thank you scott

American ANGST-er
(the name makes perfect sense for me)

all of the beats are officially initiated and approved (not done)
now the most important part...getting the damn accapellas!
i was eqing a few bars of every song and looping them, then making a new beat around that...so this whole time i havent had the actual accapellas. once i get those the real work/fun begins. you may be wondering why im putting all of this work into this...ANGST N*GGA! PAY ATTENTION!

& I STILL WONT/DONT CARE WHAT ORIGINAL WAS BETTER SUCKAS

hello brooklyn

im home!

i got other things to tend to this week that ive missed since ive been out of town but here is a quick recap?

jacksonville florida
crowd: small but hype
promoter: paid without having to be tracked down
our performance: we werent ready to go from not performing for a while to 40 minutes but we pulled it off enough
accommodations: hotel 6 in the building! nobody was shot while selling drugs during our stay. win.

asheville north carolina
crowd: who? wha?
promoter: cool guy but it take money to make money, money.
our performance: we performed for the openers and the 7 people walking around and they loved it
accommodations: i dont wanna talk about it

charlotte north carolina
crowd: large de la soul following
promoter: paid once we found her in the club across the street
our performance: a speaker fell on my ankle and we kept going thats a a plus off the top haha
accommodations: college friends of don and ilyas and the coolest couple in NC. i still say the worst part of touring is having to impose on people/find someone to crash with on certain stops (we need that tourbus popping)

chapel hill north carolina
crowd: small but hype
promoter: i dont even remember, with all due respect at this point i was just ready to leave nc. that monday was the longest day ever
our performance: this one was a lot of fun to me. they didnt have a cdj and we had to use a discman :-( but we made it work.
accommodations: another college friend of don and ils.

savanna ga
crowd: danny (d swain!) and off duty strippers were in the crowd. great crowd already!
promoter: awesome! she didnt show up until after the show which had me worried, but she came through like "whats up sorry heres your money...and heres some more money for a hotel...and hey maybe if you find some girls heres some more money for liquor or whatever...you guys have a good night"
our performance: doing all of that energetic shit at the end officially started to wear on me at this point. not complaining, but from this point on i just began to dread the final 2 songs. i dont know how people do 2 hour shows and whatnot
accommodations: to the laquintaaa we went (c) big boi

cincinnati ohio
crowd: nice crowd! it was looking shaky for a minute but a lot of people came at the last minute
promoter: paid in full and let us draink a few
our performance: good minus the super loud accapella monitors i literally thought i was gonna damage my eardrums and shit lol...joints were LOUD AS ALL HELL. this was a really fun performance.
accommodations: it was home for il and don! we were straight

lexington kentucky
crowd: mad cunninlinguists fans (it was their album release party)
promoter: kno knows how it goes so of course an artist made fellow artists feel comfortable and shit...paid!
our performance: i think the people dancing and screaming and nodding and waving and etc....was a good sign.
accommodations: back to cincinnati

cleveland ohio
crowd: pretty good crowd
promoter: great dude. everything was fine.
our performance: it was iight. i can point out things that brought the performance down but i wont make excuses. it was only iight.
accommodations: the smoking jacket (after-partying on the road is super super super super super super super super overrated)

pittsburgh pa
crowd: decent but not enough
promoter: another cool cat. where were these cool promoters on the new royalty tour? van damme. aside from everyone being cool, everyone actually PAID! WOW!
our performance: i was wack because i was officially sick by then, but don was really everywhere so he made the show. i got worried for a second when he straight up stopped when his mic cut off early on, but he came back and him and il held it down.
accommodations: they stayed at the holiday inn and i slept on the bus back to brooklyn.

now what?
in my perfect world id find a job i didnt mind going to and id go to it for a few months while working on the tanya morgan ep that comes out around march 2008. id also take that job money and renovate my "studio" situations. i dont know whats next for me personally but i do know im about to lie down an get some rest.

cleveland ohio show.

a man walked up to me after the show and gave me 8 dollars off gp. said
that was all that he had.

I'm like...."what's this for?"

he said "I downloaded moonlighting and I play it everyday. the least I
could do is give you some kind of money for it."

word.

I don't remember if I said so

but they got us the room and they took care of us. thanks savanna...the
show was off the damn hook!

danny! whatup!

savanna is good peoples.

now we are in the car back to cincinnati. there's a show there tomorrow
night at the gypsy hut i believe. 10 hour drive!

de la soul broke my leg!!!!

nah lol

last night was bugged out. i was gonna talk about this on the
spitkicker blog but i want to just put it here and ill think of a
cooler blog for spitkicker...my next spitkicker blog will be mad
thought provoking and shit son!!!

so we got to the venue and the promoter or the house didnt have any
music. to play at all! AT ALL!!! so we went to the car and got some
cds for them to play. they played getback (including the skits) and
when it went off we got on stage haha...charlotte was like new york.
they just looked and nodded a little...BUT when we got off stage they
applauded mad loud and we sold mad cds and i heard the people were
telling don and ilyas they really liked it. i went out and spoke to a
few cats in the crowd and they gave props but i had to hop back stage
and sit my behind down. like 3 songs into our set a speaker fell from
the side of the stage and landed on my ankle and i had to keep moving
like it didnt hurt. BUT BOY DID IT HURT. its still sore right now but
i can walk a lot better today than last night.

i was just in the back mad as hell and talking on the phone. then the
promoter came back there like "oh...uh...your leg? wow...im
sorry...uh..." and someone then came and helped wrap my leg up. then
the de la rider stuff started coming in you know the tea and the
fruits and the water and the CEREAL! lol i dont know why thats so
funny to me. they had cereal.

anyways they came back there and it was cool to just see them in their
element before they do a show. pos came and sat and was just chilling,
dave was on his phone, maseo was running around getting ready to dj.
he turned grand vonye off (yea the club was forced to listen to grand
vonye because we were the djs until de la got there. assholish haha)
and the party got started. as midnight hit i was on the side of the
stage watching de la soul rock...what a way to turn 26!!!! yea its my
birthday today and we dont have a show today so were just hanging out.

and we got paid after tracking the promoter down for a while. thanks.

am flowers thanks for the beer mayne! dave and pos thanks for the beer
mayne! miko and doug thanks for EVERY THING. sheesh, people letting
you stay with them on the road is like....heaven sent. seriously.

alright im out of here. i know i probably didnt say anything because
im just typing and not reading over this but thanks for readin folks.
and supa if you still read my blog i just wanted to tell you before
you left last night...that song. you know what song. yikes!
hahahaha....

peace

ITS YA BOY VON PEA! SHOW 2!

sucked. well, not completely. I still go by being happy if one person is
vibing. we had about....10? one big fan was there with his boy cliff,
and his boy cliff is vomiting outside the venue right now. when drinking
goes wrong. yay.

yo, asheville is smaller than my first girlfriends butt. and that sh*t
was mad small son. this homeless dude just came up to me and showed me
he's missing a hand. damn I was gonna give him money regardless!

ilyas will be mad if I mention the money but lets just say it was a door
date. you do the math. literally. were stayin with the promoter and his
big a$$ dog. pardon the censorship, my sidekick does that automatically.
I'm out...WE OPEN FOR DE LA SOUL TOMMORROW IN CHARLOTTE. this white guy
just started randomly rapping to me and he's doing it right now. I'm far
from the venue so he has no idea I'm a rapper. is that racist?

f*ck it I'm out. peace.

ps this show sucked but I'm still appreciative.

the show in jacksonville tonight

thanks to those that came out especially my 2 peoples that shall remain
nameless because they don't do it for the fame (I'm just trying to make
it sound cool lol) thank you guys. 2 other guys drove 2 hours too, but I
known yall longer so I appreciate it more haha...

I'm really really tired and maybe my tiredness has me grumpy or
something but I'm much more greatful than happy or amped or
anything...regarding the success of the show tonight. the crowd wasn't
packed but they were so dag on (yes, dag on) energetic and we were too.
it was really fun up there. right now I just want to rest though. back
on the road to asheville north carolina tonight (meaning the 9th).

things went right, no funny business, no drunk n hot girls stripping,
no trashing the hotel room. we are all just chilling. I'm not for all
the extra nonsense! all that stuff is only my scene in theory haha...

I hope things continue to go good. ima keep praying on it, you know, I
gotta thank god cause he gave me the chance to rock haaaarrrrrrrd! (c)
L.L.

I feel like I'm forgetting something. oh yea, waiting around to go on
stage is the most nerve wrecking thing in the world. I'm not complaining
but it really is better going on early/opening instead of goin last,
that is if you're like me and get anxious until you finally get up
there. I was nervous for a few hours!

okay its 330 I'm going to sleep! ill probably say something about all
the shows even if there's nothing to really report. peace!

lets go do some shows

as you might know tanya morgan is about to jump in a rental and go do some shows. call it a tour if you want. well it is...a short tour but a tour and we have been struggling to put this together for a while now. its hard to juggle regular life and rap life and thats why its so hard for us to go out sometimes but now we are going at it again. NY ill be back around november 20th.

but for now...come to the show! bring people with you! buy a 5 dollar cd! if you ballin buy a tee shirt! wish me a happy birthday! (i just decided since my birthday is November 11th, the whole tour is my birthday party.)

wish us well, pray for us, and keep checking the blogs for updates on whats going on on tour. dons will be the cool one mines will probably be complaining. haha...


p.s. be a naked bitty in sneakers and get in free

holloween was fun

DEAD ON NIGGAS. DEAD ON.

in more important news, 88 keys posted the song we did with him on his myspace page. its the one called "cuddle bums"

the song is about what its about because his mixtape/album is a concept about a bachelor that is dating and you know, testing the waters, sewing his oats and what have you.

in other other news, we are about to go traveling again. i dont know if this link will work, but click there for all of your show dates. its not a bunch, but if you can be at any of them, by all means! show up...

now im outta here! YULLLLL