Teens Celebrate Passing of CROWN ACT Ordinance in Louisville

The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act is now law in Louisville, Kentucky, thanks to a group of young teens known as The Real Young Prodigy's.

The CROWN Act was created in 2019 by The Crown Coalition and Dove as a movement that aims to protect all different styles of hair within the black community. California was the first state to pass the law.

In March 2020, The Real Young Prodigy's (TRYP) rallied alongside other youth and supporters to the Kentucky state capitol in Frankfort for the passing of House Bill 43. Thus far only 13 states have completely passed the legislation and Kentucky is not one of them. However, the ordinance of stopping discrimination against natural hair within any school or workplace did become law in other cities such as Covington.

National CROWN Act Day is now celebrated each year on July 3.

The power in black hair independence is magical and says so much about an individual. Singer India Arie mentions how she is not her hair, whereas other celebrities' teach us for others to not touch our hair and for us to whip our hair back and forth.

TRYP rise to fame began with their single RAParations, a song that caused a lot of controversy due to it's civil right historical references. The Prodigy's serve as a voice not only for themselves yet also younger people within their community.

The group was formed at Wheatley Elementary School under the instruction of the 2019 Kentucky Elementary Teacher of the Year, NyRee Clayton-Taylor. A teacher who teaches her students creative reading and writing through hip hop.

Last year their focus centered around Police Brutality which includes fighting for Justice For All black lives across the country including one that hits very close to home, the life of Breonna Taylor.

TRYP music has both powerful content and dancing fun for people of all ages.

On Saturday the group of teens were able to display that during their concert celebration at the Shawnee Community Center where MelodicallyInTune's own Melody Simone served as the hostess for the afternoon.

Be on the lookout for more empowering music and events from The Real Young Prodigy's.

Here are the NaeNae Twins TikTok dance challenge to TRYP song CROWN. Show off your crown and lets see what you got...

#TheRealYoungProdigys #NationalCROWNActDay #ItsTheCrownForMe

You can sign the petition to help ban discrimination against natural hair by going to www.thecrownact.com

Back On The Road: Millennium Tour 2K21

The first successful Millennium Tour began in 2019 with artists such as Mario, Bobby V, Chingy and more. Overall concept of the tour is to bring nostalgic music vibes to people that grew up within the 90s' and early 2000's era. With a very versatile line-up the tour brought out people of all ages both young and old. If you think about some of the trendy clothing styles people wore during that time ranging from extra large airbrush white tees to jersey dresses and Baby Phat outfits... leaving room to welcome all newer styles as well.

With so much talk and hype evolving around the first tour. There were hopes of another tour and many opinions on who should have been and should be apart of it. People were wondering "how can they have a tour for millennial's without having artists on the ballot such as Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, Ciara and more."

G-Squared Events decided to bless the world with another one.

Only this time with a slightly different line-up adding on different artists such as Sammie, Soulja Boy and Ashanti (first female performer to be a part of the tour). Artists Lloyd, Pretty Ricky and Ying Yang Twins from 2019 ballot returned for the 2020 tour dates.

Instead of being one of the last few stops on the tour --- Louisville, Kentucky was the first stop for Millennium Tour 2020.

Then, main attraction was to witness the reunion of popular 2000 boy band B2K. Yet, this time around thing to look forward to was collaborative effort of former B2K band member Omarion and solo rising teen rapper (Lil) Bow Wow.

Just for when things were kicking off to a good start in 2020, the spread of a health virus decided to ruin it all!

The Coronavirus known as COVID-19 led to the entire world shutting down which meant no more Millennium Tour for the rest of the year. Ending the tour just a few show dates later in Raleigh, NC with remaining cities ticket owners wondering if they will be able to enjoy the experience. With so many postponed and rescheduled dates within 2020, there was hope that everything would get back to a sense of normalcy.

Unfortunately, that slight chance at normalcy did not comeback around until the beginning of 2021. People are now vaccinated and have better insights on how contracting Coronavirus can be prevented.

In February noise about the tour picking up where it left of from began to circulate again. Last year ticket holders had the option of either refunding their tickets or holding on to them for access to the new scheduled show dates.

The Millennium Tour 2021 tickets are now on sale with the same artists line-up from 2020.

Be sure to search for several different artists Meet & Greets available to fans.

Below are the new tour dates and where you can purchase your tickets for the experience.

The tour begins October 1, on the west coast in California

Visit ticketmaster.com and your local box office for tickets.

Stay tune with @GSquaredEvents for all your latest concert updates.

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"Sorry I Stood You Up Last Night" Album Release Party

Roughly two months later after releasing his music video for 'Dunkaroos (Just Another Afternoon)' a single from "1st Edition Charizard" which released at the beginning of the year 2019.

Louisville, Rapper Peter Wesley is back to showcase his new project "Sorry I Stood You Up Last Night." Wesley stated under an Instagram post he pinky promises "it's the best material [he's] made yet."

An album featuring seven songs with no artist features. Wesley will host an album release party on Saturday, November 9 at Kaiju Bar located in the Germantown area.

In addition to Peter Wesley performing all new music there will be other rap performances from artists such as Dom B. and Cino Fresh with DJ Fred 100 on the 1's and 2's.

1004 East Oak Street

Louisville, Kentucky 40204

9:30pm until midnight

Entry to attend is $5

We don't think you want to be the one on the following day saying 'sorry about last night' because you did not attend.

You can pick up your hard copies of the new album available for purchase on November 9, at the release party.