Footnote to Donewaiting’s 9th Anniversary: P.Blackk & DJ Bruni (above) almost had to cancel their performance because someone ran a stop sign when Blackk was headed back the venue.  Zero Star (below) performed with a 102 degree fever and a tension headache.  One person on twitter described the evening like this “@wesflexner  if @Zerostar82 was Jordan with the flu, last night was @PBlackk‘s Willis Reed moment @aceofcupsbar”

Under the picture of P.Blackk is a DJ Detox’s Donewaiting’s 9th Anniversary Hip Hop MIX.  It has music by P. Blackk and Zero Star mixed in with Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, Mos Def & more. For Tracklist visit DJ Detox’s Soundcloud page.

Zero Star & Pos 2

Zerostar dropped a new EP Tuesday called Don’t Look Now. To celebrate, Zero Star and Pos 2 are launching a new bi-monthly at the Carabar Tonight. (See above Flyer).

In addition to Zero’s new EP, Pos2 also made a mix, Buggin Out Vol 1. It has a good cross-section of hip hop from locals like LE, Rashad, Path,Fly U and more to just a general whats poppin now like Random Axe, Mac Miller, and Elzhi. Track List, download link and cover after the jump.

MP3:DJ POS 2 Buggin Out Vol 1

1. intro
2. L.E. – Freestyle
3. Stalley feat. Rashad – chevys and spaceships
4. Fly.U – Long Run
5. DJ Khaled feat. Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne – im on one
6. Fabolous feat. Vade, Lloyd Banks – Mo brooklyn, Mo harlem, Mo southside
7. Skyzoo – the definitive prayer
8. Elzhi – the world is yours
9. O.C. – who run it
10. Stalley – Go on
11. Fortilive – Mic and me
12. Consequence feat. Diggy Simmons – V.I.P.
13. Cash still rules
14. Fatt Father – Taledega Nights
15. Mac Miller – she said
16. Random Axe – Random Call
17. DJ JS-1 feat. Lil Fame, Joell Ortiz – reppin NY
18. Arch druids feat. Roc Marciano, Planet Asia – Scorched earth policy
19. J. Rawls feat. Sadat X, Wise Intelligent – Face it
20. Path feat. L.E., Zero Star, Fabrashay A – my city
21. KingDom, Hodgie, Catalyst – Fuck wit me
22. RO Spit – All alone
23. Moses Rockwell – Penny pinch tale
24. Action Bronson – Savage From Sarasota
25. P. Blackk feat. Marz Lovejoy – nothin to it

Welp. I’d link to think anyone who claims to like music is aware of this. But we all have our own lives to lead. HOWEVER, All Eyes in the underground hip hop galaxy focus on our city as we being the home of some of the greatest talent ever celebrate the release of Camu Tao’s King of Hearts album on Def Jux/Fat Possum Records.
El-P is flying in to present our city the album, and enjoy the city that Camu loved.
ooohh so a national release in Columbus…say word..
but wait..lets not get too cool.
All the proceeds from the door benefit the James Cancer Center.
So..hopefully you will come and join us.
I feel like this is one of the musical moments that someone with pyrotechnics at the Schott could’nt trump.
5 dollar suggested donation.
DJ Pos 2, DJ Detox, DJ Carol, DJ True Skillz, and DJ Drastic on the tables
Hoster by El-Producto.
Album plays at midnight.
the packaging will make you cry.
In the Short North. At Skullys. On High Street. In Columbus Ohio.

A few weeks ago we celebrated the 4th annual Daymon Day here in Columbus. We had a basketball tourney, tribute mural, emcee battle, parade and a rowdy dance party. We got our Rucker park on and then brought it into the streets.

For those that aren’t familar with Daymon Day but like things perhaps reading this article before or after viewing the following videos and pictures might give you some background info.

Click here to view the embedded video.

This video shot by A.J.(i think) shows the parade.

Watch it if you think marching 300 plus people in the middle of the road to Black Sabbath, Dilla, Cam’ron, M.O.P. , DJ Przm, Camu Tao, Jim Jones,Pharoah Monche and Racist Joe instrumentals to honor their fallen loved ones on an OSU gameday sounds interesting.

Photos taken by Danielle Kline that show a different detail after the jump.

I missed the basketball tourney that CJ Townsend organized because I was out in the burbs buying Montana’s for a couple doods’ outline colors for one of the graffiti murals.As for the basketball contest, I guess Central City Recordings brought in some ringers and won the game.

The other big story from the tourney, was Team Weedsteeler was narrowly defeated by the Grip 14-1. The other highlight was that Ron House played for Agit Reader(i think) and appeherently was a fierce competitor.

I got to the Park right before the rap battle between Zero Star and EC Vol. The battle was in front of the newly restored Tuttle Park handball court mural.

A. Kern and Ender did a wonderful job covering up the alterations made by tags, drawing of penises and the weather that had overtaken the iconic mural orginally meticulously painted by B. Jones, S.Zook, G. Sparano and D. Duncan that expressed both graffiti writer’s civic pride and their often underestimated abilties.

(A. Kern is the young muralist that painted the Blue Danube, every Daymon mural, and the bathrooms of Milkbar among other things. Two of his murals were included in the Dispatch’s recent Top Ten Murals in Columbus.)

Unlike the cityscape that A.Kern fixed, the bottom pieces of N.E.W.S. were dissed beyond repair, so Ender created a universal font that honored our cities fallen Hip Hop heros, Daymon Dodson, DJ Przm, and Camu Tao.

The mural, in its orginal form, had burners of the words, North, East, West, and South, directing the viewer to the idea that the kids that paint the city with letters could literally paint the city to the letter. The letters were on the original mural were intentionally painted in highly stylized graffiti form next to an amazing rendering of the cityscape of downtown Columbus.

The idea of those involved with the graffiti restoration process was that deviating from a graffiti font was ok. The point that letters can be as technical challenging as photorealistic scenery had be proven by the mural’s original artists.

The muralists were restoring the idea that graffiti writers love their city and interact with their community.

So maybe the actual mural wasnt exactly restored to exact original form.

But the remembrance of icons and their contributions to our city is important to our city’s culture and identity development. Graffiti was used to put this back in people’s minds.

A legible font conveyed this sentiment by being more viewer accessible.

(plus the back wall has 18+ burners on it, painted by BSA,PBJ, ESE,IOK, 3WA and TFC doods.)

This set the stage for a rap battle between Zero Star and EC Vol.

Click here to view the embedded video.

video of battle by Chase Manhattan(i think)

DIY MARCHING BAND:Tony “Envelope” Collinger and Mike “DJ Detox” Tormey set up a PA in the back of a pick-up truck so that Detox could dejay while people marched in the parade.

Danielle Kline made a dinosaur float so that the Daymon Dodson doll would have somewhere to sit during the parade.

Parade time.

This is Jacqueliene Arias, a journalist, artist and filmmaker in town from NYC because of the festival on Gay Street downtown. She contacted me via facebook because she is making a documentary and wanted to talk about Columbus art and culture. So I picked her up.

She was really impressed by what she saw at ID09 on Gay Street. She expressed a notion that it was shame the events were the same day. I told her a real city can support two festivals in the same day.( Which Columbus did easily)

I told her that organizers of ID09 did try to include us.

However our parade is greatly contingent on having mural space to paint tribute walls, and the spectacle of marching in front of OSU celebrating football fans on gameday on OSU campus.

Daymon loved absurdity so trumping OSU football is prolly the best thing we could ever do.

Picture being a freshman at OSU:

You are on a porch playing beerpong. So pumped that the Buckeyes just won and you have a case of Natty Light to toast these glorious times..

You look over, and OMG, in the middle of the street are 300 people of every background possible except your own, marching to the instrumental Dipset’s “What’s Really Good” while chanting Racist Joe.

Might make you spit out your shitty beer, and create a memory

(and at least we had a painting of downtown’s skyline)

rofl

The parade concluded on 5th and High where the crowd sung Daymon’s hit song, “Bitch, You Don’t Know Shit”.

I was terrified because Daymon’s family were there and the song is explicit.

To my suprise/relief Daymon’s mom knew the words. She giggled during and did not sing the “bitch” or “shit” parts. It was laughshh you don’t laughshh. It was beautiful that she had discovered and enjoyed that aspect of her son.

Detox finally gets to get out of the truck after dejaying a parade.

Eventually we left Milk Bar and headed to the Summit for this afterparty:

http://s877.photobucket.com/albums/ab339/itspos/daymon%20day/daymon%20day%20summit%20st%20jam/?action=view&current=100_0544.flv

video courtesy of pos 2.

Mp3:DJ Detox-Joy Division Mix

 DJ Detox of Get Right,and Channing/Carley/Raina’s house party fame created a mix of the Manchester Post-Punk group’s music  for today’s Joy Divisions Art Show .

The art show is  in the  front  the Columbus Metropolitian today from 2-7:30 pm. (Downtown)

Joy Divisions curated by Eva Ball is inspired by pretty much any angle you can take on Joy Division. From Nazi sex slave camps to song interptations to abstracted word associations.

(Ask yourself, Whats a Joy Division? The 2010 pick-up line) 

It’s a pretty thought provoking vechile.

I have an essay in the catalog. (I’m in a book, yo!) I deal with everything from Sex with Robots to public death.  (WTF that has do with Joy Division? It works.)

If you find me to be an idiot still come out because the  list of artists and writers that created work for this show and its catalog is pretty righteous. The lumininarys include but aren’t limited to Art Forum’s Mark Harris and  Ivy League  filmaker Mike Stickrod,(wudup sae)

Other artists and writers include Carmel Buckley, Hannah Barnes, Ryan Agnew, Sarah Bernat, Paul Simmons, Dan Olsen, Tina Matthews, Ian Ruffino, Laura Bratigan, Grant LaValley, Chad Shepherd, Nick Crane, Erica Bailey, Eva Ball, Josh Erb, Jen Burton,Marshall Barnes, and maybe Bangwash.

I know boy boy you are like, wow. But hold up, and say whoa because there will be a meal served at 630 pm.

Free food.(Krogers is in the building)

The homie Detox is dejaying the after party at Skylab..

The JD mix up here contains live, demo, edited and regular versions of Joy Divisions jawns blended and arranged in cohesive manner without having to get all fidget house or having to pay44.99 for those reissues.

(Next week I will post the tracklisting and maybe some analysis. It’s interesting to see what dejays pick up on)

 24 Party People pillz.

Also at the Skylab will be CDR-o-gee Tommy Jay, Anna Ranger,  Ginger Fetus and the dubbed out JD coverband, Jam Division . 

There is a 5 dollar cover for the afterparty that will go to show costs, and the local homeless shelter.

Columbus Hip Hop mainstayDJ Pos 2 recently curated an Ohio History Comp for bigtime backpack website Philaflava.
All you Ohio music nerd/historians should give it a split second because iono..its Ohio history.
Hip Hoppers should rejoice that he offered up the 3ms joint that the “Hold the Floor” instrumental was originally made for.

Read about and Download: Triple Crown Classic Ohio Hip Hop Comp

Click here to view the embedded video.

I have two vivid memories that Pos’ blog will help me enjoy:

1.Going into Groove Shack in the Short North in 1994 and getting critiqued of my purchase by Mentor of the City, Da Intelac.
It was cool because he would hold down open mics and slang his ep “Opstadrop”. If he clowned you for buying some weird hip hop like the first Aceyalone album. You knew exactly why. Dood rapped with authority. (He actualy never clowned me cause I only copped East Coast Hip Hop at Groove Shack. If I wanted some goofy Cali doods I would hit up Singing Dog or World Record)

2.Riding the train from Brooklyn to Queens with the Summer Jam mixtape on blast.
It had that King Sun diss to 2pac on it, ‘New York Love”.
I remember vividly starring out the window at bombed out rooftops with my headphones blaring, “You going overboard with this fuck New York shit”.

I still got the Doo Wop tape. But I onlyblast it when I feel like brringinmg out out the tapedeck. And I don’t know what the fuck I did with Intelac’s joint. I mean like any up & coming Columbus graffiti writer I tossed the Sagent cover with a quickness. Strictly legal graffiti(bleh) Losing the actual tape is kind of a sin on the other hand..

But looks like I will be able to bump both these and more on my computer.
Thank Allah that Pos isn’t a irresponsible graffiti writers.

Pos 2 is the homie from the willy-way back. Dood held down Bernies Hip Hop Night. He was Przm and Daymon’s right hand man. Anyway…dood will be launching a blog soon. It will be filled with Columbus History. As evident in the above video.

He thinks things are just fine in 2009.

This past month I have watched DJ Detox+ friends rock so many packed rooms. Sweatin, Get Right, The Catalyst’s release party, So What Wednesdays, The Milk Bar and even Twiztid at the Newport all got handled.

I am gonna hit you with a series of blogs with pictures and playlists from a gaybar, a downtown nightclub, a boutique, a shitgaze(jokes) haven turned Stretch + Bobbie 89.9 for a night and a sold-out Juggalo event to let you know Home Mortgage scandals don’t need to be the norm

Lets start with the Sold-out Newport.
Might as well set it off with proof that if God doesn’t love ugly, someone else will and make 25 dollars at ticket.

Photos By Danielle Kline

Me, Detox, Dirtnap and Cashola pre-show.

Detox soundchecking a polka record.

Background on the show:Pos 2 rocked the NERD show with Fly Union’s J-Swifa’s help. A connect at Newport was impressed at their performance. So dood at the Newport asked Pos to do the Twiztid show. Pos hit up Detox like, “you up for a challenge.” In some weird Batman signal, and a sense of honor, Pos and Detox decided they needed to do this show, and do it correctly.

Seriously, it was on some deejay samurai code/Doctor’s Oathe. Like, how do you fuck ICP’s bitch correctly. So all week omnimix pm’s were sent to working class graff writers that like ICP. Lot’s of discussion of what makes an ICP hit.

Lost of discovery of 3-6 Mafia, and plenty of Detroit’s underground doing collabs with ICP.

BUt back to life, Back to reality.

Show is sold out. Juggalo’s been out since 10 am, eagerly waiting to see their idols. Doors open, they need to greated with some entertainment.

Their entertainment? DJ Pos 2 hosting. DJ Detox on the tables. Me, Cashola, Dirtnap and Dkline lurking in the back ground. Detox is mad nervous. Keeps expressing the fact that he doesn’t want someone to hit him in the head with a bottle of Faygo. My point is:even if they hit you with Faygo, think about it. These are Juggalo’s.

Again, I am not the entertainment. I am a blogger. So its easy for me to say, “hey, b-ez.”

Dey Know:

1200 rabid Juggalos, who have nothing to live for but this moment. Sold-out room. They got Przm’s best friend, and one of my best friends as entertainment. This is like Diplo,Low-Bee, Mick Boogie Tony Touch, Doo-Wop, Stretch Armstrong,and Primo trying to hold it down at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

The plan was this. Doors open. Juggalo’s run to the front until they are stopped by a barrier. Pos hosts, and Detox drops “Dre Day” to the hungry Twiztid massives. Then Pos greats them. And then our heroes hit them with a joke.

Basically, our heroes drop “Dre Day”, Pos addresses the crowd. Asks where his Columbus Juggalo’s are. Claims we are about to hear some real juggalo shit. Then they dropped a polka record, much to the sha-grin to the trillest of the ICP movement.

Pos looks at the crowd like he is with them in their disdain for polka music, and is like “I wanna here that real Hatchetman shit”.

Srsly. Why Detox hit them with Polka?

Detox then drops the following set:

insane clown posse “chicken huntin”

blaze ya dead homie “i go to work

psychopathic rydas “dumpin”

cypress hill “i wanna get high”

blaze ya dead homie “in case you forgot”

dark lotus “juggalo family”

twiztid “bury them all” ft. tech 9ne

three 6 mafia “just anotha crazy click” ft. icp & twiztid

insane clown posse “thug pit” ft. bone thugs-n-harmony, tech 9ne, esham & kottonmouth kings

“Juggalo Family” is especially a hit with the crowd. Who can lose with a hook like, “Mass murder makes me happy. Dead Bodies make me happy. What can I say? I am on of the Juggalo family.”

We all stunt on stage. Detox and Pos just won the Kentucky Derby. Cashola pops bottles.

Now, the gameplan also had this idea:Who the fuck gives a shit more about turntablism than Juggalo’s? So Pos and Detox invited Bombay to drop some turntable wizardry.

What we didn’t account for is that the rule of selection being 90 percent of being a dejay holding true on Bombay. Bombay had a dope routine that had him cutting super technical over RJD2.

Juggalo’s don’t care about Bombay or RJ for that matter.They care about DJ Clay.

DJ Clay is the man when it comes to Juggalo Dejaying. He plays nothing but Psychopathic artists. He has their whole world down. He rocked it later. DJ Clay got ICP mixtape joints, rocking over shit like M.O.P’s “Ante Up”. Clay has screwed and chopped songs asking “If you is a real juggalo put your hands up. Clay is Green Lantern, Mike Watts, Q-bert and Nick Catchdubs all mixed into one for the ICP world.

That left Bombay assed out. The crowd was already suspect if they were seeing their own. Watching Bombay made them realize they have been hoodwinked. At least Detox gave them their hits.

The crowd chanted for DJ Clay. This is no fault of Bombay. He just did’nt play any Psychopathic Record’s releases. So the crowd wasn’t feeling it.

All, and all it was a fun evening. I got approached by ICP girl that had been made fun of by PBJ asking my stance on the Hatchet. I said, “Not for me. But they gave you a voice right?”

We drank for free. Detox and Pos learned they could hold it down in ICP land.

Wes Flexner-What are a few Hip Hop Weeklies that stick out in your mind?
Blueprint-Ohio would be Bernies(Fonosluts) Columbus #1, and Topcats #2. They were the best hiphop nights I’ve ever been to for different reasons…Bernies was rowdy on some youth angst clash of cultures type shit, and the music was really diverse. Topcats was dope only because it was the only outlet in a city with no outlets, and because people used to get regulated on so quickly. A lot more beatdowns at Topcats, but a lot more classic hiphop moments at Bernies. Topcats also had that straight edge, grafitti writer, hip hop head, meets g rapper element to it. That was the last place I battled at with regularity because you could guarantee it would be against somebody who hadn’t heard of me.Bernies was a place you had to earn respect before you got the mic at, and Topcats wasn’t really.

WF-How long did Top Cats go on for? I know Bernies went on for like 6 years.
Blueprint-Top cats was about 5 years.

WF-Girls Girls Girls. Why do most Hip Hop nights struggle on the girl tip?
Blueprint-Because dudes who aren’t around enough women put hiphop nights together. Most dudes don’t even acknowledge the fun factor, and the fun factor runs hand in hand with the female factor. If the women come to your event then you’re doing something right. Not that it has to be girly music but its gotta be something normal people ie Women can relate to. Dudes just wanna rap and get glory. Girls just wanna have fun. You have to meet somewhere in the middle to get girls out.

After the jump, Print gives hip hop dorks lessons on meeting women. He discusses future music and touring plans, and tells me how Envelope earned the nickname “the white ODB”.

WF-Do you have any advice for the gameless but well intentioned Hip Hop man at a weekly to meet women without creeping them out?
BP-Play the bar and let the girls talk first.

WF-So say the girl decides to talk to you..and she asks you to dance and you don’t know how to dance…How should I..I mean one approach that situation. Whats an easy dance move for the motor skilled impaired?
BP-Then I would dance but I would play the wall. Never get out in plain sight where everybody can see you if you can’t dance. If its packed then get in the middle of the dancefloor where nobody can see you and stay hugged up on her so she doesn’t notice you’ve got no rhythm Either the wall or hidden in the middle. When you play the wall u can front like you’re not tryin. That’s crucial if you can’t dance.

WF-i have found that the best moment to bust free is during “The Humpty Dance” cause dood explains how the dance to you and its supposed to look funny anyway so I am glad its get so much spin.
BP-Oh yeah. If you hear a joint with song that has a dance move associated with it then do that immediately. That will save you.

WF-So last show you headlined in Columbus was New Years at Skullys.
BP-Yeah that was it for me. I’ve been tryin to lay low and do other things.

WF-Place was stacked.
BP-Yeah shit was oversold. That was a great night. I was so amazed that Lif was actually there. Especially after his bus accident.

WF-Yeah that was his first show back. So after something like that..why Bourbon Street on a Wednesday?
BP- Well, besides trying to bring shows to the weekly event that wouldn’t normally be there, for me its about trying out some new material in a room and for a crowd that might not come see me at a spot like Skullys. Bourbon St. is an indy rock room primarily. And it definitely isn’t associated with hiphop at all to this point. For me that’s good. When I tour solo try to fit in a couple weekly events, where people who go there might not even believe I would play that kinda room, but when it works it means more to everybody. Plus I like small rooms anyway

WF-You are about to go on the road again right?
BP-I start the Blowfly tour on june 12th. That’s about 2 weeks but its mostly East coast and Midwest.Then after that I got the Paid Dues tour starting in mid july and early august. Its Felt (Atmosphere & Murs), Mr Lif, Brother Ali, Cage, Hangar 18, Me and Living Legends, and maybe some other cats. That will be the majority of my summer spent on the road.

WF- What musical projects are you currently working on?
BP- My next solo album and producing Envelopes next album are my number one priorities right now. I’m also working on a new Greenhouse album, but since me and Fess don’t really give a shit about release dates so its gonna come out whenever.

WF-You just took Envelope on his first tour. He is a favorite among Donewaiting.com visitors. So tell us an embarrassing story about Tony. on the road.How did Lope get the name “The White Odb”?
BP-Envelope managed to have a lot of good stories in a short amount of time…let me think of that shit. He got called (the White ODB) that by one of his own fans in Carbondale, Illinois. He played there last year with me and some kids dug him, so one of them came back and was saw Envelope at the merch table and said “I love you man, you’re even more dirty and grimey than the last time I saw you! You’re like the white old dirty bastard!!!” shit was hilarious…. Envelope would get drunk and talk shit to the crowd during my set and as fucked up as what he said would be it would be right and funny as fuck. In Tulsa, instead of calling the nonresponsive crowd wack he told them that he couldn’t believe they had the nerve to resent Mexicans for coming here when Mexicans worked harder than them. He called them lazy and the shit was so fucking funny. That was the worst night of the tour though. Not in turnout, because we had about 60 heads there, but in terms of response because it was like rapping to a room of statues.Tony was a big trooper though, but he did really well on his first tour.

Disclaimer. I am not the promoter of this show. I am down with Weightless. So What Wednesdays was named after Daymon Dodson. And I do work for his legacy. But I don’t have any financial stake in the night.The deed on the night is DJ Detox and friends. I have dejayed at So What Wednesdays as part of 3cb. And sometimes Adam Elliot gives me a free shot. But thats just because Adam Elliot is a pretty good dood. So even though I am down with Weightless. No money here….much like I have also resisted all urges to write on the bathroom stall even though I down with PBJ.