Digging In The Crates...

It's a shame I have to actually think in order to find artists or albums that challenge my mind. For the most part, at random points throughout the day I might be reminded of Common or Talib Kweli through something I read online and then I'll download one of their albums and embark on a journey through their music.

I'm stumbling across music with a message!

It gets boring, this constant flooding of recycled and repackaged music... What is creativity?

Don't get it twisted, I do listen to Wayne, Jeezy, T.I.P., Dipset, all that. But there's a certain point where the slick talk gets annoying. Maybe capitalism did fuck up Hip-Hop.



So... I'm digging in the crates.

[Verse 4 of "Get Em High": Common]
Get em high like noon, or the moon or room filled with smoke
A high filled with dope
Y'all assumed I was doomed, out of tune, but I still feel the notes
The real nigga quotes
Real rappers is hard to find, like a remote, control rap is not a
Used soup it still got life, that's why I abuse you who are not thugs
Rock clubs, it's like Tiger, Woods in the hood, to have my own reality show
Called Soul Survivor, I stole all liver, niggaz in you
You'se a bitch I got ones that are thicker than you
How could I ever let your words affect me, they say Hip-Hop is dead
I'm here to resurrect me, mosh is to sexy to even make songs like these
That's why the raw don't know your name, like Alicia Keys
To many featured emcees, and pro-ducers is popular
Twelve thousand spins, nobody got to coppin her
Album, how come, you the hot garbager
The years clear your image and snooped up
Label got you souped up, tellin you you sick
Man you a dick with a loose nut
Video hard to watch like Medusa
Even your club record need a booster
Chimped up, with a pimp cup, illiterate nigga
Read the infa, red across your head I'm bread king like Simba
Bolder then Denver, I ain't a Madd Rapper just a emcee with a temper
You dansing for money like honey, I did this my way
So when the industry crash, I survive like Kanye
Spittin through wires and fires, emcees retirin
Got yo hands up, get them motherfuckers higher then

If you know of quality music I can listen to feel free to leave a comment.

Video: Kobe After Game 4 Loss "I Need Beer & Like 20 Shots of Tequila"

Sorry for not posting yesterday... I was partying all night and went straight to court at 8am for a old ticket (driving uninsured). So I slept like all day then watched the Lakers game.

I looked at my website traffic for June 11, 2008 and got a nice 200+ visitors from Necole... Tank you kindly...

Anyways, man I'm kind of happy for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett because I been liked them since they came in the league... but Kobe's my favorite player and I would hate to see him lose after all the hard work the Lakers put in this year.

Kobe will get the job done in Game 5 at home...

The Truth Is...

Idea jacked from The Jose Vilson...

The truth is … Paul Pierce.

The truth is … Kobe Bryant proves over and over why he's my favorite player.

The truth is … "although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a black president." (Tupac)

The truth is … "we can't conceal the facts, our penitentiary's packed, and there filled with blacks." (Tupac)

The truth is … YES WE CAN.

The truth is … I'm a Packers fan with love for the Patriots.

The truth is … I think Ladainian Tomlinson is grossly overrated.

The truth is … rap is like mainstream media, owned by corporate elitist interests.

The truth is … loyalty means a lot to me.

The truth is … I see myself as the underdog in society destined for greatness.

The truth is … I love "around the way" girls with confidence, swagger, and goals.

The truth is … I sense a resurgence of real hip-hop.

The truth is … statistics mean nothing in the end.

The truth is … the champions separate themselves from the flock by what can't be measured.

The truth is … we must wake up and realize what happened to "The Land of The Free."

The truth is … my dad stopped me from knocking out a man that got out of his car on a major intersection to make fun of a homeless person.

The truth is … I can't settle for an average income.

The truth is … I love and appreciate my blog readers and friends.

The truth is … Nas is on to something.

The truth is … “Who wants to be well-adjusted to injustice? What kind of human being do you want to be?." (Dr. Cornel West)

The truth is … “There's a parallel between the killing fields of the slave ships ... and the killing fields of the Super Dome.” (Dr. Cornel West)

The truth is … I have a 2Pac wallpaper on my computer with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that reads, "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

The truth is … I enjoy books that add substance and perspective to life.

Jay Midnyte, who admires those who beat the odds.

D.C. Ain't The Place to be Right Now

Yall know I'm from that DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia Area) P.G. County, MD to be exact. I lived in D.C. (Northeast and Northwest) also. So things that go down in my hometown intrigue me... Had to share this tragic story with yall.

Seven men dead and three wounded, including a triple slaying after a street argument, a drive-by shooting near an elementary school, a deadly domestic dispute, a crap game that ended in array of bullets, including the slaying of a man found with his throat cut in his car near his home.

These violent crimes occurred within a two-mile radius in the Trinidad, Marshall Heights and Edgewood Terrace sections of Northeast and Southeast Washington, in neighborhoods ranging from working-class to what is called the tumbledown. (Full Story)

Don't it seem like the hoods get hit by the recessions the hardest and fastest? Not to say that they're not in a "permanent" recession that gets even more f*cked up when gas and food prices keep rising. Yall heard D.C. street cops will be equipped with semi-auto weapons and rifles to "combat the violence?"

CAN I SNUFF HIM.... PLEASE!?!?

On my blog stroll I stopped at the entertaining Karrie B blog and one of her latest posts caught my eye...

(I suck at writing so bear with me)
At a hotel party this weekend, my 18 year old cousin Andrea just busts out crying out of nowhere! I hear my friends and a few of my male cousins (I'm always rollin' deep with my cousins wherever I go) talking bout "he hit her..."

WHO??? WHEN????

Everything stops.... They're pacing the room asking, demanding Andrea tells them where he lives.

WHO???

My cousin Brandon finally tells me... "Her motherfucking boyfriend, Aaron!"

There's already approximately 6 mad as shit cousins trying to squeeze the details out of her and how they gon' punish this punk ass nicca.

Maintaining my calm, I ask them "What triggered that??" (Me being the psychological type... I wanted to know what made her think of this, because she was a little twisted and I know too well that a lot of old problems can come out when someone's drunk.)

My cousins tell me she just got off the phone with him!

Man yall don't know how I felt at this point. I wanted, shit I WANT this nigga's head!

I'm asking Andrea, "Why did you let him hit you?! Why the hell are you still talking to him??? Why didn't you tell us immediately?"

Wiping her tears, and pacing the hotel room, she says the dreaded words... "Yall just don't understand."

"I know how he gets, I made him mad."

OMG I want this nigga's head! How he has my confident, tough, good looking cousin Andrea justifying a hit from her boyfriend???

*Sigh*

After reading the comments on Karrie B.'s Blog, I realized a lot of her readers went through the same situation, and came to the same conclusion as Karrie...

Sometimes we have friends that make silly choices, and we want to snap them into reality and save them. a person can only treat you like sh*t if you allow them to, right? makes me wonder...is it possible to save someone from themself?

I wonder...

How I Feel

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"If I Had..."

Life.. by Marshall Mathers
What is life?
Life is like a big obstacle
put in front of your optical to slow you down
And everytime you think you gotten past it
it's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground
What are friends?
Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
and disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin
What is money?
Money is what makes a man act funny
Money is the root of all evil
Money'll make them same friends come back around
swearing that they was always down
What is life?
I'm tired of life
I'm tired of backstabbing ass snakes with friendly grins
I'm tired of committing so many sins
Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins
Tired of never having any ends
Tired of having skinny friends hooked on crack and mini-thins
I'm tired of this DJ playing YOUR shit when he spins
Tired of not having a deal
Tired of having to deal with the bullshit without grabbing the steel
Tired of drowning in my sorrow
Tired of having to borrow a dollar for gas to start my Monte Carlo
I'm tired of motherfuckers spraying shit and dartin off
I'm tired of jobs startin off at five fifty an hour
then this boss wanders why I'm smartin off
I'm tired of being fired everytime I fart and cough
Tired of having to work as a gas station clerk
for this jerk breathing down my neck driving me bezerk
I'm tired of using plastic silverware
Tired of working in Building Square
Tired of not being a millionaire

But if I had a million dollars
I'd buy a damn brewery, and turn the planet into alcoholics
If I had a magic wand, I'd make the world suck my dick
without a condom on, while I'm on the john
If I had a million bucks
it wouldn't be enough, because I'd still be out
robbing armored trucks
If I had one wish
I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss

I'm tired of being white trash (--J: Well not exactly...), broke and always poor
Tired of taking pop bottles back to the party store
I'm tired of not having a phone
Tired of not having a home to have one in if I did have it on
Tired of not driving a BM
Tired of not working at GM, tired of wanting to be him
Tired of not sleeping without a Tylenol PM
Tired of not performing in a packed coliseum
Tired of not being on tour
Tired of fucking the same blonde whore after work
in the back of a Contour
I'm tired of faking knots with a stack of ones
Having a lack of funds and resorting back to guns
Tired of being stared at
I'm tired of wearing the same damn Nike Air hat
Tired of stepping in clubs wearing the same pair of Lugz
Tired of people saying they're tired of hearing me rap about drugs
Tired of other rappers who ain't bringin half the skill as me
saying they wasn't feeling me on "Nobody's As Ill As Me"
I'm tired of radio stations telling fibs
Tired of J-L-B saying "Where Hip-Hop Lives"

But if I had a million dollars
I'd buy a damn brewery, and turn the planet into alcoholics
If I had a magic wand, I'd make the world suck my dick
without a condom on, while I'm on the john
If I had a million bucks
it wouldn't be enough, because I'd still be out
robbing armored trucks
If I had one wish
I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss

You know what I'm saying?
I'm tired of all of this bullshit
Telling me to be positive
How'm I 'sposed to be positive when I don't see shit positive?
Know what I'm sayin?
I rap about shit around me, shit I see
Know what I'm sayin? Right now I'm tired of everything
Tired of all this player hating that's going on in my own city
Can't get no airplay, you know what I'm sayin?
But ey, it's cool though, you know what I'm sayin?
Just fed up
That's my word

6 Unspectacular Quirks About Me

Shout out to MzVirgo and 2DB for infecting me with this sudden epidemic of tagging craze in the urban blogosphere.

The Rules:

• Link the person who tagged you.



• Mention the rules in your blog.



• Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.



• Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.



• Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

6 Unspectacular Quirks About Jay Midnyte:

1. My cell phone stays on lock mode with passwords for all sections... You ain't heard they lock you up for text messages now?



2. I can live off frozen foods and Gatorade's like nothin.



3. For some unrealistic reason, I DO NOT share hair brushes, deodorant (that's nasty), I don't even take a bite of someone else's food even in my own family.



4. I'm watching CNBC Business right now (fuckin oil prices) and I see this black dude lunchin cracking jokes on the phone right behind the reporter AND he got some Iverson cornrows... I'm cool with it but I thought them Wall Street Billy's & Johnson's don't have no parts in that!



5. I used to watch BET and didn't understand why people hated it so much, but now I've realized the excessive coonery in their programming and can't stand it.



6. I'm still pondering T.I.'s situation... A convicted felon which bans him from owning/purchasing weapons, illegal to possess weapons with silencers (he had multiple), illegal to own an automatic weapon in the U.S. (he had multiple), and all types of other charges, but he gets about a year in jail for his plea deal???? The whole Atlanta better take a trip O.T. (outta town) because everybody's gonna get locked up!

Aight I'm tagging Hotsauce, The Fly Girl, Kid Fury, Melody, Baby Daniel, and Mrs. Grapevine!

Five Of The Finest Frikkin Females...

My baby Alicia Keys tops the list because she is stunningly attractive, but still keeps that homegirl vibe from around the way. On top of that, she can articulate her feelings as descriptively as a narrator. This interview with Alicia really sets my soul on fire! (LOL I'm corny right)



Lauren London always killing me with her sexy smile and dimples... She reminds of a girl that I once knew... and I hate that, but that's probably why I'm feeling her so much.



I remember when Ashanti first came out and everybody was hating on her, talking bout she look like Wolverine cuz of her sideburns, but I didn't even care about that! She still one of the underrated ladies in the game but I give her her props.



Through all the failed attempts at a music career, Christina Milian still got a spot in my heart because she combines her swagger and hustle to keep her self relevant whether it's through acting or random public sightings.



I know yall probably like WTF?? Where did she come from? But Left Eye is crazy, burning houses down, leaving the country mysteriously... Wouldn't that be a fun relationship?? LOL. But that VH1 documentary showed her personality to the world and she's extremely unique, so I guess that's why she made my list. R.I.P.

Da Homegirl Tagged Me

Yeah MzVirgo, tagged me. Now is my opportunity to let some of my swag splash on yall so yall can step ya game up.

Sike na, i'm being dumb. I wish I had a recent picture!




I'ma tag L (I know you hate it!), Tayo, and Musikizme.

Directions: go to magmypic.com upload a photo and post it as a blog. Be sure to link back to the person who tagged you and tag a few friends of your own.

Jay Midnyte (aka me, DUH) Just Got Tagged

Shout out to Necole Bitchie for tagging me to share 7 crazy details about myself on my blog.

Rules: Simply link to the person who has tagged you, share seven weird things about yourself, tag seven bloggers to do the same and include a link to their blog, let each person know that they have been tagged and finally post the rules on your blog.

1. I gotta thing for light-skinned females wit some hood in them
2. I love my hometown Lanham, Maryland with an eternal passion!!!
3. I never judge people because I know where I've been and what can happen anyday.
4. People I admire most are anybody that's driven, entreprenuers, not stick to the script type people ya dig
5. I HATE when people use the peanut butter FIRST then stick that same crusty ass knife in the jelly man I HATE THAT!!!
6. Making beats is also one of my many talents. ( www.myspace.com/jaymidnytemusic )
7. I keep a small circle of friends that I can TRUST because I don't like fake people.

I'ma tag Musikizme, I'm Hip Hop, The Corporate Takeover, and Sickamore.

Even if you ain't a blogger, leave a comment with ur 7 details about yourself. Even if you that anonymous lurker, and i know it's alot of yall, make sure you do this!

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20 Grand - Paper Stacks (Produced By Jay Midnyte) aka ME

20 Grand - Paper Stacks (Produced By Jay Midnyte) aka ME.