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Nas and Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives and Janelle Monae’s The Archandroid Drop Today

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:00:03 +0000

Super excited for today’s album release (both I’ll be downloading from iTunes, please support good music). The highly anticipated Distant Relatives from Nas an Damian Marley. I’ve been ignoring all the pre-leaks so that I can enjoy the full album in its entirety.

Janelle Monae’s The Arch Android also drop, I love her eclectic sound and “Tightrope” is one of my favorite songs right now, so I’m excited to hear more material from her this time around.

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S&V Video Round Up

Miss Mikelah — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:22:11 +0000

Drake’s “Find Your Love” premiered on radio just a few weeks after, but now we know what he was doing in Jamaica. Mavado makes a cameo as “the badman”. Pretty sure you can figure how it ends.

Gyptian is steady climbing up the Billboard charts with “Hold Yuh”. Nothing special about the video, but love the song none the less.

Alicia Keys delivers a great video concept with “Unthinkable” featuring Chad Michael Murray as her love interest. I love that the message of interracial relationships crossing various time periods.

Diddy & ‘em Dirty Money release a video for “Hello, Goodmorning”, but it’s a huge yawn.

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Melanie Fiona’s Ay Yo Video

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:17:40 +0000

R&B Songstress Melanie Fiona’s latest’s video “Ay Yo” from her debut album The Bridge.

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S&V: New Music

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:10:28 +0000

New music is in overdrive. Here’s a sneak peak of some of the S&V favorites this week.

The “Hold You” phenomenon continues! Check out the remix from rapper Lou$tar featuring Shalea.

Cosa Nostra Riddim, simply hot! Produced by Ward 21 featuring Assassin, Timbeerlee and much more.

Sade can do no wrong, and neither can Tarrus Riley, great remix to “Soldier of Love”.

Sade feat Tarrus Riley & Duane Stephenson (Soldier Of Love Remix) by jamaicandancehall

The Distant Relatives album from Damian Marley and Nas is coming along quite nicely, the latest leak is a remake of the late Dennis Brown’s Promise Land

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Olivia & Sean Kingston Record New Song

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:55:10 +0000

Remember Oliva (Bizounce, Candy Shop)? She was the first artist signed to J Records, later signed to G-Unit. The talented singer, songwriter, who has yet to reach her full potential is in the studio working on a new release and linked up with Sean Kingston on a new record.

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Usher feat. Nicki Minaj “Lil Freak”

Miss Mikelah — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:41:53 +0000

Usher officially released his video for “Lil Freak” featuring Nicki Minaj from his album Raymond vs. Raymond in stores now. Cameo from Ciara. I think he should have left out the short dance segment, but what do you think?

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New Mixtape from Diva Nikki Z

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:56:13 +0000

Popular syndicated Caribbean radio personality Nikki Z just dropped a new mixtape. Check out some new tunes on her digital mix entitled Fuszion.

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“Licky” from Shontelle

Miss Mikelah — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:43:31 +0000

Bajan R&B/Pop singer Shontelle is back with a sexed up single title “Licky”. Pretty catchy, but I’m not really feelin’ it. It seems like a forced pop song that may get lost on the charts.

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Rihanna’s Writing a Book

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:59:09 +0000

Photo Credit: Rihanna Daily

The blogosphere was buzzing yesterday about Rihanna writing a book titled The Last Girl on Earth. No real details about the book’s content, just a release date of June 26th. You can pre-order a copy on Amazon. I’m sure the book will sell, but I’m not sure I’ll be running to get the first copy. I think she’s had typical island girl upbringing, she’ll probably touch on her past, obviously her relationship with Chris Brown, but other than than I’m not sure she has a substantial story to tell. Maybe she’s doing it for the young girls that look up to her, she received a lot of slack from fans and the media for initially going back to Chris after the incident. Would you buy the book? Or wait ’til your local library gets a copy? (Yes. Libraries still do exist!)

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New Vids: Michael Jackson | Etana | Amerie | Trey Songz |

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:56:42 +0000

Spike Lee directed the video for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” and I was almost brought to tears with all the great footage. It just made fall in love with Michael Jackson all over again.

Michael Jackson – This Is It – Directed by Spike Lee from 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks on Vimeo.

Etana’s “Free” is an emotionally ballad and the video is just at thought provoking, directed by JayWill.

Amerie’s “More than Love” video was leaked. The video features Fabolous and the video makes me like the song more.

Trey Songz released an official video for “Say Aah” featuring Fabolous…mediocre at best.

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