Let that Ish go!

If you hold on to grudes for over one year, it eats at your soul. Im being very generous with the one year rule because I suffer some this very disorder. I have a friend who told me if your girlfriend breaks up with you, you will be depressed for one month per as many years as you all went together, so for example if you went together for two years, it would talk 24 monthes for you to be completly over her. I have another friend who's father was an asshole all her life and she still feels the effects of the abuse and neglect. My advise to her is LET THAT SHIT GO! Im sure its been a hard road to travel and Im sure it left many scars, but at the same time how do you get the ultimate payback? As my mother would always say "Never let then see you sweat." I think you need to let it go because as your soul gets weaker you dont have the energy to put towards positive things. If its something that eating at your soul speak on it. Get some therapy, grab a drink at the bar and vent to a friend. Do whatever you need to get it off your chest. Life is too short for you to be harping on old ish! This blog is actually dedicated to specific people who I know read it.

Baltimore...Really?

So I had a oppurtunity to go the Ledgends Of Hip-Hop show at the Hippodrome a few weeks ago and I was pumped, The line up included KRS-One and Slick Rick which by the way is enough for me! As the date got closer I kept hearing about more MC's getting adding like Sweet-Tee, Kool M Dee, Whodini, The Trecherous Three, MC Lyte and more. I searched high and low for the exact line up just to prove my point even more but no luck. The whole week leading up to the show I was getting more amped, I was trying to get my people to go but my cheapskate friends were crying about the price. ( Not you Aub) Yeah I know we are in a recession and gas is high and blah-blah-blah but this is a show most of you so-called hip-hop heads should be selling your souls to see, I mean these are the pioneers right? These were the first to ever do it right? Since your so down and know ever word to La-di-da-dee and The Bridge Is Over, hell,these are some of the guys who influenced those guys. I had an old hisotry professor who said , if you dont know the history of your author, you dont know what you have read. He also said all social problems are economic and all economic problems are political and all political problems are presupposed by the military means, but thats clearly another blog. Getting back to my original issue, the show was cancelled because the promoter sold less than 300 tickets! Baltimore. Really? Baltimore MC's get the top award for crying about how come they dont get any recognition outside of Baltimore. HELLO! We only had a chance to hear some real hip-hop and also pay our respects but it seems like only 300 of us even care about the old school. So now we have to ask ourselves are we really hip-hop. I was even excited to go to the Red and Meth show at the Sonar on a Sunday night with Keith Murray opening....cancelled. My grandmother use to always say baby, dont look a gift horse in the mouth. Its seems as though we had two horses with gifts and not only did we look them in the mouth, we kicked them in the ass. Baltimore...Really?

KEEPIN IT FAKE

One of the hardest things Ive had to do (besides stats)is keeping it real. When I say that, people look at me like.. you fake ass, but when you really stop and think about it, maybe you will get my point. If you go to work everyday and smile in your boss' face when you know you cant stand that MOFO are you keeping it real, Nope, your keeping it fake in order to keep your job, but I guess when thats the case its acceptable. When the wifey puts you on blast in front of company but you chill and keep you cool and dont say anything, is that a case of keeping it real...Nope, another case of keeping it fake to keep your relationship in tact. When your in the studio and one member of the crews lyrics suck and you tell him they suck, then that my friends is keeping it real.

Rakim was SICK!!!

NO, for real, the 18th letter had the flu but still graced us Baltimorons with his presence. The opening acts had way more enery and kept the crowd hype.( It was OGUN and this dude naamed Salim, This was another one of those shows were only the real hip hop heads were out. Remember earlier when he didnt show up with Ghost. He apologized and promised us we were in for a treat. When you really think about it how much energy could a mellow smooth brother thats laid back such as the "R" bring?

It was a great trip down memory lane. I usually never sing along with MC's but this was Rakim Allah. He started off the hit, "I came in the door...." the crowd finished the rest of the song. What more could an MC want. At one point he sat down and asked us what song we wanted to hear. The crowd answered with at least 10 different songs from Mahoganoy to Eric B for President to Juice to Let the Rhythm Hit'em.

Rakim has some new material and thats when I remembered how much I cant stand the Sonars sound system (Shut up JO) and to be totally honest, I wasnt interested in hearing any new material from arguably one of the greatest to ever do it. You need a nice quiet corner of the world to really appreciate Rakim lyrics for the first time. OK ima get those links up for the other MC's tonight.