Benefit for Brandy and Yuk

On September 1, 2011 at Sonar, a benefit show was put together for Yuk aka Mr. Livewire who recently celebrated the birth of his daughter Kaylee only to lose his wife at the same time. So the out-pour of compassion, love, concern and caring started with well wishes and offers to try and help this now single father of 4 through messages on Facebook as well as face to face at events.  Tay Tay of Tayland Promotions then put together a benefit show where the space at Sonar was donated, the flyer and djing was donated by DJ Jabril and everything that was taken in at the door went to Yuk and his family as well as people donating clothing.

The performances were picked by Yuk.  He wanted it to be a celebration for Brandy and that's what it was!! The night ended with Yuk performing and the last song was the one he wrote for Brandy after she had passed.  As I looked around I could see tears in the eyes of a lot of people. 

Sometimes it's not about you but someone else who may be going through things worse than you!

If you are interested in helping you can contact me, Tay Tay, or Yuk for more information!  

Below are just a few of the 517 pictures I took that night!  Even if you aren't a friend of mine on Facebook you should be able to see the pictures!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

The Reason Baltimore and The DMV Can't Get On????

WOWWWWWWWW is all I can say!  I check my FB for updates on who had won awards at the DMV Awards and to see just how different it was from the previous years and all of a sudden my news feed post up that a fight broke out and someone lost an eye.  Now I'm about to write my opinion on this whole situation and about the stuff people are posting up!  No disrespect but yeah someone is going to take offense and be mad.

What should I touch on first???  The fight or the stat messages that people are posting up???  Let's start with the fight!!!!

Why is it that some can't leave the streets in the street?  I don't know who was fighting or why and I really don't give a fuck but of course that curiosity has me!  The event was at a nice location and from the pictures and video I seen it was a HELL of alot better than where we were last year when I went!  I didn't attend this year for so many reasons!!  For one, I had to work.  Two, the cost was crazy.  I had someone tell me they asked 2 different people the cost for a ticket and a table and got 4 different answers.  And three, I had a feeling that something was going to pop off.  All those categories and all those nominees???  Something was bound to get violent.  But I could have never seen this outcome!  5 people injured!  Possibly one losing an eye?  I'm just hoping I knew no one who was fighting!  I'm gonna be pissed because I would hope anyone who knows me and associates with me has more common sense than to be ghetto ass ninjas (I don't say the N word and you all know that).

Now the stat messages that I have been seeing.  Ok people have their right to their opinion.  That fight was not the reason Baltimore can't get on!!  That fight isn't the reason why the DMV isn't recognized!  The reason for that is 90% of you don't do shit to be recognized.  How many cds have you just went somewhere and gave out??  Are you going to buy someone's cd and you never heard of them??  Hell No!!  How far out your hood have you gone to get exposure?  Some of you are too scared to go anywhere.  How many shows out of town have you done?  You want to be apart of the DMV so bad but never done a show in DC, VA or lower MD.  Wouldn't know how to get a show because you don't even know any of the artists from down there!!!  So stop the bullshit stat messages about THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T GET ON.

Me personally I don't like awards events on the local level because alot of times you can see the favoritism and the bullshit no matter how they try and cover that shit up.  I see that shit last year at the DMV Awards.  I don't know what the criteria was this year for being put on a list but I know damn sure that artists were nominated by their friends and fans....ok that's cool but then I would hope that once they went to narrow the list down that investigated just how much that person or group or whoever had done in that last year.  I wrote a blog about the awards a while back and I wrote one about the whole DMV thing just yesterday!

Now, if you take offense to anything that I have said, so sorry you lost a few minutes of your precious time reading this.  But I can guarantee that you will be thinking about something of the things I have written!

Congratulations to all those who won.  I would hope that they all deserve the title that they were given.  But at the end of the day, no one is going to remember who won anything!  All they will be talking about is the fight that broke out and how some guy lost an eye and a total of 5 people went to the hospital.  That has been the topic of many FB statuses since last night!  I only have heard about one person winning and that was my man Billy Lyve for Promoter of the Year.  What happened to all the other titles and awards???  Of course I want to know who was fighting and why but no one seems to know!  Hell who won the awards???

Priorities are all fucked up.  So to those of you who are constantly pushing forward trying to achieve that greatness......keep doing what you do!!!  For those of you who can't separate the streets from the board room.....look around you.  You will still be right there next year talking about that's why Baltimore and the DMV can't get on!!