Thats right folks, I am coming back to Providence.  I want you to RSVP on the Facebook event page.

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• Artist: H.W.
• Date: Friday, September 17th 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: H.W. in Providence, RI
• Venue: Jerkies Music Hall
• Address: 71 richmond st
• Country: United States
• Admission: $10
• Age restrictions: 18+
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• Notes: A Local showcase featuring:
  H.W.
  Dirty Hank
  G-Robo
  Stiz Grimey
  G-Riot
  Ethan Jaymes
  
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I don’t care what Jesse Dangerously says about this song. I LOVE IT!

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Thats right folks, I’m finally returning to school to finish what I started when I was a younger man still full of ambition to become the first ever american programmer to appear within the credits of an all japanese casted video game.  I was oblivious to the fact that this dream had already been accomplished by many other people at the time, but I was hopeful.  Read on and you will find out what happen and what I am up to now that I am 26 years old and basically becoming a freshmen again.

So let me start at the beginning of my college days (or lack thereof). I went through high school not caring about my GPA (which to you young kids out there is not a good idea) and I thought that I could accomplish anything I want regardless of the grades I received during the years I attended high school. I soon realized that after I graduated from Durfee (thank god I did) and went out into the real world that life was much harsher then I had actually imagined it to be. I decided to take the first year off from actually joining college (and by college I mean community college **no disrespect**) and hang around with my friends from Fall River. I soon joined BCC the next year and decided to start my major in game programming which at that time was not credited, I’m not sure it is at this point. I busted my ass and soon realized that even BCC was a tough run and that I had still not taken education seriously enough to experience it the way it was meant to be for someone of my age. I made it through a year at BCC and had to drop a few classes here and there because of my absence from school, I had chosen too many early classes and could no longer handle getting up at that time everyday. I was only allowed to miss 3 classes each credited course. I bounced out of math because by the time I had made it into class I had already missed 3, I dropped out of Programming logic and design cause it was at 8:30 am. I also around this time had started rapping and pushing Delusional Records (my label) quite a bit and figured I can always go back to school, but I can’t always be a rapper or at least what I thought a rapper was to me (I.E: touring my ass off!).

After a few years of touring and realizing that rap was extremely hard to make a living from (and still is) I went back to school with BCC. I had moved to Boston by this time and realized that commuting to Fall River and Boston was not a solid idea. I found some satellite locations in Attleboro and the surrounding area and proceeding to bang out all my electives and general studies courses that I could take at night. I was working too many days to switch jobs at this point and had a very cushy position at my courier location in Brockton (I made too much money to leave!). After I received all B’ in my classes that semester, I tried to sign up for the next half when it dawned on me, I could no longer take any night classes since all my major classes were during the day. I decided to once again put my education on hold and wait till the right opportunity presented itself for my education.

Years went by and I had started seeing a therapist (another story for another time) and after months of talking and meeting with her she seemed very discouraged that I was not in school or pursuing such activities in my life. I told her the only reason I was not in school was due to my lack of night classes from BCC. I learned from her that around Boston there was many schools that would accommodate my issue being that I needed to keep a job to pay rent and I needed the ability to work at night or during the day. It turns out UMASS Boston was a commuter school (which I was unaware of) and I decided to look into it due to the pressure from my therapist. I am now enrolled in UMB as a computer science major (though I am looking into marketing as my major) and I am very excited to continue my education at their establishment. Overall I’d like to thank my therapist (Kim if you are out there reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH!) and my supportive friends who believe I can make something more out of my life. I still enjoy making music and if by some mishap actually got signed and toured constant (hey people I am a solid opening act!) then I would go and pursue that dream further again because life won’t wait, and neither will I.

PCE

PS:  A Friend of mine had her house broken into over the last week, on top of the fact she was being evicted! I am taking donations for her to purchase a new computer and she also goes to school At UMB.  Here is a photo of her:

(**EDIT** I took the photo down cause I don’t think she would like it being here)

She seriously could use the help! anything is better then nothing.

-Josh/HW

Its going down this sunday, I know its real short notice but I figured you would still like to show up! its all ages and half off burgers that night! come eat and watch us rap!!!

Related show

• Artist: H.W.
• Date: Sunday, August 29th 2010
• Time: 5:00pm
• City: H.W. in Boston, Ma
• Venue: B. Good
• Address: 137 Mass ave
• Country: United States
• Admission: FREE!
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Its a free show!
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What I am about to bring you is a tour journal I had made for Thewordisbond.com while I was in Canada touring my ass off with Brzowski and Jesse Dangerously.  It was easily the most enjoyable tour I had been on and at the same time one of the most heartbreaking/soul-crushing ones at that.

I have decided to redo my tour  journal and add some candid photos and videos that you cannot see anywhere else but here.  Welcome to my life in May.  Click the read more for the story.

(This was me at 2am the day before leaving for tour)

Where do I even start?  I left home for tour on May 18th, 2010 to embark on a 3-4 week journey with one of my great friends in life and rap music, Brzowski.  This was to be my 2nd time touring the Canadian landscape and hopefully the second time making a good living as a touring rapper.  I had many fond memories of touring Canada from April of 2009 and I had written quite a bit about the experience I had while out there with some great people (Thesis Sahib, Pierre The Motionless, Funken, James P Honey and James Reindeer).  I had been anticipating the same results and was just very anxious to leave the states considering where I was in my state of mind.  My girlfriend at the moment had just broken it off with me, I was dead poor, and I had fallen into a slight slump when it came to my writing getting done for my next album.  This was the beginning.

(Big Brzo)

Brzowski had a show the previous night opening for Murs, NoCanDo, and Sick Jacken, my dj (DJ Emoh Betta) had decided to make the trek to Portland, Maine (where Brzowski resides) and DJ for his set during this show.  I decided to take that time and start packing all of my stuff up for the long haul to Albany, NY.  I had just received my T-Shirt order from Jeff@Classsick.com (hit him up for a great deal, tell him I sent you) and I decided to take the trip down to his shop to talk for a bit.  I hadn’t heard from Jeff in a few years and had not gotten anything ordered in quite sometime from his company because as a struggling rapper its a bit hard to come by funds when you need to make rent and pay all your awful bills (I’m currently in Canada as I write this and I know Advanta bank is breathing down my neck waiting on my payment that was due on the 11th of May).  The weather that night was the worse I had seen in a few weeks due to my leave of absence from the Boston area to spend sometime with my current ex.  I don’t want to make it seem like we were great for each other but I loved her and we had some conflicting issues, with all that aside I appreciated all the time we spent with each other, I just wish I had that money still.  Jeff had just recently gotten a new shop to expand his business since it was actually booming, I was very happy for him considering about 4-5 years ago I had placed the first order ever that he had made and now he was destroying competition with his hard work ethic.  He told me how he had been making all of the Strange Famous Records merchandise for the last few years and it has really been a saving grace to Classsick Clothing.  Sage holds it down on the merch tip.  I finally parted ways and grabbed my amazing looking T-shirts from him.

I spent 2 hours there just going back and forth about touring and hip hop music, It felt good to know I had someone like Jeff in my corner before I left for tour.  I started my trek back to Boston around midnight,  I was dead tired from trying to get as much work in at my job as I possibly could since I was not going to really have a paycheck for at least a month and that’s a scary situation for me.  I know most touring rappers actually stay home and live with their parents and while I understand their reasons for it, I cannot personally do that myself.  I need to know I can handle my own and chase my dreams, help here and there has been ok but I want to do this on my own and know that I can handle life.  My mother hates me for this and still asks when I am coming home to stay.  ok so fast forward to my home and now I am putting together all of my cds and merchandise for this tour.  I actually have to mail it at some point to get it across the border because we don’t have the visas/work permits to properly go into Canada and do this the correct way.  Here is a tip to all you aspiring rappers/bands that want to tour Canada:

1. Mail your merchandise at least a month ahead of when you are leaving for the tour: I have heard horror story after horror story about so many friends not getting across the border easily because of their Merchandise being snagged on the way into Canada by border patrol, or if your like me; having your merchandise seized by customs and held up in Toronto when you mailed it in Detroit the previous night before heading over to Windsor to pick it up.  At this point in time I still don’t have one of the boxes of Merchandise that I mailed out at the same time of mailing one of the boxes that actually made it through customs in Canada.  But I digress.

I stayed up that night putting together about 174 slim case cds of A Years Worth Of Worry (I never pressed this album and was/am giving away the digital version, but I needed to make something to survive on tour).  I saved money on the packaging of the cds by recycling older releases that had not sold through my label Delusional Records.  A local producer had actually given me the idea for this and I went ahead and grabbed some old copies and started to throw away all the cds that were in these slim cases previous to this tour.  This whole process took about 3 hours and I ended up going to bed around 3am.  Raplife is rough sometimes and I needed to sleep.

(The first tourblog!)

Stay tuned for the updated version of Part 2!

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If you don’t have this track yet, you need to download it!!!

Related show

• Artist: The Scribblenauts
• Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: The Scribblenauts in Newmarket, NH
• Venue: The Stone Church
• Address: 5 Granite Street
• Country: United States
• Admission: $3
• Age restrictions: 18+
• Notes: Also performing on the show is Ceschi and Nobody Cares
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this is becoming my next album on my list to purchase!

So I bet you have been wondering when I would write a new post and what I have been up to all this time.  I have been real busy trying to get the finishing touches on The Scribblenauts album which is due out later this summer (if the funds are there) and I am working on my next 4 albums as well.  I have been struggling financially due to my last job and the fact that I don’t live off of my music which is something I would enjoy doing if it was possible.  I finally have landed a new job as a waiter at Charlies Kitchen in Harvard Square (if you are ever in the area, drop by and say hello)  I plan on jamming out at least 3 new projects by the end of the year.

Store update: I finally got my merchandise back from Canada and will be putting it up for sale on this site! here is a picture of Redlist modeling a shirt!

So I have only a few left and would love it if you bought one! I am also adding links to some vinyl records I have for sale at various sites, please support the music.

I also bought glasses! and while I am not excited about it, I will deal and learn to live with them since I need to have them. here is the super-nerd as I appear today:

that’s all for now, I will be posting a revised edition of my tour-blog from TheWordIsBond.com with videos and photos that I was not allowed to post. expect it soon.

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This is a song off my national debut with Leedz Edutainment/Traffic Entertainment. I would love to know what you all think about it.  Its produced by Falside

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