Buenas tardes. Yes I know, I know It's been a while since the last blog but I'm Back. Orgullo Cafe has been working on our first album. Yes FIRST.It's crazy because it's taken us a long time to get to the step that we are in right now. What happend to us is a very interesting story that I one day will probably write a book about and It will make a great movie! But anyhow, I have learned alot about myself and about how bad I want to make and maintain my music career. 

So we recently had like 10 fires going on at once. It was pretty bad.

I stop to think, why?! Well could it be the cause of global warming?
Thats my theory. I think all these fires are a foreshadow of what is to become of our lands.

Sadly, people have lost their homes but more importantly their lives.

I love Cali, even if its burned. Ashes all over the cars, it was quite an alerting sight.

A BILLION worth of damages.

-od.

p.s.

something to ponder about- It's mid-October and its about 80-90 degrees outside, what does that tell you?

As this JENA 6 story grows more and more everyday, I start to wish that I will wake up soon from this nightmare that something this racist can still go on today. Why do I still live in this type of country. How can our kids grow up in this. But I realize that I am not dreaming, and this sh!t is real. Its also as American as Apple Pie. Its not only JENA 6, for some time now I have noticed the backtracking that has occured in the media an in Hip Hop. Like someone gave them the cue that racism was okie now.

Take for instance FLAVA FLAV. This Summer on Comedy Central, they aired the FLAVA FLAV ROAST. Theres no real reason to defend Flava Flav, being that hes brought back the Mistrel Show back to modern tv, but watching this show made me realize that we all are being bamboozled into another Civil Rights Movement, and it looks like its gonna be against our own people.

JENA 6 is not a surprise, I just think that we are all being just too naive to exactly how racist this country is. It was built on racism. We are in the belly of the beast here. Thats why i'm actually kind of scared for Barrack O'Bama. I was scared when he spoke at Washington Square Park last week in NYC. The Ku Klux Clan is not extinct. There are many people who rather Die than see this Half Black man take the white house.

If the Next Presidential Election is Going to be btween Barrack and Hilary, then we are just gonna find out what America is more of, either Racist, or Sexist, and thats the only thing it will prove. Dont be fooled and dont believe the hype!

There are 2 things that have me excited about November…..

"American Gangster" the movie and "American Gangster" the concept album by Jay-Z.

You all have probably heard the first single off the C.D, Blue Magic produced by Pharell. I dont know what yall thought….but i was kind of dissapointed. the single was very lack luster. Now i know it was supposed to reflect the sound of older hip hop, but c'mon…that sound was beneath the standards of what Hova has set for himself. Regardless though….im curious about what the rest of the album will sound like.

What the hell is wrong with OJ Simpson?! One would think that after being found not guilty for a crime they most likely did, you would be on your best behavior. But oh no…not Orenthal James Simpson. Orenthal then runs around town with young women who look similiar to his deceased ex wife, writes a book called "if i did it", and then breaks into someones hotel room at gun point. All I can think about is how hard all of this must be on his poor children. Basically they dont have either parent, and have to live out this soap opera in the public eye.