Video: Meet P Nut - 7 year-old Rapper

Derek Sivers: Got a Goal? Keep it to Yourself!

Quincy Jones Joins the Headphone Bandwagon

More than 25 years after producing “Thriller,” Quincy Jones is still looking for ways to reinvent the music experience. The legendary producer has teamed with professional audio company AKG to launch a line of headphones. Dubbed the Quincy Jones Signature Line, the collection of headphones will be a mix of in-ear, over-ears and on-ear minis set for release in October. Jones said the partnership isn’t something new, as he’s been using AKG headphones exclusively for years now.
“It fit like a glove. It feels like home,” Jones said in a phone call from his Paris home. “I didn’t have to sit there and talk about quality. They just blow everybody away.”
Jones said he is more than aware of the current trend of musicians hawking personalized headphones.

Read more here.

Jay-Z Buys Beyoncé An Island For Her 29th Birthday! True or False?

According to Mediatakeout.com Jay-Z has splashed out $20million on a prime piece of private property in the Florida Keys, for Beyonce's 29th birthday. It’s reported the tropical island is 12.5 acres and about 2.5 miles offshore. To learn more, read here.

Tiger Woods' $50million Florida estate

The golfer, who divorced on August 23, is preparing to move into a sprawling 10-acre ocean front estate in Florida, complete with its own backyard golf course.
And despite giving his ex-wife an estimated $100million settlement he's obviously not short on cash, with his new pad valued at over $50million. Read more here. Pictures of the Florida estate below.

Manchester student is Britain’s top black graduate

A University of Manchester PhD student and budding entrepreneur has today been named as the most outstanding black student in Britain.

Edwin Broni-Mensah, a 25-year old who created his first computer game at the age of seven and now runs his own company, was selected from a shortlist of 200 people.
Edwin, studying for an Applied Maths PhD as well as running his innovative refillable water bottle company GiveMeTap, topped the list by Future Leaders magazine, sponsored by Barclays Capital, Deloitte and the University of Cambridge.
The shortlist features 100 graduates in total, all who have balanced good academic grades with impressive achievements outside of their studies. Edwin is a shining example of this, having set up a company which encourages local businesses to offer free refills of water to anyone carrying a distinctive GiveMeTap bottle. Read more here.

"Getting to Happy," Terry McMillan's sequel to "Waiting to Exhale"

In her break-out bestseller, "Waiting to Exhale" (1992), Terry McMillan celebrated female bonding. Girlfriends assumed top status in the hierarchy of important relationships for women. The novel, about four black women living in Phoenix in the late 1980s, depicted professional burn-out, romantic betrayal and survival. These were women in their late 30s and early 40s, providing solace to one another in a way that family members, husbands and boyfriends did not. They partied together, cried together and, ultimately, recovered together.

McMillan's new novel, "Getting to Happy," is a sequel that resumes the story some 15 years later. All four women are back, but this time, of course, they're middle-aged. The issues of their youth have morphed into new ones. There are children now from failed relationships and grandchildren, too, along with failed businesses and second mortgages. Each of the four is in her 50s, or about to be, and not quite sure what to do with herself. Read more here.

WNBA's female owners open doors, but what is the next step?

In 2005, Sheila Johnson became the first woman to hold a majority ownership in the WNBA when she purchased the Washington Mystics. Now, three other teams in the league have majority female ownership. What is the next stop? Find out here.

Chrishiana Fareki - On The Future of The Islamic Financial Market

Oprah Winfrey among Kennedy Center Honors

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Oprah Winfrey is among the five entertainment industry luminaries chosen to receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors in December, it was announced Tuesday. The Nayland House Team congratulates Oprah on another honor thoroughly deserved. To read more, go here.

Inspirational Video - The Don't Quit Poem

Robert L. Johnson Takes Part in Delta Air Lines Inaugural Flight to Monrovia, Liberia

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies (RLJ), embarked on the highly anticipated Delta Air Lines new flight service from the United States to Monrovia, Liberia, making the airline the leading U.S. carrier operating flights to Africa. The inaugural flight commenced on September 4th and is the only direct flight service that will be offered from the U.S. to the African country.
Johnson has significant business and development projects in Liberia including the nation's first four-star oceanfront hotel. In 2009, Johnson opened the RLJ Kendeja Resort and Villas which he constructed, owns, and operates. In an initiative with the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Johnson and OPIC created the Liberia Enterprise Development Finance Company (LEDFC), a $30 million initiative which makes loans between $25,000 and $1 million to small and medium sized businesses.
Read more here.

Kanye West and How Twitter Has Changed the Way We Communicate

If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West.

Recently, the superstar rapper let loose a barrage of 70+ tweets, starting with a declaration of his love forTwitter and ending with an apology to Taylor Swift. His apology refers to last year’s VMA incident, where West rushed onto the stage and interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech for best female music video. The incident has since turned into an Internet meme. More importantly, the 33-year-old rapper was vilified by music fans, the media and even President Obama.

Yes, the rapper apologized on national TV and on his blog, but he has never been able to shake off the 2009 VMA incident, and if his Twitter is any indication, there are a lot of people that (understandably) won’t let him live it down.

For whatever reason though, Kanye West decided today to make his case, and he used his brand new Twitter account to do it. Read more here.

Happy Birthday Nayland House!

Nayland House celebrates it's 1st birthday today - and what a year it's been!

Achievements:
- Our readership has grown dramatically, nearly 20,000 readers for last month (August)
- More content from across the African Diaspora
- Better stories of entrepreneurial success
- We've Improved the look and feel of the website
- More Daily updates with the latest news and views from across the diaspora

Thanks for all your support, keep reading the blog; send an suggestions to naylandhouse@gmail.com.

Nayland House Team

THE NEW DORK - Entrepreneur State of Mind

This is a Pantless Knights tribute to our favorite entrepreneurs (who are all 'new dorks'). It's a spoof of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind," from the guys behind Grasshopper.com.