THOUGHTS: Hip-Hop as a Tool

The first time I ever heard Hip-Hop my head exploded.  I couldn't get enough.  My neighbors had Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff's "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" aaaaaaaand Beastie's "License to Ill".  I would hang out down there and play those tapes back to back to back.  Hip-Hop was the rebel soundtrack to my nice, white, safe life.

I always saw this music as a tool to get stuff done.  It was like a hammer that smashed everything as I knew it.  And I carried around this hammer all damn day.  It was always by my side.  Everyone made fun of my hammer and wondered why a white kid from the burbs would carry such a thing.  It only made me get a bigger hammer and swing it more often.  It's not something everyone can carry comfortably.  They didn't make em light and easy to hold in the early nineties.  But it didn't take long for a couple people to get one too.  They got tired of making fun of me and saw how fun it was to smash stuff.

Fast forward to the end of high-school and everyone has a hammer.  Every guy, every girl.  Every commercial, every show.  It was a little sickening.  My hammer looked cool still, but it wasn't my thing any more.  It was everyone's thing.  Oh well

THOUGHTS: The Religion of "DO".

How much stuff do you do in a day?  How much can you get done?  How many to-do lists can you blow through in a week?  I can get mad stuff done!  I can do and do and do.  All I do is do.  Word.  I wake up and check my list and do something on it.  Then I go on Facebook and post what i'm about to do and report to everyone when I'm doing it.  Oh man, it's so awesome to do stuff.  Then I sit back on the porch and look at my list and add more to-do's.  There is no endgame.  There is no cease to the tasks.

When I see a friend and say hi, they ask if i'm keeping busy. I say yes. If they don't ask, i just tell them how i'm stayin busy.  busy is good.  busy is safe.......

Here's some things I cannot do.  Build a fire from scratch.  Grow food.  Hunt food.  Build a house. Fight effectiviely.  I cannot stop Cancer.  I cannot stop AIDS, greed, poverty, malicious intent or any other evil behavior.  The things I pride my self on doing are basically just distractions while I learn how to relate to people.

MUSIC: Purging.....all of my music is now free.

I just put everything I've ever released on my bandcamp page.  It's all free too.

The idea is to purge it all and move on to music from a new angle.   I hope you stay tuned.  Actually, you should.  it's gonna be fun.

www.jdomusic.bandcamp.com