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It’s Thanksgiving Day. And I wanna say thank you.

Tuesday Night we gathered @ 420 Lounge in NYC to premiere our music video for “Poppin’ On TV”. It was a good night new york city…

Our friends and family were in the building, celebrating with us the release of our video. People from school, work, “Notorious”, and “back home” were in attendance. (even people I haven’t seen in 14 years… wow….).

THANK YOU!!!
- to all the people who attended the event
- to all of the people who helped make the video happen: The True 2 Life Music Team, Omar Derby (the director) and his crew, The Poppin’ On TV Models, the makeup artists, stylists, and supporters who came to lend a hand.
- to all the people who have supported us during the years by going to shows, giving words of encouragement and positivity.

We completely appreciate it and are thankful to have you guys on our side. The world could be heartless and the winters can be cold, but the warm and friendly environment we felt at the video premiere party makes it all worth it.

We have alot to be thankful for.

Sincerely,

K.Words

PS - Shouts to Swagg & Money Bags for the pictures. If you have any pictures from the event, send them to TRUE2LIFEPR@gmail.com. Gobble, Gobble.

True 2 Lifers…check back here tomorrow, Nov. 28th, to see the music video to our single, “Poppin’ On TV” off of Live. Love. Listen. Vol. 1

A re-cap of both premieres to come. But, to jump the gun, thanks to everyone that came out to the premiere parties. The NYC premiere was mad fun. And Hartford, CT was fun too. Thanks to everyone for the support and love even if you couldn’t make the premieres. We appreciate all of that! Check back here tomorrow to see the video!

It’s 8 am and I haven’t slept yet. Happy Turkey Day.

-concise

Here is the flyer for the Hartford, CT leg of the “Poppin’ On TV” Music Video Premiere Series. Not to be confused with info for the NYC release party. Which is the post below this one.

This event is Wednesday, the 26th at Life Ultra lounge in Hartford. (The night after the NYC Premiere at 420 Lounge in Manhattan) You’ll be extra points if you could make both parties. Word.

- ‘Cise

ps: and of course…the online release is on Black Friday, the 28th. We’ll be uploading the video right here. So check back and peep it.

What’s Good True 2 Lifers!

We are finally ready to premier the music video we shot for Poppin’ On TV.

After alot of time and tedious efforts, we got the final cut back from director Omar Derby and the video is FIRE! We would like to invite all our family, friends, fans, listeners, followers, haters, lovers, stalkers, pets, doctors, democrats, republicans, to celebrate the release with us.

We will be splitting up the premier of the video into a 3 part series (as you can probably see in the top banner).

First Part:
NYC Release Party - Tuesday, Nov. 25th - 420 Bar and Lounge, 80th & Amsterdam, NYC

Second Part:
HARTFORD Release Party - Wednesday, Nov. 26th - Life Ultra lounge, 81 Asylum St, Hartford, CT

Third Part:
World Premier - Black Friday, Nov. 28th - We will be uploading the video to this site and youtube. So check back here for more details

Here is the teaser one more ‘gain:

And here is the behind the scenes footage in case you missed that too.

So yo, the video is FRESH, FUN and QUALITY and we expect the release party to be no different. Joining True 2 Life Music in celebration will be the video producers, crew, cast and models in the video as well as our industry counterparts and people of interest. So you’ll be able to enjoy some good music and networking.

The event will be non-formal, stop by after-work, after-school, after-sex, after-dinner, etc…come as you are (c) Nirvana.

Peace New York City, see you Tuesday.

-’cise boogie

ps: We will post the CT Premier flyer next. CT…see you Wednesday the 26th!

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-cise boogie

Okay, so some friends of mine were joking around with me cause during election night I was using Obama to drive traffic to our website.

Guilty as charged.

Don’t get me wrong though.. I respect everything that night stands for, but it’s a recession… and brothas gotta eat. Anyway, I came across on hiphopdx.com:

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Rev. Al Shaprton, a frequent critic of Hip Hop believes that the Obama victory will “force” Hip Hop artists to behave better. Sharpton predicts that the Obama administration will force a decline in the more violent and misogynistic elements of the culture. “You can’t be using the ‘b’ word, the ‘n’ word, the ‘h’ word when you have Barack Obama redefining overnight the image that black people want to have,” Sharpton says. “Here’s the greatest political victory in the history of black America, and the thug rappers can’t come near it. They will have to change or become irrelevant.”

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Now, my personal convictions and beliefs often clash with those of our community’s popular black “leaders”. And yeah, I’m a lil’ tough on Sharpton, Messy Jesse and their cohorts, but I gotta speak my mind on this one.

He says: “Here’s the greatest political victory in the history of black America, and the thug rappers can’t come near it.”

What is that even supposed to mean?

Does he really think anyone is holding Trick Daddy and Noreaga’s successes in the same light as Obama’s?
(no shots @ Trick & NORE, but I’m sayin….)

Does he really think the Obama victory is gonna force rappers to “behave” better??? Like all of a sudden rappers won’t curse?

Chill son, you wildin’.

The only thing that’ll make people “behave” is home training and/or money. If us rappers (who use the B/N/H words) truly see financial repercussions for our word choices, I can see us stopping. Maybe not me, though. Partially because I barely use curse words and limit my uses of the n-word in raps anyway, and partially because I don’t want to give up who I am as an artist by thinking too much and not expressing myself as naturally as possible.

I’m not gonna lie.. I, too, shake my head sometimes at potty mouth emcees… but often vulgarity helps get your point across. Like is there any way to express the feeling behind “Fuck Don Imus” without using the F-word? I don’t think so… but anyway, Al seems to be leveraging Obama-mania to further his own political agendas. Not a surprise, though…

Just seems like an attempt to jump on the bandwagon, all this after not REALLY supporting Barack and saying he was “grandstanding on front of white people” when Obama claimed it would be wrong to resort to violence after the Sean Bell verdict. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292008/news/regionalnews/sharpton_raps_obama_108577.htm

If urging people not to riot is grandstanding, Al must be the grandfather of grandstanding. Wouldn’t MLK say the same thing??? Dude is akin’ more and more like Rollo Goodlove from The Boondocks.

I understand the rampant negativity in hip-hop can get pretty bad sometimes, but let’s work on fixing our communities forreal rather than just blaming it on gangsta rap. That whole thing is getting quite old…

- WORDS!

ps - I respect the “leaders” of our community and everything they have done and sacrificed for black people…. forreal… I do.

Whats good? It’s K.Words here.

Since last night, things have changed for me. I don’t get followed around in stores anymore. My blood pressure has dropped significantly. Cops no longer pull me over. My credit situation is so dope that creditors that I owe don’t even call, they just erase my debts.

Sike!

But forreal, it does feel good to be black right now. Last night I was at the homie Keith’s Obama party and I couldn’t help but be slightly weirded out about the whole thing. A little negative. I dunno. It was surreal, but I think I have issues living in the moment and just enjoying something. Especially things that I really care about. (it’s not that I care about politics, just that I love black people and want to see them succeed in everything. Any black contestant on reality or game shows are my favorites off rip. Like remember the Jenkins/Watkins/Jones families on Family Feud? I used to OD cheer for them… but i digress…)

It’s like with music… with every accolade and achievement True 2 Life Music reaches, I still don’t feel satisfied. I find ways to make our show that much better, I learn how to mix drums that much crisper, or I think about all the work that still needs to be done. I would never just feel like “I’m good” or “my work is done” just because I reached some milestone in my career. That’s some complacent shit right there. Hard work and love for my culture [hiphop and black] is just part of me..

The same feeling goes for black people/America when it comes to this election. Obama won. That’s great. But now, people need to carry over that same passion and energy to the way we live our everyday lives. We need to understand that Obama’s job is to improve and lead AMERICA as a whole and that won’t always necessarily be reflected in our communities. IT IS STILL ON US TO IMPROVE OUR SITUATION.

So yeah, like ‘Cise was saying in the post before, it’s time to work. We just lived history. For those of us who were not around during the Civil Rights Movement, this is the single most defining moment for black people in America. We need to delve further into politics because right now, they’re gonna realize that our voices must be heard, and our concerns must be considered. As Obama represents a shift in the way American politics is looked at, it’s about time the same is done about the leadership in our own community. Let’s shift things for the better. For the future.

And oh yeah… cut off DEEZ NUTS, Jesse.

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- K. “We Can” Words

Greetings True 2 Lifers and American Peoples,

We were ready to embrace change, we voted and we made it history…

Obama 2008!!

…now lets get to WORK.

- ‘Cisington

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