Thursday, December 22, 2005

System Crew - Hip Hop con Clase e Inteligencia


En todo genero musical hay artistas que de verdad creen en el género en el cual se desenvuelven. Hay artistas que con toda la honestidad del mundo hacen música con la finalidad de decir algo relevante bien sea con la propia música o con las letras. Muchos, aún sin saberlo, sienten algo dentro de ellos que los lleva a ¨parir¨ alguna canción, disco o discos y terminan siendo no solo relevantes en su vida, sino en la industria de la música. No por el impacto que pueda tener, en términos estadísticos tipo ventas, downloads, etc, sino porque se puede oir a leguas que es un producto honesto, sencillo y en esta industria, el la cual muchos hacen música para ¨pegar¨ y hacer dinero...

Eso pasa muchísimo en cualquier género pero en el de hip hop creo que es en cual más pasa. Creo que se debe a que la gente cree que la música es hablar, un DJ y más nada... esa misma gente es la que hace una canción, pega, y se puede disfrutar en alguna fiesta pero jamás será recordada en el tiempo... y es por el hecho de que no viene de un lugar honesto dentro del artista. Un poco general este comentario pero uds me entienden...

Aquí en Venezuela hay una cantidad increible de músicos super talentosos, cultos, estudiados, conocedores y profesionales pero también existe mucha gente que conoce mucho, que tienen los recursos, pero su meta no esta ligada con la honestidad y con el fin de hacer algo importante, realmente relevante y con amor. Uno de los grupo que SI hacen las cosas bien, con honestidad, trabajo, sencillez y clase son mis amigos de SYSTEM CREW.

En mi opinión son de los mejores grupos, sino el mejor, de hip hop en Venezuela. Las letras son interesantes, con un mensaje para el que de verdad quiere oir algo inteligente y sencillo para el que quiera pegarle golpes al tablero cuando maneja... Sin duda son de las promesas musicales en mi país. Ojalá más pronto que tarde la gente se de cuenta que el Hip Hop es tan importante como CUALQUIER tipo de música, sea Jazz, Pop, Rock, Metal, Folklorico... el que sea.

Por favor visiten su página web www.system-crew.net o www.myspace.com/systemcrew para que puedan oir varias de sus canciones!!

No hay nada mejor que el éxito de gente que se ha esforzado mucho en conseguir algo, y más cuando son tus amigos.... shout out to Nei...


Peace

Monday, December 19, 2005

Money can buy tons...except History

Chelsea beat Arsenal... I could go on and on about Robin Van Persie´s perfectly legal goal that happened to be ruled offside which changed the whole game, but the fact is that we where beaten, period.

It pisses me off is when idiots come up to me and talk crap about Arsenal, how they do this or that, how they should do this or that, when in all honesty they´ve watched about 3 AFC matches in their lives. Furthermore they act surprised when Chelsea win. Have they not seen the stupid amount of money they´ve spent on players???? Drogba alone was worth over $40 million I believe. They should win every single game in the history of the game. Hell, they should even be perfect on FIFA 2006 for XBOX. Please visit arsenalmuse.blogspot.com for the best Arsenal FC analysis out there... objective, subjective and honest, but most of all intelligent.

Anyways, yes they should win every game. They are a club that had won NOTHING before the russian mafioso came in and bought all the pricks. They do have amazing players whom I like, I have to admit that Lampard, Robben, Joe Cole, Makelele and Terry are great, but the fact that they are in that team, a club with the same honesty as a premade boyband pop group, leads me to believe that they are weak in character and have odd priorities which drives me to say that i would NOT want them on my team since it seems they agree with essien´s tackles, mourinho´s silly rethoric and drogba´s greasy hair.

Arsenal have not spent a fraction of what Chelski has... and people just judge them like they are in the same bracket. Historically and footballwise we are so far ahead of them, but at the moment they are playing a bit better than us. Add the fact that they NEVER get injured. Our injuries this term are just funny.

I can´t wait to see them lose, but even more i can´t wait for Arsenal to go back to their winning ways, and they will. Flamini, Fabregas and RVP had bad bad games, but it amazed me to read in some blogs and newspaper player ratings, that Toure was rubbish... He had an amazing game in my opinion and should be a defensive midfielder this term. I never understood the 4-3-3 formation o whatever the hell they did on thhe pitch. Sometimes 4-1-2-3 or something, just throw some dice! I will NOT criticise Wenger, i just wish things would´ve gone differently. 4-4-2 baby... pires and bergy have the experience, yes, maybe not the bottle, but the experience. should´ve started... Bergkamp is the man.

Let´s hope we are this season´s Liverpool and win the big eared one... And as far as players coming in... all the ones I like are cup tied which sucks. I liked van der vaart but he´s not coming. Nigel DeJong and Wesley Sneijder are incredible but cup tied. Ballack would be amazing, but cuptied. Rosicky?? he´s ok, but cannot imagine him with our shirt on. Toure could do it in the midfield with fabregas and be the new vieira as far as steadyness and leave gilberto to change it up with matthieu and cesc.

Peace

Monday, December 05, 2005

On the Radio...

This past Saturday I had a truly amazing experience. I was invited for a radio interview here in Caracas (where I´ll for the next couple of months before going back to Boston)at 88.1 FM. I have to start by thanking Leo Bigott, who was kind enough to write a great article on myself a couple of months ago (check the info section for the link) and of course the host of the show Boris Bossio. I respect them incredibly since they are some of the most knowledgable people I have met in this industry, needless to say in Caracas.

Basically I spoke about some of my projects and we were more focused on my work with Ricky Pernia who came with me and was also featured on the air. His music is very interesting and smart. He is doing stuff that not many people are doing here, and I would I dare to say he´s the only one doing it.

Also his music is being featured on a few other radio stations here such as 100.7 FM, 91.9 FM and 99.1 FM as well.

Again I want to thank Boris and specially Leonardo for all their help, support and hard work. People like them make me even more proud to be Venezuelan....

Peace