He Said What?: Trey Songz Honey Mag Interview

His perfectly plump kissable lips make me wish he was mine but the words that were coming out of his mouth during this interview made me say what?. (or maybe all men think this way?... at least he was being real... still FINE...from a distance though)

Honey Mag recently did an interview with the highly underrated R&B singer Trey Songz, whose vocal chords do the same for my ears as his abs do for my eyes (...). When I say Songz opened up on this interview, I mean the man OPENED up about everything. (STDS, sex, Kelis and Nas, his porn addiction and of course his upcoming album Ready.)

Here's a little excerpt from the interview...Yuup:

About Porn:

Honey: Let's jump right in it. You are a proud supporter of porn?

Songz: Yeah. I think porn is cool.

Honey: But some things look better than they feel.
Songz:Yea there are some things that happen in porn that some girls can never do in real life (laughs), you know what I mean, unless they are porn stars. I think that’s the cool part about it. It’s like ‘damn, that’s crazy.’

Honey:Do you prefer it when you are alone or when you are with your girl?
Songz: Either.

About Sex:

Honey: What's the difference between the chick you make your girl, and someone who's just a jump?
Songz: My girl gets love. A jump gets sex.

Honey: And what are your favorite things to use in the bedroom?
Songz: My tongue and my penis (laughs).

Honey: You said that you are not into fetishes, but do you role play?
Songz: I will and I have with my girlfriend. I think it has to be [with your girlfriend]. You shouldn’t just do that with anybody.

Honey: Has a girl ever got mad or says she’s disappointed?
Songz: Sometimes it happens. But you can’t be looking everybody in they eye and slow grinding with candles on in every situation. That’s why I make it clear on certain songs that that’s not gonna always happen, like you hear on some of my mixtapes. It ain't gonna be love making in every scenario. I’m willing to compromise to give a woman her fantasy. But [has a girl ever gotten mad] because I won't make love to her? Nah.

Honey: Can you tell when a girl is faking?
Songz: No.
Honey: Are girls really that good at faking?
Songz: I feel like I’m really great at sex.

Honey: Morning sex or drunken sex?
Songz: I say drunken sex. 'Cause with morning sex, the morning may not be right. Some girls aren’t made for mornings (laughs).
Honey: You wake up to a lot of ugly women?
Songz: No, I don’t really have sex in the morning unless it’s really somebody special.
Honey: They don’t sleep over.
Songz: Nah.

About STDs:

Honey: With all this sex, you ever take a trip to the clinic?
Songz: Yes.
Honey: You ever got anything before?
Songz: When I was like 16 or 17, this girl gave me crabs. It was the most uncomfortable shit in the world. I was confused because ain't nobody know I was having sex. So I was like damn what the fuck is going on? I even had to cut all my hair off and I had to eventually tell somebody. And had to go to the doctor.

Honey: And you told her?
Songz: Yea I told her. It was wild experience. We were young. And that was kind of crazy and it was the worst so when I told her she tried to deny it. And I just basically stopped talking to her.

His upcoming album Ready:

Honey: Now with Ready, you have these pre-order packages.

Songz: Yup.
Honey: Why did you guys decide to do that?
Songz:Pre-order packages are for my real fans to see whose going to go get it. It’s a lot to offer there. I think with the pre-order packages you see how hard I go for my fans. It was my product manager’s ideas to put some pictures together and put out something genuine my fans can hold on to. I came with the idea of the “Yuuup” t-shirt and the media department came with the idea of the live video chat.

When He stops being having multiple sex partners:

Honey: How many kids do you want to have?
Songz: I want to have a lot of kids. I love kids.

The rest of the interview is here

Be sure to check out his Anticipation mixtape too, I can't go a day without listening to one of his tracks.

Some fabulous tracks are: She Ain't My Gurl, Does She Know, You Belong To Me, and It Would Be You.

Enjoy :-)

Signed fabulously in PINK,
Tahirah <3

Food For Thought: Whole Foods, Columbus Circle

Found this as I was stumbling around New York.
There's a Jamba Juice inside of Whole Foods, enough said.

Only thing that puts a damper on the green-organic crazed grocery heaven is the popular location which creates LONG LINES but the computerized line teller makes the process seem pretty short-term (except for the people in lala land who are too into the cute guys behind them to pay attention to the line number called (there are like 40 cashier stations), ugh.) And...there's a cafeteria there for people who are so obsessed they stay for breakfast, lunch, and even dinner. (that's me)

Don't leave with out your chic "I'm saving the environment, what are you doing?" Better bag, to stunt on all those other non-green Kroger shoppers :-)

If your in NYC, check it out:

Whole Foods

10 Columbus Circle

New York City 10019

(and it's right across from Central Park)

Enjoy :-)

Signed fabulously in PINK,
Tahirah <3

For Fabulous Eyes Only: P.S. Bookshop

Today I established my love for Brooklyn. I mean I never really disliked the borough, it more like lack of exploration. While exploring and feeding my inner nerdyness, my friend Jessica (the same one from the previous post cause I don't have that many friends here *sad face*) and I stumbled upon this quaint bookstore called P.S Bookshop . It sells used and rare books of every kind of book you can think of (they even have some first edition copies) and since books and I have this page turning relationship, of course I had to buy something. (did I mention the books are dirt CHEAP and they had this section for books about fashion...oh I was sold)

I bought something timeless: Diane Von Furstenberg's biography (hardcover) for eight bucks and something new: The Age Issue for Vogue for this month. (they both should be great reads). The fashion section there made me want to invest in a sign "will work for fashion books," they had everything from Dior in "Vogue" to an autographed copy of Grace Mirabella's biography (the EIC of Vogue before Anna Wintour). They even had The VIBE History of Hip Hop book, which kind of made me tear up. (the book had EVERYTHING about hip hop in it, I loved it)

This bookstore is no Border's or Barnes And Nobles (I mean they are great when you are in a rush with convenience of a Starbucks), which is why I love it, they even have ladders for people to get on to get those out of reach books. Its so classic and independent. which is what qualifies it for a stamp of fabulous.

P.S. BookShop

145-A Front Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Enjoy :-)

Signed fabulously in PINK,
Tahirah <3

Food For Thought: Vinegar Hill House

Sundays are supposed to be relaxed, a quintessential time to reflect on the past week and think of what's next up on the agenda and today didn't fall short to those expectations at all. With the haute green light from Vogue magazine, my friend Jessica and I hopped on the F train to Brooklyn to check out the cozy and hidden yet oddly chic restaurant Vinegar Hill House. (food always relaxs me) :-)

It was very "grown up," or at least it made me feel that way. From the aged and rusty wooden white doorway hidden behind a green windowed screen, it looks the least suitable for a restaurant, especially aVogue recommended restaurant. (We almost walked past it because the only thing it bared pertaining to a sign was "No. Seventy-Two," its address.) But once we stepped inside of the cottage-like Vinegar Hill House, the location fit its atmosphere perfectly all the way down to the brick-paved streets on Hudson Avenue where it sits. It made me feel at home, like I wouldn't have minded staying there for a day or two (minus the fact that the bugs were starting to come out...I have minor bug-phobia but there is seating inside too), some how Brooklyn has created a small country in the Gotham. We sat outside in the "garden-like" backyard with worn wooden tables and rusted metal chairs, surrounded by beautiful scenery from the vine growing on the perfectly chipped painted brick wall to the wild flowers and trees growing in the soil. What made me even more thrilled with the restaurant was the food of course (I mean looks can only get you so far), the menu was small yet diverse at the same time with unique, healthy, and out of the ordinary choices, and a wide array of wine choices. (they even serve octopus and quail...like I said very "grown-up," at least your taste buds should be.) As for the prices, I would say mildly expensive. You can get dinner, a drink, and dessert for a good 26 buckaroos.

I ordered the pasta special they were offering for Sunday with noodles that were hand-made and a thin meat sauce drizzled over it. The portion was quite small, which at first I thought...WTF I need an "Olive Garden" pasta but it turned out to be very filling without making me feel like I should get on a massive work-out plan after the last bite. (I even had room for dessert). My friend ordered the Cast Iron Chicken, which is like their house special, and of course I tasted it and it was SOOOO amazing. Honestly the best baked chicken I have ever had, I even tried the sauteed sweet onions. (note: I absolutely despise onions). For dessert, we spilt the Strawberry Shortcake,which was of course superb. Instead of the usual soft cake, this one had a bit of a "tough" shell with thick whipped cream and glazed strawberries in the middle of the cake. (Simply delectable) Might I add that our waiter was great and he wasn't half bad looking either.

So, Vinegar Hill House gets the stamp of fabulous from me and Vogue (now you definitely have to go try it...a couple of celebrities have even been spotted there) plus it's the perfect date spot, well at night because they have christmas like lighting outside and its right by the Brooklyn Bridge. (I need credit for the idea if it turns into a date *serious face*)

Vinegar Hill House

72 Hudson Avenue

Brooklyn, New York 11201

Enjoy :-)

Signed fabulously in PINK,
Tahirah <3

Hello World...

It is exactly 4:30 in the A.M., the perfect time to welcome my new baby into the "blogger world". Yes, this is my baby and I plan to handle it with care, although I have been through two blogs already this one is gonna be IT! I finally have a clear direction about what I want to talk about...NOTHING! I don't want to make any guidelines or themes, just talk about what I feel like at the given moment and time.

At this very moment I am listening to Pandora on my BB (Blackberry for all you uncool other haven't quite seen the light PDA phone users) but I am listening to music on my BB because the inconsistent internet at the place that I'm renting from in Brooklyn decided to go out on the day I want to write my first blog post (just my luck!), which is hindering from posting this. *sad face* But enough of my technology obsessed ravings, let's talk more about my future masterpiece, The B.A.N (The Blog About Nothing)

Yes, there have been many blogs with this same "name" (which is why I couldn't make this my domain name) but of course not with the same author nor purpose. The name of my blog came from the rapper Wale's mixtape The Mixtape About Nothing (which is hotness indeed), but the blog name also sparked from the nature of my random associations. I pretty much have an interest in everything (this is not an exaggeration), which is why it becomes so daunting when I think about what I want to do with my life (there's so much to choose from). BUT... If I had to narrow it down to two, then my heart would be with music and fashion. These are two things that I can relate anything in my life to, whether I'm uber excited or ready to jump off a cliff (figuratively speaking).

Music: Is one of the most powerful things on this planet. It has the power to make you feel, express your emotions, love, hate, cry. Some songs make you wish you were head over heels in love and other songs make you hope for heartbreak even when you are in love just to endure the emotion of the words sung over a sentimental melody.It has the power to motivate, intimidate, create opinion, bring people together, and break barriers. Music creates possibilities.

Fashion: Another very powerful commodity, it allows other to express themselves without words (some better than others). This is where I want to be, not just because I happen to be blessed with the ability to put together an striking ensemble but because of the impact that fashion has all over the world. The barriers designers have broken,like CoCo Chanel with women's fashion, and the messages that just one fashion ad or fashion trend can send to the world. I love how every element that you pick out of your closet, every jean, every shoe style, every color has been thoughtfully picked out by the experts in the fashion world whether you like it or not, which is why I love the blue sweater scene from the Devil Wears Prada. I want to be apart of this world, I plan to be the next Anna Wintour and June Ambrose put together (they are both the epitome of fabulous).

Music and Fashion together? Now we've got something. They go together hand-in-hand, each influencing one another...which is why you can't love one and not love the other.

So, welcome to my music, fashion, and daily dose of whatever I feel blog. Enjoy!

Signed fabulously in PINK,
Tahirah <3