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I can honestly say that I have been privileged in the events that I have taken pictures for and last year I was able to do it again! Thanks again to Antonia Carter for booking to me to take the pics... Click here to go to the site: Joi's pictures on BET

Reginae'sParty was a huge event and since Toya was taping The Tiny & Toya Show, they have posted a few of the pictures on their site.... Check them out
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Fan favorite TINY & TOYA returns for a second season packed with drama, laughter and self-discovery.

Pick up where they left off. Tune in Tuesday, April 13 at 10 PM/9C for the premiere.

This season, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle and best friend Antonia “Toya” Carter continue to uplift their lives while balancing motherhood, family, fame and budding business empires of their own.

A journey familiar to many women, viewers will watch Tiny as she raises her children, expands her businesses and takes the next steps in helping her family deal with her father’s Alzheimer’s disease. For Toya, family remains at the center of her life. She continues to build a solid foundation for her spunky 11-year-old daughter, Reginae, and confronts her mother Anita with “tough love” while she continues to fight her war with drugs, all while entertaining a love life of her own.

Last season, TINY & TOYA garnered 3 million viewers, the highest of any original series premiere in BET history. The new series also gave viewers a peek behind all the glitz and glamour, and highlighted the ladies’ personal strength and commitment to staying true to oneself.

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Antonia 'Toya' Carter's Visual Beauty Inc.

Antonia 'Toya' Carter's Visual Beauty Inc. is looking for a 11 young ladies. Our goal is to reward positive achievement among Atlanta area girls between the ages of 12-16. Do you know someone? Could this girl be you?

If so submit a one page essay and tell us why we should choose you. Additional requirements for consideration are your report card from last year with a C average or better, no more than 5 excused absences, two personal letters of recommendation (one page or less) and a current photo. All submissions must be turned in no later than midnight October 9, 2009. Only e-mail submissions will be taken, please submit to: visualbeauty09@yahoo.com


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Tiny and Toya's Premiere

The basement at Straits, was filled with friends and family all anticipating the Premiere of "The Tiny and Toya Show" which started promptly at 10pm on BET. The show is based on Antonia “Toya” Johnson-Carter and Tameka "Tiny" Cottle. Tiny and Toya is said to chronicle the lives of “two dynamic, young women immersed in the craziness of the Hip Hop world, but striving to find inner strength, peace and purpose.”

There was laughter and sad moments as the show revealed some interesting facts about the pairs families. Toya went to New Orleans to find her drug addicted mother, whom she had not talked to in awhile and that Tiny's father had Alzheimer's. Her mother helps her out with her children and you can see they are very close; it showed how tight her family is and that her mother is still her #1 fan! You could see that the two friends are extremely close to their daughters as well as they shared an intimate conversation about boys at Tiny's house in her daughters room.

In the premiere the girls had "A Girls Night Slumber Party" in which Tiny asked if the women could be a stay at home mom, to make a long story short. She aired that T.I doesn't want her to work; Her body language though read that she is happy and also sad about the idea! Though she says she loves her relationship and you have to take the good with the bad, weighing out what is more important your career or your relationship! Toya stated that she was wanting a man, "not a piece a man" but she would take "a piece of a man" over NO man at all! Others chimed in saying that it's hard to find someone in Atlanta etc. but never stated any valid reasons.

Overall, to me the show is going to be a hit because people always want to be in the know! People will tune in to see how they live and see the issues that they have to endure in their busy lives!I assume that weekly the show will get rave ratings/reviews, plenty of blog write up's and TiVo's will be set for 10pm!

Antonia “Toya” Johnson Carter is a native of the downtown area of New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a product of an environment that has truly shaped who she is. Toya is the child of a drug-addicted mother and an absent father. At an early age, she was separated from her siblings and shuffled from one family member to the next, never really feeling a sense of love or belonging. Despite her difficult upbringing, Toya went on to forge a new and exciting path. Toya graduated from Ambramson Senior High School and went on to college, where she majored in pre-medicine. (click here for more)

Tameka "Tiny" Cottle is a singer, songwriter and producer. She was born and raised in the College Park area of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1992, while attending North Atlanta Performing Arts High School, she joined the R&B quartet, Xscape. Producer Jermaine Dupri discovered Xscape and immediately signed the group to his record label, So So Def Recordings. (click here for more)

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FREE at last!?!

What happened to Free? In the few years that she has been off camera some things have changed, what do you think?

I ♥ loved ♥ her on the show .....Free (born Marie Wright) also known as Marie Antoinette, is an American television personality. She rose to fame as the first host of BET's 106 & Park. She was later a disc jockey at KKBT 100.3 The Beat in Los Angeles. Currently, she is the co-host on the Ed Lover Morning Show on Power 105.1 in New York City.

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Rocsi: Light or Dark

So I barely ever get time to vedge out in front of the T.V but today I was able to and I watched 106 and Park.....

Rocsi, do you like her hair light or dark?
Raquel Roxanne Diaz (born November 17, 1983 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras) better known by her stage name Rocsi, is an American television personality. Rocsi on Myspace

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Ciara Access Granted New Video

I guess this song has grown on me but I'm not a BIG fan.... I was able to be at the house when the Access Granted on BET was on showing her new video- I'm not feeling her hair but she looks nice in the video.
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Jazmine Sullivan LIVE

Jazmine Sullivan - Lions, Tigers & Bears - 1/20/2009 - Inaug
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Thanks Purple Rain! He posted this video and I borrow, lol ;-) Jazmine Sullivan's "Lions, Tigers and Bears" on BET

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...Please say the Maestro!

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! Great job and congrats!!!Maestro
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