Check out the full interview HERE
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(Yes, I’ve been waitin to get back to Roscoe’s forfuckingever at this point…lol)
Big shouts to my dude Zeke The Freak for chopping up the interview and sending it over. Last night I called into Chicken and Waffles on Radio DePaul in Chicago with host P welbs (@pwelbs) and Q (@Qisfreshnproper). I said it on aire a couple of times last night, but Chicken & Waffles Radio has to be one of the best College Radio Show names in the history of College Radio.
Part 1: Who is ESSO? What is an Anti-Socialite? What is the meaning behind New York, New York?
Via HiZeke.com
05
May
10
#TheAnti-Socialite’s Thank You’s
One of the things that I just realized is that in the digital age where artwork is only 2 panels and most people never really see anything other than the front cover in iTunes, the are of the Thank You has been completely neglected. I wanted to take a few seconds here to thank the people that helped to make this project happen.
The Y&I Family:
What can I say? I’m sure there were times that you’ve hated me throughout this (especially in the past week or so) but y’all are the catalyst to everything I do. Saint Paul (who I never call Saint Paul) you’ve seen this shit from the absolute beginning…long way from the Platinum Lounge eh? Tory & Anabelle, I know I’ve prolly stressed y’all the most and vice versa, but isn’t that our jobs? Renny, Woody & NvMe, this project is as much each of yours as it is mine. Thank’s for stretching the canvases for me to paint on. Chase, 3 words: Budweiser 24 Pack.
To the person that I told that I wanted to write the new project in her apartment, thank you for not looking at me like I was crazy when I said that, despite however crazy even I acknowledge that must have sounded. And thanks for admiring my Usain Bolt (run on) sentences.
To everybody that’s kept me sane since June 25th, 2009 from the bottom of my heart, Thank You.
To Shake, let this serve as a public apology for the way that the cover situation was handled. You’ve had my back since none of your audience even really knew who I was. We’re supposed to let the commenters on 2DBz hate me, they don’t need any help haha!
To everyone that I let hear The Anti-Socialite before today: I’m glad your reactions were what they were when you heard it because I dont know what I would have done with myself if they weren’t what they were.
To the person whose words led to the title (ironically you were the first person to hear the idea), I told you I was gonna turn this shit into something epic!
To Imagination, Creativity, Faith, Critical Thinking and Intelligence: Thanks for never leaving me to defend myself alone.
23
Mar
10
#ESSxSW
(started writing this after leaving 6th st. on Saturday)
First of all its 5:22am and I’m not really tired so I’m gonna attempt it. Don’t judge me for grammar on this one. Thanks in advance…LOL
Thank You’s (trying to do this from memory so forgive me)
First and foremost to the Y&I Team (Tory and Anabelle) and Martin y’all definitely held me down and I appreciate it more than you know. Besides the still as yet unfound Digital Camera everything ran pretty much as smoothly as could be expected. What a difference a year makes huh?
To IB, Chris, Jeanette, The Bamaz & the Houston side of things… ALREADY!
To all the artists and folks that I ran into:
DJ RTC from RubyHornet and the session engineer at Closed Sessions (his name escapes me right now), Last Rights, Dave & Rikers at Beyond Race Magazine, Crosby & Miz Metro & Hip Hop Howl, TC & David D from TheSmokingSection, Shake and Meka from 2dopeboyz, Eskay, Dominique from Leaders of the New Cool and Hollywood East, Ashley Outrageous, Shanell (#welldamn), Killer Mike, Chip The Ripper, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, Fashawn, XV, Stalley, El Prez, Sean Falyon, Shawn Chrys, Tiron, Diz Gibran, Curtains, Curtis Santiago, Buff1 (who I havent run into since we battled randomly in College), Steve-O from GFC, Cherry Pop, of course the New York side of things (we were pretty heavy this year): Game Rebellion, Donny Goines, Mickey Factz, Emilio Rojas, Skyzoo, Nina B, Gordon Voidwell, CL, Alice, Neil & everyone at Digiwaxx, DJ Harry Chronic for rocking with me for a couple extra shows (heard Torae was in Austin but I didnt run into him), Dara & Billy from SubCon (I rocked the Navy Blue & Cranberry Y&I’s ALL WEEK), Rocksmith Tokyo, Vince from IM King. I definitely need to thank my phone charger for being with me for almost every minute that I wasn’t in the house or hotel room, and flash drives and serato for making show CD’s almost completely obsolete…
I know I left a lot of people out, but as we speak I’m in Houston working on a project with my twin IB3 so for now this is gonna have to do…
For anyone I left out, blame it on mental exhaustion and not my heart
E
17
Mar
10
ESSO x SXSW x HoneyMag.com
The good folks over at Honey Magazine asked me to write about my experiences at this years South by Southwest Music Festival and of course I accepted. Check HoneyMag.com over the next week for the entries. Shouts to Shanel, Erika, Nicole and the rest of the Honey staff
(and yeah I couldn’t resist the opportunity to use the Nicki Minaj screenshot LOL)
ENTRIES:
When I first heard about what happened with the Earthquake in Haiti, I was pretty desensitized honestly. Being from New York, its so easy for us to not feel any personal involvement with things that go on around us, because its a part of our every day way we operate. I had family that suffered in Hurricane Katrina, so that was very personal for me. My father was supposed to be in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and I was in DC at the time, so those events were pretty personal also. The tragedy in Haiti wasn’t personal for me, until I realized that I had a friend there.
I’ve known Martine Cauthen through friends, and then through events that her and her business partners would throw that I attended. A Few months ago, Martine had a going away party; she was going to teach for a year at a school in Haiti. None of us knew at the time that Martine would become an eyewitness and personal news anchor to all who know her whenwe celebrated her going away. Martine survived the earthquake, and has since joined in the efforts in Haiti as a nurse. Her courage should be an inspiration to us all. I donated to Wyclef’s “Yele” foundation in hopes of contributing somehow to help Haiti get back on its feet, but my contributions are superficial compared to the true heroes of this story who are on the ground in Haiti as we speak dealing with the crisis that most of us are priviliged enough to only experience on CNN. I cant wait to see Martine on Thursday at her fundraiser and give her a huge hug. I know I may not be able to do much, but I’ll do whatever I can.
E
[Hit the jump for some of the pictures that Martine has posted post-Earthquake via Twitter]
Happy New Year! So New Years Eve has come and gone, Times Square has been cleaned up, and now everyone has to deal with the reality of the fact that the year that they could predict so easily before midnight on 12/31/09 is actually upon us. I brought in New Years with my family as always, and then headed out after midnight to a nice calm evening. What better way to bring the new year in than with the people that you care about.
Anyway, I jsut wanted to take a second to let you all know that I appreciate each and every one of you for your support, love, hate, misunderstanding, understanding and whatever other interaction we may have had through my music in the past 12 months. As you probably already know last year was pretty interesting for me and the whole Y&I team as we set out to make our mark on this thing that we call society. An EP and one unpredictably eerily timed mixtape later and here we are in 2010 with a chance to build on everything that we accomplished in the past year.
I have a lot planned for the new year but in reality planning is nothing without execution, so I’d like to thank everyone that made last year possible: Tory, Renny, Woody, Puma, Olivia, Paul, Denitria, Chase and all of the Y&I extended family circle as well. 2010 is here, and now we all have to continue pushing to accomplish our goals and finally come face to face with our dreams…
Cheers to progress…
E
Any of you who follow me on Twitter on Saturdays should already know why. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Tate Forcier is the real deal…so for those of you who may not be UM Alum, or fans of the Wolverines, or plan on converting soon, here are the words to a little song we’d like you to start getting used to hearing again…It’s called “The Victors” Oh yea, it’s been called the greatest fight song ever written…
- Hail! to the victors valiant
- Hail! to the conqu’ring heroes
- Hail! Hail! to Michigan
- The leaders and best!
- Hail! to the victors valiant
- Hail! to the conqu’ring heroes
- Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
- The champions of the West!
Woody and I caught up with MADonly.com outside of XV’s party last week at Glass lounge to talk about Off the Wall and a bunch of other things, check it out:
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