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The 23rd Annual 9 Mile Music Festival has officially announced Nas as an addition to its concert line up on February 27th, 2016. Presented by Cedella Marley-Booker’s Smilin’ Island Foods TM, the line-up addition adds another layer of musical diversity to the annual benefit concert. Ever since a 17-year-old Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones appeared on Main Source’s 1991 classic “Live at the Barbeque,” hip-hop would be irrevocably changed. Nas. Gifted poet. Confessor. Agitator. Metaphor master. Street’s disciple. Political firebrand. Tongue-twisting genius. Has been invited to grace the stage at this year’s 9 Mile Music Festival. This year, in addition to an exciting line up, concert goers will also enjoy a brand new “experience plaza” offering yoga and dance instruction, along with other activities designed to give patrons an experience in culture, to go along with the festival’s annual musical, culinary, and artisanal offerings. Known for its commitment to its annual food drive and for attracting some of the hottest acts in the world, the 9 Mile Music Festiva l continues to please with the inclusion of several surprise acts to be revealed closer to the Festival’s start date. Miami has seen twenty-two (22) 9 Mile Festivals come and go. Formally known as “ Marley Fest” and “The Caribbean Music Festival ,” This years euphoric celebration of music will be held at Virginia Key Beach, a special and historic venue. Continuing its tradition of giving, the cost of admission will, once again, require four (4) canned goods in addition to an entrance ticket which may be purchased via their website, 9milemusicfestival.com or through exclusive ticketing outlets throughout Florida. (http://sflcn.com/)

Natalie Cole the daughter of Nat King has died at the age of 65. It is reported that she died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital. She had been very sick recently, cancelling several tour dates in late December including a New Year's Eve concert at Disney Hall in L.A. She also cancelled an upcoming February concert due to illness. Natalie struggled with substance abuse and was plagued with health problems, suffering from liver disease in 2008. In 2009, she received a kidney from an anonymous donor after contracting hepatitis C linked to her earlier drug use. She also underwent chemo for Hepatitis C. She rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". In 1987 she re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album, Everlasting, and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". Rest In Peace.

We are a few hours away to ringing in the New Year, but the clock has already struck midnight in some part the world. See people celebrate the beginning of the new year 2016!

A huge fire has broken out in a high-rise hotel in central Dubai close to the world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper at 828 meters (905 yards). The building that caught fire was The Address Hotel, according to Reuters, but reports also said it was a residential building. Burning debris rained down from the building as firetrucks raced to the scene. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured in the blaze. Up to two million people are expected in central Dubai for the fireworks. Crowds gathering to watch the display have been asked to leave the area around the hotel. Dubai’s scheduled New Year’s Eve celebrations would proceed, a civil defense official said on Al Arabiya television.

Caribbean R&B/Pop singer, MonCherie has teamed up with American rapper Safaree, the ex boyfriend of Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj with their song “What I want (wah mi want)”.

I nternational Swim & Resort Fashion Week is a 4 day long event that provides an intelligent, innovative platform for progressive, established, and emerging designers to showcase their collections to international buyers, print & digital outlets, and select style makers. ISFW will take place at the exclusive Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort on the beautiful Caribbean Island of Curacao. The week begins with a kick-off event at the Santa Barbara on Feb. 24, with a slate of fashion shows, cocktail parties and more through Feb. 28. The ISFW is the first swim showcase of its kind in the Caribbean, setting the bar high with promises to provide fabulous swimwear, entertainment and a taste of luxury regarding the venue’s private beach, top-class spa and other premium amenities.

A Pictorial of the cycle Domestic Violence Written by Jamila Choyce Any month in the year is an excellent time to discuss problems and solutions for domestic violence, because every month, every day, and minute women, young ladies, and teenagers are following prey to Domestic Violence and Sexually Assault. The Bay Area’s own local celebrity, Keldamuzik , has joined the debate on this explosive issue - Saying No More!! She is an entertainer residing in Northern California. Acting and singing has been her aspirations even as a child. After attending college, working in Japan and the Caribbean, and seeking other careers opportunities, she has come full circle as a recording artist, writer, businesswoman, actress, model, television personality, and public speaker. She is known as the “ Diva ” on her talk show “ Diva Talks Tonite .” The show features a panel of guests to discuss current events ranging from fashion, health, pop culture, education, entertainment and social issues. Keldamuzik has also involved herself in working with community oriented projects that she's developed, such as The Diva Project. This project entails public speaking and empowering young women to stay positive. Keldamuzik strives to help the world become a safer place for the next generation. Diva takes a stand “No More” Currently, this Diva has embraced the issue of Domestic Violence and joined the core of the public outcry “No More Together we can end Domestic Violence and Sexually Assault.org . When I asked her, why she is lending her voice to the "No More" movement she replied, “…women should not have to live their lives in harm. It's a shame that once we fall in love with someone we latch onto them and we could see no wrong in them no matter what they do to us. This can no longer happen. ” As a public figure, she feels obligated to inform and educate the public on social issues. Domestic violence is a social issue that this Diva is prepared to attack. She further stated, “I'm in support of putting the stop to domestic violence. As women today are already facing so many challenges in society, getting physically harmed by a loved one is the worse. People should treat others the way that they want to be treated. We strive hard to raise families, take care of ourselves and inspire others. Domestic violence should not be on our timeline. We only live once! Why should we live it in fear of being physically, emotionally, verbally, and mentally abused?” Curiously, I asked her has she ever been in an abusive relationship, she replied, “ I have not, but I have had friends that have been in abusive relationships before. I support the movement, because if we do not put a stop to it now, it will continue to happen.” She continues, “ I had a friend a long time ago who was in a relationship and while she was pregnant, he would punch her in the stomach frequently and body slammed her. He hated the fact that she was pregnant and wanted her to get rid of the baby. He would run her head into the walls and dislocated her shoulder, and her stomach was messed up after having a miscarriage. After hearing that story and a few other friends' I knew, who were in domestic violent situations, I decided to do this photo shoot to encourage those to remove themselves out of these terrible situations. ” Again, Kelda Speaks! No More Domestic Violence and Sexually Assault on women, “ Now, women have to know that there are many opportunities and pathways to a supreme life – they need to just say “No more” and believe!” National Resources for BATTERED WOMEN “No More Together we can end Domestic Violence and Sexually Assault” nomore.org National Domestic Violence Hotline Staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers, and counseling. 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) 1-800-787-3224 (TDD) Models: Keldamuzik, Rose Henderson, & E'mari Joelle Hay MUA: ` Aleena Barrow Stylist: Jamila Choyce Photographer: Anthony Jackson

After partnering the Adidas, Jamaican-British stylist Savannah Baker, co-founder of Pum Pum Socks , took her latest collaboration back to her roots, Jamaica to create Pum Pum Socks x Adidas Adilette. In homage to her native Patois (patwah) Baker adds a touch to the Adidas signature slides with common slang like “tun up,” “bruk out,” and “ gyal dem .” They are printed on slides that reflect Jamaica’s national colors of green, black, red, and gold. Baker along with her partner, Gemma Shane , initially started Pum Pum Socks in 2014. The candy colored "Candy Ragga" frilly socks can be seen on the likes of Lana Del Rey, Rita Ora, Jungle Pussy, Azealia Banks, Phoebe Collings-James , and Wynter Gordon . Rihanna in a pair of "Pum Pum socks A favorite of another Caribbean gyal Rihanna , who recently wore a pair of the red, green, and yellow socks to her assistant’s 4/20-themed wedding. The term “ pum pum, ” in Jamaican patois, cheekily refers to a woman’s “lady parts”. Feel the rhythm this season as Pum Pum Socks set the beat. Would you rock a pair of the Pum Pum socks or Pum Pum Socks x Adidas Adilette?

Kris Jenner and her 35 year old boyfriend, Corey Gamble, took a break from all the Christmas celebration and headed to the tropical island of St. Barts. Kris and Corey were spotted out and about in the center of town, shopping at several stores and along with Kris' friend, Nancy Rogers. The trip comes only a couple of days after Kris hosted her annual Christmas Eve party, which the whole family and lots of celebrities attended.

In the world of entertainment, timing is everything. For an artist like Kreesha Turner , that time is now. The Canadian siren has been making tidal waves in her home market, but Kreesha is ready to take America by storm. Evolution is inevitable. Kreesha Turner was born in Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, yet spent most of her years traveling back and forth to her mother’s former home of Jamaica. “A lot of people whose parents are immigrants, never go back to their home country,”Kreesha explains. “The first time I traveled to Jamaica, I was eight months old, and I went every year growing up.”Kreesha absorbed the rich musical history of Jamaica, from Reggae to Dancehall, even attending high school there for the first half of her schooling. Once she graduated high school in Canada, she began her full-time pursuit of music. As any artist that is serious about their career should, Kreesha emerged herself in the local music scene, as she was heavily on the Western Canadian Hip Hop front. She made the exodus to Toronto by 2006 after meeting her first manager, and it wasn’t long before the wheels were in motion. “I was signed pretty quickly out of the gate,”she says.“I was signed in 2006, and I’ve been doing music full-time ever since.” 2008 marked the year everything came together, as Kreesha dropped her debut album Passion. The project yielded the Platinum single “Don’t Call Me Baby,”with Juno Award nominations for Best New Artist and Pop Album of the Year. In addition, Turner won the Canadian Radio Music Award for Best New Group/Solo Artist and was nominated for a MuchMusic Video Award for International Video of the Year by a Canadian. While the first half of Kreesha’s career was fruitful, she still felt stifled. The pressures to be a Pop star by her label at the time led to her diluting a sound that was full of so many cultures, yet it had to fit with a formulaic mainstream equation. In 2011, Kreesha dropped her follow-up album Tropic Electric, nominated for another Juno Award, this time for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year. The album was half-recorded in Jamaica, and Kreesha felt as though she “regained control of the steering wheel”on the project. “I was once again allowed to infuse my Jamaican roots back into my music,”she recalls. “I got to put back the dialect (Patois) that I like to throw in there and I mixed it with the electronic/dance sound that was starting to dominate the Pop charts at the time. To appease the label, I was like okay, I’m going to mix dance music with Jamaica, and I did that on my second album.” As Kreesha readies her third album, Evolution Inevitable, her vow of authenticity remains in tact. The greater whole of Evolution Inevitable was recorded in Los Angeles, as Kreesha and her team comprised of co-writer Daaron Anthony and producer Yonni (formerly known as Young Yonny) were inspired by the West Coast. “I think it definitely needed to be created in the U.S., and what better place than L.A.?”Kreesha explains. “L.A., apart from New York, is one of the main music hubs of the U.S. and I got to be in the thick of it in a sense.”Tracks like the hypnotic “MJ”and “Gimme Dat”lean on Sangeet samples, as Kreesha infuses her slick Patois into the cuts. Other tracks like “Put It Down”and “Badboy”scream Dancehall, while “Turn Me On”is a quintessential Pop single. When you’ve had the success and walked the diverse soil that Kreesha Turner has, there truly is “something for everybody”on her debut crossover album. “I just hope that people find something nostalgic yet new and completely different all at the same time,”Kreesha says of Evolution Inevitable. “We infused elements that we felt would cause people to say, ‘Oh, that sounds familiar, yet like nothing else i’ve ever heard before! I like it!’. The project will be released via Kreesha’s distribution deal with Universal Music Canada and in the U.S. independently with the strength of her power house manager, Nick Cannon; N’Credible Entertainment. Kreesha’s meeting with the mogul was completely serendipitous, as Cannon was a secret fan before it all. One fateful evening, Kreesha showed up at a club event Nick was deejaying. “As I came in, Nick shouted me out on the mic like, ‘Kreesha Turner in the building!’I was like, ‘How does he know who I am?’”she recalls. A meeting led to a management contract, and the rest as they say, is history. The stage is now set for Kreesha Turner to bring her unique take on music across the border. Evolution Inevitable is the first brick in the foundation of Turner’s transformation into an American star. “The U.S. may not have heard of me yet, but I’ve traveled the world and performed on stages with some of the biggest names in music,”she says. “I feel blessed to be able to say i do music for a living, and it definitely feels like the American audience is looking for something a little more rooted. To me, there’s nothing more rooted than Reggae, and I feel that my project will feed the peoples’ hunger, giving many exactly what they’ve been looking for.” kreeshaturner.com

Well look what we have here! As Taraji P. Henson enjoys a few weeks off from filming Empire, the actress decided to keep things hot and spicy with a vacation to Miami. While walking along the sandy beaches, photographers spotted the 45-year-old wearing an Emilio Pucci bikini with matching shorts. She completed her look with fierce sunglasses and a Chanel handbag. Although we're more than impressed with her bikini body, our eyes quickly glanced over to the man she was holding hands with. So, who's this hunky guy getting a little friendly with one of our favorite stars? All signs point to NFL athlete Kelvin Hayden who previously played for the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. While the pair haven't shared any photos together online or commented on a possible romance, we took a good look at Hayden's Instagram and we like what we see. In addition to being totally in love with his mom, the football star is quite invested in health and fitness. Whether boxing or lifting weights, the 32-year-old is working hard to look and feel his best. While good looks are always nice, Henson has been honest about what she wants in a potential boyfriend. As it turns out, it's much more than what meets the eyes. (Eonline)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens showed few signs of flagging over Christmas weekend, barrelling past the $1 billion mark globally at a faster clip than any film in history. It’s becoming old hat to recount the various ways that the seventh film in the science-fiction fantasy is vaporising records, but, familiar or not, The Force Awakens once again ground down high-water marks over the holidays, racking up $153.5 million domestically. That represents both the biggest Christmas holiday result and the best second weekend for a film in history. Domestically, The Force Awakens has grossed a mammoth $544.6 million. Worldwide that figure is nearly $1.1 billion. The Star Wars sequel crossed $1 billion in twelve days, something it took the previous record-holder, Jurassic World, thirteen days to accomplish. The three-day holiday should also rank as biggest Christmas weekend overall in history beating the $269.8 million in 2009, which saw the launch of Sherlock Holmes and the second weekend of Avatar, the box office titan that The Force Awakens hopes to surpass as the highest-grossing film in history. Despite the furore surrounding the return of the Jedi, a few films managed to score with yuletide ticket buyers. Paramount reunited The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in the comedy Daddy’s Home with strong results. The look at a stepfather’s attempts to outshine his wife’s stud of a first husband, came in second with a strong $38.8 million from 3,271 theatres. That was far above projections which had the picture opening in the $20 million range. Daddy’s Home carries a $50 million budget. Fox also scored with Joy , a rag-tag biopic about the creator of the Miracle Mop , that earned $17.5 million from 2,896 theatres. The $60 million film reunites the Silver Linings Playbook team of Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro , and Bradley Cooper with director David O. Russell . It is expected to be a leading Oscar contender. But Point Break , a remake of the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow cult favourite, wiped out. The $105 million action flick eked out $10.2 million from 2 910 venues. The Chinese-American co-production will look abroad for salvation. It has earned a solid $40 million in China, where it opened on December 3. Warner Bros., which has had a horrific year at the box office, can at least content itself with the fact that it’ only a gun for hire on this one. Alcon Entertainment and DMG Entertainment financed Point Break . Sony’s Will Smith NFL drama Concussion nabbed $11 million across 2 841 locations. L Star Capital and Village Roadshow co-financed Concussion, which has a $35 million budget. In its second weekend of release, Universal’s Sisters barely dropped from its debut, picking up $13.9 million to drive the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy’s North American haul to $37.2 million. Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip also showed some endurance, adding $12.7 million to its $39.4 million domestic gross. Paramount’s The Big Shor t expanded from eight theatres to 1 585 locations on Wednesday, picking up $14.5 million for the five day period. Its gross stands at just over $16 million and a further expansion is planned for January 8, at which point the comedy about the financial collapse will be in roughly 2 500 theatres. In limited release, the Weinstein Company’s 70 MM “road show” version of The Hateful Eight racked up a sturdy $4.6 million from 100 locations for a $45 365 per-screen average. Fox’s The Revenant also did well in a handful of theatres. The blood-drenched revenge epic picked up $471 000 from four locations, for a per-screen average of $117 750. That’s the second best average of the year, behind only Steve Jobs with $130 381. But The Revenant will need to resonate with mainstream crowds if it hopes to recoup its $135 million budget – something Steve Jobs failed to do. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film as a wilderness guide abandoned by his colleagues after a savage bear attack. (Reuters/Variety)