People ask me why I haven’t been back on the X spot. Did XXL fire me? A lot of folks have been scrambling in the new economy of the entertainment industry. Was BILLY X. SUNDAY’s weblog a casualty of the economic downturn. No. it was not. The people at XXL have convinced me that I have outgrown the character that I used to submit my columns to you. I think they are right. People have been long confused about who writes shit here and at xxlmag.com on the regular. I have kind of enjoyed the fact that 99% of the people who didn’t know this are the people I see at every music event.
*Sidebar: I just was approached by a dude from the camp of white rapper contestant John Brown who says that I have been swagger jacking his name BILLY SUNDAY, because he and JOHN BROWN were the first people to use those names. I know of JOHN BROWN from the white rapper show and from the videos he puts up on the web and from the column he puts in at Complex. I’ve never heard any tracks from the rapper calling himself BILLY SUNDAY.*
WILLIAM H. SUNDAY, BILLY X. SUNDAY and BILLY SUNDAY are all nom de’ plumes that I will retire since DP is the dude that is left paying the taxes at the end of the year. Let DALLAS PENN reap some of the rewards that come from sitting awake sometimes for 36 straight hours on the internets. It’s time for DALLAS to call back to his well of strength for the next transition. In a short while the internets will change all over again. You all have spent your good time reading these weblog entries, or drops, as BILLY X. SUNDAY used to call them.
These are the outtakes from the aftermath of the Roots concert at the Highline Ballroom featuring Hof from ONSmash.com and Shamz da’ baron from OKayPlayer.
This video brought to you by the smooth overproof taste of Ernest & Julio VSOP Brandy and McDonald’s sweet tea.
I’m not going to co-sign or explain away LOVELLE MIXON’s deadly actions this past weekend. I can’t acquit him of the reprehensible act of killing people because he was afraid of returning to prison. However, MIXON’s fate was struck many years before this incident. Before he was even sentenced to prison the first time he was already placed on this path. We are lucky that MIXON had only killed these four people.
More people will die though. More criminals like LOVELLE MIXON. More police officers like the four this past weekend. And even more innocent victims like OSCAR GRANT. This is America’s war on poor people and we have a whole lot more poor folks to expend so I suggest all you mourners visit the botanica and buy the extra big candles because the shit hasn’t even touched the fan.
What no one will discuss though is the high rate of recidivism that American ex-convicts experience. The highest rate of all developed countries.
* chants We’re number #1!*
No, not really a reason for celebration. The prison industrial complex is keeping the maid in ‘Made In America’. The only place that the social and technical skills learned in prison are valuable is regrettably, in prison. Now what if prison labor was the only thing that could save the United States economy?