Home Court Disadvantage.....

You know what's really encouraging?

Returning home from being gone just 2 days out to rushing around engaging in evening activities (dinner, unpacking, spending "QT" with the fam, cleaning up, etc), going over last minute details, getting our mind right, and ensuring we actually get to the venue at a decent hour....for what?

Cats really tried to throw us on as the show opener?

Pinning the list order on one another?

I mean, much, much, much can be said about the whole ordeal in a serious sh*t slanging manner, but to keep ish positive and entertaining to any and all who actually read this digital word gumbo....here's the highlights followed by pictures fom the return ride from Illadelph/Jerz New to the end of the night's 195 late night misadventure back to the crib to clock Z's.....

Big ups to those who present themselves as peace people: Storm Davis, CEV, JT, Ro, Barry & Kristal, Romen Rok, J Strest, Gavin Castleton, Petey WheatStraw, Shonin Flesh, Spit Personalitys (Troop & Mic Feen), Neil Down.....To our dear buddies Ax Butane & Mike "Gigs" Delehanty, thank yall ever so much for the hospitality and respect. It always lives right up to exactly what we expect. Word.

So three shows 3 days in a row which isn't sh*t to the working musician but a big deal for musicians that work....It's gonna take too much to gain back the ground around the way on some home and occupational (Crocker!), but so be it.....Was it worth it? Yes and no, mostly yes. Would we do it again or extend ish into a more tour like state? Wish we could yo, wish we could....There's some serious responsibilty ish that falls over you once you're at a certain age or at a certain point in ya life where ya acquisitions dictate ya time investment.....Right now, while it looks like we can, cats will be getting back to the actual factual daily grind of bill paying and hope some of the seeds we planted in the last few months sprout whilst we return to reality....Definitely keep yall posted 'pon that there when it blesses accessability....

Peace to any and all who have been a positive reinforcement to we running around the upper industrial NorthEast for a few nights....I'm sticking with the Philly experience being my personal preference while Esh may disagree...I'm pretty sure Bums is with me on said assessment....Anyhow, here's the remainder of my visuals for yall to enjoy. There's a good deal here cause it's home sweet home...Thank you.....Goodnight....and as always....Squeeze!!!

As you can tell, Providence is a mad house at 2AM when the clubs let out and hell releases itself into the streets....Some of our closest bretheren surrounded we at our 3rd of the trio (of shows), I actually don't look half as trashished in this final picture as I did in other city stop's final pictures, and when bachelerette parties unleash themselves unto the front of the stage it makes for some great ass instant inspirado (Romen Rok, you lucky bastid)...That's all folks.

Piss off!!! (Peace)

The City of Brotherly Love & Thirsty T.H.O.R.sdew Plus Jerz New...

Now THIS....is more like it....
South Jersey telly...lovely.
The city of Illadelph...bangin'.
Finally gettin' to rock in front of the event & bar staff after everyone bounced and you missed your turn to rock in front of the actual crowd cause you outside blowin trees in the streets of Philly....Priceless.
Bums & I prefer this visit to the previous day's, but Esh is holding strong on our BodyMore visit...

Big ups to some very cool Pennsylvania inhabitants who rep the T.H.O.R. Take Over bretheren...godHead, DJ Soul Buck, the entire IIourShow crew, T.H.E., Ahd Child, this cat who shared tree called Cuzo, and some left field Scribble jam tour attendees in StoryVille and his man....Philly's real frESH yo, almost refrESHing...Some footage was shot, when we get the link you'll catch visual feelings....Word up....Cats can't stress how dope Philly is, I feel robbed never having gwan there before in any capacity...
Here's some CrackBerry shots for them eyes...Tonight Providence...come hang out, maybe?!!?!!?

Steady sweaty, alcohol induced, guaranteed get loose for that caboose there "wing baller"...heh...Rub & tugs run the world, and evidently, soon Hip Hop...
Peace.

Gutter BodyMore & The Biggest of Ups!!!!

First and foremost, the uttest ups and blessings sent toward my NYC famalams Damian & Heather Travier on the birth of their son Isaiah (Izzy) James Travier, on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 1:49am.....RefrESHing news whilst running up along the upper East Coast right now....

Baltimore, MD is a f*cking reality, ain't it? Damn, I was almost compelled to jump out the car and give a Furious Styles lecture to what I was seeing in all those run-the-f*ck down neighborhoods we drove through beyond lost; ingesting the local sites accidentally such as more New York Fried Chicken spots than necessary, strange extra large brothers (pause) running up on cats amazed with the t shirts we was rockin', and of course the insane amount of tranny hookers out and about at night (The Freaks Come Out!!!)

Anyhow, big ups to DJ Action Pat, Height, AK Slaughter (Homegirl in the crew Emily spits kinda ill original), the peoples over at Joe2 (Athena, what up!), and the cool cats that openly vibed along with we whilst away (the dude who looked like Brett from Flight of the Conchords especially)...Here's a few flicks from our BodyMore experience...We've since named this likkle 3 day run of shows "mini tour" as "The Peanut Butter & Jelly Grunyun Run". Blame Esh's genius idea in packing bread, jelly, and peanut butter for the ride to avoid stops during travel in his Dad's non-smoking vehicular butters. Yeah, okay, Esh...Squeeze.

Aight little man, IF? we end up looking like me in this last pic after tonight in Philly, Friday's Providence show is sure gonna be energized.......'Til then....

Peace, respect, and ill intellect.

Mini Tour, Mini Cooper, Mini Me?

We'll be out and about next week Wednesay - Friday, come check for we IF? we're any where near ya local vacinity....we're cool. Here's the details:

September 3rd (Wednesday)
Labeless Illtelligence...
...with AK Slaughter & DJ Action Pat.
Joe Squared Pizza Bar
133 West North Avenue
Baltimore MD 21202
Doors @ 10PM
21+
FREE

September 4th (Thursday)
Mic Check THORsday Presents...
Labeless Illtelligence & many, many more....
Liquid Charm
1207 Race Street
Philadelphia PA 19107
Doors @ 10PM
21+
FREE

September 5th (Friday)
Labeless Illtelligence, Romen Rok, Swann Notty, Ax Butane, Slim Pickens, K-Nux
Jerky's Pub
72 Richmond Street
Providence RI 02903
Doors @ 9PM
21+
$6

Visualz to Accompany the Vocalz....

Here's a few treats of we at work and we at play, courtesy of Documentary Dan and the butter Blackberry of CasUno.....New review of Esh's "The A.D.D.ventures of an E.ccentric S.uper H.ero" courtesy ala my local newspaper South Coast 24/7 listed to the right with the rest of the our review anthology...



And live from The Fridge.....Peep Bums new whip!!!







And once again, my sneaker "game" will melt ya face.....
Peace to the Vocally obese......

Next up? I Believe That's Me...

So, either we get far too weeded or the wording in this sh!t is just confusing...I guess they're offering up a contest for all list making artists to win "band prizes" and cell pho....Helios...O.K.
Behind this brain boggled banner's contest verbiage is the fact that Esh The Monolith exists as apart of Urb Magazine's NEXT 1000. Always when we needa hug, world, always when we need a hug...I guess their plan is for cats to register and vote so that "bands" can win "band prizes"? Riiiiiiiight. The made mention is more than enough, magazine-I-subcribe-to, no need to lace "winners" with sponsored free merch... IF? anything more develops of this situation, we will further do the right thing like Mookie and channel said information through official means and not the grapevine....I guess vote? ...Whatever. Muhf*ckas just can't see the ILL in Illtelligence, huh? Wow....Looks like according to promises made on Esh's album, someone's getting kicked in the ass....

Appreciative we are for attention tossed toward our direction, with yalls support and interest we might get to continue bringing forth our interpretations of true skool rap....

Philly show's official and shall yump off next month...Other ish is in the mix. Stay tuned.

"Connecticut...Bang...Rock The House, Yall....C'mon And Help me Turn It Out..."

O.K.

The past month and a half has turned into a whirlwind of things to do, running around, and no time to kick back....No moron, we're not screaming a Hiero Tour sized musical agenda, ish just seems ultra fast forward on some life sh!t right now....Blame it on the summer, which we constantly argue over even being much more existant in the coming days....Blaming it on a progressing social existance in respect to the term "family" or we aging into next level responsible ah-dult...Or just the pace of the "grind" in right now 2008...cats is type beat down, falling victim to serious allergy season symptoms, unrested, and still attempting to indulge in an active Hip Hop artist lifestyle...

Wait. What the frunk does that mean, really? Are we talking b!tches, bankrolls, Beamers, Benz's, and bottles of Belvi? Nah, man, just taking that bless-ed be for opportunity route as always, you know we...Wait. No you don't. IF? you knew we, you'd already be up on the fact that viewing the realistic side of aspiring Hip Hop contribution is where we call home. Viewing the realistic side of real muthaf*ckin life is where we call bliss. Hypothetical bliss is more often than not threatened by others adhering to said "real muthaf*ckin life"....Or not....

Allow me to give both an actual factual re-assessment of the past few, special moments in recent time as well as a theoretical, red eyed Jedi recount of said experiences....Blunted Blackberry snapshots included...

We've been media mailing magazines, Mom & Pop's, and all media means as much as possible "The A.D.D.ventures Of An E.ccentric S.uper H.ero" with only (to date) 2 bites from two reliable and dependable resources. Esh (jokingly) seems to think it's because we suck...I seem to think society sucks. But then again, it's easy to blame others.

Once you hit a certain age, free Rock The Bells tickets are sometimes something you gotta pass up (sparing 8 to 11 hours? Of one day? People can do that?)...

Blacking out after a full day of cook outs, drinking, parties, and after parties will sometime lead to falling out on the couch and found pissing off the front porch on some sleep walk sh!t...

Getting in free to a show put on by an away team promoter, peeping the unsuccess of it all first hand, smoking an eL with the doorman at the actual door, getting free music from one of ya favoritos whose record label head honcho could give a ph*ck about you specifically, drinking at performers' discount at the bar, all while not having planned on any of the above on some get out the house cause ya bored ish...Priceless.

Hieroglyphics continue to display ground breaking and truly successfull forms of Rap B-I...Killing Providence at a venue far too small, stuffy, and hot boxed for the likes of such Indy Rap pioneers.

Radio stations are the last place you want to hear of incliment weather. Especially when the weather being mentioned is close to your place of rest and the National Weather Service breaks in to interupt and let everyone know that a Tornado watch is in effect for the very reagion you live and work in. Your fams is there at the time while you're hearing this news firsthand at the station over an hour away.

F grammar, run on sentences rock.

I always thought Waterbury, CT was a pretty rough and intimidating place until I attended a wedding there earlier in the year....I also assumed that Danbury, CT was a far less gritty spot being it is outside of Waterbury and I had been there once for like 6 hours, never getting a glimpse at what a night on the town truly brings......Yeah, I mean, aside from the ups and respect shown from The AntFarm Affiliates crew members Nemisis Alpha, Cee Reed, DJ Warren Waxx (Happy B Day), Othello, Dirt E. Dutch, Sketch (Wow, energy!), and the staff at Cousin Larry's....that's a funny ass place to be at, man...I mean, we witnessed straight krillz and yowder being served to more patrons in the bar, than people there to get there Hip Hop on....Then bragging about their purchases openly, taking a sniff/smoke stroll, and returning geeked the f*ck out...Yuck, yo, yuck!!!

This seemed to be the theme for we, 3 unsuspecting Hip Hop afficianados, as even the nasty Super 8 sleep over spot proved to be equivalent to the depiction of The Carter Building on 116th in New Jack City that my man JayShiggs used to actually live in (Note: The Carter Building on screen = crack haven, off screen = best place I ever stayed at in NYC and obviously not a crack haven). Anyhow, when by any means necessary turns into seek and yee shall find out the reality of attempting to spread your Rap wings out to see how far you can fly...you end up seeing and experiencing plenty of mentionable madness...It's nuts how a few more hours of experience can really make all the difference in getting to been there, done that status....Anywho, can't wait for the next fun filled exit from every day responsibilty and familiarity....Here's a few flicks from said stupendous Super 8 suite we "held down" whilst in Rome...They're of before and after the show, I can no longer tell the difference of which is which, but I bet you won't be able to either....Enjoy, employ, and annoy those who destroy. Chips A'hoy...

...And DJ Albums as the party magician....Yes, my sneaker game is that sick.
'Til next we speak (You read, I write)....
Peace.