in the mix.

Whaddup everybody.
Don’t wanna jinx it just yet, and I know it’s still early, but for once in A LONG time, I’m having a pretty damn good week. Was in Brooklyn all day yesterday tattooing at my boy’s new studio.. Smith St. Tattoo( it’s on, you guessed it, Smith St… 411 is the address). Check it out if you get a chance, and tell ‘em I sent ya. But yeah, a friend of mine flew in from Australia to get tattooed, and I really had a great time, and he got an awesome tattoo, to boot. Got to hang out with one of my boys from Nike, heading to Richmond, VA tomorrow for the weekend for a tattoo convention, my daughter is on the honor roll in school.. shits going great for the kid right now. It’s still early, so there’s plenty of time for it to go right in the shitter.

Not sure what it is exactly about this time of the year, but it brings out the best, or worst, of people. Throw in the daily humor of owning a tattoo studio, and it makes for endless hours of amusement.
We’ve got a few regulars. Every neighborhood has ‘em..you know the ones. They wear a helmet, but don’t really play any sports or ride a motorcycle. Come on in, Dave.
I love Dave.
Dave is probably 50, and always sweeps the front stoop and takes care of all the cigarette butts from the assholes that can’t walk 5 feet and put ‘em in the bucket. That is, if there’s any left, after the rocket scientists from the methadone clinic try and make a full cigarette from, say, 13-14 of ‘em.
Right, so he always takes care of the outside of the shop, and for a few bucks a week, it’s worth it. So what if he tries to get the oil changed on his model cars.. doesn’t even matter, really.
We put a church pew outside the shop, and polyurethaned a bunch of fake money to the seat. Now THAT is funny. Not sure why people don’t believe anything that anybody says, but there’s even a sign, regarding the authenticity of said currency, but it’s great watching people read the sign, then sit down, and peel off one of the bills, and then get mad at us for putting that out there and “playing with their emotions”.
We also don’t allow kids in the shop, and of course it’s very well displayed, but again, for whatever reason, people don’t give a shit. There could be a 9 ft. tall neon sign on the front door and people would complain that they can’t get their stroller through the door because the sign is so bright.
But, at the end of the day, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

So, the plan is, I wanna drop a new mixtape every week.
My godson, DJ Big Ant, is gonna hit me off with new shit, like he does pretty much every other day.
There’s a few new joints on this one. New Alchemist joint w/ Snoop & Jada… new Em.. new Kanye.. But Ant’s shit is butters.
Download it. Enjoy it. Bump it on the weekend.
Check him out www.myspace.com/djbigant05
peep the mix…

DJ Big Ant mix.

Be cool everybody.
B