Representin'

Hip Hop Quotable: American Gangster

“My mind on my money, money on my mind
If you owe me ten dollars,you ain't giving me nine
Ya'll ain't give me 40 acres and a mule
So i got my Glock 40, now i'm cool
And if Al Sharpton is speaking for me
Somebody get him the word and tell him i don't approve
Tell him i'll remove the curses
If you tell me our schools gon' be perfect
When Jena 6 don't exist
Tell him THAT's when i'll stop saying bitch---BIIITCH!”

“SAY HELLO”
Jay- Z

Import Nights [ To The Flow ]

On Saturday I did some recording for the Lifestyle/Entertainment show I host called “To The Flow”, Its my boy Tre’s show, he’s the producer of the Show. Last Saturday we were at the Extreme 310 Auto show in Torrance and this Saturday we were at Import Nights Auto Show @ The Los Angeles Convention Center and it was packed. The Game (fresh out of Jail) performed, they had a B-boy Battle, Go-Go Dancers and of course some of the Hottest cars this side of the Mississippi. Old Schools, Ferrari’s, Bentley's, Aston Martins, Customized Kitted-Out Cars, everything imaginable. Here’s a few pics of the Event.

Traffic on the way to the LA Convention Center


Kira acting a fool on the way to the convention center


VT



The B-Boy Battle

And The Next Night.......

The Following night we went to Tim Thomas's (Los Angeles Clippers) Birthday Party @ Ritual in Hollywood. It was pretty crackin, even though the DJ kinda on one playin some bullshit @ times.

NCAA March Madness Predictions

This is my bracket I filled it out Today.

Sweet 16:

Memphis vs Pittsburg

Stanford vs Texas

Kansas vs Clemson (Upset special, Clemson over Kansas)

UCLA vs UConn

Xavier vs Duke (Upset special, Xavier over Coach K's Duke team)

Wisconsin vs G-Town

Tennesse vs Louisville

Washington St. vs UNC

Elite 8:

UNC vs Tennesse

Clemson vs G-Town

Memphis vs Texas

UCLA vs Xavier

Final Four:

UCLA vs Texas (Rematch from early this season, where Texas won it 63-61)

UNC vs G-Town (Rematch from last years Elite 8, where G-Town won it in OT)

National Championship:

UCLA vs UNC

UCLA takes it 75-72 over UNC.

Obama's Speech On Race

Obama Speech: "A More Perfect Union"

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"Cocaine Is A Hell Of A Drug"

DMX (Dark Man X, more like Drug Man X)

So I read that DMX on a hip hop website that DMX had this to say about Barak Obama in a recent XXL interview....

Are you following the presidential race?

DMX: Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.

DMX: His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.

DMX: Barack?!

Barack.

DMX: What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.

DMX: Barack Obama?

Yeah.

DMX: What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.

DMX: I ain’t really paying much attention. I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

Some people were shocked to hear DMX say things like this……

My Synopsis:

Everyone knows (or should know by now) DMX smokes crack and has been caught with Crack by police, more than once (just like Linsey Lohan with coke). The first time was May 2000 then again at JFK Airport in July 2004. If you ever watched his show DMX: Soul Of A Man (on BET) he admitted that he had in fact became addicted to crack after one of his friends gave him a laced marijuana joint without telling him. So being that he is a "crack head" ignorant statements like this, should come as no surprise to any of you. And for the record I am a huge DMX fan…Its Dark and Hell is Hot and FlesH oF My Flesh are 2 of my favorite CDs of all time. The man's the 6th highest selling rapper of all time and was voted one of the top 25 MC's of all time….but I gotta call a spade a spade, dudes a crack head and he's acting as such. DMX go to sleep. This is one of the most significant (black) political moments in history of this country and X don’t even know its happening. DMX needs to go to sleep with that shit. In the words of Rick James "Cocaine Is a Hell of a Drug". Case Closed.

Friday Night In The NBA

The race for the playoffs is heating up and Friday was a great of night of basketball featuring marquee matches-up of playoff contenders. The race is close in the West with only 3 games separating 1st place in the West and 5th place. Its going to go down to the wire and if any team falls asleep they could mess around and find themselves go for 1st or 2nd to 6th in a heartbeat and lose (the pivotal) home court advantage in the playoffs.

The first game we'll examine is The Lakers and The Hornets. The Lakers have played well against the Hornets all season, but yesterday was a different story. Laker Center Paul Gasol went down early in the first after rolling his ankle on teammate Radmanovic's foot. Gasol was helped off the court and diagnosed with an ankle sprain and would miss the rest of the game. Teammate Lamar Odom picked up the slack in the first half and the game was close going into half. But when the 3rd quarter rolled around the Lakers had trouble keeping the momentum rolling and MVP candidate Chris Paul took over! Paul ended the game with 27 points and 17 assists, Chandler grabbed 20 board and Kobe was his usual unstoppable self with 37 points. The Hornets are just coming off a Big win against the defending Champs the Spurs the other night (a beat down) and with this victory over the Lakers they look like a dangerous team going to playoffs.
LAKERS (45-20) 98 , HORNETS (44-20) 108

Another great match-up was The Detroit Pistons and The San Antonio Spurs, a rematch of the NBA finals a few years back (record low rating that year). 2 defensive teams slugging it out, The Spurs are coming of a 25 point beat down by The Hornets and were looking to bounce back against Detroit. But Detroit looking to prove they are still the team to beat in the East had their own plans for the defending Champs. In a defensive knock down drag it out game the Pistons were victorious and are just 3 wins a way from another 50 win season.

SPURS (44-21) 80, PISTONS (47-18) 84

The amazing Rockets, yeah I said it the Amazing record-setting Rockets went into Friday looking to do what only one other NBA team has ever done, win 21-straight games. And lucky for them they were going up against the struggling Bobcats. The Bobcasts have shown signs of life this season but at this point the red hot rockets were too much for them.
Tracy McGrady has 30 points as the Rockets rolled. This win ties them with Los Angeles at 45-20 and sets up a great match-up Sunday in Houston.
BOBCATS (24-41) 80, ROCKETS (45-20) 89

The Utah Jazz, a surprise team last year, who made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals are right in the thick of things in the tight West Playoff races this year. Friday they had a match up the Celtics. The Eastern Conference leading Celtic have already clinched a playoff birth by racking up an NBA best 51 wins and dropping only 13 games this season. The Celtics have dominated the west for most of the season but not tonight. A Utah team just a game or so out of first place in their division stepped into the TD Banknorth Garden Arena focused and with a game plan and they executed. You could just see it from tip off that this Utah team had something to prove in this game and Deron William, Carlos Boozer and company took it to the Owners of NBA's Best Record, ALL Night Long. Williams finished with 32 points and 8 assists and Boozer had a double double scoring 17 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Garnett did his numbers but Allen and Pierce really struggled both scoring under double digits, Allen left the game early after a fall in the 1st quarter resulting in a bruised heal.

UTAH (44-23) 110, CELTICS (51-13) 92

Presidential "Race"

Barack Obama

Delegate Total*

1,611

Hillary Clinton

Delegate Total*
1,480

You gotta Love CNN for using this picture of hillary clinton..hilarious, she looks like the wicked witch of the west...lol

New Dancing Videos! Sexaholiks Is The Crew!

Just My Thoughts

For those that don’t know I currently work at MySpace.

Man, I see some shit on MySpace…..Its part of my job to review the content on thousands of pages and I see some shit boy .

Devil worshippers, Porn stars, Racists all types of shit. But the shit that trips me out is these young kids. I be seeing little 14 yr old white and Asian kids referring to themselves as niggas, like what?

I be seeing little 14 years olds talk about they’re bisexual or they looking for their one true love…or how they tired of getting their heart broken. They putting up half naked picks of themselves, talking about smoking weed. Using all types of profanity, words I wouldn’t think they even knew and I’m like WTF? Mutha fucka you only 14…what the fuck do you know about love or being bisexual or sex in general (have you even had Sex-Ed yet?) you better go somewhere and play some Wii or PS3 and stop trying to be grown. WTF!

Case In Point: Just right now, I seen a profile of an underaged user (11 year old kid white kid) who claims to be from Tiawan said he is a “Gangstah” and he was “raised in the streets, nigga” followed by “I’ll fuck you up if yo cracka ass messes with me”….Can we say “identity crisis”??

Behind The Music

So the soap opera that is my life running this record label (with my cousin) continues…the world keeps spinning and so do these artists heads….With respect to the artist that I deal with, I will refrain from using their real names when venting with hopes of not hurting their fragile little egos or causing unneeded drama. Let me properly frame the situation….hmmm….I went out and found this artist and started working with him, for the intents of this blog we are going to call him Dr. Doolittle. Because that’s what most of these artist do (little), and expect us as the label to do everything for them short of wiping their ass. And when we decide to make a business decision they wanna start a fuss and start trying to act like they are the ones losing sleep, breaking their backs for the label and their demands need to be met. When obviously it’s the other way around. I explained to Dr. Doolittle before we even started doing music , exactly what type of business we are running and what we expect from him as an artist and what he can expect from us as the record label. With all that said, he claimed he understand and we start working together . Dr. Doolittle whom we are writing, producing and recording all of his music has finished a whopping 2 songs in the first 2 months of the 90 day trail period that we have him under before we decide to sign him. And we’re thinking that everything is going fine, we would obviously like to have finished more music finished but we trying to allow the artist to get into a rhythm and not rush him. So one session the artists, Dr. Doolittle (22) says that one of the songs we gave him to sing is too mature because it mentions sex. He said that he didn’t want to sing the song because it may alienate him from the younger audience. And we are like What?? Its plenty of artists with young audiences that mention sex….Chris Brown (18) “Take You Down”, Pretty Ricky got a whole song about Phone Sex, Ciara in her song “Promise” said she wanna ride it….So that’s completely inaccurate and just a showing of the artist narrow mindedness and lack of knowledge on how the business really works. But we don’t wanna be jerks or assholes, so we like O.K. kid we'll work with you, and we agreed that we can tone the shit down. Even though we knew the artist was wrong. But we came to an amicable agreement anyway or at least we thought we did.

Next thing we know the artist doesn’t show up to his next studio session, stops answering the phone and stops returning our emails. So we're sitting here confused like "what is going on?", and then his manager calls us and wants to talk about the artists creative control. Creative Control???? 2 songs in 2 months, 0 money earned, Hours of unpaid studio time racked up, No records sold, the artist is in the Red (in debt) and Dr. Doolittle is demanding creative control?? We're not unreasonable men, but we are not going to grant creative control to unproven artists who don’t even have their facts straight. So the manager’s argument for why Dr. Doolittle should have creative control is because that’s just the way he is.…..WTF? That’s it…that’s all you got, nigga please….this Is a business, I don’t give a fuck about that shit. I have to do plenty of shit in this business that I may not want to do and I wont put the burden on the artist, I'll suck It up and keep the ship moving forward because that’s what it takes to be successful. Cant Stop, Wont Stop ( I hate to quote a puffy song but its true).

A MUST FOR SITUATIONS LIKE THIS (800 MG's)

Then the manager starts griping about how the artist doesn’t want to drive home late at night after the studio sessions, so can we move the studio sessions to an earlier time…..FUCK NO….Niggaz got jobs, if our jobs let us off @ 9 then the studio session is at 9:30 and that’s out of our control. But who cares about staying late in the studio, If you’re really trying to make it in this industry then you will stay late, sleep in the damn studio if that’s what it takes to get a major label deal. There are hundreds of thousands of artists and new ones poppin’ up everyday that are all competing for the same plate of food. This is an ultra competitive industry! You have to be willing to work harder than the next man or you will be passed up…I guarantee.

Hard work beats talent, when talent don’t work hard!

Cut the shit. When this is something you truly love, then its not work. I love to do this shit, so staying up late nights, over night, in the studio 2 days in a row non-stop, its nothing to me. Difficult takes a day, Impossible takes a week, I can do this is my sleep. Because I'm focused, determined and humble enough to work for free now, so that in the future I can get paid to do this. You wanna know about humility and hard work read Russell Simmons book “Do You: 12 Laws Of Success”. It’s a great read and its very inspirational. A must read for anyone thinking of getting into the music industry on any level.

Back to the story so the manager says he is going to discuss the things we talked about with Dr. Doolittle and he’s going to call us back. Its been a week and we haven’t heard shit, no returned phone calls, no returned email. Nothing. Honestly, I still don’t have a problem with the artist, if he wants to come back and work hard with this music and understand his role he is welcome. But obviously since he hasn’t contacted us then that must not be what he wants to do. Looks like another 2 months wasted and the search for the next American Idol continues……

The Weekend

So this is my first blog , so I guess I should start by just letting everyone reading this know about me and my life, so they can get an understanding of what they are getting themselves into. Im a college student currently at Cal State Northridge studying Health Care Business Administration, Im a Producer/A&R/Exec for Movin Heavy Entertainment, a Record Label that me and my cousin Travis (AKA Versatyle) run and are currently trying to get off the ground. So that right there should let you know that music is a huge part of my life. I also dable in acting and hosting, I was cast in a Christian Idependent Film called "Puzzle" and I played the role of a character named Uppity. Acting in the film was a fun experience and I am definitely excited about getting the chance to do another film. I am also a dancer and have a crew of dancers that are my close friends, our crew is called the Sexaholiks.







For more on that check us out on youtube....just type in sexaholiks....and it should all explain itself from there. So I guess thats all you need to know up to this point , everything else will be shown in due time......the wait is over, lets start the show.



This weekend I had off, so I did my usual...Hit the Studio. I was up in there with Ray Montana (rapper) and I got a chance to hear the final mix of the 3 songs we produced for this young cat we work with names Cincere's (19) demo. He wrote 2 of the songs and we wrote and arranged the 3rd one. Check em out www.myspace.com/1cincere

I dont think he has any of our music we did with him on his page but he should soon. Here's some photos from our studio session with Ray Montana , my boy Tre was also in the house for the session.












Then we hit the club!

These girls told me I looked like Omarion (LOL) and they wanted to take a picture with me. I had my camera on me as usual, so I said fuck it might as well take a pic with my cam too.



It was a very funny night. Drank tooooo much though, felt like shit in the morning.....but I guess you live and learn.