Bahamadia & Hezekiah @ SOBs (c) Village Slum - 2010

Bahamadia, Invincible, and Hezekiah (c) Village Slum - 2010

Last night, I rocked in NYC at SOBs with Bahamadia, Hezekiah, and Invincible for Statik Selektah’s Album Release Party.  Everyone was there from DJ Premier to Styles P to Buckshot, to Freeway. Quite a party. By the time, M.O.P. jumped on stage, I was done and ready to have a fork stuck in me. No love to homeboy who was on stage yelling at the crowd to tuck their chains in out of respect for his crew. Apparently, Freddy Foxx put a silence to that rhetoric minutes later.

Tonight, I’ll be guest DJing on the Living Proof Radio Show with Mars and DJ Ambush. Be sure to tune in from 10pm-12am on Volta Radio.

I plan to play plenty of exclusives for y’all to vibe out to. Shout out to the homie DJ Boogie Blind (X-Men) as well, DJing on Beatminerz Radio today from 6pm-8pm. He was rocking it last night until he was rudely interrupted by homie who got his face checked by Bumpy Knuckles. Such is life…

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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Hour Two

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Or is it just my De La Soul?

Feelin a lil better today.  I had cabin fever somethin awful last night and forced myself out of bed to go hear Doz and crew do the thing for a lil bit last night at Back 2 Basics.  Loud music heals, especially when the tunes are uplifting. Foreal.

This means I should be up to par by tomorrow this time to rock with the fellas at Ram’s Head in MD.  Hezekiah, with me behind the turntables and Me So Horny on the sax and trumpet, plus De La Soul means, it should be a bananas night. For those of you asking “is De La still at it?” here’s a new joint “Big Mouf” leaked online recently.

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CURE FOR THE COMMON SOUL VIDEO

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.