From Coola:

Peace Queen,

Thanx 4 the connect. I have to give it 2 U straight, musically you’re a whole diffrent type of animal. As wild as “I Am” can be, you seem to know jest what it takes to keep a persons attension. I’m not a big techno fan, but jest when I’m saying to myself, “that’s enough,” in come the horns in the right place at the right time. It get’s wild again, but only now I’m interested. Curious as to where your gonna take it next, then before you know it that phunky ass bass line takes over. Like silent murder ya heardz me..; I know ya heard me. The electric guitar is used perfectly, now I’m like I don’t know what the hell she doing but she doing it. The song is over and I’m tripping cause I actually listened to the whole shit, thumbs up Queen. Like I said from the beginning, your a whole diffrent animal. Keep phukin’ our head up shawty, don’t even give us a chance to put U in a box. Get big and stay bold, stay blessed and keep grinding.

One.

WOW That was hot. Thanks man! May God bless you infinitely.

In real life and virtual life (of which real life is the engine), it’s important to have friends. If no one knows who you are… if know one is on your team, then does your art have a voice? Does that voice make a sound if there’s no one there to hear it? No matter how independent we want to be, we can’t make anything happen without the help of people other.

Food for thought: Try going Platinum as an artist without 1 million people to be your fans… and good luck!

My songs are starting to get noticed around here. People are calling me and telling me that my songs are helping them with relationships and figuring out what they want in life. Wow! My hip hop classes are full and people are telling me that I inspire them. What’s more? I come online and check my profile to find out that several of my songs are starting to be “favorited”! Yes, I made up a word. That’s fine…

Favor is a great thing! I see now… I can actually do this!

The Enlightenment is…

I wrote my first song at only 6 years old. I started working on the concept of the Enlightenment at age 12. It took me about 2 years to get it right. I’m sure that it’s no coincidence that 6 × 2 = 12. Numbers are very important. We need numbers to keep up with time, dates, account balances, age, mileage on a car…. we even need number to teach an 8 – count of choreography or count a bar of music with 4 whole notes in it. Even computers break down every konwn language into to a series of 0’s and 1’s. And just like with people, you can have “positive” numbers and “negative” numbers. So what does numbers have to do with the Enlightenment? Life itself. Life is a constant stage of evolution. To evolve, is to add something to something that already exist and create the sum or something new. Just like with numbers. So with the Enlightenment that I am impressing upon those that will listen… is an evolution of time, space and energy. All of which, is measured by a number. And the good thing is that it never stops because numbers are infinite. And so is forever…

I’m not here to measure what anyone might gain from this experience. The range of absorption is too large. But I can only propose that there will be no one that leaves away from this experience with nothing. Nothing isn’t an option here. Process it all, if you can. But it’s not possible to go away with nothing. God didn’t give me all of these gifts for… nothing.

My dancers and I have worked hard to expand the Enlightenment Experience to be everything that we feel and envision. Everyone adds their own piece to the puzzle. I’m not interested in calling them background dancers. They are as much apart of this image as I am. Just like… God created this world but you don’t see him physically walking around in it and stealing the show. (He did it once before… and we’re still talking about it.) I’m thankful for my dancers and they are among my closest friends. Nothing is more wonderful than have friends that you can also create and produce good fruit with. That’s what it’s all about anyway. We enlighten each other.

I come from a great vine of strong women. Coretta Scott-King, Rosa Parks, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou, Phylicia Rashad, Gladys Knight… they are all my sorority sisters. I am next to tell my story. A powerful story. An Enlightening story…

And it all starts here… on Our Stage!!!