I’m back baby. Back to Westcheddar, back to the daily grind. My wife and I had an amazing trip to Kauai, with stops in Southern and Northern California. It was the time of my life. My wife (I love saying that it’s so fun) took the picture above from our hotel lagoon early in the morning on our first day at the Grand Hyatt Kauai. She got real “snap happy” (she coined that) on the trip. She’s a pretty good photographer huh? Me, well I did a lot of reading (I’ll get to that in my next post) and also managed to write a few tropical bars by the pool. So while MY WIFE was in the shower getting ready for dinner one night, I took the opportunity to recite them while I had the mean island backdrop in effect. Check the video that I call “Book of Rhymes: Hawaii Honeymoon Pages”…
And would you believe, when we got back to New York, I was surfing the net for what I missed in the music world while we were away, and I stumble across the new Kanye West “Amazing” video that coincidently was shot in Kauai!!! I mean, he’s got footage of himself at the Waimea Canyon on blast through the whole video, and I’m like, “Babe, we were just there!!!” Peep the pic, then the video…truly AMAZING.
I’ll leave you with another impressive shot that my wife took from our table at the Beach House restaurant on the south shore near our hotel (it was her birthday!!!), and one of us too from the same night. Stay tuned for more posts…peace and love.
Dana and I got married yesterday in the heart of White Plains, New York. It was a perfect spring day that couldn’t have been any better. I’m still soaking it all in and fielding pictures that family and friends are sending to us as we pack for our honeymoon. There were truly so many amazing moments I won’t even attempt to try and list them. But before I bounce to Hawaii with my beautiful wife, I have to leave you with these video highlights (and sick pic above of all fellas with the bride) from the reception at the VIP Country Club in New Rochelle, courtesy of my homegirl Maddie….check these out….”SWITCH!!!!” is definitely a must watch…
Here it is. DIRTY JAX PRESENTS THE BEST OF STAN IPCUS. Yeah, that’s a new Dirty Jax spring 2009 shirt I’m wearing, and their designer Josh Kimerling put the cover artwork together for me. As I said last week in my promo post, this mixtape features a bunch of my favorite material from my last three projects, and some new remixes (shout out to the great Large Professor thanks for the remix!!!!), radio appearances, leaks, etc. Check below for the tracklist and free download link. Enjoy.
Now. Here’s the complete Stan Ipcus discography, a decade in the making, dating back to 1999 when I recorded my first studio album as a University of Maryland at College Park junior. I’ll start from the present and go back….
BACHELOR PARTY is my most recent release. This got some major shine on nahright.com and some other dope internet hip hop websites (shout out to sarcasticdbag.com for calling it “fuckin classic”), and a few of the songs got spins on Hot 97, Shade 45, etc. This project is my personal favorite, and not because it’s my most recent work. I just really love the songs on here. The download includes the bonus tracks “My Ferris Buellers” and “The Great White Hope (Asher Roth Diss)” which were recorded after the project’s completion. Check the tracklist and link below…
In 2006, my friend from WP and business partner DJ Roz (we owned a mixtape spot out in Maryland called Strictly Classics and went to College Park and WPHS together too) decided it was time for us to put out an official Stan Ipcus mixtape. So for a couple months straight, I would just send mp3’s of songs I was recording at my crib in WP down to him in MD. You wouldn’t believe it if you saw how I recorded for this mixtape in the crib, with the laptop and the built in mic, spitting into the computer screen. That’s why some of the tracks have that fuzz in them. It was the first time I had the ability to record in the crib, and I still hadn’t perfected the “no mic” technique. I was learning along the way. Ha! It was mostly just random freestyles, or beats I looped up and went in on. And Roz gave me a couple beats to rock over too (see “Real Ganja Talk”). When he finally put it all together, it was a certified classic around the way. White Plains was fully with me after I put this out. Dudes from the hood would come up to me quoting songs and all that, giving me my props. We were doing a lot of shows in the city around this time too. I love the way this mixtape flows. And the title perfectly describes the content. REAL BREEZY. Peep the cover above (hilarious!!!) and tracklist/download link below…
I managed to get one single, WESTCHEDDAR/DO US, on Itunes with the help of my boy Lev Dog from NY Fresh Records. It was produced by this band from across the Tappan Zee Bridge called The Wax Machine that I used to do shows with, and it was recorded with all live intruments. We all ended up going our seperate ways, but to this day this is still the only two solo Stan Ipcus songs on Itunes. It dropped right before Roz and I came out with Real Breezy in Spring 2006. Peep the cover for the single and the link to download it via Amazon.com, or grab it on Itunes if that’s easier, either way your support is appreciated…
This is the original promo for Matisyahu’s YOUTH album. See how it says IN STORES JANUARY 31, 2006? Well it actually came out March 7th, 2006. I remember it getting pushed back at the last minute, and how excited everyone was for it to drop. My feature on his song “WP” is probably what I am best known for, and truthfully it’s my favorite verse I ever wrote. We’ve performed this song everywhere and in between, from MSG to the Greek Theatre in LA. I’m very proud to be on this grammy nominated album with one of my closest childhood friends. Here’s the link to download it on Amazon.com…
Ahhh, FLIRTING WITH FAME. I put a bunch of songs from here on The Best of Stan Ipcus. Most of this album was recorded in Sony Studios with Inyerface Records, a small label based on 54th Street that I had a little production deal with back in late 2003/2004. This album is timeless, and was recorded while I was getting a real taste of the NYC music industry life after moving back home from D.C. I got a chance to work with some great producers on this, and I also threw a couple mixtape style songs on here too that I recorded before my move back to WP. Dirty Jax laced the cover for this, it’s definitely my favorite of all my covers. This marked the first time I ever had one of my songs on a major hip hop radio show (DJ Eclipse played “Pay U No Mind” on The Halftime Show which I was recently a guest on). I got a lot of favorites on here. All the material on this project was recorded from the end of 2003 to 2004, when I had some really great hip hop moments. I met a bunch of people I was fans of while I was recording this, from Kanye West to Kay Slay, and had the chance to open up shows for Smif N Wessun and Slick Rick during this time period too. Unfortunately, the label fell apart before I ever had the opportunity to release anything properly. But they gave me all the songs to keep, so I put this out myself in early 2005. I threw a release party at my apartment in WP that was crazzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyy. Tracklist and link below…
EM & IP THE WHITE ALBUM was a mixtape I wanted to put together for fun. I called it The White Album for obvious reasons (we’re both white!), but also because I was living in D.C. at the time right near The White House, hence the cover shot. In addition, it was around the time that Jay-Z’s The Black Album was getting alot of hype before it’s release (Summer of 2003), and I thought it would make a clever title. I should have known that everyone was gonna play off that title. At the time, I wasn’t recording too much, just here and there when I could, but I was running the mixtape spot with DJ Roz so I figured it could be a cool way to put something of my own on the shelf that people could check out, especially if they already liked Eminem. It’s not Em vs. Ip, it’s Em & Ip, back and forth. I put all my favorite Eminem songs on there and tried to match mine up with his so it flowed. And my boy K-Wet aka BonDon did a hilarious intro for it. Check it out below, it’s not bad…
CREAM CHEESE never was really released. I never had a cover made for it. At the time I put it together, in early 2002, I had some songs from my final year living in Maryland that kind of all fit together. It was made up of all original production from Bless, Max Bee, and one song from my boy Kalash. And it features one of my few collabo tracks, with my classmate Nef, who to this day is the nicest rapper I’ve ever been friends with. Straight College Park. This (above) would’ve mad a great cover. Tracklist and link below.
Yo, I can’t find the actual front cover for EXTRA HIM that Josh from Dirty Jax, my second official release. So I’m gonna use this picture from the album cover photo shoot (above), where I’m dunking at the court next to the campus pool. On the actual cover I’m dunking over like 5 gippy frat dudes (if anyone has that holler). Yes, this hoop was only like 9 1/2 feet, but true story back then I used to be able to bang it on a regulation hoop too. Ask Max Bee how I banged it on him on this pool hoop the first time we ever balled together during a game of 21. Hahahaha! Anyway, this is really representative of my College Park years, when I was just doing my thing on campus, rocking at campus events, frat parties, clubs around the way, and Knox Road barbeques heavy. It has original production from Max Bee and Bless, live cuts from The Kaffa House in DC, a radio freestyle, and some crazy lyrics. I was really coming into my own at this time. This one is close to my heart. It brings back so many great memories, when I really was EXTRA HIM. I dropped this in June 2000. Download link below…
And here is the first official Stan Ipcus CD release. I made a couple tapes before this, but never in a studio. For this one I spent 4 nights at this little studio on Irving Place in Manhattan. I brought a bunch of songs I wanted to get looped up, and the engineer looped them, and I just put some songs together with a bunch of verses I had written. Some of the lyrics are from high school! It’s kind of like an EP. My boy Andrew Goldberg, who now writes for The Family Guy, made some hilarious guest appearances on here as Harvey Yackerbottom (a character from our old public access TV show) and Edith Bunker. And me, well I just went in as Stanley Ipcus. This one was for my boys, plain and simple. That’s why it’s called PU CLICK POETRY. This had a nice little buzz in White Plains and College Park. People still hit me up about this. It was recorded in January 1999. Ten years ago. Crazy. I used to sit in my boy’s dorm room and burn copies whenever I could. He was the only dude I knew with a CD burner. The cover photo is by Josh from Dirty Jax aka Sure Shot, but my dude Jon Jo helped me put the design together at Kinko’s. That’s my pops on the back, shoveling snow on Ogden Avenue. Link below…
Funny thing is I have MAD TRACKS left over that I never put on any of these projects. Some of them are from the Inyerface/Sony Studios years, but most of them are just songs I just did on the fly at the crib. They’re either not fully mixed down or they’re really fuzzy. Some of them are great quality but they just didn’t fit on any of the projects. Some are straight freestyles or singing. Regardless, if there’s big Stan Ipcus fans out there somewhere, they’re gonna love this. It’s a bunch of unreleased songs, like 60 plus tracks. I call this THE FUZZY PHLEGM GEM FILES. All zipped up and ready to download for anyone who really wants to hear some raw Stan Ipcus material. Enjoy.
So that’s it, a decade of Stan Ipcus. Enjoy THE BEST OF STAN IPCUS, and check out my discography when you get a chance. For those of you who have been with me since the beginning, thank you for always supporting me as an artist, coming to my shows, rocking my tapes and CD’s, and chilling at my recording sessions. And to my new fans, welcome to my fly whiteboy rap world, and thank you too for your support. Did I miss anything? Oh yeah, I’m not retiring or anything, but I am getting married. I have a feeling my music is going to shift a bit in the next years. We’ll see in which direction, not sure yet. Let me know your thoughts on this post in the comments section if you get the chance. Thanks again. Peace….
I’m about to put out this Stan Ipcus x Dirty Jax BEST OF IP mixtape. It represents the end of an era. Single Stan Ip is about to be a wrap (I’m getting married next month son). I’ve been recording for more than a decade as a bachelor, and since my boy Josh aka Sure Shot from Dirty Jax (above with Big Fat Ip hahaha) made my first album cover for Pu Click Poetry (not to mention covers for my second album Extra Him AND third album Flirting with Fame), I asked him to lace me for the BEST OF IP. The mixtape has a bunch of new stuff that I’ve leaked over the past few months, some on air radio freestyles, remixes, and my favorite songs from my last three projects (Bachelor Party, Real Breezy with DJ Roz, and Flirting with Fame). I even snuck a live throwback from my College Park days on there. Check out this review of Bachelor Party below…the free download link is there too if you still don’t have that get it asap!!!!
In addition, I will be posting free download links to my entire discography, from the late 90’s “little gipper flipper” years to now, along with the BEST OF IP, on April 1st, 2009, here on WESTCHEDDAR. Here’s a little promo video I did, kind of a warm up for next week…one of my favorite songs to perform…a true IP standard…”I Does This”. I’m spitting that quickness so keep up!!! Enjoy, and check back with WESTCHEDDAR.COM (that’s right we dropped the wordpress from our web address finally) for the Stan Ipcus x Dirty Jax BEST OF IP mixtape next week. It’s a classic…
And here’s a bonus. My first ever Youtube video, which also features me spitting that quick style my “day one” friends and fans always appreciate. This is “Hey”, off Real Breezy with DJ Roz, over a Red Hot Chili Peppers loop I put together. Another one of my favorites to perform…
The first time I ever heard the LOX was in 1996 on the song above, “You’ll See”, which features Biggie on the last verse. I was an instant fan. They were from Yonkers, loved to shout out the 914 area code, and all three of them (Jadakiss, Styles, and Sheek) could rap VERY WELL. In the last decade plus, they’ve been through alot, from switching labels to starting solo careers, and through it all they’ve maintained their street sensibility. Check out this recent interview they did together with DJ Enuff where they talk about the state of hip hop, who they’re fans of, and why the game is so effed up. It’s a great clip…
And while you’re at it, check out my latest song “Tweet Tweet”, the first ever Twitter themed jam, which debuted on nahright.com….here’s the post, it’s a good look…
Ahhh, the life of a substitute teacher. I know it too well. In fact, I can relate to this new HBO show’s story of a former baseball star who comes back to his home town to sub in a very personal way. Sure, I was never a major celebrity (not even close), but I would work in White Plains every once in a while as a substitute teacher right after the Matisyahu album cut “WP” came out, and real talk I signed autographs in school. It was weird, like why would you really want my autograph, I’m your sub and I see you around school like once a week. But at the same time, it was kind of cool and gratifying to know that my talents were looked up to in the midst of my daily hustle subbing to support myself financially. The same kids I was teaching were seeing me rap with Matisyahu at MSG and Hammerstein Ballroom. I was proud to be a part of both of those worlds with them. Check the clip of me performing at a spoken word show at lunchtime in the library of WPHS during my days as a sub, a moment where my worlds’ collide…
I’m not sure how proud washed up baseball superstar Kenny Powers, Danny McBride’s character on Eastbound and Down, is feeling though after returning home to work at a local middle school. He’s cocky, obnoxious, and completely inappropriate, yet he’s still worshipped as a celebrity by many of the adults at school and in town, even the principal. The kids, however, look at him like a total joke though (mostly because their parents do too). And he is. It’s a fun show. McBride, who is on the rise right now after a funny performance as Red in Pineapple Express, provides a bunch of LOL moments on the show, which will be airing it’s third episode this Sunday. Take a look at the Eastbound and Down Behind the Scenes HBO Special below (the series is produced by Will Ferrell by the way)…
And in case you missed it, Summer Heights High, another new HBO comedy series, is borderline brilliant. Chris Lilley (very talented and funny) plays three different main characters on the show; a stuck up valley girl, a flaming drama teacher, and a badass schoolboy. All three characters are outrageously hilarious in their own way.
The show has the feel of The Office UK (you know, that uncomfortable humor), but it’s set at an Australian High School. Check for reruns, watch it On Demand, or cop the DVD that just dropped today. Here’s the trailer…
Give both shows a shot, they’re worth watching. I wonder when the new Curb Your Enthusiasm season is starting?
My young boy Jae Boogz from WP (above—peep the Dirty Jax shirt) had me on his college radio show recently to talk about all sorts of Stan Ipcus related stuff. It’s a pretty thorough interview, touching on a bunch of different subjects. He recently just started working with the Hot 97 Ciph and Rosenberg morning show, which is a good look for him. Check the link to the interview and to his website where he posts all his shows below…
I also just did an interview with an old schoolmate of mine Erez at shemspeed.com, a very popular jewish music website. He asked me some interesting questions about what drives me to make music, religion, and of course growing up in WP with Matisyahu…check the print…
And since we’re getting up close and personal, check the videos below of me and Max Bee driving in NYC….First he does a quick little LETTER F beatbox, then he kicks something for me to spit over…something light….check it…
My boy Josh from Dirty Jax is about to release some new shirts for 2009, so I put this little video together for him featuring a song I did with teenage rap group Hood Legacy called “Superfresh”. The song is about a year old now, but since we’re so ahead of our time, it’s perfect to drop right about now. The second rapper on the song, Sosa, is actually DMX’s son. Both kids are mad young and real nice with the raps (they just started high school). They hang with me all the time in my Cultural Arts Center where I work. The video features a slideshow of Dirty Jax pics, with all sorts of celebs and partygoers…
I posted about Mr. Youtube (above) before here at Westcheddar, one of the stars of the Get Light dance craze that is sweeping across the 5 boroughs and up to where I work in Westchester County. My interest in the dance style, which is very popular with urban youth right now in the NYC area, started mainly from having so many kids come into my Cultural Arts Center wanting to Get Light, watching all the youtube videos of battles and new moves, and practicing their own moves in the center. Eventually they started making their own videos to post, and continue to do so. In fact, last night we just filmed a new one.
After forming a friendship with my boy Craig at Bombin Magazine, who interviewed me for a Stan Ipcus online feature a few months ago, I expressed an interest to him in doing a story on “getting light” for his next issue. I put him on to the dance videos of Mr. Youtube and others I posted here at Westcheddar and he was really into the idea. So from there I contacted the man behind the movement, D Cole.
I figured D Cole (above) was the guy to get at, since almost all the videos I watched online had his label on them and were from his youtube page. I shot him an email through youtube, and he called me that day, and invited me to his upcoming event, promising he would have Mr. Youtube and other big names like Chrybaby Cozie (bottom left, who has appeared in some popular music videos including Ron Browz “Pop Champagne” and Chris Brown’s “Kiss Kiss”) in the building for me to talk to. It was exactly what I needed for my story.
The event took place during the holidays at a dance studio in midtown Manhattan, and it was awesome. There were kids from all over New York, many who traveled quite a distance to get there, ready to battle and make a name for themselves. I quickly found out that it was no longer called Get Light, but rather GET DARK, a movement D Cole leads and promotes heavily through his videos, clothing, and of course his DARK WARS. He organizes all the events, shoots and posts all the videos, and acts as a father figure to many of the dancers involved (though I must note there were a bunch of parents in the building, all in support of their kids and D Cole’s movement). He’s a great guy, and after being around him, it’s easy to see why everyone looks up to him. Keep an eye out for the new issue of Bombin Magazine for my full story behind D Cole’s DARK WARS, and check out the 4 part Behind the Scenes video I put together, filled with interviews and dance footage that explain and show exactly what it means to GET DARK, and a slideshow of pics I got at the event…
*Slideshow*
Part 1 D Cole Interview etc….
Part 2 Mr. Youtube, Chrybaby Cozie Interview etc….
Part 3 More Interviews and an Ill Battle!!!!
Part 4 Exclusive Mr. Youtube, Chrybaby Cozie, and Rayn Dance Footage
Shout out to Bombin Magazine, check out the story on their blog too:
Jonathan Joseph, the 30 year old tenured Social Studies stud teacher at White Plains High School, is one of the reasons why Barack Obama will be sworn in as our next President this Tuesday. As an early Obama supporter with major political interests (he watches Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s shows religiously), Joseph spent much of his weekend and vacation time off from teaching in 2008 volunteering with the campaign. From traveling to nearby swing states to making cold calls, even going door to door at times, the man with two first names did whatever it took to get his candidate elected. And it worked. My good buddy Double J took the time to talk with Westcheddar about his efforts on both the campaign trail and in the classroom…
ip: For those out there that don’t know you, what classes do you teach at White Plains High School? Which one is your favorite?
jj: I’ve been at the high school for 7 years now and have taught a variety of different stuff including U.S. History, Economics, and Law. From a content perspective, I like Economics the most – you can basically turn anything into an economic problem. The discussions are the most real and seniors are the most fun to teach. But U.S. History is probably my favorite simply because it’s a full year and you develop cool relationships with kids over that time.
ip: Were your students interested in the election? Did they talk about it a lot with you? Did you use class time to talk to them about it?
jj: They were aware of it and some were more interested than others. I saw some kids show up at the call center in Rye before the election. Obviously the feeling in the building was very pro-Obama (he won the school vote 1300-250 or so), but I’m not sure how well they know the issues so I try to focus on that angle.
I definitely use class time to discuss it, I mean, what better time to be teaching this stuff. It’s nice when something that’s usually dry like the Electoral College can be engaging. Also, if they’re interested in politics and government because of him, it would be a waste not to take advantage of it. It’s cool how it all works out too. On Friday, I was teaching about the post-Civil War South, about sharecropping and black codes and Jim Crow. On Tuesday, an African-American will take the Oath of Office.
ip: You spent the last three weekends campaigning in Pennsylvania before the election, a neighboring swing state. What did your work there consist of? Were you affiliated with a larger group Obama supporters?
jj: I started spending time in Pennsylvania last winter in preparation for the Democratic primary in April. Initially, I just found an address in Northwest Philly and took the Chinatown bus down there to see how I could help. As a teacher you get a good amount of time off, so I spent a good part of my February and April breaks there. When the general election rolled around, I found out my cousin was organizing trips out of Brooklyn, so I would hop on random vans and go down on weekends to work. I also made calls from my house and helped train others at local call centers in Westchester.
This is gonna get a little bit into the nuts and bolts of it all, but the way it was organized was incredible. Basically, they had print-outs of registered voters with a ton of info. Everything from the person’s address to party affiliation to the number of people who lived in the house, along with their family members names, ages, party affiliation etc. Our job was to find out how they felt about Obama and compile a database that could be used to create separate strategy for each individual on the list. Some people needed to be persuaded, others just needed voting information. On election day, the ground teams in Philly were working with call teams in New York to get to every Obama voter in a swing state. Only those people who were Obama supporters were contacted and brought to the polls. As the day went on, the lists were refined to reflect who had already voted. Those who hadn’t got another phone call or door knock. If you were a McCain supporter or on the fence, we knew it and would just skip your house.
The hardest part was that we were in the most run-down, poor areas of Philly. I’m a big believer that politics can and does make a difference, but it was difficult to figure out how to explain that to families who had basically been forgotten by every politician who had ever knocked on their door. For as much as it felt like I was doing something valuable and worthwhile, it also felt like a bunch of white, anti-war, pro-environment, children of hippy liberals running through a neighborhood that we didn’t belong in and preaching at people whose struggle we didn’t necessarily understand and couldn’t relate to. It’s complicated, I guess.
ip: What was it about Barack Obama that initially caught your attention? Can you remember back to when you first heard of him?
jj: I’m a political nerd so I was up on Obama early in 2004. The guy he ran against had to withdraw because of scandal and so his seat was one that could be picked up by the Democrats, a rare thing back then. When he gave the keynote at the Democratic Convention, I remember knowing that he was a great speaker and that I didn’t want to miss it. The thing I like most about him is that he honestly doesn’t believe that those who disagree with him are bad people. I think he looks for that which we have in common, and I think he will step away from the politics of judgment. The coolest thing I’ve heard him say since he got elected was that he wanted to bring the two halves of Washington D.C. together, because currently, once you step away from all the white marble, you find a lot of those forgotten neighborhoods like the ones I canvassed in Philly. It’s an issue where there are no political points to be scored, so for him to even mention that… it gives me hope that we have someone genuine in the White House.
ip: Have you read his books? Which one would you recommend to your students?
jj: He’s a great writer. Dreams of My Father is the better book. It’s more about him and less about policy positions and politics. You realize that he came from the same place the rest of us did, and that he fought the same battles with himself that we all do.
ip: Just curious, this is a little off topic, but who is the most “off the hook” student you ever had in a class at WPHS? Is there one that sticks out as being really funny or having a crazy personality or being a total class clown?
jj: First of all, all kids are off the hook. The shit they say is hilarious… and I spend a huge amount of time everyday laughing. It’s one of the biggest benefits of the job. But since we’re on the Obama social activism train, I’ll shout out a kid named Arturo Bravo. As a senior in 2005, he organized a walk out in support of immigrants. When word got to the administration, they called him into an office with the police chief and the principal and every other big willy they could find. They tried to pressure him into calling the whole thing off, hitting him with everything from personal consequences to issues of student safety. He looked them dead in the eye and said, “I understand, but this is something I have to do.” In the end, 1000 kids walked out and held a rally at the fountain downtown. The police were cool about it too. The commish was so impressed by Arturo that he made sure that all the cops who covered the rally were in their dress whites. I think he’s studying to be a lawyer now.
ip: Yeah, I remember that. I know Arturo too, he’s a cool kid. From a teacher’s perspective, what do you see as the main issues that are affecting young people in this country that Obama needs to address immediately?
jj: I hope he can help make schools into places where creativity and innovation are welcome and rewarded. We’re all caught up in this test score or that test score or how many AP kids we have. The tests don’t require critical thinking, and they make schools into these rigid, inflexible places where success is based on understanding and working the system. It’s nonsense. Ideally, we’d have a society where the most talented people said, “I want to be a teacher.” We need to make schools into places where those people would want to work, and where their talents wouldn’t be wasted. So any step in that direction would be nice. And is it too much to ask that college be affordable?
ip: Do you see kids at school wearing Obama t-shirts? It seems to be a new fashion trend.
jj: There are some around but nothing too crazy, I’m sure it will pick up even more after he takes office. More of them seem to be hoping Ed Hardy gets elected in 2012.
ip: Ha! You’re a well known sneakerhead at WPHS. What’s the sickest pair you own? And if you had to design an Obama sneaker for Nike, what would the design and colors look like?
jj: My favorites right now are these green denim Dunks. The De La Soul’s are sick though too. And I’m the only cat in the world with a pair of Air Force Ips. I actually went to the website to design Obama Dunks, but it wouldn’t let me cut and paste the picture. Obviously red, white and blue, but the way I had the colors was kinda sick. Throw the Obama logo on the back outside heel and we’re good to go… Air Force Hopes.
ip: I found a pair of Obamas that someone made online. Check them out. Finally, how did you celebrate Obama’s win? Keep it real, did you cry when you found out? It’s okay, lots of people did.
jj: Cats came over early, but when they called it for Obama I was sitting on my couch with my friend Kate. And hell yeah I cried. Most of the next day too. It was an incredible day to be a teacher. And I’ll probably be crying again when I’m standing on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday when he takes office. I worked hard for this, and wanted it badly. It’s that line from Shawshank, in the letter at the end from Andy… “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies…” Holler.
Mr. Joseph’s Top 5 Obama Campaign Moments
1. National Anthem- Election Night on St. Marks in NYC
2. Manassas, Va
3. Responding to Hillary’s negative attacks in the debate the night before.
4. The South Carolina Victory Speech. Probably my favorite of the campaign.
5. Super Tuesday Speech from Chicago – “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Thanks to JJ for the exclusive interview. And to all the ladies out there who want to holler at him down in D.C. after the inauguration, well, you may have to wait in line…
P.S. I just realized this is my 100th Westcheddar post. Nice. Thanks to all my readers for their continued support. Stay tuned for more fresh updates in 2009. Peace.
And since we’re getting up close and personal, check the videos below of me and Max Bee driving in NYC….First he does a quick little LETTER F beatbox, then he kicks something for me to spit over…something light….check it…
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