My Holiday Music.......

The auto-bailout for dummies.........

A world of similarities......

It's all the same these days. The radio, the television, we're dead stuck in the era of formula. Everybody raps, its like breathing. In this journey of mine its not hard to run into a place where every person in the room raps. It doesn't feel special anymore when even though they suck terribly (no offense, a lot of you do, but who am I to judge) they can legitimately call themselves rappers. The down south movement in Hip Hop left is seriously wounded where nowadays every person with a 808 feels like they can make it. Wayne put his 2 cents in by saying fuck writing I just spit whats on my mind. The problem with this is, not everyone has interesting shit on their mind and it all comes out the same. Cat's don't even try. I give props where props is due, I try not to sleep on people. But everyone can't rap. It loses what made it special in the first place. Is "hipster" the new "gangster" (NOT coming at The Cool Kids, those are my dudes) I'm talking about the million clones who followed them. There is a influx of same going on, and its wack. I guess the point of this whole thing is that, please. Gauge your passion for this music thing because to some its our lives, and to others its just some way to get out of pursuing real career paths or a hobby to get hoes. At least TRY to make good MUSIC rather than just spit about how much SWAG you got. Now when this thing goes to the next level and cats start really making some next level ish (ie: what Wayne is on his way too, Kanye, Lupe) I want to see how many of you guys are ready to keep up. No hate. Just my thoughts.

The shoe heard around the world.

I'm an American, but I would've done the same thing. He deserves more, but maybe I'm to liberal. If that's the case, so is the majority of the world. I wear a size 12 though so, I might've done a bit more damage. Lol

Ummm. DC Skytops?

Police in Tokyo.....

I've heard of this group before but I never bothered to check them out. Then I stumbled upon one of their songs like it happens most of the time. Dug it. Thus. This is the video to their single off their current album. They remind me of The Strokes only brighter.

Tokyo Police Club "Your english is good"

Visual Literature

I'm not sure if your familiar with Chuck Anderson. I'm sure my photography people and my art people probably are. For my people who don't he's the dude who designed Lupe Fiasco' "Food & Liquor" cover art. His style is so ill the way he uses color to enhance the original image in a way that doesn't take over the picture but brings it out. We sort of imitated his style for the banner on my myspace page but of course, not close. Anyway, he's coming out with a book featuring alot of his artwork, so if you find some time on your hands and eyes go check it out.

Nigga who dat!? We that!!!

Young Jeezy "Who dat"

The Recession continues to go hard.

The well-deserved......

The words I write........

Lyrics to the song "Freefall" off my upcoming mixtape "Where Anything Goes: Volume 1"

JDP- Free Fall
-----------------------

Stare out window, and wonder just what you hear for
Are you.
Another hero, or someone who's light is way overdue
or just a person, who found himself in his verses
don't run.
just try.
to open your eyes.

Pick up the pen, peices of me into a thesis,
effortless emotion admitted pressure decreases,
me against the world, a battle against self.
with pain forever calling no matter if its felt.,
healing to cover up holes in my feelings,
as they rain onto the paper like holes in my ceiling.
knowin that, the storm wont take long to clear up,
and then its just me in the mirror,
am i enough?
No world tours, or hundereds who came for me,
a dreamer just residing inside of the same cutty,
wondering if his talent can balance his inner wishes,
failure cannot occure hates washing his own dishes,
instant, looking as i go for the distant,
future without a map so i make do wit conviction,
im different, hoping that the world can notice.
or blind me so maybe then the world can focus.
ya dig.

Try to hide who you are, but you cant dim a star "let it go"
your sure of it all, like the writings on the wall "but you never know"
and its no one there, your free just to fall

and its so damn digital,
so damn criminal, does this shit even feel like it should
comin from a city feelin fresher where nobody will respect you less you do it like they do in the hood.
so im a take the stones they throwing,
because i know where my plans is,
and let me thank god for these chances,
survivin these crashes. and tellin me.
go be the melody, cause nobody's forgiven a felony.
so go figure, no figure or father to even bother so I just kick it wit people and follow my own voice. don't doubt me, wanna say im sure like im Al B,
resembeling the ending of alfie.
its cold winter,
no emotion makes it hard to connect,
and no devotion makes it hard to respect.
so its no love.
even ya homies only kno u like so much,
the world wanna get in tell em no sir, can't do it.

Try to hide who you are, but you cant dim a star "let it go"
your sure of it all, like the writings on the wall "but you never know"
and its no one there, your free just to fall

I read literary art, a writer in my heart,
depicting my own start as madness,
celebrate broke wit my people,
before money inducts the evils,
but within all i can find is sadness. smokin on habits,
knowing my fam is hoping I can follow thru whatever my plan is.
Tryin to put the world between wherever my hand is,
reluctant to give damn like my only true fan is, me
tryin to be better and finding a way too,
head staring in the clouds i plan on flying away too,
trying to ibeem, realitys imeem,
torn between being lennon or leaning to Iovine.
its my dreams. awsome like lifes a cumpulision,
caution spare the lights on my strife and emotion,
dont let em in, instead use the beat as my medicine.
and live it out today before tomorrow starts setting in. gone.

Try to hide who you are, but you cant dim a star "let it go"
your sure of it all, like the writings on the wall "but you never know"
and its no one there, your free just to fall.

JDP- Freefall

"Where Anything Goes: Volume 1" Coming soon.........

Shoutout to the homie Midas. Yessir.


Check out more music @
Myspace.com/uptopjdp

JDP- In the huddle
http://fakeshoredrive.com/2008/12/jdp-in-huddle.html

JDP- Beautiful One
http://thelemurblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-jdp-ish.html

Come check out the show w/Me, Que Billah, The Rocketeers, and more!!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=67311825992&ref=mf

Peace.

Beautiful One

Beautiful One ft C.Rich on the hook. The song is about whatever your passion is. That feeling that you have when you think about it. For me, I was writing about music, and the way I feel about it. It's about the feeling of love really.

Shoutout to The Lemur for showine me the same.

We go hard. Go hard. 12-27

QUE BILLAH
THE ROCKETEERS
JUICE
BIG WIZ
AND YA BOY.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

Ye' on SNL

Kanye West - Love Lockdown - SNL - 12/13/2008
by 3030fm

Kanye West - Heartless / Pinocchio Story - SNL - 12/13/2008
by 3030fm

by Gold.

Find me on Fake Shore......

Check me out on Fakeshoredrive. The big homie Andrew posted my song "In the huddle" on fakeshore. The joint is a semi-old hit between me and Slot-A on the beats. I'm putting it on my upcoming mixtape "Where anything goes: Volume 1" More is coming soon but check it out or listen to it here. Yessir.

In the huddle

Just like me.

First of all. Congrats to the homie Davion for writing this joint. You got a smash now homie!!!! Secondly, this song is cold as hell. The video is too for that matter its fun. I had a girl that was just like me, it was crazy. Its like a e-harmony commercial when you find that shorty. It didn't work out though...she just like me. lol

I'm gonna need this in my life......

Flashing
by solebox

Flashing......laces?

237 reasons.......

From Please think:

Many scientists assume people have sex for simple and straightforward reasons such as to experience sexual pleasure or to reproduce, but new research at The University of Texas at Austin reveals hundreds of varied and complex motivations that range from the spiritual to the vengeful.

After conducting one of the most comprehensive studies on why people have sex, psychology researchers David Buss and Cindy Meston uncovered 237 motivations, which appear in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior.

People’s motivations ranged from the mundane (”I was bored”) to the spiritual (”I wanted to feel closer to God”) and from the altruistic (”I wanted the person to feel good about himself/herself”) to the manipulative (”I wanted to get a promotion”).

Some said they had sex to feel powerful, others to debase themselves. Some wanted to impress their friends, others to harm their enemies (”I wanted to break up a rival’s relationship”).

Physical reasons such as to reduce stress (”It seemed like good exercise”), feel pleasure (”It’s exciting”), improve or expand experiences (”I was curious about sex”), and the physical desirability of their partner (”The person was a good dancer”).

Goal-based reasons, including utilitarian or practical considerations (”I wanted to have a baby”), social status (”I wanted to be popular”) and revenge (”I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease”).

Emotional reasons such as love and commitment (”I wanted to feel connected”) and expression (”I wanted to say ‘thank you’”).

Insecurity-based reasons, including self-esteem (”I wanted the attention”), a feeling of duty or pressure (”My partner kept insisting”) and to guard a mate (”I wanted to keep my partner from straying”).

So again I ask you,why do you have sex?

Happiness is a warm gun......

Free. I don't know what it is about this semester but it has felt like the longest semester of all time. Lol. I just finished doing the last bit of any type of school work that needs to be done and I feel. so. good. I was watching "Across the universe" the other day and thought it was dope how they blended the visuals with music from the beatles to tell a story. This scene for Happiness is a warm gun tells my struggle this semester jumping through the hoops of this school ish and coming out on the other side, culminating with the greatest feeling ever of knowing your free for another couple of weeks. That's what I feel like right now, good. Happy. Mixtape on the way. Show on the 27th, hope to see you there. Peace.

More reasons to laugh....

I just saw this skit earlier today on SNL. I don't remember laughing as hard at SNL as I have in the last few months. It might be gitting better. But this is hilarious.

Barbershop Music.....

So, I'm done with finals for the most part. Just a few assignments left to email but as far as the test portion of this world called College is concerned I'm done. I still got some worries, still got some stresses but man, at this moment, at this second I feel pretty damn good. Maybe it's the mixtapes of material I'm finally about to get off my chest. Maybe it's the show at the double door I got coming up with Que Billah and The Rocketeers. Maybe, its the fresh cut I just aqquired from the barbershop before I sat down at this screen. Whatever the reason, I'm looking forward to 09'. The barber was playing Marvin when I walked in, sort of set the tone for the rest of my evening so, I figured I'd share it. Yessir.

The best water bottle commercial of all time.......

Hahahaha! When auto-tune goes wrong.

B.O.B with his new single. Auto-tuuuuuune.

LOL!!!

If a picture is worth a thousand words....

What does this say.....

I want that......

Busta "Arab Money"

That dance is funny as hell. Will be doing that in the club. lol

and then Hip Hop calls me back!!!

Jay-Z ft Santogold "Brooklyn Goes hard"

Dope like Gold ropes.

My new chick......

Lol. So I fell in love with a pop star. I don't really discriminate when it comes to music. I try to give everthing a eqaul chance in my speakers before deciding to throw it out and with the malaise of hip hop sort of boring me (Except for a few exceptions, Q-tip, Common, Luda waddown) Coming down from the 808 & Heartbreak pilgramage that has left me feeling refreshed, better, brighter. So I turn on the radio in T's car and this song comes on and I've heard it before when I was drunk as hell in some club but this is the first time I actually wondered about the voice on the other side of it. I looked shorty up and what I found was pretty dope. I dig her music, her style is off the chain. Pop doesn't = wack. Especially where its about to head, and I think she might have a chance. I could be wrong because no ones buying albums, but Gaga is a artist, who happens to know how to make hitz. What's wrong with that? sounds like someone else I know. lol........

I'm Living on Fakeshore.....

Shoutout to my homie YP. His mixtape has BEEN making noise and its good my dude is finally getting recognized out here. He was just featured for the 3rd time on fakeshore drive, this time he hit him with the joint we collabed on a few months back. The song is called "I'm living" and in my opinion (not just cause I'm on the hook) the joint is dope. YP is the truth. Check out the song and its feature on fakeshore.

YP ft JDP "I'm Living"

"Alone in the dark"

"Alone in the dark"

Heart ripped out of my chest.
Into my ________?
Undressed.
Depressed.
Rejected, Neglected.
The world no longer mines in a few seconds.
No longer protective
Once was overly so.
All I can think is how you felt when I was holding you close.
Now what matters.
Shattered.
Stones thrown in a glass house
On the brink preparing to pass out
and there you go with your ass out.
Now I'm first in and last out.
Bonding with the music in my ear that shouts
"I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING!
MAYBE MOST OF EVERYTHING
PROBABLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING!
FOR ANYTHING AT ALL!!"
Dead inside, staring into soul-less faces.
Need the vibe just to survive & liqour helps me make it.
Drowning my sorrows
In pussy.
Beats & Rhymes.
& hope.
but I guess my thoughts are to heavy to float
Welcome to the bottom. 808's to fit me.
Not even the endless smoke can lift me.
Need kimbo slice to hit me.
or someone who get's me.
but then.....
Forget me.
Because I'm never coming back
All my thoughts now belongs to tracks
and notebooks full of raps.
I'm someone, or something else
the world can't confine me
or box me in, or catch up
to far ahead of those who behind me
Try me. and when I'm gone think of me highly
As I of you, when I find time.
Alone with my heart.
Don't say you will.
Unless you will.
Alone in the dark.

Peace.

808's & Heartbreak......

I needed this album. I needed this cd 2 years ago. To know the definition of heart break, to feel it as much as it can be felt. I've been there and I understand. I needed to hear this album, like Ye' needed to make it. Although alot of people are sweating the auto-tune, the singing, the lack of actual rapping minus jeezy, I dig it. The words and the way in which he chooses to deliver them reveil more hurt and pain than any rap lyrics could. My girl lauren likened this transition to MJ playing baseball when his dad died, you have to find your own way to cope with loss even if that leads you onto an entirely different path. Because from there, you can find your way back. I needed to hear this music, to know that someone out there shares the same pain, the same heartbreak, the same hurt that I've experienced. While the album is 2 years late...lol, it is undoudbtley still the therapy I needed. We've all been going through alot of things, and they've taken us places we didn't know we could go, but we need to go there in order to find our way back. So, thank you again mr.west for delivering the music I needed to hear once again..

The Bug is spreading.......

Wayne on his new direction & Ozone.....Its only been a few months since The Carter 3 and already homie has reached St.Elsewhere.

"We're all in the same fight.....for individuality" -Pharrel

Fan Art.....

Dude went off. Thanx Broc for the pics. Dude also has pics of other artist on his page. Check em out....

Coming soon to my Ipod......

Its a matter of vision.....cntd.

Kanye West "Heartless"

This video is so dope. If you watch Kanye's videos there has yet to be one that looks just like the other. Hype & Ye have classics under there belt and this one is no different. I dig the animation, it reminds me of that Beatles cartoon....I can't remember the name but they had songs from Sgt. Pepper playing in it...anyway. The fact that Hype Williams is still churning out the best vidz is cold, dude DEF deserves the title Hype Warhol (dig the cambells soup pics in once seen)....Peep.

This struggle of ours......

This struggle of ours.....

The Grind.
Go hard.
Then go harder.
Is that not why we came?
& If not then why bother.
To live & die the passionate death
Never to know its cousin,
Buzzing.
Making something out of nothing.
Purveyors of possibilities
Revealing Hostilities
Words into music, thoughts into imagery
Constant imagination.
Thoughts forever moving
Outside. No boxes.

The Crazy ones, Ugly truth
The Beautiful, Ones.
The sacrificers of souls
Children of the night but the blood is our own.
Expected to starve, to fail
to win only in the epilogue
How dare we be fresh?
Meant to be.

The chance takers, unafraid.
To exist where you don't,
But so many wish to.
Life's excitement, captured
The hunters.

The unique, difficult to know
Difficult to define
Hard to understand,
& much harder to find.
The heartless, relocated to to sleeves
then to you
To you.
The mission of followers.

How dare we succeed?
Us individuals.
Us misunderstood but often never meant to be.
The celebration, the reminder to live.
To embrace. To feel. Alive.
Santi said we are the creators. Gold.

The lonely
Too rare for the well done
Snowflakes, never another the same.
The makers of meaning
Forever lasting in the moment
Doing, even when they don't condone it
The purpose. Own it.

The Flow, steady against the tide
seeping into the mainstream
Muse to the majority.
The unplugged.
Acoustic MTV.
Unplugged.
The wonders of the world. Limitless
Unchained.
Deep, pools to get lost in.
The necessary.

How Dare we exist?
We do. We will. We are.
To survive. To continue.
To create forever.

This struggle of ours.......

Peace.

Currently listening to: myspace.com/uptopjdp

Then the world lifts me right back......

Coldplay ft Jay-Z "Lost"

Even when it feels like this.....

Low Lights.......

D2G, My Dude is a monsta!!!!

D2G "Im a monsta"

Shout out to DC for producing the record.

Shout out to FilmBoi for killing the vid!

Dope.

A matter of vision.......

So what if you don't agree with me. So what if you don't think my music is any good, and so what if you think I'll never achieve anything. So what if you don't understand what all the fuss is about, and so what if you don't believe. I do, and my faith is enough to carry 100 you's. I write to capture moments, to celebrate them, to enjoy them. I write to reveal my inner most, to share with you the emotions and thoughts that I go through. My music is me, and if you don't believe that its good enough than that's fine. Because what you don't understand is that it doesn't have to fit your standards. It's not meant for standards, or boxes, or stereotypes.....just stereos. For some reason, someone decided that if you wanted to pursue this art form you had to find a type and fit into it. But that's not the case with me. I'm not trying to find the form, I want to create without limits or boundaries or perceptions about what I deliver or how I should be delivering. I get drunk, I party, I wear my heart on my sleeve, I go to school, I party some more, I live life as it surrounds me. So my bad, if my music isn't block ready 101, or electro-funk 411. All of these things inspire me so my message is this, don't hate on my vision because its different from yours. Its suppose to be different. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to do this, its only your way. Your vision. Follow it. Where ever it takes you.

On the side note: Mixtape on the way. For those who still don't know. Make it real easy to understand, ya dig.

Listening to: Kanye West ft Young Jeezy "Amazing"

The stage.....

All the worlds a stage.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

-William Shakespeare

Where to on election night.....

Freshness is.......

A permanant feeling currently. My second day waking up knowing that my future is gonna be a little brighter. I hope I catch all of you guys friday because thats gonna be a whole other type of celebration. I'm currently working on a couple mixtapes and joints with people, showing the luv that they show me and such. Grinding, somebody asked me why I haven't dropped a project yet and my response is always, I want it to be perfect. But I'm gonna keep giving you material if you keep requesting it. I dunno....it still just feels good man.

Listening to: The Cool Kids "Delivery Man(9th wonderremix)

Been there.....

Ludacris ft T-Pain "One more drink"

This video is funny as hell.

So self-concious.....

Yea, we on that. You know we gotta get back to business. Come enjoy yourselves this Friday. Self-Conciouss waddown!

Hey Champ.

Honestly, knew nothing of these guys until I heard Lupe signed them. But I liked what I found when I went to go check them out. The music is dope, especially this song which sounds just as sick live @ Angels and Kings where they and Lu were partying a few thursday's ago. Check them out for myself if you don't believe me. Peace.

Hey Champ "Cold Dust Girl"

Yes. We. Did.

Barack Obama, the next president of the United States.

Everyone in chicago was at that rally, and it was one of the most amazing feelings to be apart of it. We did it. After months of fighting for what we all believed in, we did it. The freshness I felt this morning had nothing to do with the new kicks, lol, but with the fact that I was apart of the change that's coming to our lives. We all know Obama won't be able to change things over night, I still have the same bills, and problems. But the mere fact that we chose him shows that this country and its people are ready for a difference. We're ready to make that difference. Every generation has its heroes, its JFK's, MLK's, FDR's, and so on...Barack is ours. His ability to trully inspire and evoke feelings of hope and unity is amazing. I don't recall a presidential race in my lifetime that cause millions to stand in the cold for hours, the largest voter turn out in the countries history and just a phenomenon in itself. It is one of the greatest moments in American History and my generation gets to be apart of it. We're on the right track, with the right leader to keep us there.....It feels good man.

Young Jeezy ft Nas "My President is black"

Why I choose.....

+ I was in junior high when bush won, and 17 when he did it again.

+when business began to lay off workers because of bushenomics, my mother was one of them.

+because my grandmother has diabeties and every year her medicine get increasingly harder to pay for.

+because I have friends from highschool that went overseas, I want to know I might see them again.

+because one of my neighbors of 3 years lost their home, kid on the way.

+because some of my friends can't afford to finish school and the banks can't afford to give them a loan.

+because I want to afford the car and afford to drive it

+because I want my little sister to be a better off in life than I am

+same for the child I'm bringing in this world in the future

+because his plan brings us closer to repairing our countries debt than the other guy..

+because I don't care how cute, how cool, how sexy you can wink, If ur too dumb for the job, i m not goin....

+because I see why my grandparents prefer stacking to stocks...

+because torture isn't what we should be known for.

+because I want to go to london and paris and not lose half my moneys worth once I get there.

+because I don't want to feel hopeless about the direction of my life and the lives of my people.

+because I believe in hope

+and the best in people..

+and he would be the first

+because I own a business. And I need help for it to succeed.

+because its my right, and it needs some excercise.

+because its inspiring, legendary, and important.



+why wouldn't I....

Why do you?

Go. Vote.

Back from the dead.....

Lil Wayne & Notorious B.I.G "Lost Boys"

Yea, you read that right. A classic Wayne verse, from "Cannon" and Biggie's flow is so perfect on this beat it feels like he re-recorded it. Yessir.

But then.......

Tonight is gonna be a fun night. Hope I catch you all @ the Buddha lounge tonite. We have fun man. Just fun.

The Dream ft Lil Jon "Let me see your booty"

From time to time....

I miss her who knows who she is.

You know what you can do.....

You can vote however you like.....lol

Politics and Mexican Food.....

Lol. Me and T ran everywhere looking for a television set since neither of us live downtown. Trying to see that Obama ad special. Just needed 30 minutes of someones time. Of course, it was wednesday and it was like 7. I didn't expect that many poeple to be at home and I was right about that. We ended up @ a mexican resturaunt buying sprite and tacos to change the channel. Lol, yes. To ME. It was that serious. I already know where my vote is going, but I'm amazed by the strength of his campaign. How smart it is, how reaching it is. How positive it feels, and that it feels like we are so close to making things happen. Of course its funny to find out that it was on the internet and that all of our running around could've been saved, but I felt good watching it when I was meant to catch it. So, if you need another reason to make the right decision for your country, and yourself. See, what we saw:



Sidenote: Dig how official the video looks.

Another reason to not vote.....

Lol. Seriously, Go vote man. What are you doing. Go! Vote, now.

Robocop....

Kanye West "Robocop"

The newest leak off of "808's and Heartbreaks" I'm still on the fence, I dig it though.

Halloween is gonna go hard......

Back @ the buddha. 90's fresh.

Leaning, Leaning....Low....

So we celebrated DC's bday this weekend. His girlfriend came in from Detroit with a nice birthday present for both of us. Some Hawaiian punch! Lol. Nah, we had fun though, in some sort of distorted reality where everything feels like slow motion and it taste like cough syrup and gray goose. Yea, we go hard. Shoutout to Micheal Bohane (ha), and the soundbar people for hooking us up with the bar for the night. Below are some pics, and the theme song of the night.


Sidenote: Been bumping this since friday. New joint of the moment.

Freestyle Fridays....

This is how we end the night. A few joints, a few beats and some fun.

I need this on my wrist.....

Yea. My wrist booms like that. lol

A week away......

I was never into politics. As a kid you never are, I remember being in junior high when bush got in office, and I remember how high school got a little bit harder when my mother was layed off. I remember being a freshman when 9/11 hit, and I remember even then, not believing in the ideas layed out by Bush. I remember wanting to vote for Kerry but not yet being old enough, even though I didn't like Kerry I just wanted something different from the world I was living in. It's been 4 years and that world has gotten colder, its gotten harder, and I've gotten older. I never thought I'd be here, neither did my mother or my grandparents, or most of the world for that matter. But here we are, a week away from electing a african american man for the office of president of the united states. Electing the idea of hope over fear and change over more of the same. I have friends who plan on voting for mccain, and its cool, we're still cool. But know that when the dust clears and Obama is standing on the podium I will be in the audience to hear him. Win or lose. I don't think any of us fully understand the major impact that someone like Barack Obama brings to this country and its look on itself and its look over the world. I am voting this year, and I will tell my kids that I was here and how it felt to be apart of change. You hear stories about this time when it seems like things can actually change, where it seems like you can actually make a difference. Except the difference here is that, we get to be apart of it this time. We get to tell that story. We're a week away. Change is coming.

Legendary Status.....

Will be going to go see this movie. Who coming with me?....

Where do we stand.....

Where do we stand.

Side by side we stand.

Back against the wall, selves against the world.

or at least against them. Only us.

Hands gripped upon sheets and pillows

passionate, forever-ish brushes painting our portrait.

Slowly in motion amongst the fast paced.

or maybe, moving to fast for oursleves.

Back to back we stand.

hand in mine, mind & mind alike

souls seem so similar, the match not often found

Four lettered words so often said when many tell us to leave at three.

So close you are, woven into the culture of me.

What's yours is mine & mine is yours

and you are mine.

Lost in this, bliss, that knows no wall or time.

A dollar past dozens of dimes

worth the effort spent.

Knowing neither of us is alone in this.

World where more crash than connect, we brace eachother for impact.

Face to face we stand

Studying, staring, speaking, hoping

that when reality shifts

we'll still be meant to exist. This.

Countless hours counted, your voice the numbers.

or counting cell minutes, thank god for the fav 5. lol.

Eyes,

lost deep in yours and you in mine

sharing more than words, and thoughts, and silence.

until.

Something slips, and we collapse to the abyss

then quick.

Pictures ripped, voices meant to forget

filled with "you ain't shit"

and the uncaring "whatever bitch"quick.

reality shifts, and we don't....

Far apart we stand

with millions of voices in between

where ours use to be

you and me.

Leaving nothing but memories meant to be missed

choosing not remember what you can never forget.

Friends between sides, "spoils of war"as long as they don't remind me....

ours is a cold war, with warm thoughts.

Lives are legendary, a story they tell to newlyweds.

& then they ask what I ask

once the wounds have healed

& the wall is torn down & we both remember how

nice our names sound

when said by the other

& after I use to love h.e.r

at this point with no place, unknown to us

once forgiven, then what?

admit this type of thing is tough.

where then

Do we stand?

The funniest part is......

This is our lives......

Whatever catches my eyes.

or my imagination......

I love her cause she got her own.....

Her grind + My grind = On point.

When I cleaned the crib.....

My mother was into Hip Hop, early, LL, Slick Rick, Run-DMC ish....my grandmother, was jazz. She was Frank, & Miles, and Coltrane. She use to tell me about the days she use to go to jazz bars and listen to it for hours. She's the original artist in my family, photography and painting, and sculpting, she's dope. While I was growing up this was my saturday morning music, blasting throughout the crib while she revisted those memories, the love of the music, the same love she gave to me. Now, every so often, when I really just want to chill, I play some of this....and it still does the trick....

They said life is like a slideshow........

Not to sound negative, but we don't have a long time to live in this world. Everyday the amount of life that we have to live and enjoy grows shorter and the clock doesn't stop ticking. I realized a long time ago that the best way to live life was to give myself to it, all of its ups, all of its downs, everything that came with it rather negative or positive as long as I keep my mind focused on the goals at hand. I enjoy everday that's given to me, I try to capture these moments through pictures, words, videos, but most importantly my music. Release is the high marks of my life right now, Freedom Land is the world I'm fighting to survive in. My music is my life and I don't plan on letting these moments slip away from me without finding some way to hold on to them, and enjoy them..and celebrate them. I'm only 21 and my story is already a bestseller, imagine the what 25 looks like, or 30....there's no limits man. That's what FLYY means to me, no limits, just dope ass moments....with music....like a slideshow....

Day-N-Nite.......

So, As I cruise the nightlife here in chicago one song I find pounding in every party from republic to the lofts...."Day and night" When I first time I heard the song was like a few months ago. I was bored cruising on the internet and that joint woke me. Then I was drunk as hell, techno club lights flashing, with that smoke machine on full blast, some fine ass chick is dancing in front of me and this joint comes on & I was high...and....

apparently...Jim Jones fucks with it as well....lol

For those of you who missed it.........

"Let's get into some chi-town ish......."

Ok. Gemstones....Shayla G.....Substance.....Ptoda.....and yours truly.....Heart of the city pt.1....helluva show.

The Jokes on her......

Sarah Palin on SNL........Wow.

The Love of my life......

The original "Damn!" chick. I know every girl is going to be chanting this from block to block, I won't be able to escape it. Just like that goddamn B'Day album. I need a beyonce in my life man. Maybe then I would slow down....I do feel this joint from the guys view cause "If I liked it then I woulda put a ring on it".......ha.

Chicago comparisons.......

Ok, so Freedom Land is making some noise. If no other song I makes some noise at least let it be the one I feel needs to be heard. My friend @ the lemur blog got a hold of it and posted it up on his blog. Peep what he had to say about me and the song here:

http://thelemurblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/jdp-chicagos-own-kanye-west.html

The Ideal......

Freedom Land......

I watched a movie today reflecting on War......at the end of all the bloodshed the message was "Freedom isn't free"......what the fuck? Then I wrote this.

JDP -"Freedom Land"

Thinking point of view........

Sakiya Sandifer Discussing Art from we think! on Vimeo.
Sakiya discussing his view on art.

"If you acknowledge that there is a hurdle, there's a great chance that you can become a hurdler"

Superpower Kicks....

Slow Jam Tuesdays......

(Slow Radio Voice) Yea.....its about that time again.....slow jam tuesdays......For that ass....yea girl......I'm talking to you........and that ass. What you like?

T-Pain & Ludacris "Chopped and Screwed"

Why I love Real s***

Quick word. I'm a real dude. The people I kick it with on a daily basis are real dudes. The people that I lend my hand to, support to, voice too, or whatever else I consider real dudes. I don't say whats up and then sneer when you walk past me. If I don't fuck with you, I'm not saying whats up. I'm not pretending we're cool when I really can't stand your "I'm mad cause I'm not as fresh or not as good or not doing what JDP's doing" ass. Forreal man, my homie stefan said a long time ago, actually hov did but his qoute comes out of it "sensitive thugs, they all need hugs" If you don't fuck with me, don't put ya hand out when I put out a genuine one. I don't need you to fuck with me, I'm just trying to be cool cause I feel like there's enough hate in this world and I ain't trying to add to it. Really, why lie. I don't. So chill, pop one of those pills, and be like these dudes below. Real.


Fall Out Day from jeff on Vimeo.

Forever Mayne.......

I'm still not where I want to be. I'm a taurus, by nature we're selfish, a little greedy, bullheaded. But unline our bogus sterotype of a zodiac sign, I find myself appreciating the little moments that occur. I look back two years ago and the distance between then and now is amazing. Even little steps take you closer to your goal and the fact that I wear a size 12 sorta helps my distance. Cmon now, I'm opening for one of chicago's hottest mc's this saturday on my way to getting there and I just got my royalty check for a song I don't even play anymore. I feel good, I feel fresh. I know that 2morro is another day of oppertunity and another chance to move this game forward. We don't believe in limits around here mayne!!! My life ain't the same as it was and I ain't even there yet. I'm glad I'm a taurus regardless, it makes me harder to satisfy.

"I want this forever"

It may not mean nothing to yaw

But understand nothing is done for me

So I don't plan on stopping @ all

I want this ish forever mayne. Ever mayne.

Of Politics and T-Shirts.......

Of Politics and T-Shirts

The t-shirt say progress.
Lightning sign on the boutique window echoes its standard
They sale a lifestyle
a certain style of life
countless stacked racks of countless additions.
unknown names and rarities
covered in the fresh smell of new shoes.
Life's style spread so neatly in its patterns.
and the T-Shirt says progress.
Funny finding the image here, as if to echo.
All too common thoughts of tomorrow.
In the near future and wondering how far I should be concerned with.
In a day when all we know is progress and the want,
the need to grow, to move forward, to realize.
The message is the lifestyle.
The cake chilling next to the greedy geniuses.
Major threats and rebels yelling obey.
crooks and castles underneath stacks of gold coins
Fuct.
But what stands out to me.
In a place full of familiarity
similarity, and real rarities
Reality parodies.
and lies followed carefully.
With colors more familiar than the ones of my roots.
Meant to mean truth.
The idea of it.
The image above it not asking for my money
or my obedience
or my life
Just asking me to look at a thought.
I found what fits.
My purchase from the messengers.
The T-Shirt said progress.