With the pending release of "Dear Friends..." by @FEofficial in two days, I felt a recap of the group here ~ Thoughts of A Predicate Lifer

With the pending release of "Dear Friends..." by @FEofficial in two days, I felt a recap of the group here

was in order. (It comes out on the 28th of June) So that when I begin to talk about it after I GET MY COPY/HEAR IT/TALK ABOUT IT, you will at least have a backdrop. @ those of you who will be 'new' to me speaking on 'em. If you want to know my thoughts AFTER I WITNESSED THE SHOW live, you can go here.

(Phonte, Sy Smith and Jeanne Jolly respectively in Philly..)

You can start HERE where I actually spoke about the weekend 'Dear Friends' was conceived...Here is a piece and you can read the rest at the link....

(Chris Boerner and Nicolay in Philly)

Another installment of the 'Chat Series'....Mini chat time... @FEOfficial (@phontigallo & @nicolaymusic)

Remember when said 'I asked some of the questions some you loyal fans wanted to know..' in the post I made on the concert in Durham that took place on February 20th 2011? Those questions ya'll always hit me with when it comes to The Foreign Exchange and their members that I said I would ask. Well here they are. I took the top three questions and made sure I asked them. Nothing TOO EVASIVE. Nothing too silly. Nothing too 'revealing'. Not my style at all. I just wanted to make sure I got ya'll some of the information that you asked for that I couldn't DEFINITIVELY answer without speaking to them. Here you go. Enjoy.

*Please bare in mind.....This is all 'small talk' so don't think for one minute I THINK it was a full on interview. @ all you 'professional bloggers/interviewers/big wig people. I didn't think it then and I MOST CERTAINLY DON'T THINK THAT NOW. The conversation, while prefaced with 'Let me ask you some questions fam..' was NOT presented that way when I was speaking to them so there are parts chopped out. On PURPOSE. Deal with it. I wouldn't do them (or anyone else like that) @ any remarks that I think wouldn't be said 'on the record' or without it being known that it is ON THE RECORD. So anything I feel that may be taken the 'wrong way', I won't talk about while still giving out some information that may be 'useful' to someone who is interested in their work. Understood? Good. Still and all, these gentlemen don't hold their tongues in ANY INTERVIEW I HAVE SEEN..lol so don't think that if they didn't want it to be known, they would have said it. Are we crystal clear? Aight then. This 'information' is FOR MY READERS. If you happen to stumble upon (or read it via retweet via one of these gentlemen) the information GOOD FOR YOU. I am not calling it some 'scoop' or anything. They are just questions. Get off your own dick and formulate YOUR SHIT HOW YOU WANNA. This is MY SHIT. @ any questions about style, format or any of that other elitist bullshit ya'll get on when you didn't 'write it'.

Sorry about that ya'll. You ALREADY know how I am. Preemptive like a MOTHERFUCKER. So without further delay here is another installment of the 'Chat Series' if you will...Albeit brief...Only this one happened IN PERSON.

Question one was for Nicolay:

The Warehouse: How in the WORLD is that you ended up working with a young Wiz Khalifa? How did that come about?

Nicolay: That actually came about as an idea within the label. It was suggested that we work together and he was great to work with. Now mind you, Wiz was YOUNG...I am talking about twelve or thirteen...naw I'm kidding....but he was really young when I got to work with him....It is good to see him having success now after years of working....

The Warehouse:.....yeah..I think people think he just 'came outta nowhere'....He didn't. I STILL have emails from him when he was pushing his music via that medium.

http://thewarehous.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-installment-of-chat-seriesmini.html

http://carolinaware.tumblr.com/post/3527125520/i-took-the-time-to-chat-with-phonte-nicolay-in-durham

I put the Tumblr post up to show those of you who follow there that I did INDEED TELL you about it. LOL. So you can't say "You didn't tell me about that!". I did.

I take it you will you use the search button and the side bar to find out what else I have written on them. There are well over 30 posts on them here alone. You can use the tags in the post to help too. Enjoy.

Support

Let me be clear. I need you to SUPPORT the artist whose music you see/hear in the music player here. Some of them are my FRIENDS!! I want them to make money. So while I may put up a link here or there that they didn't 'endorse', it is only out of the love for their music and the fact that I want you to SUPPORT THEM. So please do. Seek out their music. Some of them are VASTLY UNDERRATED and your FAVORITE MUSICIAN loves them. So it isn't 'talent'. It is exposure. Which is all I am trying to give them here.. SO SUPPORT THEM!!!

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I post 'em up ON THE REG. I post 'em, pay the compliments I want to when necessary and leave it at that. Period. If you happen to be the 'man in the young lady's life', don't worry dawg, I don't want your woman. I'm good.

If the fact that I do post up women means that you don't 'respect' any serious topic I discuss then your 'Fuck You and your respect ' is in the link below...Go ahead and read it....I think that should about cover how I feel about what 'you think'..

http://thewarehous.blogspot.com/2011/01/shoot-messengermiss-entire-fuck-outta.html

As for the 'woman' who are afraid of being 'exploited' by a site like the one I run here..Or who feel like I 'stole' your pics or something along those lines.. I have addressed you as well...

http://thewarehous.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-i-guess-i-have-to-be-bad-guy-it-isnt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20blogspot%2FrDZx%20%28The%20WareHouse%29

I do occasionally interview folks so browse around. I don't call them interviews though. I call 'em 'Chats' 'cause that is usually what is like. Not claiming to be some CNN reporter over here. Just asking questions that many of us want answers to and some questions that some of you don't THINK TO ASK OR THINK CERTAIN FOLKS ARE GOING THROUGH/THINKING ABOUT/DOING. I like to dig deep so if you agree to an interview, be prepared. I might ask you anything. I probably will stay away from the majority of the 'standard' questions though. Just bare that in mind. Again..the site's official email is thewarehouseblogspot@gmail.com if you would like to be interviewed. Hit me up.

The popular posts usually contain enough POSITIVE examples of how this works great for both THE BLOG and the subjects of the posts. Usually, those post are a DIRECT RESULT of support from the young lady via a posting on THEIR OWN TWITTER, blog or Facebook. So thank you for that IN ADVANCE (and if you have done so in the past..) for that mutual support. It is appreciated. Truly.

Oh and one more thing...

I DON'T WATER MARK PICTURES THAT I DIDN'T EITHER TAKE OR WERE NOT ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO ME. I have seen folks RUSH TO DO IT and it is pretty damm sad. Not my style. I am not a fool. I know that most of what I do in regards to pictures can be replicated so there is no need to act like I'm out here doing more than what it is. I provide a space to see a collection of pictures in that regard. Nothing more. Nothing less. Watermarking pictures that aren't 'mine per say kinda comes off a little pompous to me. That's just me though..

I want you to be able to tell when I do TAKE THE PICTURE without me saying as much. What do I look like watermarking your pictures up if I didn't 'take them'?

You see the watermark on a picture here with the blog's name in it? Then you know I took the picture in some fashion. Screen shot. With the camera phone. With the Canon or the web cam. Or it was given to me for exclusive use. (At least at press time)

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