killin' 'em with kindness.

Verdad (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:52:39 -0500

Verdad (Taken with instagram)

How do I know if… (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:07:13 -0500

How do I know if… (Taken with instagram)

LastRIGHTS. #¥€$ (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:47:24 -0500

LastRIGHTS. #¥€$ (Taken with instagram)

Cup holders in the bathroom. You know for when you wanna get...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:36:35 -0500

Cup holders in the bathroom. You know for when you wanna get your R. Kelly on when sitting on the throne. (Taken with instagram)

Imagine. Look what your imagining helped do. #noHunger (Taken...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:17:07 -0500

Imagine. Look what your imagining helped do. #noHunger (Taken with instagram)

Imagine There’s No Hunger. Help us fight hunger and feed...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:13:15 -0500

Imagine There’s No Hunger. Help us fight hunger and feed some children. (Taken with instagram)

That app is fun. I’ve been putting falcons helmets on my...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:38:56 -0500

That app is fun. I’ve been putting falcons helmets on my friends all day (Taken with instagram)

Baby Santa ❤ @autumnkathleen (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:54:48 -0500

Baby Santa ❤ @autumnkathleen (Taken with instagram)

Looks like I was a good girl this year at work. I just got this....

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:37:41 -0500

Looks like I was a good girl this year at work. I just got this. Does it work for alcohol? (Taken with instagram)

Ed, my Tootsie’s partner in crime, loves me in the...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:34:39 -0500

Ed, my Tootsie’s partner in crime, loves me in the mornin’ #HardRockHolidayBreakfast (Taken with instagram)

Me & my @socialitebeanie at the Hard Rock holiday breakfast....

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:27:48 -0500

Me & my @socialitebeanie at the Hard Rock holiday breakfast. ❤ (Taken with instagram)

Holiday breakfast at Hard Rock Cafe (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:45:10 -0500

Holiday breakfast at Hard Rock Cafe (Taken with instagram)

I had to do something for the ATLien in me & get myself some...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:13:20 -0500

I had to do something for the ATLien in me & get myself some new Falcons & @esperanzaAtl digs. (Taken with instagram)

Inertia.

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:27:48 -0400

cdrclv:

I N E R T I A . 1 0 . 2 2 . 1 1 . 7 D A Y S L E F T . C D R C L V . C O B R A . G R E E D M O N T P A R K .

This little world called Hip Hop.

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:07 -0400

A typical day at A3C:

While you park your car, you can hear Rapper Big Pooh’s performance throughout the streets. As you walk up to the venue, you see Termanology chatting it up with some folks just kickin’ it. You and your homies wait in line to pick up your passes and you can already feel hip hop all around you. Dudes are already throwing out rhymes to no beats and we haven’t even made it inside the event yet. While standing there, you look over and Reks and Lucky Dice are standing right in front of you. Everyone shows love, gives hugs, and you and Reks decide that at some point you will go head to head with the liquor. The night is already starting off right.

Once you get all wristbanded up, you walk in and get hip hop coming at you at every angle. To the left you have all of the merch and a stage with Rapper Big Pooh still doing his set. That’s a win. You continue to glide right in, head bobbin’, feelin’ good, just ready to vibe. You walk into Purgatory (the little room to the left if you’re familiar with The Masquerade in Atlanta) first. At least that’s usually what happens whenever I walk in. Once we hooked that left into the room, Numonics and Joe of Last Rights are standing there, drinks in hand, and “I’m about to have a great night” written all over their face. We exchange hugs and love, chit chat about this and that and then it’s off to check out the homie Joe Scudda do his thing on the HipHopDX stage upstairs.

Walking up the tall outside staircase that leads you upstairs to Heaven, you see artists and fans intermingling and enjoying themselves. You get inside and Dres Tha Beatnik is on stage doing what he does best, hosting. You find an open spot right up front and you and your friends post up. The beat drops and Scudda comes on stage, ready to kill it. In the middle of his set, he stops everything to call out the venue for overpricing the alcohol (the price increase was ridiculous compared to past events). The crowd cheers him on in agreeance with chants of “fuck you’s”. The disestablishmentarianism was alive. Scudda continues his set and out of nowhere, Rapper Big Pooh comes out on stage. Getting to hear Pooh live two times in one night is a total win. Their energy is loud and you can’t help but dance and be crunk while singing along. As if all of that weren’t enough, Chaundon pops out, grabs a mic and gets right to business. They end it with “Lovin’ It” and you ended up Lovin’ It.

By this time, your friends are feelin’ good and you’re feeling like a Dilla beat, perfect. You all go back downstairs to check out the scene and there’s JNiCs standing in front of the Jägermeister bar with Numonics, Reks, Joe of Last Rights, and Lucky Dice. Even in Atlanta, JNiCs maintains his distinct 305 Polar Bear Mack. Drink orders are taken and filled and the night continues on. We goof off, have fun, snap shots, drink up and live. You look around and see everyone else doing the same thing.

While you talk to Numonics about life shit, this guy approaches you and says “I know this is going to sound really awkward, especially if it isn’t you so excuse me, but I think I follow you on Twitter.” You ask who it is and it turns out to be Sonny G, a comedian based out of Atlanta. He’s a funny dude on Twitter and definitely in person. Very cool cat. While talking about Braves games with Sonny, Laws walks up to the area to say hi to his people and you get the chance to finally meet him. You turn around for a minute to say something to one of your friends and when you turn back around, Señor Kaos is standing there in a Gorilla Suit. Since you two share the same birthday, your Scorpittarian bond just got that much cooler.

The night continues into its dope little moments of awesomeness as Reks asks to wear your extremely high prescription glasses and leaves you looking at the world with “i just smoked 4 blunts and drank a fifth of whiskey” blurred eyes. At this point I know Reks is feelin’ good off that drank because he keeps them on for a hot second.

As the good times with good people stay in action, up walks Sin with the lovely Desiree. Hugs and cheek kisses cause that’s what us latinos do. It’s nice to see folks you know in South Florida come up to Atlanta and show love to A3C. Numonics comes through with a Red Bull for you cause he’s just that dude and as you say thanks for being awesome, you see Smoke The World. You and your friend haven’t seen Smoke since the last A3C so it’s like a reunion almost.

By now, everyone is feeling good and Freeway is due on in a few so the party moves its way back up to the HipHopDX stage. Freeway slaughters the stage. The crowd is thick and very much energized by his performance. When the music stopped and he talked to his audience, you feel the bassline from the Ying Yang Twins performing “The Whisper song”. That’s that shit. Freeway finishes his set and right after comes Random Axe to finish it up with a massacre of the stage.

Everything is pretty much winding down, and while you and a friend sit on the staircase outside waiting for your friend talking about the night’s events, Dres Tha Beatnik comes over and shows love and appreciation. At this point we also realize that your friend has lost something very important and it’s time to try and find it. There is always some type of mission that happens at least once in the night. This was it. You retrace steps, look in places that it could have fallen behind, and try not to let your friend panic. You even get some girls in the restroom to help you look. At this point you sort of give up and try to let it go. Right when you do that, your friend who lost it in the first place finds what she was looking for tucked in their jackets sleeve. That really happened. The girls who helped you look all over the restroom come strolling by asking if you’ve found what you were looking for. You tell them the story and laughter fills up the area at the top of the outside staircase. As you introduce yourselves you find out one of the girls is on AllHipHop.com’s team. We get into a conversation about the way this experience makes everyone feel and what we take from it all.

As you’re getting ready to leave and continue the festivities elsewhere, you meet Gods’Illa, get some afterparty info, head out to your car and drive off with your friends rewinding the night in your heads out loud.

You, your friends and everyone else go home with the same experience with different points of view. There’s nothing better than that. Hip Hop is eternal and these are the things that make it that way.

A love letter I never sent.

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:34:42 -0400

I’ve been trying to compromise with your smiling face. Bittersweet the sunset between us. Let me share your moons with you. Eyes filled of raindrops, clouds storming beneath. Return. I’ve been trying to compromise with your touch. Nostalgia created goosebumps at a simple caress. Not yours, not the same. Lay me under your moss filled sky of constellations. Venus me with your Mars. We can become Saturn. Return. I’ve been trying to compromise with your lingering scent. Bold aromas take me over. Let me tour your galaxies again. Take me into your sunrise. Allow me to be your star. Return.

vrg. 2008

An insomniac's prelude to a dream.

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:51:20 -0400

436am. Some are tucked away in bed dreaming of winning the lottery and calling their boss every douchetastic name in the book, while others are still dancing the night away. Me? I’m laying in bed fantasizing of magical places to visit in Dreamland while listening to the soothing sounds of Seu Jorge. Normally, that would be the perfect setup for mental relaxation and a smooth journey into sleep. Not today.

This is the type of shit I write about. Bienvenidos to my first post. It’s all downhill from here….but hey, here’s a shot and we’ll have a good time on the ride.

To those still poppin’ bottles and dancing like maniacs, cheers friends. To those who are asleep right now, screw you.

xoxo, venessarenee