How Michael Jackson Should Be Remembered

Watch how the crowd reacts!

DOA!

Best Video in a while!

This confirms that Jay is the best rapper (and hip hop icon) alive!

Sterling 2 Platinum

Most of you know that my email address for the last few years has been Sterling2platinum@yahoo/gmail and that idea, going from "Sterling" to "Platinum" represents my evolution as a teenager to a young adult. It was a pun because of the music industry (platinum=success, selling 1 million albums) and I was pursuing success in the music industry at the time. I received a lot of success in the music industry since that time and I'm in the process of achieving much more, yet my definition of success has changed immensely as I have made that transition from teenager to young adult. As you can see from my blog posts in 2008, most were about "The Good Life" as someone like Kanye West would describe it (prior to "808's and Heartbreak") and now, in 2009, I've come to the realization that success and achieving one's full potential is not an individual activity. Greed and jealousy do not get people far, in fact they frequently take people millions of steps back. Lots of the people I have looked up to in the past have been motivated by jealousy and/or greed and I see lots of people in my generation motivated and pursuing lifestyles that will ultimately not fulfill them. I hope this blog inspires people to reevaluate their dreams and pushes them to have benevolent influences on culture and society.

First Thing That Came Up

When I google-imaged "Elegance"

Lol

What do you personify?

Every few days/weeks or so I get fascinated with a concept and right now, I'm fascinated by elegance. Elegance is far from extravagance, is distant from accomplishment, different from class and impossible to achieve with anxiety and negative thoughts.

To me, elegance is about inner beauty and generosity and giving and showing love to others without expecting any back for yourself.

I believe elegance is predominantly personified by people that believe in karma and appreciate God and nature and the feeling that what they sincerely put into and give the world and the steps they take toward achieving a more benevolent society is a means and an end at the same time.

I couldn't agree more with William Ellery Channing's sentiment more when he said it's better to see elegance than luxury. Meditate on that thought, today. Money can buy a luxurious lifestyle but being content with one's self and the love surrounding them is priceless and substantially more fulfilling in my mind. Too often, people pursue extravagance and forget about what would really fulfill them... they act fake and insincere and draw attention and are gravitated to the wrong things.

Often, it takes the reevaluation of our goals and stepping outside of our comfort zones to truly achieve, deep down, what we know is best for us and the world. Be an inspiration to others through your kindness and allow the manifestations of your positive (not jealous nor greedy) thoughts dictate who you are in the world.

My Future...

B&J in St. Barths on their yacht

Tough Day @ The Office

My baby cousin, Everett, on Christmas Eve. SO precious!

Wow

Dad: Why are you watching Bromance? It's just like the BFF show with Paris Hilton but with dudes

Me: OMG! I am SO proud of you for making that connection!

(Dad rolls his eyes and leaves room)

Tom and Giselle Are Engaged!!!

How romantic is this? Tom proposed to Giselle on a private jet flying to Boston with 4 dozen white roses and lots of champagne. This is exactly how I want to be proposed to... gentlemen, take notes ;)

My Favorite Video of The Year!!!

True Story

"All that matters is people. You'll spend your life paying or profiting from how you treat 'em"

Who put me in this state?...

silvaster423 (7:54:15 PM): sometimes, very rarely, i get in these emotional, creative moods

silvaster423 (7:54:34 PM): like u know how rappers feel a flow coming on and need to get to a studio asap to pour out their soul artistically?

silvaster423 (7:55:06 PM): once in a rare while, once a month at most, usually just a few times a year, i get like that and write the most incredible poems/songs/paint pictures/play piano, etc

silvaster423 (7:55:19 PM): and now i'm in one of those moods

silvaster423 (7:55:27 PM): so i gotta pour everything out




I'll keep you posted on my final product, whatever it may be... I'm feeling a prose comin' on

I am... Sasha Fierce

Diva is the female version of a hustler

I'm Not A Biter, I'm A Writer

For Myself and Others

A Picture's Worth 1000 Words

All 1000 of mine describing Michelle Lee in her newly-decorated room have postive connotations... what do you think?

Inspirational Deja Vu

I'll always remember the first time I met Kanye West. Less than a month after College Dropout dropped, I noticed a short guy with a extra tight, extra bright magenta polo with an equally flamboyant louis vuitton knapsack strapped on his barely 5'8 frame. Surrounded by a mop of seemingly larger guys , sportin the stereotypical hip-hop attire, (XXXL Rocafella clothing), I knew it had to be Kanye West and friends staying at my Columbia, Maryland hotel the day before my 16th birthday. After exchanging dialogue with the Roc Boys who were in the building, I realized I was going to have the "oh what a feeling, I'm feeling life" type of birthday and year. Already a fan of College Dropout, it wasn't until listening to my newly autographed copies of "I'm Good," "Louis Vuitton Don" and "Get Well Soon," that I knew Mr. West was going to change hip hop culture. Consequently, American culture. I was inspired to pursue a career in the entertainment industry to be a part of the influential evolution.

I haven't felt that way about hip hop in quite a while. Jay and 'Ye, with a few Weezy, Jeezy and Luda tracks in between, have captivated me since that time, but no new artists have truly inspired me in this same degree.

Until this morning. When I listened to "Sweatpants in the Club," Phella's premiere EP. The same feelings that I felt as I was listening, over and over again, to the Kanye mixtapes in my car as I drove across Maryland, Delaware, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, more inspired and empowered as I crossed over into each state, is the same feeling I felt as I listened to his tracks today.

November 14th, 2008 when "Sweatpants in the Club" officially became available for download online was undoubtedly a "Phella Day" and I'm looking forward to quite a few Phella Years to come.

It's Amazing...

I still get chills everytime I watch this and it never ceases to inspire me:

Alessandra Stanley on Obama's Victory...

Via NYTimes: "There have been other extraordinary events that have put on pause a routine and threw the country into a passionate babble of conversation, but in recent times, theey have mostly been bad news: presidential assassinations, hostage crises, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq and, most recently, the financial meltdown on Wall Street. The election wasn't a distraction like a celebrity arrest or a royal wedding, it was something that actually mattered and wasn't painful. And that alone made it an amazing television moment."

I Absolutely Love Cultural Victories.

I Love America More Each Day

Diddy's Twins Endorse Obama!!!