back in brooklyn

why does it feel like i been away for a year?

 

actually ive been home since tuesday night. im gonna make myself leave the house tonight. i have had ZERO desire to leave this house at all. as much as i wanted to go hang with my girlfriend (not that its anybodies business but...no lol) i had to pry myself out of the door wednesday to travel to see her. ive had enough traveling for at least a week!

 

we we have a show in DC sunday night then its cmj week...should be...no WILL be loads of fun. when the team is in nyc i always have a ball. we dont know whats next for us but im trying to move this music to have some pocket change until we come up with the master plan (or find jobs lol)

 

the tour isnt officially over in my mind until the sunday show. CMJ doesnt count because it was the next step after tour but it wasnt apart of it...with that said ill attempt my massive retrospect blog sometime next week...but im gonna keep this joint alive for all things tanya morgan from now on. itll eventually become the "recording of brooklynati" blog and etc....

we did a show in LA

with oddisee, trek life, and pacific division.

it. was. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.

i was already messing with trek and oddisee, but i only knew pacific division from "act like u chillin"...those dudes are nice though...i mess with them now.

im going home tuesday...its goin DOWWWWWN. heres the hard part....whats next? i get home and try to figure out what to do next to make money. people dont think about that...when your favorite artists arent on tour what are they doing? i have no idea. im bout to find out because im one of my favorite artists...im somewhere in my top 20. 20? lol

but im having some fun though! dont trip...the fun is free sh*t. A dude named Merrell came to our show with A BAG OF VANS. Three Sixteen, Mario from Basement (in LA), and True (east) hooked us up with shirts, and sometimes youll get a free drink if youre a performer at these venues. haha...so thats the fun. my vans, my tee shirts, and a drink.

yea i edited this down. you already know why.

THE DRAMA AINT OVER

not yet...hold on. ill talk about that later.

 

okay so we had a brother come from arizona and a woman come from SWEEDEN. TO SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA. now obviously they didnt come only to see us, but they came to see us as a priority. the show with trackademicks wednesday was fun but the benefit joint was even better. that one went down last friday. spank pops (thanks for the shirts....yall need to check out donwills blog to see the crazy sh*t we got from True East out in wallnut creek...crazy!) also peformed at that one and we all pretty much did our thing. no money issues because it was all for track to get his studio back up and running...honor roll camp is pretty cool. i will say this much...the bay is driving me to the poorhouse!!!! when we got here we were eating 10 dollar meals...now its strictly the 2.49 jump off at church's chicken. jack in the box is fine dining right now man. the misses asked me if i was eating right...uh...im eating??? Ian put us on to some healthy drink the other night thats good but damn i go home in a week its too late for this tour! lol...

 

yo...this people traveling to see us thing is crazy. you know how far sweeden is? people coming up to me like "yo man im a big fan...respect keep doing your thing" or even "YO! I LOVE YALL SHIT!" im not used to it and i hope i never take that for granted...

 

OH WAIT!!! THE FOLKS FROM THE TOUR WE LEFT CAME TO THE SHOW LAST WEDNESDAY! I SEEN A GHOST!!

 

they came and performed and sh*t...no harm done, no fights, none of that. i WILL say it was pretty obvious that one person wasnt messing with us and vice versa, but you know i dont got any beefs with anyone. i dont know where they are on the tour right now, but man i think everyone that got in that truck back in september will agree that this tour was the most janky shit ever. lesson learned by all of us. i thank them for that.

 

100% real talk, i cant wait to get home, get back in my bed, make some beats on my stuff, give my woman a (skinny) bear hug, and eat some hood chinese food. i want to see my family too...my little brother was asking me if i was getting our money situation right haha...damn are your reading shawn? if you are, dont mind the cursing. haha...

the santa rosa show

Not santa monica don...haha

Tonight we finally said the wrong town on stage. Man that shit was
scary. Haha...we played it off, I think. But I learned something
tonight. Never expect to be the best show. Bottom line...lets keep it
all the way real...every artist wants to knock em dead on stage, but
some of us are sometimes like...well...most hip hop shows are low in
energy and our show isn't so we usually have that angle cornered.
Tonight we performed with eyezon and truthlive and they had the ill
energy and they worked together well on stage, so it was like ok we
have to step our "jump around the atage" game up...and we had a FEAST
prior to the show(thanks to the del benes) so we were fat bastards on
stage. Oh don't get me wrong we did our thing haha...the crowd really
enjoyed us, but I just know I was tired as hell.

By the way we got paid upfront. HollAAAARRR.

One.

GO DUMB.

im sitting in my stunna shades blogging....WHEN IN ROME. i went to wallgeens and got some 5 dollar big grandma shades. i should have had them on today ont he bus. mad teenagers were on the bus in all black like the e 40 video. i felt like a 50 year old tourist. i was like woooooooow they might go dumb! this will be great! do it! do it! go 18 dumb! please!

 

so on friday we performed with nicolay and that went real well. we did we be, so far, and von sees. the crowd did the "yaaaaay" part in von sees so thats AWESOME. i dont know what else to say about the show but it was dope.

 

yo...san fran folks....haight street is the oddest shit EVAR. its like...take the whole downtown manhattan and give them all a blunt and a lenny kravits greatest hits record and you have haight street. golden gate park scared the hell out of me. woodstock 06. ameoba is still the sh*t though...i found a foster sylvers album from him as an adult...i didnt know that existed. i didnt buy it though.

 

so if you havent figured out by now the tour is in standby mode like a mutha right now. 3 more shows in cali then i can go back to the east. i like it over here dont get me wrong but everybody has their comfort zone and mines is the east. what biggie said? i live out there so dont go there! lol...

 

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HOME.

I am extremely homesick!

We have been in oakland since monday and its been productive. We spoke
in front of 2 classrooms yesterday at santa rosa junior college. It
went pretty well...its a hip hop class and we just came in to talk
about what were going through and music in general. Later that night
we went to some club/party and I realized I need to be home. Lol...I
got in there and 5 minutes later I realized I had to be up today to
put posters up for the cali shows and to meet up with nicolay and then
the show tonight so there was no reason to be in there...I'd rather be
home with my family eating some of my mommas cooking...haha man I'm so
ready to be home! I won't be back on the east until the 27th....you
know what? Lets talk about grooming/hygene on tour. I'm changing the
topic.

Right now I'm in my labelheads building washing my whites and colors
together because I don't have enough whites to wash alone, or the time
to do that, but its all underclothes anyway so who cares? Haha...

And cutting your hair is wack because you're getting hair all over
someones sink or even in a hotel its a b*tch to clean up. I'm waiting
to make it to target so I can get some damn lotion and sh*t. I don't
want to get too metrosexual on yall lol but lets just say its hard to
encapsulate my suave' on the road.

Ok ima close this because I aint got sh*t to say other than that. COME
ONNNNNNNNN 27th!

the mountains are beautiful

Were driving through the rockies in colorado and...oh yea I can't talk
about them until the pictures go up on dons blog.

Yo...niggas said we got em kicked off the colorado date and trying to
call us shady. The colorado cats wanted tm apart of their show because
we worked with them a few months ago and it went nice. They couldn't
get us because we were on this tour but once that tour became too
shakey and we left the colorado peeps still wanted us. They bought the
whole tour because we were on it and that's the bottom line. That's
not a dis, they simply wanted tm to come through again and said fuck
it whoever they with can roll too. Once we weren't with em anymore
those rules changed. I'm not gonna badmouth anybody but...that tour is
still goin on and they're doing mad shows without us and splitting the
money less ways, but now that we want to do our 3 or 4 lil shows its
an outrage. I promise you I'm not some fake dude acting innocent and
clueless...our plan was to stay on the whole tour and have fun
hustling and performing with those guys...but we had to go! I figure
we did them a favor. Instead of splitting money 9 ways they're
splitting it 5 ways now.

Ima be quiet about it now but ill close on this note: everything
happens for a reason. Colorado was dope. We performed with approach
and he's a real good dude. We invited a bunch of people on stage and
did karaoke to "aint no fun" by snoop and had women singing along on
stage hahaha...tanya morgan isn't conscious rap.

I'm out...oh yea. There was a money issue yet again but my mans and
them mysteriously got a new 2000 dollar guitar now so somebody bout to
get their eric clapton on.

The mountains are my groupies. I want to have sex with the mountains.