No Love II Feb 17, 2013

Damn!!  I haven't written about a Pit Fight event in a while!!  LOL  For some reason I felt like I needed to write something about the Pit Fights Battle League!!

Now I have been supporting the battles since Shaka had them at the studio on Maryland Ave!!  Small area, too many people crammed into a small space! Felt like summer in the winter time kinda shit! LOL  I'm not a big big fan of rap battles but I am a fan of local artists and music and I try to help get the word out on what is going on!  I am a director of traffic!!

I haven't been to a Pit Fight in a few months.  Actually December 3 was the last one I went to!!  I had different reasons on why I stopped coming!!  I am there to support....not to be anyone's personal photographer!!  If you wanted to pose for pictures all night you should have brought your own camera!  I get shots of the battlers and a few other shots but when it feels like you want a photo shoot I just might snap!!

Anyway, I had to come to this one for a few reasons.  My girl Hazzy was battling Spence, King Major was coming up from VA to battle Tay Brown and Smirf was battling too and I have watched him progressively improve over couple of years.  So I knew I had to be there for these battles at least!

Of course from all the running around I did I didn't charge my battery up and it died!  I tried to run home thinking I wasn't going to miss much and ended up miss Bars' battle!!  He is one of the guys who always appreciates my work!  LOL  Sorry Bars!!  You know I owe you!!!

King Major and Tay Brown

King Major wasn't up to par!  He was sick and this wasn't his best performance from the ones I have personally witnessed and I have watched a couple on YouTube!!  I think that one day these 2 should battle again!!  

Then there was a spur of the moment performance but Team Kremate!  LOL  Their song Burn Everything is a hit!  It is actually the number one song on my mixtape!! I tried putting it somewhere else on the list but I had to open up with that track!!  Just too awesome!!  Team Kremate is  Savage da Beast, Flint, Bones, and Dime Poe!!

Flint, Savage, Dime Poe, Bones

Next up was Smirf's battle with Vizz from Philly!!  I'm not gonna lie, Vizz came to fight but so did Smirf!!  This was a really good battle and I will be glad when the footage comes out so people can hear all the bars and judge this one!!  I know who I thought won!  Everyone has their own opinions!!

Vizz and Smirf

This is when my camera died!!  :(  L Dot and Makk Mizzle and it was only for one round!!  Just a teaser???!!  Really??  LMAOOOO  People were upset about that!!!  But it was a good round!!  Can't wait to see if they are going to do a whole 3 rounds or what!!  LOL

L Dot and Makk Mizzle

This is when I left out to run home to get my charger and missed like 2 battles I think!!  

But I got back in time to see Hazzy and Spence!!  This battle is going to get views!!  I know it will! For one it's Female vs Male and for two they had been going back and forth over Facebook and Twitter!!  LOL

Hazzy and Spence

Now I am just trying to shine some light on Pit Fights!  If you want to see footage go to http://www.pitfights.tv/  Also there is an event every 3 Sunday!  They also have battles on the First Monday of the month!!  

If you can please come out to at least one event!!  I can guarantee it won't be your last!!  These battlers are gifted and will say things that will having you laughing for days and sometimes weeks later!!  LOL

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!!

Alfamega In Baltimore!!!

So I get a call from my girl Lena on Thursday.  As I'm talking to her she is telling me that Alfamega is going to be at Shaka Pitt's Studio on Friday and wanted to know if I would come and take pictures of him and everyone who was going to be there!  I said of course!  I like his music.  She put him on the phone and he and I spoke for a little bit.  Really nice guy.  I couldn't wait to meet him.

So Thursday I go to Spitter's Club Studio and meet Alfamega.  They were listening to some music that he had recorded for his album.  I must say that everything I heard was great!  He had some collabs that just blew my mind.  Every song I heard I was loving.  From the beats to the lyrics, it was all just great.  Everyone that was there was definitely feeling the music.

I was there for like 7 hours just chilling, taking pictures and listening to Alfamega answer questions about the incident that basically made him infamous.  As I am listening to him talk about it, I am really understanding that people listen to the media and take everything as the truth and law that they hear.  Not realizing that people have apologized and things have been squashed but people who have nothing to do with the situation are still holding on to something they really had nothing to do with.  So is the way of the world.

I don't know how anybody else felt about meeting Alfamega, and I can only speak for myself.  I think that this man is a nice guy.  He was cool about meeting and talking to everyone.  His music was on point.  As I was listening to one of the tracks that Shaka was working on, it was very moving and emotional.  I can't wait to hear the album when it's done.

Regardless of personal opinions, closed mind opinions, or whatever, I meet the man and I got to hear his music.  I like his music.  I know local artists who aren't as nice or willing to talk to people like this man did on Thursday.  Down to Earth comes to mind.

Shout out to Shaka Pitts, Apex, Lenwood, Miss Cream, Lena, Davon, the two guys I never got their names, and everyone that came through.