Completely random post, I know.

Wale - Artistic Integrity (from his “mixtape about nothing” mixtape, which is super dope. Watching this makes me wanna get back to DC real soon, I love it there)

Nas - Hero (sidenote: the first time I saw an audi R8 was in London last year. I almost pissed my pants with excitement. Then I realized how much we just spent on food and a cab ride and I wanted to punch myself in the stomach)

LL Cool J - Rockin With The GOAT (yeah I know, it’s LL working out, but he’s a beast on the mic still, so listen to it and pump di fist! Speaking of working out, I’ve been on the gym steady for about two months now, and my arms are getting bigger finally **drinks pro-nos**
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All three distinct styles, and all three dope. Sorry I’ve been missing, I had to fight off a lung infection **puffs inhaler**

I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone that came out to the party friday night. It turned out much better than we ever imagined, and dime and I had fun playing through the catalogs of these VA greats. Can’t wait to do it again. Pics (thanks to Carolina and John from FYSH):

more pics after the jump
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Yes I did!

I’m proud to announce that I’m the winner of Riviera and Zspotlight.com’s first ever Vinyl Project! The contest started back in March with 12 DJs and made the rounds to the trendy downtown spots (Riviera, Mosquito, Haven, White Collar, and Ess) and I made it all the way through to the take the prize (six month residency at Riviera and a stack of one-thousand one dollar bills)!

Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know that I won, and since I hate talking about myself, I’ll keep this short and just put up a bunch of pics from all the nights.

I want to extend the following thank-yous ::

Zspotlight and Riviera (especially Rodney and George), thanks for making this happen (and making me rich, HA)

To my DJ bretheren for inspiring me to do more, most notably: DJ Mensa, DJ SK, DJ Paradime, Mike Danger, DJ MC, Miss Kittie, Triple B, DJ Merlin, and Son of Sam. OH, and also to contest DJs Lotta Noize and Adonis!

To the homies at 3Sixteen for keeping me laced throughout the contest!

To my family for the support and encouragement. Unexpected text messages that read “kill em” or “good luck” meant more than you know!

Last and certainly not least, maybe even most (hey maybe I should have put you MF-ers first!), my friends who were there to support me throughout the contest (this seems like a convenient time to post pics):

Ricky & Sophany

Niki

+ her friend Katie (making faces at me as I’m trying to DJ…thanks!)

Kim and Ruthie (the korean connection!)

Gianna, Kim, Ruthie and Carolina

Marco and Carolina (especially to Carolina who held it down for all the shows, and is responsible for all of these pics!)

Peace and I’m Out!

If you haven’t heard of Ayah yet, you may wanna start checkin for her. She hails from Toronto and her sound is oh so soulful. Check her new song “Pusha Man” which also features Toronto emcee Tona (really dope) and is produced by the homie Lyve (also from Toronto!)

Love the whole style of that joint. So soulful!

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Forrest Gump mama said, life is like a box of chocolates
My mama told me go to school,and get your doctorate
Somethin to fall back on, you could profit with
But still supported me when I did the opposite
Now I feel like it’s things I gotta get
Things I gotta do, just to prove to you
You was getting through, can the choir please
Give me a verse of “You, Are So Beautiful To Me”
Can’t you see, you’re like a book of poetry
Maya Angelou, Nicky Giovanni, turn one page and there’s my mommy
Come on mommy just dance wit me, let the whole world see your dancing feet
Now when I say Hey, yall say Mama, now everybody answer me come on(Hey Mama)

(Hey Mama),ahhhhhh I wanna scream so loud for you, cuz I’m so proud of you
Let me tell you what I’m about to do, (Hey Mama)
I know I act a fool but, I promise you I’m goin back to school
I appreciate what you allowed for me
I just want you to be proud of me (Hey Mama)

Made another day trip up to NYC this week, specifically to see the Heart of The City tour at Madison Square Garden (I know, I’m freakin’ lucky! shouts to MichPush for the tickets and invite)

Got into the city around 10 am and walked around midtown a bit before I headed to the LES to meet up with the fellas at 3Sixteen. I hung around their office for a while, perusing through their upcoming line and current line and overall just shootin’ the shit with Andrew and Matt. I told them I was heading to Cafe Habana for lunch (thanks for the tip, Info!), and they were down. Cafe Habana is nothing short of amazing. Probably the best sandwhich I’ve had in a really long time, and the side of mexican corn was jumpin off! Here’s some pics, courtesy of Andrew @ 3Sixteen (make sure to check their blog as well)

Cafe Habana

Instantly satisfied

Matt

Mexican Style corn // Crack.

Yummmm

After lunch we headed back to their office so they could get back to work and I cold just sit on the couch and recover before furthering my journey, haha. We talked about music, and we’re going to collab on some tapes here in the near future, so stay tuned for that!

Rest of the update coming soon (gotta get the rest of the pics)…stay tuned!

Okay. These are the most awesome shirts ever created. Too bad they’re ~$50 after conversion + shipping from the UK. Ahh, so nice though. Order here + see all the designs

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If you don’t know what he’s referring to, check this article from the weekend where Alicia Keys made claims that gangsta rap was a ploy by the government to get black people to kill each other.

Amazing how much knowledge he drops in such a short amount of time.

I’ve been ODing on house music since I came back from Miami. I realized I just like love music. I can appreciate most anything, but my first love is still hip hop. Seriously, how can you deny something as raw as this:

Busta Rhymes - Don’t Touch Me (dirty)

The trip to Miami was outstanding! I met a lot of new people, got exposed to a lot of new music, and overall just had fun. Part 1 of pics follows:

First meal was at a sushi spot, which I won’t name. Food kind of sucked!

After we ate, we walked to the beach real quick. Honestly I expected we would never make it to the beach, so I didnt even bring my flipflops OR any shorts. What a dummy I was for that one…

SK and applejuice enjoying the beach.

Since Red Bull Music Academy was paying for our stay, we went to a few panels they were sponsoring. This is leroy burgess, his contributions to music are crazy. He’s a founding member of black ivory, who I’ve sampled a few times, and many others have as well. I gotta get the pic from SK, but I asked Leroy how he felt about producers sampling his music. He said he likes it, and that if music he made years ago can inspire someone today, then he’s all for it. He also mentioned getting unexpected royalty money being nice, haha

The last day we were there, my homegirl Michelle from Toronto came to hang out. I had to show her the beach real quick because the rest of the day was gonna be nonstop!

That night our first stop was a party Red Bull sponsored near the hotel. Each table we sat at had a bucket of red bull, orange juice, cranberry juice, glasses and ice, and an unopened bottle of vodka. We stayed here for a while and enjoyed the music and drinks

The next spot was to Skybar to check out The Rub (we’d been talking about it the whole week because we really wanted to see them). Thanks to the homie Kaos, we didn’t have to stand in line at all. There were two parties going on, one by the pool, and one inside with a dope bar and club environment. We thought the rub was inside so we went there to hang out. The rub wasn’t there, but dj mauricio was, and he was MASHING OUT on the set! We had a lot of fun inside

Eventually Michelle and I thought “i bet the rub is outside.” So we ventured out only to find out they already finished spinning! We expressed our disappointment to DJ Eleven and just chilled outside while Cosmo finished up before heading back to Moshi Moshi for some 3 am sushi (where we met up with a wasted DJ SK, haha)

There was a lot more that happened but I’m still waiting on everyone’s pics to tell the stories. Next up is a post from the stuff that happened when I got back from Mia, cause I was going nonstop the whole weekend!