Mr. Ta'le-Sekani's Video Pick for the Weekend! Ch-Ch-Ch-Check it Out!

It's basically the weekend, officially summer, almost July, and hot as HELL! So to get u in the mood for the weekend (Seu Jorge at Summerstage on Sunday, anyone???), check out this video from Saian Supa Crew, a dope French Hip Hop group that my Dad's really into. Yup....Pops is down with International Hip Hop (fact #1: he knows waaaaay more than we do about the French scene. fact #2: It's cuz of him videotaping "Pump It Up" and Ol' School "Rap City" with Da Mayor back in the late eighties/early nineties that I even got into this Hip Hop/Film/Music Video thing!!). So big ups to Mr. Ta'le-Sekani for sending the knowledge our way.........

Can't forget about Moms either.....she's cooking up the goodness! No doubt.

xoxoxo
ya girl friday
jaq

p.s. much love to A$'s fam, aussi! they hold us down M.I.A style........

p.s.s. the video's a silly one.....just like the man who sent it to us, lol! life is too short to take it so seriously.....let's have some fun folks......

Out And About!!

Before I launch into a long diatribe about how cool I am and why you should love Nou La......I gotta acknowledge how pissed off I am. Of course I had just gotten all deep into my latest post about what's been going down (Please Note: not Young Joc style....what's up with all the "Young" this and ""Young" that anywaz. Jeezy, Dro....etc.....but i digress).....all of a sudden, my Safari decides I got too many windows open and shut down my s**t. Boooo.........NOT cool.

Anywayz....let's get my shout-outs out the way. (INSERT SHOUT-OUTS).

Ok, now that that's done, lemme let y'all know that Nou La is holding it down for the Left Coast (Killa Cali, whut! Dena, Mt. Washington, Crenshaw and Slauson- get at me!!!), the Best Coast (NYC! Harlem World! Hamilton Heights, you knoooooow! Ok ok, and Brooklyn too. Everybody loves BK), and even down souf (M.I.A/Palm Beach).

While ya girl A$'s been holding it down in sunshiney Florida, I, Jaq da Rippa aka Ya Girl Friday's been roaming the screets (and I do mean screets. My people's from the crooked letter state, ok?) of New York creating much trouble, causing much ruckus, WHUT!

lol....ok, not really. But we have been tres busy, which is why we ain't posted nuthin' in a minute.

WHERE/HOW/WHAT WENT DOWN:

20 Pine Street, TRACE'S screening of Larry Clark's "WASSUP ROCKERS". The Financial District......what more can I say? I was totally geeked to be in such swanky digs within an arm's length distance from dude. Wowzers! Perhaps it was all the hype, but I was super excited to see the new flick (Kids is classic, no?) and then was um.....kinda underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong, I definitely enjoyed moments, but I just didn't feel all the passion I kept hearing about. I dunno....actually, it was probably just the premature buzz that let me down hard, save for a few reeeeaaallly bizarre death scenes. And Janice Dickinson's cameo was PRICELESS! Don't wanna spoil it though......go see for yourselves.

BROOKLYN!!!! The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival this past Saturday was off the chain.....real talk. Surprise guests C.L. Smooth and Buckshot really showed the chick love.....muito obrigada for keepin' it real fellas! Talk about a feast for the Hip Hop heads...there were many old school heads in attendance (Just Ice, etc.)! One of the many highlights for yours truly was when I was onstage filming the audience during "T.R.O.Y.".....and "Spottieottiedopalicious"......and "Ain't No Half Steppin".....ok, so the whole day was a dream come true. Thank you Brooklyn Bodega for putting a girl on!!!!!!

Up Next.......more randomness and....uh, other stuff (hopefully some pics, damn!). Just stay posted....stay glued to your computer screens. Fa real....don't move.

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xoxoxo
Ya Girl Friday

BLACK HISTORY MINUTE w/ NLP

We bet by now you've been working diligently on figuring out how to either
a) pronounce the name of the dopest new independent film house on the planet, NOU LA PRODUCTIONS.

or

B) find out what it means

....and put the high school french books away...

NOU LA is Kreyol, from the island of Ayiti, or Haiti. Show some respek! Mad love to all our haitian fam here, oversees, and @ home.

Kreyol is a mix of several West/Central African languages, Arawak and Taino languages, French, spanish, and in later years...english....Ahh...learn something new every day, huh?

NOU LA luvs da kids! So study hard!

And STAY TUNED FOR MORE KNOWLEGE DROPPED
IN INTERVIEWS W/

MOS DEF,
M1 and STICMAN of DEADPREZ,
LUPE FIASCO,
JAZ-O

and others!


We've begun what will be a beautiful relationship...so ...take it a step futher and find out what the words mean...and here's a hint...google's got searching on smash.

xoxo

Alex and Jaq

In The Beginning......

what it is world? you're probably asking yourself "qui ca?", "who/what the f**k is Nou La Productions?", right? Though we'd love to wet your palates with the goodness that is NL, we gotta keep you waiting just a little bit longer, seen? please.....don't despair. soon come mi bredren an mi sistren.......you'll feel the love (errr.....or wrath, depending on what we poly'n on). But don't get mad mates......in time we'll be bringing clips from our upcoming flick, music videos, interviews, plus victories and vice galore aka a peek into the lives of Nou La (with our opinions on everything from globalism to the V.I.P room we snuck into the other night). Enjoy the ride. Expect the unexpected. Yup, get excited. We a run big tings fa true. "Qui ca???" "Nou La". Seen......