I had the long New Years hangover so I haven’t gotten a chance to write about my new adventures. We left off at me releasing a new mix and doing a show before Christmas. The show was at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC. Now it’s strange because living in Miami I was always told that the Nuyorican was this poetry paradise flowing with milk and honey. It was always considered to be a privilege to be on that stage. I did spoken word there a few months ago and I got the call to put together a show there. So you can imagine I was pretty excited about this.
I took the China Town from Philly to NYC. By the way these adventures are car-less or with out a car. I gave away my Honda Civic last year just because I was kind of sick of driving. and it’s a very liberating feeling. I really don’t want to own a car anymore if I don’t have to. Or at least not drive it or not drive at all. So I got into the LES in NYC. If you don’t know what these terms are then read the last show I did in NYC. I explain the terms to my peoples who never been to New York. So I get to the venue which is in the LES and everything is going according to plans. I was doing the sound and the sound there was so cake it was ridiculous. There’s no way you should be getting paid alot of money to work the sound there. Because the sound is already so dope that there’s not much you have to do.
So we had a fashion show, MC’s, poets, singers, DJ’s, lions, tigers and bears, oh my. As far as what caught my eye. I was surprised when JR Writer from Dip Set did a surprise set. I always get surprised when it gets super packed which it did. Black Rose did a release at the show which was dope. I did a release as well which was equally as dope. Thoughts did his normal, rowdy, set of entertaining hip hop splendor. I put on my boys from Lancaster, PA called Mile High. They came through and killed it. I had a few people say their favorite sets were Mile High and mine. Thoughts got props of course. Actually he started the first fight in all of the 137 shows I’ve ever put together. It was two girls fighting each other over the right to love the man known as Thoughts. Another thing that was interesting was I was talking to one of the more popular NYC poets who does the open mics on Friday at the Nuyorican and we started talking about Will Da Real One. Will was one of the more popular poets in Miami who was murdered last year over some nonsense. It was good to see that Will’s influence made it all the way to New York. He was a big inspiration for me. But that’s about it. More stuff on it’s way including murals in Orlando, writing songs in Miami, and gutting pigs in Polk County.
