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the tor’cha mixtape version2.0: “we back and you mad about it!?!?!”

What's the word good people???

 

Yeah, so there's a buzz in the air that I’m lovin' right about now, and it clicks so well with the holiday season...lemme break it down...

 

Of course, the launch party was crazy – to check out some of the pics, log into facebook, then just click over here to get the tor'cha launch party photo album...it should pop up real nice…and what you’ll see in the pics are people with the limited edition physical copies of “tor’cha mixtape v2.0: we back and you mad about it!?!?!” Now, did y’all really think I was gonna forget about you??? Huh??? Well, here’s what's bubblin’ off…

 

First off, people been askin’ me: “why ‘we back and you mad about it!?!?!’ as a title sun?” Well, lemme break it down real quick. There was a lot of love for “tor’cha”, and when the 1st edition sold out, there were people who were mad in a good way – cuz they couldn’t get their copy right away…they were happily “mad about it”…so for all that “happy-mad” love, we back snitches!!! And then, as always, what would life be without the haters…you KNOW there was hate specifically because the 1st edition sold out. It wasn’t supposed to happen, the odds were stacked against us, blahblahblah - you know how it goes…however, we're back!!! As a matter of fact, “we back and you MAD about it!?!?!” So haters: when you done kickin’ rocks, I got a front-row seat for you to the festivities…cuz it’s POPPIN’ right about now!!!

 

So here’s the science: shouts to my man BJ at Control Freaks Management – dude took this project and made it buzz…first thing we did was leaked the joint “Timeless Ageless”Truck North on the rhymes and the mighty "capital H.avoc" on the beat…heatrock…of course, that song got a few things buzzing. Feel free to grab it right over here, cuz you KNOW I ain’t gonna leave y’all in the cold. Plus, this’ll save you the work of the google science, which’ll give you three pages worth of sites (including nahright, smoking section, xxl-mag, onsmash…)…when I woke up to that list, you know I was definitely open!!!

 

So that buzz rolled us right on into the second buzz, which was the release of the mixtape along with another special treat – “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” by Mobb Deep…you know I gotta keep it family all day!!! So you can get the Mobb joint here, too…

 

And then, after you finish listening to those joints, might as well just snatch up the whole damn mixtape right here...tor'cha: the mixtape version2.0: "we back and you mad about it!?!?!" There you go - some of your favorite joints combined with some exclusively exclusive joints off the tor’cha CD-ROM. Shouts to the 2.0 mixtape think-tank: Reef The Lost Cauze, dumhi, DJ Phillee Blunt of Illvibe Collective, Mr. Len, Sticky and Smallz, plus a couple other secret weapons that I’m NOT announcing just quite yet (cuz the shark-biters are in the water!!!). And of course, shouts to the artists whose joints made the mixtape pop off: Truck North, Kash, Canayda, Reef, Kam Moye (aka Supastition), Rich Medina, Tha S Ence, Killa Sha, Dinny, C.R.I.P.P.L.E.D. and all that!!!

 

So now, on behalf of the good folks at blacker inkwells, happy holidays…Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa…whatever it is you doing holiday-wise right about now, this mixtape is for you, along with a “Happy/Merry…” from us, knaimean?

 

And oh, DON’T SLEEP…the blacker inkwells website re-launch will be hittin’ for the New Year…more rocks for the haters to kick, and more love to my peoples that rock with the tor’cha movement…the train keeps rollin', you know what it is…

 

Peace, love and all that good stuff…I’ll be back in a second to make some more movement announcements: tor’cha will be rockin’ in Philly, VA and DC momentarily…you know I ain’t playin’!!!

 

One L

 

Posted December 23rd, 2009.

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tor’cha 2.0 launch party: post-game wrap up

Good people,
Okay, so it’s taken me this long to recover from one of the illest parties that I’ve been to in a SECOND!!!! And that’s NOT me being biased, make no mistake about it…if you missed the launch, it was absolutely off the hinges…lemme hit you with the blow-by-blow on the whole night…

Early on, we were in the building – shouts to my dude Prophecy Da Monsta, who came thru real heavy all the way up from the Beantown to rock with tor’cha in the home of the World Series (yeah homie, you know you wasn’t gittin away with that one)!!! Mr.Len hit the people with the dope-freshness…straight underground joints from today that you wish you heard more of, coupled with that boom-bap-classic 90s ish. We was all in a corner, and literally, EVERY OTHER RECORD, we was like “WHOAAAA, Mr.Len’s KILLIN’ it!!!” . After Mr.Len’s set, Akalapse hit the 1s and 2s and killed it with the rare soul grooves; it was a continuous onslaught of the soul records that all our favorite hip-hop samples come from……and then some. I can’t front – I never really heard DJ Akalepse go in before, but it’s something you need to be in the building for, cuz dude became problem number 2 after Mr.Len. And just when it was packed and the party was poppin, my dude Ricky Lo Fang, aka King Vinyl, aka “The DJ that other idiots bite to win Best Nightlife Awards” (yeah sun, I said the ish!!!) – Rich Medina got on and destroyed it. And I’ve been to Rich’s parties a few times before and heard him do it, but of course I was much more focused on the music on this night. When Rich says he switches genres every three records, dude is NOT playin. Make a mental note: if you go to another club and hear this type of format, know they bitin’ my man Rich’s style…dude came thru like the subtle wrecking ball – anything that wasn’t completely torn down after Mr.Len and Akalepse got quietly bodied…man look, I’ll put it to you like this: when I got back in the crib, I was so open, I wanted to hit the 1200s myself!!! All y’all DJs know how real that is…

Then, just when you thought it couldn’t get any iller, Mr.Len hops on for another set, and starts rockin’ mid-late 80s and early 90s HOUSE music…oh yeah, CO-FLO Mr.Len banged out a crazy house set. And all the favorites: Hot Music, Robin S, M People, Frankie Knuckles (The Whistle Song drove the crowd to the next stratosphere), Dajae, Masters at Work…Len made all of us remember how dope it was to go out 10 years ago…for real. On the way out the door, I had to hit DJ Phillee Blunt with the “sun, you sure we out now??? Sun, he just put on ‘The 900 Number’…how you walk out on the 900 number sun???”

Meanwhile, apparently we was the ish of the whole night…Twitter was tweeted out with the word that the party at APT was on fiyah sumthin AWFUL!!! I also got word that Mr.Len’s set rang bells so tough, that a radio station had on a throwback set that sounded like Mr.Len’s set…hey, I’m just sayin what I heard, you know…
It was definitely a moment to remember, without question.

Extra shouts to No Mas – who had me laced up something real crazy with the “I’m the Straw That Stirs the Drink” hoodie, hat and the “Game Night” tee. Yes indeed, I was fresh, compliments of the No Mas foundation. Of course, shouts to Chris Isenberg, Donnell Alexander, and Andrew McIver, who all made sure that I was official!!! Shouts to all the people at APT, who showed nufin but love to me the whole night. And of course, shouts to the “blacker inkwells launch party think-tank”: Mr.Len (who has held the tor’cha movement down lovely for a minute), Rich Medina (whose energy and enthusiasm for this project has helped to step the blacker inkwells game up a few notches) and Akalepse (who showed extra love and support to the cause!). And of course, shouts to all y’all who came thru, especially Zuhirah, Furqan, Phillee Blunt, Jean Grae (oh yeah, Jean was in the building), Jessica Green (Mayles Cinema), Nandi and Sommer, D Smooth (UrbanSoul Music Group), my man Fly (Flytime Studios – Infamous all day), and any and everyone else I’m forgetting. It was a great night that found me surrounded by family, friends and good people who were excited to celebrate the release of the tor’cha 2nd edition with the new CD-ROM

…oh yeah, did I mention everyone in the building got the limited edition pressing of the “tor’cha version 2.0 mixtape: ‘we back and you mad about it!?!?!’”, mixed by DJ Phillee Blunt of the Illvibe Collective and hosted by Philly’s own Reef the Lost Cauze? I already got word back from Rich that the mixtape’s knockin’ real bonkers, so that’s all I’ma say on that…but you’ll be able to catch that download at a blogger/blogspot near you in a second…and that second being Monday, Deceber 21st!!! Shouts to BJ Moore of Control Freaks Management, Phillee Blunt (who really put his foot in the mixtape’s a@@!), Reef the Lost Cauze and Dumhi for really comin’ thru on the hosting tip, and all the artists that have songs and drops on the mixtape…it couldn’t have gone down like this without y’all, word…

And with that, I’m a ghost…and don’t forget: that tor’cha 2nd edition is on sale right now for 25% off…Happy Holidays from the blacker inkwells foundation…

Peace, Love and digital downloads (soon come)!
One

Posted December 14th, 2009.

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…and now you have it…

Okay, so I told you I’d be back in a minute. And I know we all thought it wouldn’t happen. But here we go…

It’s been delayed, held up and pushed back more times than your favorite Mobb Deep album. But now…it’s here. This is the official announcement:

The second edition of tor’cha is available NOW…that’s right – you can get it right now!!!

After selling out of the 1st edition, you know I had to make sure I did it just a little bit bigger. So this time, the novel comes with a FREE interactive CD-ROM, that comes with:

-the original tor’cha soundtrack
-the tor’cha novel score
-“ain’t I iLL” – the eM street album,
-the tor’cha mixtape: “v1.5 – the college exclusive”
-“anticipation” – the e-graphic novel adaptation
-the “tor’cha flipbook” – a photo mixography


So to celebrate the release of the 2nd edition of the novel, the good people at Little Ricky’s Rib Shack have invited us to come thru for the “tor’cha 2nd edition launch” to coincide with Rich Medina’s Birthday, with special guest DJ Mr.Len! Shouts to both Rich and Len for their infinite support on the CD-ROM, and also to Rich for including me in a launch on his birthday. To celebrate the launch of the 2nd edition of tor’cha, we will be launching the re-designed blackerinwells.com site AND releasing a free internet download mixtape: “tor’cha version 2.0: we back and you mad about it!?!” – mixed by DJ Phillee Blunt of Illvibe Collective and hosted by Reef the Lost Cauze and Todd Craig.

So what you really need to do is come thru…
The “tor’cha 2nd edition” release party will be in conjunction with Rich Medina’s birthday party…so you already KNOW it’s gonna be sickening…Rich has been resident DJ of “Little Ricky’s Rib Shack” for almost a decade, and he appears on a heatrock on the novel score. And with Mr.Len doin a guest spot on the ones and twos, it’s really gonna be a serious situation…seriously!!!

Guests who arrive between 10pm-11pm will receive free admission and a limited edition physical copy of the “tor’cha: version 2.0” mixtape. The 2nd edition will also be available for signing before the party gets too bananas!!!

I told you it was big…
Yeah…

tor’cha – 2nd Edition Launch Party
Wednesday, December 9th at “Little Ricky’s Ribshack”
Club APT
419 West 13th Street (bw 9th and Washington)
with DJ Rich Medina and Special Guest DJ Mr.Len
Party starts at 10pm (Free Admission from 10pm-11pm, after 11pm – $10)

And now that we’ve got the Launch party squared away, the only other thing that’s necessary is for you to be in the building…

Now riddle me this: do the good folks at blacker inkwells EVER let you down when it comes to situations like this???

Nah homie, nah…get your calendar’s right!
One Love

Posted November 29th, 2009.

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…okay…here we go again!!!

Good people,
So I haven’t been here in a second, but hey – my TOP New Year’s resolution is to really get my blog game up so crazy, that y’all get mad I’m at it!!! Pardon me, it’s been a second, but understand how much is actually going down…lemme try to give you a little catch-up:

Harlem Book Fair 2009 brought a new energy to blacker inkwells, as after I read from tor’cha on the HBF Mainstage (which was  an extraordinary blessing…wow!?!), the foundation had the power meeting that would determine the course of the movement. And so with that, came some re-grouping, re-configuring, re-orchestrating, and a whole lotta other “re-” words. What’s most important is this:

-the website reconstruction is underway. Shouts to Steve and Hanna for the upcoming extravaganza!

-watch out for the tor’cha youtube commercials…Dollar Bill what it is.

-and of course, the 2nd edition release, free mixtape and launch party…y’all don’t even understand what that announcement’s gonna look like…and in merely 30 seconds…really – thirty seconds…

there’s a few more things I gotta write real quick, then y’all will see the seriousness of the situation…in a second…

peace and love

Posted November 28th, 2009.

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back in effect for the oh-nine!!!

good people,

yes, i know – it’s been a hot little second…sorry for my delay…but i got reason to have been gone a little second…for real, between the fall semester starting and finally ending, the crazy epitome of an idiot who calls herself a “professor” who sent me a book titled “your average nigga” (“and not ‘nigger’ with an ‘er’ todd, but ‘nigga’ with an ‘a’!”…this, she said to MY FACE…), the new year, the TWO publications that dropped right in the new year (fiction international and prophetic worship icu – holla at ya boy!), the beginning of the age of the black presidency (HELL to the YEAH!?!), the new brain-storm child of the top-secret clique (shouts to danya perry), the start of my FINAL semester of doctoral coursework, selling out the 1st edition of tor’cha (yes y’all – SOLD OUT!), preparing the 2nd edition of tor’cha (as well as the new interactive-enhanced cd…more soon on that…), the official todd craig photoshoot with hip-hop photographer rachel crick, and showcasing things at the AWP conference in chicago, i’ve been a little bonkers to say the least…just typing all that made me tired all over again, for real…and that’s really not even the half of it…

but i’m here to let y’all know that we will be back in effect momentarily…i will catch y’all up thoro-ly and present some major announcements, including:

-tor’cha: the 2nd edition

-tor’cha: the interactive cd (with soundtrack including more songs, the ENTIRE mixtape, the graphic e-novel, the tor’cha-mentary)

-the official launch of blacker inkwells, llc (including publishing group AND media group – che, what’s really hood???)

seriously, it’s about to be really and truly on like popcorn…just watch…

aight – i gotta float right now, cuz the work absolutely does NOT stop…it only keeps on…and on…and on…and on…

in the meantime, i’ma be back in a second with some serious developments…until then, be well and go hard!!!

one love…

Posted February 16th, 2009.

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…tor’cha, the book…INTERNATIONAL!!!

What it is good people – I’ll make sure that I get a few things up by the end of the week…but with the way the gears are shifting, I had to check in real fast. Check this out:

On “tor’cha” – the title joint to the novel soundtrack (G3, Havoc, Big Twins, Big Noyd – produced by Bear-One), Noyd says the line “see how it sounds/ a little irrational/ no, it’s tor’cha/ the book goin’ national!” So I figured I’d share that with all y’all as I let you know we had to make a power move and set the international purchase link on the tor’cha myspace page. So to all my international peoples that were tuned into Spitkicker Radio and Squeeze Radio, I got you – just click the international purchase link and you’ll be right where you need to!!!

So shouts to my man Dom in New Zealand (I got you!), Spitkicker, Squeeze Radio
And infinite thanks to my dude with the Mr. Fantastic-reach…Mr.LeN – what it is homie?!?!?!?

P.S – The podcasts for tor’cha on Spitkicker and Squeeze are coming in a second…

Posted August 17th, 2008.

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academy of american poets prize – happy birthday uncle dea!!!

Wow, today is indeed a crazy day for me, and I really felt the need to share with y’all what the word really is for me. One of today’s morals is indeed “Things move full circle in various ways”…let me show you how that’s worked for me.

Right now, I’m writing this as I listen to the song “Veterans Memorial Pt. 2” from Prodigy’s “HNIC pt 2” album. Now why people are sleeping on my man Pee’s project is absurd, and I really can’t call it…but that’s a different blog for a different time. What strikes me most about this song is that a few years back, G3 (aka G.O.D. Pt 3 of Infamous Mobb) wrote a song called “Light a Candle for Your Death and Birthday” – the song spoke about people he lost and what he’d do in their memory. On the hook and second verse of “Veterans Memorial pt. 2”, Pee says:

I miss the dead, I wish the dead/
would please come back, I need your help/
And er’ybody that’s got somebody deceased/
I know you feel the same/
Spirit gon’ live thru me

Listen/
I light a candle on your death and birthday/
Lord have mercy/ it seems You cursed me/
With a life of pain/ all I do is strain/
Every day’s a struggle, everyday it rains/
Even when the sun shining/ they say that’s when God crying/
Dark clouds hangin’ over my head/ may lightning/
Strike me down if I’m lying

So rewind the tape from now to later this morning, when I went to my mailbox and found a nice-sized manila envelope from the Academy of American Poets. I opened it up to read the official word: “Dear Todd Craig – St. John’s University has notified us that you have won the 2008 Academy of American Poets Prize…” I kinda had the drop on the situation (shout out to Poet Extraordinaire Lee Ann Brown for makin’ sure I submitted my work), but I’m the type that won’t spread the word til the word is officially set in stone aka dried ink on letter-headed stationary.

Now rewind to the crazy part of it all: when I woke up this morning to get ready to start another one of those super-hectic busy days, I picked up the Blackberry to see an event that had gone off on my calendar – “Uncle Dea Bday.” It immediately sent me somewhere else…four days from today will be the one-year anniversary of his death. Now, understand a few things about my Uncle Dea

First of all, my uncle passed away in a fire. His apartment building caught on fire, and he ran out the building – essentially, he was safe and secure. But when he heard the little kid screaming from inside, he ran in to save him. And after he got that kid out the building, he went back in; his thinking was, if there was a little boy in the building, who knows how many other people were in there. So before the Fire Department got to the scene, he ran back into the inferno, knocking on doors, pulling people out of the blazing building, then going back in to help as many people as he could. On the third or fourth trip, my uncle was severely burned. He had just turned 53 and was finally winning his battle with emphysema. After an ill fight in the intensive care burn unit, he passed away and went home…four days after his birthday. So first and foremost, if you can even say you know a better way to learn how to be selfless, post a comment and let me know – far as I’m concerned, Uncle Dea wins the prize, hands down!!!

But he was so much more than that to my family. Uncle Dea was my favorite uncle. He was the uncle that was crazy and just didn’t care. Even in my youth, he treated me like the young man I was – and he treated all of us coming up in the younger generation of the family that way. He was also responsible for me touching my first pair of turntables. He put me onto all his record stores (even the secret spots) and helped me to understand the way music works. He showed me the legacy of soul music and how that was the foundation to this new thing I was listening to called hip-hop. Uncle Dea put me onto how music’s supposed to sound when it’s right – and how to take other peoples’ music and make our own music out of it. My first childhood memories are of my Uncle Dea and Uncle Todd making mixtapes while me and my cousins were running around in between their legs; we were playing like all little kids do…they were blending records on reel-to-reel machines, using turntables with no pitch control. I remember how shiny the lights were on all the machines. The house might have been dark, but all that equipment lit up the night iller than the New York skyline from Queensbridge rooftops before they knocked down the towers…I can still see the lights in the caverns of my mental memories.

Uncle Dea was also the ill comedian. On any day, best believe you would pick up your phone and be talking to Silky the Pimp, the Black Lucky Charms Leprechaun, and various other characters he’d make up – just to put a smile on people’s faces. He entertained us so much with his music but also his humor, and his genuine love for life. Even when things weren’t going the way he had planned, he could still find the sunshine through the clouds of life. And on the real, I swear it feels like he’s been gone forever – but time and the calendar don’t lie. So to think it’s only been a year in four more days. Add that science to the fact that Dea’s birthday is August 13th – the same unlucky number 13 days that passed in between my birthday and the day my cousin Killer Black went home 10 and a half years ago…time moves in ways I’ll never understand, but I don’t even think I’m supposed to know that right now.

But the saying is really true: as someone leaves this world in death, someone enters it in life. So even as I take this day to remember Uncle Dea’s life and it’s influence on me, I need to acknowledge as someone leaves, another comes into existence – my man just called me yesterday to let me know he’s gonna be a father, “so Uncle Todd, you got more responsibilities now.” At the time, I was kinda speechless when he told me…now I understand why. But the illest part about it is that I get to serve for the youth my friends and family are bringing into the world in the same way Uncle Dea did it for me. Reflecting on that lets you know sometimes how much responsibility we actually hold in the world – and our uncanny ability to adjust the future for our youth one day at a time. Now, as my uncle looks down on me, hopefully he can see that I’m taking that responsibility willingly…after all, that’s what he did for me!

But no achievement comes without struggle, perseverance, and loss. So this award from the Academy of American Poets really becomes one of the illest birthday presents I could ever share with my uncle. I never got a chance to bring him his book…and what hurts the most is I never got a chance to just sit down with him and let him hear the whole soundtrack…let him hear the music project that was really built on the strength of my ear for music – the same ear he trained and cultivated. Instead, I had to shout him out on the soundtrack in my interlude “Right Here With You” that I dedicated to those who were close to me that passed on to go home, to go to that next stratosphere of understanding. Dea woulda bugged out over me being on XM Radio, and 89.9 would made him wild out even crazier than I did when I got the call. And of course, I know that he’s looking down on the whole situation beaming with that infectious glow his smile had – seeing and hearing him laugh FORCED you to put a smile on your face. And I’m sure he’s wild proud of me – I know he’s somewhere deejaying a party and stopped the music to shout out his nephew for doing big things…that’s just the type of thing he’d do, for real…

So now, I’ma just take a second to chill out and bang to Pee’s song on repeat in the CD player. I’ll sit in front of the candle on the living room table right next to the picture of me and my uncle and try to remember all the good times we had together. I’ll tell him to say what up to Killer for me…and I’ll take the day to really reflect on how much of my life was changed by my uncle…if not for him, I wouldn’t know music and I wouldn’t know turntables, the art of DJing, and most importantly, the art of selflessness. And really, what better to think about than that…after all, I can’t cry all day – and believe me when I tell you, the morning has been full of tears. But now, I choose to wipe the tears and celebrate his legacy – is there really any other way to do it?

“And er’ybody that’s got somebody deceased/ I know you feel the same/ Spirit gon’ live through me”

You absolutely right Pee – I feel the EXACT same way…

Rest in Power Uncle Dea.

In loving memory of James A. Miller, Jr.
August 13, 1954 – August 17, 2007

Posted August 13th, 2008.

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…tor’cha on 89.9fm…what?!?!

Good people, what’s good?
Okay, so I really wasn’t playing around when I designated August as “tor’cha – the movement” month. And this was one I didn’t want to let out of the bag until it was official…
For all y’all official hip-hop heads, you can catch me on Squeeze Radio this Thursday night (August 14th) from 1-5am on 89 tech 9!!! Tune in as Mr.LeN goes in on the ones and twos while Special Guest Todd Craig talks about tor’cha!!!

For all who know and love underground hip-hop, you understand the seriousness of this guest appearance. But for all who don’t, let me break it down for you. WKCR’s 1-5am Thursday night slot is legendary, and has served as the New York epicenter of underground hip-hop music and culture. It all started with “The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show” – in the early 1990s the show was voted “the best hip-hop show of all time” by Source Magazine and “the best hip-hop show in New York” by the Village Voice. My college years were consumed with NYC day trips – running from Massachusetts down to New York to pick up the tapes of the radio show, only to then turn around and go right back to school!!! (Shouts to Scrappy on the late-night taping sessions) “89 tech 9” was the pulse of underground hip-hop music and culture, with Stretch and Bob not only breaking records, but also breaking unsigned artists we’ve come to know and love throughout the years, including Nas, Big L, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Jay-Z and Wu-Tang Clan. From the early days of DJ Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito the Barber to Lord Sear, Rich Medina and Sucio Smash, the legacy continues to live on. So to go from listening to the show, to Bobbito’s blurb for tor’cha, then to being a guest on the show…wow!!! It’s truly the definition of things coming full circle.

So “tor’cha – the movement” month moves on crazily. Make sure you tune into Squeeze Radio this Thursday night from 1-5am to hear Mr.LeN with special guest Todd Craig. Now if you’re not in the NYC area – I got you!!! You can listen online by simply clicking HERE – that link will get you to the show. And believe me when I tell you, you’re in for a treat with Mr.LeN’s crates – the XM radio sets were super-ill! And for all you skeptics, I’ll even give you the link to Mr.LeN’s bio so you can see for yourself just how real it is. Shouts to Stretch Armstrong, Kool Bob Love, Lord Sear and Sucio Smash for keeping the legacy alive and well! And of course, three cheers to Mr.LeN for really lookin’ out on this one.

We’re moving in August – make sure you hop on the bandwagon now before we’re outta here!!!

Peace and Love

Posted August 10th, 2008.

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…the blogroll’s rollin’…

Okay good people!!! I told you I’d be up with you in a second…

As I’m sure you see, I had to make the additions to the blogroll. Along the way, I’ve met some serious people while runnin’  around with tor’cha from the beginning to end. Make sure you check in with all of them – between the DJs, Producers, Authors, Move-Makers and Shakers, I’m sure you’ll love to be connected in the same way that I have! So shouts to all my newly-updated blogroll crew and shouts to wifey for makin’ a lot of those connects happen properly!!!

From NYC to VA, stand up people!!!

Posted August 8th, 2008.

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spitkicker radio interview

Aight y’all, as promised, I’m letting y’all know the Spitkicker Radio interview on XM was crazy!?!?! First and foremost, infinite thanks to the Spitkicker fam for bringing me through. Mr.LeN was playin’ bangers and kept the jokes coming…

And of course, the old saying is quite true: “you learn something new everyday.” I thought that everyone knew what the Ten Commandments were all about, or at least knew of them…and then I got to meet Mr.LeN’s co-host!!! So you know me and Mr.LeN had to put her onto the tablets and let her know how the Ten Commandment and Supreme Mathematics work in tor’cha. Of course, the extra highlight of the night was when capital H.A.V.O.C called in! That’s right y’all, Havoc from Mobb Deep stepped out from the power meetings, stepped away from the MP, and called up to holla at us…definitely a landmark moment.

You definitely don’t want to miss out on the show. Make sure you check out XM Radio – 65 The Rhyme to hear the show on Spitkicker Radio when it airs on Saturday, August 16th and Tuesday, August 19th…as my peoples always say – “you don’t wanna miss this thun!!!” And be on the lookout…you never know when the podcast is coming to the website…

Aight, time to hit to sack to get some rest to make the donuts tomorrow…Pomonok Library event is almost 48 hours away, so the brain is working in overdrive…

I’ll be back at y’all in a second

One

Posted August 6th, 2008.

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