COSMO COOL: BMI'S HOLIDAY PARTY 2010

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

we had a great time at BMI's Holiday Party this year...check the pics

the spread looked amazing

sweet.....

and delicious....

Super Producer Kwame (r) with guest

Maad*Moiselle, Be Jones, Precise & guest

BMI's Wardell Malloy & Precise

Be Jones, Maad*Moiselle & Unique

DJ Will kept the party poppin!

Lady And A Tramp (Tramp & Precise)

Maad*Moiselle & Wardell Malloy

BMI's Charles Feldman & guests

BILLBOARD YEAR END CHART 2010

Jaheim's 

Another Round 

has been named one of the top R&B albums of 2010 by Billboard Magazine

(ranked #24)

His #1 HIT Single 

Ain't Leaving Without You is #18

on their list for Best R&B Hip Hop Songs for 2010. 

we have had a great year...here we come 2011!!!

TheCASHFLOW "Handle Your Business" Series feat. Bryan-Michael Cox

TheCASHFLOW 

"Handle Your Business" Series 

feat. Bryan-Michael Cox

One of the music Industry's most consistent hardworking composer/writers

Brian In depth look into his journey as an entrepreneur. 

The Grammy award-winning songwriter/producer gives sound business advice.

Bryan Cox is a producer that has been an inspiration for us since his early days at Noontime

(the Atlanta based Production/Mgmt company where Bryan got his start)

Highlights on this clip include personal accounts of how much money it took to fund his businesses, valuable lessons learned along the way and everyday responsibilities required to be successful. From defining moments to words of wisdom, the series artistically showcases Cox's victories and challenges.

Visit TheCASHFLOW.com for more information.

as a special treat here's a few Cosmo Cool favorites of Bryan's AMAZING career!!

JAHEIM'S "ANOTHER ROUND" NOMINATED FOR 3 GRAMMYS!!!!

GREAT NEWS!!

 Congratulations to Jaheim and all our friends & colleagues

songwriters/producers/ musicians that worked on the now..
3 time Grammy Nominated album 

"Another Round"

MAAD*MOISELLE FEATURED ON MTV'S "THE SEVEN"

MAAD*MOISELLE FEATURED ON MTV'S "THE SEVEN"

The Seven - MTV Shows CHECK OUT MAAD*MOISELLE ON MTV'S THE SEVEN!! Congrats to Lady & A Tramp Music's own Maad*Moiselle on a featured promo on MTV!! this is only the beginning!

MADCON ft. MAAD*MOISELLE "OUTRUN THE SUN" X Factor Performance

Congrats to Lady& A Tramp's newest superstar on the rise
MAAD*MOISELLE

MAAD*MOISELLE debuted on Norwegian television
on the HUGELY successful X-FACTOR
with Norwegian SUPERSTARS
MADCON


performing their Lady And A Tramp penned new single
"OUTRUN THE SUN"
featuring Maad*Moiselle

NEW MUSIC FROM LADY & A TRAMP: MADCON ft. MAAD*MOISELLE "OUTRUN THE SUN"

NEW MUSIC FROM LADY & A TRAMP

MADCON

ft. MAAD*MOISELLE

OUTRUN THE SUN

Another great tune Produced by Jonas Jeberg

Co-Written by Madcon & Lady & a Tramp and featuring

Lady & A Tramp Music's own

Maad*Moiselle!!

JAHEIM RELEASES OUR SONG "IN MY HANDS" AS HIS NEW SINGLE!!

We're still waiting on Atlantic Records to give the official word on shooting the video,
but Jaheim is releasing one of our songs as his new single!!

Jaheim's 

"In my Hands"

this is a amazing Luther Vandross-esque ballad..

the wedding song for 2011!!

NIGHT OUT:MONDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AT THE 40/40 CLUB NYC

Dancer/TV personality Shernita Anderson

The Fly Collective hosts a great event Monday's at Jay-Z's 40/40 club 

for a football viewing party called 

MONDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

and it's the ONLY place to be on Monday night in NYC!!

 The crowd is always full of NY's chic set and they truly enjoy the atmosphere while enjoying the game, 

of course if the Fly Collective throws the event, the night brings out the celebrities.

Swizz Beatz, the Dream, Melissa Ford, and of course Jay-Z & Beyonce have been spotted having a great time at the weekly party

StuffFlyPeopleLike's Gabe & Songwriter/producer Marcella Precise

Fly girl Cupcake at Monday Night Lights @ the 40/40 club

BK NIGHT OUT: RUSTIK TAVERN KARAOKE NIGHT

Lisa Smiles & Marcella Precise

Rustik Tavern on Dekalb ave in Clinton Hill Brooklyn has a super fun Karaoke night every thursday,

hosted by our dear friend and amazing singer (and Makeup artist) Lisa Smiles & Augi

Ristikk has this great vintage piano!!

The girls tore down song after song

Augi & Lisa Smiles acting up again!!

We love Rustik!! the food is great and they have a few different kinds of beer and a 

large projection screen for all the sports fanatics!!

LEVI'S "PIONEER SESSIONS" PRIZE PACK

My Levi's Prize pack came today!!!

a few months ago HighSnobiety.com teamed up with Levi’s to give away a bunch of goodies, 

The contest was in support of the Levi’s Pioneer Sessions, 

Levi’s commissioned a dozen artists spanning multiple genres to record a song re-crafted from a classic tune that inspired their sound, for Levi’s Pioneer Sessions 2010 Revival Recordings. Artists including Nas, The Shins, Dirty Projectors and more. 

well I WON and here is my prize pack!!

Lucky for me my prize pack included the Nas “Hey Young World” remake

 & John Legend & the Roots' "Our Generation" remakes

1 jean jacket, 1 t-shirt, 1 set of vinyl 45's (4 pieces), and 1 turntable.

SWEEEEET!!!! 

Thankyou HighSnobiety.com and Levi’s 

PISMO - I WONT HURT YOU [VIDEO]

We LOVE being introduced to amazing new music.

yesterday we were pleased to see a new video from a Great friend and a talented musician

 Pismo
with his new song "Wont Hurt You"

Great song and great Video from the Cali Born & Raised, Brooklyn transplant..

next week it becomes available from Shou Records on Itunes 

Support Indie Music!!

SteffNasty ft. Krissi Luv "Loving You No More" Remix [VIDEO}

Award winning Producer Songwriter Artist SteffNasty (@SteffNasty) of the BeatBanggahz

and the lovely and talented Krissi Luv (@KrissiLuv)

dropped a new video for their "Loving You No More" Remix

shot & directed by

Directed by Dirty Souf Yankee (@DirtySoufYankee)

& Edited by Charlie Zwick (www.vimeo.com/charliezwick)

our readers might remember SteffNasty from a Fantastic remix he did of 

Drakes " Find Your Love"

a soulful number called "Music" that included Steff

Gordon Chambers & Jaiden The Cure on the vocals

this remix of Diddy Dirty Money's "Loving you no more" 

is quickly on its way to replacing the original in my ipod (as Steff's Drake remix did)

its a great visual and the bonus here is a look at a new clothing line 

Heart of the city 

(add them on TWITTER at @HOTC_clothing & the owner AP at @APSuperProducer)

From Krissi's sexy and feminine dark blue hoodie to Steff's purple vest

I'm loving the logo & i'm looking forward to this seeing this streetwear brand flourish

URBLIFE.com LAUNCH PARTY

Producer/Songwriter Marcella Precise & Urblife.com's Tati Amare looking lovely

Last night NYC's fly set filed into 8 Bond Studios for the Official launch of veteran "movemaker"

Dove Clark's

URBLIFE.COM

a great new digital magazine (go check it out)

The Gift Agency, The Connectors & Big Picture Media put on a great event

in a wonderful space in NYC's trendy Greenwich Village, 8 BOND STUDIOS.

NY FASHION WEEK - BOY MEETS GIRL/BOBI/CARAVAN GIRL RUNWAY SHOW

Producer/songwriters @LadyAndATramp

(Terence "Tramp-Baby" Abney & Marcella Precise)

As part of our ongoing coverage of #NYFW New York Fashion Week

we had the pleasure of being invited down to Caravan's spring 2011 runway show

presented by Starbuck's delicious Frappuchino

Showing lines from 3 amazing designers

Kara Lucardi's BOBI , Stacy Igel's Boy Meets Girl & Claudine DeSoula for Caravan Girl

with DJ Josh Madden on the wheels and a live performance from Mercury records artists Neon Trees

we had great seats and thoroughly enjoyed the music, the fashion & the company

Check out this Cosmo Cool Boy meets Girl clip

back to work!!

Precise, Tramp, & Michelle

In the studio with our friend and amazing songwriter Michelle Bell.

Words, Wine & Wow...

ANOTHER LADY & A TRAMP PRODUCTION: MC LYTE "HIP HOP MUSIC"

We absolutely LOVE MC Lyte, she is a pioneering MC and a brooklynite!
we are so happy she has re-invented herself outside of the art form as well,
with a successful acting and voiceover career.

we were amped when Giz (yeah THAT Giz..) of the Audio 2
(who is now a sought after recording engineer)
asked us to work on some music for her..

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

R Kelly, Tyrese & Leon Timbo Acoustic Jam on the Transformers 3 Set

Tonight someone who knows my affinity for "The King" sent me this video.

I had to post this up, I was excited to see this video of R. Kelly in Chicago for a late night acoustic jam session with newcomer Leon Timbo. this dude Leon has an amazing voice

 I miss hearing guys with masculine soulful voices that speak to your soul.

Congrats Angelea!!

Precise with our friend the talented Angelea Johnson (ANTM season 14)

Shout to our close friend visionary stylist Rohn Padmore & our girl
America's Next Top Model Season 14 finalist Angelea
there is something HUGE brewing right now, congrats girl!!

Precise, Angelea & Rohn on the stoop, a brooklyn style power meeting!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAE HOLLIDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

RAE HOLLIDAY 

of STUFF FLY PEOPLE LIKE!!

We thought we'd take some time off from producing, writing & recording

to head a few blocks over to Rae Holliday's birthday celebration 

 tonight at NYC hotspot Glass!!

Silly us..we thought we were getting there early (not) as we were met with a serious line

of folks waiting to get in (the venue was already at capacity!!!) we should have known 

NY's fly set were going to come out in force to party with Rae & company 

Rae Holliday (Stuff Fly People Like) & Monee Perry (Roc 4 Life)

good thing we saw SFPL's Gabriel stick his head out

 just as the always fab Monee Perry of (Roc4life.com) 

who was overseeing the door, spotted us & wisked us right in 

(thanks Monee!! Smooches!!)

(but that doesn't excuse you from not coming by the studio to see us once in a while. LOL!)

Gabriel (Stuff Fly people Like) & Precise (Lady & A tramp)

from there it was a whirlwind of "hey's" and "what are you drinking's" as the rum based cocktails were in effect for the night!

Dj Antwan was providing the sounds!!

Eb the Celeb (Ebtheceleb.com) dancing up a storm!!

Ashley (AshleySkywalker.com) & Crystal of (ammomag.com)

Jasmine aka The Fly Girl (flystylelife.com) & friend

we always have a great time with the whole fly collective team, the most amazing

set of forward thinking, upwardly mobile people you ever want to meet

the stylish Samantha of (Omowrites.blogspot.com) & Chris (Fresherthanchris.com)

The custom cake (yep..that's a cake!!) looked amazing

made by the amazing ICandy Couture NY

these young ladies work is amazing! the faces behind ICandy Couture NY

Tramp (Lady & a Tramp) & Phaon (luxuriousprototype.com)

there was a fantastic energy in the building tonight as NY's beautiful people filled the room with the energy and attitude that defines downtown chic!!

Michelle Coston (@Minnie_Coston)

Ms Winta Lynn looking fab!

Jasmine of (flystylelife.com) & friend

as usual, great night with great friends and strong drinks! LOL!

Candi (Clytephotography.com) was holding down ALL the party pics!

the lovely Kim from Brooklyn's own MoCada was in the house!

publicist Sharra Dade (3-DPlatform.com)

Designer Marc C (MarcClark.com) and guests

Singer Lance Drummonds (ldmblog.com), Precise & Rae Holliday (StuffflyPeoplLike.com)

Some more lovely partygoers wishing Rae a happy Birthday

dueces!! till next time yall!!

We missed a few of the names here 

so leave a comment with the names of anyone you see not tagged so we can add the proper caption.

it was great partying with everyone last night!!!