BreevEazie's Blog

Some Sick Shoes Coming Up...

2009-11-03T20:40:00.000-08:00

I love these joints more than I care to admit. The Lebrons which I thought were dope in the Midnight Navy colorway are CRAZY in this new colorway. No release date but when there is i might have to be front and center

SUPERMAN HIGH (PURE MUSIC REMIX) by Verbal Kwest

2009-08-31T11:52:00.000-07:00

Trust me you want this...

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Wooooow!

2009-08-01T05:10:00.001-07:00

Another 7 year old steals a car...TO GET OUT OF GOING TO CHURCH!

BreevEazie: UNRELEASED

2009-07-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some joints we decided to put out that have been previously unreleased. Mostly BreevEazie with some of BreevEazie's favorite J Kwest Unreleased joints and some songs that arent going to make Batman & Batman but are still Dope! THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL MIXTAPE RELEASE! Just something to keep you until B&B gets done. Enjoy & Comment!

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DOA Freestyle - BreevEazie

2009-07-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

Ill be dropping a collection of unreleased recordings later this week so I decided to do 1 new one to kinda keep it fresh! This joint will not be an official mixtape, just some free stuff for the fans. Batman & Batman is coming along VERY nicely and should be ready for the hood soon! Love yall and enjoy!

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LMBO....

2009-07-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

I saw this this morning and I had to post it. its the funniest thing I've seen in a minute...

Reasons you should have known what was going to happen:
1. You were repossessing a Delorean...in 2009
2. He came out in penny loafers...in 2009
3. He had on white sox with those black penny loafers...in 2009

You wildin' son! or in Twitter talk #quitplayin

Funny Story about how this dude found his iPhone

2009-06-23T07:46:00.000-07:00

Myself and two compadres, Ryan and Mark, are in Chicago (each of us for the first time) to attend Brickworld, the world's largest Lego convention. Yes we're a bunch of dorks. Yes you totally wish you were here too.

Last night, after seeing Second City improv, we ate at a pleasantly sketchy dive bar in uptown Chicago, where the food was mediocre and the characters were questionable. I definitely had my iPhone while at our table, and I definitely did NOT have it (whoops!) when we were 100 feet down the street.

I raced back into the bar, not even particularly concerned, but it was gone like baby. In less than five minutes, with very few people in the small place, my beloved JesusPhone had managed to vanish into a black hole. Our waitress was sympathetic, and I left a number, but I was immediately glum about my prospects of seeing it again.

So I felt like about zero cents, but then we giddily realized that I had *just* activated the brand-new Find My iPhone service. Even better, Mark had a Sprint (yes, Sprint) USB dongle giving him Internet access over 3G on his MacBook Pro. Excited to try it out, we hopped onto me.com and clicked the Find My iPhone link.

"Your iPhone is not connected to a data network or does not have Find My iPhone enabled."

Well, crap. I guess all bets are off if the thieving person has the bright idea to turn the iPhone off. Oddly the phone still rang when we called it, suggesting it wasn't off; but, one way or the other, it was unable to broadcast itself to Apple so I could track it down. We sent a message to the phone - "CALL 512-796-xxxx" - but no luck. The MobileMe website said it would send me an email when the message had been displayed, but no email arrived.

Dejected, we prowled the bar one more time, but it wasn't that big a place and there weren't any places for the phone to be hiding. Game over. We went back to the hotel and I was disconsolate. This morning we checked again with no additional luck, and when Mark tried dialing the phone around noon, it *did* go straight to voicemail. The odds of ever seeing the phone again were slim to say the least.

After lunch, while at the Lego convention, I checked my email...

Holy crap! I jumped back to me.com and clicked Find My iPhone again, and to my absolute shock and amazement, it displayed Google Maps and drew a circle around Medill St.:

The block was about four or five miles west of the bar. It was too perfect to be a random glitch.

I sent a second message to the phone, slightly more to the point: "This phone is missing. Please call 512-796-xxxx to return it. $50 reward." Almost immediately I received a second confirmation email that it had been displayed on the phone. And yet, the minutes ticked by and no call was coming. I kept refreshing the location, and though the circle varied in size, it kept floating around that same block, five miles west of the bar.

The Lego convention was drawing to a close and it was time for the closing ceremony. But I wasn't about to spend an hour sitting through awards and Lego-themed thank-you speeches while my poor lost iPhone sat in some random Chicago neighborhood. So we packed my Lego creations, tossed them in the rental car, and drove from Wheeling back into town. Mark reestablished his trusty Sprint connection and as we drove, every five minutes, he refreshed the location. The phone wasn't moving. It appeared to be in a row of buildings on the north side of Medill St.

We parked along Medill and hopped out. It was a Puerto Rican neighborhood. On the south side of the street, an outdoor birthday fiesta was convening, and some of the participants eyed us three honkeys questioningly. Now at this point I had no fricking clue how we would find the phone; did I think I'd find it under a bush? I certainly didn't plan to go door-to-door, nor did I expect the cops to regard a blue circle around the entire block as sufficient cause for a search warrant. I sent a third message to the phone that I'd been formulating in my head: "We have tracked the phone to Medill St. and are locating it. Please call 512-796-xxxx to help us and claim a reward." Short version: WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.

In a burst of inspiration, I took Mark's computer with me as we walked down the block, figuring the recipient of the message might see us prowling the area with an open laptop and realize we meant business. I kept refreshing; the circle kept hovering; but it still stretched across the entire block, and worse, this included a big apartment building.

Suddenly Mark called my number - the umpteenth time he'd tried - and to our shock, somebody answered! He immediately passed the phone to me, but by the time I could say hello, the person on the other side had hung up. DAMMIT! I knew we were on the trail, but as we walked up and down that block of Medill for the third time, I had no idea how we'd get any closer. I pictured the possibility of driving away from the neighborhood knowing my iPhone was around. It was more frustrating than having had no idea where it was. I pulled up Google Translate, and sent a 4th message to the phone: "Por favor, devuelva el teléfono o nos pondremos en contacto con la policía." The email confirmations were arriving immediately in my Inbox, meaning our threats were showing on the phone's screen in real time.

Then an amazingly lucky thing happened. I refreshed the iPhone location and the circle moved, to the corner of the block, and shrunk in size to maybe 100 feet across. I waited a minute and refreshed again. The small circle had shifted southward down Washtenaw.

"THAT WAY!"

Us three skinny white guys walked at a rapid pace in the direction of the circle. We moved past the birthday party, curious if one of the participants might be culpable, but the circle again shifted farther south. I was ready to break for our car if the phone started moving away faster than we could catch it, but it hovered at the very end of the street, at the corner of Washtenaw and Milwaukee:

Ryan and Mark raced ahead, literally making a flanking maneuver to the left and right, as I approached the intersection.

I clicked Refresh. The circle moved again. It was directly over the bus stop on the south side of Milwaukee Avenue.

I yelled and pointed.

Now, put yourself in the shoes of the iPhone thiever who will momentarily be entering the story. You might have told yourself, "Hey, free iPhone!" the night before. You might have seen the gently-threatening messages and ignored them, maybe even scoffed. Then the phone told you it was on Medill St. It talked to you in Spanish. And you saw three skinny white guys prowling in the street with a laptop computer open.

So you take off down the road, and to your shock and horror, the honkeys follow you. You stand at your local bus stop, expecting to lose them. And they converge on your location from across the intersection, the bald one with the laptop yelling and pointing at you. You probably think the angels of death have found you.

He sheepishly waved me over.

"Have you got it?" I asked as I marched up to the guy, acting far more intimidating than I felt. Our iPhone-pilfering friend apparently works at the sketchy bar, and as he fished around in his bag, he gave a questionable alibi about having found the phone, intending to return it, but being intimidated by "all these scary-looking messages" that kept popping up on the display. "Um, yeah, those were from me," I replied curtly. He pulled my phone out, totally unharmed, and handed it over. I resisted the urge to giggle.

I shook his hand - Lord knows why I did that - and the three of us walked off. We laughed triumphantly, adrenaline racing, feeling like the Jack Bauer trio. (Disregard the fact that we'd just left a Lego convention.)

I'd been amazed that the phone had enough battery life to make it through the night and still beam its location; the moment its battery was dead, then it would be game over for our little scavenger hunt. I unlocked my phone and saw almost 20 missed calls. And then, at that very moment, the iPhone shut down and displayed the "Connect to power" icon. My phone's battery literally hung on until the second it was in my hand. I wuv you, iPhone.

All said and done, it was almost worth losing the phone just for the thrill of finding it like this. We want to pitch a reality show to the Discovery Channel: "Phone Hunters." It certainly felt like we were in one there for a second.

And that, my friends, is why the MobileMe service is worth the damn money. It's been around for just over seven years and it FINALLY got a killer feature.

A few thoughts on our successful effort:
- If the man hadn't made a break for it down the street, we probably never would have been able to find him. Oh well, his loss.
- Yes, we sent a real number, not actually 512-796-xxxx.

A few bugs we found with the Find My iPhone process:
- Even though iPhone's alert notification plays whether it's on vibrate or not, it still obeys the ringer volume - so you can still, regrettably, keep it from playing. Also it's a lighter daintier sound effect than we'd prefer for locating something by sound. Hell, I'd prefer it if I could take pictures, play my iTunes library, and tase whoever was holding it.
- There's no real reason MobileMe shouldn't push the location to us; needing to refresh the location repeatedly on the webpage was silly.
- None of this would have been possible without Mark's 3G USB dongle for his MacBook. The biggest single problem is that you can't use me.com from the iPhone, meaning you can't find one iPhone using another. Hopefully Apple realizes this.

Responses to some of the comments made:
- The references to race are for two purposes:
First, to be self-deprecating about how little we actually looked like a bad-ass iPhone tracking team;
Second, to establish how much we stood out in this particular neighborhood.
Besides a bit of self-mockery, I don't think I said or implied a single negative thing about anyone's race.
- Yeah, we could have called the cops, and they probably would have yawned. Granted, in retrospect, chasing after a thief isn't the MOST prudent thing to do, but in the moment we had our adrenaline going and sure as hell weren't just going to watch the little circle recede into the distance.

Take your shirt off ...UPDATE!!

2009-06-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

Wanna see how Im doing so far?

Check it out

I recorded it a couple days ago...Just got a chance to put it up!

Take your shirt off for the summer...Next Summer

2009-05-25T08:33:00.000-07:00

Its time to get right ya'll! I know its long but check out the whole thing. The end is the best...like 7 Pounds.

Take the plunge...you scared?

"I Be Rappin' Joe"

2009-05-21T16:21:00.000-07:00

Today is the birthday of THE Notorious B.I.G. so why not celebrate with some heat I did over one of his beats...
One of the best verses you'll ever hear if I must say so myself..

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Flashlight Ringtones!!!!

2009-05-13T00:13:00.000-07:00

Verbal Kwest on your phone! Download the FREE Ringtone for the new smash hit "Flashlight" by Verbal Kwest Ft. Ab
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Didnt know she could sing

2009-05-06T23:47:00.000-07:00

If you DIDNT know...I LOVE Teyana Taylor
Shes just super cold...heres a reason why.

Countdown to the Video

2009-05-06T23:35:00.000-07:00

Batman, Batman, Batgirl and....Alfred?
Scour the city looking for the perfect look for the "Flashlight" video shoot this Friday...
"HOLY FRESH FIT BATMAN!"

Check this video out and see how we get fresh...

Knocking these haters out like BOOM! BAM! BIFF!

New Verbal Kwest

2009-05-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

Fresh off the press...Recorded yesterday, ready today
Just a little teaser from the Batman & Batman project...BE EXCITED!!!
Bump this on the way to the video shoot! WE WANT YOU!!
Come out and have fun with Verbal Kwest

But for now check this joint out and tell us what you think. Leave a comment here AND at www.JKwest.com
Love!

Verbal Kwest - Drop Freestyle

Cick HERE to Download the newness

2009-04-27T14:40:00.001-07:00

Finally, after months and months of work on this project, we are at the point to let everyone in on what we have in store for "the World".

Batman & Batman is a much talked about project that we are all are very excited about and here is the 1st single, Flashlight. This song was produced by our family and PureMusic Blog contributor Rob Gaines and it also features our extended family member AB (www.twitter.com/abmusic).

Be on the lookout for many new updates and much more music from this project in the coming weeks!

Also, we are shooting the video for this single beginning this week but if anyone is interested in being a part of the Flashlight video which will be shot on Friday, May 8th, please contact us at Flashlightvideo@jkwest.com.

Please comment and let us know what you think. Blessings!

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Perfect song for the Finals

2009-04-15T12:08:00.000-07:00

Dang Fam!! Revenge if The Nerds! lol

2009-04-05T22:42:00.000-07:00

So I guess the techies at Complex thought Kanye took too much credit for the Complex cover so they made this little video from thecomputer generated images...HILLARIOUS!!!

Kanye Dance from SWAY Studio on Vimeo.

Werd?

2009-02-02T22:45:00.000-08:00

A baby born in San Francisco has six perfectly formed and functional fingers and toes on his hands and feet, say doctors at Saint Luke's Hospital.

Kamani Hubbard's extra digits look so normal they weren't noticed at first, said his mother, Miryoki Gross, of Daly City.

Extra digits run in the father's side of the family, said dad Kris Hubbard, but none have been so perfectly developed.

Kris Hubbard himself had nubs of sixth fingers removed as a child because they were non-functioning, reported KTVU-TV, San Francisco. That won't be the case with his son, born three weeks ago, because Kamani's fingers and toes function perfectly, said Dr. Michael Treece.

"It's merely an interesting and beautiful variation rather than a worrisome thing," said Treece. "Imagine what sort of a pianist a 12-fingered person would be" or flamenco guitarist or typist, he said.

"I just want him to see what greatness will be in store for him," said Kris Hubbard, noting famous polydactyly people include former Florida Marlins' pitcher Antonio Alfonseca and the late blues guitarist Hound Dog Taylor.

NICE LOOK!!!

2009-01-22T22:27:00.000-08:00

Nike SB Blazers
These are Super Crazy!!

NICE LOOK!!!

2009-01-22T22:23:00.000-08:00

By Gourmet

Lil double Ally Oop!

2009-01-22T22:22:00.001-08:00

NBA Street Style

Wow! A Rubix Cube Mosaic

2009-01-11T22:17:00.000-08:00

I dont know yet...

2009-01-08T21:20:00.001-08:00

I love everything Mac makes. But call me crazy if this doesnt actually look HARDER than regular typing

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Happy birthday to meeee! Happy birthday to me!

2009-01-08T12:38:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday to myself!

Can U tell Im excited?

2008-12-13T04:18:00.000-08:00

The iPhone is so dope! No matter what "iPhone killers" there are out there,you're gonna have to get your Ap game up! This joint is $20. An MPC...$2000. Imma see what I can create... Maybe one day Ill be as great as Rob Gaines or as musically sexy as Mr. Culver! lol

And before you judge, watch the video. I bought the Ap before I finished the video. The video actually just finished as Im entering this post! Can you tell Im excited?

Henny makes beat on iPhone 3G using Beatmaker!!! from Henny on Vimeo.

YYYEEEEAAAAAINT GOT DEEEZ

2008-11-20T20:31:00.000-08:00

First of all ignore those crazy versions in the back (They're in the back for a reason) and witness the BEST FILAS EVER MADE! With much respect to the joints with the strap in the back that Pac wore in the "Keep Ya Head Up" video.

Behold the 1ST GRANT HILLS
AND I had them shoe strings RIGHT!!! Red white AND Navy! Im an artist

I remember mad people in school think I was selling drugs because I had those at e same time I had theeeeez!

The 1st Jason Kidds

Then they both got co-rookie of the year that year. It was easy to be a king in Aurora.

The truth is they were selling them at JC Penny and we had mad coupons and some by one get one half off deal. SWEEEET! I had just got the Jason Kidds and the Grant Hills ended up costing like 40 bucks. Live ya life!

Im about to cop the Kidds from Leaders REAL SOON! They are 1st on my hit list excluding any Jordans on there and Leaders got em. What are some shoes you wish they would bring back?

Standing Slow Clapping Ovation

2008-11-17T21:49:00.000-08:00

I think Im up to it...

Its time that the Church responds to in some form of mass effort to the killing of marriage in America and stop blaming everything else under the sun for the deterioration of it, including and not limited to gays seeking marriage. I dont agree with gay marriage at all but I do agree that heterosexual couples are more responsible for the killing marriage than any gay marriage ever could be.

Pimp Down!

2008-11-17T10:16:00.000-08:00

I be trying to tell yall money cant buy it all... if anything it gives you an outlet to see just how crazy you can be!!!

This is a Dope Idea...

2008-11-17T07:00:00.001-08:00

Just so you know where I stole it from when I do it
I want to see what YOUR day looks like

My Day Yesterday (11.12.08) In 90 Seconds from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

But only in 90sec. lol

Obama May have to quit Crackberry cold turkey

2008-11-17T06:48:00.000-08:00

Apparently President-elect Barack Obama is something of a Blackberry addict. Besides meaning he probably reads Gizmodo for all the latest Blackberry Storm info, this also means he has his Blackberry with him at all times, in the typical executive belt holster position. The trouble is, he's going to be President of the United States in January, and there are strict email laws and traditions that will all but bar Obama's favorite gadget from the Oval Office. Hmm. Maybe change isn't all it's cracked up to be?

Unfortunately for Obama, already seen by many observers as a rather connected and tech-savvy politician, being president won't be as open or free wheelin' as the campaign trail. For starters, there's the Presidential Records Act, which requires all official correspondence be made available in the public domain. It means those 3 a.m. Blackberry emails he was known for on the trail will probably have to stop, or at least be curtailed in some way. Nevertheless, aides to the president-elect said he hopes to be the first president ever to have a laptop at the ready on the historic Oval Office desk.

But will the laptop be enough? Apparently, during the campaign Obama forwent paper when reading or creating reports to or from his advisers, opting instead to have them delivered directly to his Blackberry. His messages to contacts were "generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons," sources said of "No Drama Obama's" Blackberry email correspondence.

Obama even kept up to date on the latest news and blog postings thanks to that hunk of black plastic at his side, with clippings and posts delivered daily (scaled down for time constraints by his advisers). But this could all end on January 20, 2009. With great power comes great responsibility—just no Blackberrys, Mr. President, please. [MSNBC]

BreevEazie Note: I feel you brother. At least I got to move to the iPhone

2008-11-16T20:24:00.001-08:00

Detroit rapper Trick Trick set off a fire storm in the gay community with strong hate talk towards homosexuals and the people who defend them. The gay hip hop (Homo Hop) community responded in an untypically strong defiant manner. Basically saying "We aint taking it no more" in an interview on www.allhiphop.com

Here's where Im going...

Now in the wake of the passing of Proposition 8 in California, defining "marriage" as a union between a man and a woman, there have been a lot of comparisons of the Gay Rights Battle to the Civil Rights Battle. How do you feel about that? Is that a fair comparison?

Tori Fixx "Couture (CR-2)" Album Release Party from Last Offence on Vimeo.