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I don’t really have an angle for this post so I’ll just jump all over the place, bear with me. I just feel like putting something up here since the last post ended on a negative note. I really don’t want to make anyones life difficult but some people won’t let you live……I’m going to liveI am living.

Side note:Guess who was just taught how to strike a word out on html? haha I’m about to OD with it. I am OD’ing with it.

I feel bad about my performance during this inauguration weekend. I should have been way more active and more involved.
*Excuses For Not Partying As Much:Parties were too crowded, lines were extra long when we can’t skip the line, we skip the party.
*Excuses For Leaving The Inauguration Early: I was sleepy. Went straight from a party to a breakfast spot to THE breakfast spot, props to Jabari for putting a dude on to “Steak N Eggs”. From there I get in a line that stretched probably 10-20 miles. Imagine being surrounded by 3 million tourists who don’t understand the act of NOT stepping on your shoes. Imagine 15 degree temperature with no gloves and no scarf (props to the lady who kept giving me her tissues for my nose and the girl who helped me zip my hands inside my coat…2 much black+2 much love=4ever). Imagine taking pictures of monuments that you can see from your house, and then realizing that it makes no sense. Imagine being told that you can see more from the TV set than the people there in person….imagine no cell phone service. Imagine leaving with your frost bitten toes and fingers.

Props to everyone who stayed and thugged it out. I fully understand why. “It’s nobody fault I made the decisions I made, that’s why I’m still paranoid till this day..”-Jay-Z

Speaking of the Jigga man. Man that was too real to see him performing “History” on that stage. Like that’s the stuff movies are made out of. Shout out to Beyonce, Kanye, Usher, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Rihanna and everyone else who pumped life into this town this past weekend. Especially you, Ms.Rosario Dawson who I ran into stalked twice. What a woman.

Mr.Obama I know I’m not saying anything new here but you deserve to be commended a million times. You and you’re family exemplify all that’s good with the world. Struggle, perseverance, faith, hard/smart work and knowing how to handle success. You’re teaching showing men how to be naturally cool again as opposed to forcing. Your wife is showing women how to be strong, determined and beautiful without being bitchy and condescending a tad bit snotty. Your daughters are already serving as role models for their age group as well. Keep it up sir and good luck with the Presidency. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is a stones throw from where I live. Hit me up for basketball one of these days.

Back to politics as usual now.

"Whyyyyyyyyyyy?"-Kenan from Kenan & Kel


Jay-Z My President is black Remix LIVE 1-18-09 from pleasedontstare on Vimeo.
I really really really should have gone to this Jeezy party. I was at some half ass hipster event not too far away. Jay-Z is that dude. At least I got to see Mrs.Carter sing earlier on in the day but still, it’s not the same.

Random 3A.M. Question

Does anyone else feel like their bank account is being shortened sometimes? I swear on everything that a dollar or two disappears each day that no one can explain to me. Or maybe I’m just losing my mind.

Music Mondays:The Rundown

Just a bunch of random things/people/songs I’m feeling at the moment musically. Might make this a weekly thing.

Itunes Snapshot:The top 10 songs I’ve played since I last reset itunes. Notice the dominance of RnB…I hate rappers.

On The Famous Radar:People who might be involved with The Famous Firm sometime in the near future.

N.E.P.H.E.W-I got put on to Neph by his manager Rico a few months back. He comes from Chicago and has a very hard working team behind him. His music really stood out and eventually I set him up for a meeting with Sickamore in NY. After the meeting everyone called and e-mailed me saying he was one of the most talented rappers we ever encountered at The Firm. Very high praise because we hate rappers…let me not speak for everyone, I hate rappers. Nonetheless, N.E.P.H.E.W isn’t another rapper. Dude is a dope artist. Sent them this Just Blaze instrumental last week and he immediately sent this back: Listen To N.E.P.H.E.W On Just Blaze’s “Why You Hate The Game” track
Neph’s Myspace

Audra:Female rappers are a rarity these days, good ones even more so. The Firm worked with a good one earlier on this year;Ms Nicki Minaj of Lil Wayne’s Young Money ENT. I’m a huge believer that female rap isn’t dead, it’s just not being marketed right…actually it’s just not being marketed at all. All the top ones went to jail and the industry sort of just stopped caring. A person that can help remedy that might be Virginia’s own Audra. I found her via a good ole fashion hit up on myspace. The thing that stood out even before listening to her music was that she
started up her own charity foundation to help AIDS awareness.
Knowing a person has good character is half the battle, now what about the music? Well she definitely has talent. Her style reminds me of an early Left Eye kind of. She’s also nominated for some Southern Music Awards so be sure to support if you like what you hear.
Audra’s Myspace

In Other Music News:Mainstream Music From My Perspective

Even though she’s no longer my number 1 I still need everyone to support Keysh tomorrow. Her new album entitled “A Different Me” is in stores tomorrow.

Others That Need To Be Copped-Musiq Soulchild and Common both got new albums out and Soulja Boy drops tomorrow too I believe.

Revolution Will Be Phellavised On PH1:Music Videos That I Find To Be Compelling

I don’t know what’s up with everyone saying this was a horrible performance. Of course Kanye is a horrendous singer. I don’t think he ever claimed to be Whitney Houston. The guy is just in a zone and making whatever music he feels like making and I’m enjoying just about all of it. I thought this performance was ill. Especially the I-just-scored-a touchdown-at-the-Superbowl-and-don’t-care-who’s-watching dance.

B.O.B-Autotune

Shout out to the homie man. Dude is doing his thing. This is hilarious. And Wayne’s cool and all but I think it’s about time someone pointed out that laughing after each average punchline doesn’t make it hot.

Coat Check

On my way to donate some coats and jackets, then I got to thinking. What was I on back in the day? If you got any funny coats in your history (which we all do) then this is the place to share and/or discuss. My readers are too cool for school so I doubt that’ll happen, so once again I’ll sacrifice myself.
9th or 10th grade

7th or 8th grade

That first leather debauchery was me attempting to get the Jigga look from the “Do It Again (Put Yo Hands Up)” video. The leather plus Yankee hat combo was too ill for me not to imitate. Only problem? We couldn’t afford Avirex or any of the expensive leathers so I took what I had to the arab store and got this disgusting grey leather with a Yankee and some jeans. I think everything came to like $75.
That leather gave me a headache (literally) everytime I wore it. It hand this strong paint smell that would go straight to my head and have me searching for the nearest tylenol.

The second joint was actually not a disaster. I was the first to pull off State Prop. Maybe it’s cuz I wasn’t going for anyone else’s look. I just saw a nice jacket and bought it. Got me plenty of play. Honestly I would still rock it right now if it didn’t say State Property on the outside. These days I like logos to be secret.

I have worse coat skeletons in my closet but I can’t share the rest….no sir.

*Sidebar:From S.Dots, to cheap leathers, to State Propery Jackets; Roc-A-Fella really influenced the hell outta my upbringing. Half of my decisions from age 11-16 where based on what I thought Roc-A-Fella artists would do.

Maaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know how ill this song was even before Jay-Z got on it and recycled his BEST VERSE EVER?

Give me a years supply of vitamin water, Keyshia Cole and this song and you’ll never hear from me again.

“Just because I’m losing
Doesn’t mean I’m lost….”

IAP Weekly Pheature:Karim Diane


This week’s artist is Karim Diane formally known as Kay.

I’ve had a vested interest in this kid since he first inquired about working with The Famous Firm about 6 months back. I was really impressed by the fact that at age 18 he was already balancing the behind the scenes work with the actual music. Not many up and comers can say they’ve had Stevie Wonder co-sign their talent, which led to an appearance in Complex magazine.

When I first met the singer, he was already being heavily courted by rapper Gravy (Biggie in the movie Notorious) and his management group. They saw and still see what everyone else sees in the young singer;an upside that rivals a late 90′s Usher.

Over the past 6 months, we’ve seen him go through a transformation highlighted by a name change (from Kay to Karim Diane) after encouragement from Ankh Rha, Diddy’s vocal trainer for Day 26 and Danity Kane. The best thing about Karim is his humility and the fact that despite already establishing a fan base he still seeks ways to improve upon his talent.

It’s a matter of time before the rest of the industry sees what I’ve seen in Karim since day 1; a star

This new song “You Got It” speaks for itself. This is my gym/running anthem for the rest of the month.
Download Link

You Got It – Karim Diane

Phollow Up:
You can keep up with Karim by adding him on his myspace.

PSA:Take The Weapon From The Kid (Graphic Video)

This video is a shame. Never wanna see someone die live on camera but I think it needs to be seen. If you see a toddler toting a loaded firearm, please do the right thing and ask him to go to the shooting range.

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