Secret Crushes – We’re Too Embarrassed to Say Their Names Out Loud

Sticking with the theme of embarrassment, this week’s Secret Crushes is ones that we would only share with you (our close personal friends who would never tell a soul). We all have crushes that we aren’t exactly proud of…share yours…and without further delay, here’s ours:

Tristan Wilds

Legacy the New Boyz

LAID | Confessional, Life as a New Author

It has definitely been an interesting month! My book dropped October 1 and here is an update on some of the ridiculousness that has gone down since then:

Shannon – no dead serious, have you bought a copy yet (just lie to me dammit) – Boodram

Confessional…Drinking and Texting Not A Good Combo

Drinking and then Texting is never a good look! Especially if you become another person who is super annoying and crazy!! Let this be a warning for all people that do this…STOP IT!! Put your phone down and the bottle! smh

 

Top 5 Most Embarrassing Songs on Our iPods

What are the most embarrassing songs in your music collection that make you wanna: fake a seizure, start a fire or create a sonic boom so everyone instantly goes deaf?

Topic of the Week: Dating too young or too old/age discrimination

When it comes to dating do you discriminate against a certain age? How many years are acceptable for a person to be older or younger than you when you’re dating or in relationship? And is it different for guys and girls? Give us your thoughts

This is It!

I’m super excited to see this! I don’t have tickets yet unfortunately and LA is the type of city to sell out fast! If any of you see this tomorrow let me know how it is! This movie is definitely going to break every record!
Hey this is Shannon bum rushing on Andrea’s post! I’m going [...]

Wild Girls From the Archives: SWV

Sisters With Voices! Yes they Are! lol
SWV was the first CD I ever bought, back in the day when stores actually sold Compact Discs full of music and people saved up their money to support great artists! I was 7 years old and felt like I was the 4th long lost member of SWV! I [...]

Wild Man Fah True: Mos Def

I forgot how much I was in love with Mos Def. I saw him on the BET Hip Hop Awards and was awakened! Mos Def is one of the dopest, smartest, most creative MC’s of our time. He gets slept on most of the time because he doesn’t make “conventional radio hit” hip hop music [...]

Top 5 Most Embarrassing TGAW Videos

As most of you can tell Shandrea Lewdram makes some pretty WILD videos and even though we have fun doing them all, some of them are truly embarrassing for us when we look back at them now! We have both had guys that we like tell us that they “watch our videos” and we winced [...]

Think About it Mondays | Bullying

LAID promo shot by Shannon Teresa

“Charlene, is afraid to come to school each day because of you two.”
We low-fived under the beige coloured table, though you’d only notice this if you watched the shudder in our shoulders. Our faces were concerned and remorseful but our plans to treat Charlene after tattling, were anything but [...]

Blog Tour – StatusApparatus.com + WIN A COOL T-SHIRT

“After being introduced to streetwear in the late 90s, the idea of self expression through unique fashion became very important to designer Ronald James. The idea of the line is very simple: Everyone has a status apparatus. Your means of expression is whatever is important to you. Expression through intelligent, aesthetically pleasing, risk taking fashion [...]

It Takes A Community to Get LAID Pt III

I am a first time author with a “I’m sorry Shannon Boo – who?!?” name so this right here means the world. The only way for people to really hear about LAID is through word of mouth so thank-you to all who are working alongside with me to make sure more people know about this [...]

Wild Man from the Archives: NAS

This is the NAS that I have a crush on! I remember when I saw the “If I ruled the world video” with him and Lauryn Hill and I was in love! He was by far the best looking rapper out at the time and he was actually good which further fueled my attraction! 
Shannon will [...]

Guess that movie…

We’re back at it! This is a scene from one of my favorite movies! Leave your guess’ in the comments and we’ll post the answer tomorrow. Enjoy!

The Answer

An Open Letter on My Rejected Candy Gram

photography by Shannon Teresa Boodram
The way you made me feel. Oh boy do I ever miss the way you made me feel. I’m not into ringtones, but I made sure you had your own – it was the only way I could keep from knocking over innocent bystanders each time my phone lit up. And [...]

Top 5 unrequited love songs

We’ve all been here and if you haven’t, must be nice. Have you ever felt as though your world truly revolved around someone who wasn’t even on your planet? Unrequited/ unreturned love is the most dreadful feeling but it’s also one of the rawest so today we salute those who can relate to soggy pillows [...]

Blog tour Kick off!

It’s finally here, the kick off of our BLOG TOUR!! We’re super excited to have our first stop with Camara Latrelle!! She asked us some fantastic questions and we had a lot of fun making the video for her! Everyone go check out her awesome blog, “Inside the Mind of ME” (camaralatrelle.blogspot.com) and show her [...]