Read it and weep. Let’s go. I know since Twitter Nation took over the world, I have people who are coming across this site with no previous knowledge as to what its purpose is. I figured I might as well take some time out to just break down DC to BC down.

It started as a college radio show at Boston College that me and my man Quinn (both of us hailing from the DC area and attending Boston College, of course)  hosted twice a week, and expanded that into to a music-based blog that I decided to start one day. From jump, I made sure it wasn’t a regular music blog. I just talk about the stuff that catches my ear, or that my friends have put me onto. For example, I was the first blog to post J. Cole‘s music. I’m talking about the tape he put out before The Warm Up.. But that’s only because I used to intern with Aristotle at Def Jam (who, strangely enough, became my roommate in New York this year before I moved back to Maryland. He also directed every single Fabolous video that dropped this year. Crazy, right!?), who managed Cole before the Roc Nation stuff happened. He gave me the music, and since I liked it, I put it up. I don’t think anybody had blog posts about Christian Rich until I wrote about them, either. I could go on, but it’d be more boring than informative.

Music is cool and all, but I also like to write, so I threw in some writing pieces and editorials to make the site a little bit more unique. Truth be told, I love writing those pieces much more than just putting up music, because it’s my space to get creative with it. I also like to make people laugh, so anything that made me laugh out loud, I put on the blog.

Fast forward like two years or so. Somehow, DC to BC has grown into a tangible underground movement that has opened pretty much every door I’ve walked through, career-wise, since my Junior year of college. Complex, DrJays.com Live, and various other opportunities wouldn’t have happened if DC to BC didn’t exist, and I just realized that tonight. I started this site with no expectations, and it’s grown faster than one of those little foam things you used to get in goodie bags and you put in the water and the just blew up into huge foam creatures. I know you know what I’m talking about.

This summer, we decided to start throwing events and gatherings whenever possible. I’m not a promoter; I just like bringing great people together. Here’s some video footage of some of the things I’ve been lucky to be a part of / fool people into coming to:

The Gee Pee Cookout & Kick Back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3pRm0JSShY (Attendance: 400+)

Body Beat at The Donovan Hotel: http://vimeo.com/13445285 (250+)

Gathering @ Greenwood’s Crib: http://vimeo.com/14048167 (150+)

Child’s Play (A Field Day for Adults): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99hM3WaOte0 (150+)

I do it all because I love meeting great people through this community that was created almost by accident. Whether it’s online or in-person, it’s incredible. I enjoy the fact that I can get 140+ comments on a story about how I was swindled by a fat, homosexual man during my first week in New York, and that I can spark intense debate within the comment section on topics like why the the club isn’t the place for me, or my philosophy on buying a girl a drink.

I’m trying to figure out the next power move for DC to BC. I’d like it to be an entirely different experience. In this Web 2.0 world full of clever Tumblrs, prolific tweeters, and your typical blogs all doing somewhat of the same thing, I’ve gotta figure out a way to separate myself. I’d even prefer is the blog was secondary, almost as a complement to the “movement” that has been created. I’ve been working on a new project, but I don’t think it’s ready for the light of day. That’s why I’ve been so M.I.A. from this. But I think one thing that’ll help me figure out the next step is retracing my old ones. So this is the first step. I’m just gonna bring more of the same solid content until it’s time to really switch things up. Like always, thank you for rocking with me. I love you guys, for real. The fact that I got over 100 retweets (and that was just the RT button. We had some that were done using the manual retweet tactic, too.) makes me realize that there are people out there that rock with me as well. You never really know unless somebody tells you. The tweets told me so.

I’m going to sleep. It’s so late. Oh, and if you reached out to me for some DC to BC stickers…

…I sent those bad boys out in fashion. Threw in a business card, a couple trill adhesives, and a “Thank You” letter to those who reached out via Twitter/e-mail requesting these things. I licked so many envelopes that I thought I was gonna die like that guy from that episode of Seinfeld.

Let me know when you guys get ‘em in the mail and stuff. Special shout out to New Zealand and Canada, because I sent some joints out that way. I still think that’s ridiculous.