Poison Pen, lol - 7/6/2006

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What's up? I'm doing good as always. For everyone who was sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to hear about my door, I have some news on that. I lost my keys. It's mad dark right now. It's like 5PM and it's mad dark out here. What's going on? It was so light out here earlier.

Everything's moving right now. Me and my man Bishop from Scarborough in Canada are finishing up this joint for his project. He just signed with BoDog, they're an internet gambling company and they have a record label. They're real big and they have some gwop. They signed Bishop. He's going to get his gwop. He's the first rapper to do the World Series of Poker. All bets are on Bishop right now. We're finishing up a lot of shit.

I finally got the paperwork for the mixtape. They revised it so I'm actually signing it this week. They do a lot of projects with a lot of people. They're doing something with 40 Cal from the Dipset and some others for mixtape projects. It's non-exclusive, so that's cool. Everything is good with that.

I have to go call Ariel because I don't want him to jump off the roof. I need him to stay mixing my joints. Fucking Ariel. We were watching Switzerland versus the Ukraine and he forces us to watch it. He's like the Gestapo. We were recording and he forced us to watch it. There was a lot of dudes running up and down the field with no scores. Then they did an overtime which was thirty minutes. Now I see why they do this every four years. But they have mad fitness to be able to do that. Soccer's crazy. People look at football and basketball as the most popular sports, but the soccer fans are rabid. They'll run on the field and split your wig open if you didn't block the goal. They make the LA Riots look like nothing. America's late on this shit. America's mad late on this shit. I know I am. I used to watch arena football and laugh. They make mad gwop like freaking baseball players over there.

And soccer fans are definitely more hardcore than me and Tech's hardcore fans. It's soccer fans all day. It's soccer fans all fucking day. They'll run over the gate and run on the field to split your wig. I don't think they're going to jump on stage at us. We have a few over-zealous fans that jump out at us when we're coming off. This one dude got beat up by a group of hot girls for being so drunk. It could partially be my fault because I bring a fifth of liquor out at every song. I'm fat so I can handle my liquor. I was pouring the drinks out and this dude was just mad extra. He was bumping these chicks. When "Stronghold Movement" came on, this dude got wild. He was a stocky dude who was probably 250-260. You should have seen these little girls handle him. I had to drag him off the stage because they were attacking him like a fucking wildebeest. He was still acting up so we had to talk to him and eventually security had to throw him out. I want people to have a good time. We do the mosh pit shit heavy and we like to have a good time. When motherfuckers fight in the crowd, I'm jumping down there to cease that shit or else I'll wyle out with them. I don't care. I'm not worried about being hurt. I've been hurt before. It ain't shit. I've done been smacked in the head with bottles. It ain't nothing.

I slowed down on the shows for a little while. I don't want to over-saturate motherfuckers. Sometimes you see the same people at every show. I'm going to do some to pay my rent, but at the same time, this one club, I went there last week with my man Majesty for his album release joint, and the shit sounded so bad. The PA system sounded like the principal's office sounds at school. It's fucked up when you go to these shows and they don't have educated sound men. I know a lot of people like to curse him out, but I'm always mad nice to him. I don't need to be like, "I'm going to split your wig sound man, make me sound nice!" You have to be polite to those dudes, shake their hands and buy them a drink. They can easily mess your shit up. Motherfuckers dissing the sound man sound so stupid.

Oh shit, there's some Papa John's. I'm about to get busy. I'm about to ransack somebody's box.

I'm performing at Shabaam Shadeeq's party this week. People actually like me now. I'm doing the "3 Hoods" shit with Bishop and Swave Sevah from Harlem. I'm going to do some stuff with my man Access Immortal.

I couldn't watch the BET Awards. My bootleg cable is out. I heard Busta killed it and TI had to do it acapella because the sound man had his thumb in his ass. I think people are trying to sabotage BET. I'm glad Busta killed it. You have to give him his due respect. He's been out for a hundred years. It's actually like seventeen. The average life-span of a rapper is like five years. He brought back New York in a way. It's cool that he got that shine at least for a few seconds. No disrespect to the south, but people act like that's all there is like they used to do with New York. My favorite rappers are from the west coast. My favorite rapper is Ice Cube. I can't co-sign everything he did, but he was a big inspiration for me. I'm from Brooklyn and I like seeing someone from the hometown do it. I'm still mad Mobb Deep's not getting their dues. That new shit with 50 is stupid. Busta doesn't sound like anyone else and he didn't do his version of a crunk record. I have mad respect for that shit.

I'm glad you could read. We need more people that can do that, whether it's contracts, menus, directions on MapQuest, or a friend request on MySpace. Thank you for reading because a lot of people can not do that or do it well. I'm not a dumb motherfucker by any means. If I was dumb, I would have been signed a long time ago. I have to give a big shout out to Azar. She's really helping me out on the business side of this Poison Pen Operation. She's my go-to girl. I'm glad she's a part of the camp. Get a job and get your money up so you don't have to rely on everyone else. It doesn't cost shit to record something on Pro Tools and it doesn't cost nothing to put a CD out, but whatever you record make sure it's quality. Don't come up to me with a hand-written CD at a show. You look like a real dickhead doing that. You have to have some sort of presentation. With a sound mind and an able body, you can do whatever you want to do. That's the bottom line.