We are in the middle of summer and things are really starting to heat up. Here are the guys that have been making our hearts melt this season.
Let’s start with three-time NBA MVP Kobe Bryant who helped bring the Lakers to Playoff victory, and earned his fifth championship ring. We see you, Kobe.
A cutie with a sexy body and a sense of humor that makes every man jealous — what more could a girl ask for. Isaiah Mustafa gained fame via a set of popular Old Spice commercials turned viral video madness. He’s recently signed off from being “The Old Spice Guy” and has signed on to star in Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.”
Usher’s latest hit single “O.M.G.” can be heard blaring out of every car rolling down the street this season. Currently touring his album “Raymond vs. Raymond” the dude who made us say “Yeah” like 500 million times is proving that he’s still got the moves that make us say “Oh my God!”
Jamaican tennis player Dustin Brown is the first West Indian player to make it to Wimbledon since Richard Russell, 42 years ago. We love his story — his mother bought him a Volkswagen camper van to tour around Europe playing tournaments for 100 Euros and a chance at tennis fame. We love his dreadlocks and his …basically everything about him.
LeBron James had every sports fan at the edges of their seats waiting for him to decide which team he would go with. When he finally settled on Miami, things went back to life as usual, until images of him topless on a beach in the Bahamas started popping up. We need to take a dip just looking at them.
T.I. has had a pretty busy year from being released from prison in March to working on his seventh studio album, releasing a new mixtape and starring as Ghost The Smooth Taker in “Takers.” Add a rumored marriage to longtime girlfriend Tameka “Tiny” Colette this weekend and this guy is living life.
OK, we can admit that we’re a little jealous of Rihanna. She gets to come home to Matt Kemp every night. Kemp makes our list — not because he’s the Barbadian pop-star’s BF — but because he helped the Dodgers come back from a six-game losing streak on July 21. Hey, batter, batter, batter, batter. Wink batter, batter, batter, batter.
Ne-Yo’s got all the ladies waiting with baited breath for the release of his film-based album “Libra Scale.” His clubby hit “Beautiful Monster” — out now — is a sweet taste of what’s to come next season. Ne-Yo is revealing tidbits of the project every Tuesday on ESSENCE.com.