What's upper!  Here's our holiday schedule for the remainder of 2004 & the beginning of 2005:

REPORTING DAY FOR THANKSGIVING: Wednesday November 24th

LAST DAY TO REPORT IN 2004:  Wednesday December 8, 2004

FIRST DAY TO REPORT IN 2005:  Wednesday January 5, 2005

ADDING & DELETING RAP ATTACK DJ's:

If you HAVE NOT been on point with sending your playlists on time, not sending feedback, frontin' like you're still doing a rap radio show on your station & you are not anymore (you know the deal), YOU WILL BE DROPPED...

Yo, last week Vallejo's own underground rapper Mac Dre (see tribute photo below) was killed in Kansas City, Missouri when a gunman shot into a van he was riding in early Monday morning. The 34-year-old, (a.k.a. Andre Hicks), had served prison time in the 1990s after he and several others were arrested while preparing to rob a bank. Police had suspected Hicks and several of his associates were members of a Vallejo-based gang involved in a series of bank and business robberies. Mac Dre first hit the music scene in 1989 and went on to record more than a dozen albums. After Hicks was released from prison in 1996, his mother says he started a record label and began writing songs with political themes... DJ's do not sleep on Jinx Da Juvy's "In My Lifetime" & the Unusual Suspects " Nothin's Gonna Change Me" (Teflon Muzik). These two cuts are guaranteed to heat up the winter... Nervous Records is making their comeback with upcoming new releases from EPMD, Redman, Das EFX & Serious (produced by Havoc). For more info, hit up online: mikew@nervousnyc.com & let him know the Rap Attack sent ya'... Congrats to my pare', Brian Samson who's now Def Jam's West Coast Crossover/Urban Promo Rep. You can hit him up if you're on the west coast at: briansamson1@aol.com... Big ups to NC's O.G., Jarrell Crump & his artist Alyze Elyse as BET debuted her latest video on "Next" last weekend. Trust me, by 2005 the name Alyze Elyse will be a household name in the Hip-Hop world... Once again if you didn't know, Courtney Adams has left Def Jam & she'll still be doin' her thing now over at Koch Records. Here's her side of the story, " Effective next Friday (11/5), I will be leaving Island Def Jam so I'll be handing my college radio promo work over to my partner Michael Israeli. He'll be more than happy to continue to help you with your requests and servicing stuff, you can contact him at michael.israeli@umusic.com or 212.333.8563 - PLEASE continue to send your charts and feedback to him, its sooo important that we keep up the momentum on keeping college radio in the circuit over here. I'll be here all next week tying up loose ends so feel free to keep in touch but reach out to Mike if you need anything, including any pending requests that I haven't yet fulfilled (sorry, its been real crazy) - I'm putting together a list of all the stuff that's been requested for him but be sure to follow up so it doesn't slip through the cracks.

 I just want everybody to know that I've really enjoyed getting to know a lot of you and I appreciate everyone's input and support on our records. Working with college radio has been a highlight of my career here (for real) and I'll always be pulling for college radio to get the respect it deserves no matter where I am... By the way, I'm on the move to the Koch Records marketing department, so I won't be too far (especially for all you Alchemist fans), I'll get back at you with my contact info there as soon as I know. Shout out to everybody who's helped me get into this promo stuff, I've learned a lot!!! I'd go into all the shout outs but that's gonna take it way over the top, so shout out to everybody! Thanks for everything ya'll. I'll see ya on the flip side." On the Koch tip, they're droppin' some heat with the new joints from Wyclef Jean "Welcome To Haiti Creole 101" (album), Silkk The Shocker "Based On A True Story" (album) & Cormega "Special Edition" (album). Hit up our dawg Sean online to get laced at: sean@ustyles.com... Big but early buzz on the new Anthony B joint featuring Wyclef & Bone Crusher "Lighter remix" (Pyramid/Universal). Vinyl ships to our Rap Attack panel this week... Cory Gunz is about to put his seal on the Universal Records map with "My Perspective." This kat got some nice flows & production. Don't sleep on this aiight. For more info, hit up Corporate Ken over at Motown/Universal online at: Kenneth.Darpoh@umusic.com...

Rap Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with: DJ EQ (WBCR-NY): " What's good everyone. First of all, shout out to everyone I got to kick it w/ at the "H.U.S.T.L.E. 2004" conference. To see everyone building and making those personal connections was definitely worth the stress of producing a 3 day conference. David M. (WSUM) and I can't wait to make it happen again next year. On another note, I wanted to thank everyone for supporting the JERU THE DAMAJA record "Rap Wars" b/w "DON'T GET IT TWISTED" feat LIL DAP. I will be peaking out this record in the next 2-3 weeks. Jeru held it down for ya'll at the H.U.S.T.L.E. Conference so make sure you hold him down on the charts. Look out for that Jeru the Damaja & LIL DAP collabo COMING SOON! Moving on, I need you DJ's to help me break this FRED ONE's record "SEX AND MORE" feat. SLUG b/w "SOME SEEDS" feat. VAST AIRE. We went for adds last week, but for some reason a good amount of the packages didn't get into a lot of your hands until after the fact. So keep an eye out for the new FRED ONE's ADD DATE TBA. Speaking of add dates, the VIRTUOSO record "FARENHEIT 9/11" feat. SLAINE b/w "MILITARY INTELLIGENCE" feat. AKROBATIK will officially be going for ADDS ON TUES., NOV. 11, 2004. Both the A and the B side are real solid. Initial feedback has been really postive. I can't stress enough how valuable your feedback really truly is - so KEEP SENDING THEM! Finally, I have a bunch of GREAT projects lined up for 2005 and I want to make sure the right people get laced w/ the product. So if you're currently not receiving product from me, recently moved, or feel that you're a major player in your market - GET AT ME! I can be reached at EQPromotions@cs.com or at 646.641.7183. Look forward to hearing from you. PEACE"... Reggie Love (WOWL-FL): " I am proud to tell everybody that FAU-Owl Radio presents its inaugural concert event, “OWLFEST 2004”, going down live at the UC Auditorium, FAU Boca Raton campus on Friday night November 19th. Doors open at 7pm, showtime is at 8pm. TVT Recording artist Pitbull will be performing all of his hits live on stage, celebrating the release of his new album, M.I.A.M.I. (Money Is A Major Issue). Tickets are $10 to FAU and high school students with school ID, $15 to the general public. To all my FL DJs and DJs in the Southeast as well that want to come down for this concert and want a hookup for tickets, holla back at me and I got you!!!!!!!!!! By this time now, you probably know that John Kerry has conceded the election to President George Bush. I really thought Sen. Kerry had a chance of winning but didn't wait to fight to get the votes in Ohio counted/ Well, another 4 years of Bush. I think I might move to Canada. Any Canadian DJs out there looking for an on-air personality at their station????? I can do promo for the station as well, let me know......LOL"... Chela (WXDU-NC): "The Hip Hop community worked hard to mobilize for this election and now that Nov.2 has passed my main focus is that this momentum does not die. I must say I'm suprised about the election results this year because I know how hard people worked to register, educate and mobilize new votors. Its definitely a disappointment, but with either candidate as president we would have had work to do to keep them on point. Thanks to everyone who supported the "Chela 4 President" mixtape, its got a lot of people talking and a review as well @ rapattacklives.com: http://www.rapattacklives.com/tapedeck_156.htm. For more info on "Chela 4 President" visit: http://www.chelaonline.com/haps.html.  I just sat on a roundtable discussion last night alongside Spectac and Phonte of Little Brother for an article on Hip Hop culture & politics to appear in a local paper. It was a dope conversation and I'll have the link to the article next week. Shouts to Ali Shaheed Muhammed for the interview on my show. Look out for more NC artists dropping heat--Supastition's EP on Soulspazm Records, AG and Cesar Comanche on ABB Soul and ABB, Durham's own Original Sin on Dirty Rat's new 12", The A.C.C. on Rock the Beat Vol. 2, and oh yeah... 9th Wonder is on the Destiny's Child album!"... Primetime (WRFT-NY): " Our 1 YEAR anniversary show was off the hook. Big ups to ID for having Opio from Souls of Mischief come through, as well as Jess for having Haiku D'Etat come through. Other guests included Philly's own: Reef TheLost Cause, Prophets of the Ghetto, Verbal Tec, Access Immortal, M-Ski, Afex-One and Happ G from KRU Records. We then DJ'ed at the Cali Comm / Jedi Mind Tricks show later that night at the Trocadero"... A-Beats (WGMU-Wash. DC): " What a week. Regarding the election I am very disappointed with America, especially Latinos and women. This man not only got 3.5 million more votes the Kerry, his support from latinos and women went up when compared to 2000. To me this is mind boggling. I wont go on and on but I do want to finish the topic with a quote from John Leguizamo. “Latinos for Bush is like Roaches for Raid!!!” That is all that needs to be said"... Wildman Steve (BringTheNoise.com): " 4 more years of Bushit!!! Big up to all the first time voters who did the damn thing. Especially, the young voters 18-34. Don't be discouraged by the out come of the elections. Exercise your voice and vote for the future to make a change. My man Chuck D did his thing for Air America reporting from a Barber Shop in Atlanta and later reporting from Ohio. He's got more flight time than a flight attendant"...Kazzeo (KHDC-CA): " As I sit here compiling this weeks playlist and commentary, I am thoroughly disgusted with this country. The dark days will continue as, according to CNN, Bush has been re-elected to office. It makes me sick to think that we will have to endure another 4 years of this idiot stuttering and making remarks that make no sense. And it won't stop there. I foresee gas prices raising even higher, possibly to more than 4 dollars a gallon. Let's not forget the backdoor draft that is already going in Iraq. Those who had only one year left of service duty when they were deployed to Iraq are not be allowed to leave even though they have fulfilled their service requirements. That's real fair right? Also, Bush has already made it clear that he, along with other morons within his party, to outlaw abortion. Thanks for taking us back to the 50's. Look for the seperation of church and state to become non-existent. That means that the administration will do everything in it's power to stall the development of Stem Cell research because they find it morally wrong and against God's will. Nevermind that preliminary testing in other countries has proven that this research has already cured paralization in mice. As someone who suffers from a medical condition which likely could be cured by this research, I find this as the most frustrating issue of this entire travesty. Luckily, California was smart enough to pass a proposition which will allocate funding for the research. Lastly, another result of Bush being re-elected will be the FCC gaining more power over the media. Get ready for complete watering down of radio and TV similar to the bullshit programming you hear on Clear Channel station. Hurray for us. These are truly dark times. With Bush in office, America will soon be looked upon the way the world once looked upon the regimes of Hussein or Khadafi. This is not the America I love. That's for sure"... Nate Abney (WKDU-Philly): " I don'tunderstand how you can vote Bush back into office 4more years and I'll leave it at that"... Edgie Kokoski (WUNH-NH): " It's been a pretty wild 7 days since we last visited. It started with the Red Sox poised to clinch their first World Series title in 86 years the night of my radio show! With no TV in our station, I suffered painfully through the game with nothing but a text update every 10 minutes from the AP wire. When the last record of my show was playing, I had my jacket on ready to bolt to my car. I finally made it home in the middle of the 8th inning and saw the Sox end my years of pain and suffering! Probably the best thing to come out of the Red Sox world series win was Kevin Millar appearing on "The Best Damn Sports Show Ever" and confessing that each Red Sox player took a shot of whiskey before each of the big games. It gave me hope that drunks like me might amount to something someday.

The downer of my week came on that very same day as my company basically donkey punched me by taking back a promotion that they had promised me weeks earlier. So I'm still stuck in my dead end position, drearily dealing with the public for 10 hours a day with only brief interludes for a hot cup of tea or a prayer to die.

Halloween was a blast as I attended a small but libatious party at a friend's house. I dressed as a "typical" New Hampshire native; I'll have a picture for you next week. Things were going great until someone rallied everyone to walk down to the bar to mingle with other Hallow's Eve revelers. It was great until about 1/2 mile into our walk it started pouring rain like God himself was telling us to shove it up our ass. When we finally got to the bar (looking like we had fallen out of a row boat), we found that not a single other soul in the bar had dressed up for Halloween. And the "real" New Hampshire natives didn't seem to appreciate my costume too much as they gave me dirty glares that communicated their desire to crack a 2 x 4 across my face.
Election Day! Thank God New Hampshire has a ballot that you color in rather than chads to punch. Next to my blacked out ovals on the ballot I wrote a note that read: "Dear Supreme Court, Please don't fuck us this time. Thank you."

On a serious note: Every year at WUNH we have a week long fundraiser to collect money to fuel our juggerknot of independent radio. Being a non-commercial station only partially funded by the University, we spend the second week of November going to our listeners with our hats in our hands asking for contributions in exchange for years of top notch entertainment! How can you help? No, I don't want your ill gotten blood/drug money. You've soiled your family for generations robbing and killing for it. But you can help with your mighty war chest of promotional material! Any promo material that you can spare to help me generate contributions would be greatly appreciated. We offer our listeners gift boxes with CDs, t-shirts, vinyl, stickers, etc. for their donation, and any label support we can get is immeausurabley valuable. If there is anything that you can spare, please mail it to me at the address found below. Your organization will be mentioned and repeatedly thanked on air. Thank you in advance!"...

RapAttackLives.com presents "Rock The Beat Volume 2" featuring new music from: Mad Ro (Boise, ID), ACC & ethemadassassin (North Carolina), The Beam (New York) and Strange Fruit (Southern Cali). Shipping to our Rap Attack panel this week!...

 

SHOUT OUT TIZIME: Happy Birthday's this week to Rich "DJ Imperial" Lawson from KSMU (Springfield, MO) celebrating this November 11th & a belated Happy B'day to my remix potnah & pinay potnah4life, Jo Jo Roberto (Bryan Farrish Promotions) who celebrated her ?? on November 3rd. Joanne Ticsay (Universal-thanks for the Vietnamese Pho! masarap).

Mac Dre (R.I.P.)

PEACE, LOVE & HIP-HOP UNITY (God Bless & Isa Mahal),

Nasty-Nes

(Pinoy Pride4Life / John 3:16)