If New Yorkers missed the 1st A.E.R Walk With Style fashion gala in March 2009, you’re still in luck. The Tesla Group has wasted no time in preparing for their 2nd annual Charity Gala held to benefit CancerCare in honor of lung cancer recipients and survivors at Go-Xchange on April 1, 2010.
Today is a historical event for Jay-Z, The Nets, and Brooklyn.
Several heavy-hitters including rap star ‘Jay-Z’ will be on hand Thursday afternoon for a ceremonial groundbreaking of the new home of the NJ Nets. Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter is part owner of the Nets.
If you were wondering about Lil Wayne’s life behind bars, here are some details.
The rapper is living among the general population of inmates at the Eric. M. Taylor Center (the facility for sentenced males at Riker’s Island), but he is also afforded a low level of protective custody, due to his public profile.
Young Money’s princess Nicki Minaj is featured in the Spring Style issue of Fader Magazine. A very interesting article on Nicki.
Born Onika Maraj in Jamaica, Queens, Minaj grew up with her parents and older brother and attended LaGuardia High (“the Fame school”) for acting. But despite the appearance of a nuclear family, behind the scenes was tumultuous, her father addicted to drugs and alcohol, and her mother supporting them on a nurse’s aid salary of $200 a week. “From a very early age, I didn’t know what peace was like,” she says. “I didn’t know what it was like to go to sleep and not know if something crazy was going to happen, so I think I was always kind of crazy, loud and random. My father was out of control. Stealing our furniture, selling it, stealing our money to get drugs.” Minaj’s mother held the family together, was her first strong female role model and fostered her interest in music. “My mother was my best friend all my life. We would sing together. I knew every Diana Ross by the age of eight. Nobody would expect me to know those songs, but my mom would be singing ‘I Hear a Symphony’ and all this crazy stuff. That’s what I grew up on, loving how music allowed me to escape.”