Former Boston College student athetes BJ Raji and Robert Francois, along with the rest of the Green Bay Packers, just finished smacking Wiz Khalifa’s Steelers around, securing a rack of glistening Super Bowl rings in the process. BJ was a friend from college, and was good friends with my roommate, Marcel. I don’t know Robert, but I do know that he’s nice on the field.

Congrats! Oh, and if you wanna see the craziest play by BJ from a couple weeks back when he got that interception and then cat-daddied, watch the clip below.

LOL. #WeAreBC

Yep! I told you we’re moving! Things are looking up! Once the weather breaks, watch the f*ck out. We have heat on deck. Lots and lots and lots of heat. I’m just tryna bring all the cool people all over the country (and even beyond) together. My goal is to get the guys from Madbury to come kick it with the AnmlHse gang, the Nike Sportswear folks to link with the Complex team, ALL THROUGH EVENTS.

Corporate sponsors lined up like damn bowling pins, slim. I told you it’d be worth the wait. Thanks for your patience.

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My god-sister Amaka, my man Curtis and I have spent a while writing these 196 addresses on these envelopes for to DC to BC supporters. I tweeted about it, and you guys came out of nowhere with the requests. I think that’s incredible. As usual, thank you guys for rocking with the movement. I don’t even blog anymore on a regular basis, yet people still check the site consistently. Awesome.

Got more stickers on deck. I’ve given over $1,000 for free, so this time, I’m just going for $5 for a pack of 5. To mail out all those stickers was a pretty penny! I figure I’d at least recoup the cost of making these bad boys and sending them out in the mail.

Like the first time, send me an e-mail with your mailing address, and I’ll send you a PayPal thingy so you can purchase your batch of stickers. modi[at]DCtoBC.com (that’s my e-mail addy. I just use [at] instead of @ because that’s how you get spam!). Keep it simple, and just write a sentence or two about why you want a sticker. I’m just curious, and it’s always cool to hear how you came to learn about DC to BC.

I would say scoop some at Stussy and Commonwealth, but Omar told me they’re all gone. I f*cking love you guys. And thanks for not worrying about the $5! It’s just $5, and is just for those fans that have supported me! Whether it’s been since ’08 or you just got hip last week, I appreciate it wholeheartedly.

I just noticed that while I watch all these “Jabari Presents” episodes, I never post them! Here’s his latest, with American pop/electric/cool-ass band 2AM Club. My man Dan Weisman put me on these guys a while back, but one of my readers (Christopher Grant, what up!) hit me a couple days ago and told me to check them out, so I obliged and purchased their What Would You Think Would Happen? album. They got some jams, and Jabari’s interview dropped at a perfect time for their message to resonate with me. Check it out.

Glad to see Jabari grabbing a diverse group of folks to put the spotlight on. I’d YouTube the rest of the Jabari Presnts series, and look out for his BET web series, coming soon.

That’s my old computer. I wanted an Apple so badly…by any means necessary. You can see that I made it happen.

Now I’ve got a Macbook Pro. My girl Danielle just asked me how to configure her browser on Safari, and I told her to delete that shit cuz it’s for suckers. Then I came across this awesome graphic that breaks down the types of people who use various browsers. Check it out.

I take it that the majority of people that I know are either nerds or hipsters according to this colorful chart. Using Safari makes Danielle a “huge queer”. Hey, I didn’t say it. They did. I told you to delete that shit, Dani.

If you know me, if you’ve been in my vehicle or been in my dorm room while I was in college, you’d know that my affinity for A.B. The Pro‘s music is probably unrivaled. I have a lot of confidence in this SE representer’s sound, and he’s my favorite artist on DC’s Studio 43 imprint. I felt like his mixtape he dropped back in ’09 was criminally slept on as far as production and the artists featured. You can tell that he cares a lot about putting DC on the map, and he without a doubt brought out the best in artists that otherwise may not have been able to convince you of their talent. In my eyes, “Stussy on My Back” with Young Marley could have been a local smash if the proper push was behind it (Stussy could have easily jumped on that joint and licensed it out and more money could have been made!), but 43 made the poor decision to push “W On The Fitted” instead, which was by far the worst joint on the entire tape. No offense to any of the artists on that track, but…that joint was so weak.  But hey. I’m not hear to chastise too much. That’s the past. We’re on to the future.

A.B. let me hold an early version of the mixtape to give him some feedback and criticism, and it’s so awesome to see that not only did he take it well, but he actually listened to the majority of what I said! Swapped some songs out, changed the tracklisting, and dropped a lot of freestyles over industry beats. In order to give you A.B. as an artist as opposed to just a producer, I feel like he needs to rap over his own $#!t. The one thing that I wished he did was to start the album with “Young Jimi Hendrix” (which is the first preview I’m gonna give you), or at least make that joint #2! It goes way too hard and kinda introduces you to what the entire album is gonna be like. Besides that, I don’t have too many gripes. The beats are mixed and mastered to thump in the vehicle or through your headphones, he has some club bangers that’ll make you raise an eyebrow and wonder why he doesn’t have stuff on the radio (or with bigger artists outside of DC, to be completely honest), and while he’s not exactly a rapper, you can’t be mad at his lyrics, cuz it’s all stuff people can relate to.

DC is proud of this, but I’m tryna make sure everybody beyond DC hears this product. Featuring a lot of untapped and under appreciated talent that you can read about on the back cover, this is a really good project that I’m proud to have been a fake-me-out A&R on, lol. Nah but really. Jam the previews, and then grab it below.

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DOWNLOAD: A.B. The Pro – Crown Vic Music [Mixtape]

My boys over at Pocket Full of Paper have been relentlessly working with one of their PFOP artists on a pretty damn good mixtape that I got two days ago, and it’s bumped ScHoolBoy Q and Trel over for a bit as far as my regular rotation. It’s February, so why not open your ears up to something completely different. Jersey’s own MoShadee drops Grove Street, a candid, telling project that I’d call more of an album than a mixtape to be 100% with you. I’ll let him do the rest of the talking.

Grove Street is the block I grew up on. Even though this is my second project, I feel as though this is a better introduction of who I am. I lived on Grove for eleven years. From the tender age of five up until my teenagers years. All the memories and lessons I’ve had while living there have been summed up and put into this tape. Not everything is Grove Street related, but the overall feel brings me back to those days. My best work yet, I’m sure listeners will feel the same.

I say grab this tape. The beats will entice you, and then once you start bobbing your head, you’ll realize he’s talking about some stuff that you probably went through! I got some tracks for you to preview, and then if you rock with ‘em, the DL link is below. I’ll give you one hard track and one soft joint, just to show you the range of sounds on this tape.

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DOWNLOAD: MoShadee – Grove Street [Mixtape]

Kendrick Lamar and Gucci Mane? Yes. They went around this the right way, and I won’t even spoil it. You’ll just have to listen. If you’ve heard the first version, and if you’ve heard him briefly refer to vanity slaves in “Michael Jordan”, then you already know what it’s about. Such a smooth beat, and definitely not ratchet like you’d expect from a track featuring a guy who just tatted a damn cone with three scoops of ice cream and a couple of blue lightning bolts to complete this inked masterpiece.

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DOWNLOAD: Kendrick Lamar – Vanity Slave Pt. 2 [feat. Gucci Mane]

And just in case you haven’t seen Gucci’s tat…

“BRR!!!“

New Media Strategies in Rosslyn, VA (riiight across the bridge by Georgetown). I’ll be working with the entertainment practice as an analyst. I probably won’t talk too much about my job on here, but I just want you guys to know that although things may be slow sometimes, this site will still exist with the same damn content and everything.

We’re about to make some major changes, but I’ve been saying that for like a year and some change and there have been literally no changes. Oh well. I’m glad that my die-hards still rock with me!