1.26.2003
Knocked out by a .10th of a POINT!!!!!
(insert favorite curses here)
oh well, such is the nature of slamming....
Much Respect to Queen Sheba & Crew for putting together an enjoyable slam at the 3rd annual Word Up Poetry Competition down in Norfolk VA The competition was great, DJ Al Spin & the after party was crunk & the company was choice!
Shouts to Rahsul & Mervyn (Munich here we come!), Danny Zulu from ODU (didn't know you had capoiera/b-boy skillz like THAT, dawg!), my DC Slam brother Dave Lankford (I repped for us BOTH), Innocence Bello & Samantha Raheem (you both shoulda been in finals!), my boy Mar Hill, my grrrrl Tamara Al-Rashid, Marco Mercado (you hurt me!), Ja-Hipsters homegirl (I forgot your name, but you bought both IOU Street and PARANOIA-respect) & finally Sekou the Misfit, who now has two national titles under his belt Im'a see yo' ass again in Chicago!!!
The punk-ash-nokka award goes to Patrick for making the trip , ripping it relentlessly over 3 days & bringing only 2 copies of PARANOIA with him to sell!!! I need a nap...
for ages 1 and up,
Pic!
blackpicasso - 10:02 AM
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1.20.2003
ccccoooooooooooooo...what happened to that band?
you mean POEM-CEES? they're gonna be at ORGANIC SOUL TUESDAYS- @Saratoga Lounge (formerly known as Maryland Arts Place) 218 W. Saratoga Blvd
doors at 7:30, entertainment commences at 8:30
POEM-CEES @9:30 (fo' real)
ccccooooooooooooo...
(yo- was that nukka really 'cooing' like a pigeon? where the freak are sporty thieves when you need 'em)
naturalaw-dp - 4:59 PM
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1.19.2003
i offer a belated IDiscourse announcement...
HAPPY B-DAY DJP!!!
i love you bro
easy,
dsp
naturalaw-dp - 9:54 AM
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1.10.2003
funny statement i recently read on a message board; this was stated in a conversation about the most banal political songs ever...
If you want to make the world a better place/Take a look at yourself and make that/CHANGE' *grandiose key change*
The problem is that MJ thought making the change involved plastic surgery. He took his song too literally.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), January 10th, 2003.
easy,
dp
naturalaw-dp - 4:56 PM
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1.9.2003
I got things on my mind...
- I recommend Pho to deal with a nasty head cold. Peppers'll hook you right up.
- Maya Rudolph could get it. I love silly smart chicks.
- Bushhead Ed's Transformer collection is causing serious problems with Soul Controller productivity... but the Minicons are the shit! And both new Optimus Primes!
- I hate when your boys hide shit from you. Dag Book, can brothas get an update of your activities every now and then? Oh, btw, I've finally gotten this man to agree to rocking a Synergy set next week. Brace yourselves for the fonk.
- Stylus
Stylus - 6:38 PM
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1.7.2003
Oh, I almost forgot something...
The Soul Controller 2002 Fly 25
Rules:
- must be released within 2002 calendar year
- must be released as a single
And after the numbers were crunched, the insults flung and the wheat was seperated from the chaff, here's what resulted.
1 nas - made you look
2 slum village - tainted
3 jazzy jeff - magnificent ep
4 scarface (facemob) & jay-z - guess who's back?/my block
5 mos def - brown sugar
6 critically acclaimed - wallflower/flashbacks
7 gangstarr - skills
8 ll cool j - fa ha/luv u better
9 kardinal offishal - sick!
10 skillz - crew deep
11 jurassic 5 - what's golden?
12 styles & pharoahe monch - my life
13 common - come close to me
14 erick sermon - react
15 jaz-o - love is gone
16 blackalicious - make u feel that way
17 choclair - mach 4
18 j-live - a charmed life
19 clipse - grindin'
20 ras kass - golden child
21 talib kweli - waitin for the dj
22 camp-lo - glow
23 biz markie - games
24 freeway - what they do
25 people under the stairs - o.s.t.
- Stylus
Stylus - 4:37 PM
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1.3.2003
my turn my turn...
Pic!s 2002 Picks...
- Daniel's 1st word - "Father" (that's what I heard)
- Heather Headley/Vivian Green/Amerie etc.. It's okay to be R & B again without waving the neo-soul flag
- Ego Trips Big Book of Racisim - The best book I've ever read next to the Bible
- POEM-CEES came up with 3 more CD concepts - & completed one
- Unspoken Heards album (actually released late 2001 but well worth another mention)
- DJ Stylus' lethal administration of paper cuts on PARANOIA track #8
- I fielded approximately 473 calls from bill collectors
- they got approximately 374.00 out of me
- mainstream america continued embracing black slang terms that we've created & long since abandoned
(why is Pheobe calling Ross "wack" on "FRIENDS"? why is Buffy talking about "dissing" someone)
- maybe I'm mad 'cuz throwbacks like me STILL talk like that
- we damn near popped a tire on the 9th street pothole/dip (near the convention center)
- I got cable tv for the 1st time in my LIFE
- I got rid of it 10 months later (only after getting off on the wire & def poetry )
- Olu Butterfly Woods' The Revenge of Dandelions - a head rockin' poet
- watching Cy Young gettin' down at Bar Nun - feels good to see heads still 'doin it!
- I went to dream once (had a ball!! - good lookin' Kris)
- I stepped foot in Georgetown exactly 3 times (& each one was quite memorable)
- I got drunk twice (& I barely remember those)
- I kissed no one I wasn't supposed to (or did I? see above...)
- 4 women have so far come up asking for an explanation to "Land of the Ambis"...ulp
- this just in from Daniel....
DE LA SOUL "BIONIX" - 2 & 3/4 bottles
AMERIE "ALL I HAVE" - 1 & 1/2 bottles
COMMON "ELECTRIC CIRCUS" - 4 bottles
THE ROOTS "PHRENOLOGY" - 3 & 1/2 bottles
- Serena Williams got TEN times finer
- I decided to start slamming again
- I beat Gayle Danley (if you've seen the sista at work, then you KNOW!)
- I got a little older
- a tidbit wiser
- gained twenty pounds
- & six inches higher
- 8/17/02 - unafraid, we kept our eyes open, spread our arms wide...and jumped.
Pic!
blackpicasso - 4:01 PM
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1.1.2003
I hate when a bamma gonna throw down the gauntlet after already saving the choice bits for himself. Oh well, here goes.
2002 according to Stylus:
- The SoulCeez went nation-wide
- DP broke my futon
- Tapestry and Synergy were born to the delight of a fortunate few
- Capitol City Records started getting my money and keeping an IV dripping into U Street
- Picasso First Lady and Daniel Mommy Tam-Rock laid the groundwork for a fly l'il project and laid blessings on a few mics in along the way
- I rhymed on a song with Priest da Nomad
- Raw Life finally came out, after I spent several hours listening to it back-to-back with Sub-Z as soon as they got back from Europe and had fresh masters in hand
- The undiscovered historical hip-hop lore of DC and the future VH-1 Behind the Music special on Urban Intalek had several fascinating chapters added
- Cassette tapes died a quiet death
- "My name is Petey, and I've got BIG BALLS!!"
- illest house party of all time, Hyattsville MD 12/31/2002 - 1/1/2003, featuring Bushhead Ed's party rocking debut and the birth of DJ Twizzle, DJ Stylus' drunken record spinning alter ego
- Word of Risikat's empire building began to spread... cover of Essence mag soon come
- Scratch
- LORD OF THE RINGS!!!!!!!!!! (I think George Lucas has been rendered permanently incontinent by these films)
- FEAR THE TURTLE!!!! Hola, Juanitoooooo!!
- scandalous youngins of various sorts tried to besmirch our morality. We were not swayed.
- Grey Goose Gimlets
- Africa shocked the planet in the World Cup
- 10 Year Anniversary tribute show in January for A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory album, a landmark event in DC music.
- Priest continued to be the unpaid official Grand Marnier spokesman
-Stylus
Stylus - 10:18 PM
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