Multi-Task with DJ Protege

Mixtape of the moment for WhoUFeelin is Multi-Task mixed by DJ Protege, ATX's own homegrown. WhoUFeelin invites you to download for free, Multi-Task. No other mix you've heard makes the record talk to you with Lean & Drive, a Cars beat featuring Pharrell and Busta Rhymes versin, Bob Marley, Pitbull with Santana, Celia Cruz, Jane's Addiction, Lil Jon, and Wine O all on one 37 track mixtape, Multi-Task by DJ Protege


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Nominations for SEA

ATX, time to show some luv for local few, DJ Grip, www.myspace.com/djgripmusic . DJ Grip is not only a local Dj but also a Dj showing luv to nearby cities and towns with his Save Texas Rap shirts and mixtapes on http://www.dollarznsince.com/

Log onto http://www.southernentawards.com/ and drop your boy, DJ Grip, a nomination.

Also, vote for Will Hustle, www.myspace.com/willhustle.

Here's your chance to be heard, log on and vote, http://www.southernentawards.com/

Drake, Among HipHop Royalty

After hearing Cash Money and Drake in the same sentence, WhoUFeelin began to ask "who is this guy from Canada creating such a buzz but also being shown love from the West Coast to the South and all the way up through the East Coast. Not only can he act, but he can also sing and rap. A triple threat some are saying while others are discussing his associations to HipHop royalty and CoverGirl beauties.

Soon, http://www.bossip.com/ was asking the same question and quoting the Queen of HipHop, Mary J. Blige, and why she was feelin Drake. If the Queen of HipHop is giving Drake props, he must be worth of WhoUFeelin. Drake is lyrically skilled in choosing his vocabulary carefully as he spits a verse over a chorus he himself is singing on.

Quoting Drake from his BET Awards after party appearance on BET, "I'm always looking for a better way to say something, my mother was clever in instilling me with that curiosity" Drake is definitely easy on the eyes for the lady fans but he is also artistically talented in versing a track for the fellas. Sure enough, three weeks or so WhoUFeelin is having a conversation with K-Day legend, Julio G, who happens to be in the city for Unite The Mic tour and he states "Drake, is who I'm feelin, I like that he's not all tatted up. HipHop needs that, it can't be all thugged out".

Suddenly, WhoUFeelin recalls a quote from local artist, Zeale, www.myspace.com/zeale32, "Smart is the new Gangster."

It is clear as night and day, WhoUFeelin is feelin what everybody else is saying by HipHop needs a saviour. HipHop needs to be on socially conscious level and not just conspicuous consumption.

Peep, Drake's "Best I Ever Had" video, http://livesteez.com/watch/ffessB/Official-Drake-Video-Best-I-Ever-Had%22%3E Though there is much eye candy in the video, it doesn't take away from the fact that women can and must embrace their sexual empowerment.

Julio G and the Westside Radio

Before, Unite the Mic Tour I never knew of Westside Radio much less Julio G, but now thanks to being on tour with front man, B-Real www.myspace.com/brealonline who is promoting his solo album, Smoking Mirrors, I can't stop from googling the knowledge Julio G speaks. After reading the following interview responses from Julio G on www.laweekly.com/2005-12-08/music/julio-g-is-for-real/, I assure you aspiring DJs if you listen up and not forget the lesson you might someday get the respect and peace of mind for being a trendsetter and not just another DJ after some hype. It is true, in the end money makes the world go around, but it can never buy you love in the streets. I admire DJs that support their local artist and break new records to put on for their city and that is why WhoUFeelin is putting www.mysapce.com/JulioG and the Westside Radio in the spotlight.


Julio G. Is for Real
Published on December 08, 2005
Interviewed by Ben Quiñones

After a three-year hiatus from radio, KDAY’s hardcore son comes home. “I’m gonna fuck ’em up on the turntables, Eazy-E style!” says KDAY DJ Julio G off the air, with a mischievous grin and trademark laugh. It’s Friday, and the late Eazy-E’s 21-year-old son, Eric “Lil’ Eazy-E” Wright Jr. — wearing a huge medallion of his father’s likeness around his neck — is in the studio to promote his upcoming album Prince of Compton. Tonight, Julio’s West Coast gangsta rap program Westside Radio — which usually bumps South L.A. artists like King Tee, Kam and MC Eiht, along with Pomona’s Above the Law — is now Ruthless Radio: all Ruthless Records, all night. (Ruthless is the label Eazy-E founded and ran until his death 10 years ago.) As Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Tha Crossroads” plays in the background, one of hip-hop’s fiercest lyricists, N.W.A protege the D.O.C. (a.k.a. Tracy Curry) calls in, raspy voice and all, proclaiming: “I’m not through with the West Coast yet!”Neither is Julio G., who ended his three-year hiatus from radio and came back home — to the new KDAY 93.5 — just about a year ago.

To understand Julio and his hardcore following, you have to go to Imperial Highway and Long Beach Boulevard, in the southeast city of Lynwood. Back in the ’70s, Lynwood was mostly black, and it was there that Julio Gonzalez, half Mexican/half Puerto Rican, grew up double-riding his best friend Marcellus, who was black, on the handlebars of his bike, blasting Zapp.

One day Julio walked into Marcellus’ uncle’s garage and saw what would change his life: “Marcellus had a turntable that he took out of his mom’s stereo thing,” he says, “a Radio Shack mixer and another whole opposite turntable with all these wires all connecting, all on his uncle’s pool table. Marcellus scratched ‘Sucker MC’s’ by Run-D.M.C. That was the first time I had ever seen that. I’ll never forget that: I wanted to be a DJ.”

So Julio got his mom’s consola, one of those old-school Mexican stereos with an 8-track player, and began deejaying. “The first records I ever scratched were Javier Sola­s and Vicente Fernandez” — straight ranchera music, the kind nobody would ever think of mixing. “All I could do was scratch on one thing, because there was no fader or mixer, just a fucked-up turntable and whatever sounds I could get from Vicente Fernandez.”

He would practice every morning before school when his mother went off to work.Living in Lynwood got a little tough because it had a real gang situation. Soon he and Marcellus were getting chased and jumped, so they started ditching school in order to avoid getting fucked with. When things got more serious, Julio’s mother decided to move him to South Gate High.

A Puerto Rican guy from New York named Papo lived on Julio’s block, and he’d get tapes of New York rappers like the Furious Four and the Treacherous Three. Julio listened, and soon got hooked on hip-hop — and the only hip-hop station in town, KDAY, 1580 AM. KDAY was the nation’s first rap station, before corporate America got its greedy hands on the scene, and it had a group of DJs called the Mixmasters. Not only was Tony G. (Cuban Tony Gonzalez) the lone Latino DJ on KDAY, but, says Julio, he was “the best of the best.”“I wanted to be part of KDAY.

I’d listen to Tony G., and I would tape the shit. I would try to duplicate what they were doing with my little turntable; that was my way of learning.”At South Gate, Julio connected with brothers Mellow Man Ace and Sen Dog and their friend B-Real, then known as DVX (Devastating Vocal Xcellence). “I would DJ and they’d rap,” he says. They’d play at parties in South Gate, Bell, Maywood, all over Southeast L.A. (The buzz would later lead Mellow Man Ace to bust out solo with the hit “Mentírosa,” co-produced by Julio G. and Tony G.)

Meanwhile, B-Real and Sen Dog started up the popular skunky-bud-smoking rap group Cypress Hill. Party promoter and friend Luis Romo, whose brother had gone to school with Tony G., took Julio to KDAY. As Julio recalls, Luis introduced him to Tony G. like so: “My homeboy right here will fuck you up, Tony.” Julio was stunned. “Ah, no no no — I knew he was a legend. I was 17, so when I got on the turntables, I was really nervous. Then Tony got on the turntables and just fucked me up. That was my first lesson.”Tony and Julio clicked; Tony took Julio under his wing and showed him how to mark records and other DJ tricks. In September of 1986, a few months after he graduated from South Gate High, Julio became a KDAY Mixmaster, deejaying on Saturday nights and joining guys like Joe Cooley.

Julio was now the only other Latino at KDAY. Deejaying with his idol, Tony G., he helped break hip-hop in Los Angeles. Back in 1986, KDAY hosted Friday Night Live– a show broadcast live from some local spot — and one week they happened to be at a Bell High School dance, where rapper Roxanne Shante and Bobby Brown — yes, that Bobby Brown — were dancing on a makeshift stage made of lunch benches. But that wouldn’t be the highlight of the night. While Julio was deejaying, he felt a tug on his shirt. “This little dude pulls my shirt while I’m on the air — ‘Hey man, I want you to check this album out!’ He pulls my shirt again. ‘You need to check out my record, man!’ And I’m thinking, what is this little Crip nigga doing in a Bell High School dance?”

Julio played a verse of the song: “Cruising down the street in my six four.” The song turned out to be “Boyz-N-The Hood,” and that little dude was Eric “Eazy-E” Wright. He broke that album before anyone knew what was about to hit them.The two went in different directions, Eazy blowing up with N.W.A and Julio deejaying and, again with Tony G., co-producing Latin acts like Kid Frost and his hit “La Raza.” Eazy would later return the favor, “pulling me out of the woodwork,” says Julio. On July 4, 1994, at an event called Big Top Locos at the Olympic Auditorium, with headlining band Rage Against the Machine, Eazy and co-host Julio G. premiered their short-lived radio show, Ruthless Radio (which ran on 92.3 The BEAT).

Julio and Eazy became best of friends. “He spent his last year with us at the G-Spot [Tony and Julio’s studio] in El Monte,” Julio says. “I remember one time I came into the studio and without them knowing I was in the room. I see Eazy on the floor, on his knees, with my daughter Dominique coloring a coloring book he had just bought her.

Moments like that, that’s what really made me love him.” It was in the next few months that Eazy started feeling ill. “I remember he told me he was sick, but he always had bronchitis; it wasn’t like I could say, ‘He’s gonna die,’” says Julio, who held down the show while Eazy was in the hospital. But things quickly got worse. “I remember his last words to me were, ‘Do what you gotta do, Julio.’” On March 26, 1995, at the age of 31, Eazy-E died of AIDS-related pneumonia. When he passed on, Julio did what he had to do and kept what became the Mixmaster show going, eventually changing the name and hosting Westside Radio on The BEAT.

When the ownership of that station changed hands in 2001, he decided he was ready to quit. He returned last year, he says, because “I had to keep it going. It’s what Eazy would have wanted.” “Julio fuckin’ G!Are you kiddin’ me?” says a female caller who can’t believe she’s on the phone with Julio G. But Julio is for real. He answers every single call, no intern, no Hollywood bullshit.

“The reason I answer every call,” he says, “is that when Marcellus and I were calling this radio station trying to request ‘For Those Who Like To Groove’ by Ray Parker Jr., we’d be waiting to get through and it was busy. Finally we get through — ‘Yo, yo man you got to play this song, you need to play this song, we’re trying to get it on tape’ — but the song never came on, even though it took us about three and a half hours to get through. So when I got on the radio I never forgot that. It was always something real personal to me. I always think there’s a kid who wants to get through.”

Yes, this radio rap game matters to Julio G. “I have a responsibility, to make a change with music, to inspire Latino kids,” he says. “I’m really an activist for the community and KDAY. This is some independent shit — a community station, for the community.” He then pauses and looks out to the streets. “I’m trying to do something positive,” he says. “I need to move the West Coast forward. ’Cause the hood is beautiful.”?

Another interview provided by Nima with Dubcnn.com from November 2007
From www.dubcnn.com/interviews/juliog-part1/

www.dubcnn.com/interviews/juliog-part2/

Tiny & Toya

WhoUFeelin would like to put the spotlight on a new show by BET featuring Tameka "Tiny" Cottle and Antonia "Toya" Jackson-Carter. Both women have lived the perceived lifestyle of dating a V.I.P entertainer. Despite, the ridicule and rumors they have stood by their high profile relationships. Now, they have gone on the record to take TV audiences on a ride into their own hopes, fears, and aspirations as women. At first sight, I thought the show was going to be another reality show on how many Louis Vuitton bags a girl could have, but to my surprise, Tiny and Toya begin to deal with family matters, visiting their parents, and talking to their daughters about first love.

WhoUFeelin is feeling the vibe the creators of the show were trying to capture with this show. Despite, Tiny and Toya's affiliation to desirable men, lavish lifestyles, and possessions, they are like many of us women that have to choose between raising children or pursuing a career, remain in an open relationship, or find a lasting relationship with a husband that spends 70% of his time away from home with constant temptation thrown at his disposal. The show premieres on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 on BET, check your local listing for TV time.

From Boy to Man

The April 2009 issue of AustinFamily Magazine featured an amazing article titled "From boy to Man" by Brad Munson. View the magazine online at http://www.austinfamily.com/.

Josh and James Weidman, a father-and son team, surveyed hundreds of teenagers and created a list of seven stunning messages for dads. Here's what your sons has been trying to tell you while you were'nt listening.

• Tell me you love me
• Love with actions, not just words
• I need your friendship
• You've always been my hero
• I need you to listen
• Be my coach
• Help me figure out who I am

Interesting, the seven points seem to reinforce the idea that we as human beings all crave to be accepted/loved by our peers, through your actions love is demonstrated. Seems woman and men may in fact not be so different in their emotional needs they just have different styles of expressing their needs.

Support Clinton Sparks, http://www.clintonsparks.com/ new movement DADD (Dad's Against Deadbeat Dads), seriously imagine how many men in this world grow up fatherless or without a positive male role model in their life. The world can change if you start thinking of yourself as part of the solution instead of being the problem.

Making Dollaz N Since

Making Dollaz N Since, DJ Grip partnered up with CEO, DJ Since to incorporate Dollaz N Since Entertainment.

Selling over 50,000 mixtapes in the southern region, along with the "Save Texas Rap" t-shirts you see DJ Grip as a Go Getter in the entrepreneur game with a craft and passion to break new songs and artist into the scene.

2008 SEA award recipient, DJ Grip is a well recognized name among the annual TX Relay weekend and among artist such as Kyle Lee, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Screwed Up Click, Magnificent, Trae, Z-Ro, and locals, Basswood Lane. This year, March 15, 2009 DJ Grip will be performing for SXSW 09 @ Club Fuze. WhoUfeelin has gotten to know DJ Grip through the past three years, from traveling to San Antonio to hear him spin for a UGK concert, to kicking it booth style at the 2008 TX HeatWave. DJ Grip is a very humble man, always making sure to give credit where credit is due. He is not boisterous and never heard talking down on anyone's hustle. WhoUfeelin stamp approves DJ Grip with Dollaz N Since and for that reason I welcome you to Gettin Rich In Progess 2 in stores now.

You can contact DJ Grip via Myspace:

www.myspace.com/djgripmusic

www.Dollaznsince.com

DJGripMusic@yahoo.com

DJGrip@tmail.com