Texas Heatwave

Texas Heatwave was within the Austin city limits this past weekend 07/20/08 and finally I was able to attend. An expensive event if you decide to attend at last minute, so word to the wise, get your tickets pre-sale for next year’s event. I will say the money was well spent for the spectacular car show they exhibited.

Now I know why it’s the most talked about event in small towns across West Texas and surrounding areas. The venue provides an opportunity for vendors, spectators, performers, and staff to showcase. The event is very organized from a spectators view. The only complaint I had was when a hateful group starting yelling at me and my friend for slightly touching their fugly plain silver mustang, I doubt it had anything to do with us messing up the car up, but more with them hating on my friend attempting to get a poise for a photo. Now I know you invest tons of money to showcase your car, but like all matter on this universe it will eventually get touched!

http://www.raquelraquel.com/

RaquelRaquel rocked the event with her presence and she will be making plans to attend the TX Heatwave in Corpus Christi, so plan to attend and have you photo taken with her for only $5. Be the first 5 to have your photo with her and receive a free autographed shirt!

Quite a few urban vendors were in attendance,

http://www.streetseenmagazine.com/

www.myspace.com/streetlineclothing

Thanks to www.myspace.com/Knushitt Clothing for the promo bag.

DJ Grip was on his grind with Dollarz N Since Ent.

Also, in attendence was the innovator of DRANK, SLOW Your Roll, DJ Currency

be on the lookout for Drank, wrapped vehicle near your city.

All together the event was a blast, despite the heat.

In all I took 400 pictures of the event feel free to drop by my album on photobucket to view.

http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i80/mesoclever/

Texas Heatwave delivered well for a Sunday patron that didn’t want to frequent the mall or spend her day at home. I highly recommend you make plans to attend the next event near you.

p.s.

As much as I fancy Wings Stop, they got me trippin, trying to charge me 25 cents for a

To-Go container. Haters! I needed those 25 cents to vacuum my car!

DJ Faire/Ricky Blaze/Clinton Sparks/Killer Mike

Set your eyes on New York's finest up and coming DJ's , www.myspace.com/jayfaire Who has a mixtape for every month of this year's hits.


Ricky Blaze, www.myspace.com/rickyblaze1997 , has my "Attention".

"Cut Dem Off" was featured in the April 2008, Fader Magazine.

Bandmates are www.myspace.com/therollingstonescrew




Clinton Sparks is a special delivery from Canada along with Al Kardinal. First time exclusives featuring Eminem & the Clipse.

www.myspace.com/grindtimeonline


MySpace Album Premiere
Killer Mike
Rap / Hip Hop
Atlanta, GA
Grammy winner Killer Mike was introduced to the world via Outkast. July 8th He returns with his explosive new album feat. Ice Cube, 8Ball & MJG, & Chamillionaire. Preview it exclusively HERE.

Tourist In My Own City

This weekend was out of the norm for me feeling more like a tourist than a resident in my own city. Hanging out with http://www.pitheband.com/.
and Manager, Terrance Woodson, .

(John & Jason reppin Dallas,TX/Oak Cliff)

From starting it out at Firehouse Lounge with BRMG/Feddi Man/Question/DJ Protege to kickin it pool side at the Omni rooftop with out of towners from Dallas,TX.
I discovered a fun new spot to get your grub on.

Wahoo’s located at 509 Rio Grande..

Thanks to Priceline.com my new friends were chillin VIP style for only $79 a night for three nights at the Omni, downtown.


We ended the perfect Sunday at Sullivan’s with a bar entree for only $5, a sliced steak served with spinach and mushrooms.

Whoever said you had to leave town to get away and explore something different, must not break out of their comfort zone very much. All it took was a simple hello and the rest is history.

Feddi Man CD Release party

The CD Release party @ Firehouse Lounge was a success 7/5/08. Thanks to all in attendance and the promoters inside/outside that passed fliers for upcoming shows. BRMG brought out the VIP treatment along with the staff of Firehouse Lounge with reserved seating and champagne bottles. The crowd was crunk and entertained while DJ Protege spun on the turn tables. In attendance were many ATX show liners such as

JKapone, Top Dollar Ent., Kriminals, P.I.E., Nick D, Zeale, Poise, Crew54, Dubb Sticks, and producer Da Bosnian.

Question served as host to the future, Feddi Man, along with his street promotions team from San Antonio. Networking was in full bloom along with the annoucement of two shows on the itinerary for July 10, 2008.

Dubb Sticks will be kicking off his TX tour along with Crew54 and Phranchyze at Flamingo Cantina and my boy,




DJ Blurray will be celebrating his birthday this Thursday 7/10/08 at the Bayou Lounge along with special guest from Killeen, Green City.

Thanks to Alberto G, BRMG, for the pictures

I Scream BBC

N*E*R*D AT ROTER SALON BERLIN
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An admirer of innovation, clout, everything exciting to the eyes, I'm crushing Pharrell. Yep as clever as his name, Pharrell, I'm being "for real". For those of you that dont get it, heres some eye candy as in "Seeing Sounds". In Pharrells own words, Seeing Sounds is explained as a psychological phenomenon known as "synesthesia". Synesthesia is when your eyes, for example, send electric impulses to your brain, to the vision department, but sometimes the electric impulse sends that same information to the auditory part of your brain. So we see music."


Thanks to http://www.shortlist.com/, eager fans can chill backstage with N.E.R.D. without fearing making bad first impressions. My favorite part of the interview is Chad's sarcastic humor regarding illegal immigration and Pharrell's response to sweaty palms. The interview follows below, but for those of you that would like to log in to the BBC blog you can do so at http://bbcicecream.com/blog/. Shout Out! "Pharrell, if you need a fill in assistant, I am for hire" I'll take 2 scoops and I promise to share, and feed you, xoxo.

Out with the Old... In with the New

Baldwin Hills Season 2 has got a new viewer with WhoUFeelin. It proves to be entertaining, full of drama, to school you on the manipulative roles some females play, and insightful on how other previlaged blacks live.. The winning phrase for me on the opening sneak peek was "Not all blacks live in the ghetto". True statement, but until Baldwin Hills, I never got a glimpse into that lifestyle. So kuddos to BET Entertainment for putting the teen drama living rich lifestyles on air for all of America to see.

I cant wait to catch the next eposiode.. Tune in and give MTV's tired ass a break. Those shows have been turning into garbage.. I now tune into VH1, BET and TR3 more than MTV.

Join me as a viewer, you wont be disappointed. Theres a new show on air, Baldwin Hills Season II and its taking the place of The Hills. I dont know about you, but Im tired of seeing how rich white kids live. I want to see more diversity and thats what Deion & Pillar gave reality TV.

P.S.

Cant wait to see Pilar on the new 50 cent movie, Microwave Park. She will be playing the role of his wife.

Synopsis of the movie: A police thriller centering on a cop (De Niro) who thinks his partner has died in Hurricane Katrina, only to discover that he was shot to death. When he gets a new partner (50 Cent), the pair investigates the murder, taking them on a journey into a world of police corruption.

Val Kimmer is also a co-star in the movie...

Who Watching These Kids?

It's a vicious cycle of abuse and you wonder who is watching these children that eventually will play the role of parent to thier own children some day.

Recently visiting my brother at his ghetto apartment complex which has been robbed and had several break-ins, Sun Park Apartments in San Antonio, TX; I was surprised to see so many unsupervised children roaming freely within the complex. Should a pedophile or criminal want to prey on these unsuspecting children another sad statistic they would become.

Where is the accountability to being a good parent? So often we blame everyone else but the source of endangering that child. It takes a village/community to raise a child and when you have closed doors, see no evil, hear no evil turning the suspecting eye away as a neighbor these children are left without any protection.

Thank God my parents warned me of perverts and had that talk with me at a young age, because so often naive children are tricked into believing they can trust that very person that will eventually cause harm to them. You can get anything you want, its all in the way you ask for it. Its a sad world, but even sadder when there is no where to go for protection.

Take a look around you, the children are the future. What environment will they create when it's their time to shine?

Just released to the Associated Press, written by Lara Jakes Jordan

345 people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide.
Many of the children forced into prostitution are either runaways or what authorities call "thrown-aways" — kids whose families have shunned them. Officials say they are preyed upon by organized networks of pimps who lure them in with shelter or drugs, then often beat, starve or otherwise abuse them until the children agree to work the streets.
"We together have no higher calling than to protect our children and to safeguard their innocence," FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. "Yet the sex trafficking of children remains one of the most violent and unforgivable crimes in this country."
In all, authorities arrested 345 people — including 290 adult prostitutes — during the operation that ended this week. Since 2003, 308 pimps and hookers have been convicted in state and federal courts of forcing youngsters into prostitution, and 433 child victims have been rescued, Mueller said.
The cities targeted in this week's sting are: Atlanta; Boston; Dallas; Detroit; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Md.; Oakland, Calif.; Phoenix; Reno, Nev.; Sacramento, Calif.; Tampa; Toledo, Ohio and Washington.
The problem of child prostitution has taken on a new urgency in recent years with the growth of online networks where pimps advertise the youngsters to clients. The FBI generally investigates child prostitution cases that cross state lines.
The cases aren't easy to convict.
In April 2006, for example, charges against a Nevada man resulted in a hung jury after his 14-year-old victim refused to testify against him. Months later, however, a second jury found Juan Rico Doss of Reno, Nev., guilty of forcing two girls — ages 14 and 16 — to sell sex in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland.
A University of Pennsylvania study estimates nearly 300,000 children in the United States are at risk of being sexually exploited for commercial uses — "most of them runaways or thrown-aways," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"These kids are victims. This is 21st century slavery," Allen said. "They lack the ability to walk away."