It’s been over a week since Valentine’s Day has passed. Just imagine how many relationships have come and gone, how many have started and disappeared, and the frequency with which the word love has been used by many. Beats for Lovers is the culmination of this raw emotion - whether we want to accept love or deny its power. Produced mainly by Thelonious Martin and presented by iLLVibes, Beats for Lovers is a story for all about how we deal with this feeling: as much as we try to understand and truly think we know what it means, we could never fully comprehend the exact essence of love. These emcees responded exactly as expected - in their own unique ways, with their own comprehension and understanding of love, from a story about the beauty of love and the ideal of love as a transcendental power to the very reason why someone becomes distraught and frustrated with another. There is no human nature without love - love of another, love of family, love of friends, love of an object or passion - it is as necessary as the air we breathe, and every day we are constantly reminded by its inexorable force throughout us.
With 14 tracks produced by Thelonious Martin, and one from AB the Producer and another from DJ Soundtrax, Beats for Lovers includes original songs from Greenspan, X.O., Marky, Pro’Verb, Ra the MC, Wordsmith, The Paxtons, Cayan, Ice the Villain, Dre-Ski, Nike Nando, Amor Jones, PHZ-Sicks, K-Beta, Tha Future, Volition, and Jabee.
AMADI Magazine displays black history every month of the year by promoting young African Americans that actually give LIFE to their DREAMS. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM that seemed IMPOSSIBLE to many blacks across the world. Dr. King’s DREAM was simple; he wanted us to be FREE and he wanted everyone to look deep within themselves and look beyond the color of someones skin, but to look deep into their character.
In 2010, we live in a world where we ALL have a chance to live out OUR true DREAMS and passions and some of us are not “securing the riches of justice and NOW is the TIME to FREE yourself”.
Kanika Tolver: Thank you President Obama for showing us that “all men will be created and treated EQUAL.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
1st Impressions Studio is a really DOPE photography and videography company which was established in 2007. These young photographers Jaime A., Dudley C., and Wanthy D. are delivering quality work here in the DMV with artists like Wale, Phil Ade, Raheem Devaughn, RaTheMC and so many others.
This team enjoys conducting research on how to develop top notch music and advertising videos.
Throughout the Spring, AMADI is giving you exclusive, uncut footage from the recent Haiti Relief Concert at Community of Hope. First up, Reaction Band!
Once called Dream, “Love the Club” (Marc Barnes, Owner) is where the young people have fun. Calling this place just a club is an understatement. Four floors of excitement makes this building an arena of sorts for the young and young hearted to have the time of their lives. Not only do young people indulge in the club they also make it successful. Rumors have been surfacing about the indefinite closing of the club. Articles all over the web along with news stations have been claiming of the mega club coming to a close. This is not true!
The rumors started after the club closed for the weekend because of an altercation inside the club during the New Year’s celebration for 2010. Many patrons were upset because that weekend they were going back to college and did not get to experience the club before going back to college for Spring 2010. Being closed another three weeks after that, even more rumors started to make its way to the surface. Sources say that the club had done everything in its power to prevent the incident and did exactly what it was suppose to do after the fact. To end all rumors “Love the Club” will be opening sooner than later!
Through the film Ten 9 Eight, directed by Mary Mazzio, we are taking a page from the Book of Inspiration, written by kids half our age. The film documents students who participated in an annual business plan contest sponsored by NFTE, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, back in 2008. In the contest, over 24,000 students are narrowed down to the top 35 across the country to present their business plan to high-profile entrepreneurs in New York. The winner receives $10,000 to launch the business plan.
Once called Dream, “Love the Club” (Marc Barnes, Owner) is where the young people have fun. Calling this place just a club is an understatement. Four floors of excitement makes this building an arena of sorts for the young and young hearted to have the time of their lives. Not only do young people indulge in the club they also make it successful. Rumors have been surfacing about the indefinite closing of the club. Articles all over the web along with news stations have been claiming of the mega club coming to a close. This is not true!
