Making the Video: 'Iraq' (Part 1)

To celebrate the 500,000th view of 'Iraq' on Youtube, I wanted to give everyone a behind the scenes look on the making of the video.

When we released Open for Business, me and Alvin (my manager/business partner) knew that we wanted to release a music video, we just didn't know which track it would be for. 'Iraq' was always the stand out track on the album, but it didn't fall into the traditional 'single' category. So we didn't know what to do. But after a few months of consideration, we finally decided we were going to do it.

We contacted a well known music director in our community by the name of Ron Najor to do the video. Only problem was, he wasn't into it. Ron was busy at the time on his own projects and making a video didn't really interest him. But then he heard 'Iraq' and his mindset changed. It wasn't the stereotypical rap song/video that he was expecting. He wanted to do the video, and he wanted to do it right away.

So you'd think we would start making the video right? Wrong. I changed my mind about it. I didn't think the video would get any play. I told Alvin that I didn't want to spend all that time and money making a video that would probably only get played a few times on the internet. So the video was on hold again for another couple of months. That's when Alvin and Ron decided to ignore me and schedule to shoot the video. It was on!

Part 2 coming up in a bit!

Nas and Jay-Z album?

Rumors continue to swirl about Jay-Z’s still-unconfirmed new record label, Carter Music Group. We hear that Jay is partnering with rapper Nas on an album of duets, “The Kings of Hip Hop,” to be released on the label early next year. Jay’s rep is keeping tight-lipped.

Source: NYDailyNews

This could be one of the best hip hop albums to come out if it's true. They're both some of my favorite artists to ever do it, so a whole CD by the two of them would be crazy. But I also had high expectations for that Best of Both Worlds album (no- not Bow Wow and Omarion) and that didn't quite work out as planned.

To tell you the truth, I'm still not too happy about Jay and Nas ending their beef. Well, ending the beef is cool, but I don't know if I want to see them as friends all of the sudden. It's just too hard to forget the disses they had for each other, and it makes you wonder how they forget about it... well not forget about it, but put it to the side.

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Look Both Ways

I still don't know who I'm going to vote for in November. McCain or Obama/Clinton? I know what you're probably thinking, "What!? McCain!? He's a Republican! You can't vote for a Republican, Mr. Iraq."

But, that's where you're wrong. I can vote for anyone, Republican or Democrat. I don't care. It bothers me that people associate themselves with one party and follow them blindly. It is possible that the other side can be correct sometimes, ya know. Well, George Bush being the shining exception to that rule.

With that said, I'm leaning towards Obama (assuming he knocks off Hillary). Politics aside, having an African-American President in office would really show the rest of the world how progressive we are as a nation. And right now, we need whatever we can get to get rid of the bad taste in everyone's mouth

Underground City in Amsterdam

Unlike the underground cities Saddam supposedly had, Amsterdam is really gonna do it.

AMSTERDAM is to go underground as overcrowding and soaring land prices force planners to look beneath the city's famous canals for future urban development.
The canals will be drained to allow architects to build the underground city, which will reduce the pressures of overcrowding and slash the cost of a parking space

Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £7.4 billion underground city providing one million square feet of underground retail, leisure and parking facilities.

"There has always been a lack of space in the city, so what we are doing is building a city under the city by using a new construction technique, which will not interfere with street traffic," said Moshe Zwarts, a partner at the architects Zwarts & Jansma.

I still haven't made it to Europe yet, but when I do, Amsterdam will definitely have to be a stop. They aren't gonna start building this project till 2018 so it's gonna be a while before people can get high low. Get it!?

I've gone digital

So I was surfing youtube yesterday and I wanted to see how many times "Iraq" has been reposted. Then I came across this video. It's pretty crazy! Thanks to iclonemaster for giving me better dance moves than I really possess. I feel so alive!

I'm back

I started this blog a couple months ago and then I got distracted with other things... like work. A famous person once said "F the liquor store game if you wanna know the truth!" I'll start making posts at least once a day from now on. I.... promise.