PEACE,
Where to begin.......
Well first let me tell you the event was dope. Heads from DC, VA, NJ, and even had dudes come out of no where out of cabs. IN THE HOOD!!!! Like fuck that I love Dilla.
Lets start with the end of my weekend all the way to right now. As I type this I am bumping that Dilla Ruff Draft that most of you don't have, at least not the bonus cuts, and let me tell you. MARCH 20th you better go get that.
Well first, not to get personal, but Sunday night me and a young lady that I thought was it basically reassured me that she is not it. The package from Stones Throw for the show has yet to arrive, mind you its Sunday night less than 24 before the show starts. I have to get up at 4:45pm and its like 12am and I cant sleep. My Kitchen sink been stopped up sense Tuesday night. And the set CD for Unison Collective is not even made yet. And on top of that my cell phone is dead and I left my charger earlier that day at the NGE rally at Master Borns Crib. And wont be able to get until maybe Monday night.
I finally get to sleep and get up to eat. Not knowing that this bowl of oatmeal will be my last meal until 2am the next morning. So I go to work and check on the package. Finally got the confirmation its at the crib. YES!!!!!!!!!! My phone is still dead and you know I am thinking. WHO IS CALLING ME. Are people pulling out cause of the weather report about snow. Change of times what ever it could be. So me being the solider I just went to Best Buy and bought one so that people could get at me and I could get at people.
So then I leave work. Get off the MARC at Penn station Baltimore. All the way there phone is blowing up. Where is it at? How do I get there? What time I go on? Do I need this/that? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I call dude who makes my Dilla shirts to check on the Dilla Hoody. He says be at your crib at 7pm. Mind you I have to leave at 7 to get to the club and set up. So I am like bet I will leave when you come with the gear. I get home see that package is safe and there. No time to open cause I still have to shower, make the show cd, eat, change clothes and pack the promotions.
Well good thing is when I get home the sink is no longer stopped up. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what do you think did not get done. I did not eat and the cd was not burned yet. Mz is out front and the Hoody is not here yet and its 7pm and I am just drying off from the shower. So I call my man he had to go back to the crib cause he forgot something so I tell him meet me at the club. He says BET! Ok I grab my laptop, of which I have a program that I use to make our show cd's with gaps and fade ins and ish, mind you this program sometimes acts up and I only got to blank cd's with me. I pack everything get dressed and snatch the laptop and out the door.
On the way there I burn the CD and the first time it worked great. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At this time my stomach is kicking my ass like "ummm Food you dumb ass Food" Get to the club and I left my set list. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... So I improvise. I open box and begin to lace the club with the posters and stickers and other items. All the while my phone is still blowing up like terrorist.
LALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!!!
Then I find out one of the Dj's did not bring needles and there is only one ont the set that was there. BIG BIG BIG shouts to Dj Love Hall who let us use his gear for the DJ's that night. BIG BIG Help. That Problem solved. GOOD!
Get out side to put up posters hitting a L while doing all this. Then I have to get the list at the door so T knows who is good to get in. Shout out to T the hidden member of Unison Collective who handles our money and takes notes and rolls the L's.
My Main DJ shows up a little late but its all good people are not in the spot just yet. DJ IMADODIS kills them with dilla songs and some exclusices. I am still running around organizing. Mz gets the Dilla trivia together and the open Mic jumps off with the Great IMPULSE holding it down with dilla beats. Had a few heads do they thing. My man Substantial was in town so I had to bring him up. He even asked some trivia.
Anyway......
My first act was late so we delayed with trivia. Mind you I had the set together perfect to end way before it did but shit happens. Artist need to step they game up. So I bring E-Major up to hold it down. He fumbles but keeps it steady then we rock over a dilla beat we did for a mix tape. Loved it. Vibe was great and the Godfather, my drink I had, was tasting good. Next move was to blaze that L and more Godfathers. Still only oatmeal in the gut. OYYYY!
Next While DJ Mills is spinning, the samples that dilla uses, he is a create digger like sum of us, I have 2 cd's I need to play when he is done. One is for my man J-Soul who usually sings kicked some dope lyrics on some dilla beats and the other was the Ruff Draft. With all this my surprise guest is blowing up my phone. I cant hear or leave the stage and I cant let the cat out yet of who it is. So I am trying to yell directions to him on the phone give mills cd's and talk to the crowd at the same time. Well the group finds there way but again with so much going on I forgot to tell T at the door that Science Of Life was good to get in. So he is calling on my phone and I am still doing the same things so I yell in the phone "let Sci in Let Sci in"
So the group gets in I apologize and of course they understand and I get there cd set up in the back. Ab-Rock then it was to be WadeWaters but Soulsitce was at the Gramme's, good shit, so Haysoos held it down. Next 2 Tone tears the club up with dilla songs with my man Rody Rod hosting his set. Great combo. Then Science Of Life does what they do best and that's SHUT SHIT DOWN. Crowd love them and that dilla dedication song was hella dope. Next was Minus Nine and JBerd. Them cats got fire on the mic and 1's and 2's then Y.U. who has some of the greats ish. That dolphin joint is a classic. And Kutty Ray lol Sean Toure' shows you how its done on the beats and rhymes with Dj Love Hall holding his back with the turntables.
Me and MZ do our thing and I black out on some freestyle ish. It was great. A lot people from all over showing love for one of the Greatest J Dilla / James Yancey / Jay Dee 1974-2006
All proceeds will go to Maureen Yancey. Also the event was filmed for a documentary and will go to her also.
HELLA BIG PROPS to Jen who did a lot of the filiming and pic taking, and Minus Nine' Cousin Who I Know but cant get the name right now for nothing for also doing random filiming.
Shouts to Turntable Club and all the lovely ladies and gentel men from behind the bar to seaving for to the features and others to my MAIN MAN Kevin holding down on the boards doing what he could to keep it going and recoding the event and providing a free dvd of it for the documentary
Anyway...
We get done at about 1am or so and I get home at 2am to eat shower and sleep to try to get up and go to work at 4:45am. LOL What do you think happen.........
PEACE
P.S. Look out for pics, video and more on my site and the offical BMORE DILLA page.