Tonight, if you’re in New York or can make the trip to New York, it will a worthy cause for you to make it out to Santos Party House. Kon of the world renown crate digging DJ duo, Kon & Amir has been in the hospital and on bedrest for months now with bloodclots and fluid in his lungs, among other serious life threatening symptoms. As I have also experienced many times, being a DJ can get you many fringe benefits in and outside the club. However, in the hospital, they don’t give a damn if you’re not insured. Hence, Kon was forced out of the hospital due to a rising bill although he is still in terrible condition. The top dogs of the DJ community in NY are playing a benefit tonight in order to lend some assistance and help Kon get back on his feet and back behind the turntables. I plan to support and you should to if you can.

A couple of weeks back, I attended an intimate event in Chocolate City in which N’Dambi performed and also did a Q&A while promoting her new album which drops on October 6th. It was great to see so many faces out, still, to promote soul music that is honest. There were a bunch of other artists in the house to hear her do her thing as well.  Below here is a photo taken of many of the artists who stuck around til the end of the night. (Courtesy of Lil’ Soso Productions)

(L-R: Melvyn Prince, Elise Perry, N’dambi, W Ellington Felton, Karim Lateef, Raheem DeVaughn, Dehejia Maat, YahZarah St. James, Tamara Wellons, DJ Stylus , Tony Hicks, Ayanna Gregory, Risikat Okedeyi, Ne’a Posey, Mr. Sonny James)

And here’s a peak at her new video, Can’t Hardly Wait. Enjoy.

What a week! First off, one love to all the folks who came out to check Mr. Lif and I in Boston and Pittsburgh this past weekend.  The shows were mad fun. Big up to all the folks who supported the merch, especially.  For the first time, I brought out the official Mr. Sonny James T-Shirts and people were very supportive. Nice one. While I was away, my man, DJ Phillee Blunt held it diggy down at The Walnut Room. Thanks dude. Within the past few days, I’ve been to back and forth to NYC, DC, Philly, Boston, and Pittsburgh playing and enjoying events. Here are some pics.

Finally, for those of you that missed my appearance on the Afromentals Mixshow with DJ Jamad last week, here is the download of the full 2 hour show.  Enjoy it and spread the knowledge.

Hour One

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Tonight, catch me rocking with Hezekiah, Me So Horny, Freeway, and Kimberly Nichole at Southpaw in Brooklyn. I hear the show is sold out but for those of you who have tickets, it’s gonna be quite a show. The rehearsals alone have been ill. Can’t to wait to get it in tonight. See you there.
This weekend in general is hectic for me and I need to get outta here so I’m not gonna take anymore time on the blog. More updates soon…

Unfortunately this is the first opportunity I’ve had to write on my blog since last week this time.

While I was running around doing the DJ thing, another member of the hip-hop community and friend to many of us, passed away. Baatin, one of the original members of Slum Village died this weekend and the details of exactly what happned are still being withheld. We can just hope he’s in a better place now. We crossed paths a few times while touring. When I used to DJ for Schoolz of Thought, we did several shows with SV and Baatin always had the jokes. To anyone who witnessed a Slum show during the era when Baatin was on stage, you remember how much energy he would sometimes bring to the performance. He would be so into the moment, he would jump higher than Jordan and make the crowd give that similar energy back. Those were great times to have in my memory banks. With all of this death this year, we should all be reminded that tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us. Therefore, let’s ride this life we have until the wheels fall off!

May Baatin rest in peace.

On another note,

This weekend is another busy one. Friday, I’ll be at Southpaw along with my homie Hezekiah opening for Freeway. This is gonna be an ill show. Free always kills it live and you already know how we do so don’t miss it if you’re in or near Brooklyn.

Saturday, I do a private party in the Burbs and then head to Walnut Room for another one.  This past Saturday was off the chain. Thanks to everyone who comes out on the regular and isn’t afraid to get on the dancefloor and make it happen. So many women on Saturday.  I love it that way.  Let’s do it again.

I also just did a guest DJ mix for the Afromentals Mixshow on Sirius XM. I’ll keep you posted on air times for those of you that are sattelite radio subscribers.