The New Music Middle Class

The New Music Middle Class

 

There is not many more Michael Jackson or Janet Jackson’s created.  The days of the big budget transitions to mega hits are becoming too risky at best.  Sure there are a few big stars out there but are they as big as they seem or were they ever.  I mean is fame money or an expense.  Is success being surrounded by body guards at $250G a hit, being chauffeured in limousines and spending $500,000 on video to be seen at your cost, as music videos are still considered promos.

 

Radio shows are being simulcast; it like really few local DJ’s anymore, so where is all the money going?  It seems like a hand full of people is getting paid large at high tax brackets or not paid at no tax bracket.  But a strange thing is taking place in the music industry, evolving is a new middle class.  Very few people are selling a million CD’s, people are taking lessons from people like Tyler Perry and going back to building fan bases to old fashion way city to city and town to town.  People are recording on privately owned studios and self promoting their material.

 

To make a long story short, people are realizing that it is not worth having a multi-million dollar contract to clear $100G per year or even be in the red, when they can freelance and make $500G and have a life.  As we know so well there is a disparity between what a star makes and what they pocket after video recoup, producers, studio costs, taxes, security and all the stuff that comes with the package called a star.

 

 

Getting out while Getting out is Still Good

Getting out while Getting out is Still Good

 

The New York Dream is not meant for New Yorkers, sorry Alicia and Jay-Z, you’ll are the exceptions and show pieces.

 

Maybe I got old too fast, people say I do not look my age but younger and I do not feel old.  But they say wisdom comes with age and I see something happening in New York City that is ill reversible.  There are trends taking place here in the big apple and it is creating two main classes.  Mayor Bloomberg says this is a city for the middle class, but that is not true.  It is setting up to become a city of extremes, being the rich and the poor.

 

This is not the New York City I was raised in; it is like a foreign planet.  A place whereby going to a sports arena is like a dream for most.  There is no work for the working class, all the manufacturing plants a far gone, and everything is service oriented or setup for cheap labor.  Bloomberg ignores Federal Law.  He tells the illegal incomers to jump the fence and come to New York City where you have everything waiting for you free medical, dental and education, because we want your cheap labor, so the rich can thrive.  It is a sad day.

 

But as the illegal immigrants come up north, people like I know my welcome is up and it is time to return to the south. I was raised in New York City, but this is not my city anymore.  I see the south as an opportunity and a new beginning, a place full of resources in need of ideas.  So as the cheap labor comes to the north a lot of real New Yorkers are leaving the city while the getting out is still possible.

 

I noticed most of my old friends left New York City already to the south, as the south has a reputation of racism, I know New York City is not what it claims to be, and the people here are not real New Yorkers anymore. 

 

The Recording Studio Dream Being Realized

The Recording Studio Dream Being Realized

 

Haven’t named the studio yet, but it will be representative of the location or the people behind it.  I have so many ideas running through my head as to how to finance the finishing touches of the recording studio.  It should be fun.  Maybe we might make a compilation CD of the neighborhood talent; I have some new musicians and producers lined up to assist me, being I admittedly find myself ole school, which is not a bad thing as ole school is new school in today’s market.

 

But this project really is not about the next series of hits or about me, as I will not accept a salary as President and CEO, until the organization develops into something extraordinary.  Sure people will get paid for their services if they are earners, but I am not in this one for the money or should I say immediate gratification.

 

The idea of a non profit organization with a recording studio located at the headquarters, making it a non profit recording studio, does not mean it cannot turn a buck, it only means people will not get rich off of the labor of others unless they actually participate, there will be no stock holders.  All the money goes to neighborhood related causes and the staff and labor, therefore the artist should make a higher percentage of the money made due to their talents and pay less to record, because at the end of the fiscal years all the money has to be spent. 

 

If it was about money the saying would be true that we are as good as our last hit record, because every year we will start from scratch so to speak but not absolutely, because this thing of ours will build through reinvestments until we have a top quality studio.  They say a true religion starts in a storefront; it looks like we will be much more fortunate than that as we will start in a commercial building, as the Community Network and Coalition brings the community together.

 

People who I never thought would care are showing interest, I guess a good idea is a good thing.  I think this is a winner!  The DAW makes this all possible in the new millennium.

Bloomberg refers to blacks as lazy & those people

Bloomberg refers to blacks as lazy & those people

 

I was reading about the debate last night and they say Bloomberg won, but I expected that because he owns the media.  But what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears was totally different.  Mayor Bloomberg seemed nervous as Comptroller Thompson seemed confident and on point.  Thompson was not on the defensive on the contrary Bloomberg was because it is obvious that he had something to hide, which is that he buys endorsements through contributions to supporters and when Thompson brought this to the forefront Bloomberg evaded the subject matter.

 

Bloomberg  accused Thompson of Qui pro quo because of his political fund raising to run his campaign, because he is a Billionaire and had 10’s if not 100’s of millions to burn to run his campaign.  The Quid pro quo is when Bloomberg buys the black leadership with his billions by throwing those crumbs for their endorsements.

 

Bloomberg says we need more immigrants because they work harder than poor blacks.  And wants to just give citizenship to anyone who jumps over the fence at the border, with free healthcare and education, whereby Thompson realizing the struggling economy suggest we need real emigration reform, because it is a Federal issue, that was a major difference.

 

Mayor Bloomberg referred to people like Cory Booker the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey as those people that he supports, but it is not Quid pro quo when he supports a New Jersey Mayoral campaign, but it is when a man helps a pension fund make over $20 Billion and they give campaign support to him because they believe he would make a good Mayor.  As Mayor Bloomberg have more votes than anyone on the board.

 

The Bloomberg and Thompson combination was great for New York, but the natural transition was interrupted because Bloomberg changed the term limits.  I think Mayor Bloomberg was a great Mayor, but a better businessman and is probably using his position to make billions for him and his friends.  I think Thompson is much smarted than Bloomberg and intelligence is not measured in the dollar value as Mayor Koch may have alluded to, by saying Bloomberg is the best candidate because he is the richest one.  Because while one man is learning and the other man is earning does not make the top earner a better man, does it?

Is Freedom of Speech a Hate Crime?

Is Freedom of Speech a Hate Crime?

 

We live in a world whereby terms like Gay (Joy) means homosexual and the term faggot is taboo.  Now you have the right to agree with these concepts but it is an attack on these groups of protected people to disagree unless it is done politely.  Meanwhile as it is taboo to say Jew unless it is done in a good way, do not dear say “Jew me.”  But in Hollywood every other word is nigger and bitch referring to black people.

 

Has it become a crime to say what you feel?  Is this an artificial society whereby the world thinks Americans are what the media dictates what we can say in public.  Does the world think that Americans really believe that being a Jew makes you one of God’s children and being homosexual makes you one of Gods protected children and being black means you are without class and deserve to be put in prison or on the front line of war?

 

It is sad how blacks have so much spending power and political power, yet we are on the bottom of the barrel.  It is a sad day when it became a greater curse upon man to say the word faggot opposed to say nigger or black bitch.  A black man can kill a black man that is expected, but do not dear even say something grossly negative about homosexuals, because instead of them getting on their knees, you will be brought to yours. 

 

It is not fair people should be able to say what they truly feel without media censorship, that the American society can be represented for what it is, because until then it cannot be corrected.  We have to know how people really feel about the craziness going on especially when it comes to homosexuality, Jews and blacks.  But only when it comes to blacks is it all right to say nigger.

 

My point, not to say some Jews are not God’s children but some are very evil, and certainly some homosexual are straight up faggots and go out of their way to act feminine, nasty and smell like and ass exhaust pipe and most black people are not niggers even if they think of themselves as so, but from what is projected by the media you would never know Americans are aware of this.

National Community Network & Coalition of Highlands, INC Headquarters

National Community Network & Coalition of Highlands, INC Headquarters

 

I am hoping people like Janet, Alicia and the Michael Jackson Trust support this much needed cause, which will be self sustaining.  And will help children curb from criminal activities.  I will provide the space from the sponsorship. 

 

Sound Isolation Booth at Guitar Center:

 

I want to put the recording studio on the second floor; I need a sound isolation booth and a better sound system.  I do not plan to borrow money against any property my uncle leaves us.  I plan to get 501 (c) 3 Status, making my charitable contributions collected tax deductible next year.  I think I need about $5G to start ASAP and about $50G once I am deductible.  I want a professional look and give these kids something to do; I will charge about what it cost to run the operation and keep it up to date as we are non profit.

 

Value of Building:

Market Value:	126,936
Class Value:	2,175
Just Value:	126,936
Assessed Value:	126,936
Exemption Value:	126,936

 

 

We are in the process or officially transferring the property to this non profit organization, however in the interim I think I will place my home studio in the HQ’s once I settle in at Highlands County, Florida.  And purchase the isolation booth on my own to get things on the roll.  But I plan to place this studio at my home and put another studio in the Headquarters’ on the second floor and use the first floor as office space, run all operations including fund raising.  These kids have nothing to do in Avon Park other than school related activities as they often commit crimes out of boredom and go to jail and get criminal records for petty crimes, like selling drugs to make $100 a day twice a week.

 

The National Community Network & Coalition of Highlands, INC

The National Community Network & Coalition of Highlands, INC

 

First of all, let me pay my bills Janet Jackson Greatest Hits will drop on 17 November 2009.  Her new studio project will be released in 2010 as well and the movie “Why did I get married too,” directed by Tyler Perry will be released in 2010.  She is currently in the studios working on new material for her new studio album.  There so much going on with Janet, but I stopped following her because she pissed me off.  But in any case she hired new dancers and she is very active.

 

Alicia Keys has a new video/song called, “Doesn’t’ mean a thing,” and I understand she might drop something real soon, a new album that is.  Alicia Keys is very hot and Janet is on the comeback trail and I wish them luck in their future endeavors.

 

John Gotti:  I made provocative statements about the trial of John A. Gotti Junior; it is vendetta.  As I continue this article you will see the relevance of what I am talking about.  First of all his father was my friend, I only saw John  Junior one time in my life, he may have been a thug but never the Don, so the whole trail is a misrepresentation of organized crime.  It is not about drugs and killing innocent people or headlines in the newspapers, often in fact when people disappear they receive a new identity and is said to be dead and the government knows this.  That is all I have to say on the subject.  John is not RICO by any means and the government should be ashamed of themselves for holding him for ransom, because we all know I am the problem they have.

 

Frank Paul Gambino:  I know I am under investigation now and am being watch, for speaking up for John Gotti and other reasons.  But everything is known by the FBI and Secret Service which tells me it might be local in nature.  However unlike my father (Carlo Gambino) I talk to cops, I was involve in covert operations for the government for many years, anything you want to know just ask, because the bottom-line you need me more than I need you and you need me much more than to carry out this charade and travesty of justice against John and if you take him down my price doubles and we all know what I am talking about.

 

I am incorporated in Florida and have my EIN and will in the near future gain 501 (C) 3 status after I meet with my directors again and pass the by-laws officially and the minutes will be documented at this meeting, then we will conduct our business which is of a charitable nature addressing community needs in Highlands County with hopes of expanding throughout the Heartland and other states. 

 

There are a lot of things going on with this and if the government wants to watch me develop my corporation by all means feels free to do so.  But I said what I said and did not bite my tongue about John.  My main focus is to help the youth and the elderly, but those in the middle are a key element of carrying this out, for it takes a village to raise a child and you must honor the elderly.  So those of my generation and below it have to step up and that is what I am doing in a nutshell.  So now you have no questions right?  Back off!

Be my Joneses

Be my Joneses

 

It was said that it is not so much important as to what goes into your mouth but what comes out of it, which is a maker of your character.  A very good word historically used as a negative connotation is Joneses meaning basically neighbor.  It is a saying to “keep up with the Joneses.”  Suggesting that you be in competition with your next door neighbor, sort of like they by a fence and you buy a more expensive fence, they buy a car and you buy a better car.

 

But in actuality the term Joneses is a friendly and non competitive term.  I call on the Hip Hop community to replace the terms “Nigger” and “bitch” with “Joneses.”  I call on them to say in there songs “be my Joneses.”  Because like Rev. AL Sharpton said, you are what you say you are.

 

Let us bring back a community to raise a child mentality and be truly neighbors and not allow ourselves to just simply be victims on the system.  A change in mentality is in our grasp, we can determine our destiny, by changing how we speak and therefore changing how we think.

 

It is like the new Mafia is a non profit organization for the betterment of our communities and not a self destructives movement of surviving by any means, because we are packed in the projects like sardines.  We have to address our circumstances and the situations we are facing such as the expansion of prisons, wars around the world and the AIDS pandemic; single parenthood, illiteracy and the symbolically castrated Blackman?

 

As simple as it may seem, a major step in the right direction as a new greeting of camaraderie (Friendship) is to stop calling your brothers or sisters Niggers and bitches and say “that is my Joneses.”  I call on major Hip Hop community to introduce this concept into their culture.  Personally I really like some Hip Hop and Rap music, but I am embarrassed by it; I think the term Joneses will sell more records and allow the music to reach more homes.  At least consider it. And most importantly it would create a safer community and brotherly and sisterly love among our youth.

Janet Jackson about to Release her Best songs according to Charts

Janet Jackson about to Release her Best songs according to Charts

 

On November 17^th, Janet will release a two CD set with her number one hits, which amount to about 46 songs, as she has sold about 100 million songs world wide.  This and the fact that she is about to release her 10^th studio album and her new movie directed by Tyler Perry in 2010 is all but being suffocated by her dysfunctional personal life.  Sort of like I love him and I love him not? 

 

Janet Jackson & Jermaine Dupri reality internet presentation has become all boring and irrelevant.  Nobody cares anymore to include me, as I am moving down to a small city in Florida, where I am loved and appreciated; I got the women lining up, I just have to choose.  The way I see it Janet is not the brightest woman in the world, she looks alright but tends to get fat and I do not need her money to enjoy life and she showed little interest in me.   So as far as I am concerned she had her chance and blew it, so her and Jermaine Dupri can cut all the all talk and photo sessions and have a real affair that includes sex and have there little beautiful child?

 

Busy on a Mission

 

I know I have not been very entertaining as of lately.  There is so much going on and I have to prioritize my list of items.  I am about to move to Florida and it may seem by chance but it is not.

 

Western Beef & Highlands County in the Heartland

RE: Western Beef Expansion

Date: 3 May 2007

Time to act

 

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I have a lot on my plate right now and am in serious mode and mood.  There is a big picture that has to be fulfilled.  This may well be the beginning of something really big!

 

I plan to run a non profit organization that is charitable.  I have a small house and I am easy to satisfy, and in it there will have a home recording studio and down the block I have a two story office building to run the Headquarters for my non profit organization.  I am not blogging as much now because I am in the process of making my bed.

 

Food is food, sex is sex and love making is love making and Mariah “Obsessed,” Janet cannot starve me, there are simply too many fish in the sea, that look better and are smarter, perhaps they cannot sing and dance as well, but who wants a woman who is never home and always in the public eyes?  I can do much better than Janet, obsessed my butt Mariah.  If you see a mushroom cloud you will know why!  You reap what you sow!

 

 

Michael Jackson Sampled in James Brown’s Tradition

Michael Jackson Sampled in James Brown’s Tradition

 

What’s next on the Pop, Hip Hop & R&B Charts?  Will Michael Jackson become the next most sampled artist since James Brown?  With ReCycle by Propellerhead, it is in grasp range for the average producer to insolate Michael vocals into their tracks and under current copyright laws it might be legal, to sample a tiny bit like “He-He.”  So prepare yourself and do not be surprised, if this becomes a tradition in the name of memorializing a Pop Icon.

 

However my prediction is this will be the beginning phase as more technological gifted Producer/engineer insiders with access to masters start to apply new technology like time stretching and effects to Michael’s vocals to the degree of undetectable comparisons of the original tracks creating totally new material only regulated by their imagination and talents.  Stay Tuned!

 

As for me, it looks like I will be moving to Florida, doing what I have been doing but better.  A seed has been planted where many of my family members reside, I just have to harvest it.  I wanted to start a new religion, but we have more conventional plans for the property, I am to manage.  I received my uncle’s blessings!