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1.) I'll Pretend I'm Jamaican...
2.) Gimme Da Weed - Buju Banton
3.) Under Me Sleng Teng - Wayne Smith
4.) Budy Bye - Johnny Osbourne
5.) Footprints - TOK
6.) Ring The Alarm - Tenor Saw
7.) Ting a Ling - Shabba Ranks
8.) Tour - Capleton
9.) Ghetto Red Hot (Hip Hop Mix) - Supercat
10.) I Stick to my Story...
11.) Kill Dem - Cutty Ranks
12.) KIng of the Dancehall - Beenie Man
13.) I fell in Love with the DJ - Chenelle ft Cham
14.) Pon De River - Elephant Man
15.) As far as Herb Goes...
16.) Ganja Smokin - Baja Kid
17.) No, No, No - Dawn Penn
18.) I'm Still In Love - Sean Paul ft Sasha
19.) Under the Sycamore Tree - Lady Saw

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Met with the label and their artist today and i'll get the final answer on Monday or Tuesday but it looks great so far. We met at their studio and it was a very nice place, I was impressed. Melissa is very nice and Tom, her Producer and Label Owner, was cool. He's a pretty young guy but they seem to have all their shit together.

There would be about a month or month and a half worth of practice. They will have 4 dancers, 2 guys & 2 girls, the Dj, and Melissa. They seem really interested in me and i'm very interested in the project. No idea yet on a length of time for the tour but they said they will keep going as long as the opportunities are there, which they are. They will be filming 2 videos in Cali in the next month and want me involved in those as well.

So yeah it all looks really good and I will know more in a day or two. Keep your fingers crossed!!

So as always as soon as I make major plans something comes along to change my mind...lol. I was contacted by a record label, Broken Locker, they have a up and coming pop artist named Melissa Cohee who will be starting a promotional tour in about a month to push her debut CD. Well, they need a DJ for the tour and have contacted me.

I've checked everything out and it seems legit. She has a major deal and major sponsors. This girls got like a 4 million dollar deal and people scrambling to get to her. Could be the mext big thing! Her music is pretty good. She sounds like Christina Aguilera singing over dirty south kinda beats. She's being produced by the Terror Squad and Pitbull. I have to admit I am a Pitbull fan so that's kinda dope.

We have our final meeting on Sunday at 1:00 P.M. at that time I will know her tour schedule and will have a better idea of how long I would be gone. Not sure yet if it would be us on the road for awhile or bouncing back and forth doing spot dates. If everything goes well it has the potential to be VERY profitable.

As always in this business I take everything with a grain of salt as I've had 2 other offers like this over the years and both have fallen apart due to various reasons out of my control and I was pretty devastated.

Hyder and and I have discussed it at length as it will be an adjustment being away from each other f I do go out for a long period of time and he is supportive. I would miss him dearly but it's part of the business and would be a great experience for me and for my resume. Plus the amount of money I will possibly make is to much to turn down cause I will miss my boyfriend haha! I told him if it all goes as planned and I am gone for a minute that he can pick the vacation spot and we'll get reaquainted over the vacation of his choice when I get back :)

If things don't go the way I want on Sunday it's ok I have a shitload of projects going on here and will just follow through with Plan A (School, Record Store) so I will be ok.

excited

I've made big decisions regarding the next year and enrolling in school was the first major step in accomplishing the goals I have set for the next year. I will garduate in exactly 2 years with a dual Music Business/Audio Production degrees. What used to be only certificate classes are now full degrees so I am happy about that. 

I've begun working on a business plan for a Record Store of my own to be opened in Downtown Phoenix . Granted it won't just be a Record store, cause you can't survive off of just wax anymore, but a full urban lifestyle store if you will catering to the 4 elements of Hip Hop - DJing, Grafitti, MC's, and Bboys. 

Aside from being able to buy records and ALL of the DJ related gear you will be able to purchase both mens and womens clothing/accesories, buy Graf supplies, take DJ lessons, buy DVDS, Magazines, & books geared towards DJs, Bboys, MC's, and Graf artists. I will also be purchasing a sound system to rent out for whatever occasion (since I'll have a degree in live sound I can run it myself!) and will be running my Mobile DJ Service out of the shop among many, many other things. Anyone been to Turntable lab in either NY or CA? Well, think that only on a slightly bigger scale.

I only need about $35,000 to get started MUCH less than I had originally thought but after all of my research I was pleasantly suprise. I have begun my business plan with the hopes of getting a business loan in the next 6 months and I have also been applying for grants available to women entreprenuers.

Expect me to disapear a bit over the next 10 months or so. I won't be accepting anymore rave bookings and will actually be bringing Shimmy to a close at the end of May. While everything is going well I don't have the time for 2 weeklies, a Cali monthly residency, school full time, and all the other shit going on. 

It's all very much doable but I just gotta really buckle down over the next 10-12 months. That's not long at all.