one of the jobs go in order to spend more time with the person I was involved with at the time. I won't go into all the details of what went wrong & how that relationship ended, but I will say this... In life, we all must make choices, of which can determine how the rest of your life can play out. Had I stuck to my plans prior to that relationship & several others, m