Solange Talks Balancing Motherhood And Music

solange stage Solange Talks Balancing Motherhood And Music

What I wouldn’t pay to wake up one morning and write a post filled with paparazzi pictures of Donnie Simpson leaving a dinner date Katsuya in West Hollywood. Just one! Until that precious moment occurs, here’s another wig crypt bullet point.

Solange, pictured in all her shea butter glory at the 6th Annual Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier in Philly last week, talked balancing music and motherhood in the latest issue of Brooklyn magazine.

On her decision to move to New York: “You know, my parents are here, my sister is here, my cousin is here, all my friends are here. We really wanted Julez to have the experience that we had growing up—being able to drop in on his aunt’s house and being able to hang out with Grandma and see our friends and have that experience of actually having a soccer game and having family show up.”

On her connection to New York City: “I’m still a newcomer here, but I feel like because my family moved to New York when I was 17, that I have a longer and deeper connection. And I think about the times when I would come and visit them, and I would always spend a lot of time in Brooklyn. So it feels like an extension of me, living here, because I spent so much time here before.”

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Free Advice: Beyonce Needs To Lay It Down On A Pull-Out Sofa Bed And Stay There For A Week

‘I can do all things through yaki that strengthens me’ is a category on C+D, not a lifestyle. When your general health and wellness gives a blood curdling cry of “Retreat! Your track is showing!” from the mountain tops and you choose to ignore it, the end result is all on you boo.

Doctor orders be damned, Beyonce hit the stage a day after having to cancel her Tuesday, May 14, show in Antwerp, Belgium from suffering dehydration and exhaustion. By the grace of Based God it didn’t hit her ass back.

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The Angry Complaints To The FCC About Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Are A Great Read

beyonce11 The Angry Complaints To The FCC About Beyonces Super Bowl Halftime Show Are A Great Read

The wig crypt can’t pay everybody off. Beyonce “gyrating her vagina” in “a stripper-like provocative fashion” while “licking her fingers seductively” during her Super Bowl halftime show was too much for some people.

Deadspin has compiled a list of angry complaints to the FCC about Queen Bey “humping the air for 13 minutes” and its a frickin’ hoot and a half.

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Solange Takes The Stage At MoMA’s 2013 Armory Party

solo mic Solange Takes The Stage At MoMAs 2013 Armory Party

Grab your glowsticks! Backed by a colorful set, Solange rocked the stage in front of a full house at the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Armory Party in New York City on Wednesday night (March 6).

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Mama Tina and Beyonce — wearing a grey jacket with an enormous white fur accessory and burgundy Isabel Marant sneakers — were spotted snapping cell phone pictures and vibing to Solo’s set which included songs from her ‘True’ EP and second album ‘Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams.’ Brother-in-law Jay-Z was also in the building.

 ”Thank you MOMA, and everyone who came and rocked! That was so, so, fun. You guys were beautiful,” tweeted Solange following the performance. Go in DJ Such N’ Such!

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Mission Accomplished: Beyonce Dances To New Orleans Bounce Music At ‘Life Is But A Dream’ After Party [VIDEO]

I asked, believed and have now sorta received.

Following the New York premiere of ‘Life Is But A Dream’, Beyonce let her yaki down by partying to some twerk-approved New Orleans bounce music behind the DJ booth with sister Solange. Let me find out that Basement Baby actually knows hows to bring the best out of people.

PHOTOS: Best And Worst Dressed At The ‘Beyonce: Life Is But A Dream’ Premiere

Also spotted inside the after party: Tina Knowles, Angela Bassett, June Ambrose Chris Rock, Russell Simmons, Victor Cruz, Luke James, and Cousin Angie B! sans fire engine red lipstick.

Press play to watch Beyonce and DJ Kid Creole make it do what it and check out more flicks from the party after the jump.

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