Bully 3:14:00 PM

The new track is up on the east coast action website. Track produced by Dr. Kim and I (stage name = Deluxe), and rapped on by I-CON. Click here for the peek.

Time and Time Again 2:42:00 PM

I remember the first time I heard this song I was walking on the street with my friend Bryce, and there was this car at the stoplight and the radio came on and the guy in the car was like "AYY!!" as soon as he heard it and turnt it up. Me and Bryce were like crunking and dancing in the street while the guy in the guy was banging his head to this. LMAO, good times, anyways... Purple Ribbon All-Stars (I have no idea where they get the name from) pull it together real good with some Big Boi style on it. Although I might be from New York, it makes me feel like I'm from the A (Atlanta).

Thoughts On My Mind | Like A Star 10:58:00 PM

These past couple of weeks in my life have actually seemed to calm down just a bit. I mean I'm doing everything that I was before but, now it's just... calm.

School has been ok, I mean I really really love my advisory, I think even more than my section (9F). Like, it's weird though because everyone in my advisory is aware we are all so different but when were all in the same room together we all just are comfortable with who we are. For example, Star this girl in my advisory is really uiet has and a small group of friends, and that's cool don't get me wrong but when she gets in advisory she seems really comfortable talking to all 11 of us in the advisory at once without shying up. Or Alisa who is one of the coolest people I've met in a while, is sort of the more popular person. She's friends with a lot of people in the school but stills talks to all of us with respect and doesn't act as if she is superior to us (I hate those type of people).

Me and Alisa an have got to know each other a lot better since the beginning of the year but it always seems like I don't know her when I see her in the halls, and it's not even because she acts different. It's just... I really don't know, haha. Like when were not together in the same room i'm just someone you say 'hi' to in the halls but, when we are in the same room together or like having a conversation, it's different. Not implying anything but just saying. I think that me and her are going to have some sort of special connection in the future (I mean who knows?).

As for my music career... A LOT has happened since I last posted but since I don't feel like boring you readers today I'll just keep it brief. Me and I-CON (Jake, my friend and soon-to-be signee) are getting in the studio next saturday a lot more musically educated thanks to MC Sa'id (big-time beatmaker/producer). He wrote The BeatTips Manual, a 400 page book with all the information in the world to be successful in the music industry and to be an icon in beatmaking specifically. We had an hour conversation with him on the phone and I think I learned like 200 pages worth of text in every like 2 sentences he said cause the conversation was that interesting and informative. If you want check him out, go to BeatTips.com and/or BeatTips2.com. Don't forget his son's site to (which is actually really informing) at Amir13.com.

By the way, the East Coast Action website is almost done. If you want the sneak peek CLICK HERE.

Flashback Post | Which Fast Food Rap is Better? 9:49:00 PM

Here are the lyrics if you want to rap along:

"I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce -/- Don't be frontin' son no seeds on a bun -/- We be up in this drive thru/Order for two -/- I gots a craving for a number nine like my shoe -/- We need some chicken up in here -/- In this dizzle/For rizzle my mizzle -/- Extra salt on the frizzle -/- Dr. Pepper my brother -/- Another for your mother -/- Double double super size -/- And don't forget the FRIES..."

The video below is the Taco Bell version, which is better than the first Taco Bell version, but the vote is up to you all... Which one is better? The voting booth is below the video (the comments).

Here is the lyrics for the Taco Bell video if you want to rap along for the first part:

Guy: "Dont wanna spend dollars just cents every time we want grilled chicken for only 89 cause its tasty sour cheese and its packed to last i know i'm talk'n fast did you get all that, thats how its done right there"

Girl: "hold on son lets repeat it back I get what you rap but you rap like i hack here we go watch me flow 89 cents for a chicken burrito its chickalisious every bite smack it when we fight price so light when yo wallet kinda tight you wanna keep it going its a battle all night"

Food For Thought 1:18:00 AM

Amazing picture I found on Flickr of the NYC skyline.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

Finally Famous... 11:32:00 PM

I'm a couple weeks late but, the kid 'Big Sean' is back with 'Supa Dupa Lemonade.'

Thoughts on My Mind | Isolated 9:00:00 AM

Me and Amy were at Highline Park on like 14th Street when we were doing our mini-photoshoot thing and thought this was sort of a nice picture. What ya'll think?

Ok, I have no idea why but me and Addison were talking and then some how the subject of what we wanted and expected High School to be like came up. So we went to into this really deep conversation, and I said some stuff that even I was even surprised to here me say.

The conversation started out as him talking about life "friend groups" forming and how Yulia had changed and everything, then I started too tell him out High School was really not what I expected it to be honestly. As some of you might know I used to go to private school at LREI up on Houston and Bleeker and it's small classrooms like basically 15 kids or less in each class, so I was basically friends with everyone in the school. Last year, it was time to choose High School after I got my test results back and I think I remember getting into Millennium, Eleanor Roosevelt (I think I spelled that wrong), and two other ones I forget. I chose Millennium even though I wanted Beacon because it seemed like a cool place.

Flashforward to the new school year, I'm excited ready to make new friends and everything, whatever, whatever. And then I learn that half of the people that are going to this school already know each other (mostly everyone was from 89). So like automatically that just makes it awkward for me... then I met Pola. The first person I knew, I remember it. She was from a different school too so we started talking and got to know her better and eventually, she started making friends and wanted to introduce to this dude Nathan. Nathan was a cool guy. But, it was weird cause the friendship between me and her was short-lived cause we were in different sections.

So I was once again somewhat alone and finally after like I week or so I started making more friends in 9F (my section), and it was all good. After awhile though I started to question why (and how) I wasn't friends with a lot of people outside of my section and everything I thought of kept leading to the same thought.

Everyone knew each other cause of 89. And since I was isolated in that small school I felt like (I know this is cliche or whatever) a needle in a haystack, lol. Honestly. Then I started thinking about like the whole High School experience in general and how to get to parties, etc., etc. So pretty much I realised I needed to be more outgoing. That doesn't mean I'm not going to be me but, I have to not be so shy or whatever it is anymore that's holding me back from talking to certain people.

So basically, the true reason I have been rambling this whole time is to say, it never hurts to be yourself, you really honestly might regret not being friendly and saying "hi" to someone you see everyday or, maybe being shy in general. But, do keep one thing in mind, what ever you are lacking is always attainable.

"Fear is like an illusion of millions of cracks in a window you can't look through, the thing is... it's really actually clear."

"Like My Sweet Brotha Nun-say!" 4:26:00 PM

Nawww, me and this song are in love. One of the best on Kanye's "Late Registration".

Congrats on Kid Cudi & Lupe Fiasco For Making It On Complex's "Top Albums of 2009" 4:37:00 PM

Truthfully usually I don't fully agree with Complex's list but this year they did a pretty good job. Excluding the fact that the Dream's album was #2 on the list for best in 2009, and the fact they chose Nicki Minaj over Mos Def but, w/e. However I do approve of Kid Cudi getting Number 1 on the list for Man on the Moon and Lupe getting Number 19 on the list for Enemy of the State!! Hit the jump for the Complex Co-Signs.

Those Quarter Waters 12:10:00 AM

Jay-Z really did an amazing job of picking a good director I mean these are probably the best visuals I have seen in a video in a LONG time. Happy New Year ya'll!

Enemy of the State 12:52:00 PM

AHHHH, it's here peoples. The "Enemy of the State" mixtape is here! Lupe came through on this one to give us this Post-Thanksgiving treat. Hope ya'll enjoy it as much as I do. Hit the jump to get some linkage.

Hustler For Life 4:48:00 PM

When I hear people talk complain about how much they have to do in their lives, and how they want to change that. I don't really mind, sometimes I might not even care. But when it comes to the people who don't complain and do what they got to do without getting any recognition... that's what get me upset at times. Now you see I'm not saying that Lil Wayne is all godly, but I am saying his work ethic amazes me. When I was searching for a photo on Flickr for a new post, I found this and the subline had a comment from the photographer who said "This was at a videoshoot and between shots Lil Wayne would go into slumber mode then as soon as they said action he would turn right back into a machine..." Hit the jump for a video of Urban Spin from QD3 talking about his work ethic, and why he's isn't supporting the documentary no more. Thank me later.

On To The Next One 8:17:00 PM

Wow. Nokia is seriously on the next level with this. Can't wait for this if 2012 doesn't happen (don't hate). Anyways, comment and enjoy.

Ain't I? 2:15:00 PM

A personal favorite family. Don't hate.

Simply Artistic 6:16:00 PM

In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down – he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.

Then it gets weird.

Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it’s connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.

At first when I watched the first 2 minutes I was like WTF is this? But, then as I stated to watch it more I looked at the film in a more artistic way and thought this was such a dope short film. I'm glad I watched this I think Kanye & Spike Jonze (the director of this and Where The Wild Things are) did a good job. *tips hat* Special Props to the homies at 2DopeBoyz.

We Live 11:01:00 PM

Well family, this is the half way mark of history. And what a better way of acknowledging that then showing a milestone in our history? We live "that downtown kiid" family. And we here to stay.

Two Simple Rules 12:00:00 PM

Never. Ever. Get to comfortable where you are. Never. First simple rule to my life. The second simple rule to my life? Always remember where you came from. Always.

I Run 9:58:00 AM

A simple explanation for the posting of this song. I love it. I remember this was on repeat everyday, every night from AM to PM. Thank god for 106 & Park. We this song came out, those were the good days.

Lupe Fiasco's "Fire" Live 9:35:00 AM

After seeing the first stop of Jay-Z’s tour at Penn State on Friday, I drove back to Morgantown, WV and made it in time to see Lupe perform at an underpromoted fraternity Step competition Sprite was sponsoring on campus. Here’s a video I took on my iPhone of Lupe performing his new joint “Fire”; he gives a minute-long intro explaining the track and what it has to do with MTV’s recently released 2009 Hottest MCs List. I believe this is the first time he’s performed the track.

-We Do It Right Mag

My man Lupe, you deserve to be on that list (so does KiD CuDi)! Anyway, I think that this is good for Lupe cause it's going to push him to do better music. Now this song right here I think is Fire itself.

Unite 2:25:00 PM

Yo, TDK family, I sorry I don't have time to post a Sunday Section today but I do have time to post a video from one of my favorite rap duos U-N-I all the way from Inglewood on the West Coast. Sorry I'll post the Section tomorrow. Peace. UPDATE: The post will be on The Cool Kids, by the way.