I WILL NOT BE A WASTED TALENT

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2011-07-01T14:31:00.000-07:00

So... I'm ending this blog... I finally gave into this Tumblr shit like I did Twitter... but I gotta admit it's a wayyyyy better route of promoting compared, plus I'm not gonna write anymore detailed shit anyway, less talk, more visuals, I don't think people appreciate my writing enough anyway, if at all, but I know they aint gonna hate on my work. I'm the fucking best!

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Small World, Big Things

2011-05-10T15:02:00.000-07:00

So Kreayshawn came to NYC for the first time to open up with Roxy Cottontail on her birthday for Andre Nickatina and you know I had to come see the Queen of Swag! The homie 40 Thousand was also opening with my bro Hood Chef. We had all the elite people in that place rockin' Wasted Talent Marijuana Medallions. Here's a video from Karmaloop of the event which you can see 40 Thousand stuntin' for the camera. I was gonna wait 'til the locos got all their footage edited and shit, but I came across these photos (below) of her from The Hundreds "Meow" blog that look so dope that I said fuck waiting. The first photo she is swaggin' out the purple version of Wasted Talent Marijuana Medallions which at the moment, only 10 exist in the whole world. The other two of her I threw in just for good measure... just for my Mom.

Note: Pharell Williams of The Neptunes is like the head art director or some shit for these Karmaloop videos... just saying.

@KREAYSHAWN @40THOUSAND @TheHoodChef @ROXYCOTTONTAIL @WSTDTLNT

Real NY Shit

2011-05-09T03:00:00.000-07:00

Shout out to the whole FUMLIFE fam'. I did not make this beat, but they visually saved "The Fucking Best" for last. 4FUN

We Will Not Be A Wasted Talent.

2011 High Times Cannabis Cup

2011-04-22T15:22:00.001-07:00

Yo, Denver reminded me of a slower Oakland. Crackheads bums and hookers everywhere, weed clinics, lots of diversity. I almost felt like I should of seen a familiar face, but long story short... I smoke crazy weed, some ear wax shit out of a bong that had me leave the event for 2 hours, almost had a threesome til I lost my star power, walked the streets dolo, got approached by hookers and crackheads which were kind of the same people, saw some junkie get smacked through a laundry matt window by some dealer, ate the best food, went to some metro sexual club that fit like 10,000 people in it and there was 2 more across the street which didn't let us in cause of Hood Chef's neck tattoo's, snuck into the High Times 20111 Cannabis Cup, saw some crazy art... we just had lots of fun. Wait for the movie to be released so you can get the full stories. Shit is gonna hilarious! 4FUN

HOME SWAG HOME

2011-04-12T15:13:00.000-07:00

Just a random day at the funhouse. I produced the beat for the track that's playing in the video. I will not be a Wasted Talent. 4FUN

The Funhouse Cartoon Series

2011-04-12T11:45:00.000-07:00

If ya'll didn't know, I moved into NYC's legendary Funhouse with Hood Chef.... and 45 + other locos. Shit is literally way too much fun though. I'm way too blessed to be living here.

We're starting a cartoon series. Every person you see is an actual person. Mostly everybody is doing their own voice. I produced the beat for the intro theme song which you will hear in future episodes as well as 90% of the background music through out the shows. I also recommend watching the other episodes too. Their fucking hilarious!

I will not be a Wasted Talent. 4FUN

Nasty Neil Trading Card

2011-03-16T13:15:00.001-07:00

Michael Jordan has his own trading card... now I do too. Swag!

I will not be a Wasted Talent.

BIG UP MY HATERS "KNOW YOUR PLACE"

2011-03-13T12:47:00.000-07:00

Yo, since I was in middle school, people always thought of me as some naive dumb lil' white kid, maybe I give off that vibe cause that's how much I truly don't give a fuck about what anybody thinks about me... but with them just thinking that, whether they said it out loud or not... like the social genius I am, I can see right through their fakeness and could just automatically tell they think that about me. I'll go years letting you think I'm whatever you want me to be. I really don't care, cause I know in the long I won't even know half of these people anymore. I mentally prepared myself for all this shit when I was 14. I'm so ahead of my time. I think some people notice it, but I've been surrounded by so many people who don't keep it real all my life that I'm just used to suckas downing my vision. Having 50% telling me I'm the worst, the other 50% tellin' me I'm the best. I dunno who to believe, so I just say fuck it, and do "me".... whatever it is I do, I just keep it real and be "me" and just have fun doing it. In my mind, that makes me the fucking best. That's what I'm used too. Maybe that's why I seem like such a conceited asshole... cause I have the ability to separate fantasy from reality, cause like I said in a bunch of previous posts, I "KNOW MY PLACE". Which apparently most people lack the ability or have in a way almost tricked themselves to believe they can cause of that stupid childrens book with "The Lil' Train That Could" that taught great courage by making a baby train proceeding to "keep on going" and make it over a big hill, but that's just a book to make lil' kids motivate their newly developing feeble minds to at least to TRY and build you up to never give up on a dream, but everything still comes back down to "KNOW YOUR PLACE".

Anyway... I did this song with my Loco Life fam, now all my secret haters who pretended to be my friend for years and years and years talk shit about me for it. You know the type who at first said you weren't shit, than they tried riding your wave cause they realized you were onto something, whatever that is that you were onto and then they realized you weren't foolish enough to let them, so they dreaded the fact of being left behind by the same visionary they always secretly hated on which they played off for years as just friends "bustin' each others chops", now has a better chance of making a mark on this world through something cooler than a 9 to 5 job. Like these snakes truly think I'm so unintelligent I can't figure out they have alterior motives. I'll amuse them for the time being, but eventually they will learn just like I did, the hard way, to "KNOW YOUR PLACE". Some of these people, I know I went to school with them, but I have no fucking idea who they are, but they know me, cause I'm one of the few in this town that truly put forth effort to do something with my life. It was no real secret to me, cause dead ass, I know what people think about me just through how they communicate with me. You can smile in my face all day, but I'll know the truth. I got these cliche life forms calling ME corny! I'm assuming it's cause I'm white or my voice aint as deep as they want it to be, but either way, they hate on me soooo hard! It's a true display of the term "being hated on". I've always been hated on, but thought I really had my 1st true taste of REAL hate when I first started Wasted Talent. This year though, the hate has definitely risen very noticeably... and we're only 3 months into the year. I guess that's a good thing though... the negative things I been reading on Facebook about me literally have me cackling like a mad scientist. I literally spent the last 45 minutes just reading the hate over and over again and laughing to myself. They got me feeling myself hard. It's truly euphoric knowing that people hate on me cause they wish they were in my shoes. Even if I gave them the chance to be in my shoes, what the fuck would they really do with that chance? I'm willing to bet my right arm, absolutely nothing, cause they don't "KNOW THEIR PLACE".

(Just bare with me as I try and provide detail to explain how these clowns live in their suburban fantasies. I know I might be rambling, but in the end of this post it will all make sense)

So these people are hatin' on me cause I'm an artist who wanted to design clothes and make beats and now I DO all that. I'm also a lifer for customizing toys as by accident I found a secret niche hidden from myself by the likes of Paul Wall. Now I design clothes, make beats, make toys and now... I rap? I literally did one rap song... actually one verse on a rap song... just 4FUN... and I got these clowns around my way hatin'!!!!! I was in kitchen at the funhouse, Ricky Bobby comes in and said "yo, there's room on the track, you wanna do a verse?" I said "yeah, fuck it, why not?" Not knowing a video would be shot right after. Nobody even say "ok, where shooting the video now, they just did it". What you see was all done in like 6 1/2 hours. Not even telling me it's gonna be on the 4FUN Mixtape. Now Hood Chef is like "yo, Sky and Jerzey are coming down from Florida, all the Loco's are gonna be there and your performing at the 4FUN Fund Raiser". I replied with "I am?" I didn't ask to be a rapper, I'm not even pursuing it as a career... can you guess why? Cause I "KNOW MY PLACE". I literally just did it 4FUN, cause I can. I even fucked up my lines at the show last Thursday, but I don't care. I did it just 4FUN. Suckas telling me I'm "GARBAGE" cause I aint kickin' knowledge or some shit they would consider "real hip hop" on some seriously wack ass ol' school beats that they think is cool cause their stuck in 1993 when they thought they were down with the shit and used to still get pussy in highschool. Whether you think my rhymes are weak, I literally didn't spit any false shit on my verse, I didn't kill anybody on the track, I didn't sell crack, nothing like that. I simply rhymed about gettin' money, gettin' honey's and stylin' on them dummies! That's it. I kept it real as I can be.

So with that said, I'm almost positive I'm gonna have absolute nobody's dissin' me on a track to uhhhhh.... I assume to listen to it amongst their friends while taking blunt rides or whatever? I dunno? It's rather flattering though! And exciting at the same time! I might get a whole song about me just cause I spit a 16. That's how fucking awesome I am in this corny town I'm currently living in at the moment (thankfully for only one more day) that people think by dissin' me on a wack ass beat that they're gonna gain some shine or some shit. Like if I lent them my shoes, what the fuck would they do in 'em? Design clothes... how? They cant even draw a stick figure... not to mention, NONE OF THEM HAVE ANY SWAG! Type of niggas that still rock AF1's after they dropped so much money on those weak ass kicks 5 years ago, they never even bothered to upgrade themselves, Thanks Nelly! Make beats... sure, but whether my opinion matters or not, I'm positive it's gonna sound like formulated cliche bullshit. Make toys... how? They weren't able to draw a stick figure, what makes 'em think they can sculpt and paint now? Rap? I heard some of 'em rap, they can't even hold a beat, they wanna be Eminem, Lil' Wayne, you know... the biggest rap stars the worlds ever seen yet. Typical. Yeah, who wouldn't wanna be in their shoes, but be realistic... "KNOW YOUR PLACE". The cliche raps aint gonna get them anywhere, neither is their unoriginality. They can't even network over the internet, what the fuck makes 'em think their gonna make power moves face to face with industry people? They can't even spell, how could they conduct themselves in a professional manner? Their whole logic is so warped. It's cliche formulated gangsta rap that their simple minds were brainwashed by to believe that's what you had to become to "get on". The follower type... not leaders. "KNOW YOUR PLACE". Type of ignants who think life is all about poppin' bottles, speaking Ebonics, gaining street cred trying to become some type of "general of the streets" like we starring in some fucking drug lord movie or some shit. Get real. Get some logic. This is real life. I swear. I promise. But it's just stupid dumb living in denial shit like that I've been surrounded by fakeness all my life... I think more than the average person.

For example, I myself know I haven't even done shit with my life and to have my haters minds run incredibly wild like this with envy is kind of sad, cause it shows how pathetic their lives are that the lil' shit that I did do can upset them. I'm not even 30 yet, I literally got these fucking dudes who could quite possibly be 40 years old and never did shit with anything they wanted to pursue as dream career and they have the audacity to come out their face and down me. Typical. I'm the fucking best. I get it. It comes with the territory. I get it... But in the end, it will ALWAYS come back to this. "KNOW YOUR PLACE". I'm not even 30 yet and I've done things these faggots dreamed of doing since they were adolescents. Their literally gonna die townies while I experience life as I tour the world with my "real" friends. I'll be whatever you want me to be. Keep hatin', I fucking love it.

You can see more photos of the event here.

Toy Lords Of Chinatown episode 2

2011-03-12T16:26:00.000-08:00

So finally, here it is... A few months back I blogged about me be invited to participate in the filming of Sucklord's second episode of "The Lords Of Chinatown. Just watching this makes me realize what an inpiration he is to me and should be to all nerds. Not saying we're nerds, but you know... in a sense, we are... and we embrace it like the fucking best! I used the word "nerd" cause I'm sure most people who aren't really into the toy world or art world in general, aren't gonna sit through the whole thing, most people probably aint even gonna read what I'm writing to even give themselves the idea to do so. For example most of my friends are rappers and are more likey to sit through a shitty music video than they are to sit down for 5 minutes and witness magic that has been created by such an intelligent talented hard working individual. If your not a sucka and your one of those people who KNOW "real recognize real"... watch this video! It's incredibly funny and if you knew the man himself, you'd understand his story line even more. It's pretty much an exaggerated version of his real life filled with tons of fun and imagination.

Note: If your down with the shit. You'll also see a lof of familiar faces that are also... down with the shit!

WE WILL NOT BE A WASTED TALENT.

TOY LORDS OF CHINATOWN: Episode 2 from SUPER SUCKLORD on Vimeo.

Dem Bonez "The Reconstruction"

2011-03-11T19:11:00.000-08:00

Catch me and the Loco's chillin' out with the Godfather of Graffiti and a bunch of other artists. Keep in mind this is my last group art show I'm gonna be in. Swag!

Dem Bonez by SEEN

2011-03-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

I'm honored to be participating in "The Reconstruction"... a group art show with the platform being an unreleased toy by the legendary graffiti writer SEEN called "Dem Bonez". The toy was originally an idea to get produced as a production piece, but he eventually decided to drop the idea and give the remaining 200 toys out to random artists from around the world to customize for the show. I was one of those lucky artists to be invited to participate in the legends show. The show will be on March 25th at ZAKKA which is in Brooklyn. The flyer will be done very soon. I'm also very excited and relieved to say this is the last group art show I will participate in, with that said, the name of this piece is "The Death Of Wasted Talent".

Big shout out to Mr. Den! God Bless.

Also, on a side note, I'm finally making power moves to Brooklyn. No more couch surfing through life with some super rare swag. I will have an official spot in the legendary Funhouse. This is gonna be a "fun" summer.

I will not be a Wasted Talent.

WE WILL NOT BE A WASTED TALENT

2011-03-08T15:54:00.000-08:00

Just gotta text saying to peep Currensy's new video...

Dame Dash's nephew "DASH" swaggin' out in the limited edition Wasted Talent "A BX TALE" crewneck sweatshirt in a mini promo video for both of their upcoming albums. I'm diggin' the effects towards the end of the song... shit is mad bugged out.

God Bless.

CURREN$Y-MUSCLE CAR CHRONICLES/DA$H- CAVEMAN FILES from DD172 on Vimeo.

The 4FUN Fund Raiser

2011-03-05T13:01:00.000-08:00

For all the young bucks who wanna party with the locos, this is your chance. 18 to get in. 21 to drink. I might have some vintage Wasted Talent shirts for sale and some other shit depending if I wanna sit at a table all night and get my hustle on all while I transform into a Dirty Vodka Drunk and try and mingle with sluts. This is gonna be one fucking incredible night as I will be performing my verse from the Hustle Hard LocoMix for the first time live on stage with all the loco's at Public Assembly... not to mention it will be my first time performing ever. For ya'll that don't know it's a pretty big fucking stage.. and I dunno how I got myself there.

But I'm swaggin' on one... just one... cause I'm the fucking best!

Marijuana Jewelry

2011-02-28T14:29:00.000-08:00

I been slacking on the blog like a mutha fucka, but I swear I'm not slacking in real life! I figured I had 1 day left to the month to post at least one thing cool... so over the passed week I was making a set of Ms. Cupcakes in the midst of a 100 of projects, I'm customizing them to be "Organic Space Cakes". Each has a topping like a cherry for example, one with a hand sculpted mushroom, another with a hand sculpted bud of marijuana. I liked the way the bud came out so much that I decided to make wearable pendants, earrings for both men and woman and maybe some other shit as I go along. Also, my homie Mike "Nemo" Mendez brought it up to me that I should throw some arms, legs and eyes and make my first toy... and that's exactly what I'm gonna do! So expect one smoove character coming reallll soon! If everythign goes as planned, Wasted Talent will have its 1st official toy out by the end of the year. I'm almost positive I stumbled upon something amazing here. Below are some sneak peaks of my very first completed set of hand sculpted marijuana bud earrings and pendants.

THE 4FUN MIXTAPE

2011-02-04T19:15:00.000-08:00

The 4FUN mixtape finally dropped today at 4:20pm. You can download it here for free. I produced 5 tracks and even rapped on 1 of 'em.

A lot of ya'll out there wondering out there what this 4FUN thing about. 4FUN medallions ya'll seeing all over the place. Well it's all about... a movement of positive energy... and we'd like to spread it to everyone. Now, if you wanna be down with 4FUN. It's easy... all ya gotta do is... "have fun"... and spread positive energy.

Amen.

Special shout to Polymathix. Dudes are just way too good at the graphic arts. God Bless!

I will not be a Wasted Talent.

Pancakes

2011-02-04T18:33:00.000-08:00

I made the beat for this.

I just love this shit so much, cause I remember the fake hater faggots I grew up around always praying for my downfall saying nothing but negative shit about my beats and my whole artistic vision in general, instead of supporting a so called "friend". Only do that shit when you know the shit is truly wack! Don't just hate cause you aint in my shoes. Needless to say those faggot fucks have never made not even the slightest power move. The only thing they are best at is sucking at life. I hope you read this. You know who ya'll are. FUCK YOU! I'M THE BEST! SWAG!

Shout out to the loco PC for jumping on the track too!

Everybody Is A Rapper

2011-01-31T12:30:00.000-08:00

So I wanted to see what it's like to be a rapper... we recorded a track... than we shot a music video for it... 4FUN.

I will not be a Wasted Talent.

BlaxLife X The 4Fun Crew presents "Playing 4 Keeps" pt. 1

2011-01-28T20:51:00.000-08:00

This will be the first installment of a monthly concert and lifestyle event. We should have any and everything that we can sell at this event. Super merch tables. Maybe some Wasted Talent shit if your lucky... Wood Shock... Hood Chef shit... CD's, art, sure they'll be some sneaker heads and ya'll know the deal, whatever, whatever... Hustlemania. 4FUN

Shout out to Blax!

Air Loco

2011-01-28T13:55:00.000-08:00

Another beat I made for The Hood Chef. I dunno why the 808's aint crumblin' your brain in half, ask him that. LOL

Fuck it. From the air mattress to the bus... 4FUN!

The Art Hustle

2011-01-21T11:41:00.000-08:00

God Bless

2011-01-20T15:37:00.000-08:00

2011-01-14T11:56:00.000-08:00

Shout out to Hazarecord for this photo at PNC Radio. We literally took over that place. Shout out to Tennille and Natty Monsta. They were at PNC Radio to promote their music, we went just to be entourage in the background 4FUN stuntin'!

And of course to show support to the girls! We love ya'll!

Cuz I'm Loco

2011-01-10T11:51:00.000-08:00

Loco's deep in this shit! You see me. I had mad fun that day. I'm just too backed up with time issues to really explain that day and what's been happening weeks prior, so forgive me if your one of the people who actually take the time to read my shit.

AND MY TRADING CARDS CAME IN FROM THE ART HUSTLE TODAY! My scanner isn't working right now for some reason, so I might have to knock on my neighbors to upload it on here. 4FUN

Loco Life Saturday's

2011-01-06T10:57:00.000-08:00

Every fucking Saturday come chill out with the Loco's 4FUN. Let's get Wasted Talent!

Although, we will never do Loco Life Saturday's at B. East ever again though, stay tuned for new venues.

Hood Chef 4Fun Christmas Dinner (Event Recap) by Je Ne Sais Quoi

2010-12-30T13:18:00.000-08:00

If ya'll only knew.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY! I LOVE YOU ALL.

Hood Chef #4Fun Christmas Dinner [Event Recap] from Je Ne Sais Quoi Films, LLC on Vimeo.

Smoke Demon

2010-12-17T13:58:00.000-08:00

Last night I was playing some of my beats at the funhouse. Hood Chef started flowing some funny ass shiiiiiiit! Like shit I couldn't stop laughing at, but knew it was kept so real that it would be a hit forever timeless like a version of "the electric slide", but for cool people. I was like "Yoooooooooooooo!!! This is a hit! You gotta do this track!" And he was all about it, so he busted out some quick phrases and BOOM, made a video for it all in one day. I'm gonna try and convince him to re-do and make it even better and make an even sicker music video. All in all, I'm not being biased cause it's my beat and Hood Chef is my bro, but this is one of my favorite songs to date. I can't listen to it without having fun. I can't get through this song without bursting out into laughter at least once!

p.s. To anybody who said my beats are wack, ya'll are just followers who walk the same line as everybody else thinking within that same stupid lil' box that only innovative talent think outside of. Ya'll don't have the skill, vision or even an ounce of swag to rock my instrumentals. You're beat!

p.p.s For ya'll who don't know, Smoke Demon is our homeboy who alone... smokes more than the whole funhouse put together, is ballin' outta control and funny as a hell! #4FUN

The Almighty Dunny Show Update

2010-12-09T21:10:00.001-08:00

I just busted out this custom 3" Dunny today. My first custom I ever started and finished in one day. It's called "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel". Reminds me of the weasel characters they portray in cartoons as being you know... a "weasel"... a dirty rotten scoundrel. This is my third 3" custom Dunny for The Almighty Dunny Show. All customs will be for sale at the show and than for sale online at Halcyon and Genuine Artikle the next day.

I will also be bringing a bunch of left over 3" custom Dunny ornaments that I had for sale at Kidrobot NYC a few years ago to sell along with some other custom 3" Dunny ornaments that Zam and Ian Ziobrowski of Genuine Artikle are gonna do.

Sketch Cards

2010-12-09T20:05:00.000-08:00

I finished my sketch cards. Only 20 will be inserted into random packs for The Art Hustle trading cards. I can't wait 'til I get my artist card. It's so sick that I got my own trading card. You might think to yourself, that aint shit, it's a stupid card, I can do that too... but ya didn't, ya most likely wont and yeah, I'm in the same trading card series with millionaire mastermind owner of Kidrobot "Paul Budnitz"... and to me... that's even cooler, because it was his toys that opened up the door to change my life. Shout out to everybody else who made the series too. I hope it gives you some type of euphoric feeling that it does me.

I did the same thing on every one of 'em. It was easier to do it that way. I tend to get caught up in artist block cause I hate to disappoint and by the time I've thought of something appealing enough for my OCD to deal with, I'm than being rushed by a dead line that's the next day. So, BOOM! Here it is. Done. I actually be done hella long, but I was just too lazy to update my blog. I need an assistant soooo bad. Anyway, To all ya collectors, if your lucky enough to snag one of these cards, I hope you enjoy my efforts. I will not be a Wasted Talent. Much love.

All My Love

2010-12-05T14:19:00.000-08:00

She's my newest infatuation.

#Jet$! #4FUN! #THEBEST! #BOOM!

2010-12-05T12:15:00.000-08:00

This is the (late) video from the labor Day weekend BBQ with the 4FUN crew and Shameless Management. There was so many fly bitches out there that day, if I could of, I would of fucked every single one of 'em like the best! Jet$!

FAST/SWAG

2010-11-30T06:28:00.000-08:00

These are two 3" Dunny's I did for The Almighty Dunny Show hosted by Genuine Artikle at Hacylon in Dumbo Brooklyn on Dec. 11th. Come come check out over there along with over 250 custom 3" Dunny's from talented artists all over the world.

The customs I did are called "Fast" and "Swag". I enjoyed creating the Swag Dunny so much, I think I'm gonna make a whole army of them. Since 2008 when I did my 1st custom 20" Dunny with the head upside down, I still haven't seen anyone do it, so I think I'm gonna fulfill that lil' niche and only do Dunny's with upside down heads giving the Dunny a whole new fresh look without really modifying it too much. So look out for a lot of Swag Dunny's for my solo show. Still will be lots of crazy monsters and innovative designs and other cool shit... I haven't mentioned anything about new Wasted Talent gear in a while, if your reading this and you've been patiently waiting for this one man army to push out some new product fresh off the boat. I was banking on my solo show to pay for my credit card bills and have more money to use towards my 1st true love... fashion, but because I myself waited so long, there will definitely be a limited edition tee released at my solo show. If anything happens before, you will know. My momentum is picking back up... I swear. And if you're one of those haters who personally pray for my downfall... just know I get extreme joy knowing that you personally pray for me.

Behind The Scenes Of The Massacre

2010-11-28T14:24:00.000-08:00

Check me out having fun behind the scenes for the short film "The Massacre" directed and written by Nobi of Gritty Lyfe.

The Almighty Dunny Show

2010-11-24T10:42:00.001-08:00

BOOM!

"The Almighty Dunny Show" curated by Genuine Artikle and hosted at Halcyon in Dumbo Brooklyn on Dec 11th with over 250 customized 3" Kidrobot Dunny's from artists all over the world that will be displayed from 7pm -10pm. Many of today's hot designers will be represented in this weekend only event in the heart of Brooklyn's underground... and I be one of them there hot designer thingamajigs whatever ya wanna call 'em shits. Sexy as I wanna be.

Trading Cards With The 4FUN Crew

2010-11-12T10:09:00.000-08:00

Thursday night I headed down to Brooklyn to chill with Hood Chef and the 4 FUN crew. I literally walked into a video shoot coming through the door. You never know who your gonna meet when your chillin' with these dudes. Always industry dudes, always somebody who at least tries to utilize their skills and/or talents to progress in life and GET MONEY! That's why I fuck with 'em. Plus they just mad cool, humble and like minded. We got Smoove 'til like 8am everyday. I smoked more in 4 days in the Fun House than my whole year bid in Cali. I mean these mutha fuckas was takin' bong hits for the roadddd! At 8am! After a whole night of chillin'! At one point there was so much smoke in the room, my eyes just started tearing... outta nowhere! Like I'm sitting there still as a bill... no thought process... just in a zone... and POW!... I'm crying. Insane. Anyfuckingway... I copped some new Jordans to stunt at the Suckadelic/Art Hustle event. Shout to Beerlao! Met a bunch of new people. Sucklord's new tees are so fucking insane. Dicks for crossbones. BOOM! Did a lil' photoshoot right than and there before we left. I was than was rushed to leave to hit up 40oz.Van's shit which was closed by the time we got there. Went back to the Fun House and made a 4FUN theme song with Adebisi Blax, Ricky Khem, Mid-Nite and Cerebral Vortex rapping on one of my beats. Shit was dope! We do this for fun... cause we can... and it sounds better than half of ya'll that DO try. I'm not even being biased. For something done just for fun... you'll see. I drew a 3' character on the wall of the Fun House. It was a long time coming to represent. Dude has real graffiti pieces covering his whole living room. Shit is dope! You most likely don't know anybody who has shit on their walls like this. We went to NJ to play celebrity football... at night. They were trying to get me to play, but I wasn't hittin' the field with my J's like Vortex did... and he had the O.G.s on, crazy bast'! I sat on the side lines with O, T, Mid-Nite and got smoove. I even gotta free custom sweatshirt out of it. After the game we crammed up in the dude Kojo who owns W Shock (where NYC jacked their idea to form what you now know as Good Wood) car and headed back to the Fun House. I tried setting up a collab, but it was late, I'm sitting on his dash board and there's mad people in the back of the car, so... maybe next time I run into him at the Fun House. I also went to Natty Monsta's Birthday party. So many bad bitches, but hella lesbians. It reminded me of California. I was chillin', holding the wall up, girl comes over and I'm like yao yao yao... tell you what you wanna hear bullshit and she's like I'm lesbian. I'm like ohhhh yeah, should of known... you were cute as fuck and have super swagger. No regular bland ol' girl with Uggs/pompadour/pregnant lady blouse, dingy spandex chick. Story of my life. On that note, there's no girls like that where I be chillin' in the city. I love it. But the dykes suck. I mean your cool, and I still love ya, but you suck, you know? But yeah that party was pretty fucking dope! It was at some Barber Shop, they had the coolest bouncer I have ever encountered. That guy was the mannnnn! I have a big problem with bouncers, actually they usually have a problem with me. They always seem to wanna dim my aura. With their faggot dress codes to giving me instructions that I never witnessed them give to anybody else, real hater shit... long story short, this guy was the fucking man, straight up! And was like the size of Big Black and could of been an asshole to me. And OMG, this is so off subject, but as I'm writing this my iTunes just hit me in the brain with Rusko's - Hold On (Sub Focus Remix). You must get that song for yourself. WOOOOOO! This shit is rumblin' my brain so perfectly right now. Not to mention, I just hit my bong backwards... pffftttt... I'm the fucking best! Also check out OFWGKTA for fun. These dudes are the fucking best! You're not ready! Seriously, you're not ready. I was also put on to them last weekend. I'm probably forgetting a lot of shit, but damn I need to move to Brooklyn. 4FUN.

TOY TOKYO TAKE OVER

2010-10-25T21:00:00.000-07:00

Come check us out at the 1st annual 2nd Avenue TRADING CARD CONVENTION and Swap Meet in NYC at Toy Tokyo Underground from 7pm to llpm on Friday, November 5th.

EVENT EXCLUSIVES!

Special The Art Hustle Event Card and Raffles!!!

Suckadelic Suckpax 2 Drop!!!

Star Wars Galaxy 5 Exhibition and Auction!!!

Free Beer courtesy of Beer Lao!!!

PLUS... Get Smoove with me if your down with the shit!!!

The Mysterious Stranger - The Adventures of Mark Twain

2010-10-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

The Massacre

2010-10-12T15:54:00.000-07:00

After last Saturday's insane night where my girl got roofied at the bar and I carried her like a half dead soldier with HER pocket book in MY hand with probably everybody looking at me like I'm the one that did this shit to this poor girl... and on top of that, I was R.I.P. City myself, there's barely any room to walk by cause it's so packed and I gotta get her all way to the car which is damn near 20 feet from where hella cops who are patiently waiting for people to fuck with. And no, douchebag, I wasn't driving, the limo driver was. I managed to crash at my friend Akira's house at like 4:30am. I had to wake up at 9:30am Sunday morning to meet up with the cast and start shooting. I was asked by my good friend Akira a week earlier to play a part in a short film to promote his older brother Nobi's new mixtape "The Massacre". My 1st acting debut was for Sucklord and I was incredibly cornily getting my ass kicked and now I'm getting my neck ripped out by some bullied lil' nerd turned serial killer... and I'm the 1st one killed. I had a few lines in it... pretty much your usual horror flick, camping trip equals a terrible death type shit... for fun, cause I can. Since these recent video shoots I've been in though I've been thinking about dropping the dream of being a famous designer and moving to Hollywood to pursue my acting career. I already got place to stay for a few months and some booked gigs doing stand up comedy to stack up to get the mini mans' (mansion). But get serious though, snap outta that world where you think I'm that delirious with life that I just blurt out these crazy things like I'm shit. I am the shit though... but I'm absolutely kidding. Like I said, I do this for fun... cause I can... and it was mad fun. Chilled at my friends house all night with all my people, met some new people, got smoove, ate mad food, promoted my shit and got bloodyyyyyy! They had this professional make up artist who made my neck get ripped out. I had everybody surrounding me at one point saying "ewwww" "ewwww" as she's pulling some latex off my neck far enough to where I can see it at the tip of my chin, note, I had my neck tilted straight back... for 20 minutes... wasn't allowed to move... NOT AT ALL... not even talk! And chick was very stern about it, I was afraid to swallow my own spit. So she's pulling this shit, it didn't hurt... at all... but I felt this slight tension... oooh I'm freaking out as I write this. HAHA... so yeah, it was just so weird, having everybody go "ewwww" and know your having your latex skin neck cut open to make it bloody. So weird, but I loved it. I rocked that bloody neck the wholllle night! I also learned some things like mashed Bananas and fake blood make brain matter.

Nobi is the owner/creator of his own record label Gritty Lyf. Check out more of his music and his other artists on the label. He is real hip hop, but you don't hear me though.

Halloween '10

2010-10-12T13:54:00.001-07:00

Here's a pic of a pumpkin I carved just for fun. If your not a creep like me and don't have the eyes to tell that it's a pair of tits with a "WT" necklace on... now ya know. Thanks Gia for the pumpkin.

Who else you know with a trading card?

2010-10-04T23:16:00.000-07:00

You don't don't gotta be an athlete to be on the front of a trading card. You just gotta be like me. I was invited to be part of the series 2 of "The Art Hustle" trading cards. They said send a pic to represent yourself, so you know I had to man the horn and call up some bitches. Here's a photoshoot I did with my 2 sluts, 1 posing with me and 1 taking pics with my camera. I even brought some of my lights and shit. The photo was due the next day, so we did this in a half hour and photoshopped the background out. These are some of the out takes. The girl who was taking pics was all over the place. You'd be surprised how strenuous that position was with an ass on the back of your head supporting a girl leaning over on heels. It was fun. Thank you girls! Love ya! Now I'm just waiting on a bunch of sketch cards to do, speaking of sketch cards, I just finished 20 of them for Sucklord's SUCKPAX series 2. He also threw in some old ass cards from random series that I never seen in my life and said draw on them and improvise. Here's some pics for ya.

The Chuggin' Rhino

2010-10-04T22:00:00.000-07:00

Here's the mural I did for my good friend John Rodriguez whom I knew for like 15 years. He just opened up his own bar/restaurant called Chuggin' Rhino which has dope food, crazy drink specials, good vibe with four 4 HD LCD tv's specifically to watch sports and this incredibly beautiful girl who works there. Ironically enough, her name is Godess.

And I even made my 1st Pernil with some rice and beans. I'm starting to get back into my chef game. Fairly simple thing to do, I've made rice and beans before, but I think I've damn near mastered the beans part now. I put love into my food. I can cook fucking Chinese food and that shit will have to be considered "soul food". Test me.

I need an MPC!

2010-09-27T20:45:00.000-07:00

Best BBQ Ever

2010-09-07T15:04:00.000-07:00

So for Labor Day weekend I went out to the East Side River to hang out at the Hood Chef x Shameless Management BBQ. Chilled with the 4FUN fam, met lots of new people, damn near everybody there did something cool in some way or another, some of the flyest girls of NYC and we all ate better food than anybody else in NYC on that day. There was just enough food for everybody to keep going back for more and more. Space cakes, jets and dranks. I also brought like 30 lbs of Talapia that some chick said was award winning! Word! 100's of burgers, hotdogs and kabobs that were spicy as fuck! My type of party though... EVERYBODY WAS FUCKIN' STUNTIN' TO DEATH! ON THE STREET! LIKE THE FUCKING BEST! Best of all there was positive vibes the whole night. It was fun for realllllll.

After the BBQ, Sav, Ricky Bobby, Brooklyn T and Vortex hit some Hotel club shit, this place must only let in 5 star bitches, but I was so beat from dranks by this time I just wanted to sleep, but this white girl was dj'ing and playing the siiiiiiiiiiickest shit! Shit I never heard before or just shit I heard before with dubstep remixes. Every time I see shit like this it always reminds me of the time where I used to DJ at these wack jersey shore mentality bars to just "try" and put people on, be a lush for free and get paid for it... but lames would be like play more commercial music, play more commercial music, I'm like wtf? I got so fed up one time I was like "yo man, go put on the fucking radio if you wanna bump that wack shit" and I packed up and left right than and there. Fuck 'em! They're beat!

After the Hotel club shit, we went back to the fun house and I took over a couch like it was nobody's business. BOOM!

I was gonna steal other people's pics, but it would of took too long, so... you can find more photos of the BBQ here.

Imagine This Was Your Car

2010-09-07T14:49:00.001-07:00

I went to pick up a dress shirt and tie to match my Pumps for Vicki and Tommy's wedding and on the way I saw this... in the window was a note from previous person who was just as blown away as me.

Wasted Talent Jansport

2010-09-07T14:03:00.000-07:00

Here's my 2nd full page spread of my work in YRB Magazine. There are 3 different covers... Shepard Fairey, Mister Cartoon and Swizz Beatz. I missed a huge party to network cause I been slacking on checking my emails, but just in time to get invited to be part of Sucklord's "SUCKPAX" Series 2 trading cards and the 2nd series of "Art Hustle" trading cards, which is like baseball cards... but for artists. I still aint where I wanna be in this industry of artistic entrepreneur's, but how many people do you know that are on a trading card? I gotta make it "nasty" for 'em!

Check out what Black Daria said about my bag on her blog... and I never met her at all, just saying.

Anyway, will keep you updated with what happens with the bag.

Booze Cruise

2010-09-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

I recently went on a booze cruise with a bunch of friends for my friends Vicki and Tommy's wedding. Before I left I dropped my Blackberry in the paint that I was using to try to finish up Kerry's skateboard before her benefit... most of us got deli sandwiches before we left to be some mutha fuckas on a boat and I saved mine for later, forgot about it in my book bag on the party bus and by the time I remembered it was crushed to death all over the inside of my bag... and I still ate it... story of my life. You don't even wanna know the details of the night. Nobody would believe me anyway. Photos after the boat don't exist cause we we're what they would call "whiteboy wasted"!!!!! Say something.

After This BBQ, We Will Rule

2010-09-03T00:50:00.001-07:00

I'm going to be here Saturday with some of my own marinated Tilapia , if you had a brain and a stomach, you'd be there too. Come by, have fun and eat good food. Don't come if your a hater cause we'll eat your food.

Look at that grill blowing up! HAHAHAHHAHA

GET SMOOVE

2010-08-30T10:48:00.000-07:00

I been drinking Ciroc since it first came out years ago... it's funny how a Hip Hop mogul will blow it up after it's already been out for years. Diddy's new campaign for it is all about being "smooth", but what does he know about gettin' "smoove"?

Diddy's the fucking man! And this commercial is amazingly funny.

It's how I get around... I float!

Kept It Real

2010-08-27T12:00:00.000-07:00

Mike "Nemo" Mendez is an insanely talented professional sculptor who I was introduced to back in '08 at Tyler's Mutt Toy show at APW Gallery. Since than, he has kept in touch and always kept it real with me. He has always giving me tips for art and working with people in the industry, has always hit me up for any show he set up, always thought of me when good opportunities arose and rocks my Wasted Talent tee religiously. You can't fuck with that! Especially you!

Anyway, here he is rockin' the "Perverse Gluttony" tee in his newest promo video for "The Art Hustle" trading cards.

Peeping Tom it!

Skateboard for Kerry's Benefit.

2010-08-26T13:00:00.001-07:00

This is the skateboard I did for Kerry's benefit. Much love to her and big shout out to Vicki for being the highest bidder. :)

Too Deep For Most

2010-08-26T11:45:00.000-07:00

I tried to show dudes Jules Verne, too wordy. These jerks don't even know Kool Herc, but they know Fergie.

Toy Lords Of Chinatown

2010-08-24T13:44:00.000-07:00

A new series from Suckadelic depicting the Supervillain bootleg wars below Canal Street. This multi-part epic begins to explain the back story of the mysterious SUPER SUCKLORD and his enemies as he tries to hold his position of Action Figure King on the mean streets of New York City's Chinatown. Look out for sneak peaks of new Suckadelic products placed throughout the episode as well as cameos by old classics...

TOY LORDS Of CHINATOWN: Episode 1 from SUPER SUCKLORD on Vimeo.

I'm gonna be in Chinatown this Sunday filming episode 2. BOOM!

Jet$

2010-08-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

Curren$y knew what he was doing when he did a song to this beat... and a video! BOOMMMM! Now you can thump your trunk with the articulate words of sure brilliance with the mega bass drum rollin' rhythm of pure ignorance.

Now I'm off to fly some jets.

I threw in the video by Tyga for good measure. He did his own version too. Tyga is dope! Fuck what ya think! A lot of Lex Luger's beats all sound the same, but they are straight rumblin' your mutha fuckin' brain against the walls of your skull!

Make It Work

2010-08-11T16:33:00.000-07:00

CLICK THIS FOR YOUR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT.

We Love You Kerry

2010-08-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

I'm doing a custom skateboard for a benefit for my homegirl Kerry who is fighting Leukemia. Come and support her at Winky Dink Ink... maybe even get a tattoo while your their too. I'm almost done with the board, I will post up pics of it soon... and I'm still waiting for the Chuggin' Rhino to open up to show you the piece I did for them too. Soon! Soon! Soon! Oh and I just got a heat transfer machine, a dope new photo printer and like $400 dollars worth of paper... so with that said, new shirts coming too! WOOOOOO!!!!!

p.s. This is totally off topic, but you can't call someone a crack whore if you shoot cocaine into your arms like a loser... just saying.

Da Baseline Music Video

2010-07-25T14:25:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday was the video release party at Club Tropicana, but I don't fuck with places that won't even let ya wear a t-shirt, so I missed out on a lot of networking and fun, plus I thought it was 3 days later so I didn't even have to prepare if I wanted to bother dealing with a dress code, but here's the video for "Da Baseline" by LDJ ft. Redbone and Jim Jones also starring Redman, Freeky Zeeky, CX and 100 killas. Look for me like Waldo.

D.O.E.

2010-07-20T15:42:00.001-07:00

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A Day In VA

2010-07-15T14:22:00.001-07:00

Ohhhh lord, if I was only allowed to explain what I go through... so use your imaginiation for that. In the midst of all that, I managed to finish the mural for my friends new bar/restaurant "Chuggin' Rhino". I will have photos as soon as it opens up in the next few weeks. Finished my piece for Spaghetti Project's custom Qee show in Fredericksburg, VA. Without a finished piece, I headed out there with Shawn The Best and Lloyd Shanks. I didn't even go to sleep the day before I left to go and I was falling asleep the whollllle way there. From the outside, I'm sure it looked like a drunk driver for like 300 miles straight. Thankfully I didn't get fucked with by the cops or crash the car into another and got their safely. Got to my hotel which just happened to be the only place on the whole strip that took a cash deposit. Lady told me that some people are so fucking cheap that they usually say "fuck this and leave" after they ask for a $20 deposit on top of the $80 room... pathetic. Got 4 hours sleep while my sober friends had to unsober themselves. Woke up, finished spray painting my piece in the middle of the Hotel parking lot, bought a 12 pack and GPS'd my way to the show. Met Arlene and Edgar of Spaghetti Project. Some of the most down to earth people you'll ever meet. Place was real dope. Had a nice feel to it and had nice variety of insane artwork, clothing and designer toys. I met the whole crew of Beautiful Nightmare which is an upcoming clothing company which had some dope vibrant shirts, met a bunch of super talented artists, one in particular Chris Murray... assuming he's new to the toy game, he's gonna make his mark fast! Dude is nastyyyyy with the brush! Keep a look out for his work. Shout out to all the artists I met that night. Sorry if I forgot your name. Arlene made some dope spanish rice and chicken, like a fucking explosion of flavor!!! So good! After the show ended, all the artists and Spaghetti Project and friends came out to the bars down the block. This one bar we we're at this dude was out on the dance floor doing ballerina spins with some 90's choreography and than the whole fucking bar started dancing like a 1980's movie where everybody in stores and shit come out to the streets and start dancing. That's what it was like, insane. There we're these 2 sick hot girls who danced so dope that ended up being dykes... story of my life and the dude who was doing ballerina spins had a boyfriend, go figure. I didn't even shit like this in SF, but fuck it. No pun intended. I had fun, did some beers, did some pot, experienced VA lifestyle for a few hours went back to the hotel, got smoove some more and passed out. Waking my lump of shit friends up is harder than waking up your friends. BELIEVE ME! Finally... got everything together, my $20 deposit, $400 worth of Newport cartons for my friends back home and bounced back to New York. Here I am.

p.s. They actually found guys still alive from the Civil War to stand around in original uniforms to hang around and be part of theme of the show which was "The Civil War and Our Founding Fathers". Oh and when I drop some new tees, Spaghetti Project will be the first in Virginia to have it... just saying.

R.I.P. Jason Rivera

2010-06-26T16:26:00.000-07:00

Today I lost someone who I considered a true friend. There is so much awesome shit to say about him, but right now I'm in a loss of words. Just know that this dude was awesome and knew how to have fun. I've had 100's of fake friends tell me when I make it, they want this, that and the third. He only wanted me to bring him to the industry party. I will never have the chance to give you that opportunity now, but I promise to bring you with me everywhere I go in spirit. I will never forget you my friend. Look over me... I'm gonna twice as hard now just for you.

Thank you for believing in me.

Much love to his family and friends.

We In The Building!

2010-06-13T11:42:00.000-07:00

Me and Shawn The Best went out to Genuine Artikle last Saturday to check out the custom Yoka Bear Tour. On the way we stopped at Sneaker Bistro Boutique who happened to be having a BBQ for a new Nike release, got some free food, copped a pair of limited edition purple Commonwealth Reebok Omni Lite Pumps so I can stunt and headed out to the toy show. Hung out with Ian and Zam of G.A., Nemo and Benny never made it, I must of missed Mr. Den by 10 minutes, but I did get to meet Kristen Goetz who is fly as fuck! Got Smoove on the rooftop with a bunch of people, met graffiti writer DASH who was mad funny without trying to be by just being crazy as fuck! Dude was huge, showing me all his battle wounds as the 1st impression greeting. Dude literally just met me and was already jokingly saying how if I keep passing the blunt around like I was, he wouldn't have to knock me out. You gotta appreciate shit like that, cause if you didn't, your obviously uptight like Alley Genna.

So we chilled there for the whole day, left at like 11pm and I stayed in Staten Island over night. A few days later I hit up LDJ's video shoot featuring Redbone and Jim Jones and a special appearance by Redman. Jimmy did his thing with chinky eyes. Redman has gotta be on of the realest dudes in the industry. Such a down to earth dude who shows support to his people for free for as long as it takes. I finally got to catch up with him 2 years later to finally give him his one of a kind custom Redman Munny. On 2 hours of sleep, I spent the whole day from like 8:30am to 12pm at the video shoot. It's quite interesting seeing how everything goes down on set, Vinny Raffa and Raquel Reed were also on set helping behind the scenes holding it down for the Nyrack! Shout to everybody I met that day, everybody I already knew, all the video vixens I love you to death and LDJ, I wish you nothing but success! Your work ethic is real. They gonna hate, but that's when you know your doing great! Riiiight? And special thanks to Brass for inviting me and Pee Wee. You knowwwww!

p.s. I'll even give the police a shout out for not shutting us down that day. You finally could see past... and that's what's up!

Memorial Weekend 2010

2010-06-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

So 1st off, the birds nest... 1 hatched, 3 days later it was full grown and flew away, not literally 3 days, but sooner than I had time to take pics. Who the fuck cares about that though! I'm doing thangs!

I finished the custom Jansport backpack for YRB Magazine. You will see it when the magazine is released next month. Went to my homegirl Mel's house for Memorial Day. Chilled with people I haven't seen years before I even moved to Cali. Paid some kid $10 to walk around and take photos all night... ended up at some bar, photos stopped there cause we were out 'til 7:30am. Shit probably didn't look the best.

Kat Stacks

2010-06-08T22:44:00.000-07:00

Kat Stacks sucked it back in '03... and?

Redman is the funniest!

DKE Toys Presents...

2010-06-01T18:50:00.000-07:00

My name aint on the flyer, but I did a 10" custom for the DKE Toys "Traveling Custom Yoka Bear Show" at Genuine Artikle in Long Island this Saturday, June 5th which finally gives me a real reason to travel out and hang out with all the cool toy artists I haven't seen in over a year since I moved back from Cali. If your in the neighborhood, come hang out with us, check out some dope art, buy some some dope 1 of a kind art and don't forget to bring your sunglasses cause we gonna get smooooooove!

Looking forward to seeing what Okkle does, haven't seen shit from him a while...

HOPE 2010

2010-05-13T18:54:00.001-07:00

Ok, well I didn't make Phoneticontrol's "Thought Processor" NYC Series Show cause I have assholes for friends, but on a more positive note, myspace aint dead. I signed on to find an invitation from Sami at YRB Magazine to do a custom Jansport bookbag for the magazine. A few years back I did a custom Hammerhead Shark Munny for them alongside other artists such as Dril One, Sket One, Jesse Hernandez, Boxguts, Brent Nolasco, Indie184, Cope2, Dlux and Queen Andrea which was due to the cool people at Sneaker Bistro Boutique who commissioned me for a custom Bistro Munny for their 1 of a kind sneaker boutique, which is also in the same issue where the boutique also had it's own feature. The clever design of the store is worth taking a trip out to Patchogue, NY... plus they really do got some dope kicks that most stores wouldn't.

Been hanging out with my family a lot more lately. Been chillin' with my nieces and bustin' guns with my lil' nephew. While painting my parents back deck I found a lil' birds nest with 3 blue eggs under it that you can see through the cracks of the wood from the top. I will put new pics after they hatch. Went to Genuine Artikle and picked up three 8" Qee's, a 10" Yoka Bear, 10" Teddy Trooper and a limited edition Flying Fortress tee. Seen a ton of amazing new works from Zam and Ian. I even got sneak peak pics of Ian Ziobrowski's new custom toys for Tenacious Toys which are soooooooo fucking siiiiiick, but he won't lemme post them until Spanky does first... BAST'! HAHA... Got a bunch of art supplies and a white Jansport from YRB in the mail. My long time friend John Rodriguez just commissioned me to do a mural for his new restaurant/bar called the "Chuggin Rhino". Got lots of work to do. Bunch more updates to come... OWWW!

p.s. I'm starting to stack... and the aura still has a shimmer. Almost overnight, I feel like I'm back on my A game. If you aint about shit, get the fuck up out my lane mane.

Story Of My Life

2010-04-23T10:55:00.000-07:00

Pray for it.

Oh Snap!

2010-04-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

You could think this is fake and absolutely insane or you can realize I'm the truth and shit like this doesn't happen to you.

This is the reason why my ex-girlfriend settled and got married to an old man... most likely by the accidental pregnancy, I'm sure her knowing it would help her financial situation played a part too, but how could she compete when sluts like this truly exist?

Nah, JK, I never found a girl intriguing enough that was into me like I was into her, but still... bitches beg to suck my amazing cock.

And so...

2010-04-15T20:10:00.001-07:00

Went to my brother from another mother Schnell's house. I always said it before I even started Wasted Talent, just knowing one day I'd be somebody... that once I made it, he would be my in house chef. Dude is a dope cook! He went to school for it and everything. Even though I can cook just as good as him and he knows it... I still gotta have that lush life cook living in the mini mansh! HAHA So yeah, I went to his house a week ago, he whipped up some random shit he had laying around and made your mouth explode with flava! Working on the Phoneticontrol's "Thought Processor" with my friend ??? cause I suck at Photoshop. Said hello to my turtle "Patience". Killed a 100,000 Ants at once. Not me, Shawn The Best did cause they were crawling through a crack into the wall into his apartment. Chilled with my Staten Island homegirl Lacey. Finished a Wasted Talent version of Jon Knox's "Brute Toy" from his company Hello Brute. I replicated the Wasted Talent "Perverse Gluttony" tee, but with his version style of face. This will be for my 2nd solo show some time next year.

I Miss Oakland

2010-04-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

This video makes me miss Oakland so much. Reminds me of the dope parties full of eclectic people going nuts like nobody's watching in odd buildings in the middle of the ghetto. Fun times! Plus it has a Dubstep version of my recently favorite song ever "All The Way Turnt Up".

Video shot by Kreayshawn. Check her out at
wwww.kreayshawn.com She's doing very cool things... no matter the subjects she works with.

Shout out to the Bay Area! Miss ya'll! I'm going to Long Beach in a few months, so keep that in mind when you realize you haven't "had fun" partying since I left. Ow Owww!

Ari Dunks

2010-03-30T22:02:00.000-07:00

I'm Going Nomad

2010-03-25T22:54:00.000-07:00

I moved outta Staten Island, now I'm just bouncing around from place to place all over New York City to Upstate New York, trying to get job somewhere in NYC so I can hopefully get my own place somewhere in Brooklyn and stay in one spot. I'm now writing up a resume in hopes that one of these places I'd like to work at give me a chance to show them they need me! I'm very picky when it comes to jobs... I have to be super interested in the job itself to even try and pursue it, so let's hope the aura of that itself will enable me to lock shit down!

The day I moved outta Staten Island I went to my homegirl Casey's house cause I knew it would put a smile on her face. Hung out with some friends 'til forever o'clock. Next few days were so tough on the body as St. Patty's came up. 12pm to 4am! THAT WAS TOUGH! The following Monday, still hungover from St. Patty's, I went down to BK to spend the week at Hood Chef's crib to do some networking and start my apprenticeship for The Sucklord. While I was in the city with the Chef, I met the team manager for DGK, met the new manager of Kidrobot NYC, went to Toy Tokyo, finally met and hung out with Cerebral Vortex. We all went to Nipsey Hussle's 1st New York performance at S.O.B.'s. Source Magazine was in the house, Hot 97 was in the house. The Dopplegangaz, Wordsmith, Sha Stimuli who I think came out with his son who was like 8 years old and killin' it and Smoke Dza all opened up for him. Juelz Santana even came out as a suprise guest and stole the show with his 1 verse from Lloyd Banks new single "Beamer, Benz or Bentley", (Note: Nipsey is crip, Juelz is blood, it's all love now days, no homo) ran into Fausto and Chris of LaVie Clothing who I made a custom munny for a few years back, went to an after party to a place I'm not even gonna put on blast cause it was too dope. Nipsey Hussle also came there with his 40 person entourage smoking blunts like they owned the place. They were immediately swarmed by people with all types of cameras like "ghetto papparazzi". From camera phones to hi tech digital video camcorders. He performed a few songs again until slamming his mic down like a rock star and walking out. While I was there I also met the owners of Greedy Genius, one of the dudes from one of my favorite brands Mishka and Dirty Souf Yankee.

And to top it off, I also got a post card from one of the most awesome girls on the planet, Jane Bang. You're the fucking best! Much love! Pretty dope week so far. Now back to painting the most tedious thing I ever done. This is a year in the making, just so ya'll know, the secret project I been talking about for mad long. I finished 1/3 of it... stay tuned.

Oh, I also got invited by Phoneticontrol to be in his "Thought Processor" NYC series show which will be at My Plastic Heart sometime in May. Much love to the homie Pho' for thinking about a dude and not being a dick rider like every other curator that sets up shows and inviting ONLY established artists. I know about 20 artists off the top of my head who are so much more innovative and fresher than these "big names" in this industry and they still get slept on... mutha fuckas treat this like the music industry and wonder why I get like I get. Act you know and you will see my ego has nothing to do with why I hate "name whores". So much props to my dude Phonetic for the invite! You're also the fucking best!

My Nike Dunk Girl

2010-03-16T17:38:00.001-07:00

Just recently Shawn the Best said he had watched the movie "RAD" and remember loving the movie and haven't seen it in like 15 years. You gotta love 80's movies, so corny and surreal, subliminally pushing the limits with the word "shit" to become what today's films are now. I loved the 80's!

So, I was at my friend Dave's and he has every single movie ever made and he happened to have a rare classic. We got smoove, sat back with my paint brush and Hello Brute toy that I'm working on and returned to my youth where me and my friends Paul Karras and Scott Maffeo would always watch the movie and go outside and try the bike tricks we saw in the movie. And there it was... reminding me what made such an impact on my view on what the "love of my life" should be. This very scene... My Nike Dunk Girl, forever lost.