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Seeing your face in a newspaper surrounded by writing you can't read is an odd thing.
A photo by Inye Wokoma printed upside down in ColorsNW magazine so I look like I'm holding up the world.
Letters from the Fish
The video shoots had my face burned by the end of the first day! Having everyone around for four days, kickin it and getting work done made it more of a celebration. This is where we are at now. I got a letter from my supporting actor the Fish he's back out there breeding in the rivers and creeks of the Northwest. Fresh Water Styles Crew is gonna be hitting the battle circuit soon. Watch out you don't get smoked. I saw the edited videos when my whole family happened to be over at my house, so we watched them together. I was dyin, we laughed the whole time. In things like this that we do in the future I want it to be even more exaggerated and crazy. I have been using the coosh and I actually gave all my other headphones to my brothers. This is the only one I rock. They sound really good but I always wish headphones could get louder. I would probably make myself deaf if I designed the product. The thing I really like is the potential is has to be a fresh headset for the kids with styles, patterns and colors getting flipped.
Ps. Send more coosh I got a big family :)
tags: Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Family, Juseboogy, coosh, Video Shoot
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Taste of Our Own Medicine
It seemed smaller than usual. I'm used to lines out to the street at Freestyle Session. We set-up in a corner of the venue. We forgot to register when we got there so we were the to last battle. I was in the funk room most of the time, staying fresh with locking, my legs feel good when I keep them moving. In the first battle, on the first day, of course I got all mad at this other guy because he used my move. I went a step too fast on all my runs. Five minutes after the battle, I was like what the heck is that in my ankle? If you've ever had a pinched nerve you know it starts small. And I'm like no, this isn't happening right now. I couldn't be the kind of person I wanted to be after that. It immobilized me, and made me hesitant.
When we lost I couldn't do it. I saw the moments meant for me when I could take the ball back for our Crew, the parts of the music that no one else wants. We could have won without using routines. Wasting that minute and half killed us too, because those long routines they used against us was a taste of our medicine. It just ate up all the clock. I was sitting around afterwards displaced in time. Trying not to be upset. Then we are leaving; I'm already having my bracelet cut off when the Zulu Kings battle starts. I was gonna post up. Then they tried to punk Jo Rawk. I wasn't gonna dance, and then I tried hitting stuff where my ankle just flopped around. When I tried to do elbow baby swipes I ruined it right there. The good thing is I found out I could dance on it. But I knew I would hurt myself because I didn't have that lift, that spring. It flattened out my style. I don't think I tore anything. I've had way worse ankle injuries doing graffiti... one time, jumping over fences, I landed funny and had cankles bigger than my calves. I never saw a doctor, and I was breakin on it. It helps my style to dance with an injury.
tags: Freestyle Session, Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Battles, Juseboogy, Dance, Coping With Loss
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Hungry Monkees?
Sometimes events have brought us together and got us working hard. That's what I want for us. We are all better than ever. I am only concerned that we are as hungry as in the past. The extra little bit of effort counts for a lot. I was waiting for Freestyle Session for a long time. Our training might be running its course, prepping for routines for the entire practice hasn't helped much. We set a standard for those routines and living up to that burns us out. We should be getting together and training. I wish we had made up a few new routines, rather than remixing old ones. There is more purpose and less walking through the motions. We need to be excited about showing some new stuff on that stage.
We hadn't had those accidental moments when we just come up with fresh shit. That when we are messing around not taking things too seriously. They weren't coming because we were too busy. I know the Crew is better; we just can't be about the same thing as the past battles. Preach a new philosophy. We are family with our own families, our foundation works together, but now individuals must gel as a unit. When the individuals change the unit should too. That forces us to stick together rather than focus on our selves. We landed Friday and stayed 20 minutes from the venue, but that's Internet time, which translates to 45 minutes in LA traffic. We were playing under water games at the pool, racing without breathing the night before and things were good.
tags: Freestyle Session, Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Juseboogy
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