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Fantasia is known for bringing the party to the A, and this weekend she really showed out for her best friend Lauren's (and her boy Cordell's) birthday. I'm learning that ain't no party like a 'Tasia party!!! They shut the M Bar down, and most folks didn't even know she was in the back partying it up; she did make her way to the front to request some songs...she lost it to "Ain't I" when a special somebody's verse came on (even though rumors are circulating of a recent break up). Shout out to celebrity photographer Romeo for holding it down!!!!

Atlanta STAND UP for A-Town's own Young Jeezy, who pulled in the #1 selling CD for the week. The Recession has been getting excellent reviews, so make sure if you don't alreay have it, go out and contribute to him staying on top of the charts this week.

[PHOTO] taken at Young Jeezy's Voter Registration Drive at Justin's Restaurant in Atlanta

If you were in New York this past weekend and missed The Conquest... A Self Made Fashion Showcase you seriously missed out! Sponsored by The Moguls of Sm.SelfMade Productions, fashion designs De'Francis, BSIXTEE6, "B.A.M.N" By Any Means Necessary, DainHMaschile, Ox*Lunden, and Sheila Ferrer Swimwear to name a few. The Prince of All Media's own fashion advice columnist, Mr. Fashionisto had his clothing line, Olin . Edizione in the showcase as well. It was a evening of great fashion, great designers, great food, great music and all around fun. For more on Olin . Edizione go to www.myspace.com/olincouture and www.modelmayhem.com/OlinEdizione. All designs are originals.

This is a "NOT MISS" event. TIME 2 SHINE will be held every second Thursday of the month at Apache Cafe in Atlanta GA. They have various artists performing from everywhere, from Neo Soul, Hip-Hop, & R&B. The artists performing are up & coming polished artists who you would want to meet and network with. With that being said, come out tonight, Thursday June 12, 2008 @ Apache Cafe to see one of the hottest events to hit the underground scene.

Stay tuned to more blazing events from Urban Female Entertainment! They are definitely on the come up and true grinders to heart! You got our support!!!!

Make sure you don't miss out on your opportunity to travel across the world with world reknowned artist Q. Parker (formerly of 112)! This could be your time to shine!!! Stay tuned to BRiSON for footage from the auditions...

And peep one of BRiSON's favorite ladies, Janelle Monae doing her thang!!!

We definitely want to shout out all of Purple Ribbon for making this a BIG exeperience for everybody (on Sunday I had students & parents calling to apologize for NOT buying me a ticket and taking me with them)! Also BIG ups to Tamiko of Word-Ink for having us in the spot!

Check out a few clips from last week's HOT ON THE RUNWAY presented by Hot 107.9. Even though we think the event SUCKED, we have to admit their performers did great; plus they all showed up (one even with girlfriend Whitey Houston); now that's BIG!!!

It's a shame that the number of Grammy nods doesn't dictate where the actual ceremony is held, if that was the case, Atlanta would definitely be the spot for the 50th annual Grammy Awards taking place this weekend in L.A. Check out the ATL artists (some native and others new) that will be repping hard on Sunday.

The list doesn't stop here, be looking for mega-producers DJ Toomp and C. "Sticky"Stewart to also be repping hard for the A in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories. Also shout outs to Gnarles Barkley and Outkast, they are definitely nominated as well. For a complete list of this year's nominations visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_Annual_Grammy_Awards

Most of you know that I am much more than an entertainment journalist! Along with running the website, and writing for magazines, I am also an author, and 1st and foremost a 3rd grade teacher. Today, my school, MCAA (Marietta Center for Advanced Academics) was featured on the morning news show here in Atlanta. I can truly attest to MCAA being Georgia's premier elementary school, specializing in STEM (science, math, engineering and technology). The school not only has an amazing hands-on school store, we have 3 science labs, a news room, and wonderful students that take their elementary education as serious as they will college; not to mention every student works on their very own tablet-style laptop computer everyday. Oh yeah, and they have ME!!! Make sure to visit my myspace page to see some of the exciting things done in my class!

Check out the news video HERE!!!!

Tomorrow should be a historical day for ATL. Alongside being the Crunk Capital, everybody knows ATL is what’s up right now…have you been listening to the radio at all for the past year or so? Ok, I may be biased, I live in the A, but the fact of the matter is somebody obviously agrees with your boy.

Tomorrow will be the 1st annual A-Town Day, being held at Morris Brown’s Herndon Stadium. The event will start at noon and will be all day…ok only until 8:00pm, but the event is primarily and truly for the kids. Just to prove it, kids 6 and under get in free; anybody over the age of 6 can pick up a $10 ticket before the 24th, or they can wait and grab one at the door for $15. Still don’t believe it’s for the kids? A portion of tomorrow’s proceeds will be going to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.

Lots of people are probably thinking to themselves, “Don’t they bring enough concerts to the A?” Well, A-Town Day is anticipated to be much more that a concert, the event will also be a festival and an overall day of awareness, touching on subjects like health and safety. V-103’s Greg Street will be the host, and for those of you who are interested in another ATL banging concert, here are a few of the artists signed on to perform: B.O.B, BHI & K-Rab, Big Kuntry (PSC), Blak Jak, Fabo, Mason Dixie, Shawty Lo, Heizman Bozy, Kujo Goodie, and the Shop Boyz. There will be many more artists on deck, but I guess you’ll either have to pull out the loot or log back on to http://www.brisonent.com/ for full details and exclusive footage on how the 1st annual A-Town Day went down.

Today is a GREAT day for New Orleans! Original Hot Boy B.G.'s crew The Chopper City Boyz, released their debut CD, We Got This, on Koch Records. It was almost a year ago that B.G. himself signed with Atlantic , but it’s obviously a good look since his group is on deck with Koch. DJ’s nationwide have been showing Chopper City love by keeping their single “Make ‘Em Mad”, but wait till you cop the entire CD, you’ll understand why heavy hitters like David Banner and even New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had to jump on the joint! Make sure to go buy 2 copies of the CD and support B.G, Hakim, VL Mike, Sniper, and Gar – better known as the Chopper City Boyz.

• If you want more information on the Chopper City Boyz hit them up at:
  www.myspace.com/ChopperCityBoyz


• Or you can get at their publicist ChiQ Diva: profitproducer@gmail.com for booking
  (I’m sure you can find them out in the streetz grinding too…they were all over N.O. yesterday signing CD’s and autographs & they are always doing shows here in ATL)


• Check out Break Magazine’s next issue for full story and interview with the Chopper City Boyz!

Last night (January 16) after a malicious raid by APD, DJ Don Cannon and DJ Drama of the well known, Atlanta-based, DJ's The Aphilliates found themselves behind bars. If you've been watching the news, I'm sure you see how they have plastered this everywhere; and for what crime...selling bootleg CD's? Come on! Now there's people out here killing, robbing, car jacking, and they arrest 2 of our "street elite" for hustling? Are they serious? Now this is a classic case of government greed. Just look at it: You've got 2 of the hottest DJ's in the game right now (it's no BIG secret Drama is DJ for TI/Grand Hustle, and that Drama has-or had a show-filmed in Atlanta- coming out soon), stacking bread, but just not officially clocking the dividends...sounds more like a come up than a crime!

According to reports, authorities seized at least 50,000 CD's from the downtown Atlanta location, which will first be put into evidence before being destroyed. Haters! Authorities also confiscated recording equipment, bank statements, cash and even vehicles. Vicious haters!! Apparently, Gangsta Grillz had been under surveilence for quite some time , but come on...how accessable are these guys? They only have one of the illest radio shows on Saturday nights, and do shows just about everywhere-from the concert to the after party. Why all the hate? FREE DRAMA & CANNON!