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Topic: Community Support

  1. Feb 8, 2006 07:08pm by JDFlow - [url=http://www.my.rawkus.com/profile/jdflow]JDFlow on Rawkus[/url] [url=http://www.myspace.com/jdflow]JDFlow on Myspace[/url] [url=http://ccedistribution.blogspot.com/]Distribution & Marketing[/url] Location: Seattle
    I try to make it to all the hiphop events around KC. This is the simplest contribution anyone who considers themselves a part of the hiphop community can make. The more people at local shows, the more pull we all have at venues. We have to support each other by at least showin face and payin cover. If you don't drink alcohol guess what, bars have non alcoholic drinks too. I've been to countless shows where the fans and the crew performin add up to about 10 people. C'mon ya'll! ONE... JDFlow[color=green:381b0b33a4][/color:381b0b33a4]
  2. Feb 8, 2006 07:30pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    Yeah... What he said!!! Start tonight!!! Reach, Gene Connor, Milkdrop, Ataxic at Jilly's!!!
  3. Feb 8, 2006 09:07pm by sikestyle - -Stuff and Things...Things and Stuff... www.sikestyle.com Location: Kansas City
    I totally agree.. people need to ante up and tip the F'n bartenders... that's what's up. One thing to remember is that everyone can't make it to everything. That's just a fact of busy ppl life. If someone doesn't show up to your event don't take it personally. (this is a general comment, not aim at anyone inparticular) ...it's never that deep. I've had ppl tell me they would be personally offended if i didn't come to their thing. Man..what can i cay...people work....haha.. I mean don't trip..just get the word out to other ppl than the ones that are at the peanut. we can't keep putting the strian or the guilt trip on the ppl that normally come out to things. We gotta expand and get some new faces involved. That's the only way we can survive in this scene. I don't wanna sound like a broken record but i think the acts at the Rap Attack show did a doooope job in bringing out a dope crowd that i didn't recognize....i get bored seein' the same ole faces at some events...new faces are a must! haha
  4. Feb 8, 2006 10:10pm by JDFlow - [url=http://www.my.rawkus.com/profile/jdflow]JDFlow on Rawkus[/url] [url=http://www.myspace.com/jdflow]JDFlow on Myspace[/url] [url=http://ccedistribution.blogspot.com/]Distribution & Marketing[/url] Location: Seattle
    Agreed sike, I dont take it to heart, but its a lotta cats I never see unless its thier show. Aint noone that busy hahahaha
  5. Feb 8, 2006 10:34pm by sikestyle - -Stuff and Things...Things and Stuff... www.sikestyle.com Location: Kansas City
    i know what you mean.. you never see CES CRU unless it's their show... haha..they know what's up...cats just stay in the lab alot...makin' beats/art/rhymes etc...we need to get more ppl out to shows that ain't hunker'd over a computer screen trying to come up with the new hot ish.. but then again it would be nice to see those ppl that stay in the lab out once and a while... i dunno....from someone who's been going to these events for a while they can get old...but i try to make my rounds...
  6. Feb 9, 2006 01:33am by NRG - livin the art that is life ! www.64111clinic.com fam www.nrginmotion.com massage www.myspace.com/nrginmotion world community Location: havenhouse KCK/ 64111 Clinic 4 Life
    its different when you job is entertaining. when you gonna work, sleep, hold down your FICA job, (4 rent, utilities, food, merch and product), record, hell sleep for that matter. its time for some cross pollenation of this local scene. the art scene here is so separate. I am a example of this to a degree. I like what I like and know if it ain't one of those like /know, I have a hard time being up on other music locally. Hiphop, some blue grass, classical, some jazz, some visual art, some performance art, some . the saving grace for me is that I like a lot of shit and know folks that do a lot of shit and wanna support the shit they do, so I get out to a broad variety of events that the whole local art scene has to offer. I am BEING WHAT I WANT TO SEE . even as I re read what I have written, I feel Atypical really. the solution, variety shows something for erbody, poetry, jazz,hiphop. garage music, acoustical, performance art, visual you name it. I have talked about this idea with many of my artist friends around the city, big deal is how to get someone from each pocket to a table to plan an all emcompassing event several times each year READ QUARTERLY). think broad, hugh, collabrative, informative, stiimulating, engaging, hell think weekend of non stop talent, skill and people. happens already but not inclusive enough needs more and bigger.THINK SPONSORSHIP LIKE SION, THE STAR, THE PITCH, CAR DEALERSHIP HELL I DON'T CARE WHO long as they ain't hurting no body would the folks support such a happening, i think so if it were promoted by all involved, if the carrot was you get to see your favorite and this and this and on. shit they hear, read, think about could we do it sure , but we would have to operate around a common need/goal to me that need is we are artists who want to make a living from our art and this is what we will do to further that goal. we will squash our differences (read egos. media, approaches whatever) long enough to get the public excited about how lucky they are to live in a city that has so much talent readily available just for the asking. as an artist you might be willing to spread your concept and another's if you both could pay rent and eat from your art not a FICA JOB isn't that reason enough to try something new a little different approach like working together to overcome the same or simular problems. my sons tell me often what a dreamer I am 😳 . that folks just don't work this way together let alone see the benefits of banding together to wake up the public for each other. I know they are telling me the truth, and yet I continue to hope something might change. feels worthwhile to me so I am gonna continue to envision a more unified artist community for kansas city at the same time doing whatever I can be it speak, teach, coach, fundraise, rant to inch that possibility forward. enough already 😯 I could talk alnight about this shit, remember, my mother was an artist, Iam an artist, my 2 sons are artists, hell most of my friends are artists 8) maybe that's the problem haha 🙄 small fish don't know there is an ocean out there cuz their to busy fighting over the pond. haha (thanks sike I love that little haha) I'm out stealth
  7. Feb 9, 2006 05:01pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    Sike makes a great point. It's difficult to get out when... 1. You're holding down a steady 925. 2. You're working on a new album. 3. You have children/are in a relationship/are going to school. Especially when there are shows going on all over the place. Often times two different acts are playing different venues on the same night. That makes it hard too... I try to get out as much as I can, but I don't always do the best job. Hopefully I'll be more supportive real soon once I get some things out of the way. We definitely need support, but we have to expand as well. We need new faces just as much as we need the old ones around.
  8. Feb 9, 2006 05:21pm by sikestyle - -Stuff and Things...Things and Stuff... www.sikestyle.com Location: Kansas City
    A lot of times i can only make it out once a week...that usually ends up being the peanut for me though..
  9. Feb 9, 2006 07:57pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    It's tough to do Peanut now that my punk @#$ job changed my schedule. I have to be at work at 6:30am on Mondays.
  10. Feb 10, 2006 12:07am by sikestyle - -Stuff and Things...Things and Stuff... www.sikestyle.com Location: Kansas City
    ouch
  11. Feb 10, 2006 12:41am by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    Tell me about it. 6:30am-4:30pm. Crap dog...
  12. Feb 10, 2006 04:40am by AJ Location: Downtown Kansas City
    No Bueno
  13. Feb 10, 2006 02:51pm by Lucidialect
    Yo, Reach, I feel you man. I work Monday mornings, and its a tough way to start out a long week, staying out late. I try and stop by every other week, intending to just leave early. But by the time I'm out and have gotten loosened up and all, I don't want to leave. And its already 1 or 1:30. Most events are like that. Having a busy life means not attending whatever I want to whenever they're going down. I have to schedule my shows and nights out just like dental appointments. Haha, is this what being grown-up is all about? Maybe. I won't stop going out to these events, it helps, though, to know well enough in advance what to check out and what not to. And, in the same vain, I am more reluctant to check out a show of people whom I've never heard of, or just go kick it on a whim to "support" the local scene. Just don't have the time anymore. Seems alot of people feel that way. Thankfully we have a pretty solid network here of people communicating what they're involved in and such. Flyers and e-mails seem to be the way to go.
  14. Feb 10, 2006 03:00pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    That's why expanding the local support is so vital. If we grow the number of people going out to local shows we'll have constant flow of support despite people who can't get out as much because of God awful work schedules, relationships, children, etc. I want to get out tonight and check Frame and Doc G out over at Opal's. Whether or not I do...remains to be seen.
  15. Feb 10, 2006 03:37pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb] WWW.HUMANCROPCIRCLES.NET WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUMANCROPCIRCLES WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JKR70 Location: KcK
    It's difficult to get out when... 1. You're holding down a steady 925. 2. You're working on a new album. 3. You have children/are in a relationship/are going to school. So So true, I will admit though, I am a homebody by nature, and now with the little man in the picture,the job, the Mrs, I am T I R E D , I am lucky if I make it to work sometimes, I have been out lately though and plan to keep making an effort for this scene. Thats all we can really do is just try to keep on keeping on, there will be peaks and valleys and I have a feeling that this summer is going to be a PEAK. -Rich
  16. Feb 10, 2006 04:57pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    Yeah... We'll all recharge once it gets a little warmer I think. And then we'll get out a little more. People tend to get out less in the colder months around here anyway...