... damn. this thing still works? be back as soon as I can condense all the stuff I want to write about or draw some stuff.
PEACE
May 19, 2006
Mar 14, 2006
I'm Going, Going, Back, Back to Cali, Cali...
...for the first time. So for the first time in my 80 year college career, I am going somewhere for spring break. Will I show my boobs? That my good people, is a promise. Maybe I'm get my stomach tattooed. Thats what skinny niggas in California do, right? Thats what that one guy did right? Yeah. I have 2 days to get all my 2Pac jokes out the way. I hear they hang people for mentioning Pac sideways out there. Its not like he was from Cali. I could understand if he was from Brooklyn. All jokes aside, I have to get myself prepared and I have to get all my preconcieved ideas of California out of my mind. Don't want to be a hater and I love this girl I'm going with, so its going to be fun. I'm out.
Mar 10, 2006
I Wish Oshea Jackson Would Help Us Out
Hello world. This is Sway. I wonder if he and Ms. Badu trade headwraps? Just my thoughts man.
This post has been put off for a mighty long time. It really should have been up last month sometime to coincide with that Black History Month. By the way, shout out to Farakhan. Thank you for the years and years of racism. Cause honestly, thats the only way to make things better. The higher road is soooo overrated anyway, homie. Big ups to you my fine sir. I really hate I missed that Saviour's Day thing you did. But I just know you spread the truth and attacked some Jews and white people. Excuse me, am I rambling again? Um have you guys (like anyone even reads this anymore) been clicking the ads? If you had ads I'd click them...
So I've doing some reading and listening over the past month and I came across some stuff about the black community coming together- just for the month, let's not get crazy. For the first time in my life I thought for a second: thats damn- near impossible to do. When I realised what I said to myself, I thought about why did I think that? I'm pretty sure I'm not being brainwashed, I'm not on some Uncle Ruckus shit, I still care about people who don't have shit. So what was up?
In this lovely country of the United States, people love to trace their roots. Black people can trace theirs only so far. Thanks to slavery lineages are so mudded and fucked the fuck up that its hard to figure out where we're from. Hispanic people can usually tell where in Central and South America parts of their families hailed from before being mixed with the Spanish. People of different Asian backgrounds can tell where they're from. Persians, Indians, Native Americans, etc. They can all tell what they are.
Geography lesson: Africa is a CONTINENT! Not a country... its a continent like Europe, Asia, South America, North America, and Australia- uh forget about Australia for a second that's a bit too complicated for me to get into right now. But the point I was trying to make was all of those continents with the exception of Australia are made up of different countries. England, France, Spain, Italy and nem are parts of Europe; Japan, Russia, South and North Korea, China, India and those are a part of Asia... you get the idea. Africa is no exception. People talk different languages, have different customs, they can tell tell the differences in each other's appearance, all that shit. And like all those other countries, they fought/fight each other.
So yeah. The more I thought about it, the more I got frustrated about being called an African American. Other nationalities get their respect. I've never heard of a European American or a North American- American. See, that sounds dumb. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... I don't know where I'm from. I dont know what all races are apart of me. And I KNOW I am not the only one like that. I heard someone at work say they were 100% black the other day. I chuckled and shook my head. She was light skinned! Unless she was Egyptians- I aint going for that (she isnt from Egypt).
How can you expect a group of people who don't who they are to just come together with each other purely because they look alike- or less like someone else. For all they know they could be next to someone that belonged to the family that sold their family to slavery. But wait, we don't even know if their whole family made it over the Atlantic- umm... before their family was broken up at the auction block. But hey, if we can get pass that and still come together, that would be one hell of a show of forgiveness and unity.
I have hope... a little bit... on days when the sun shines.
PEACE
P.S. Oh yeah! A good start would be if we would stop saying nigga all the muthafuckin time.
P.P.S. Check out the kid Gorillarms. He's got a tight blog round here and a website in the works!
P.P.P.S. Bonus points if you can identify the name in the blog title
This post has been put off for a mighty long time. It really should have been up last month sometime to coincide with that Black History Month. By the way, shout out to Farakhan. Thank you for the years and years of racism. Cause honestly, thats the only way to make things better. The higher road is soooo overrated anyway, homie. Big ups to you my fine sir. I really hate I missed that Saviour's Day thing you did. But I just know you spread the truth and attacked some Jews and white people. Excuse me, am I rambling again? Um have you guys (like anyone even reads this anymore) been clicking the ads? If you had ads I'd click them...
So I've doing some reading and listening over the past month and I came across some stuff about the black community coming together- just for the month, let's not get crazy. For the first time in my life I thought for a second: thats damn- near impossible to do. When I realised what I said to myself, I thought about why did I think that? I'm pretty sure I'm not being brainwashed, I'm not on some Uncle Ruckus shit, I still care about people who don't have shit. So what was up?
In this lovely country of the United States, people love to trace their roots. Black people can trace theirs only so far. Thanks to slavery lineages are so mudded and fucked the fuck up that its hard to figure out where we're from. Hispanic people can usually tell where in Central and South America parts of their families hailed from before being mixed with the Spanish. People of different Asian backgrounds can tell where they're from. Persians, Indians, Native Americans, etc. They can all tell what they are.
Geography lesson: Africa is a CONTINENT! Not a country... its a continent like Europe, Asia, South America, North America, and Australia- uh forget about Australia for a second that's a bit too complicated for me to get into right now. But the point I was trying to make was all of those continents with the exception of Australia are made up of different countries. England, France, Spain, Italy and nem are parts of Europe; Japan, Russia, South and North Korea, China, India and those are a part of Asia... you get the idea. Africa is no exception. People talk different languages, have different customs, they can tell tell the differences in each other's appearance, all that shit. And like all those other countries, they fought/fight each other.
So yeah. The more I thought about it, the more I got frustrated about being called an African American. Other nationalities get their respect. I've never heard of a European American or a North American- American. See, that sounds dumb. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... I don't know where I'm from. I dont know what all races are apart of me. And I KNOW I am not the only one like that. I heard someone at work say they were 100% black the other day. I chuckled and shook my head. She was light skinned! Unless she was Egyptians- I aint going for that (she isnt from Egypt).
How can you expect a group of people who don't who they are to just come together with each other purely because they look alike- or less like someone else. For all they know they could be next to someone that belonged to the family that sold their family to slavery. But wait, we don't even know if their whole family made it over the Atlantic- umm... before their family was broken up at the auction block. But hey, if we can get pass that and still come together, that would be one hell of a show of forgiveness and unity.
I have hope... a little bit... on days when the sun shines.
PEACE
P.S. Oh yeah! A good start would be if we would stop saying nigga all the muthafuckin time.
P.P.S. Check out the kid Gorillarms. He's got a tight blog round here and a website in the works!
P.P.P.S. Bonus points if you can identify the name in the blog title
Feb 2, 2006
Dec 16, 2005
"cause i dookied on every song that they threw me on"
I dont know what that quote has been in my head all day, but yeah. Youre welcome.
Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is the muthafuckin day!!! Damn, I'm excited! I have a lot of cleaning to do tonight and I plan on watching the Texas and USC Rose Bowl tonight with my good friend tonight. My good friend Beer, oh and real people too. Should be intresting to see how clean I can get the place while drunk - especially since I know the game wont be over til late.
Quick update: The crazy people are getting rowdy at work. Yesterday one of the guys here got punched in the face quite nicely. Lets put it this way, his eye got to lookin like a Krystal/White Castle burger and the other eye ended up lookin like a microwave sausage buscuit - except you know it was skin and eyeball. Today one of the clients threathened someone else (I dont blame him for this though) to do the same face rearranging to him and another guy cursed out a fellow client due to a tooth ache.
By the way, I am very excited to see Jayka tomorrow!
PEACE
Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is the muthafuckin day!!! Damn, I'm excited! I have a lot of cleaning to do tonight and I plan on watching the Texas and USC Rose Bowl tonight with my good friend tonight. My good friend Beer, oh and real people too. Should be intresting to see how clean I can get the place while drunk - especially since I know the game wont be over til late.
Quick update: The crazy people are getting rowdy at work. Yesterday one of the guys here got punched in the face quite nicely. Lets put it this way, his eye got to lookin like a Krystal/White Castle burger and the other eye ended up lookin like a microwave sausage buscuit - except you know it was skin and eyeball. Today one of the clients threathened someone else (I dont blame him for this though) to do the same face rearranging to him and another guy cursed out a fellow client due to a tooth ache.
By the way, I am very excited to see Jayka tomorrow!
PEACE
Dec 13, 2005
I dont usually do this, but...
Okay I promise there wont be any talk about peeing on little girls, I just needed a title for this edition (which I almost just mispelled...) of me just ramblin and ramblin. Lets get it!
Apparently Diddy has a heart in that oh so cold shell of his. slick ass mutha-so and so. Diddy and LOX came to an agreement and they got their publishing back- who says guerilla tactics dont work?
They killed Tookie. Not surprised, its just a shame thats all.
Yesterday was the last day of my Hip-hop and global culture class. It was sad. Where else can we talk about music and things that we know about and say things like fuck, shit, ass, asshole, bitch-ass nigga, "ol soft ass booty ass rapper." There were some cool folks in that class. Made some friends (which I'm totally against) and saw a lost little white girl constantly say dumb shit. My last memory of her will be her admitting that she had no idea that breakdancing came from hip-hop. I only hope that my legacy wont be saying things like "but come on... I dont care where he's from that nigga pee'd on little girls! That shit is nasty- thats a nasty ass dude."
Sorry. I guess I did talk about pissing again.
R.I.P. Richard Pryor. thanks for making cussing funny to black people. and being one of the first black entertainers to REALLY scare white America.
I cant wait to come home for Christmas. I will be eating at all your homes. I'm currently stretching my stomach. I dont have too much time there- so there damage will be severe.
mental note: dont forget to buy some cheese tonight
mental note 2: $0.49 hamburgers and $0.59 cheeseburgers tomorrow at mcdonalds. fuck my health. I cant beat my old freshman record- hatin ass 5 burger limit...
back to Tookie... I dont get people. Why didnt he ever get a retrial, like a fair. with a jury of his peers maybe? am i reaching? is that not fair?
one of my teachers game me a short script to read a while ago about fumi kuti, wife of afro-beat supastar fela kuti. she wants me to see if i can throw together some character designs for the story of young fumi and maybe a storyboard. it could be something nice for the kids.
there have be several reports and documents confirming that in fact Trick does love the kids.
PEACE
Apparently Diddy has a heart in that oh so cold shell of his. slick ass mutha-so and so. Diddy and LOX came to an agreement and they got their publishing back- who says guerilla tactics dont work?
They killed Tookie. Not surprised, its just a shame thats all.
Yesterday was the last day of my Hip-hop and global culture class. It was sad. Where else can we talk about music and things that we know about and say things like fuck, shit, ass, asshole, bitch-ass nigga, "ol soft ass booty ass rapper." There were some cool folks in that class. Made some friends (which I'm totally against) and saw a lost little white girl constantly say dumb shit. My last memory of her will be her admitting that she had no idea that breakdancing came from hip-hop. I only hope that my legacy wont be saying things like "but come on... I dont care where he's from that nigga pee'd on little girls! That shit is nasty- thats a nasty ass dude."
Sorry. I guess I did talk about pissing again.
R.I.P. Richard Pryor. thanks for making cussing funny to black people. and being one of the first black entertainers to REALLY scare white America.
I cant wait to come home for Christmas. I will be eating at all your homes. I'm currently stretching my stomach. I dont have too much time there- so there damage will be severe.
mental note: dont forget to buy some cheese tonight
mental note 2: $0.49 hamburgers and $0.59 cheeseburgers tomorrow at mcdonalds. fuck my health. I cant beat my old freshman record- hatin ass 5 burger limit...
back to Tookie... I dont get people. Why didnt he ever get a retrial, like a fair. with a jury of his peers maybe? am i reaching? is that not fair?
one of my teachers game me a short script to read a while ago about fumi kuti, wife of afro-beat supastar fela kuti. she wants me to see if i can throw together some character designs for the story of young fumi and maybe a storyboard. it could be something nice for the kids.
there have be several reports and documents confirming that in fact Trick does love the kids.
PEACE
Nov 29, 2005
The sexiest head you've seen in your m*$^$*^@@%! life?
For any of you that could read through that last post with its typos-a-plenty (hey read the top of the blog: proofreading is for sissies) here's a slight reward for you, some links to that interview
LOX vs Diddy:http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews
/angie_dblock.wma&jock=Angie
Da Diddy's Rebuttal Part 1: http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews
/angie_diddy_pt1.wma&jock=Angie
Da Diddy's Rebuttal Part 2: http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews/
angie_diddy_pt2.wma&jock=Angie
enjoy that shit.
So yeah. Busta Rhymes cut his hair for the first time in what, 15 years. Not a trim- throwback to the celery-head look from Leaders of the New School (yuck! Love me some Busta, but that was one of the worst groups of all time-- I really mean it), but a full fledge cut! Here's the video. By the way I dont know whats worse some bored ass dude on the internet posting this or my ass posting it again... in my blog... oh GOD!! I have a blog!
Bus-a-bus: http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/interscope/
bustarhymes/video/cuts_his_dread.asx
I think that link name explains everything. Could have saved some time typing that...
PEACE
LOX vs Diddy:http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews
/angie_dblock.wma&jock=Angie
Da Diddy's Rebuttal Part 1: http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews
/angie_diddy_pt1.wma&jock=Angie
Da Diddy's Rebuttal Part 2: http://www.hot97.com/multimedia/interviewPlayer.aspx?source=http://media.hot97.com/av/audio/interviews/
angie_diddy_pt2.wma&jock=Angie
enjoy that shit.
So yeah. Busta Rhymes cut his hair for the first time in what, 15 years. Not a trim- throwback to the celery-head look from Leaders of the New School (yuck! Love me some Busta, but that was one of the worst groups of all time-- I really mean it), but a full fledge cut! Here's the video. By the way I dont know whats worse some bored ass dude on the internet posting this or my ass posting it again... in my blog... oh GOD!! I have a blog!
Bus-a-bus: http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/interscope/
bustarhymes/video/cuts_his_dread.asx
I think that link name explains everything. Could have saved some time typing that...
PEACE
Nov 17, 2005
talkin bout droppin stainless steel maytag refridgerators on em!!
"Play the Jamacian version!" --Jadakiss
come close kids let me tell you a little story. Waaaay back in the 90's there was this record company called Bad Boy. And it was run by a Mr. Sean "Puffy" Combs. Puffy had the best hip-hop record label in the world. He had Biggie, Craig Mack, 112, Faith Evans, Ma$e, and a group called the LOX. Now after Biggie's death, Craig Mack pretty much vanished, and it was Puffy and Ma$e crapping up the airwaves with what we will refer to now as Diddy-Hop. Now with the LOX that pop stuff seemed a bit forced, they soldiered on and released their debut "Money Power and Respect." What's that? A gangster movie reference? In rap? gasp! Anyway, they first single and the song that almost made me hate them was "If You Think I'm Jiggy" which included a sampling of Rod Stewart's song about thinking his funny lookin ass was sexy. That my friends is a no no. I dont care who you sample, Rod Stewart should never EVER cross your mind when making a song. Wait was that a sample or one of thos interpolations or whatever? Same thing to me. You didnt right that shit. And what the fuck is "jiggy" suppose to mean in that context? Thank Jesus, Allah, God, and nem for Will Smith (jump on the train folks! its a oneway trip!! CHOO CHOO!!!!-inside jokes suck dont they?) for making sense of that word. Needless to say that suck was for the streets or anybody with ears or a face. Next up strangly enough was a super thugged-out track, the title track in fact that served 2 purposes: it showed everybody what this group was supposed to sound like, like those guys on the mixtapes and on the Biggie tracks and killed it on "the Benjamins" and it introduced us to DMX (hey, seemed like a good idea at the time). Well lets wrap up this history lesson. The LOX became more and more frustrated with the way Puff was controlling them creatively and they wanted out! But in the words of Puff: "Eh uh" - or no. So showing how street they were they started a movement that consisted of them taking their fight to the radio and the streets with a campaign called "Let the LOX go!!" T-shirts and all that shit. Cause its not a real campaign without T-shirts (thats a good idea huh? what do you think about it Puff? "Take that! Take that!" "Vote or Die" maybe?). After what seemed like forever they were released from their contracts and allowed to go with friends at Ruff Ryders. But when I looked into the liner notes inside a couple of CDs that the LOX appeared on and where usually the publishing for artist's publishing company names are I kept seeing "Justin's Music" and shit. That nigga Diddy still had them by the nuts. Apparently buying out the contracts the LOX had with Bad Boy wasnt enough and Puff still owned part of their publishing. Which means everything they did he a cut. I dont think you understand. EVERYTHING that is sold with Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch's name on it individually or as a collective he was gettin some of that money. Effed up? Very.
DATELINE: Wednesday Novemeber 16, 2005.
The LOX are on NY's Hot 97 and are expected to announce they were about to sign to Def Jam Records with Jay-Z and of course to promote Sheek's independent release. But Styles and Jadakiss especially had somethings to get off their chests. The publishing. They wanted their publishing. Over 10 years Diddy had been get paid without having to do anything. They have been shorted out money that would have gotten them in very comfy positions in the music industry to launch their record company and blah blah blah. Diddy got em though. Styles passionately, but sensically pleads his case, in Frued (sp?) terms he would be the ego, Jadakiss was off the wall, waaaaay to passionate and wild, (id, like woah), and Sheek- well - he was there, so I'll call him the superego so my point makes a bit of sense. Now when it came time for a music break, Styles suggests that they play "the Benjamins" (which they wrote nearly all the lyrics to) "and think of that check you got off that and off us." Jadakiss added "Then play the rock n roll version..." the DJ Angie Martinez says something- more Kiss, "Then play the Jamacian version!!!"
wow.
Thinking about it I guess gets them a bit hot. They tell about being brushed off several times, how they've been through like 9 lawyers, how hard it was standing next to him performing and really keeping quit about this whole thing for so long, how they constantly feel like quitting, and... how this is their livelihoods (more sp) and how "this shit is worth killing and dying for." It gets really tense for a while until Jadakiss says "Security cant save you when I drop a refridgerator offa building on you! One of dem stainless steel, double door joints!" That shit is hilarious! I threated at least 5 people with maytag vengence!! Later Kiss calms down and tells the Hip hop police they can calm down, they aint really gonna kill nobody.
Diddy calls. He sounds off about how they aint killin nothin and they should have calmed down and talked to him. He claims he's always in his office and how he's always available. Diddy, Diddy, Diddy... Come on now. We've seen you enough times on t.v. you are never in your office. You just pimped out a van cause youre always on the move. So you my dear sir have just earned a "Negro Pleeeeeaase." Diddy says there is an open invite anytime to speak to him.... sigh.
But anyway after Diddy abruptly hangs up. We later find out that Diddy owns Biggie's publishing too. His "best friend."
In the end, nothing is resolved, nothing is announced. Only thing we find out is that Interscope is willing to sit down and discuss things with them. Several people call in and offer to buy out they publishing from Puff (Jermaine Dupre' and (?!) Carmello Anthony(?!) to name a couple) and sell them back to them. We learn of a kind of contract never heard of by me or JD called a lifetime contract on publishing. Now they might have been some dumbass kids with some snake ass lawyers when they signed that contract, but now 10 years later come the fuck on! Diddy you got money and I- I forgot what my point was in writing this shit. As usual...
PEACE
come close kids let me tell you a little story. Waaaay back in the 90's there was this record company called Bad Boy. And it was run by a Mr. Sean "Puffy" Combs. Puffy had the best hip-hop record label in the world. He had Biggie, Craig Mack, 112, Faith Evans, Ma$e, and a group called the LOX. Now after Biggie's death, Craig Mack pretty much vanished, and it was Puffy and Ma$e crapping up the airwaves with what we will refer to now as Diddy-Hop. Now with the LOX that pop stuff seemed a bit forced, they soldiered on and released their debut "Money Power and Respect." What's that? A gangster movie reference? In rap? gasp! Anyway, they first single and the song that almost made me hate them was "If You Think I'm Jiggy" which included a sampling of Rod Stewart's song about thinking his funny lookin ass was sexy. That my friends is a no no. I dont care who you sample, Rod Stewart should never EVER cross your mind when making a song. Wait was that a sample or one of thos interpolations or whatever? Same thing to me. You didnt right that shit. And what the fuck is "jiggy" suppose to mean in that context? Thank Jesus, Allah, God, and nem for Will Smith (jump on the train folks! its a oneway trip!! CHOO CHOO!!!!-inside jokes suck dont they?) for making sense of that word. Needless to say that suck was for the streets or anybody with ears or a face. Next up strangly enough was a super thugged-out track, the title track in fact that served 2 purposes: it showed everybody what this group was supposed to sound like, like those guys on the mixtapes and on the Biggie tracks and killed it on "the Benjamins" and it introduced us to DMX (hey, seemed like a good idea at the time). Well lets wrap up this history lesson. The LOX became more and more frustrated with the way Puff was controlling them creatively and they wanted out! But in the words of Puff: "Eh uh" - or no. So showing how street they were they started a movement that consisted of them taking their fight to the radio and the streets with a campaign called "Let the LOX go!!" T-shirts and all that shit. Cause its not a real campaign without T-shirts (thats a good idea huh? what do you think about it Puff? "Take that! Take that!" "Vote or Die" maybe?). After what seemed like forever they were released from their contracts and allowed to go with friends at Ruff Ryders. But when I looked into the liner notes inside a couple of CDs that the LOX appeared on and where usually the publishing for artist's publishing company names are I kept seeing "Justin's Music" and shit. That nigga Diddy still had them by the nuts. Apparently buying out the contracts the LOX had with Bad Boy wasnt enough and Puff still owned part of their publishing. Which means everything they did he a cut. I dont think you understand. EVERYTHING that is sold with Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch's name on it individually or as a collective he was gettin some of that money. Effed up? Very.
DATELINE: Wednesday Novemeber 16, 2005.
The LOX are on NY's Hot 97 and are expected to announce they were about to sign to Def Jam Records with Jay-Z and of course to promote Sheek's independent release. But Styles and Jadakiss especially had somethings to get off their chests. The publishing. They wanted their publishing. Over 10 years Diddy had been get paid without having to do anything. They have been shorted out money that would have gotten them in very comfy positions in the music industry to launch their record company and blah blah blah. Diddy got em though. Styles passionately, but sensically pleads his case, in Frued (sp?) terms he would be the ego, Jadakiss was off the wall, waaaaay to passionate and wild, (id, like woah), and Sheek- well - he was there, so I'll call him the superego so my point makes a bit of sense. Now when it came time for a music break, Styles suggests that they play "the Benjamins" (which they wrote nearly all the lyrics to) "and think of that check you got off that and off us." Jadakiss added "Then play the rock n roll version..." the DJ Angie Martinez says something- more Kiss, "Then play the Jamacian version!!!"
wow.
Thinking about it I guess gets them a bit hot. They tell about being brushed off several times, how they've been through like 9 lawyers, how hard it was standing next to him performing and really keeping quit about this whole thing for so long, how they constantly feel like quitting, and... how this is their livelihoods (more sp) and how "this shit is worth killing and dying for." It gets really tense for a while until Jadakiss says "Security cant save you when I drop a refridgerator offa building on you! One of dem stainless steel, double door joints!" That shit is hilarious! I threated at least 5 people with maytag vengence!! Later Kiss calms down and tells the Hip hop police they can calm down, they aint really gonna kill nobody.
Diddy calls. He sounds off about how they aint killin nothin and they should have calmed down and talked to him. He claims he's always in his office and how he's always available. Diddy, Diddy, Diddy... Come on now. We've seen you enough times on t.v. you are never in your office. You just pimped out a van cause youre always on the move. So you my dear sir have just earned a "Negro Pleeeeeaase." Diddy says there is an open invite anytime to speak to him.... sigh.
But anyway after Diddy abruptly hangs up. We later find out that Diddy owns Biggie's publishing too. His "best friend."
In the end, nothing is resolved, nothing is announced. Only thing we find out is that Interscope is willing to sit down and discuss things with them. Several people call in and offer to buy out they publishing from Puff (Jermaine Dupre' and (?!) Carmello Anthony(?!) to name a couple) and sell them back to them. We learn of a kind of contract never heard of by me or JD called a lifetime contract on publishing. Now they might have been some dumbass kids with some snake ass lawyers when they signed that contract, but now 10 years later come the fuck on! Diddy you got money and I- I forgot what my point was in writing this shit. As usual...
PEACE
Nov 15, 2005
takin up space
i was looking at the ads at the top of my page and i thought "a spider-man party would be cool. nothing like having a mask with bug-eyes on it or swinging around in pajamas, spewwing sticky shit from your wrists, why you deal with crazies. oooooh and cake. i like cake." then i said to myself, "job well done. you are 22 years old and just wasted time on the clock at your place of employment thinking about a spider-man party."
yep... its tuesday alright.
PEACE
mmm... cake.
yep... its tuesday alright.
PEACE
mmm... cake.
Nov 1, 2005
Its Career Research, Dammit!!
i love this time of the month. its when i'm broke and i cant enjoy the small things in life. like subway, greasy ass chicken shacks, mcdonalds, beer, comics. damn i miss comics. especially with new stuff coming out that gets me all geeked out. like these covers:
well here's your dose of useless so these make some sense: Pic 1 is the Spider-Man Classic suit. its the one we know and love. Pic 2 is a suit that resulted from Spider-Man getting in contact with an alien symbiote (sp?) it would protect him and it had morphing abilities. Eventually Spidey rejected it, probably got a bit creeped out by something that all on you all the time... ugh. Feeling all poopy like an ex-girlfriend, the alien bonded with someone else that hated Spider-Man just as much (Eddie Brock) and became one of his most dangerous enemies: Venom. Venom knew everything about Spidey and blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, go read a comic book, screw you, blah blah. Moving along... Pic 3 (oh boy, sigh) is the Spider-Man costume worn by Ben Reilly, a clone of Spider-Man thought to be the original, later revealed to be the clone after all, later to be killed by the Green Goblin and he turned to dust in Peter's arms. Thats the simplest way I can explain that confusing mess.
LETS HAVE FUN WITH MARKETING
You got a storyline and you want to generate a buzz for it? Then you need to catch the eye of your customers. In the case of comics, a cover that will bring people in. In case of Spider-Man the new storyline is called "The Other." So the good folks over there decide "lets drive or fans crazy and make them speculate." The Other could be the other costume, the other Spider-Clone... Fuckin dirty publishers. Trying to take my money. At several conventions this past summer, Marvel Comics Publisher, Editor in Cheif, and several writers working on the project have only given a few clue about the story, joking that Peter Parker will lose an organ. The title of the story is now called "Spider-Man:the Other: Evolve or Die." I didnt know you could have that many colons in one title. Speculations have been that Spider-Man will die (highly unlikely due to the movie franchise making oodles- yes oodles of money) and with the revealing of pic 3 today, people have wondered if Ben Reilly would return due to said missing organ. Meh. That would be nice, but there's so much back story it might confuse some people. I'll wait for the trade if I can't get a hold of extra money.
MID-POSTING EDIT: My co-workers think either I'm hungry/starving all the time or that I'm greedy piggy (like some people seem to think) cause they make sure I get my greasy chicken fix. I love the Southside (my heart and veins say "NO!")
OKAY SOMETHING ELSE:
I havent posted i a long time so I havent been able to post about the Jay-Z "I Declare War" concerts Thursday and Saturday in Jersey and Philly, respectively. "Fans" (i guess thats what they are) were taking guesses as to who would Jigga be taking shots at. It turns out "I Declare War" really meant "I'm just playin witcha" (you know like the card game. playing. cards. aww fuck it) cause the mission was peace. The last good beef in hip-hop was killed with one phrase: "Esco... Let's go!" And with that, Nas came out on stage with Jay-Z. Crowd goes nuts, the two perform Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents II" which sampled Nas' "The World is Yours." And Nas did a verse of that very song over the beat of "DP II." Nas went on to perform a few songs solo and was joined again by Jay and Diddy to do "Hate Me Now." Diddy got to dead some beef of his own performing with LOX for "All About the Benjamins"- one of the greastest hip-hop songs EVA!! Yeah. I said it. What. The LOX performed with Beanie Sigel (who Jadakiss and co. had beef with once), Jay-Z (same thing with him too), and Sauce Money (who everybody thought had beef with Jay) to perform "Reservoir Dogs." Beanie Sigel, at the Philly show, joined members of State Property on stage (who all kinda shitted on him when he was in jail. no mail. no visits. no nothin). TI and Young Jeezy were there too, but they like everybody or everybody likes them.
In a (HA) related note, NBA star, "what color is he?" Frenchie, Tony Parker will be releasing a rap CD. So many jokes my head hurts, or maybe my arteries are clogged and blood can't get to my brain from all that grease.
PEACE
well here's your dose of useless so these make some sense: Pic 1 is the Spider-Man Classic suit. its the one we know and love. Pic 2 is a suit that resulted from Spider-Man getting in contact with an alien symbiote (sp?) it would protect him and it had morphing abilities. Eventually Spidey rejected it, probably got a bit creeped out by something that all on you all the time... ugh. Feeling all poopy like an ex-girlfriend, the alien bonded with someone else that hated Spider-Man just as much (Eddie Brock) and became one of his most dangerous enemies: Venom. Venom knew everything about Spidey and blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, go read a comic book, screw you, blah blah. Moving along... Pic 3 (oh boy, sigh) is the Spider-Man costume worn by Ben Reilly, a clone of Spider-Man thought to be the original, later revealed to be the clone after all, later to be killed by the Green Goblin and he turned to dust in Peter's arms. Thats the simplest way I can explain that confusing mess.
LETS HAVE FUN WITH MARKETING
You got a storyline and you want to generate a buzz for it? Then you need to catch the eye of your customers. In the case of comics, a cover that will bring people in. In case of Spider-Man the new storyline is called "The Other." So the good folks over there decide "lets drive or fans crazy and make them speculate." The Other could be the other costume, the other Spider-Clone... Fuckin dirty publishers. Trying to take my money. At several conventions this past summer, Marvel Comics Publisher, Editor in Cheif, and several writers working on the project have only given a few clue about the story, joking that Peter Parker will lose an organ. The title of the story is now called "Spider-Man:the Other: Evolve or Die." I didnt know you could have that many colons in one title. Speculations have been that Spider-Man will die (highly unlikely due to the movie franchise making oodles- yes oodles of money) and with the revealing of pic 3 today, people have wondered if Ben Reilly would return due to said missing organ. Meh. That would be nice, but there's so much back story it might confuse some people. I'll wait for the trade if I can't get a hold of extra money.
MID-POSTING EDIT: My co-workers think either I'm hungry/starving all the time or that I'm greedy piggy (like some people seem to think) cause they make sure I get my greasy chicken fix. I love the Southside (my heart and veins say "NO!")
OKAY SOMETHING ELSE:
I havent posted i a long time so I havent been able to post about the Jay-Z "I Declare War" concerts Thursday and Saturday in Jersey and Philly, respectively. "Fans" (i guess thats what they are) were taking guesses as to who would Jigga be taking shots at. It turns out "I Declare War" really meant "I'm just playin witcha" (you know like the card game. playing. cards. aww fuck it) cause the mission was peace. The last good beef in hip-hop was killed with one phrase: "Esco... Let's go!" And with that, Nas came out on stage with Jay-Z. Crowd goes nuts, the two perform Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents II" which sampled Nas' "The World is Yours." And Nas did a verse of that very song over the beat of "DP II." Nas went on to perform a few songs solo and was joined again by Jay and Diddy to do "Hate Me Now." Diddy got to dead some beef of his own performing with LOX for "All About the Benjamins"- one of the greastest hip-hop songs EVA!! Yeah. I said it. What. The LOX performed with Beanie Sigel (who Jadakiss and co. had beef with once), Jay-Z (same thing with him too), and Sauce Money (who everybody thought had beef with Jay) to perform "Reservoir Dogs." Beanie Sigel, at the Philly show, joined members of State Property on stage (who all kinda shitted on him when he was in jail. no mail. no visits. no nothin). TI and Young Jeezy were there too, but they like everybody or everybody likes them.
In a (HA) related note, NBA star, "what color is he?" Frenchie, Tony Parker will be releasing a rap CD. So many jokes my head hurts, or maybe my arteries are clogged and blood can't get to my brain from all that grease.
PEACE
Oct 19, 2005
I took this from one of Jayka's myspace bulletins. Once again something good that I've heard nothing about in the mainstream media. Learned a good bit for such a short article.
PEACE
A seven-meter sculpture commemorating the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Black power protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos will be unveiled at San Jose State University in California Monday, The Associated Press reports.
The pair, who had been teammates at the then-San Jose State College, was scheduled to be present at Monday's ceremony along with second-place Australian Peter Norman.
Smith, who had won the 200 meters gold medal in world record time, and Carlos, who placed third, bowed their heads and raised one black-gloved hand each in the Black power salute on the victory podium while "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played.
Smith told Reuters that he raised his right fist to represent Black power, while Carlos's left fist represented unity in Black America. A black scarf around Smith's neck stood for Black pride and their black socks with no shoes represented Black poverty in the United States.
They bowed their heads, saying they believed the words of freedom in the U.S. anthem represented White Americans only and wore a badge representing the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Silver medalist Norman told Reuters that he knew about the plan.
"They involved me in the conversation," he said. "It wasn't a secret huddle, they were letting me know.
"I said to John: 'You got another of those badges?' 'If I get one will you wear it?' he asked. 'I sure would,' I replied."
The International Olympic Committee was outraged, threatening to expel the U.S. team if Smith and Carlos were not sent home.
The U.S. Olympic Committee complied and the duo was sent home. On their return to the United States they were treated as outcasts and struggled to earn a living. Both their marriages broke up and Carlos's wife committed suicide.
"We were under tremendous economic stress," Carlos told Reuters. "I took any job I could find. We had four children and some nights I would have to chop up our furniture and make a fire in the middle of the room."
Smith eventually found a job as a track coach and Carlos was hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee to help promote the 1984 Games.
"I don't feel embraced," said Carlos. "I feel like a survivor. I was almost like we were on a deserted island. But we survived."
Norman said he is proud to have been associated with the protest. "It's a life-changing experience that is still held up, not just as a moment in sport but as a moment in American history," he said.
Oct 18, 2005
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Oct 16, 2005
Its Sunday...and I'm kinda mad
Not too mad though (maybe)
I forgot how much fun it is being in relationships when other people (friends, i guess thats what you'd call 'em) want to go around putting their two cents in here and there. Its fun shit. Its like theyre planting crap flowers and shit bushes [NOTE: crap flowers and shit bushes are copyright by Anthony Taylor 2005, all rights reserved] everywhere. Landscaping at its finest. I understand looking out for your buddy, but damn dude. Don't be an asshole with it. Thats not cool. I dont get people sometimes.
The Million Man March's 10th Anniversary just happened dubbed the Millions More Movement happened this weekend. I dont watch T.V. too often so I dont know... did it get any coverage? If so what was the slant? I know the focus was on younger Black males, like guys around my age (18-27 esp. ) . Farrakhan shouldnt have had too much trouble motivating people this go round. The shitfest that was/is the New Orleans relief effort kinda did the work for him. The hip-hop community should have jumped all over this considering all the good work coming out of them. I'd hate for them to have lost any momentum, but you never can tell. Besides there are hos to be had.
Fun time!! This is really old, I'm just glad someone had it online still. The reason Bill O'Rilley will probably never have semi-smart rappers on his show ever again. (youre safe 50. its cool):
http://u-r-mad.net/madnet22/oreilly(u-mad.net).WMV ahh... I love it.
PEACE
I forgot how much fun it is being in relationships when other people (friends, i guess thats what you'd call 'em) want to go around putting their two cents in here and there. Its fun shit. Its like theyre planting crap flowers and shit bushes [NOTE: crap flowers and shit bushes are copyright by Anthony Taylor 2005, all rights reserved] everywhere. Landscaping at its finest. I understand looking out for your buddy, but damn dude. Don't be an asshole with it. Thats not cool. I dont get people sometimes.
The Million Man March's 10th Anniversary just happened dubbed the Millions More Movement happened this weekend. I dont watch T.V. too often so I dont know... did it get any coverage? If so what was the slant? I know the focus was on younger Black males, like guys around my age (18-27 esp. ) . Farrakhan shouldnt have had too much trouble motivating people this go round. The shitfest that was/is the New Orleans relief effort kinda did the work for him. The hip-hop community should have jumped all over this considering all the good work coming out of them. I'd hate for them to have lost any momentum, but you never can tell. Besides there are hos to be had.
Fun time!! This is really old, I'm just glad someone had it online still. The reason Bill O'Rilley will probably never have semi-smart rappers on his show ever again. (youre safe 50. its cool):
http://u-r-mad.net/madnet22/oreilly(u-mad.net).WMV ahh... I love it.
PEACE
Oct 15, 2005
I never did like...
That "Angels in the Outfeild" movie always rubbed me the wrong way. Now even moreso that I am in Chicago and a new resident of the Southside (i'm good luck, Sox). The ALCS is looking a bit too much like that movie. So if anybody sees Christopher Llyod's crazy ass, choke him. And stay away from Cubs fans- I mean real ones, not the casual ones like myself (they made me believe in bad luck).
PEACE
PS. I'm back a bit early- on a Saturday no less! GO SOX!!
PPS I still hate St. Louis. Just sayin
PEACE
PS. I'm back a bit early- on a Saturday no less! GO SOX!!
PPS I still hate St. Louis. Just sayin
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