What's your State of Mind?

What's My State of Mine?
 LIFE:  Life is a continuous movie,book, game what have you that is constantly being written, everyday a new paragraph and a  new sequence is added. Everyone has a part to play,we  are invariably woven in the fabric that is time. I do not know what my role is, I wouldn't be so dauntless in assuming such. Life in itself is a teacher and I an eager student inclined to learn. Time has taught me one lesson thus far, what you put in your story is what you get out. This theory of Karma is one the authors of life always eager on testing and so far all have  attained a failing grade. So live how you want to live, but at the end of it all you have lived.


LOVE: Every human on this here, time and space encompasses it within their being. Whether you're Stalin, Saddam or George Bush in nature you love something or someone, whether it's an ideal, something carnal or something like ourselves. We love.Though it's one of the most misunderstood words, cause it means something different to each individual. Everyone desires it in return. One thing I know for sure is that love is lovely, as cheesy as it may sounds it holds truth. So love like you live.

FREEDOM: Freedom the word that confuses me the most.  Just the mere mention of this word gives me more questions than answers: Are we really free? If we are free why are there parameters? Personally I don't think true freedom in the sense of the word is real or attainable according to www.dictionary.com meaning " The power to determine action without restraint."   Freedom is what I desire most. My theory is after your story is done and the credits are rolling thats when you secure true freedom, this however doesn't drive me to stop writing my story,because to have freedom without having lived or being loved is meaning less.

In Summary: Love and Live and the pursuit of Freedom...


John John 

John John's State of Mind

As you all know State of Mind is released on radio in May of this year on Bandcamp its has surpassed Angel for listens and downloads and I thank my supporters for this, however we still need to spread the word.So call, text,  anything short of actually doing a candlelight vigil outside the radio stations , but request the song so we could spread the news to the masses. This is the radio interview I did of the day I released State of Mind on Boomchampions 94.1fm with the man himself Hans. Click and take a listen  

94.1FM 12 May 2011 13_10_29.mp3



So call Boomchampions and request State of Mind featuring lAdymore or text 9494 spell CHAT leave a space and request the song .

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Just an update .....

Its been a while since i've updated by blog maybe for good or bad reasons, maybe i'm just to lazy;maybe aliens have abducted me and forced me to watch re-runs of bonanza or listen to Wiz Khalifa 24hrs a day (hmmmm maybe thats what hell's like); any way mainly its because i've been busy.Being John Francis Jr. the mild mannered EMT and then transforming into John John aka Citagrandson is becoming quite the task for an old man (lol).
I have released my new single first for 2011 State of Mind featuring lAdymore which is playing on radio moderately , so i need supporters of my music to call the station and request the song, radio play or not the song has been recieving rave reviews. So much so that we are presently working on my first video, *screams in excitement which will be directed by Wizz Kyd. Click on your right side of your screen to listening,share and of course purchase the track from my bandcamp player.
Also was blessed to work with a Trinidad born producer Hannibal tha General out of L.A on a track called Freedom 1978 which is also getting rave reviews, we also shot a video for it and was released online two weeks ago its was shot and directed by Justyn Myers of Synod Entertainment you could also view this video click on it right side of the screen.--------------->.I am also presently working on a remix as well will let you all know who in time to come.You could also listen for the song to be feat on the Beatz and Rhymez show every Wednesday from 9pm est time on Wu-Radio.com which is hosted by Mr.Hannibal himself and his fellow associates from Wu-Managment.
Of course we must do some shows cause for me live is where it's at. So I had my first show for the year on June 2nd called Da Lover and Da revolutionary it was alot of hard work but I pulled it off and boy did I pull it off everyone that attended were extremely pleased (especially the ladies) ;) , but you know what they say self praise ain't no praise so the people at Gangzta Mozart a local online hip hop magazine wrote an article on the show. click the link here --------> Issue 4 and take a read. Will be doing some more shows for the year on the July 16th will be performing at Studio 66 with the Dayo Bejide Jazz project and Trio as they present Music for World Peace and who don't want world peace so come out and support the brothers in their quest. I am also going to do another John John show in September will keep you posted on my facebook fan page.
Ok in summary I have been a busy chap, so after reading this you could check out my article in Outlish magazine also doing my Journalistic bit for a pretty cool online magazine you could check out a couple album reviews that I did for their sophomore issue @ Exist-Media.com. So remember if I don't update my blog regular enough don't be to hard on me i'm getting old .......

Freedom is a State of Mind.....



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Potato , Tomato lets call the whole thing Rap

It took me a while to write this but's its a topic of great concern within the hip hop/Rap communtiy in Trinidad and Tobago and for me personally for me its much ado about nothing.Its the LOCAL OR FORIEGN accent thing a discussion that keep coming up ever so often in the mouths of Rap artiste and in some songs.So here is my take on it.

The Local philosophy is that you are from Trinidad and you talk like a Trini so its unatural to sound like and American when youre rapping.The other philosophy is that the INDUSTRY don't want to sign no one sounding like them and they looking for something different and your local accent and culture may be the thing.The other argument is your'e faking if your rapping in an accent .

The Foreign accent philosophy is that Rap and by extension Hip Hop is a movement a way life and a genre like any other genre which has its lingo it's movement and should be respected as such.The other philosophy is that anytime use your local twang you should now call it Rapso.

Well that most of the the arguments there (most) .Well here is my opinion* its all good, each argument has its merit.The thing is Rap is genre just like soca,calypso,rock etc etc and has it's lingo and style of it's own.There certain people name that keep coming up in support of that argument like Sw Storm does soca he is English does soca in a Trini accent , Mr Gentleman I know he's German and does reggae and sounds Jamaican (if you ask me ) also UB40,Rihanna, Heather headly,Billie Ocean and so on.But on the other hand nothing wrong with local twang vice versa and from a A&R perpspective looking for something different or someone outside the US they looking for that edge and the Local Twang could peep one's interest.

My thing hip hop is more than just an accent ,there is lyrics, flow style its a complete package.If you nice you nice accent or not some of my favourite hip hop artiste use both Make It Hapn is a pioneer in his own right and Ghetto child is forever a classic album ,Gazzi gates is fire and skillfull at his craft,Tim starr a pioneer in the game ,St Ans raps in a local twang he's fire ,Sef Gain has hot tracks , New Kid on the block ReVerse is a good rapper,Chromatics uses both in his music was listening some Spotrushaz breakaway mixtape Wu is trouble and he is Mr Trini himself. So therefore both arguments have merit and it's up to preference in how the artiste wants to display his/her art like if a painter chooses water,pastelles to paint a picture either way art is the end result.

Its hip hop so the argument won't cease cause thats also a part of hip hop and thats argument people will always have there opinion and make good songs because of it and i'm here to enjoy every second of it . Just had to give my take on it and open a pandora's box.But like Trevor Sayers remember I love you!

John John

Here a some songs with reference to the topic

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=422980612637

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1572528643020

Know thyself

Hello everyone I pondered for a month now wondering if i should continue blogging.Well i decided to continue in light of all my experiences during this walk of life ,I needed some place to vent for you to see John John in a different light.I was going to put on blast the people that wronged between then and now but i decided i'm bigger than that .
This blog I'm gonna focus on the black history, our history not there version of our story cause it has come to my attention just by listening to African people talk (Yes we are African first off a Chinee man anywhere in the world is called a Chinee no matter where he born) we don't know who we really are, because we really don't who we were and whats worst we don't really care to know because we have accepted the life given to us and discarded the one stolen from us.Now instead of me rambling on about i'm going too post some links of speeches of some important men,known for there vast knowledge on black history listen for yourself keep and open mind and be free.

1. Dr Ben Jochannan The Black Man must wake up .

This is very inspiring and a must listen.A little history on the man known to many as Dr Ben

According to his own biographical sketches, Dr. Ben was born, an only child, to a Black Puerto Rican Jewish mother named Julia Matta and a Black Ethiopian Jewish father named Kriston ben-Jochannan, a Falasha.[2] Shortly after his birth, the Ben-Jochannan family moved to St. Croix, Virgin Islands. The young Dr. Ben enjoyed playing cricket, and working on the sugar plantation of his uncle. Dr. Ben was married to Gertrude M. England (d. 2010). He is the father of 18 children.[3]

Dr. Ben was educated in Puerto Rico, Brasil, Cuba, and Spain, earning degrees in engineering and anthropology.[4]In 1938, Dr. Ben earned a BS in Civil Engineering at the university of Puerto Rico and in 1939 a Master's degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Havana, Cuba.[5] He received doctoral degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Moorish History from the University of Havana and the University of Barcelona, Spain.[6] Dr. Ben was a student of George James.[7]
Reference wikipedia
Another person is a good reference of black history is a former pastor well he still calls himself pastor but his sermons a bit different.

• Pastor Ray Higgins

How to deactivate the Willie Lynch Chip

This clip also filled with truth and you need to keep an open mind to deactivate your willie lynch chip if youre not to sure what Willie Lynch is

The William Lynch speech is an address purportedly delivered by a certain William Lynch (or Willie Lynch) to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony.^[1] The letter purports to be a verbatim account of a short speech given by a slave owner, in which he tells other slave masters that he has discovered the "secret" to controlling black slaves by setting them against one another. The document has been in print since at least 1970, but first gained widespread notice in the 1990s, when it appeared on the Internet.^[2] Since then, it has often been promoted as an authentic account of slavery during the 18th century, though its inaccuracies and anachronisms have led historians to conclude that it is a hoax.[

The reputed narrator, William Lynch, identifies himself as the master of a "modest plantation" in the British West Indies who has been summoned to the Virginia Colony by local slaveowners to advise them on problems they have been having in managing their slaves. He briefly notes that their current violent method of handling unruly slaves – lynching, though the term is not used – is inefficient and counterproductive. Instead, he suggests that they adopt his method, which consists of exploiting differences such as age and skin color in order to pit slaves against each other. This method, he assures his hosts, will "control [their] slaves for at least 300 hundred [sic] years."^[1] Some online versions of the text attach introductions, such as a foreword attributed to Frederick Douglass, or citations falsely giving Lynch's name as the source of the word "lynching".^[2]

The text of the speech has been published since at least 1970.^[2] It appeared on the internet as early as 1993, when a reference librarian at the University of Missouri–St. Louis posted the document on the library's Gopher server.^[4] The librarian later revealed that she had obtained the document from the publisher of a local newspaper, The St. Louis Black Pages, in which the narrative had recently appeared.^[4] The librarian elected to leave the document on the Gopher server, as she believed that "even as an inauthentic document, it says something about the former and current state of African America", but added a warning about its provenance.^[4]

The text contains numerous anachronisms, including words and phrases such as "refueling" and "fool proof" which were not in use until the early 20th century.^[3] Additionally, historian Roy Rosenzweig notes that the divisions emphasized in the text – skin color, age, and gender – are distinctly 20th-century in nature, and make little sense in an 18th-century context.^[2] As such, historians such as Rosenzweig and Jelani Cobb of Spelman College regard the William Lynch speech as a hoax.[

Reference Wikipedia


Now i will leave you with these two for now but do your own research seek knowledge always ask questions especially to GOD and he will give you the answers

Hotep
John John

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