Invinsible Fall????

My man Common has a new video out for his song announcement with Pharrell. The album was suppose to come out this summer entitled "Invisible Summer" but was pushed back until further notice. Hope it drops soon....




Also Listen to: Gym Class Heroes - Don’t Tell Me It’s Over f. Lil Wayne & Dre

New track from Bishop....

My man Bishop is down in fla still banging out tracks. The lastest freestyle is to one of my favorite beats right now. Polo Da Don did his thing on this one...
" flyer then the hollister bird"....

Go check it out on the myspace page and even download it on the ipod

Listen/ download

Also check him and another DMV artist out on the lastest DMV mixtape from DCtoBC

Good Morning....

Yeah I'm back at it again....

Kanye is back at it with another video off the Graduation... When will this dude stop or at least slow down?????


So for the first two nights i have heard some really great speeches at the democratic convention. Michelle Obama did her part Monday and Hillary Clinton followed up today with a tough speech that was much needed and appreciated by many Obama supporters throughout the country. Besides Ted Kennedy's emotional and powerful speech, the ladies of the party have stolen the show thus far in the convention. Honestly tho, I'm just happy that the party is finally coming together and that the little riffs between the Obama and Clinton campaigns are over. We don't need any little thing to happen that might cause old man McCain to win this election in November.

He's a poem that came to me as I watched the convention and hear the analyst analyze

As this land makes history
who will make sure that her story will be told right
Because what we see in sight
should turn on a light, that reminds us of our past
we now have a different cast
but I still see the same outcome in the forecast...

more to come...

Its been a long time, shouldn't have left you without a dope post to comment to.....

ON THE REAL G IMMA KEEP IT 100....

I know its been forever and a day since I last was on here giving yall more of what has been going on. Finally had a chance to get away from the east coast for a little bit so I took advantage of a great opportunity and enjoyed myself in the buckeye state for about a week. Since I was last on here Obama has running mate for the election, gas has gone down almost a quarter, and the entire Olympics has gone by over in China(Men Basketball gold back where it belongs). I'm sure each one of yall have a opinion on all of these topics and more and I would love to talk about it.


On a more somber note a good friend will be leaving this area for a while to take on new ventures in Florida and I want to wish her mush joy and success down there. I hope you have the same type of affect on people down there as you did on me and so many others in the DMV. As soon as I saw this video I knew you had to see it if you hadn't already.



Got another video to share from the wonderful world of youtube. This one is by up and coming singer and producer Ryan Leslie. Now I don't know about yall, but I had no idea the brother was so talented. Now we will wait and see what will become of this guy. But if he blows up like i think he might do remember where you saw this first...lol



Oh yeah my boy also put me on to a video that i thought some of yall might find as humorous as well as pretty nice when it come to concept and flows. Asher Roth goes in on the Roc Boys beat and makes a pretty funny video....



P.S. Pep out the Obama shirts...How trendy is that right now????? I ain't even going there right now tho, I'm going to save that for another post tho....

And That's that......

Oh I loved her so....

On the real g Imma keep it 100..........

over this weekend while trying to change a tire on 495 I found my boy bishop's first two CDs and a weird yet surreal feeling came over me. That very exist that we were at was one of our most frequently used ones to get off at to go push his CDs at wheaton mall. Back when we used to be on a grind seen mostly by street hustlers. I started to think about our Kanye experience and how that lite a fire under bishop that still burns today. The days at VIP and Dream, and occasionally platinum dancing the night away to the hottest songs of the day. Club hopping like lil frogs around 18 and up spots in DC, each time telling ourselves, "one day B's joint is gonna be in here".



Hours spent at the computer downloading and listening to every new track from every rapper everywhere and comparing them to bishop's joints. Getting the aim,text, or phone call at anytime for the latest rating to the newest songs. At times i used to think I was cheating on my girl with music and basketball because that all i seemed to be interested in. These same songs would often turn into the score to our weekly adventures around the DMV. Occasionally our love for this music would have us on trips out of town but we always remembered to let everyone know where we were from.


So as I sit here in Baltimore, 45 mins away from my hometown, I remember the feelings of old that even got me to that point. What I listened to that made me want to be apart of that world and create my mark in it. The songs and artist that shaped my ear for music and for what I thought was hot. Its funny because Baltimore used to be my escape from everything home (it also helped my girl at the time lived here), and now that I'm up here all these great memories are playing in my head like a movie reel that I don't want to stop. Here's one of my poems that expresses those exact feelings.

The Golden Age

My sisters and I would wait with our tapes to record songs off the radio
Do you remember that feeling when tribe first told you about their senerio
And naugthy made all the crowds say hip hop hoary, ho, hey, ho
Even mtv gave us our own video show
When cube was letting everyone know that he had a good day
While crucial conflict was in the middle of the barn smoking on, heyyyyy
I was in dc but a arrested development took me to see mr. wendel in Tennessee
And after school me and my crew wanted to find a girl named iesha at the playground like ABC
I would jump, jump, as I missed the bus with my backward clothes falling
At this time mike, magic, and bird were all still balling
Biggie had me reading word up magazine because of his dream
and who didn't want a starter jacket with the raiders even if they weren't ur favorite team
I couldn't think of what I would do "If I ruled the world"
I did know I wouldn't treat them like brenda's baby girl
Putting batteries in the frig so I could listen to my fugees tape on my walkman
If that aint work I took them from the remote just to hear questlove and his band
all the while arguing with my boys at the court about what bone was really saying
Cuz you know we all mumbled the lines until the chorus started playing
Back then I would wish I was a lil bit taller, wish I was a baller, wish I had a girl who looked good so I could call her
Bobing my head to wu tang as I waited for my carry out food playing the arcade version street fighter
For once it was alright to be a bad boy or for a brother to be on death row
Had me in my mirror with my brush trying to be a mc and create my own flow
You had to have a name with young, lil, or mc in it
Everybody wanted hammer pants and knew the dance to too legit
To set urself apart you had to get ur own type of cut with designs and a part
From cross colors to absolute madness, all of our clothes looked like African art
It wasn't til coolio that I realized that my hood was a gansta paradise
I lived on one of those blocks were the boom boxes blasted while the homies played with two or three dice
We tried to copy the same outfits we saw in the basement on rap city
I remember puff dancing in every video saying take that, take that, b4 all the name changes and became just diddy
I was singing o.p.p. but didn't know what it stood for
This was the era b4 the east coast, west coast war
Dudes of this time thrived on being the best storytella
This was when there was still only one artist on rocafella
I often wondered if we were menace to society because of being boyz in the hood
Now looking back on that time in my life I can say it was all good

and that's that.........

More This and that..........

So this weekend was my first one home since my boy Bishop aka Shayan moved to Fla and it was eventful to say the least. First off I want to say I'm gonna miss Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes. Two legends in their own right lost in one weekend. I grew up on a lot of Hayes because of my father and his sound was one of a kind. I had many car rides around the DMV shotgun with my dad as Isaac was the soundtrack to our adventure.



SO after a weekend of changing tires and trips from bmore to dc and back again, getting chicken and mambo sauce at 3 in the morning, seeing spartan sandals, and trying to hoop way to early from this surgery, I realized that life these days is what you make it and that at the end of the day everything is everything.


Well we all know by now that Jay-Z is coming out with another cd called "Blueprint 3". He gave us a sneak pep at Kanye's concert in New York.



well the whole song is here now.....

The DMV has another summer joint.....

Dc's own Tabi Bonney has a new video for his new summer single "Cool and Fly" from his upcoming album Dope meets Fresh..... Fresh meets Superstar. The video was shot in his homeland Togo, West Africa. Its nice to see a artist go shoot a video in Africa and show the world how beautiful the continent and people really are. Oh yeah he cut his hair to. I'm sure if it was a good look(No Homo) but we shall see.

The images throughout the video truly make me want to plan a trip to Africa asap. Like my man Jamie Foxx said "nothing but packs of Halle Barry's walking around that joint".

Obama The Rockstar.....

Just found more two videos for my presidential choice this election.... He has changed the perception of a presidential candidate for a bunch of folks in this country. Its almost like cheering or routing for your favorite college and pro teams, but on a more tremendous level...





A Obama song/video on a Lil Wayne beat. Now tell me two more popular people then these two in America right now....

I Got Next.....

I really want to hoop with Obama and see what his game is like. He seems like a big trash talker on the low. Any way thought I would throw up another picture of Obama in something beside a suit to show us he is really one of us.....lol.



The remix to "Put On" is finally out and of course who know who is on it..... Jeezy grabbed Hov for this joint....



Let me know what you think of it... Did he kill it better then Yeezy????

Video to the song.....

Joell Ortiz has a video for this song "Letter to Obama". Thought I would bless yall with the song and video since you will never hear or see this on any of our major video or radio stations.



YES WE CAN.......

Why Now??????

On The Real Imma Keep it 100..........

So like many other blacks in America, last night I watched CNN's report/special on Black America and I have to say it fell way short of my expectations. There were many times throughout the show where it seemed forced and failed to really talk about whats going on in Black America. This felt like a attempt from white America to try to educate white America more on black America. Since there is a high chance we will be having a black president for the next 4 years (god -willing), CNN seemed to try to capitalize on this historic year be showing us how it is to live black in America.The fact is the fear factor will sink in for millions of white Americans the closer and closer we get to the election day that the nation will actually not be lead by someone that looks like them. I felt this show was created out of the fear of the unknown and for most whites in America, black America is just that. Whites can never imagine what life would be like being black for a day yet alone a lifetime. Blacks still only make up 13% of America so why now do we get this special two part series????? The truth lies deeper then what we see. Of course I'm happy this is being aired but its seems to me that a lot of blacks are too excited to see how CNN depicts how they have been living their entire lives. If there is anything that can be taken from this show, you can see that there is no typical black person in America. However, there are typical stories and situations that all black people face regardless of class, region in America, religion, etc; they call all tell you about when they first realized that they were Black in America.

And that's that...........

Some Food For Thought From My Man Malcolm.....

More Stuff To Make You Think.....

A little bit of this, A little bit of that

So the more and more I listen to music that keeps coming out, I'm reminded of how good we used to really have it in hip-hop. As I listen to verse after verse its hard to really hear these mcs without having a bias ear for what made me fall in love with her in the first place. So to those out there who still listen to lyrics and let the beats enhance the songs not carry them let me know what ur favorite verse of all time is. I know if you are like me this is a damn near impossible feat but give it a chance really think what verse would want to hear last if you found out you were going deaf tomorrow.

On another note tonight at 9 on CNN there will be a great piece on being black in America. It is a two part series with tonight focusing on The Black Family and Women and tomorrow focusing solely on the Black man in America. I will really can't wait to see how CNN will spin this special. Seeing that I have been black in America my whole life, I really hope they do a good job and don't disgrace my people. Knowing that there is no true definition of a black American, there will be a great injustice done if all aspects of our lives here in America don't get showed.



Oh yeah my man Joe Buddens has just dropped a 3 part song called "Who". If you have a spare 15 mins or so to listen to a well put together song, this is definitely one to peep.

You Knew This Was Coming....

Nas told yall to watch what you watch and what you read. The New Yorker is the most recent publication to take a shot at the Democratic nominee. Over the years people have said that pictures say a thousand words, and I think this one might say more then that. This picture is the actual fears of many Americans who will be going out to vote this November. The New Yorker knew exactly what it was doing giving a image to go along with the thoughts of these miseducated Americans. Its sad that a leading publication like the New Yorker has to stoop to this level to try to get their magazine read and heard about. Capitalizing on the already incorrect notions only adds fire to a once burning out flame. The ironic thing is that the article is actually a nice piece on the Obama's, but you will never get to hear about it because the magazine decided to use this tasteless "satire" to stir up controversy.

He's Really Gonna Piss Them Off This Time....

Nas has a new video out for his song "sly fox" off hit latest Album "untitled"aka "Nigger". Its a great song and video in my opinion. This song/video reminds me of early hip-hop, where MCs questioned the establishment and pointed out their faults. For years I have not been able to watch Fox news because of the bias reports they constantly put on the air. They seem to always take such a far right-wing stance on every topic. Like Nas said in the song you have to watch what you watching because they often sneak a lot of hidden stuff in titles and headlines or even the pictures and clips they show.

Nas "Sly Fox"

Jazmine Sullivan and Missy Elliot "Need U Bad"

On the real G imma keep it 100,

I really thought this was a old/new song by Ms. Hill-Marley that had been kept on the hush for a while. Boy was I wrong. Jazmine really did her thing on this song. Its great to hear a new soulful voice in R&B. This is indefinably a summer joint for years to come. The Philly native has an album coming out later on J records...

And thats that....