Moving forward while standing still

Aight its been a few weeks, time to update. Its not that I don't want to update, its that I just sort of forget....

The Crucial Album is finished and ready to be pressed up next week. The art work is dope, the artists on the album are dope, and the project is definitely gonna be a hit in the underground scene, not just in St.Louis, but hopefully nation wide.. How can anyone go wrong with MF Doom and Slug on their record. We are gradually gaining momentum with press being lined up and show dates getting set up. Its gonna be interesting to see the response to an entire album essentially produced from vinyl transferred back to CD. The sound quality is still high which was my biggest fear in the making of the album.

Look for reviews to pop up around the internet in Jan/Feb and print reviews in Feb/Mar. If you write, want to write, or know writers who would be interested in doing a review or article then let me know. I know many of you write for the student newspaper of your respective schools or have blogs of your own. Every little bit helps ya know. Originally slated for a mid winter release, it has been pushed back to accommodate more press to a mid-March date. However still look for some major show announcements for Feb.

Hip Hop Congress has been rolling along too with a major funding push. We know what information we need to gather from all 30 chapters and that was something major. The next step is actually getting this budget information from them. Every one of these chapterheads is already swamped with school work, jobs, and other activities in addition to their Hip Hop Congress responsibilities, so it could take some time to actually get what we need. Shamako went to the H2A Conference in New York last week and although we thought Hip Hop Congress was still slightly under the radar with many other organizations, it appears now as though Congress is smack right in the forefront of hip hop activism. Pretty incredible to have people tryin to be a part of what we do, rather then us tryin to fight into the scene.

In other Berk news Hats N Stuff is fun. I sell hats........I also write for Soundslam.com...reviewing bad music is fun.....J-Live was good tho.

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