Listen to this While Eating Hagen Daas Ice Cream

Yo...Long time no see. I've been waitin till I get a card reader for my camera, because somehow the usb port stopped working. I have no time to repair it, as I am taking pictures all the time and I dont want to be without it--even if only for a few days. Anyway, here's one I snapped while at the train station on my way to school.

Musically, I have been building non-stop--at least until last week. I ran out of jusice, becuase I've been trying to juggle school and work and fixing my car and music and learning the inner workings of female minds and working on my lyrical skills and saving money for pro tools and buying sleeves for my records and cleaning my records and finding a spot to move my lab to and sharpening my skills on the keys and studying Dilla's work objectively and battling ashy limbs due to a shortage of lotion and trying to work out more often because i'm beginning to gain weight around the mid-section and finding artists to buy my beats and promoting myself to already signed artists and trying to decide on what school i want to attend when i graduate and learning about south african folk music and bettering myself and getting rid of the selfish part of me that chooses to ignore other peoples feelings and looking for time to update this wonderfully put together website of mine.

So, as you can see, I've been pretty busy.


I've included a couple of tracks, but I really can't explain the ideas behind them--they're just spurs of inspiration. So, after you finish reading, the treats are waiting for you.

Good news--Dilla got a semi-cover story in Scratch Magazine. I say "semi-cover story" because ?uestlove, the drum genius, is on the cover along with the Roots sportin' the "RIP J DILLA" t-shirt. Its about goddamn time that Dilla got something on the cover of a main-stream magazine. He has a "mention" in many of the hip-hop mags across the globe (ie XXL, the Source, URB, etc.), even got a REAL cover story in the canadian magazine Pound (they even have a pdf of the entire magazine...HELL YEAH!!!). MTV put out an extensive article on the brotha, but I still havent the slightest clue if they put anything about him on television, as I haven't been watching the boob tube lately (too distracting).

In other news...MADLIB'S LP JUST DROPPED!!!

As far as me? I'm just takin life a day at a time. It's really not good for me to look far into the future, as I know if I keep on doin what I'm doin everything will work out.

I've been missing my aunt lately. Tonda started me on the path towards music by sitting me infront of her congas and playing rhythms with me. She passed away about 10 years ago, and I just recently found a picture of her and I. My family, or at least my mother and I, aren't really big on pictures. I guess that's why they interest ME so much, because I didn't have that same passion for them when I was younger.

I'll scan the picture when I get the chance, it wasn't too long (maybe a year or two) before her passing. I think the cause of it was stomach cancer...not too sure, though.

Welp, here are the tracks.

Listen to this While eating Hagen Daas Ice cream
Hey!!
the Name Game
Return to Good Graces
Keep Up
Friday at Midnite
Neo Soul/Outer Space
Song Forgotten

Peace
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