Hip-hop new comer Joell Ortiz has been gracing the airways with his fresh-old school vibe single entitled “Call me” featuring Novel. Satellite radio has been blazing it for a couple of months now; however mainstream radio hasn’t quite picked it up yet. Regardless, check out the song and video here on The Daily Leap and enjoy Ortiz’s vivid, yet charming story of his first high school crush. Hopefully this isn’t the last we’ve heard from the Brooklyn native and his video is very cute might I add. Enjoy! ~H.R.

Stephen Stafford

13 Year old Stephen is a triple major student in pre-med, math and computer science. Raised in Lithonia, Georgia, his family started teaching him at the tender age at 2 and his mother home-schooled him at 5 years old.

He said “I started learning when I was 2 years old. My sister was 6 and she decided we were going to play school. But she was actually going to teach me things that she learned in school. She was teaching me how to count, how to add. And I caught on to that, and then my mom started teaching me. And when I started kindergarten, I was doing multiplication. And my mother said the other stuff was too easy. I was bored”

This kid’s phenominal ability to learn and apply his education at such a young age is such an inspiration for young black youth and adults. In his feature on Creative Loafing, his outlook on his future potential is so profound. He says “I want to live up to my potential. Potential doesn’t have a limit. It’s like a rainbow. You can constantly keep chasing it and you will never get to it. And I know I don’t have any limits as long as I keep trying.”This is an exceptional kid I’m sure we haven’t heard the last from.

Check this video below featuring Stephen and his family talking about his rise from an elementary student to a college scholar.

Sources: http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/01/13/morehouse-college-stephen-stafford/