Nike Boots Revisited (Wale was right)
I used to own some Nike Boots back in 2002. I remember I was on tour in Seattle and it was my first time seeing a “real” Nike store. See, I’m from Columbus, OH. We have plenty of shoe stores that sell Nikes, but no real Nike stores; you know, the ones that are like 3 levels and have tons of shit you don’t see anywhere else? Those are the ones I’m talking about.
What The Hell Have I Been Up To?
VIDEOS:
In preparation for my new album I have shot a couple of music videos; one for a song called “keep bouncing” and another for a song called “radioinactive”. The video for Keep Bouncing was shot at my favorite wateringhole in Columbus, Carabar. The video for Radioinactive was shot in New York while i was on tour this past fall with Atmosphere. I’ve noticed that a lot of cats will talk about shooting “low-budget” videos, but that can be very decieving because low budget is relative. One man’s low budget might be another mans feature film. Therefore I’ve decided that there should be a new term for shooting videos called “no-budget”. That’s how we’ve been rolling so far, and I want to thank the videographers (justin and shankar) that I’ve worked with thus far for believing in my music enough to do it. I have another shoot scheduled for March. I hope to shoot 1-2 more videos since I don’t have any shows for a while…might as well be productive.Forbidden
Had to repost this. My man Jest One from the Atoms Family put this together. Shit cracks me up:
Word is blog.
Discretion Rant
It’s about 4:30 am, the time when i usually start thinking about crazy shit, and i decided that I wanted to write about something that’s been on my mind for a while–discretion…and privacy.
Beat of the week
Did this beat two nights ago. It will probably end up on one of the new Greenhouse records I’m working on with Illogic. Enjoy.
Getting Boo’ed
Tonight i was on that familiar mission–flyering. For those that are unaware, there are people who go to events, people who perform at events, and people who promote events–I just happen to wear all those hats sometimes. So tonight, with my promoter hat on, I left my house promptly at 12:45am, which should indicate my excitement level for flyering tonight, on a mission to pass out flyers.
I got to the spot and from across the street i hear people arguing; fuck this, fuck that, etc. The usual bullshit when you go to this kinda show.
Exceptional Art
so i’m here thinking about music and shit. drunk. as usual.
and it occurs to me that as an artist our entire struggle is to write something “great”. something that defines US. we struggle to come up with fly shit, angry shit, expressive shit, etc in hopes that the common muthafucka that gives a rats ass about art hears that shit and believes in it enough to believe in us, right?
Milk
If you have any time to go to the movies this holiday season, i would like to recommend seeing Milk, the new movie starring Sean Penn. It’s an independent movie, and will probably not be at the main movie theater, but trust me, it’s well worth seeking out.
Yall Studio
There’s a hip-hop term called “studio rappers”. Somebody is a studio rapper if the stuff they rap about in the studio isn’t what they do in real life. Mostly this refers to rappers who talk about how many people they shoot, and the amounts of drugs they sell, when in reality they don’t do any of that shit.