Monthly Archives: August 2008

Thought I Was Bugging Until….

Posted on August 31, 2008 by phella| 3 Comments

I saw this quote on a friends myspace page:

“….An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate for the good and the bad.”

Often I see people (myself especially) being accused of being “impatient” or “mean” when it comes to dealing with negative people. This quote dispels that myth. If you’re a positive person and a person striving for success, you deserve to surround yourself with people who are on the same path. Anything else is uncivilized.

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News Anchor Gets At Beyonce’s Little Si..I Mean Solange

Posted on August 31, 2008 by phella| 2 Comments

This story is this weeks version of The Game Vs Bow Wow “Madden” beef. It’s one of those things that just won’t go away.

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Phellito’s Way:I’m On (Internet) Talking Like It’s Just You And Me

Posted on August 30, 2008 by phella| 3 Comments


No topic, no rules, no parameters, no guidelines….just feel free to get your Kanye West on and say whatevers on your mind….about anything.

September to me is the month before basketball returns.

Cold Weather>Warm Weather

I’m eager to travel again, not North Carolina or Philly but travel travel.

Being different these days=highly overrated.

Waynes verse on “I Cant Believe It”=What stopped the song from being a classic.

This was my first week out of this year that I didnt workout at least once and “I feel like dying”

My updated wife list in order: Keyshia Cole, Bria Myles, around the way girl 1, Jessica Simpson, around the way girl 2, around the way girl 3, Teiarra Marrie (instant divorce but still worth a shot)

The Famous Firm at this present moment=Obama’s campaign right before everyone caught on.

Articulate’s grind right now>your favorite rappers grind at any point in his career.

DC rappers will learn….thrillaaaa

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Grinders Check In.

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No One Is Better Than You, Everyone Is Your Equal

Posted on August 27, 2008 by phella| 5 Comments

“No one is better than you, everyone is your equal”

The words of Vice Presidential hopeful Joe Biden during his speech tonight.

That quote means so much to me. It means that no matter how low you might get or high you think you are, you are still the same as everyone else. I pride myself on never thinking I’m above anyone or thinking anyone is above me. Elitism is something that ruins a lot of people who had the potential to become great. They think that race, income, degrees, or a job title makes them better than others and then sooner or later it all comes crashing down.

All of us deserve respect and we should never settle for less because no one is better than us and we are all equals. Keep that in mind.

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Grinders Check-In

Posted on August 26, 2008 by phella| 19 Comments

Aight so I got this idea while I was driving last night. Recently I’ve found myself on some sort of insane grind where I’m just doing a million things at once. Similar to a running back in football when he just puts his head down and runs with forward progress in mind…regardless of who’s in front of him.

I’ve noticed a lot of the readers of this blog and the people who comment are also on intense grinds (missions) right now. It might be with school, work, relationships, a career, sports, whatever.

The purpose of this post is for everyone who reads it that is on some sort of hustle or grind or mission to Check-in. All you have to do is comment and you’re checked-in. If you want, you can even discuss what it is you are working towards. Like I know Sean is going for that Dodge Challenger.

(I read in the Kanye West book that stating your goals publicly makes you work that much harder towards it because people are going to hold you to it. So I’ll go ahead and state mine in the comment section)

No goal is too big or too little. It could be that you working towards a billion dollars or you just want your first kiss, doesn’t matter.

One year from now, August 26th 2009 we can all look back to this post and see if we achieved the goals, came close, still in progress or maybe even switched them up completely.

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2 More Philly Videos

Posted on August 25, 2008 by phella| 3 Comments

One video is of me performing two of my songs. Went pretty good. Had my first request from females wanting to come on stage…more importantly after I walked off stage I had a kid ask for my autograph, first time that ever happened…that was surreal to me.

And the second video is of me and Articulate doing “Oh Really”…about 40 seconds in check out the clip of the toddler “blood”…he’s a Lil Wayne imitator..a lot of people gotta kick out of it but I hope there is also someone at home guiding him in the right direction.

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Tour Update:Philly Or Die Trying

Posted on August 25, 2008 by phella| Comments Off

So the tour landed me in Darby, PA right outside of Philadelphia. This wasn’t a college campus. It actually was a car show for Philadelphia Custom Motor Sports. Author/Businessman Nasir Aleem was our host. My job:spread word about The Famous Firm and perform a few of my songs, including “Oh Really” with Artic who was also performing.

Plenty of car trouble, an attempted drive by, a 5 year old thug imitating Lil Wayne, a decent performance by myself, a classic performance by Freeway and a tour of some exclusive whips from Nasir and I am back home. Tired, excited, exuberant, and a bunch of other things are what I’m feeling now. Videos of as much as I could capture below:

The Road:

Freeway Performance Pt 1:

Freeway Performance Pt 2:

Car Show Tour Courtesy Of Nasir Aleem

Phella + Articulate Performance:
Coming Soon

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Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due

Posted on August 24, 2008 by phella| 3 Comments


My first ever post on this blog was about Freeway. It was a video of him and the Roc crew performing “What We Do”. That song is easily in my top ten of all time and Free for the past 6 years has been one of my favorites. He captures the struggle and the plight of the inner city the way few rappers can and still makes it sound dope.

Seeing the kind of love and respect he gets from people in his hood really raised the respect level I had for him. They treat him like the mayor or the savior over there. I don’t really get star struck or in awe of anyone but the Freeway situation meant a lot to me. I remember using his cd Philadelphia Freeway to make it through the days like 4 or 5 years ago and now I’m sharing the same stage and chillin with him. Definitely something I’ll remember forever.

Favorite Free Song: Mellow

Ab Liva and the whole Re-Up Gang crew also influenced me heavily when I was coming up. The Re-Up Gang mixtapes vol. 2 and 3 are better than most albums I’ve heard in my life. Liva is another cool Philly dude. Mad laid back and humble.

Favorite Liva Song: Liva Solo

Big shoutout to Nasir Aleem for hooking all this up too.

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Thank You And You’re Welcome

Posted on August 23, 2008 by phella| 6 Comments

www.iamphella.com is at 1000 views for the month which is small time in the blog world but big for me since this is my first official month. We got there with about 7 days to spare too. Thanks to all the active participants like Karim Diane aka Kay, Sean, Sickamore, Bombchell and everyone else. Thanks to everyone who sends in material for me to post on here as well. As The Famous Firm grows and I grow as a person and an artist the future of this site looks promising.

Today I was checking the stats on Realtalkny which started out as a lil ole blog similar to this one a few years ago. They get over 1,000,000 views every single month. That’s dedication holmes. I probably won’t/shouldn’t ever get that much traffic but lets see how it goes.

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Respect My Vote To Love Her

Posted on August 22, 2008 by phella| 4 Comments



My future wife Keyshia Cole modeling her Respect My Vote shirt. Like I always say Keyshia just wait for me a lil longer, I’ve almost got my act together.

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