Blogs


ABOUT ME


  • » Name: Amanda Bassa
  • » Location: VA
  • » Member Since: 09/21/07
  • » Bio: student, future change maker, and everything you wouldn't expect me to be.
  • » Contact Me:
  • » Syndicate: RSS RSS

MY RECENT POSTS



MY CALENDAR


  August 2008  
S M T W T F S
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31            
« Jul Sep »

MY TAGS


2007 • aids • album sales • art • barack obama • basketball • beijing olympics • bill clinton • bush • china • college • cops • crime • d.c. • darfur • dc • dead prez • deonte rawlings • displacement • dmv • downloading • drugs • e-thuggery • election • endorsement • ernie paniccioli • excessive force • films • florida • free • frosty freeze • gangs • gentrification • go go • go-go • google • heroin • hillary clinton • hip hop • hip hop honors • hiv • hype • illegal downloading • immortal technique • injustice • irv gotti • jay-z • judah • justice • kanye west • lil wayne • longevity • lyriciss • m1 platoon • mafia • mainstream • mark ronson • marky • mary read • media • mixtapes • music • myspace • n-word • nandomcflyy • nas • new york • o'reilly • obama • old school • olympics • oprah • parenting • police brutality • politics • positivity • pro'verb • r.e.u.b. • radio • reggae • rock steady crew • rock the bells • russia • sampling • sean bell • sean taylor • sex • shootings • soundtracks • supernatural • television • terrorism • tibet • tv • tyra banks • underground • vh1 • virginia tech • wale • war • wordsmith • x.o.

MY FAVORITES




The Undisputed Truth

Intermission...


August 14, 2008 | Tags: none

I never thought I'd write a blog for DX while overlooking a lake in Northern California at night with the stars overhead and the sound of ducks swimming around filling my ears.

Straight up, I'm one lucky girl sometimes.

So anyway, while I'm out enjoying my day today, I get a text message (actually about four of them, that said the exact same thing, go figure) from my boy Modi, and it went a little something like this: "damn slim, ever since you've become a working woman, the blog has been more sporadic than a possibly pregnant woman's period". Yikes!

Seems as if in the blur that has been the past couple weeks of my life, I've had to neglect this little spot of the internet. Shame on me. But in the meantime, while I've been gone, I've had a lot of time to contemplate shit. I've gotten to do and see things in the past few days that I never envisioned myself doing or seeing. I've been blown away by the spelendor of the most simplistic things in the world. I've kicked back and watched the world of hip hop move thousands of people and bring us all together, simply based upon the love of music (and I get to do it again in less than a week).

I also have seen mad people passing out and acting a damn fool, but let's not think about that right now. Consider this a heads up that I may not blog as frequently due to the circumstances of life, but I'm never sleepin. Literally and figuratively (I think I slept two hours in about four days...and paid for it later by getting sick).

On top of all of this, I got to meet my West Coast blogging brothers Meka Soul, Brillyance, and Andres, as well as a huge amount of random ass people. If hip hop can bring us all together though, what's stopping us from coming together in other contexts to help eachother reach our own personal goals? If there's one thing I've learned from this blogging shit since I've started, it's that even the most random person may be able to help you in the most significant way - word to the Guerilla Union homegirl who offered to drive me around the parking lots at the San Bernardino show in a golf cart to find my car after I forgot where I parked.

I'm being insanely introspective right now, probably because I'm medicated and still on East Coast time, plus this lake is a dope meditation spot. I think the only reason I'm writing this is so Modi can shut up about my non-blogging. When I return to VA I'll have more Rock the Bells commentary, but until then I ask you to think seriously about this: what are you doing to further your own life? Are you using the resources that you have at their full potential? What can you do to make someone else's life a little better?

And if you think I'm crazy right about now, how about you try sitting in silence next to a lake under the stars and not contemplating life for even a a few seconds?

Peace to all the great people I've crossed paths with in the last few days. Bay Area heads - don't forget to hit up that DX booth at Rock the Bells this Saturday. You know you can't say no to free shit.

Oh, and peace to Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes. Kinda weird that they had just been working together on a film...but such is life. See you in a week or so, DX!


The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

Comments             

Loading Comments…

 Back to Top
Post Your Comments Back to Top
Become a registered member.
Name:(Required)


E-mail Address: (Required but won't be displayed)


Your Comment:

Enter verification code:
 
Note: Registered members are not required to verify posts. Click Here to register.
Some BBcode and HTML may be stripped.