Another Day Another Airport

I was told this is me getting my "Maxwell" look on.

Ever since Sept 11th happened, I REALLY dislike flying. Not that I was ever crazy about it before, its just that now you have a whole other set of assholes to worry about. I don't mean the supposed terrorists either, I mean the TSA. These stupid assed terror alerts and "Elevated" levels of security are ridiculous. I've always believed that this whole "War On Terror" has more to do with government defense and security contracts than with anything else but that is another story for another blog. Right here I'm complaining about tha ass clowns who do security screenings in the airports.

A few weeks back I was coming back to NYC from Detroit, and it just so happened that Ice Cube and his entourage was all going thru the security checkpoint at the same time. Now these silly ass screeners were so giddy over Ice cube and his crew being there that they held everyone else up while they were waiting to get autographs and take pictures. None of them even noticed that Danny Glover was standing further back on tha line. I looked back at him and he looked at what was going on and shot me a look like "Would you look at this shit" I looked at him like "Yeah I hear you man" What's more is, I had a big assed bottle of Chocolate Milk in my bag that no one noticed because they were too busy being star struck.

The real bullshit is that they just came out and said that you couldn't build a bomb with liquids that you sneak on a plane anyway so what's the point?

Anyway, that aside, I also wanna say that I wish people would stop telling me how "knocked out" I was when I wake up upon landings. I know I was sleeping, that was the idea. The plan is always to sleep on tha plane so as not to have to have conversations with people while on them.

Damn, flying.

Summer Sickness

You see, after yet another summer of continuing to work for and with people by whom I feel I am under-appreciated by, I have taken this very moment to stop and re-evaluate how it is I spent my summer with hopes that I can better manage my time. Right now I think these are the top 5 things i'm fed up with

10. I'm sick of hearing records made by niggas with southern accents that rap in "Slave-speak"

9. I'm sick of having to play said records at clubs for a buncha grown-assed people who should know betta.

8. I'm sick of my cellphone, everything it stands for, and everything that comes with it.

7. I'm sick of not sleeping and not being allowed to sleep once I do finally pass out from exhaustion.

6. I'm sick of having to deal with tempermental artists that act like spoiled brats all tha goddamn time.

5. I'm sick of wack ass promoters who barely know how to do their jobs but think they know how to do mine.

4. I'm sick of going through airport security and being screened by idiots who wouldn't know what a bomb looked like if you had it strapped across your forehead.

3. I'm sick of flaky, hateful, envious, phony superficial assed people who play games about taking care of business and say they are gonna do stuff that they never get around to doing.

2. I'm sick of being surrounded by niggas who are scared of revolution.

and my number one thing that i'm most sick of right now is...

1. I'm sick of complaining about the things that I'm sick of.

Here is tha camera pic that I tried to add in the last post

Bathroom Camera Phone Pic

I added this because I realized that a cameraphone pic is something every blog apparently must have. I took this in a bathroom at the Hilton Hotel in San Jose a few weeks back. Tha Razr phone may be a piece of crap, but it takes decent pics. Anyway lemme catch this plane.

One

Once again its on!!!

Tha Priest Blog
Looks Like Im back in effect. This heat is enough to make you crazy in New York right now. Ima about to get on a plane to go to St Louis (where I lived for a time,) to do a show. Its 92 degrees already and I am not looking forward to getting on this plane but whatever.

After a year of not blogging, im gonna step my game up. I cant believe its been a year but suffice it to say that when you are doing everything by yourself, some things fall by the wayside. I'm on it now though. As for the music, I cant get into everything that is happening just yet but let's just say that some things are about to pop off.

That is if politics dont come into play, but im trying to adopt a optimistic attitude on this so we'll see how things play out

Stay tuned people

VH1 Contest Starts Today - Part One

I have struggled with sleep for as long as I remember. Now it is kicking me in my ass again. Not sleep itself, rather the lack of it. I know i was supposed to start logging in about this contest and the parties I hit this week, but sleep has just put me in tha "Dope Fiend" plus i gotta edit joints for tha radio show today, so I'mma have to get back to you on this entry a little later. Sorry, but im whipped.

Tha Bitches What What, Tha Bitches...

I hate mixing. It is the final most important part of the creation of a song and I hate doing it. A good mix can make bullshit beats sound hot (i.e. D.M.X.'s first album) or it can make hot beats sound wack (i.e. Blackmoon's first album) . What frustrates me even more about mixing is that I cant wrap my mind around recording or mixing on computer based systems. Its a bitch

I learned how to mix in Analog studios on a 2 inch reel with a Neve board. Now everyone uses pro tools and Mackie boards. Fuck Pro Tools and Mackie, I hate that shit. I've only seen one engineer who could bend that pro tools shit like he was Neo bending tha Matrix. I'm mixing on cubase now and It kills me cause its a bitch to deal with.

Sleep deprivation is a bitch too. I swear to you that I haven't slept in the last 4 years. im tired of being tired so imma cut this short and take a nap and finish mixing later.

c-ya bitches...

Another week begins

So its Monday. It is tha first performance of the play "Soul To Keep" tonight and I'm up arguing about phone service. I'm trying to get all my last minute business squared away before the Mercury Retrograde starts. I also threw away all of my comfortable sneakers so that I would have to wear some of the new ones I bought that have been sitting in my closet collecting dust for the past few years. As you may have surmised, I tend to be resistant to change.

I also got a flyer in tha mail from some corny promoter talking about how their artist is the New York version of Nelly. WTF is that about yo? Have these cats in NYC just totally given up any shred of dignity and jumped on tha "Dirty South" bandwagon that hard...?

Yup

Look I can't front like I'm with all of the current country-fication of Hip Hop, however I will say this. For a long time NYC and the Westcoast had Hip Hop on lock. It's tha South's turn, I wont argue that. I just never thought i'd see tha day heads in NYC started riding all that down south d*ck. East coast Hip Hop used to be lyrical and about something, now the bullshit I hear is just as weak as music I hear outta Atlanta or someplace like that

And It's a lotta artists outta tha south I rocks with, Scarface, Goodie Mob, Juvenile, Outkast, Field Mob, David Banner, Bun B, and having lived in St. Louis for a spell, I even got love for Chingy. (not for his music, but because to have grown up in a city that makes it so hard to be black, this kid has his head screwed on pretty straight) I'm not hating on the other cats, but they aint really impressing me like that.

I did a skit on my mixtape "Live And Let Die" about how simplistic NYC flows have gotten and how cats is sayin they from tha "Dirty South Bronx." Heads thought I was being serious, that scared me. But alas, this is an indication of how weak tha game has become.

More on this later, I gotta pack up and get ready for tha show tonight

And another one...

Ok, so i lost what i was gonna type because i still havent figured out how to work this thing yet and somehow i deleted my original post. That means this is all you get tonight because im tired and my eyes hurt form looking at the screen again. I'll try again soon

Welcome To My Blog

Ok so im up and in effect now. I'm gonna see how this Blog thing goes. I'm too tired to write a lot now so i'll leave it at this for now.

Peace
Priest