Blog Down & Dirty

I let out a little giggle when I heard this, but Chris Lighty the uber-super hip hop manager of this era...well kinda...has got himself a blog. A Blog!

It’s only amusing because though I'm sure he has a blackberry which he sticks to like I stick to mine (might I suggest he falls asleep holding a beautiful woman, unlike my knack of hugging a crackberry to sleep) I just can’t picture him, a grown ass man sitting pouring out his thoughts over a computer. What’s next? He’ll be confessing that 50 Cent really is a big cuddly bear over hot coco...

Sarcasm aside, after all I have a blog I can’t say jack...he has put some interesting thoughts down there in cyber journal land, the latest post he addresses is about violence in hip hop which at the moment myself and some of my industry friends here have been discussing of late. He might be a good candidate to come and do a little seminar in the UK on his next trip, ooh now there’s a good idea. Oi! It was my idea first...

When I wake up and read the papers, sometimes I feel like London is reversing from safe-little-London to cracked and crimed out pre-Giuliani New York. I probably spelt the old Mayor’s name wrong and I’m too tired to google it, forgive me.

I do remember that the first black mayor of New York David Dinkins turned to me at an event in and politely conversed for a moment or two, delightful old soul and yet I was absolutely oblivious to who he was. It was only when the company intern who was standing beside me said ‘It’s not everyday a mayor talks to you’, that I stared blankly back at him, looked at the old soul slowly walking away and I dared to ask who he was.

The intern who never seemed to have many words for me, including on this occasion gave me a look of total distaste. What?! I’m British, am I meant to know?? Still I was honoured...if I had known there was much I would of said and asked.

Anyway what happened to zero tolerance in our great city of London? Crime’s up, guns and knives are way too common, someone even came back with a vendetta and shot the security guard who chucked his ticketless backside out of a Kanye West concert in middle England. It’s all gone to pot, pun intended...

So check him out, Chris Lighty in all his blogging glory www.chrislighty.com with thanks to the stupendous D-Nice who got Lighty into blog land, and who also provides eargasms to hundreds of people every week via his wicked DJ-ing ways – I’ve had the pleasure on many Manhattan occasions.