This day and night was insane. I met up with my boy and Director X (formerly known as Little X) and we had a blast!!!! Met up with Kevin Durant, Teyana Taylor, DJ Clue, DJ Suss One, Juelz Santana, and lots of fans later that night. It was a movie, the paparazzi went NUTS when I walked up to the red carpet. Sorry for the weird faces i’m making but honestly i’m OVERWHELMED at how real this celebrity thing is. The NYC paps swarmed me and kept shouting my name I didn’t even know where to look. They kept following me. lol DAMN!! They don’t play. lol But they were really cool. Anyways my dears. Enjoy
This was me being a FIERCE DIVA!!! Right when I tried on my custom fit.
As I was telling you guys. Yesterday my branding manager took me to meet my personal stylist. We then went to a gagillion showrooms off all calibers from high end to your easy budget wear. I went to pick out a bunch of clothes, shoes, accessories, handbags etc Because I literally have NO CLOTHES!! lol I only planned on being here for 2 weeks so I only brought enough clothes and shoes for that. I ended up moving here due to many opportunities that came about. So, bottom line is. I need clothes. lmao Anyways. I found a bunch of things I like. I really like the
I had to get measured, asked a bunch of questions about what I like to wear and what the image was we are going for. Of course I said BOSS!!! I am a BOSS and I rep the BOSS LADY all black everything movement. It was a lot of fun. I especially had fun meeting Shelly from Dollhouse shoes. OMG she is sooooo sweet and we vibed so well as REAL people. Not because she was lacing me up but we really related to each other. It was great, and she let me pick whatever I wanted. I got to order the styles that are not out yet. I was like wow. Is this how the superstars do it?? Let me hold something!! lol She kept laughing at my sillyness. I left with a bunch of bags filled with shoes. There are soooo many I have no idea what to wear and when to wear them now. lmaoooooo This is an ongoing project because seriously I have nothing with me to last me out here. I’m calling my sister and having her ship me a lot of things from my place back home. Anyways. Thank you SHELLY with Dollhouse shoes for blessing me. I’ll post some of my other things that I got. Wait till you see my CLOTHES. Oh-Mee-Gosh!!!!! Then I went and got my HURR DID. hehe
I can’t post all the shoes because for real, there are a zillion of them. I had so many bags. Here are my favorites
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA look at my smile!!! I’m all cheezin. lmaoooooo
Slowly but surly i’m putting together my team out here in New York. Talk about a crazy hustle!! I’ve only been here 3.5 weeks with one bag and I don’t even have a place to live yet. lol I made the decision to move due to all the great opportunities New York City has to offer me that fits in my genre of music. Very excited. I found a few cribs but I want to take my time in finding the right one.
Ok. So. I found a HUGE branding management firm www.MediaMonopolyGroup.com , publicist and manager Maya The B and my law team. The branding firm maps out a strategic plan to turn you into a brand and household name. THANK GOODNESS!!! Both Maya & The Media Monopoly Group will be working together. They work with everyone you can think of and I am blessed they decided to work with me. Since I was picked up by them, my life has been a whirlwind with a STRONG team…..CRAZY! They deal with A-list clients!! The REAL A LIST! I feel intimidated. This is really going down and it’s scary. lol I am happy about it of course. I’m just so humbled and now that I see how it REALLY goes down. Wow. It is not at all what it looks like when i’s all polished up. Anyways. We had a few long meetings, some with a lot of shouting (on my end) lol and some without. They feel I need to tighten up my image and add a little sexy appeal to it. Which I am battling to the end. I know that sounds crazy but it’s only because being “sexy” and an artists for some reason is always frowned upon in the industry in America. But now that I see what they meant, Trina with a mix of Shakira. It’s not the extreme I thought they were talking about. It’s very me and very LATINA Jessica Rabbit, like all the girls in my Latin countries are. Curvy, a healthy average woman’s figure. Turn on Telemundo and you’ll see what I mean. haha Anyhow. I’m excited to say we are working towards becoming a household name within a few years of time It takes time but with the aggressive plan they have me on, it will be in due time.
With the whole image thing!!??!!
I have my first new press photos representing my new music and sound. Maurice (my branding rep) is setting me up with my own personal stylist today. We’re off to get the clothing I need to reflect my brand. Thank goodness because I didn’t bring a lot of clothes with me. Infact. I’m gonna keep it real. I hardly have anything with me **worried face** So the first press photos will be somewhat like my Tramp” cover artwork but with a twist. I shoot with 2 photographers. 1 of them is Feix Natal Jr at http://www.felixnataljr.com/, (the other I will tell you later) who has shot every artist like Lil Wayne, Maino, Wendy Williams etc THIS IS THE REAL DEAL!!!! We shoot this Friday and i’m freaking out haha so excited.
We have 4 red carpets starting tomorrow!!!!!! Agggg, for the NBA draft and hip hop related events.
There is a lot more news to come. Just thought I would share the most important part. The building of TEAM SOMAYA has begun! Don’t get it twisted tho. Not for one second is it time to relax now. This is only the beginning. Now comes the hard work. I’m so ready for it. Thank you everyone for your support. You get to see everything go down step by step. It’s only a matter of time. Wait until I tell you all the collaborations I have done. Very humbling and exciting.
Hey guys. Today is fathers day. And I know that some of you are not happy with your fathers because he was either not there growing up or because he caused so much hurt, that you have not or just simply cannot forgiven him. I wanted to share with you my story with my daddy
My dad was far from a perfect dad. As a child I went through a very VIOLENT home due to him being a severe alcoholic. I can’t begin to tell you countless of times my father would come home and beat my mother, me and my sisters. How many times he cheated on my mother and I was the one who caught him. This broke my little heart as a kid. How many times he went to jail and how horribly affecting that has been to me , even now as an adult. It made me very aggressive and it made me not like men or trust them at all. I cried myself to sleep so many times praying he wouldn’t come home to hit us. The craziest thing is my dad would have days of sobriety and he would have heart to heart talks with me as a little girl. He would tell me to never let a man hit me, or treat me bad because I was a princess and I deserved a good man. He would also tell me to not be with a man like him but that he loved me so much. As a child this was so confusing. But no matter what. My dad would always make sure that I knew I was protected by him and that he loved me.
For years I lived with the pain of what my dad did to us. It made me want to date nothing but GOOD GUYS. But then I met my 1st boyfriend. this guy was my father all over again. He did the worse thing to me and I put up with it. He cheated on me and did other HORRIBLE things to me. Someday I will share the ugliest and saddest part of my life with that bastard. I am forever scared from it but I am far from dealing with that pain again. Well. I came home one day and I broke up with this guy and he wasn’t having none of that. Instead of walking away he was hiding behind bushes, when I walked home he jumped out and BEAT me into pulp. He broke a few of my teeth and I still can’t feel the right side of my face and my nose is still broken.
Do you see the cycle?? It was happening to me now. But I refused to be with this guy. What was happening in my home was now happening to me. I quickly realized that I had to get wise quick about this situation. I wont even mention what my dad to this dood. But. I will never forget the day that happened to me. My dad cried and told me he was sorry and that he promised to change one day. He didn’t want this happening to his little girl. What happened to me made him want to change. You know how I always say “Treat your women as you would want yout mother or daughter to be treated”…?? This is exactly what I mean when I say that. I say this from my experience.
After years of taking my dad to AA meetings, living in and out of the hospitals with him due to his alcoholism almost killing him. I am proud to say my father is a changed man. My father is alcohol and women free. He is no longer together with my mother but, he is a man of god now and he showed me the most important thing I could ever learn. The power of forgiveness I forgave my father for all the crazy he was. My mother refuses to forgive until this day. She has a lot of anger towards him. And that is something I work on with her all the time. I write this blog because I know how many of you are out there hurting due to situations like mine. We all share similar stories. We are all connected. I hope that even though you are not in a good place with your fathers, try to call them, fogive them. Forgiving is so powerful and easier said than done believe me. I just went through a very public emotionally and mentally abusive relationship. I don’t even have to mention who. You know who. But I took the POWER and moved on. Sometimes you don’t even realize you are in that situation. But when you do. Get out of it ASAP!!!! I Forgave the person even though I send them the side eye at times. The power in taking control and forgiving is very theraputic. It takes time and this doesn’t apply to everyone out there. But hey, I did it. And I am one stubborn girl. haha
I now believe that not all men are BAD and I now know that people…..CAN CHANGE! No one is perfect.
