Tha Alkaholiks and The Wu-Tang Clan promotional album advertisement. Scanned from the 1993 October issue of The Source Magazine.

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Photo of my sister taken by Mia L. McDonald (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1117680502)

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Beattape composed completely of D’Angelo Tracks…

Created by Chris P.

I’ve worked on this since 2000.

35 beats total.

I only cheated three times: 1 prince sample and 1 digital underground sample (both to enhance the particular beat), and ?uest’s drums from erykah’s “booty” on two beats. other than that, it’s ALL d’angelo samples.

I left everything raw and jagged with some scattered effects. i did a more polished mix (with lots of compression, eq, fx, etc.), but the raw shit was just more dynamic. I used all original source CD’s, LPs, 12″s, and CDQ bootlegs. and the “smile” remake on itunes.

I tried to incorporate EVERYTHING d’-related, but i didn’t use “water no get enemy” and some of the misc rap features. Done out of 100% love for d’s music.

http://www.zshare.net/download/67216006408c6c1e

(via yesyesyall.og + strictlybeats.blogspot.com )

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I’m slowly redoing my portfolio, although I need some constructive criticism. I’m not including all the works I’ve done because some of them are old or I feel aren’t good enough to put up, but I may be wrong. I don’t really know the proper portfolio etiquette. What do I need? Feel me in. I’m well aware I need to increase the spacing between the thumbnails. I’m also aware I need an “About/Contact” section. I’m ready to be done with this. But I have some questions.

• Are the colors okay?
• Should I change the background color?
• Do I need to get rid of certain pieces?
• Should I be a little more informative when writing about my pieces?
• Should I put all relating pieces in a series or set or keep them separate?
• Are the images too big when you click on the thumbnail?
• Is this just wack all together?

Here is the link to what I’m trying to finish. http://www.9oh9.com/Core/ I’m using Core CMS, which is a content management system made for digital portfolios, although you can do whatever you need it for I suppose.

I can be emailed at miss.d.rose@gmail.com

Help?

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There is something wrong with me. It’s hard to explain, although I feel I have become numb. My overall feelings about things, situations, feelings, arguments, whatever, I’ve completely shut down on. I’m always telling my fellow co-workers that I’m broken. A guest could come into the restaurant and cuss me out and I would feel nothing. I’m treating everyone and everything like one big movie. It is all a show. If a guest really cussed me out I’d probably nod my head and tell them that they are more than welcome to speak to my manager. My job here is not the point. The point is I have lost the ability to give a fuck. I avoid people and their feelings and emotions, because I don’t want to have to care. If you’ve noticed I haven’t really written any personal entries or vague statements. I’ve been trying to somehow control what I read, look at, or hear. It’s almost like I’m trying to create this fantasy world where people and things don’t annoy me. I’ve also called myself being stronger because of it, but this isn’t strength at all.

My current mind state may stem from a relationship gone bad, and how I reacted to that relationship. And I don’t want to see myself there ever again. I was bed ridden, I didn’t care, I lost weight, I didn’t sleep. Now to avoid any form of discomfort, I lock up. I don’t even write about it, nor do I speak much about it, because I’m constantly trying to get over unwanted feelings and thoughts. And not even thoughts about that relationship, anything that could potentially be a negative factor, I shut it down and remind myself that I have bigger and better things to do.

I’m living this “get over it and move on” type of lifestyle that I feel as though is not allowing me to heal.

This post was hard to write, not that it’s bringing me to tears. It’s just that any other day I’d seriously would be like “ahhh fuck it”.

I’m going to try, maybe not on this blog though. It’s really not about what other people read as much as what I’m writing about.

I’m just saying in most cases being a hardass isn’t healthy, at least in my opinion. You need to give yourself time to heal TRULY. We don’t live in a world where we can’t get hurt. IT DOESN’T EXIST.

That is all.

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(via cosmic-dust)

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Messing around with an old photo I took on Labor Day, some type, and Photoshop.

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Part of the Funky Fall Flavors spread, scanned from the September 1992 issue of The Source Magazine.

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I’m giving the beetle series a break to finally start on a collab with http://sugarspade.tumblr.com/. It’s very simple, he does the music and I make the visual for the music. I met Champ years go on last.fm and we clicked. He is cool peoples. I think this is an awesome way for us both to keep our creative juices flowing.

The piece he gave me is called “Sleep”. The first thing that popped into my head was the quote from NaS, and I went with it. The top half of the piece is what could be represented as a dreamy-like state and the lower part represents death.

Check out the music. I will be uploading it after this post. Also let me know what you think about the piece or my work in general. I feel like this piece is missing something. I’m not sure what it is yet. I will continue to work on it.

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