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DEANintheYAY

DEANintheYAY!

About Me

Music is my life life and Quannum makes the soundtrack for it!
If you have good taste in music check out THIS!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mose Wright, MLK, Fidel Castro, and JDILLA!

Music:

HIP HOP, Jazz, and some jam band stuff. However there is this punk band THE RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS that I enjoy alot!

Movies:

I enjoy comedy for the most part and despise anything with a sorcerer, wizard, or hobbit. Also, I am a big fan old 80s movies!!

Television:

South Park, Chapelle's Show, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, SPORTSCENTER, RENO 911, and Most Xtreme Elimination

Books:

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, the BOONDOCKS, most of the stuff I read now relates to the dissertation that I am trying to finish, and anything dealing with TRUE HIPHOP!!

Heroes:

My Dad...

My Blog

My Birfday Blog

Yo this past weekend was my birthday weekend so I decided to blog about it.  Ok, so my plans were for the weekend to begin on Thursday night with a Saints victory over the Colts, but we all know ...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

Lateef and Blackalicious @ The Indpendent, June 10

This show was sick last night! I arrived just as LAE was finishing and then after a short break Lateef cam on and rocked the crowd! He played a mix of solo shit, Latyrx , and Maroons. Of course he wen...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:18:00 PST

The Coup and Mike Relm live at the Mezzanine in San Francisco, May 6, 2006

For off lets just say that a FREE show is always good!  However, seeing  THE COUP and MIKE RELM for free is just crazy!  In case you are sleeping, The Coup recently released a...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sat, 13 May 2006 12:12:00 PST

Digable Planets live at the Independent in San Francisco, May 4, 2006

 Alright we all know about DIGABLE PLANETS from the 80s!  The hit Rebirth of Slick is a classic but these cats got much more than that!  On this night here in YAY, they would take ...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sat, 13 May 2006 12:00:00 PST

Blackalicious and crew live @ the Pauley Ballroom on the campus of UC Berkeley, April 24, 2006

In case yall don't know, BLACKALICIOUS is one of my favorite groups in all of Hiphop!  On this night I was fortunate enough to be able to see not only Blackalicious, but the LIFESAVAS, Fatli...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sat, 13 May 2006 11:34:00 PST

ZION- I live at the Independent in San Francisco, April 21, 2006

Since being out here in the YAY I have missed for various reasons and at various times one of the YAY's finest, ZION-I.  Zion-I is Amp Live on production and Zion on the M I C.  With great a...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sat, 13 May 2006 10:31:00 PST

Hiero and Lyrics Born in San Fran April 15, 2006

Lyrics Born and HIEROGLYPHICS played this FREE Scion event in San Francisco so I thought I would head out and show LB some love and listen to some good music.  First off, this place was...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:43:00 PST

Porter Baptiste and Stolz live at the Indepedent in San Fran, April 14th, 2006

I arrived at the independent just in time to hear 2 songs from Monophonics.  These guys were pretty cool with nice with a horn section laid on top of some nice funk!!  Although these guys we...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:25:00 PST

DJ MIKE RELM AND KID KOALA, April 1, 2006 at the Independent in San Francisco

Laura and I were mos def looking forward to seeing Mike Relm again!  This cat plays music that really gets you shaking your ass and what he does with DVDs is unreal!!  Relm played his f...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:29:00 PST

QUANNUM NEW ARTIST SHOWCASE at Cafe Du Nord in San Fran, March 29, 2006

As a big time Quammie I was mos def looking forward to this show.  The show was part of Noise Pop 2006, which is a much smaller SXSW type of an event.  Also, part of Noise Pop is the Kid Koa...
Posted by DEANintheYAY on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:37:00 PST