"Do Ya Thing" - Black Milk feat J Dilla

Hello All,

Hope you all had a good tail end of the year. Damn, so much change on my part in the past month. Just to recap a little on my end: got my nose sliced almost all the fuck off, lost my job, put surfing on a temporary six month hiatus, preparing for a life changing journey (covert operation to spread "real" hip hop to the Europeans). That's right blokes, take off that Lady Sovereign and MIA and Dizzie Rascal Flats.

It was tough because I had to do all this crazy PC/old Dell/reformatting iPod hoopla bullshit so that I could get this song thing up and running again. I'm now living within gunshot of Roy so you know I'm going to come with it in 08. I'm going to stay on this hip hop thing until I leave because I'm not really sure when/if I'm coming back. Either way, till then the most important thing I can do is really just put solid bangers on my iPod to carry me through all the techno clubs.

The most interesting thing that has happened to me is that I moved back to my parents' house in Baldwin Park. I'm very much a family man so I'm glad to be spending time with my fams until I bounce. Needless to say, my parents welcome me back with open arms -- carne asada tacos waiting on the table and tamarindo in the fridge when I started moving stuff last week. No joke and I'm Thai. Then when I officially moved in my mom wanted to welcome me to feel comfortable so she bought me two tall boys of Magnum Malt Liquor. No joke and I'm Thai. (For real, ma? Don't you know that I've given up Malt Liquor that one time you bounced to Laughlin and I yacked it off of some 800? How about I don't know...a Malbec?). Finally, last night my friend called me up to come down and chill so I met him up at 7-11 and got some drinks on and caught up and he showed me updated pictures of all the hoodrats we used to kick it with -- all blown up and childbearing. No joke and I'm Thai. Simply talking to a few of my friends I've realized that at least 4 of my close friends became parents in the past two months alone. Good lord it's like I jumped straight up into the air as the Earth revolved a few thousand times and landed, back where I came from. A familiar place where I no longer belong. No joke and I'm different.

-- Sonnyred

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