[Now Playing]: Mos Def & Medina Green - Crosstown Beef

This is my song. ANd it was on the tracklist tonite. Gotta love that

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Soundcheck: *yawn* I'm amped & drowsy all at once if that makes any sense. My veins are coursing w/ espresso & alcohol. Those nasty beats are still thumpin up in my dome, though. They've always got good music at Helio's on Superdope Hip-Hop Fridays. Old school & underground hip-hop. The good stuff.

The night started off at the Fresh Hip-Hop art show that the Whole Food's guy invited Crystal and me to. We took the rest of our girls along w/ us, including the occasional additions of Christina & Jessica. The show was held at a kind of seedy section of town, a section which we had a bit of trouble finding initially, but eventually managed to locate by making use of our senses; we followed the scent trail of weed. The collection was pretty dope - preserved old school hip-hop apparel & paraphenalia in air-tight packaging...yup, deli-style. Seeing it made me want to put on a full-on Addidas jogging suit, a Kangol hat, gold chains, and bump Run DMC in a decked out Impala. But anyways.

Then we decided to hit Helios for Superdope hip-hop. When peeps started to flood the place after a little while, we realized that we unknowingly placed ourselves in the midst of the art show afterparty. Kooky. Helios got hype real fast after that - bboy battles & a funk band. It was also a little weird that we ran into this one chick who happened to be working w/ the same record producer that Crystal's w/. Her name was also Crystal and her ex-boyfriend also happened to be the DJ who was hittin on Crystal (my friend) like it was nobody's business the last time we dropped in on Superdope. Small world. We saw the Whole Foods guy there too. His name's Gonzalo.

This DJ had been pulling some lowdown dirty shit on Crystal (his ex) earlier that night, which inspired a rather elaborate man-hating conversation. The bottom line: men stopped evolving after the Ice Age, the cause for the uncivilized behavior that we women are all too often victims of. So why are most of the females on this planet still heterosexual? Love is nature's cruel practical joke, and men are the punchline. Someone upstairs has got a sadistic sense of humor.

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