808's...

Reminiscent of Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, Street Fight), this is the truth in Music Video-
2009 is going to be amazing. Believe it!

Can't Knock The Hustle...

Robert L. Johnson...

Robert L. Johnson, is noted the first Black Billionaire. Founder of BET (cable network). In '79, at the age of 26 (!) he grabbed a loan for 15 grand and TCI investment of 500 g's, BOOM Black Entertainment TV. The only other Black American television review around the turn of the decade was Soul Train focusing on Black Music. Soul Train survived 35 years!

Johnson seems to be getting no love from his station's target audience (Black Americans ages 18-34) and quoted in Forbes Mag "BET has done plenty to improve the lot of black Americans / it isn't my job, anyway." also "We are the only black network in town, so everybody has poured their burdens and obligations on BET / but we can't solve everybody's desires for BET. We have to be focused on running this as a profit maximization business."
"If people would just judge BET for what it is, instead of what they'd like it to be / But nobody will sing our praises."

My man is the second biggest shareholder to Chairman Sumner Redstone and holds 1.6% share in Viacom who now is in control of Johnson's network billion dollar baby. Props.



Yo! MTV Raps life span was a hot 7 years. Rap City has been around on a constant since '89. Yo! still gets more credit in the street from true hip hop heads even with RC's continuation of reppin' rap. Not anymore homeboy's and girls. The 'City' has been demolished and being replaced by new BET programming (The Deal).

If anyone is paying attention, (?) the biggest form of music and entertainment (on the serious tip) is getting hated on and regulated like never before. Of course you can check out all the footage of the 70's hip hop and the foundation all day and present it like these guys were one of a kind and I can agree to an extent. Don't forget that each and everyday, urban and suburban youth's with the same creativity and spirit are getting the muzzle. If you feed the man fish he'll eat 1 day, teach him to fish... you know the saying. The controversy behind what it is being taught through rap videos is a much larger issue than sexual appetite and violent themes. A rap artist isn't necessarily the Director or the Writer of the video anyway. Before the blame goes to an artist, you need to give the situation and employer a second look. If my boss at McDonald's (not currently employed there) told me to change the recipe and use cheaper more toxic ingredients, it would only be my morals and confidence in myself to decide whether or not I'll be getting that paycheck. Think about it baby!

Take some time and check GriefGood on your online dial.

Change - not just for presidents...

"People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. They know how often I have been jailed, how frequently the days and nights have been filled with frustration and sorrow, how bitter and dangerous are my adversaries. They expect these experiences to harden me into a grim and desperate man. They fail, however, to perceive the sense of affirmation generated by the challenge of embracing struggle and surmounting obstacles. They have no comprehension of the strength that comes from faith of God and man....

The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man's blunders but to his capacity to overcome them. While it is a bitter fact that in America in 1968 I am denied equality solely because I am black, yet I am not a chattel slave. Millions of people have fought thousands of battles to enlarge my freedom; restricted as it still is, progress has been made. This is why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us....

Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory.... White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo."

(MLK Jr.'s last published piece before his death on April 4, 1968.)

R.I.P. Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't Fa'-get to Vote!!!

the25th October DowntownHtown..

Art Show curated by: J. Paul Jackson
featuring: Death Head / Miguel C. / Ross Mohr / Lindsey Ball / Lillian Barrera and more...



Hosted by YouGenious.


LongHorn is @ 509 Louisiana, DowntownHtown.



BigShouts to ReProgram.

3rd Ward's TheSpot...

BigUp to theSpot (4709 Dowling).
Congrats on 2yrs and more...



The BackBone of the Bar!! Much Love.



Open 7 days a week in the chest cavity of 3rd Ward Texas. If you hadn't been... go on then!!

Britney? WTF?!!

I know you can easily run out of breath @ a full on Disney ( I mean HBO ) performance.
This is Britney's live mic feed only. Can't make out the words. Try it fa' yourself...

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Whomever uploaded this, was way cynical.

Don't Sleep...

More Greats in '08.

Check my man Doom, 1 half of Milton Bradley. Major talent. '09 is going to be big fa' my mans and them.

Shout to Kenika.
Always been 100 and stays on top of her game

I was 'All on her Myspace, lookin' at her pictures' and snagged this car show pic.
check B** Please. HEAT!

DJ Dez (Detroit) of Slum Village production is on point. Check It

ProCash (GriefGood Production) is working on new club anthems for '09.

Rob Quest album is the truth. Check Quezzie,

Clubs that went down...

Big shout out to theSpot Lounge (4709 Dowling). 07' to present.

Like a grimey apartment complex.. Grooves is hot, and now hotter under *New Management.

Identity... you need a new sound system. I still got love.

DJMike.. What was the name of the Wednesday club we went to on Washington? Nice.

14 Years Later...

DJ Screw.. still putting his touch on urban music. I knew a DJ on the Eastside (Houston) who, when Screw passed,
telephoned me and suggested that Screw's soul had entered his body. Fa' real, he said that. Not even then, did I realize how big of an impact this man had on people.

No matter how they describe it, 'slow'd & throw'd' 'barr'd out' 'slow'd up' ??!!, it is still a bite off of Robert Earl Davis Jr.'s unique DJ style. Major label artists are still putting out a regular version and a Screw version to this day. My people in Switzerland and France are taking advantage of the culture as well. The best track yet that i got a sample of @ Music World was a Beyoncé song with R Kelly. No name, wasn't released due to a Pepsi / R Kelly Trial discrepancy. Boo!! R Kelly chopped a slowed down track, it was in the hook, so dope.. why u ain't release that B.?

Recent tracks (October '08) that Tribute Screw..

ZRo-25 Lighters '08 (Freestyle)
This track is a well done remake of a Screw Tape freestyle from Lil Keke with the 8ball MJG sample.
Zro freestyles for like 12 minutes. F'n Abraham!!

Trae-Grey Cassette
ABN member's effort at yet another Screw Tribute is okay. Although, neighborhood folks were calling those grey cassettes.. grey tapes.

And finally, a fav for me..
T-Pain-Chopped and Screw'd
Great track. How a screwed out slow jam supposed ta' sound. Video dope too!
VIDEO

You still rock DJ Screw. R.I.P.


June 27, 1971 – November 16, 2000

PV Alum (My Last with the Twins & Gerald)..

The year was 1998, I first started an annual PV Alumni HomeComing party with some cool folks.
They hired me for like four years, back to back.
Great job security. This year, they told me, would be the last effort for them.

'Sob'.

10/11-12/08


This was a fa' real mixed age group. I had girls celebrating 21 and couples celebrating 25th's!





Between the tables being pulled up, the raffle ticket stuff (see cute winner above), and the drunk ipod dj / 'i got the new r kelly in the car, play #8, ain't nobody heard this one yet' ("????"), I didn't get down like I was going to. But it was still live.

@ midnight there were close to 500 people in line! No lie.

Brooklyn House Party 10/10-11/08...

Hello Brooklyn NYC....

First off, I have to say Happy BirthDay to my patna Uche! Great Party.
Big shouts to Tim Y. & Baron.




Uche (in the yellow diva uniform) in Bday land.


Hey Millana. Reppin' Houston via NYC.


Les Nubians in the house!


Good shot Melinda.


Before the lights went out.


After the lights went out.

Top Texas Hits 2008

Countdown continues..
Have to show love to Texas first. If you ain't knowin'..

#4 The Dougie Saga (Dallas,Tx)



No one in Houston does this dtown dance anymore, but it was fun while it lasted.

#3 Bun B compilation with David Banner, 8ball MJG, Rick Ross..
'You're everything' instant Houston classic. Check MR.LEE out.

#2 Lil O - Betcha Can't
An ingenious use of the Gorilla Zoe sample. I think everybody tried this and the lil wayne 'lollipop' vocals for song hooks. Lil O made this one work. Straigth H-Town favorite.
Lil O

#1 Definitely Devin the Dude (Landing Gear)


Shout out the S.M.U.G.G.L.A.Z.
and Rob Quest (TheCraft)

House v1

E.S.G. is one my all time favorite independent bands from the 80's. Moody is set as one of the first house/club crossover records. Party song fa' real. (See recent performance in clip) Why aren't E.S.G. and acts like Spoonie Gee (Godfather of Rap) ever considered in these fat VH1, MTV2, BET.. network events that focus on the generators of the music?
There are always the same acts over and over again. Will somebody find VH1's hiphop honors producer and give him BLOWFLY's cell #?