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Fashion

In Your Closet: Zippers

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Zippers take a back seat to no one! This notion, whose purpose is to close a garment, is now THE focal point. Design houses like 3.1 Phillip Lim can solely be held responsible for being innovative when it comes to zippers. Maybe they had an extra supply of zippers. Who knows, but what we do know is that they created a much-desired look. I applaud Phillip Lim for using zippers. This is what fashion is all about. Making unconventional items conventional. Fashion forward celebrities such as Beyonce, Solange and Aubrey O’Day have been spotted wearing a 3.1 Phillip Lim zipper dress or skirt. Could you imagine an outfit made of other notions like Velcro or snaps umm that wouldn’t be very appealing.

Solange and Aubrey are wearing the same winding zipper dress, but in different colors. The dress alone is a whopping $894.00. Ladies please note the difference belting a dress makes. We all have a have waist…..no matter what size you are accentuate it!! Beyonce chose to wear the 3.1 Phillip Lim zipper riffle skirt, which retails for $ 675.00. I don’t know about you but if I spend that much for a zipper dress I want platinum zippers.

If you are daring and bold enough to tackle this look GoJane makes a leopard print zipper dress for $24.80. If you don’t want to mix too many fashion trends together (like the print and zipper) try the denim zipper dress also by GoJane for $25.90. Forever 21 makes a black tank dress with a zipper front for the very affordable price of $13.80.
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Whitney Houston

Whitney Rebounds, Well Sorta

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By Urbansocialight

Ok, you have to admit that although Whitney Houston was a superstar diva, she fell pretty hard and was almost down for the count but she’s back! The haters said she couldn’t do it (sounds like crabz in a barrel behavior to me), but Whitney proved them wrong packing Central Park yesterday with some 5,000 for a Good Morning America performance (which airs this morning on ABC), and looked FAB! That was the good news. The well, not so good news, is that Whitney couldn’t sing. Her voice was nearly completely gone. She told the crowd that it was because she’d just done Oprah and was talking too much, but it may have something to do with the years of vocal neglect.

Her new single and album are called “I Look to You” (listen to the single here). I really don’t like the single, it’s corny and drawn out.  The album would be good for any middle age pop singer, but it’s pretty mediorce for Whitney.  The one thing you cannot mistake is she just doesn’t sound the same!  I find myself thinking, since when does Whitney sound like a fake Patti LaBelle?  The best track is probably the triumphant ballad, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”.  So although she looks great, her sound is lacking.     It’s not just me either.  Other reviews are mixed too, check out NPR’s thoughts here. When the first week sales stats are released, we’ll see if Whitney’s new voice matters to her fans.

On a better note,  I was on Twitter yesterday following the the future male version of me, PR superstar, Jonathan Cheban (or Chebs as Kholoe calls him), was front row at the Whitney taping. He was just twitpicing the best pictures of Whit, so I couldn’t help myself. I’m just SO happy to see Whitney looking like her old self again! Fans of Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane, will recognize her right hand man, mister BJ Coleman who was there with Chebs too.

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All pics via Jonathan Cheban’s Twitter. Follow Chebs on Twitter at twitter.com/jonathancheban

Follow BJ Coleman on Twitter at twitter.com/abjcoleman

Wale

New Wale – My Sweetie

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So yeah Wale is doing big things now.  Can’t call him a crab in a barrel no more.  Not when you’re performing on BET and are on 106 and park.  But he still gets love from the  Crabzinabarrel fam for being one of the few hip hop artists from the DMV to go national!   Check out this hot new song from Wale.   He  samples a classic African song on this track.  If you’re African or ever been to an African party you will probably instantly recognize what song it is.  Look out for his album coming out in October.  I would give you a date but its Wale we all know his album is dropping on Nigerian time.

Also, in cased you missed it, Wale’s Rising Icons aired at 12am this morning.  Lucky us, some got that ish and posted it to Daily Motion, which usually takes longer to get shut down than YouTube joints.  He puts on the DMV, so eff the hating azz crabz trying to pull him back in the barrel!

Jay-Z

Jay-Z BP3- What Do You Think?

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By Urbansocialight

I’m going to be honest. We here at crabzinabarrel.com can’t get our sh*t together on this one. I’ve got my opinion, El Solo Dolo has his, and ReneeWoods has a whole different opinion all together. Today we’re going to do something a little different. We’re not going to comment on Jay-Z’s BP3. I’m going to let the listeners express their own views. So go ahead, tell us what you think about the songs you’ve heard thus far.

Here’s the link to the download if you haven’t heard it, hurry up before they shut it down. Download BP3 here.

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