2007 May

Do You Want a Record Deal? If So, I Have a Bridge or Two, I Wanna Sell You.

May 23, 2007 by Renina

Its 2007 and cats still want record deals. In the era of myspace. Mixtapes.

Itunes.

Blogging.

&

Youtube.

Cats STILL want record deals.

Phonte summed it up perfectly when he said,

Speaking for me personally any record label is just not for me – major, indie or whatever. Signing exclusively to a record label with the state the business is in is like buying a ticket to the Titanic. Record sales are steadliy going down…these labels are doing artist crazy gestapo shit and try to save their money. So signing a record deal in 2007 is insane, there is really no need for it. But that?s my personal thing. No matter what label, I?m sure it?d be the same way. Concerning Atlantic, it just wasn?t a good fit.

Which bring me to the artist showcase I went to earlier this week.
I attended at the behest of a jawn that was checkin’ for me.

He told me he was throwing an underground “party”.

I was like, Im a b-girl, so I’ll rock.

Dude.

The spot smelled like corona’s were splashed on the walls which seemed to emit beer steam.

Thats just the begining.

There were these hood-lic-ious young gurls.

Fort green houses respresent, represent sent. Bed-stuy houses respresent, represent sent.
And THAT was what was fresh to me because the crowd was young and the music wasn’t commercial.
Come to think of it I was prolly the oldest female there that DIDN’T work for a label.
So, the around the way girls and dudes came through to support their homies that were performing.

It reminded me of that late 90’s Nuryorican era.

Man lissen. There were these shark skin suit wearing label types double fisting hennessy and (whatever you chase hen-rock with).

Here is the rub tho’.

Cats were COMPETING for an opportunity to have a “sit down” meeting w/ cats @ shady records.

Why compete for a meeting w/ a label?

One should at least be competing for enough cash for a new cell phone, some chucks, or one of the skelton hoodies.

Speaking of which, Imma have to blog about my phone issues because it is outta pocket.
What does it mean that in 2007, artist are still willing to sign their art over to a label for a loan via a contract that will effectivly have them hoe’d out to the label for the next 7 albums?

Technology offords the opportunity for jawns to make a living and connect directly with the fans.

An alternative rock cat is caking $3-5K/month from online sales,

More than 3,000 people, on average, were visiting his site every day, and his most popular songs were being downloaded as many as 500,000 times; he was making what he described as ?a reasonable middle-class living? ? between $3,000 and $5,000 a month ? by selling CDs and digital downloads of his work on iTunes and on his own site.

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Ohhh. And I just came across this link today from Eskays house,

10 Reason Not to Sign W/ a Major Label,

1. They Tell You What to Do.
2. They’re only in the Disc Business.
3. They Don’t Pay You.
4. There’s No One Working There.
Read more here.

Industry Rule Number 4080, record company people are shady….

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Yes. M.dot. is in the building and blogging lovely.

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Rosie O’Donnel Go Hawd.

May 23, 2007 by Renina

First Trump.

Then Star Jones.

Now Elisabeth.

Its almost like she is a black momma that DON’T give a f-ck.

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Daytime tv got greasy.

Oh. Eskay got some 50 footage up I wanna analyze.

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R Kelly & The Duke Rape Case & Akon Part I.

May 22, 2007 by Renina

Texas Truth, my new muse, musta been in my head this morning, because he just sent me a link regarding the fact that R. Kelley’s case has not started yet.

All three of the cases have a similar thread which is the issue is someone having sex with a Black woman or girl.

I have been meaning to write about R for a hot minute.

I was reminded of him this weekend when I went on a date with myself to Barnes and Noble and read the new Essence cover to cover. I also read Curve w/ bad @ssed Michelle Rodriguez on the cover, and the new Pink magazine.

Peep the article about R. Kelleys wife in Essence . Yes. Old Boy is married. Yes they are estranged.

But Andrea says she had to cut some people off who said nasty things about her husband, and surround herself with people who she believes care for her. “I know the allegations aginst my husband don’t reflect on me as an individual,” she says. “They don’t reflect on me as a mom or as a wife, and they don’t reflect on me in my everyday life.”

Thats interesting. Wouldn’t it be more apropo to say that they don’t reflect on her wholly. To say that they don’t reflect on her at all gives rise to some credibility issues, as she MARRIED HIM in the first place. Post. Alliyah. mind you.

Back to Duke.

After I made my statement in Evidence in April I had a conversation with a classmate.

I told him that SOMETHING HAPPENDED at Duke that night.

It may or may not have been rape.

But something happened.

Here is the kicker, this dude went to school in St. Louis and told me that
it is common practice for frats to hire dancers to come to school parties during the rush period and FOR THE frats/athletes to have sex with them.

I then followed up saying that is this an EXPLICIT arrangement?

He said sometimes it is sometimes it isn’t.

I then followed up asking, “So sex with one of these women dancers is understood, and it may be included in the actual fee she is paid to come to the campus or she may agree to be paid on the spot for each individual encounter”.

He said yes.

NOW THIS BLEW me out the water.

NOT because it existed.

But because mainstream MEDIA DID NOT TELL THIS PART OF THE STORY.

That what happened on Dukes campus, the ACTUAL HIRING of the dancer in the
first place is common practice among fraternities across the country.

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Back to R. Kelly.

The Newsweek article that TT sent me is on point. They mention:

What if the gurl in the video with R.Kelly was white? Would the trial have allready started

“Many Kelly watchers also believe that the case hasn’t moved faster because of racial factors. “If those girls had been white, he’d be in jail now,” says Shakema Long, 18, a coed at Cal State. “But they were black girls, and nobody cares about us.”
2. The raised the question of whether R.Kelly’s attorney’s strategy is to try and wait as long as possible so that the alleged victim has turned 18.

“…say they think Kelly and his lawyers are stalling until the young girls become adults, when they’ll be less sympathetic victims?and, in the case of the girl in the video, less recognizable”.

3. Is R. Kelly a sexual predator? I mean seriously. Of all the jawns he could cake, he want that 16 and under set.

“You’d think that the state would have a strong case. Kelly had a well-known interest in minors. In 1994, he illegally married the singer Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 28. Kelly has reportedly been sued four times by women who claimed some type of sexual misconduct; Kelly is believed to have settled all of the cases for unspecified amounts. Some people say there were other incidents as well. “A lot of people knew what was going on and chose to look the other way,” says one of Kelly’s former employees, who admits to being one of those people. “He wasn’t doing this without help.“

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Are negros too forgiving of their stars?

Michael J? Mike T? R. Kelly?

Notice how they all have had sexual infractions?

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Things I have Learned from Black men :::::or ::::: He said he was Perfect

May 20, 2007 by Renina

The first that was:
1. Know how to wake up and be content w/ yourself.
I was kicking it w/ the Graduate one day.
I was said Good Morning.
He was like. Good morning.
I asked him how he was doing?
He said he was perfect.
That he could use a lil bit more cash, but that he was perfect. And I was like damn. He in his first year of the Ph.D. jawn, so we are in similar boats, but Ol boy’s spirit was good money.
I knew then that I wanted to cultivate the ability to wake up like that.

2. Be capable of blocking the world out for hours. When push comes to shove,
these cats can block out the world and get they grind ON. And that is the way
to be productive.

The last 8 weeks before finals I started using the library.
I realized how necessary
it was to turn off the phone, and sh*t even the im in order to
be productive over a 5-8 hour period.

3. Sleep is great, but learning how to live on a little is amazing.
Jawns I know really don’t sleep alot. Meaning 70-80% the Black men I know, the Architects, Artist, Directors, Writers, B-Boys, DJ’s, they sleep maybe 3-5 hours max.

I don’t know if its the hustle that NYC requires, or the neurosis of being a black man grinding, but cats don’t sleep. I likes my beauty rest.

I don’t like waking up looking like a raccoon in the eyes.

BUT.

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4. Black men have no problem putting themselves first.
At first, being newly single, I was put off by it. Then I learned from it and started incorporating it into my own greasy. Cats put themselves first.

They do what they wanna do, when they wanna do it.

Sh*t. While I am capable of doing the same, women in this culture are not TAUGHT to do it on g.p.

If I am at a fork at the road, then imma go forself.

If its gp errry day, then imma prolly think of other people.

SHYYYYT.

After seeing how dudes rock. Not in ’07. I struggles with this TO THIS DAY.

But I am very mindful of how a jawn handles it and form follows form.

If You put me first, I follow form. You greasy and put me on the bench, then don’t trip when that sh-t gets done to you.

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Black men lesson’s in ’07.

“I keeps a pen/ Like a feen keep a pipe to ’em”.

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These N*ggas Got Keys, Gats and Whips. Good Lawd.

May 20, 2007 by Renina

77 Greenside IS the truth.
He right about it being a million dollar spot.
In fact. Sh-t. My brother usta f*ck w-green side.

A young lady from youth radio sum’s it up perfectly when she reflects
on a desceased friend saying,

All his friends from his East Oakland turf ? called Greenside ? were there. Greenside is not a gang, but if you live in Oakland, every block has a name, and people are loyal to their block no matter where they move.

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Two things I noticed.

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Niggas be trippin off that stupid shit.
I stay w/ heat, up under that seat.
If you ain’t got no pistol, you never know. You get your head busted @ any time.
Stay wichyours/ cuz Imma have mine.

Did you see the under cover try and cop?

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Death is so common in the ghetto. You can ask any one how many
loved ones they lost, and they will have a football roster.

Oh.
And Richmond jawns don’t play.

Richmond like Philly.
You don’t go there w/o at least two gats, mace and a stun gun.

“When its possible for a 17 year old kid to make $15,000 off one transaction in the hood, you can’t tell him to go to college.

Man Listen.

“How does it feel to wake up and beef erry day?

Real Talk.

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Felt Like I just watched an episode of the Wire: East Oakland.

My homies that I speak to, can you see where I get the language “code speak” from?

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