Thanks to the DefJam 25th anniversay event I went to this week I am on alcohol punishment. I overdid the free Crown Royal to the point that I embarrassed myself. Keep in mind that I have done my share of overnights asleep on the subways so that in order for me to embarrass myself I need to fall asleep outdoors. In the rain.
I’m watching the video clips from that evening while laughing and cringing at my insanity. If I live long enough to go to the DefJam 50th anniversary I will be so sober it isn’t even funny. I may end up posting 30 mins of video footage from the night, but I promise it will all be worth viewing. Can you imagine me in an obama inside of a space that is the proverbial synagogue of sneaker collecting? Worse than a pig in shit I was on my 3 star retahd shit.
Let me give some thanks to everyone that made the night what it was for me…
40 Diesel and Persia(why is Persia trying to front like she ain’t gonna let Diesel get the fingerbang special?)
MARVELOUS MO < -- is gonna be a star
SHAMZ-OkayPlayer
CARL CHERY, LOWKEY, CASEY GANE-McCALLA and ANDREAS HALE
DIEGO from Cornerstone
Ferris Bueller a/k/a F.LUXURY.B
DOUBLE O (happy new year homey)
No-Ha & Ta-Ra
I know I am forgetting someone, but fuck it love is love. You’ll be in the video edit for sure.
Oh and yeah, MIKEYFRESH what up? MIKEYFRESH handles the lenswork field assignments for Miss Info. MIKEY got me on the lens going in. Trust me that the night gets even crazier than this clip…
Now before some of you Def Jam employees get your shit all fucked the fuck up and take my name off your list for Def Jam sponsored open bar parties let me explain why Jadakiss is the greatest MySpace rapper alive.
1) NaS isn’t on MySpace
2) Jay-Z isn’t on MySpace
Bong! Next in line is arguably Jada. I don’t feel like having a silly debate with any of you this afternoon. Just hear me out and if you disagree keep it to yourself. Tell you what, let’s make all things equal and for those that may agree with me y’all can keep it to yourselves as well. No one is going to be able to dissuade me of my opinion after I saw Jadakiss perform at NYC’s Highline Ballroom last night.
The last time I saw Jadakiss live was at a B.I.G. tribute at a long lost NYC nightspot called the Palladium. Easily 8-9 years ago. Maybe I caught the Lox at some more recent shit, but I can’t really remember anymore. That is clearly the effects from smoking too many Dutch Masters cigars. Don’t do drugs party people. Give them to me. Anyhoo, it has been a grip since I can remember watching Jadakiss rock a show.
I have been missing out. First off, The Lox and Jada have a mighty healthy catalog. They have features, they have singles and they have hits. Hardbody hits. It’s almost like going into a time capsule and bringing along some of the best underground rap music you ever listened to. Jadakiss is also a solid performer [ll] as well. He doesn’t leave any tracks on long enough to get boring. He flips through his catalog like we might flip through a photo album lingering on a long ago pic until we laugh out loud and then keeping it moving.
Even though I called Jadakiss a rapper I have to give him the credit for gripping the microphone like an emcee last night. He brought out friends to accompany him through songs and then quickly dismissed them so that he could continue blistering through his catalog. He did let Busta Rhymes loiter a bit longer than everyone else but that was so that Busta could anoint Jadakiss the new king of New York. If I were Jada I would have told Busta to keep the crown. Kings lose those shits, but teachers, them motherfuckers stay intelligentsia, ya’ deeg?
The Last Kiss, Jadakiss’ latest CD is prA’li gonna be like the previous two. There will be four(4) incredible songs that Jada will add to his concert playlist but we won’t be kneeling down before him for this album. That is another reason why I say Jadakiss is the greatest MySpace rapper. Have you ever known a MySpace rapper to post more than four(4) songs at a time? They usually be horrible joints too, but y’all already know that. Jadakiss has four(4) hits on this new CD and the rest are for his true fans.
MySpace was one of the sponsors for last night’s event. If this is the new promotional tool for Universal Records, or at least the new farm (no Asher Roth Mennonite relatives) for talent then I want to give Universal Music Group and the folks at MySpace some free advice from Dallas Penn (the defacto teacher of these internets).
Post new music from Jadakiss, Asher Roth, Rick Ro$$ and all of your artists on their MySpace pages. When MS users tranfer these songs to the playlists on their own pages find out where these users live using their zip codes. Use that information to geographically market your artists performances. Great performances should translate into CD sales and other streams of revenue for your corporation, er, your artists. You know who the fuck I am talking about?!?
Listen, I shouldn’t pretend to know shit about shirley since my highest level of scholastic achievement is a general equivalency diploma, but the truth is that I do know shit about the internets and I doubt that most of you have even read this drop to this point. We are living in a post-literate society now. It’s not that people can’t read they just don’t want to read. They would rather get their information from the tubes – boob tubes, intertubes, YouTubes, etc.
It hasn’t stopped for me in over twenty years. Yeah, I’m starting to show some rust, but I’m still hanging out there with some of the all-time greats and the young, up and coming players.
I was originally slated to be at a staff meeting for this internet radio station. The only problem with that maneuver is that they never took me seriously enough to put a real deal in front of me. The kid needs new sneakers once a month and I still gotta keep the lights on and the roof over my head. Maybe another offer will come to my inbox. But in the meantime and in between time I will be getting it in.
My first stop was to scope out this joint being thrown by VitaminWater. The main reason was for me to get like a palette of free VitaminWater for the crib. That shit tastes like diluted Kool-Aid but I don’t care when its free. The VitaminWater joint was on some exclusy, velvet rope type shit. These be some of the corniest parties in NYC. Too many stargazers trying to eyefuck actual celebrities. No RSVP status for the internets celebrities. I kept it moving.
The next spot was the Antenna x Mighty Healthy party. Folks was getting it in early at this spot. By the time I got there people were already into their second round of drinks. That’s never a problem for me though since I automatically double fist [ll]. The obama was an off-brand name vodka which made a decent Cranberry mix, but an even tastier screwdriver. That would be my drink for the rest of the night. My Twitter frenemy ERICKA MITTS was up in that piece along with XXL’s CARL CHERY. My surprise internets homey for the night was this dude Sublicon who won the DP.com NFL football pool this past year.
The Antenna mag party was cool as shit but everyone there at that moment knew that the real popoff was the Complex magazine joint on Spring Street. Let’s just say it was understood that if you wanted to be a winner that evening you had to have your face up in there. You all know that DP is a winner and one of the most triumphant boozehounds of our generation. I had a couple more rounds of free vodka on Antenna’s dime before I swooped down to Spring Street where the Complex party was at.
Oh shit! The line outside of the Complex party was brawlick. Madd fools was standing around in that silent pose hoping to get chose by the chicks holding the clipboards. I walked up to the front of the ropes. This is the quick way to play yourself out of position. If you get shut down by the gatekeepers it happens in full view of all the other folks trying to get in. Good for me that I have friends with pull. Complex mag’s JOE LA PUMA zooped me in the spot with no delay. It was on like popcorn.
ONSmash’s Hoffa, LowkeyUHTN, Consequence, 88Keys, Mighty Casey, Che Guerilla, Hobbs, the Rosenthal brothers plus madd P.R. firm chicks and free Svedka vodka. It was disgusting. Drinks were being spilled, people were dancing on the couches and the best part was when KanYe’s ‘Flashing Lights’ blared from the speakers JOE LA PUMA held his Air Yeezy’s high in the sky. Complex parties are typically splashy anyhoo, this joint was particularly bananas. I can’t say why but it was just wildly energetic and festive.
Shouts to Mighty Casey and JASON ‘Che Guerilla’ NEGRON for knowing the key to hanging out is not being the last ones left in the party. After an hour or two we boogied out of the Complex joint and motivated back up to the Mighty healthy party for their 2nd Half. The bar was reopened at 12mid and the free vodka was still in effect. The second half of the Mighty Healthy shindig went up into outerspace like the Complex party was.
JUJU from the Beatnuts was getting literally lowdown for his. Sonn was dipped in ‘Lo from his head down to his toes. MICHAEL RAPPAPORT even made a cameo. My PU~ of the evening was in not politicking with RAPPAPORT especially since I heard he was producing a television series that needed writers. Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol. Mighty Healthy’s spokesmodel 40Diesel had the VIP area locked down. He and I left the Mighty Healthy bash when the obama was declared a wrap at about 2am. We know well enough to let the kids with no jobs stick around until last call.
Plus the best part of any wild obama night is the Gray’s Papaya as the closeout.
shouts to my boy SERG on the camera and his wifey status DANIELLE
Some of you may think I have lost my mind after you read this drop. In one week I have gone from co-signing Rick Ross to Asher Roth. Clearly, they are two of the most polarizing figures in rap music today.
Everyone hates Rick Ross because he lied about being a correction officer, not because he lied about being a drug dealer.
Everyone hates Asher Roth because he told the truth about having Frat Boy Blues. Was Asher Roth supposed to be a killer, or a street dude?
This summer, Asher Roth will be THAT dude. Why? Because those dudes that still buy CD’s will be copping his shit. Why? Because you can play that shit in your cabriolet while chillin’ by the beach. You can play this shit at a coolout bar-b-cue, or by a poolside, or at a picnic.
I still haven’t found Asher Roth but I heard his new album and I fux with it.
Right now it is 4 in the morning and I am wide awake. I am posting this video to my YouTube account since I can’t sleep. I haven’t even been drinking Mountain Dew blue either. I just have a hard time sleeping.
So for all my folks that are like me and can’t sleep during normal hours I have made the video for you. 40Diesel co-stars during our adventures in the Bronx. It’s a strange land this borough is. The only part of New York City that isn’t an island.
The Bronx is it’s own land. It’s a no man’s land. But if you can survive living in the Bronx you can basically live anywhere on the planet. Calcutta, Baghdad, Johannesburg, Lisbon, Cairo, Gaza, Rio, wherever. The discounted and disenfranchised find a way to make their own lane.
DP.com Crackhead Theatre celebrates those people. This is their story…
