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Frankie Payne: Building The Group Split Decision and Graffiti Logic

Frankie Payne came through to talk with 1st Plan TV, where he speaks about his start in Hip Hop music at a young age living in Falstaff located in the west end of Toronto. He talks about writing his first verse to Janet Jackson’s song, Rhythm Nation; building the group Split Decision and later Graffiti Logic.

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Jane Doe Smith - Rock da Cradle

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IF THEY WERE STILL ALIVE

The reality is that we are not promised anything on the planet, though we are given a limit in time to create something amazing that may outlive our own existence, our purpose is to most likely just share knowledge and experiences. We are faced with a few interesting moments, when death takes an artist, one of the most recent episodes called the "27 club", which refers to the loss of many genius musicians that where at the shocking age of 27. From Jimmy Hendrix to Kurt Cobane from Janis Joplin to Ms. Whinehouse the crisis to overcome the struggles of success with a drugs or a drinking is a band aid to their personal issues. The band aids of our time is sending the patient away to a 4 star resort to get them help from staff that pampers, perhaps cuddles their patients, in an institution that resembles a Fairmont Hotel rather than a Hospital. As momma Whinehouse cries out "don't by my daughters album as she will use the money for drugs!" We await the crash of the star which we admired and then slandered all in the same breathe. What if these artists, and those artists that also had a great impact on the world through the art of music, was timeless and everlasting? Recording songs has always been the archiving of our soul, like the paintings in an art gallery. With the breeze from our past we sail to our future and look to reflect no more! Only to hold our memories in our hands once again! Tupac to Biggie took the spirit of hip hop to the extreme and it has touched every generation til the day, Big Punisher to Old Dirty Bastard hmmm was absolutely inspiring and innovative enough to allow artists loose themselves...an angel like Aaliyah to the true life dialogue from the OG Nate Dogg...the wave of music moves forward, drowning in the system of 9 to 5 dependents that made dreamers and rebels.

I USE TO LOVE HER

Oh how the time has changed, faster and faster every year with little remembrance of the ways the Hip Hop culture use to be.  Sure change is good! It's important to evolve and grow through the time that made us what we are! Yes the Hip Hop culture influenced all of what we see and hear happening today in our lovely industry and community of artists and admirers. 

The days of Sugar Hill to Run DMC rebelling fanatically, jumping forward to LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee battling vigilantly leaping forward passed Public Enemy, X-CLAN, Arrested Development, N.W.A movement and Big Daddy Kane's touch of sophistication (that obviously inspired P Diddy). To the Wu Tang movement that galvanized a world of supporters are something of a mystery to many, as new artists face a different approach in getting their music to the masses.  No longer the performance in front of the record label or gorilla advertising your music at every event, radio station and board meeting possibly to get recognition towards their craft. It is and has been the days of the Internet! In other words 'THE INTERNET KILLED THE EXCLUSIVITY OF HIP HOP ARTISTS' allowing everyone the opportunity to express their feelings....perhaps or more so creating the illusion that making music makes you money or makes you an automatic star of the industry.  Check out Method Man talk about the lack of real Hip Hop ironic ain't it?!

Method Man visited the TLC Show NY Inc.

Mef got a sick Wu Tang Killer Bee tattoo from Tommy on his left arm, then returned the favor by tatting a Wu Tang Clan symbol on Tommy's leg.

While there Method also talked about what he sees wrong with today's hip hop scene.

"Can you even call it hip hop?" Meth asked. "Back in the day when you told a kid 'yeah I'm an MC.' First sh*t they would say to you is 'say a rhyme for me.' Now you tell a kind I'm an mc '[they ask] where your car? where your chain?'

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I don't know how many times I hear "yeah man, all I need to do is make one song and it will be a hit, then I will be rich and famous", oh yeah that's a good one. Or how about the supporting friend that asks you "have you ever heard of ....they are great!" Not to say that the artist may not be great, though by what standard does greatness weigh upon.  It must be the Credibility, of the artist that builds their name in the street; the Capacity, to continuously create relevant product and the Character, that defines what people desire to see in themselves by living through what they like about the artist, they truly appreciate and connect with.