3.21.2001
(drum roll please.....)
Presenting Patrick's Top Ten Reasons for scrambling to make Zero-Uno the year of the mad slasher/poet/author/rapper/beatboxer/actor/battling/slam master...
10. "The best in life is to crush your enemies... see them cower before you... hear the lamentation of their women"(or something to that effect) - Ah-nold in Conan the Barbarian
9. -Trying to ensure a lifetime supply of one or all of the following:
cinnamon toast crunch cereal, jamaican ginger beer, icy hot for my bum knee, memorex minidiscs
and rogaine (face it guys, we're all gonna need it soon)
8. I refuse to let Talaam Acey just run around the country winning EVERYTHING
7. I just realized POEM-CEES has 3 lyricists...remember Afro Connections At a Hi 5???
6. those tongue push-ups have been paying off; I can now whistle a frequency that only hummingbirds
or maybe Chow Yun Fat can hear
5. If I have to eat one more damn package of Ramen Noodles...
4. So the next time some club advertises on their website that we're opening up for someone (like State of the Union erroneously billed us with the Jazzys) we get to DO THE SHOW!
3. Jungle Brothers/POEM-CEES performing together live - stay tuned
2. to keep my poetic license from expiring ( I actually have one )
1. With due respect to THE PARANOIA PROJECT, THE STEELY BROTHERS album and the SHARE THIS BOOK project, my greatest collaboration ever will be forthcoming at the end of this year courtesy of mi diosa, Tami. Im'a tell ya'll like my mama used to tell me; "I'm hitting you because I love you". Brace yourselves, I've got alot of love to share.
"it's on..." Anthony Criss
- Picasso
blackpicasso - 2:23 AM
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3.19.2001
frances nelson, rest in uhuru
as always (though you may not approve of everything)
my work will strive to bring honor to your name,
and reflect the unconditional support you always gave us
love,
your grandson
naturalaw-dp - 5:10 PM
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3.18.2001
...And I didn't even have to use my AK...
Roused from sleep this morning by a phone call from a choice bun. Suddenly felt inspired to write rhymes (huh? yes, before I was a dj, I actually did this regularly, had notebooks and everything). Wrote a pretty damn decent verse to an embryonic Poem-Cees song, a song that I'm most excited about out of all our new material.
Hue-Man Prophets came through and blessed my D8 with hot bars, mortaring in the final brick in this almost year long magnum opus that is my mix cd, Headphone Addiction (for all y'all bammas always whining about DJ Stylus mixtapes, luv u). And yes, Darrell Peazy and P. Weazy make cameo appearances on the jont.
Phone call from choice bun #2.
Headed off to my last indoor soccer game of the season, took revenge on an unsuspecting squad that mashed us horribly earlier in the season (we had no subs that day). Don't remember what the final score was, but we killed them, and I found the back of the net twice. Full 11-a-side outdoor coming in a couple weeks.
Now I'm about to sit down with my discounted pizza (coupons! WHUT?!?) and some pear cider and work on a final mix for Headphone Addiction.
...today was a good day. (c) O'Shea Jackson
How's that for Grim Reaper you bastids?
- Stylus
Stylus - 9:30 PM
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3.15.2001
the relentless march of bloggerization- well, that is if you can call one post in the last month relentless...
good news folks- we have completely finished writing an extremely rough draft of a sketch of a song which may or may not actually make it onto one of the new recording projects! if that ain't progress, i don't know what is...
actually, just kidding about that tenative progress- we should be in the studio next week to begin the stomach-turning, heart-wrenching, patience-testing process of making one's breath tangible via 01010101 recording. as this time draws near, i reminisce for a spell- or should i say think-upon the "I.O.U. Street" sessions and have thus come up with this list of studio idiosyncrancies exhibited by winkin, blinkin and nod- aka the POEM-CEES:
-dp will gladly erase a good take for 15 shitty ones
-rhome maintains the permanent "thinker" pose with the good chin rub- his poppa must be named Rodin...
-prior to take #1, patrick must take #2
-the dj ain't never satisfied with his cuts
-dp records naked in the dark
-picasso is a technophobe, a la ted kaz
-dj stylus never acknowledges that it was he who broketh the wind
-naturalaw believes that the wings from the carryout next door are those of the pigeon...and that is why they taste so good
-one of the three becomes a hated asshole rat bastard, and i- i mean whoever it is deserves to be treated as such
and i'm sure there will be many new additions to this list.
big ups to urban intalek studios, plexus crew (congrats kokayi & seshat!) and all other strivers- 2001 is yours...
easy,
dp
naturalaw-dp - 1:34 PM
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