Stop, Chill, Relax

Back with a quick update for all you.

The voting for the 15 Minutes of Fame model contest is up and running right now. There has been a nice response since going up only 5 days ago. In two weeks we will be having the official event at Privilege August 2nd partying it up. It will also be a going away party for Brandon Westbrook. So if your trying to be a certified stand on the coucher for the night, come through and celebrate.

Also the new July Issue is up. The issue features upcoming producer Nicolay from North Carolina by way of The Netherlands. He has been very busy with his last production of Time:Line with beautiful singer Kay. He has been getting nice reviews of the album. Nicolay has worked with the like of Little Brother, Supastition, Masta Ace, Strange Fruit Project and Zion I. If we are lucky he may make another appearance to the Shadow Lounge in the near future.

Just added to my links list is Mark Dockery aka Holaday Doc now has a new blog that you should check out at http://www.holadayvision.blogspot.com/. Also another friend of mines Smurf Smith has a blog that gives you a mighty good if I say so glance back at all the things that made Hip Hop great at http://yosstvraps.blogspot.com/.

Only things left to say is watch for the new promo issues to hit the street, watch for our Happy Hour at the Shadow Lounge, if you need new music to check out I suggest you listen to the new Coldplay and the new Kid Cudi mixtape, and look at this funny photo of Phonte of Little Brother as he did a 6 or 7 song cover of his favorite songs in the 80's.

Take On Me hahaha


Blackout

It's the up and coming!

Hello everybody

It's getting hotter and hotter as the day's go by.

This Friday is the ending of the first round for the "15 Mins of Fame" model contest for the August Women's Issue. There has been a good response so we are hoping it continues throughout the month going into August and the official party for the winner will be at Privilege Ultralounge August 2nd 10 pm - 2 am.

Congrats to one of our journalist Brandon Westbrook for grabbing his job at the Miami Heat. He will be doing marketing work for them starting in August. Hopefully he is still here to party and get sent away correctly.

Also be on the look out for my interview in the Pittsburgh New Courier done by Omar Abdul. Thanks to him for helping us get our name out there a little better as we have been working to get into other news publications around the city.

New Issue coming this Tuesday. Be on the look. www.jenesismagazine.com

Until next time
Blackout

The Frustration

I'm back again this month

We aren't doing the 14.5 Issue for June for two reasons;

1. July just seemed to catch up to us so fast. I think it's because we kind of slacked on the deadline of the June issue since we had to make sure everything was cool with it.
2. The people in the 14.5 Issue seemed to slack on the information we asked them to send back preventing a 14.5 Issue.

oh yeah Jordan Beckham went on vacation also.

Guess we need to work on our consistencies within the magazine. At least we will be having a model contest coming together, may be having a monthly happy hour at AVA Lounge, and soon to really be able to launch some things with the street team. Oh and some more promotional prints will be coming soon.

Just gotta keep working and praying.

Til next time
Blackout.

New JUNE Artist Issue!

Were back this month with a special issue. We have 15 plus artist included in this issue featuring: GirlTalk (our cover story), Gene Stovall, NOVA, Mambo Sauce, and more. Later this month we will be having a 14.5 Issue featuring Dwele, Lady Homi, George Tisdale, and others. Also special on the site is the the video interview with Greg of Girl Talk (video below)

Enjoy!

Upcoming Issue

The June Artist Issue.....is taking forever lol. But it's all good as you know we gonna come with the heat. We have our first good video interview with an artist rather laptop dj named Girl Talk. I didn't know who he was until Jeff and Kate (our new journalist and video journalist) brought the name up. Dude has some good work and his shows are crazy. You will see in the video he keeps clubs rowdy.

Oh yeah the site has/maybe back up but was down due to a fire in our outside server company. They said a electric circuit started a fire that ended up knocking down walls. Crazy. They said the servers weren't hurt though thank God. We would have had to go to a all new server I think and re-put up everything! Maybe I'm just exaggerating ha.

Talk to you peoples later. Watch out for the "Get Down or Lay Down 08'" Summer Campaign.

How To Read A JENESIS Magazine Issue Tutorial...

We here at JENESIS have created an easy video tutorial on how to read our online publication for those of you who are very lazy and don't follow directions.

Just Call Me Stupid

It's been a while.

Since the last blog, We were planning for the One Year Anniversary party.

First off, the party was exciting. Even though we didn't get the bigger sponsor like we wanted to, Absolute Vodka sponsored our first hour of the party with a free drink for attendees. We personally got a free bottle and let's just say we gracefully dealt with that bottle quickly. Everyone came through dressed correctly in their best black white/red attire. DJ E-V from Cleveland played excellent music and didn't play the same song twice and none of that retarded three words per bar rap such as Rocko (I really hate dude).

I think a lot of people got scared away from our April fools joke as we said we were quitting. Believe me we will never do that stuff again lol. People were killing Brian's make believe cell phone like we really quit. And when we put the real issue up I think people thought we were lying lol. Either or we will be coming strong for the summer. We got an all artist issue coming June and and international issue coming July. And we will finish up the summer with an All Women's Issue.

Pittsburgh has been surprisingly fun though as of late. Pharrell came, Lupe came, our party was dope, Fab 5 had Sneaker Me Stupid @ The Southside Fountain Room, The Roots came and performed for free at Carnegie Mellon U., and Devin Thomas danced with his first female at our party. God is good.

Got a campaign coming up though and you shall be first to view it. Check below and if your cool you can ask for this and I'll send it to you to post to your friends and stuff. Other than that tomorrow/today is voting day. Brian has been mad active in telling who he wants to vote for. I'ma go for Obama. But instead of telling you the real reasons, I'm just gonna say cause he is black, he played basketball, his wife is alright looking, and he's not Hilary. (ok I hope you didn't believe that)

Peace out
Blackout