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I dont understand gay women. "They want the penis and hate the man that has the penis -_- Insanity" Jermaiine Poindexter

Like B.I.G. I want to be BIG. R.I.P. Christopher Wallace

Of course, nearly everything about the late rapper Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., was grandiose-from his incredible girth to his explosive rhymes to the tragic piece of punctuation that his death put on the gangsta-driven hip-hop revolution of the '90s when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting 12 years ago this March. But if you listen closely, Wallace's songs are actually very small. They're sketches, really-artfully-constructed vignettes that do for street life in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, in the late '80s what John Cheever did for mid-20th-century, Northeastern, upper-class ennui-drawn from the short, fast life of a chubby kid with a lazy eye who made good grades and loved his mother but who got sucked down a wormhole of crack-dealing and prison, and came out the other end a musical icon.
George Tillman Jr.'s highly anticipated new film, Notorious, chronicles Wallace's life, from his unlikely rise to his untimely death. The film stars rapper and first-time actor Jamal Woolard in the title role, and also features Wallace's real-life son with singer Faith Evans, 12-year-old Christopher "CJ" Wallace Jr., as the younger version of Biggie. Here, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace, talks to her grandson about stepping into his father's very big shoes.

VOLETTA WALLACE: I was deeply thrilled that you got the chance to play my son-your father-in the movie. I remember one day I saw you on the set walking with Angela [Bassett, who plays Voletta Wallace in Notorious]. It made me think about how when my son was small, I used to call him Chrissy-Pooh. I got his name, and yours, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books-Christopher Robin was the main character. But I'm telling you, when I was watching you on the monitor, I went boo-hooin' seeing you because I was so deeply touched. What did you do to prepare to play your father? When he passed away, I don't think you were 4-months-old.
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE JR.: Well, my mom told me some stuff that he used to do, like how he rubbed his nose sometimes. And then I got some of my character's scenes like six or seven months before we actually shot the film, so I went over that stuff a lot. I was really ready.
VW: Well, it looked like the real thing when I saw you crying in one scene. How did you do that?
CW: Wendy, my acting coach, said that I should think about if he was alive, how I miss him, and, yeah, I just got really into it.
VW: Would you consider that the hard part, or was it the easy part?
CW: The hard part was the crying.
VW: It looked easy to me!
CW: It wasn't that easy, though. I just thought about things in the past and about how successfulhe would be if he was still alive.
VW: I saw a YouTube piece where you and your friend Josh were rapping. You think you're gonna want to do that yourself in the future?
CW: Probably. But first I want to go to college. And I want to graduate and study film.
VW: Oh, excuse me! That's nice to hear. Do you think you might want to try acting again?
CW: Yeah, of course.
VW: You would?
CW: Yeah. It was an experience I'd never had before. You learn a lot about the person you're playing.
From http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/christopher-wallace-jr/

YOU AINT NO SUPERMAN

Yoou aint no superman Mix by K-OFFBEAT

RAW MEAT

Raw meat full by K-OFFBEAT

BASQUIAT x KID CUDI x OGRAPHY

"The world is here for the taking, thats what a villain told me. Take what you can now. Its your world." Khalil Womack

Y E A, YEA!

Kendall Elijah - Eli Dynamite Promo Video

NEW MUSIC FROM MABII

 Great sounds of a travling man, Enjoy your flight. http://theworldbeyond.bandcamp.com/

I was like 8 when I seen this

SET YOUR GOALS HIGH

Producer Khalil Womack (aka K-Offbeat), 24, of Rochester

Credit:Carlos Ortiz

Hip-hop artist and producer Khalil Womack, aka K-Offbeat, credits much of his success to his father’s legacy.
When Womack was growing up, his father Gene’s record player would fill the house with the sounds of music each morning, from the soft jazz of Louis Armstrong to the beats of Bob Marley and John Coltrane — artists whom Gene Womack, a contract photographer, had worked with several times.
“My love for older music definitely started with my dad and his huge record collection,” says Khalil Womack, 24, of Rochester.
After his father’s death, Womack spent hours in his bedroom, listening to records. While still in high school, he decided to try reinventing some of the classic tunes.

“I’d go to record and production stores and ask for advice, then I started learning how to sample,” says Womack. “I drove the stores crazy because I’d buy the wrong thing and beg them to let me exchange it.”
It was trial and error, but Womack proved to be a fast learner. By 2008, he was producing original works in his basement studio and landed a one-year contract with Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. He also began producing monthly BandCamp albums and became the official DJ for Shawn Dunwoody at Fourwalls Gallery, 179 Atlantic Ave.

But Womack’s biggest break came earlier this year, when a friend recommended he send some of his tracks to Grunge Cake Records, a new artist collective in New York City. In June, Womack flew to the city for a meeting and discovered the group had a booked him a show in Brooklyn the following day.
“It was really a test to see if we could perform under pressure,” says Womack, with a laugh. “After the show, I signed a record contract.”
Womack will work on his first album with Grunge Cake Records this year, and in June he starts his promotional tour with shows in Rochester and New York City. He also plans to start his own production company.

Websites: http://khalilbandcamp.com/ and twitter.com/koffbeat
— Leah Stacy 
http://rochester.metromix.com/events/essay_photo_gallery/6-to-watch-in/2404362/content

NEW MUSIC

Shamele$$MGMT and Kevinnottingham.com present M.Will the Shogun "LifeOnMars: An Ode to Wansel." Producer M.Will creates a 6 track instrumental EP as an Ode to music producer and composer Dexter Wansel, sampling classic Wansel records. Wansel, who is Known for his historic hip-hop break beat Theme from the Planets off of the 1976 album Life On Mars. Check this link & enjoy, theshogun.bandcamp.com

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