YOU GOT SERVED.

Today we were on mania tv. And we interviewed with dj chonz. And we
ate food and went to the club with low key and THEN THE FUN STARTED.
We had to leave the party to go perform a quick 2 song set at a place
called the shelter. Man we got there at 11:30 and didn't perform til
1:30 after watching the hip hop dance off. Maybe I'm not real hip hop
anymore but at one club I watched women dance to "take the l" and now
I'm watching b boys. I'm not mad at the b boys but I wanted to watch
the women dance. I literally fell asleep on a couch in the back. We
got up there and we were wack!!! I don't have time to front. Wack
juice. I blame it on nobody it was just wack. Tonights show is the big
one though. Tonight meaning saturday night.

In other news I miss my woman. I like saying woman like that song "get
out my life woman"

Shout to the 400 for the dope shirts. Check donwills blog for
pictures. Of your girl. Naked.

One!!!!!!!!!

denver hollarado

first of all, tableek commented on my last blog entry...thats kinda dope. my blog is hot!

 

so right now were in denver with dj low key. were not doing a show until saturday and on one end im defintely like "damn...no shows" but on the other we have some connecting to do wit a meet n greet and some other things this week. we'll be alright. i cant help but have a guilty conscience because im a sucker nice guy like that, but i know we didnt dis them by leaving. thats the last thing ima say about that...

 

were still on tour though...but its now the roadtrip royalty tour. haha...

 

we went from chicago to nebraska (stayed in a hick hotel...we squeezed in one room for 40 beans you cant beat it) and then to colorado. we were in nebraska listening to the ghetto boys with bandanas over our faces. okay i had a bandanna over my face. i figure hey if im gonna be uncomfortable because i think were the only black guys, im gonna be a jerk about it. lol...

 

i heard that the new royalty tour is still coming to colorado...are we gonna get beat up? i got mad insurance son.

 

speaking of insurance, verizon wireless is on some buellshat. donwill broke his phone 6 days into having it and they wouldnt let him get a new one. he has insurance but he has to pay 50 beans anyway. he paid it but they sent the wrong phone. what the hell?

 

i promise this will get interesting again. hold tight.

 

 

comin from chiCA...but now i gotta go go

the go, the the, the go (c) common

 

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan listen.

 

i wont stop talkiing about the negative issues because they exist.

 

after saturday nights chicago show we had to leave the tour and weve decided to k.i.m. on our own and finish the dates we set up. check the tanya morgan myspace page to see where we will be.

 

for the folks that were expecting us to show up in their town they deserve an explanation...

 

this blog was foreshadowing like a mutha though! wasnt it?

 

i think we put too much on the line too soon, but maybe not? time will tell. i hope PS and tableek (with dj automatic) will continue to rock the remaining shows and im not even trying to be diplomatic about it...they are good people and good artists, but the setup wasnt right for us...by us being gone hopefully they'll have more dough and traveling and shit will be a lot easier without the extra 4 ways to split shit. once again its not like anyone was trying to ball, we were trying to make it to the next town and get places to stay and shit! i dont care who is reading this because this shit is for other artists it aint for promoters or whoever...i never read about shit like this. everybody wants to tell me what city theyre in and how nice it is and how they went shopping and they rocked the show and theyre tired and thats it for the whole blog...thats borrrrrrrrrrrrring. it leaves us thinking its okay to just run out and change your life to be on tour because niggas have us thinking its all good once youre on tour or once you sign the dotted line...it aint! im not complaining im warning! letting it be known!

 

for my "soon to tour one of these days" people, yea you have to sacrifice but dont depend on anything working out at all. dont depend on any hotels, any transportation, per diem, anything! use your own resources! meet people from myspace that live in that town or see if you have family in that town and maybe they can show you around or give you a place to crash just in case. always have a way to get back home from anywhere! know where the greyhound or the airport is! dont get out here and be depending on the tour bus or whatever to take you to the venue, from the hotel room youre depending on, then depend on getting paid so you can send some money back home so your brother can pay your bills for you while youre away (just an example). dont depend on any of that!

 

in other news thanks to chibrownskinnedlady (okp in the building) for showing me around the city of chicago...chicago is dope! millenium park is crazy! downtown is so beautiful man...as a new yorker i can safely say that chicago looks better (for tourists sake) then manhattan. new york we have times square which still bugs me out and i been there millions of times, but the stuff i seen yesterday had me feeling like moving. yea right im NYC til a hundred and 3, but you know what i mean...

 

alright...ill see yall in a minute. the show(s) must go on.

new blog

chicago is dope man. thats it for now.

 

 

...I listen to classical.

Yall want the real? Were sitting in grand rapids in a van like an hour
after we finished performing and were about to go take the promoters
turntables as collateral because we didn't get paid. He's talking
about scion aint send the dough and mc sick and tableek want to take
the tables. F*ck that man lets go to the hotel. Now they're arguing
about it. Right now. Filthy and sick. I guess were going to the hotel.
Rap sucks man. Sucks! This isn't helping at all...this is wild. I'm
typing in real time I might as well continue to type.

The next time you're in your makeshift studio (like me) or in a studio
you're paying for with your paycheck and you want to make a hip hop
difference, remember this blog. We got like 5 more weeks of this. You
love hip hop? Me too, but don't romanticise the shit. You will not be
q tip on the roof of a cleaners. Or nas with an uzi in the army jacket
lining. Or jay z on a boat with white letterboxes surrounding you. If
you're lucky you'll be us right now, in a van blowing mad exaust,
headed back to a hotel with no money and the guys you gotta tour with
all mad at each other because we got jerked. This is hip hop music and
there is no honeymoon.

On a brighter side...people were singing along to "tanya morgan is a
rap group" and that's just a song on myspace.

I'm getting a regular job.

No I'm not. You might need me one day.

14 dollar holla.

SON. If niggas ask me for gas money I'm getting out and walking to the
next town. Barefoot. With a vase on my head. Y'all crazy man. 14
dollars after the split up. Hahahahahha...these niggas wild man. This
is entertaining I swear. I went to get some sleep after the hotel
check in but I made the mistake of buying computer speakers when I was
in cincinnati...I get in the bed and 5 minutes later ilyas and donwill
are singing along to the ghetto boys at full volume. Possibly the
first time they truly got on my nerves. Lol

Donwill was singing britney spears in the bathroom. In no way
whatsoever is that hip hop. Hahaha

But dig it we did alright tonight but we've been better. Me filthy and
kendra are in her car headed to the d d the da d d da d, the d d
y'all. We going to kick it and shit and rjcc of "okp delete your shit"
fame is driving like a stuntman.

If you book us and try to give us 14 dollars each ill personally hit
you in the face with a stale loaf of bread. Do remember.

I've been up for 28 hours!!

If my math is wrong its because I'm sleepy. We got up yesterday and
drove from cincy to carbondale illinois for a show and then after the
show drove to ann arbor michigan, where we are as I type. Were
probably an hour from the d d, the d d d da d, dededeDE yall...

I stayed awake to help navigate our way here. An actual atlas is 20
times better than mapquest.

So carbondale was great. We got paid upfront and the crowd that chose
door b loved it. Door a was the pool hall 2 doors down that just
reopened and was free and had like...1 dollar beer and a cute chick
with a beer keg. The whole damn town was 2 doors down. They stole the
crowd haha...but like I said the people loved what everyone who
performed did.

Am I being positive now? That's not fun man!

Filthy cursed everyone out and said we shouldn't be trying to hang out
when we have a 10 hour drive. We didn't hang.

I'm tired...peace.

the cincy show

i was telling ilyas i didnt like the sound but he was looking at me like the sound was cool so i guess the sound was cool?

someone on myspace said this blog is scary...well yea. lol...

we aint get a got damned cent off of this show. in a home town. we went on 1am and put on a good show though...thank god for scion sponsoring the show...i got a sci...f*ck that im not doing a commercial. sorry. but i appreciate them though. the cd they got with wax po is the sh*t...and with them sponsoring well get some money...one day.

so about why nobody was there...thats our fault? we didnt promote it enough? or maybe theres no hip hop scene in cincy like that and it was a monday night at 1am? i mean im not here to give excuses all the money went to the soundman and that was only like a hundred dollars. im not tripping anymore though, piakahn (of reflection eternal fame etc) was there and he was like "man this is boot camp...this is the test if you make it past this youll be alright...you guys are gonna be alright"

so yea to recap no money was made tonight, we sold some moonlighting cassette tee shirts and a cd, the few people that were there enjoyed it, we rocked but i didnt like the mic sound, and...filthy is sleeping with his glasses on. i never seen someone sleep with glasses on before thats that new NEW sh*t.

its 4:25am and im not tripping anymore because weve all come to grips that this tour is janktastic and we just gotta live with that and pass the test.


p.s. feel better L.Pea! im coming home to you!

THE NAT REPORT
im just putting this here for inside joke purposes.

still in cincinnati

we been hanging out in cincinnati since friday afternoon at ilyas' house and the show is tommorrow night in cincinnati at topcats. from there we hit a nice little stride of shows every night and that should be cool. im going to just make the best of a bugged out situation with this tour deal...i mean we found out today that some of these shows....okay let me explain it, i dont know how it usually goes, but this time shows are being sold as a package. so lets say the show for all 3 acts is supposed to be 5 dollars and that 5 dollars covers hotel and gas money. apparently some shows have been sold for 1 dollar, one or two hotels (for 10 people?) and no gas money. thats NUTS! lmao!!!! imagine traveling 4 hours to work every day and at the end of the week you make 20 dollars. haha!!!!

man you may think were full of it by now, but thats because youre probably a masochist when paying dues "for the love"

"man i cut my d*ck off....for hip hop!!"

"i havent eaten in 3 weeks...for hip hop!!"

"im finna jump off of this roof for the love!!!"

nigga. go back to the first entry.

im feeling good though im not tripping anymore...im not the only person in this group though so its not about me only i got the least to lose. this isnt von pea on tour its tanya morgan on tour you know?

yo...please, anybody reading this if you know anyone thats been on a tour please tell them to contact me and let me know if im tripping or not. this is a janky assed tour but im still in. vons still in...at least until cali?

check the fly sh*t son.

Okay lets recap...where we last left off pseudo slang was about to
miss the boston show because they got the van late. Well they missed
the show, but thank god we got paid anyway. Not as much as we were
supposed to though. The opening act bought the whole crowd! Good thing
he was performing...lol.

We came off wit 31 beans each. You can't be serious. Were supposed to
obviously get more then that and that's not going to cut it. That's
not cutting a damn thing.

We slept on a friends floor and got up the next day to meet up with
pseudo and get on the tourvan. We then met tableek and now its like 10
people in the van with mad luggage too. For about 8 hours from boston
to buffalo. We had to give up 120 in gas money. Do the math, do the
math...

We get to buffalo and big neeze and his friends are there. It was nice
to see a familiar face but we were already stressed because a we got
31 damn dollars the night before and b were not supposed to be paying
gas money and shit. Niggas broke.

That's like going to work and paying 24 dollars in train fare but you
make 6 dollars a week, then you have to chase your boss down for the
paycheck. Tonight we rocked buffalo man. 33 dollars a piece. Here's
the thing...if the crowd is small and its bullcrap "door money" with
no crowd? What are we dividing? Not much at all.

Oh yea...there's no show til monday in cincinnati so the 4 of us (tm
and filthy) are taking a greyhound to cincy to have somewhere to stay
til the show monday. I'm on the greyhound right now. We left right
after the show and now were on another 9 hour trip. Another expense. 8
hours and 120 in gas to make 33 dollars, then these greyhound tix and
another 9 hours traveling to this show in cincy which may be the same
shit. I'm dreading getting back on that tour van after cincy I really
am. So far this tour is super ugly and we can't live off 30 a night
after all the effort put into it. No hotel, no gas, no proper pay,
dues? Effa paid due this is just crazy were pulling money out of our
butt and its not right. Hopefully a better situation is around the
corner. Its 4:34 am and the bus leaves 4:40. I'm on vacation when we
get to the natti.

I love hip hop but this is rediculous. The poor tour 2006.

...and it continues!

So the 1st show is tonight right...

Were in boston at the ughh.com store waiting to do an in store now and
we just found out that psuedo slang just got the tourvan and will be
late and they're 8 hours away. We need to be on that van to get to
buffalo tommorrow. So ps are supposed to come get us and then go
back?!??!!? 16 hours?!?!?? If they don't make the show then what? And
this promoter wants ps more than anyone else, AND its a door show aka
we get paid off the door. Like I said I'm keeping it real here and
this is lame. Its not ps' fault because they had issues with the van,
but damn we been here since sunday morning just waiting around, now we
may get dissed because...I don't even know if I'm making sense because
I'm typing on a mobile device. Ill let you guys know what's up later.
This shit may be over before it starts.

its began already!

so we get on the greyhound to boston at 3pm....when we're in massachusettes (almost there) we get a call from young rooney (note: i think ima call everybody "young" in this entry for the hell of it) saying that his plane actually arrives MONDAY and not sunday, so we get to boston and were just...in boston. he had somewhere for us to stay, but hes not here yet so we're in a hotel instead, which would be great if hotels were FREE. haha...no transportation either. fun times fun times.

 

luckily theres a grocery store across the way (its not really a highway, not really a plain old street so its the way) and 7-11, and a bowling alley where it was "popping" (i guess) so there were people around. i had on my 10 deep hoody with the paint spots on it and some dude was like *weird face* did yout shirt COME like that!?!?!?!???

 

long story short we're kinda just...here. in the middle of boston. the show isnt until wednesday. psuedo slang and tableek dont get in til that day because theyre smart.

 

theres one 15 passanger van that psuedo owns, so once young rooney gets here we might just be stuck in the other shelter until the show day, but hey im excited to meet the other artists (again) and get this party (on stage) started. young blackjesus (ilyas) isnt here yet its just me filthy (young snatch) and donwill (young shirt)

 

we bout to watch flavor of love (stop judging me jesse) and plug the mic up.

 

signing off, young what?