HEY OUTSTAGRS!
ITS THAT TIME!!
TIME TO GET TOWNED!!!
As we continue to gather ourselves on this Coronavirus pandemic and public events and entertainment and leisure establishments closing, people are managing and trying to adjust to quarantining themselves at home people are trying to find ways to keep themselves busy and unbored with family, relationships and themselves.
This week's topic is: BOOSTING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
As we continue to remain vigilant during the pandemic, there have been pros and cons about the STAY AT HOME mandates that city and state governments across the country--even protests for the mandates to be lifted.
But those instances shouldnt deter us from the main issue--keeping healthy.
More specifically--immune health.
Just as it is when you try to keep from getting sick from a cold or flu, mainyaining a healthy immune system will help rid of those ailments.
And it can work for COVID.
Here are a few things that can be done to boost your immune system--naturally on the daily.
1.Excercise. Getting the muscles moving and running can help rejuvenate the immune system. Home workouts and backyard sprints are great ways for this and it induces endorphins from the brain to relax the body from stress.
2.Drinking water. Keeping the cells bathed in water will help lubricate and rid the body of inflammation which is the main reason for sickness. Alkaline water is the best but alternatives is drinking lemon tap water (lemons help rid the tap in the water.)
3.Lemon water. Lemons are a great antiviral fruit. its contents in hot water with organic or pure honey (another antiviral food) can keep the immune system elevated.
4.Garlic. The contents in garlic are great to rid the body of viruses. You can chop up a bulb in tiny pieces and scoop honey on a spoon and swallow. Its the best alternative of taking antibiotics from a doctor.
5.Green Tea. Ginger Root Tea. Oregano Tea. These herbal teas have great antivriral contents that can drunk cold or hot in a tea cup mixed with lemon and honey.
6.Rest. With all the time that we have these days, having a good day or nights rest for a few hours will help heal the body of any inflammatory problems while using the aforementioned.
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Our company Maatology Productions will host a private Paint and Sip (PAINt STRIP OR DRAW) that will be livestreamed on Patreon JUNE 13. Male models will be posing in artistic nude form at their locations to be sketched or painted nude by their supporters who will tune in to watch. It will cost $5 on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/outonstage . Parts of the proceeds will be donated to a COVID foundation or cause.
We are also seeking more Models who would like to participate. You must be comfortable being in undergear or nude with frontal hidden, have a well lit area to pose, a decent sound mechanism to play music and have a decent build. If thats you, email to maat.atkins@gmail.com
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FASHIONEERZ
This segment that highlight African American entertainers who were or are fashion icons who set the standards of fashion.
\This week we spotlight Grammy Award winning rap artist/actor/entrepreneur, Nelly.
It was announced that the next VERSUZ will be St Louis bred rap artist Nelly and ATL rap artist Ludacris this Saturday. Thus, making us highlight one of the biggest selling rap artists in history.
According to Billboard, Nelly is the fourth best selling ap artists in U.S. history with 21 million albums sold. Coming onto the breakout scene in 2000 with his multiplatinum album, COUNTRY GRAMMAR, Nelly issued a brand of rap called Midwest Swing and an accentuation on extra "rrrrr's" (eg. "Hot in Herre").
He also put St Louis on the map as a city to be reckoned in the hip hop community. From his St Louis Cardinals jerseys in his debut video "Country Grammar (Hot Shit)", to his infamous band-aid under one eye, his exposed muscular upper body , sweat headbands and colorful sweat suits (Which was the name of one of his albums by the way )and his dapper suits when attenfing formal events (including his celebrity attended Black and White Balls that were held in St Louis), Nelly is not just only a rap icon but a fashion icon in hip-hop.
STREAMERZ
Last Saturday streaming records were broken on IG when the VERZUZ battle between neo soul sistas Erykah Badu and Jill Scott when over 750K people tuned in at one time to watch. Although the reviews of the "battle" were mixed, the ladies made history setting a new series viewership record, overtaking the nearly 525,000 who tuned in to see Babyface battle Teddy Riley on April 20. Their music sales on streaming services collectively pulled 6.7 million U.S. streams on last Saturday and Sunday for their total song catalogs, according to Nielsen y Music/MRC Data, compared with a 2.1 million haul preceding the showdown.
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This weekend we lost three music legends from three generations.
Little Richard, Betty Wright and Andre Harrell.
We did a random YOU TUBE search on them and came up with the following videos as tribute to these icons of music.
Little Richard, The Architect of Rock And Roll performed in a 1950s film with rock and roll dee-jay Alan Freed called DONT KNOCK THE ROCK. Here is a clip of Little Richard from that movie, performing his hits, "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti Frutti."
Just an FYI---Did you know that James Brown and Jimi Hendrix were discovered by Little Richard and played in his band before they got famous? Did you also know that The Beatles copied his signature Wooooh hollar on their early recordings (eg. "From Me to You, "She Loves You.")
Betty Wright. The Mother Wit of Soul was a singer and songwriter who had a No 1 hit with 'Clean Up Woman" in 1972 when she was 18. Here is a live clip of her performing one of her hits, "No Pain, No Gain."
Just an FYI--Did you know that she was the first African American female artist to sell over 500,000 copies of an album on an independent label? She did it with her 1988 album MOTHER WIT under her own record label, Ms. B.
Andre Harrell. The rapper turned record label mogul became the Berry Gordy of black music in the 1990s when he formed Uptown Records and signed soon to be legendary artists including Mary J Blige, Jodeci and Guy. He also mentored Sean Combs before he formed Bad Boy. The clip is Harrell introducing his Uptown Records All Stars.
Just FYI, he started his professional music career in the rap group Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , became the last president of Motown Records (1995 to 1997) and he produced the 1990s drama "New York Undercover."
