Dottie's, Days Inn, Element Lounge and the Royale

Woke up some time in the afternoon.
I was kinda pissed with Priceline.com... I had to dip out of Mars' spot because he wasn't gonna be around. So I went online to book a spot. I did that "Name your own price shit with priceline. They asked me what area so I put downtown San Fran. They Booked me at a place 25 miles out of town. Oh well. That's what I get for trying to get a room for $40. Take it a s a loss right? Ended up getting a room at the Days Inn in the Civic Center Area for a decent price.
Mars took me to this dope spot called Dotties True Blue Cafe. Absolutely the Best Breakfast style eating I've had at a restaurant in years! After that we went back to his spot, i got my shyt and we took a cab to the Days Inn. Mars Jumped out ahead of time to go where he was going. What a cool cat.
Chilled at the Days Inn and entered all the people that I had met over the past week into my database. Wow... like 150 people. I've been busy huh? Now if they'd all just buy CDs Maybe I can continue to bring my music back out here and to more people. I ain't tryin' to be rich I just wanna spread the word and be comfortable doing it. Is that too much to ask for support to do? I don't think so. So if you're reading this, buy a CD. If you already have one, buy another as a gift for someone you know.
Anyway... I stayed in the room just about all day entering stuff in the database and working on some new songs. Wait till y hear em. You're gonna be like... OH SHIT!
So at around 1:30pm my homey Chase (Paper Chase Music) from Sacramento, who is a beast on the beats, came out with his homey and we went for some Pizza at this spot not too far from where I was staying and not too far from where the Element Lounge is. Talk about GREASY Pizza! Funny shyt. Chase is Leon's brother... you know the trumpet player from last night. Crazy right. Met em both at Music Strategies and I'm linking up with both of them 24 hours apart in San Francisco. NETWORK man!!!! (That's my new Super hero name).
We went to Element Lounge after that and I met up with Illmaculate (Portlant, OR) and The Saurus. Some cats I know from the jumpoff battles (who happen to be the World Rap Champs) and the Sand People (Portlant, OR) who I met up with the last time I was in San Fran. Crazy that all of these people happen to be in San Fran again when I'm in San Fran.
They all killed it on Stage. I had to dip out though. My peeps across town at the Royale were waiting for me... Jumped in a cab and got there in less than 10 minutes. Ran into the joint and kicked it with my homey Won Way Possibul, my homegirl Sae and a bunch of other people I hadn't seen since May. What a welcome. They rocked a couple of songs and then they opened the mic. I had a blast! showed up and killed it as well. When it was all said and done I met a bunch of new people and got the mic twice. I ended up at this spot called Vietnam getting some food on the solo tip. Jumped in a cab and made it back to the hotel. More data entry and rhyme writing then I packed my bags for the flight home.


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Make Your Mark... All Soul... Bruno's

Woke up on the air mattress with a stiff neck... I think there's something about being so low to the ground that fucks with the human psyche. The air-bed was comfy but it still seems as if I was on the damn floor. Oh well. had to get up and get to this "Make Your Mark" conference that Microsoft and Avid were throwing. I missed the one in NYC and I wasn't gonna miss this one since I just so happened to be in San Francisco at the same time. Got up on this chicken burrito at a spot down the block from M.C. Mars's joint. He came with me and then we went to the conference which was walking distance. These hills in San Fran are killer!
Met up with Tim Sweeney again who happened to be a speaker on the panel. Met up with some ill musicians, 3D illustrators and graphic designers in the Bay Area. Network-O-Rama!
I also won a dope M-Audio "portable studio" bag in a raffle at the end of the seminars. It's worth like $70 bucks... Ha! How U like that... Now I'm fresher than fresh sucka! Don't hate because you're broke... Now all i need to add is my "Bling Tattoo" and it's on!!!!
After that I went to Mars' spot and dropped off my new bag and got back in the street and got on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, basically the subway in the bay area) and trooped out to Oakland to meet All Soul. We went out to Berkeley so he could practice B-Boying at the college. It was cool getting to build with him beforehand. He let me hear some new killer beats. We didn't get a chance to record anything new this time though. It was a good time. Then I trooped it back to San Fran to get to this spot called Bruno's where my homey Leon (the dude from Sacramento with the trumpet from the Music Strategies Conference) was going to be performing. Shyt was dope. It was crazy to be from NYC and walk onto a spot and multiple people were like "Yo Tah wussup!". Megan from music strategies was there with her boyfriend too. She is a powerhouse. If she was in NYC you could bet your bottom $ that she'd be the person I'd hire as a manager. Knew a few cats from the band that was playing too. They killed it on some soulful Curtis Mayfield with a twist of Prince and P-Funk. M.C. Mars showed up and we freestyled after the band finished and the DJ spun. It was dope. Made some more friends and kiscked it. Me and Mars then hit this Late Night Burrito Spot. I'm getting Burrito-ed out... Bakc to Mars' crib on the bus. Had a dope conversation about politics and 1984 by George Orwell...

Good times... good people...

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