1 LUCKY LADY, KURTIS BLOW, ROB BASE - THE LAST AFRICAN AMERICAN FESTIVAL of GRAND RAPIDS - JULY 2001

HIP HOP, HURRAY! FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH! YOUR HOME-GIRL, ONE LUCKY LADY WAS ONE OF GRAND RAPIDS', VERY OWN, PIONEER, FEMALE RAP, ARTISTS! BACK IN THE DAY, JANICE BROWN, PERFORMED, IN MANY, OF THE ANNUAL, CELEBRATIONS, OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE! COMMUNITY LEADER, ROBERT LADEW AND GR's, FAVORITE, ENTERTAINER AND MC, MACARONI, ORGANIZED THE FESTIVAL, THAT LAST, YEAR. WE WERE SO THRILLED BY THEM BRINGING LEGENDARY, OLD SCHOOL, POWER HOUSES, KURTIS BLOW AND ROB BASE TO GRAND RAPIDS, MI, AT A TIME, WHEN RAP WAS AT IT'S MOST, POPULAR! ME? ONE LUCKY LADY, (JANICE BROWN) AND MY MIDWEST RIDAZ, CREW, RAPPER, "CROOKED-i and LUPE "DJ NAILZ" ALEJOS, WERE THE BIG, SHOW OPENERS! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE ROB BASE ASKED "ME", TO AUTOGRAPH "MY", CD, FOR HIM??? HA HA! AS ALWAYS? "ISH, DO, HAPPEN" AND SO, IT DID, THAT YEAR, TOO? THE SOUND BECAME AN ISSUE, DURING MY OWN, SET AS WELL AS, DURING KURTIS BLOW'S, "JOY AND PAIN!" WOW! EVERYTHING STOPPED! NO WORRIES? HA HA! MR. KURTIS BLOW WAS A CHAMPION AND WAITED, PATIENTLY, WHILE WE GOT OUR "ISH", TOGETHER, THEN FINISHED, THE SHOW! I THINK THAT THAT, WAS THE HIGHLIGHT, OF MY RAP, CAREER, BECAUSE SHORTLY, AFTER THAT, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, HAPPENED? THERE WERE A NUMBER OF MASS SHOOTINGS AND WE ELECTED, A F#@%ING, MORON? I PRETTY MUCH, WENT INTO SHOCK, FOR A FEW DECADES, SELF-MEDICATED AND NOW, I'M JUST, COMING BACK, TO LIFE, FROM BEING "PRETTY MUCH DEAD, ALREADY!" HAPPY BLACK HIP HOP HISTORY MONTH!