The Real Bio

Im a smart black kid who tells it how it is. I don't bullshit or fabricate facts. If I don't know something, I get off my ass and I look it up.

Im a man of God, athlete, musician (Classical to Hip-hop trumpeter, singer, MC and songwriter), philosopher, scholar, poet, recreational fighter, semi professional gamer, writer, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Short and sweet I made a conscious decision at the age of 4 I would be a product of my imagination not my environment.
This blog exists for 2 reasons.

1 - To show you that you can do it too.

2 - Cause I always perform best when I have an audience.


Without any further a due, ladies and gentlemen, here it is.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

QUIT FRONTIN!!!





Frontin has been around since...well ever. Sad thing is almost everyone does it. Some more than others tho. (AJ why are you talkin about shit that everybody knows about? You think you're so smart? THIS ISN'T NEW!!) Check this tho. People wanna belong to something and be respected SOOOOO BAD they'll look up just enough information on the topic to fool the average less informed person. Alot of people nowadays say "I ONLY FUCK WITH THAT OLD SCHOOL WEST COAST SHIT! TU PAC, DRE, SNOOP AND THE 90'S CALI IS HOW I ROLL." And the best of these types can name you alot of their old mainstream hits along with some unknown bangers. HOWEVER. Get them in the arena with a hardcore music head like me and ill say something like "Ok...you know that TUPAC was born in Harlem right? And he got started as a roadie for Digital Underground...an east coast - hipvibe - party group. Don't believe me?




Your "Hardcore Gangsta Rapper" was a positive vibe MC...the same shit you turn off when you hear. Sounds like you're frontin trying to be tough for respect and bitches if you ask me..." I hate when people say "I ONLY listen to west coast" cause that just shows how little they really know. They make the rest up with how confident they claim their "facts" and how affirmative (positive in what they say) they appear to be. To get fooled people. If you are really interested in something do research and LOOK IT UP YOURSELF and don't be satisfied until you get the answer you want. Don't settle for bullshit just because that's all there seems to be. GET WHAT YOU WANT. DONT STOP!


Moral of the story: If you're not an expert on something but you have an interest in it, be humbled by your ignorance and let the lack of what you know feed your fire to learn more...cause I can tell you from experience there's very few feeling that are less shameful then thinking you're the hot shit at something then getting put in your place by someone less merciful in front of an audience.


I love all yall and wish you all the best. On the real every one of you is in my prayers. Imma let the Tribe take me out now...



Friday, January 28, 2011

"Welcome back baby....we missed you" (Sexy lady voice from Dom Kennedy's "In Memory Of")

Dopeitsdom.com "From the Westside With Love" Track 1 if you wanna hear what im talking about. It's been awhile realness fathful. I've had some growing pains, reevaluated whether or not I was gunna keep the blog, keep on raping, or keep on keeping to quiet honest. But rest assured, the answers yes for all of the above.

I've been waiting on some inspiration for this post, anything you do in life you should do 100%+. I care more about cheating myself then you guys I'll be honest, but you were thought of so this wasn't "Lyrical Masturbartion" (AJakaPM.Bandcamp.com if you wanna know what I mean damn I'm on fire with plugs today)

Anyways on to those post yeah? Being classically trained, I get ALOT of shit from other classically trained musicians because I like rap. They say someone forgot to put the C in front of it cause thats what it is. And honestly I really cant blame them. Our standards for what is good music have decreased DRAMATICALLY over these last decades. We have a new generation with all the tools and opportunity but know history.Know knowledge on the classics. Blind leading the blind is the term? Fortunately I can see thank God. So I'm gunna give my opinion on the matter.

 With the acronym R.A.P you have two different things. Mental and Spiritual (R)ape with (A) (P)en and beautiful enlightening (R)hythm (A)nd (P)oetry. Artists who are conscious about global affairs or spiritual divinity take knowledge, give it poetic form, fuse (key word FUSE not make it fit) it with rhythm, add voice tonality for emotional effect, decreshando and creshando (get softer and get louder), accent, and merge all of these things along side instrumentation, or sometimes without it to create a link to their mind and ut you within their world so you can see what they see, feel  what they feel and think about what puzzles them. On top of that, some are gifted enough to spontaneously improvise just like jazz musicians pulling solely on their emotions, thoughts, facts,opinions, and life experiences.  Last time I checked that fits the description of art to a T.


 
Exaplmes of such poets are..(You can go on youtube and look any of these guys up)


                                                                        Lupe Fiasco

                                                                           Mos Def

          If you can put yourself in his shoes and his lifestyle and really hear what hes saying, Tupac Shakur


                                            New comer and fresh perspective Kendrick Lamar


Now I understand that musicians have to eat to and at the end of the day thats what they make this music for. Im founded in the old school Jazz musician notion where if you dont play you dont eat so believe me I get it. However...when you all your music about money, violence, sex, alcohol, and ego stroking...well I gotta cut the line there. You wont find these rapists on meganslaw, but rest assured they ARE getting inside your soul and mind if you support them. I won't post pictures of these guys cause frankly it isn't worth the energy i use to double click.

Some offenders include Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, Soulja Boy, 95% Of rappers in the game now aday, and a whole lot of other fucks i won't waste time writing about. I understand you gotta get paid, but stop getting paid off of other people's expenses. Music is powerful. Some people live their lives by it. If someone gets caught up in the chase of ill gotten goods because of your music and holds it as an idol and harm comes to them, you played a part. Freewill (see my freewill section) is defiantly a factor, but at the end of the day, you were involved in them being led astray.


Moral of this post, listen to any music that is obviously heart felt, well done, with good intentions. And whatever you do....PLEASE don't get in the habit of making excuses. Not for yourself or anyone else...thats how you get shitted on and that's real.


Here's an example of what I'm talking about.