Those are the most chilling words I have ever heard. If you have ever been to jail you know what I am talking about. Okay before I start this story I have to say that certain members of the squad get in a fight. To be fair to everyone I am not going to talk about what led up to this fight but it was a misunderstanding and now everyone understands where money went and everything is cool. Now as hard as this will be to believe I didn’t do anything. I promise, I hardly saw what happened and because of that, things kind of worked out. Ill Pick up this story right after we left the parking lot it was Butch and Sundance (or as you know them Breezy and TonyJ) We were in the Tahoe parked behind a oil changing spot. I said this is some bullshit you know the fucking police are looking for us; we have been back here for like 30 minutes it should be safe to go home. It was dark but the fucking truck was bright red on fucking rims (I hate fucking rims) we turned TWO quick corners and the Jake surrounded us. All I saw was guns and fucking disco lights all over the place. And then goes the regular shit, “Is there a problem officer?” “Son somebody thun beat the GODDAMN SHIT OUT OF A BOY UP HERE AND STOLE HIS FUCKING SHIT” Now there was a fight and in this fight allot of things came up missing and honestly on my son, we didn’t take anything. Now I have been arrested for fighting before usually they throw you in jail and depending on how drunk you are they will let you sleep it off, or let you bail out no biggie.
So they take us in at this point TonyJ and I were already descending (we had been kicked out of the MAA apartment complex and we both had lost our jobs behind that bitch so we were already fucked up financially) but at that point we fell into the abyss. We go through booking, and they take us to the cell. I call LA “Hey them people got us, come get me and TonyJ out of jail.” He started laughing and said okay and so we waited…and waited…and waited…and waited. So now the guard comes in and says you boys get prepared to go to the Rankin County Facility. Now we are in a holding facility the worst thing about this place is we got no place to get comfortable, all they have are these hard ass wood benches and it is cold as fuck in here. So I said man let me call LA again so we can get the fuck out of here I bet this bastard fell asleep. I called LA and he picked up I said “ Dude what the fuck are you doing come on they are about to take us to Rankin and we have to stay there all night what is the business” LA sounds allot like a sleepy version of ICE CUBE (he is from LA I never said we had good imaginations) he said the following “Man they got yall for strong armed robbery, I asked the lady how much to get yall out she said $15,000 a piece. Breezy…. Breezy I aint got that” I said go back to sleep LA. Now anything with Armed Robbery in the title is not going to go away with an afternoon picking up trash. They take us to Rankin and this boys and girls is the real jail. First you strip and they check, between your toes, under your arm, under you nut sack, and the world famous quote “Turn around and spread your butt cheeks” We were permitted to wear the very latest in ‘You know you done fucked up’ fashions. O and by the way you can’t wear any colored underwear and I had on a pair of blue boxers. SO THEY TOOK THE YOUNG ONES UNMENTIONABLES. So my dick is pressed up against this I guess you have to call it a uniform. I am certain that I am not to first to wear this. I am also certain that I cant be the first to wear colored undies. I will leave you to put 2 and 2 together. Okay the first night we are in the Felony Tank a lovely place, I must say let me describe it for you, there are steel doors and the walls are concrete and it is 5x colder than inside your fucking refrigerator.
From here lets just hit the bullet points:
We are in a concrete room about 25-30 dudes who have all been here a very long time. So long in fact that somebody came back in and the ENTIRE ROOM yelled ‘LOOK WHO BACK IN THIS MOTHAFUCKA” it was like a reunion.
We met Timmy, a huge bastard that was so fucking stupid it was embarrassing to be in the same room with him
The Most Wanted felon in Jackson, MS at the time, the Police went on a helicopter and police car chase for this dude. It was all over the news I think they found him under his sister’s house. He was funny as hell, he kept talking about he was innocent but he taught me how to hotwire a car (remember that shit TonyJ). (That might make a great post)
Timmy at this point started talking about when he got out wait let me give you a direct quote “My Momma Gone get me them Master P shoes” I bullshit you not he talked about them fucking shoes the entire time we were in there.
I fell asleep, and I can’t remember what I was dreaming but when I woke up TonyJ was sitting at my feet he said “yeah bitch you still in here”
At this point I called my uncle because its time to reach out to that greater tax bracket. His wife answered my blood aunt she asked was I fucking crazy. I told her I didn’t think so. My uncle said he was going to see what he could do. (He was like my dad still is)
The next morning came we went before the judge, I said not guilty TonyJ said not guilty and apparently that meant shit because the judge said we will have trial in a few days and sent us back to jail.
Every time we left the jail TonyJ and I were handcuffed together. This starts to get to TonyJ because I can’t stop laughing about the situation (between the onset of bouts with depression)
I get back to the jail and every time we went in or out of the jail we were strip-searched. Now I have NO fucking idea what I did but for some reason this guard told me “WAIT YOU take your jump suit back off “ this is it all the days of fucking someone else’s woman has finally going to get me prison guard fucked.
He said, “You, lift up your nut sack!!!!” I did “ Turn around and spread your cheeks” Now this is getting out of fucking hand.
I look at TonyJ and he is looking at me like what the fuck did you sneak in here. Not a damn thing the guard wanted to see me naked (I hope somebody take his fucking dignity one day)
We drive back to the court TonyJ screams after I tell him that lyrically nobody can touch Willie D. He asked to be handcuffed to someone he doesn’t want to kill.
The charges are dropped because I didn’t have shit to do with the fight. My mother picks us up from jail. I hadn’t showered since I had been there because there was no shower. (Don’t go to jail in Mississippi) But hey I made new friends and I know how to steal 6 different types of cars. Moral of the story don’t get caught. And always make sure that everybody in the family is eating as good as you are.
©2006 YoungBreezy.com
Thursday, February 16, 2006
The HyPhy Movement
Hey I got LOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEE for the Bay and the music that comes out of there. All you gotta do is look at how I am and you can see the influence of Too-$hort, The Click, Frontline, Mac Dre, THAT NIGGA SUGAR FREE. I also got love for the Bay because one of my God Kids live out there (Hey Keziah Breezy loves you). I have some readers from other countries whats up France(Sweetbaby) and the UK that read the blog that don't know where the Bay is located. The bay is Nothern California (Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco) they have been moving units in the bay for years they give themselves the support that is kinda lost every other city espically in my culture. They move units out of their cars and most people out there make their own beats do their own raps, and press their own cds. That is a true hustler, to see it from the ground up and make their own buzz, you have to respect that. AND WOMEN FROM THE BAY O MY GOD. Anyway I know its been a few days since I put up anything but I am working on two stories right now. I am just checking facts with the usual players. But until then one of my featured links AllHipHop.com is doing a story today on Bay area music so here you go bitches.
HYPHY: The Bay's Hip-Hop RevengeBy Octavia Bostick
Visualize a place for everyone to “stunt” or to show off their high performance muscle cars with a snake-like line of about 300 cars coursing in the street. Hear the music blaring, watch car doors open (also known as ghost-riding), and see people fearlessly leap out of their cars while still in motion. Ogle people dancing maniacally on tops of cars and anywhere else their spirit takes them. This is Hyphy.
Oakland artists Keak Da Sneak and MacDre, who carved history with their regional hit “Hyphy,” introduced this ever-blossoming subsection of Hip-Hop commercially in the late ‘90s. Ever since, the lifestyle has assumed its own existence and joined Federation, Keak, Fab, E-40, Mac Dre, Droopy, Turf Talk, The Team, Kin Smoke, Messy Marv and the rest of the Bay Area in throwing ‘bows for a space in Hip-Hop.
The Hip-Hop community has feverishly dealt with the commercial hijacking of their trends and slang and has established Hyphy- an art form and lifestyle that is truly their own. The “Ambassador of the Bay” E-40 and Keak Da Sneak are burning up the streets with the latest Hyphy hit “Tell Me When To Go” and, for them, it’s time for the rest of the industry to stand up and recognize the Bay Area’s presence. “I’m just sticking and moving, ya know,” says E-40 of his role in the movement, “I helped birth the Hyphy movement along with the other Bay Area rappers because that’s where it originated. It started in the streets and I’m just adding to it. I’m just doing my part. Hyphy ain’t all that I do, but I go to bat for it 100 percent. The youngsters brought that in, not the rappers. We’re just the novelists and the voice of it. It’s a dance and it’s a culture. There are different phases of the Hyphy movement. It starts off with the dance and builds around that and these youngsters are building more around it everyday.” Though it’s definitely about having fun, proponents of Hyphy say the movement is more about freedom--freedom of expression and the freedom to be original. Music has typically personified the state of affairs of social life. More often than not, the emergence of a new trend in music has been met with ridicule and disdain, as was the case with Hip-Hop, disco and even rock-n-roll. There was a time when Elvis Presley was censored for gyrating his hips on live television, but he got his break from a forward thinking host named Ed Sullivan. Well, if Sullivan were around to experience the craze in the Bay Area, he’d probably have his own Hyphy attack.
Although the craze is its own, Hyphy doesn’t exist in a vacuum. “The terminology of ‘getting dumb’ or ‘getting stupid’ has been around for a while,” says Hip-Hop historian Davey D. “Most people, that are old enough, they remember [‘80s rapper and producer team] Just Ice and Mantronix. They had a song called ‘Cold Getting Dumb.’ That really meant to release your energy and just not care. There was another song called ‘Get Retarded.’” Davey D, an activist that resides in Oakland, stated that the notion of Hyphy has manifested itself through the years through terms like “buckwild,’” “getting stupid,” “get a little stupid,” and “get ill.” “Later down the road, you had people like Digital Underground that talked about ‘getting stupid’ and, if you look at the ‘Humpty Dance,’ it kind of reminds me of certain parts of Hyphy,” Davey D says. “I don’t know if cats that are [getting hyphy] today are old enough to know that history, but I do think its something to note.”Still, the Crump-meets-Crunk motion displayed by those “going dumb” is much more of a rebellious statement than just an excuse to wild out. It is the expression of Bay Area youth who have claimed their own self-expression and use it as a badge of resiliency amid harsh physical circumstances in the social and Hip-Hop realms. Hip-Hop culture has its roots in pride, truth, courage and self-determination, and as a result it has grown to influence almost every segment of the planet. The Bay area is finally demanding to be recognized for the role it’s played in that big picture. T-Kash, an Oakland radio personality and political Hip-Hop artist, explains, “The music is just the accompaniment to the ritual and ceremony that is Hyphy. Hyphy culture is basically about not giving a damn. It’s the Bay Area’s Hip-Hop rebellion to the rest of the industry. We’ve been here before. In the late ‘90s, Bay Area Hip-Hop was here but, because of label politics and social politics, Bay Area Hip-Hop was removed from the scene on a national and worldwide scale, except for a handful of artists. So there are these other artists underneath that were always trying to shop these deals and for whatever reason it didn’t happen for them.” A strong advocate of Hyphy, T-Kash still isn’t a complete party to the movement, though he understands the significance behind the movement. His local radio show “Friday Night Vibe” was the platform for Hyphy artists long before the term was even coined. As one of the people responsible for bringing Hyphy music to the airwaves long before stations like KMEL came on board, T-Kash feels it’s about time the culture is finally getting the recognition it deserves. “The Hyphy culture is basically a living breathing embodiment for the Bay Area point, it’s officially at its boiling point and it’s not taking it anymore. It does not care what the industry thinks and that’s why the sound is so aggressive and very bare and stripped down,” T-Kash reveals. “So now, Hyphy culture is saying we don’t care what you think--we’re coming anyways.” The insurrection manifests itself in a variety of ways like enhanced slang, a unique fashion sensibility, varied production styles and a whole community with a strategy. “It ain’t just me. It’s regular citizens of northern Caliscrewya [California] that ain’t too pleased about pimps running with our swagger,” E-40 laments. “Lately I’ve been keeping an invisible muzzle over my mouth, because I gotta watch what I say. I could just say one word and cats would take it and make a million off of it.” Hip-Hop was created as a vehicle of expression by a community who felt their voices were unheard by the masses. And getting hyphy is the Bay’s way to scream at the world. One AllHipHop.com reader, B-Stran, expressed his frustration with an e-mail letter after D-Roc of the Ying Yang Twins released a group called Da Musicianz with an underground song called “Go Dumb.” “There has been a lot of plagiarism by the Ying Yang Twins and they are some bitin’ ass mother f**kers, B-Stran wrote. “Everybody uses Bay slang a bit without paying respect and credit to the Bay. It ain't [that] we think we’re better than anybody else, it’s just when you use somebody else’s style, you show that man respect. That's what a real cat does. At least show them respect by featuring them on the song and then you can run with it. They should do all their West Coast shows in L.A. because the Bay gets truly Hyphy.” Da Musicianz’s version of “Go Dumb” was never released commercially, but the group will emerge with their debut in May on TVT Records.T-Kash concurs. “The Ying-Yang Twins were examples with that [song] ‘Go Dumb’ by that group [Da Musicianz] that one of them put out, and they had it all backwards giving credit to L.A.” With a stable of producers, Hyphy specialists intend to make sure the subgenre gets its just due. Rick Rock, known for his work with Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Mariah and E-40 to name a few, legitimizes the movement by taking an existing stripped down sound and making it official. “He basically polished it up and packaged it to make it sound official,” says T-Kash. Droopy of the Pharmaceuticals, EA-Ski and Track Million are other noted producers of the music that makes people go dumb.
Even the King of Crunk has joined the movement to help the cousin of Crunk. “Lil Jon is an overall producer,” explains E-40, “He produces universal music. He produced a song for Too Short called ‘Burn Rubber’ and that’s the kinda song that makes n***as go Hyphy. He had people getting Hyphy off the Ying Yang Twins and the ‘Get Low’ song and a lot of people didn’t know he produced ‘Tell Me When To Go.’ They thought Rick Rock did that.” Music and respect aside, there is another facet to the Hyphy Movement. If there were a negative element to the Hyphy Movement, the law would most assuredly site the practice of “thizzing,” a sub-segment of Hyphy that often involves popping pills. San Quinn, another Bay favorite, explains that there are certain variables to the thizzing craze--not just illegal drug use. "Thizzin' is like a way of life. Cats just wanna get Hyphy, but you don't have to be [high] off [ecstasy]. You could be off ten Red Bulls,” Quinn yells. “You don't have to be off thizz to be Hyphy. It is the truth, though: mother f**kas is poppin' that thizz. Hopefully, America can get into cleaning up the E pills getting into the community because it sure ain't young Black kids bringin' the thizz into the neighborhoods.” Quinn feels the new influx of E in the ‘hood is merely another self-destruction tactic like the crack cocaine epidemic that ripped through Black and Latino communities in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. “This whole thing ain't nothing but crack all over again, though,” he says. “We fixin' to come outta that. 'Cause the kids know crack is so dirty. They mamas and daddies was on crack. So I feel like the pills are some governmental s**t." In accord, Keak Da Sneak says, “These high school kid’s aren’t getting high. It’s an energy, Hyphy is all about a fun energy. I can’t speak for the college kids but they’re just releasing, they’re just letting their true selves take control. Getting Hyphy is about letting go of all your inhibitions and being who you really are-no matter what anybody thinks.”
AllHipHop staff writers Jigsaw and Adisa Banjoko contributed to this story.
HYPHY RESOURCES
http://hyphie.blogspot.com/
http://www.hyphymovement.com
http://myspace.com/keakdasneak
www.e-40music.com
www.daveyd.com
www.guerrillafunk.com
www.beautifulhustle.com
HYPHY: The Bay's Hip-Hop RevengeBy Octavia Bostick
Visualize a place for everyone to “stunt” or to show off their high performance muscle cars with a snake-like line of about 300 cars coursing in the street. Hear the music blaring, watch car doors open (also known as ghost-riding), and see people fearlessly leap out of their cars while still in motion. Ogle people dancing maniacally on tops of cars and anywhere else their spirit takes them. This is Hyphy.
Oakland artists Keak Da Sneak and MacDre, who carved history with their regional hit “Hyphy,” introduced this ever-blossoming subsection of Hip-Hop commercially in the late ‘90s. Ever since, the lifestyle has assumed its own existence and joined Federation, Keak, Fab, E-40, Mac Dre, Droopy, Turf Talk, The Team, Kin Smoke, Messy Marv and the rest of the Bay Area in throwing ‘bows for a space in Hip-Hop.
The Hip-Hop community has feverishly dealt with the commercial hijacking of their trends and slang and has established Hyphy- an art form and lifestyle that is truly their own. The “Ambassador of the Bay” E-40 and Keak Da Sneak are burning up the streets with the latest Hyphy hit “Tell Me When To Go” and, for them, it’s time for the rest of the industry to stand up and recognize the Bay Area’s presence. “I’m just sticking and moving, ya know,” says E-40 of his role in the movement, “I helped birth the Hyphy movement along with the other Bay Area rappers because that’s where it originated. It started in the streets and I’m just adding to it. I’m just doing my part. Hyphy ain’t all that I do, but I go to bat for it 100 percent. The youngsters brought that in, not the rappers. We’re just the novelists and the voice of it. It’s a dance and it’s a culture. There are different phases of the Hyphy movement. It starts off with the dance and builds around that and these youngsters are building more around it everyday.” Though it’s definitely about having fun, proponents of Hyphy say the movement is more about freedom--freedom of expression and the freedom to be original. Music has typically personified the state of affairs of social life. More often than not, the emergence of a new trend in music has been met with ridicule and disdain, as was the case with Hip-Hop, disco and even rock-n-roll. There was a time when Elvis Presley was censored for gyrating his hips on live television, but he got his break from a forward thinking host named Ed Sullivan. Well, if Sullivan were around to experience the craze in the Bay Area, he’d probably have his own Hyphy attack.
Although the craze is its own, Hyphy doesn’t exist in a vacuum. “The terminology of ‘getting dumb’ or ‘getting stupid’ has been around for a while,” says Hip-Hop historian Davey D. “Most people, that are old enough, they remember [‘80s rapper and producer team] Just Ice and Mantronix. They had a song called ‘Cold Getting Dumb.’ That really meant to release your energy and just not care. There was another song called ‘Get Retarded.’” Davey D, an activist that resides in Oakland, stated that the notion of Hyphy has manifested itself through the years through terms like “buckwild,’” “getting stupid,” “get a little stupid,” and “get ill.” “Later down the road, you had people like Digital Underground that talked about ‘getting stupid’ and, if you look at the ‘Humpty Dance,’ it kind of reminds me of certain parts of Hyphy,” Davey D says. “I don’t know if cats that are [getting hyphy] today are old enough to know that history, but I do think its something to note.”Still, the Crump-meets-Crunk motion displayed by those “going dumb” is much more of a rebellious statement than just an excuse to wild out. It is the expression of Bay Area youth who have claimed their own self-expression and use it as a badge of resiliency amid harsh physical circumstances in the social and Hip-Hop realms. Hip-Hop culture has its roots in pride, truth, courage and self-determination, and as a result it has grown to influence almost every segment of the planet. The Bay area is finally demanding to be recognized for the role it’s played in that big picture. T-Kash, an Oakland radio personality and political Hip-Hop artist, explains, “The music is just the accompaniment to the ritual and ceremony that is Hyphy. Hyphy culture is basically about not giving a damn. It’s the Bay Area’s Hip-Hop rebellion to the rest of the industry. We’ve been here before. In the late ‘90s, Bay Area Hip-Hop was here but, because of label politics and social politics, Bay Area Hip-Hop was removed from the scene on a national and worldwide scale, except for a handful of artists. So there are these other artists underneath that were always trying to shop these deals and for whatever reason it didn’t happen for them.” A strong advocate of Hyphy, T-Kash still isn’t a complete party to the movement, though he understands the significance behind the movement. His local radio show “Friday Night Vibe” was the platform for Hyphy artists long before the term was even coined. As one of the people responsible for bringing Hyphy music to the airwaves long before stations like KMEL came on board, T-Kash feels it’s about time the culture is finally getting the recognition it deserves. “The Hyphy culture is basically a living breathing embodiment for the Bay Area point, it’s officially at its boiling point and it’s not taking it anymore. It does not care what the industry thinks and that’s why the sound is so aggressive and very bare and stripped down,” T-Kash reveals. “So now, Hyphy culture is saying we don’t care what you think--we’re coming anyways.” The insurrection manifests itself in a variety of ways like enhanced slang, a unique fashion sensibility, varied production styles and a whole community with a strategy. “It ain’t just me. It’s regular citizens of northern Caliscrewya [California] that ain’t too pleased about pimps running with our swagger,” E-40 laments. “Lately I’ve been keeping an invisible muzzle over my mouth, because I gotta watch what I say. I could just say one word and cats would take it and make a million off of it.” Hip-Hop was created as a vehicle of expression by a community who felt their voices were unheard by the masses. And getting hyphy is the Bay’s way to scream at the world. One AllHipHop.com reader, B-Stran, expressed his frustration with an e-mail letter after D-Roc of the Ying Yang Twins released a group called Da Musicianz with an underground song called “Go Dumb.” “There has been a lot of plagiarism by the Ying Yang Twins and they are some bitin’ ass mother f**kers, B-Stran wrote. “Everybody uses Bay slang a bit without paying respect and credit to the Bay. It ain't [that] we think we’re better than anybody else, it’s just when you use somebody else’s style, you show that man respect. That's what a real cat does. At least show them respect by featuring them on the song and then you can run with it. They should do all their West Coast shows in L.A. because the Bay gets truly Hyphy.” Da Musicianz’s version of “Go Dumb” was never released commercially, but the group will emerge with their debut in May on TVT Records.T-Kash concurs. “The Ying-Yang Twins were examples with that [song] ‘Go Dumb’ by that group [Da Musicianz] that one of them put out, and they had it all backwards giving credit to L.A.” With a stable of producers, Hyphy specialists intend to make sure the subgenre gets its just due. Rick Rock, known for his work with Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Mariah and E-40 to name a few, legitimizes the movement by taking an existing stripped down sound and making it official. “He basically polished it up and packaged it to make it sound official,” says T-Kash. Droopy of the Pharmaceuticals, EA-Ski and Track Million are other noted producers of the music that makes people go dumb.
Even the King of Crunk has joined the movement to help the cousin of Crunk. “Lil Jon is an overall producer,” explains E-40, “He produces universal music. He produced a song for Too Short called ‘Burn Rubber’ and that’s the kinda song that makes n***as go Hyphy. He had people getting Hyphy off the Ying Yang Twins and the ‘Get Low’ song and a lot of people didn’t know he produced ‘Tell Me When To Go.’ They thought Rick Rock did that.” Music and respect aside, there is another facet to the Hyphy Movement. If there were a negative element to the Hyphy Movement, the law would most assuredly site the practice of “thizzing,” a sub-segment of Hyphy that often involves popping pills. San Quinn, another Bay favorite, explains that there are certain variables to the thizzing craze--not just illegal drug use. "Thizzin' is like a way of life. Cats just wanna get Hyphy, but you don't have to be [high] off [ecstasy]. You could be off ten Red Bulls,” Quinn yells. “You don't have to be off thizz to be Hyphy. It is the truth, though: mother f**kas is poppin' that thizz. Hopefully, America can get into cleaning up the E pills getting into the community because it sure ain't young Black kids bringin' the thizz into the neighborhoods.” Quinn feels the new influx of E in the ‘hood is merely another self-destruction tactic like the crack cocaine epidemic that ripped through Black and Latino communities in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. “This whole thing ain't nothing but crack all over again, though,” he says. “We fixin' to come outta that. 'Cause the kids know crack is so dirty. They mamas and daddies was on crack. So I feel like the pills are some governmental s**t." In accord, Keak Da Sneak says, “These high school kid’s aren’t getting high. It’s an energy, Hyphy is all about a fun energy. I can’t speak for the college kids but they’re just releasing, they’re just letting their true selves take control. Getting Hyphy is about letting go of all your inhibitions and being who you really are-no matter what anybody thinks.”
AllHipHop staff writers Jigsaw and Adisa Banjoko contributed to this story.
HYPHY RESOURCES
http://hyphie.blogspot.com/
http://www.hyphymovement.com
http://myspace.com/keakdasneak
www.e-40music.com
www.daveyd.com
www.guerrillafunk.com
www.beautifulhustle.com
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