So Far Gone

This guy got 40k worth of downloads when it released on February 13th, and it’s at 60k (and counting) now. So, he doesn’t need anymore promotion. But, 

Boy, I love college!

Well maybe not me, but then again, I didn’t go through that kind of experience. This is an ill video nonetheless:

The Future Is Here

Have I been slacking on here, WHY YES I IS! But I’m here, quality over quantity right? This was never supposed to be a competing blog for you to visit on a daily, it’s more like something for the strangers in my life to take a peep in the crack of the door I leave. Life for me?

Weezy F’d you, so you gotta have a baby

That subject title just seemed so suitable. For no apparent reason, I’ve felt so compelled to understand this Lil Wayne obsession. Why is it that every man from every hood believes in this man so much? So I searched and found all three Dedication mixtapes. For those that don’t know, Mr. Weezy has a tradition of releasing a Dedication mixtape after every “Tha Carter” album. For all my retards out there, there’s 3 carters, therefore, there are 3 dedications.

 

 

Did I get to understand this Lil Wayne obsession? No, but I found something else instead. After listening to the first Dedication mixtape, I was ready to give up. But I told myself I’d listen to all 3. I just finished Dedication 2 and not only am I impressed, I’m convinced. Lil Wayne has a ghost writer. The whole Dedication mixtape was pretty much about speculation of Lil Wayne getting signed to Roc-A-Fella and being under Jay-Z’s guidance. But all of a sudden, over a span of one year, not only is his lyrical content get better, but so is his ear for music and writing technique (flows). It’s impossible for someone to grow so rapidly in every sense of the game.

 

 

Cool can’t be taught, or given, you can only be born cool. You can be coached, but you have to have it already. Wayne has talent, but not as much as y’all give him credit for. I haven’t even gotten to Dedication 3 yet, but Jay-Z must be one helluva coach to completely transform someone the way he did Weezy.

 

Click on the pics to download the mixtapes. Dedication 1, 2 & 3.

History

 

There’s not much I can say that hasn’t been said already, just wanted to share my experience of election day with these videos.

 

Yes, that is a big American flag we’re under.

 

We’re still giving away SIGNED Q-tip posters and we still don’t know what you have to do to win them so you can still call us up and give suggestions. Don’t forget to check us out tonight (and every monday), from 7-9pm. Just follow the links to the top right.

 

Groove Line

 

Heatwave is slowly but surely becoming my favorite group of all time. I check out all the other classic shit like Earth, Wind & Fire and KC & The Sunshine Band, but why is it that I’ve NEVER heard of Heatwave? Up until recently of course. The passion that was put into music back in the 70s just doesn’t compare to any other decade. I’ve said it time and time again but I was really born in the wrong generation!

Moving forward, this is more about my new future than Heatwave but I had to share what I’ve been bumping to as of late. Plus it helps me transition into what we’re trying to do with Breakin’ Records. We’re trying to find our groove line and once we do, watch out world. My pride doesn’t want to admit this but the Lloyal in me will, “It’s Lloyal” was a test run, it was just the beginning. While interning at Sirius, I learned there’s a lot more skill and technique that goes into radio than I had previously thought. I really hope to apply my newly acquired skills toward this new show. Add that to the already great chemistry we create and this could be something big. I won’t stop uploading the shows even if I feel the quality is slacking but I know my regulars (shouts to Mister Lego, Prophit, Hannah, Tati, COTN, Dot etc. if I missed you I still love you just not going to list everyone LOL) would kill me.

Life is truly taking shape as I’ve predicted but I’m struggling right now and I can’t front like it’s all good because it isn’t! I’m broker than I have been in months and I have a group of ex-co-workers who believe I’m a thief. I can front all I want and act like it doesn’t bother me, but when you build a level of trust with someone it sucks for it to be broken. Especially when the cause of it all is out of your own control. On that note, WILL SOMEBODY BUY MY SNEAKERS?????!?!?!?!?!? SIZE 9

 

 

Lloyal Rumble has FINALLY been re-uploaded! The link on my myspace is working again and I hope anybody who put it up on their blog will change the link to the working one. Click the pic to download Lloyal Rumble:

 

Last but not least of course, click the pic below to download this past week’s edition of Breakin’ Records!

 

Broken Record or Broken Egg? You tell me

I almost forgot to tell you but there’s a nice treat at the end of the show, I guess you’re just going to have to listen to see…

Last but not least!!! New track on the Myspace! First track I did with D-Black a longtime friend and fellow rapper aka why did it take so long for this to happen? 

Breakin’ Records

I’m starting to believe this is the greatest song / video of all-time

There comes a time when you’ve just got to move forward in your career. In case you didn’t know already, all the shit I’ve been talking has proved to be more than just shit. Yes, I’m currently interning at Sirius XM (as they’d like to call it now) officially, so, Kid Kelly, I really came for you (pause). I’ve cancelled “It’s Lloyal” for multiple reasons but the most important one is that I just really didn’t have time to do it. Between the internship, working at Bloomingdales, school, and “personal activities”, it was tough to fit “It’s Lloyal” in the schedule. But, I’m back wearing that 4-5. New show, new staff, new material, new everything. The already existing show, “Breakin’ Records” hosted by none other than Matik (producer of “1-10″ on Lloyal Rumble and personal friend of course), is about to be renewed. I’ve decided to hop on the Monday’s 7-9 spot to have this team as opposed to it being just me. It all started yesterday when I decided to just hop on the show and the chemistry was there so I figured why not. So I’m back, and I promise I will no longer be an avid blog neglecter too, word up. I don’t know why I didn’t, I guess I was so caught up being a rapper lol, but I didn’t even throw my mixtape on this bitch. Unfortunately, Zshare is all fucked up and the link that it’s been uploaded on doesn’t work, so I’ll upload it as soon as I go home (not tonight lol). So I’m back, make me feel welcome, pause.

Also, here’s yesterday’s sample show featuring DJ Woof, it was definitely one to remember. Click the pic:

Ok, so I lied…

Here it is Sunday and I definitely promised ya’ll Lloyal Rumble by last Friday. Unfortunately, that was an unrealistic goal to DJ Nome (the man who’ll be mixing my tape). But I’m not upset, sure you guys may be, but I’m not. It’ll only be better. Enough of that, the music will speak for itself.

 

This past week I bragged the whole show about completing Lloyal Rumble, so this is my tease to you.

On a much more personal note, breakups suck. Especially the smooth ones where you can’t tell what’s on the other person’s thoughts. What am I to expect? I dunno. Most, if not all, will not understand my most recent relationship because it was kept between us for, well, ever. But, it has history. More than the recent publication of it all. Here’s to you…

 

R.I.P.

 

P.S. Click on either pic to download last week’s show.

Rock the HISTORY!

On August 3rd, 2008, I experienced the greatest concert ever! Honestly, I doubt that any show in the future could compare. To be there was a blessing, I have to share everything.

 

Our beautiful seats

 

We arrived about 12:30ish to go check out the side stage. Not only are there absolutely no signs that lead you to the side stage, but there’s tons and tons of games and merchandise to get sidetracked from the side stage (as ironic as that sounds). We mindlessly spend our cash on T-Shirts and roam left and right from false directions from Amphitheater employees. Finally, we make our way to the side stage where we’re greeted from a newcomer, Wale. While I’m very much familiar with the name, I’ve never heard his music. With that said, I was very pleased with his performance. 

 

Wale’s short set introduced an even shorter set from, one-time It’s Lloyal guest, Skyzoo. Despite the length, Skyzoo showed great energy and good annunciation.

 

That was just the beginning of the beginning, MURS was clearly the highlight of the side stage. He only proved what most of us knew already, that he belonged on the main stage! Not only did he murder it, but he murdered it while his mom was on stage watching him! Gangsta!

 

But like I said before, THAT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING! This was all before the Main Stage even opened! The opening act I’ll tell you was the biggest disappointment of the show, Kidz In The Hall. They had multiple unsuccessful attempts at starting their show. After Double-0 (The producer / DJ of Kidz In The Hall) consistently blamed the sound man for their mishaps, he finds out that his external hard drive was unplugged the whole time!

 

That was the only thing that kept this show from perfection. It was all heaven from there, Dead Prez and Immortal Technique followed the Kidz who both had a little above average performances. Mind you, I’m not a fan of either so I’m sure it was a much better show for those who actually enjoy their music. De La Soul followed with an amazing set. They ran through classics from their first album all the way up to the more recent, “The Grind Date”.  

Not to take anything from De La, but I was really surprised by this performance. They started what seemed to be an event full of surprises when they brought out non other than Biz Markie. Who of course came out beat boxing to perform his all time classic, “Just A Friend”.

After De La Soul came The Pharcyde who also, surprising to me, put on one hell of a show! Opening with the Jay Dee (DILLA) classic “Runnin’” and finishing off with some OG Pharcyde, “Passin’ me by”. Sorry for the shitty pic.

 

Raekwon & Ghostface followed with a very refreshing performance. Ghost is usually the one who’s outshining, well, everyone. But this set consisted more of Cuban Linx tracks which not only gave Raekwon more shine, but added some surprise to a usually predictable Wu show. LET ME CLEAR THIS UP RIGHT NOW, I could go to a Ghost show ten billion times and still say he’s the greatest, but we have to admit, their shows do get a little repetitive. Raekwon, who last year looked like he was coked up, showed high energy and just generally proved he was happy.

Wu’s for the kids

Mos Def, who I saw very recently at the Nokia Theatre, went through his basic routine of playing classic Reggae and revealing both DILLA samples and samples from his own tracks in between performing his songs.

It didn’t really get live until he brought out Talib Kweli who performed the always extra hype, “Get By”. Kweli & Mos went through a large chunk of their Black Star classics before the biggest surprise of them all…

 

 

PHAROAHE MONCH! He tore the whole spot with “Simon Says”.

The most surprising performance came right after with Method Man & Redman. These dudes were hopping up on speakers that had to be at least 10 feet high (no lie, peep the pics!). Method Man stormed the crowd not once, but twice! He threw his sweaty Du-Rag which I happily handed to Jennifer right next to me (shorty has a Wu-Tang tat on her foot). Not much more to describe how these dudes tore it down!

As if that wasn’t enough, Red & Mef bring out Slick Rick who came out and did like 8 bars. This dude must be caking. Although it’s not clear in the picture, his new chains are ridiculous.

Now as if that wasn’t enough, Red & Mef pull out EPMD!

I told ya’ll before that this was a show full of surprises, but I can’t even describe to you how it was actually being there. NaS was up next and I was extremely skeptical when they started setting up for a live band. NaS came out to “N.I.G.G.E.R. (Slave and Master)” backed by the band and DJ Green Lantern. But that led into a slew of Illmatic tracks. He hit us off with like 5 joints, it was bananas.

After a solid performance, I was convinced that the backing band was a great idea. As satisfied as I felt, I guess NaS felt it just wasn’t enough. NaS at one point turns around and puts on his Mets fitted. Jay-Z comes out of nowhere rocking the Yankee fitted. It was like two of the greatest players from opposite teams getting together to take over the league. They performed “Success” follwed by “Black Republican”.

I’ve seen NaS multiple times but this was another very refreshing set. Finished off by an amazing showcase of “One Mic”, NaS’ set setup what we’ve all been waiting for, A Tribe Called Quest. I was so disappointed for the first couple of minutes when Q-Tip was on stage with Mos Def as a hype man. Not because it was wack, but it really had me thinking that Q-Tip was going to be there to represent for A Tribe Called Quest.

Sure enough, after a solid solo set, they introduced the rest of the crew to really wreck the stage.

In the middle of their set, they brought out Consequence who was completely useless, he barely even ad-libbed.

The highlight of the whole night had to be when Tribe brought out Busta Rhymes while performing Scenario. I was intimidated by Busta as he shows off his strength on stage. He had the whole place going straight bananas. After Scenario, Busta went straight into “Woo Hah” which had everyone going more retarded.

Tribe ended off their set and the show with “Award Tour”. This ended what was History for Hip-Hop. I was happy to attend, even after all the money spent on $5 waters and $3 Skittles (yes, it was that serious). If you missed out, well you just did that, missed out. I’ll be more than happy to show you how much fun I had. Don’t forget to check out It’s Lloyal, tonight from 9-11pm.

 

p.s. This is the first of four postings to my new Top 10 everything. You’ll see soon enough. Mwhahahaha

On the same day…

 

…that Barry Bonds and Jennifer Lopez was born (let’s not forget my cousin Randy), I was brought into this world. I’m 19 today, yes, I know, most of you are blowing your brains out going, “HE’S ONLY 19!?!?!?!?” Yes, it’s true, and I’ll never lie about it. This is my first birthday to come where I’ve had this blog so this post, is very, very special to me. To answer the most dumbest question ever asked during anyone’s birthday, no, I don’t feel older. 2008 is a very important year for me. It’s the year that everything changed. I changed my career path and completed all those gapped thoughts of where I’d want to be in 5-10 years. For those who thought my lack of experience and age would slow me down, Sirius called me yesterday. Yes, I put onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Kid Kelly, I’m really coming for you now nigga!

 

 

 

Huge shouts to Dot (the7daytheory.wordpress.com)! He came through to the show last Tuesday as we talked our bullshit. For the record, I don’t hate Jersey, it’s all in a days work. But if you’re going to continue to talk about it, FUCK JERSEY! I’ll upload the show ASAP, stay tuned.