Sparks and Craft

There's nothing I like more than a little VIP love. If you ever want to throw some free gear/merch/tix etc... my way please do so thuggyfresh@gmail.com. This past monday was the record release party for the new Blackalicious album "The Craft". So I get a phone call from my homie Lydia who holds it down over there at the Quannum fortress. "You on the list fool!" Was all she had to say and I found myself sipping a Sparks and rolling over the Bay Bridge to the Indepenent to post up VIP and drink $4 Miller High Lifes.



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Prince sightings in Candyland

Summer in the Bay Area is dwindeling away and people are packing these last few weekends with tons of events. I had just jumped off bart on my way to catch some footage of an anti-war demonstration (more on that later) when I found myself smack in the middle of the 2005 San Francisco Loveparade. A giant rave had manifested in the early afternoon rigth in front of San Francisco's city hall building. Yeah,yeah those close to me know my feeling on raves and ravers so no need for me to go off on a tirade about it. But if you must know and want to see some funny pics as well check out the homie Big Max , his latest blog is the companion piece to this one. Anyway after about a half an hour of wandering around the perimeter of the event people watching, from out of the corner of my eye in the bed of a pickup truck I recognize none other than Prince Paul of Stetsasonic/De La Soul/Grave Diggaz/Handsomeboy Modeling School fame (and then some). It was kind surreal being so close and watching him play but then I noticed he was playing songs using two cd dj turntables. I wasnt quite sure what to make of it but I guess it you're going get paid to play cds then you go play cds and get paid. Heres some footage of Paul droppin some classics on the hippies of the new millenium. Get yo paper Paul!



Once again you're gonna need Quicktime to view the video. But if for some reason the video wont play you can download it here. Most feedback from Mac users all good but it seems as though PC users are about 50/50 when it comes to seeing the videos on my page. If you know how I can solve this problem please let me know. Thanks.

Do What the F*ck You Wanna Do...

One of my favorite rappers of all time Devin the Dude recently played in San Francisco. I was there with my trusty Cannon and captured him performing one of my favorite songs.



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Is this thing on? pt. 2

So this is it, I am officially a web nerd with too much time on his hands (yeah right!). Less than a month ago I purchased myself a nice little Cannon mini DV recorder. Since then I have been accumulating stacks of tapes with lots and lots of crap on them. I need to do something with this crap, so i figure where is there a place in the world where people just look at crap all day long? A colleague of mine had metioned that there are a number of video blogs popping up on the internet and it would be simple for me to contribute to the crap pile. So here I am. No not a pioneer blazing new trails, just a biter like everyone else.

Now lets see if this works...

Aside from being cooped up in a warehouse full of computers all day I record Hip Hop tracks at home for a number of Bay Area emcees, one of them is Conceit. A San Francisco native and underground freestyle battle champ. About a month ago we recorded this track at my studio apartment in Oakland. The beat was made by my good friend G Pek who has just produced an entire album (recorded by yours truly) for another SF emcee by the name of Z Man. The video is nothing flashy, I just put the camera in the closet when he was rapping and told him to try and do the track all the way through. Also, its only a rough cut of the final song but I think if you listen and watch you'll get the idea. Just a man and a microphone.



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So yeah the majority of this video blog is going to be Hip Hop related, thats just the life I lead. If you don't like it, goodbye.


P.S. so i think i need to learn some more HTML coding, if anyone out there has a cheat sheet or a link to one of those "pimp yo blog" pages please hook a brotha up. Until then I'll just go with what I already know.

Is this thing on?

Hello digital people, Im just getting this thing up and running so give me a little time, I wanted to but my first video project up here but I fucked up and uploaded it to current tv so now they pretty much own it for the next three months. Stupid. But you can still check it out here.