NOW...this is thee Original Blog post on my Myspace Page. All the local newspaper and magazine articles started from this post right here...I remember telling Mic Jordan that I couldint take it no more and I had to say something...I wrote it at his house and it took me no less then 20mins to make sure all my points that I MADE where arguable...When this shit hit the fan WOW! Death Threats happend...NAACP,Zulu members,Writers,Rappers,and everyones momma had something to say about this...Shit till this day people are STILL upset about it...but you know what...IT WORKED! and its STILL working till this day...So Enjoy this...and if you get the chance read the comments on it...go to my myspace page...
SAC HATES HIP-HOP
Current mood:awake
Category: Music
The reason why I say Sacramento,CA Hates hip-hop is for many different reasons.
1.(A) Why is it you cannot promote at other clubs? You cant go into Avalon and promote for Empire...Look we all know there is so many clubs in this small city we love but to be real...BOB SIMPSON WILL NOT ALLOW CONSCIOUS HIP-HOP IN HIS CLUB...AND NOR WILL ANY OTHER CLUB FOR THAT MATTER....In other citys you can promote local events in other clubs cause thats just how it is...
(B) How is it that local HIP-HOP ACTS cannot perform in a night club on a Fri or Sat night? I have yet to see ANY local big name CLUB in the DOWNTOWN area of sac put on a local event...Lets be real here...If they where to do that they would make the same amount of money if not more if they DID put a local act in there clubs...Press Club wont even do a ALL hip-hop no more due to management changes and I hate to say it but racist promoters...
(C) And how is it I cant promote at the Local COLLEGES? I gotta be fucking secret agent man just to pass out a flyer! Are you crazy? Its a local college we can walk on campus but we cant invite them to a show?
2. (A) Radio station's BARLEY support the local acts....102.5 has the Future Flavor Show which is dope but I also remember the time where BIG AL had his Future Flave Break Out Artist of the Day...now he just does his thing.
(B) 103.5 HAD the 916 Leak as well with EQ&DJ Supe but since Feb 20th they have not had that show no more! All they keep saying is WE ARE HEADING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION...Yea the direction is to be MORE COMMERCIAL...The one thing about that radio station is that they are out there with the people...it makes it seem that even you can do there job...which is a bad thing as well....
(C) Name a artist from the Sacramento,CA that has blown up besides a rock band?...June bug slim,C-BO,Doey Rock, and Brotha Lynch Hung? They are known...but have they blown up? NO! C-BO is the most recent to make a move but HIS LOCAL RADIO STATION DIDINT DO THAT FOR HIM!! We dont have a program director thats willing to put his career on the line to see some one become that dude to blow...instead their mentality is "If it aint broke dont fix it!" MONEY MONEY MONEY...
(D) And as far as the News & Review and Sacramento Bee...They don't help us...The Sacramento Bee Tour showed ONE SIDE of HIP-HOP but during all that I help throw one of the BIGGEST HIP-HOP SHOWS SAC HAS HAD...NAS and they never ONCE said "Damn some local rap artist threw that show..." Instead they said we going to the plantation...hahaha wow! News & Review didint even show up to get a interview or anything...and they are SUPPOSE TO BE THE LOCAL FREE PAPER...the last hip-hop article I think I saw was about the 916 leak dissing EQ...or maybe it was the other paper? haha thats how bad it is out here....
3. SACRAMENTO DOES NOT HAVE ITS OWN SOUND! I'm guilty of it too...but think about it...
L.A. Has N.W.A Game Xzibit and others
The Bay has E-40 Mac Dre Too Short
N.Y Has Jigga Nas Jada 50cent
South Ludacriss LiL Wayne Outkast
Chicago kanye Common Twista
The Valley has....?
We aint the bay we are the Valley niggas need to see that...
4. Niggas in sac have music,merch,and fans but they do not have their ASCAP, BDS, MEDIA DISC BASE, and Know how to get there shit played...instead we sit back and HOPE some one helps us and then when nobody does we move to L.A. to TRY and make it and then we come back and the little hip-hop scene we have thinks we turned our backs on them and we gotta try and win them back...and in the mist of ALL THIS SHIT...We still don't get it...So then we HATE ON EACH OTHER FOR THROWING ARE OWN BIG NAME SHOWS!
5.PROMOTERS just because you throw a BIG NAME SHOW does not mean that you are helping out the community...ITS JUST HELPING OUT PUTTING ARTIST ON...THERE AINT NO HOMELESS PERSON GAINING FROM THIS! The Food Bank aint thanking you...you want to help out the community go do community service...I've help throw a show in sac for the Katrina victim's in N.O. So dont use throwing a BIG SHOW as a excuse that the COMMUNITY need's this...
6. AND WE HAVE BBOYS! SOME OF THE BEST BBOYS COME FROM SAC... Niggas need to break bread with these dudes and quit thinking that its old news...most of these dudes have been around the world for dancing for free and you had to pay for all that...
7. DJ'S...Please quit asking HOW DO I GET IN A CLUB... How about make a mix tape...use your head...quit asking and pleading....just do it some one will hook you up trust me...
There it is...I'm sure I have more to say but I said alot already...Thats why I say SAC HATES HIP-HOP! and if you have more questions you most likely hate hip-hop too...
only been in the sac hip hop scene THIS YEAR.. heard about the SAC HATES HIP HOP MOVEMENT and i was wit it.. reading this blog now, i see significant changes, especially in this year that i've been exposed to the scene... things are sort of looking up... but then again, its a rollercoaster. you are one cat that i look forward to having a conversation with one day. oh yeah! i especially like #5! keep pushin bruh....
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