MySpace Blog 20050830

Get It, Got It, Good!!!

So I’m procrastinating heavily today and downloading (legally) music. I pick up J-Live’s new album ”Hear After” and some tracks by Jhelisa Anderson. I just love iTunes! Meanwhile, I’m coming across some jazz and decide to check out my stuff on CD that I haven’t put on my ipod. What do you know? I have some Herbie Hancock stuff (e.g. ”The New Standard” and ”Return of the Headhunters”) that I forgot about that was really good. So, off to the ipod it goes. Then I’m going through my Cassandra Wilson. Damn, I have good taste (I’m thinking). I pop in ”New Moon Daughter” first and then ”Traveling Miles” and discover some stuff on each that need to be on the ipod. Now, I’m back on the hip hop stuff. J-Live’s album has me hooked. I love this cat. I find two ”homemade” (burned) CD’s that people gave me: Z-Trip’s ”Shifting Gears” and Danger Mouse & Jemini’s ”Ghetto Pop Life.” WOW!! Both albums yield some tight jauns, so they’re on the ipod now. We’re on a roll!!! I manage to come across Lady Bianca’s ”Best Kept Secret.” I forgot all about this. I bought this CD way back when on a hunch and it was nice: some blues and acoustic stuff. Blamm, on the ipod. I’m off the blues and jazz and hip hop and find some soul stuff on iTunes. Who should catch my ear but N’dambi. I heard some of her stuff before but didn’t really give a good listen. So, now I’m digging ”Little Lost Girls Blues” and ”Tunin Up and Co-signin.” That leads me back to Fertile Ground and their ”Black Is” and ”Spiritual Warfare” albums. I’m spent. . . and so is my bank account.

Now, I’m laying in the cut digging the tracks and all that!! I need to do some work, but I feel like my muse is calling me to write a few verses!! I might do that!!!

Get it, Got it, GOOD!!!!

All iz peace!

MySpace Blog 20050815

I need about 2 million dollars, a bottle of vodka, and space. . .

Ya know, dj’ing has been interesting. It’s 3:15am and this is what is on my mind. I’ve been doing my thing down at Rapture/R2 for about a year and a half now. I’m thinking about the music I played when I first started and the music that I play now. For those who don’t know, I am a HUGE deep house music fan. I like my house soulful, vocal, and layered with big beats, nice chords, and soothing basslines. Back in the day, I used to rock a deep house set (as part of a mixed set with some other dj’s). I really liked that. Now, I find myself playing to the crowd: top 40 hip hop (what they call hip hop nowadays) and other urban radio play. Being a fan of Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Roots, Common, Jean Grae, Jurassic 5, Little Brother, and a few others, it’s hard to hear folks like Lil Jon, T.I., Webbie, and the rest of that southern tripe and consider them HIP HOP. I threw on some REAL HIP HOP and the floor froze. Put on Snoop and they move again. *ugh* This is such an old VENT of mine. Why bother using the space??

I just want to be able to rock a deep house set to a crowd that appreciates it like I do. Is that so much to ask?!?!?!

All I need is about 2 million dollars to open up a small club/lounge in the Ville. I’ll need a bottle of vodka to wash down all the racial shit I’ll have to go through to open something like that here. And, then when it’s all done, just give me some space/time to show folks what REAL music is.

Dream over....