MORE GREATNESS!!

The Brilliance of Bruce plus the brilliance of technology. Don’t be fooled but I still give Bruce the benefit of the doubt. My hero!

DEEERTY!!

Let’s talk about “Greatness!!”
MY MAIN MAN!! Enjoy the misunderstood complexity and genius of ODB!!

AND THE AWARD GOES TO…

Had a great evening out at the Shea’s Buffalo Theater with my  “Hot Date,” Super Woman Wife. The award for Best Solo Music Act of WNY is more Alexa’s award than it is mine. Thank you for your support honey!!!

THANK YOU to everyone who has come out to a show, sang a song, popped a cd in your car, bought merchandise, read the blog posts and highly recommended me to the greater public. Two of the Best Awards that Buffalo has to offer, in the same year. Thank you Buffalo Spree and Artvoice.

RECORD THEATRE IN-STORE

Thank you to Brandon and Press@ Record Theatre for the opportunity to rock LIVE on their historic grounds. Thank you to ALL that attended and help make it a wonderful time.  SPECIAL special SHOUTS to DJ Tiger of WBNY 91.3fm for holding me down and Ed and DJ LoPro for going above and beyond helping me out in the crunch. Carma, Peelahr, thanks a bunch. Peace! 

BILLY IN CANADA: NXNE SHOWCASE

North by North East Music and Film Festival 2009. Toronto is an incredible place to visit and every performance so far has been worth the travel and border hassle. A mighty Thank You to Richie, Claudia, Soph, Danielle, Tone and AlMax. Shouts to Jesse O as well. 

Seriously, show me a finer team than the Dope45s…”workin’ the Bow Ties”…GET EM GIRLS!!

ARTIST: ANI HOOVER

Straight Dopeness!
While working at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery as the Assistant for Community Programs, I had the pleasure of working with this wonderful, soft-spoken, kind and talented artist: Ani Hoover. (site)

Just to give you a sense of scale, the creations below as well as the ones rolled in the picture above are 5ft by 30ft in length. Definitely keep an eye out for Ani if you haven’t heard of her already.

YE YE YE…WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY!

i cant front ANY LONGER on this dude. do i OWN any of his albums. nope! not even a bootleg or a burned copy. but i just cant front this dude any longer. god bless him!!

CITY KIDS

 

Sometimes I have to NOT be so Billy D’d!! Recently as DADDY, I helped chaperoned maybe 15 or so kids ranging 4-6 years of age from my sons school. We walked what felt like a marathon due to the short, stubby legs of the children and their wondering eyes and stimulated minds, dragging out what was only about 2 miles. It was a gorgeous day for a walk and WOW did we EVER HAVE FUN!! I love kids.

One of the things I remember most was when out of the blue, one of the students who had been pretty quite along the walk just shouted out, “Mr. Emeka’s Dad…do you know how to spell Captain?”…I spelled it for her and she went about her silence again.

It was a GREAT surprise for the kids to run into Mayor Brown. Our timing was lucky to run into our Mayor and he took the time to speak with the kids and answer their random and funny questions.

BEAUTIFUL! Inside of the Council Chambers on the ceiling.

DINO IS THE NEW THUG

To all of the women who tell a nice guy, that he’s “Too Nice!!” and find themselves attracted to “bad boys”…why don’t you step your game up and get a Dino, the New Thug Type.

NEW ARTIST: KEV HANNIBAL

Artist: Hannibal
Video Director: Kevin (What’s Good) Lopez.

My homeboys put it DOWN on this video. Good work fellas! Peep my man Ivan’s cameo in this joint, doing what he does best…”acting”…because I KNOW my man can’t really play the drums better than me….LOL…luv ya Hermano!!

I had the pleasure of watching this video unfold as it was in the making. Incredibly impressed with the final product. Check it out! 

Finally!!! Another artist that can intelligent emcee, perform and is actually saying something. KEEP GOIN’!

BONUS FOOTAGE: Behind the Scenes