UnioNoMics 101

I graduated from Morgan State two whole years ago (clap for me bitch! © Buck Nasty), got my diploma and everything. So two weeks ago I ordered my transcript, for reasons that for now shall remain untold. Now cut to yesterday, I receive a letter stating that they can’t give me my transcript because the Office of Residence Life has a hold on my account! For what?! I can’t owe anyone any money, otherwise they’d never have given me my diploma! Just cause they’re a bunchof fuckin’ haters!

But please believe they already deposited my check paying for the transcripts. The bastards are pretty much holding my money hostage! They took that money first chance they got, meanwhile I still have to wrestle with ORL before I get my transcript. This is some straight-up bullshit

~Knowledge

In the midst of all this oil spill hub-bub, and people being mad that Obama isn’t doing enough or is doing too little. I think we’ve all forgotten one very important fact:

George Dubya Bush is not in office anymore. As bad as you may think Obama is doing, he’s leaps and bounds better than that fool. AND he came into office right after Bush, meaning he has to clean-up Bush’s various messes. So as a reminder that we oughta count our blessings, here are some awesome Bush quotes:

*queue Michael Jackson – Remember The Time*

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning

There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

For more quotes

So let's imagine that you and your man are extremely happy. Cook for each other, go out often, drink root beer floats out the same glass with two straws aaaaaall of that mushy ish. One day you decide that you're going to please him and go down on him like never before. At first you get the usual grunts and moans that you are accustomed to hearin when you know you're doin it right, but then you start hearin other things:
"Oh shit! Damn girl your mouth juicy as hell! Why ya mouth so phuckin juicy?! You ole great lakes in the mouth ass niggah, fire hydrant fillin up a kiddie pool seven seas in the mouth ass niggah, a niggah could go skinny dippin in yo mouth in the mouth ass niggah! Old pacific ocean curse of the black pearl in the mouth ass niggah!
Would you be able to keep your composure and polish your boo off until he climaxes or would you give in and start laughin/chokin on his ish?

I'm sooowwy I thought it would lighten the mood!

So...
I met this female a while back (way before I had a girlfriend). When I first met her she was nothing short of amazing. Into hip-hop, dared to be different, her sense of humor matched mine and all. We hit it off great and I was slowly starting to fall. I mean this chick was feeling da kid to no end. She liked my songs and loved my beats. she was super supportive and did her thing as a writer when she was inspired.

I could not have asked for a seemingly more perfect match right? Yeah, well I sure thought so. Anyway, as I'm sure all of you know, I'm mad focused on my career as a musician so with me being the honest and blunt guy that I can be at times, I told her about my (at the time) hectic schedule and the long laundry list of goals that I was trying to accomplish with my music. I then went on to tell her that I don't think me getting into a relationship would be the best idea because I would not be able to dedicate the amount of time that's needed to give her the attention that our potential relationship, better yet she deserves. She went on to say that she understood and fully supports me and wants to be my friend who was there when I needed her to be and more.

After having that convo I started celebrating mentally! YEEEAH niggah! Victory for The Verbal Arteest ma phucka! I finally found someone who's willing to take it slow with me and reap the benefits of me being the best boyfriend that I can be once my life becomes a little more stable.

Two or so visits to my condo later she asked me out in so many words...
I was taken aback by the question because I thought we were on the same page. If she had a problem with our "status" then why would didn't she speak up two weeks ago? I reverted back to explaining my situation over again and reitteratin the fact that I really like but I'm going to need patience. She claimed she understood but started to fall back HEAVY! Ignoring texts and giving cold shoulders. All I could remember thinking was "damn I should've bought that thermal set I saw at walmart the other day."

Eventually we talked it over and realized that ignoring each other is foolish. We then started talking again. All was good. But that peaceful period was short lived because out of no where she started giving me the cold shoulder yet again. This time it was for months! All the while I read her weekly, sometimes DAILY, complaints and ramblings about how horrible her dating life is. Aggravation set in and I found myself at my slow ass computer cussing out whatever male name that came across my screen she was crying over at the time. I got fed up and we had another argument.

Kinda Side note-
You know its so funny how social networking and the internet has changed the way we go about maintaining friendships and romance. Just a click and a niggah is stuck in blue-balls hell. On the flip: just it takes just one button and your knight in shining armor can turn into a complete and utter dirty ass hole.

I was deleted from her twitter, facebook and myspace. LOW BLOW trick! That same day we reconciled our differences and she explained to me that she was tired of guys she really liked permanently placing her in the "friend lane" and refused to take it anymore.

What could I tell her at this point? What was I to put her at ease with? The same speech (for lack of better words) that I gave her months earlier about how she was soooo close but just needed to let me handle my work so that I can give her all of me? Nah she JUST said that she wasn trying to hear any ish like that.

"With one leg left now I'm hopping around crippled/ So I took out my pocket knife and sliced off her right nipple" -Eminem I don't why but I just felt like quoting those two bars lol...I guess it can relate because even tho I wanted her to stay and ride it out with me (that's what she said), she refused. That's my leg getting ripped off. So I in turn decided to recoil and in a sense sliced off her right nipple by refusing to budge on my terms. Bull headed I know but I guess when you have a mate that's unwilling to compromise for the greater good your hand is forced.

We fell off like we always do until I hit her up just to check up on her and see what was going on. She wasted no time letting me know that she was pissed at me for taking so long to contact her YES I was wrong and apologized like 3 or 4 times throughout the course of our convo for it. I even explained to her that my blackberry was out of commission at the time leaving me with no reminder to call her but she was beyond pissed and didn't wanna hear that because, after all she did call me on mine.

The convo ended with both of us wishing each other the best in our careers and leaving it at that. I'll still admire her from afar and have nothing but respect for her. However any thought of "us" have to go because, after all she chose for things to be that way in the end.

Even though she had refused to, a special someone did wait it out and reap the benefits that I had to offer her. I am so happy that I went out with her and I love her to death because she's more than just a typical chick to me.

I guess I'm writing all of this to say those who are going through relationship drama to HOLD ON! Do NOT settle. Your mate will come when the times right

That's it for now with y'all stankin asses
-Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest
And download my Free mixtape "The Coming"

Okay here is the OFFICIAL list of the projects that we are currently working on:

Title: KickInYaSpeakers
Artist(s): UnioNoMics
We should be done with this project by early September. Expect to hear some great raw Hip-Hop

Title: Thru Playin Round Here
Artist(s): Knowledge of UnioNoMics
It's done!!! In fact, Go to the bandcamp and check it out! Physical copies should be available any week now!

Title: The Arrival
Artist(s): Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest
Just started working on it last night. It should be done by late August. I'll be constructing EVERY beat for you jock-jerkers *pause.*

Bottom line IS, we are getting work done. expect videos more often and new tracks. Also, We're working on setting up some performances so let me know if you'd love to come out and support if we came to YOUR area.

that's it for now with y'all stanking asses.

So earlier this week, one of my male co-workers received the notorious pink slip. The actual releasing of employees was not totally foreign idea because there has been multiple announcements that corporate was coming down hard on upper level management to let about 500 employees go by a certain date. One could possibly argue that us employees who are low on the totem pole should have been well prepared for the event. However, one would be wrong. Despite the numerous warnings, it is always an extremely sad scene when a person gets fired for "political" or "financial" reasons. Homie getting fired was exceptionally sad because he was dragging his feet with the super frown and he looked at every one of us who survived the last wave of elimination as if we were to blame for his hard luck.

As I said before, the above stated events were somewhat expected...not what happened next:

At six o'clock, my department carries out our daily routine of logging out of all of our systems, leaving the building to celebrate our freedom from the tight corporate shackles and rejoice in the last few moments of sunlight. My boss and I, having a conversation about her ex boyfriend whom works as a cop in baltimore, are walking side by side exchanging quotes from the movie "police academy." After walking through the revolving doors and exiting the building, we become blinded by the sun beaming his bright ass face on ours. Then I see a red glare come across my eyes and hear my boss scream. A bit of what seems to be her blood drips on the ground outside of the building and we all take cover assuming the worst (aka bill cosby finally got fed up with us "niggahs" to the point that he decided to take "making a change" into his own hands). As we all retreat in shock, I look across the street to see my former co-worker running away at full speed cheering and pumping his fist in celebration of his successful hit. Just picture a slightly over weight niggah in an all black outfit wit a bb gun (that has a phucking red beam on it) in his hand rocking flip-flops.

1st:
Why are you shooting a woman that was your boss an hour ago? You're a prime suspect should anything happen to her aaand should anybody be able to identify you at the scene of the crime, SHE HAS ALL OF YOUR FRIGGIN INFO!!!

2nd:
Why are you wearing ALL black? Its like 6785642811615545 degrees outside and yo fat ass running in all black? I know you musty. Get yo stankin ass some deodorant!

3rd:
Killas don't rock flip-flops period.
Ask Cam...flip-flops never get computers 'putin

So after sharing this with you, I have one question for y'all stankin asses...how far would you go/have you gone for revenge?

~Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest

I have a new website with my homie/rappin partner Knowledge its called

www.UnioNoMics.net
Go check it out wit y'all stankin asses!

So let's get wit this quick update

Um...
New music out!!!!!!!
About a month ago I made a mini-mixtape in 3 days. It came out pretty nice... The title is called Nefarious Snapshots of an Arteest's Perspective and it's available for FREE download @ TheUnion.BandCamp.com so go support people. (There's a link on the side if ur viewing our new site www.UnioNoMics.net)

I patched up a seemingly lost frienship I think. The person used to be a great friend of mine. We drifted apart for multiple reasons but I hope our recent conversation served as a foundation for future convos and meetings alike because it was refreshing talkin to the person.

I moved to Bricks City last weekend!!! I will talk more about that in a later post.

Since the new site looks good and I'm trying to be a better artist to my fans I vowed to myself, as well as others, that I will start postin more often and when I don't feel like typing a post I will record a video and post that (lazy I know lol).

With that said, I look forward to keeping you up to date with our music, lives, and funny stories/interesting opinions & perspectives.

Follow us on twitter and get informed/entertained:
www.twitter.com/VerbalArteest
www.twitter.com/KnowledgeTU

Catch you all later wit ya stankin asses
~Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest

The weekend is here! HELL yeah! Happy Friday to all you stankin ass niggahs and to all the chickities, *in 50's voice* you know I love ya baby!
Seriously though, I'm really disappointed about the weekend because my car is out of commission until June 20th (that's another blog). My being carless is preventing me from going down to Philly to network and support a dope emcee called Sick Six at his release party. Unless I find a way down there, I'll most likely be home *in Kanye's Voice* "try'na catch the beat." :-/

I'm try'na think if there's anything else that I wanna tell you... Ooooooh yeeeeah! An extremely obese, I mean wide as aaaall outside, I mean I just swallowed a solar system type-fat broad at my told me I smell like watermelon yesterday when it was BEYOND obvious that I didn't. (Trick! Zest does NOT smell like no damn watermelon! Motha phuckin watermelon?!) That ish was a bit scary but I held my composure and didn't run for the hills.

Oooooh...I beat one of the executives at my job in cee-lo (a dice game that we played in the bathroom). Came up on a quick 20 bucks! On my lunch break I walked past his office showing off my fresh pepperonni pizza pie and thanked him for his generosity :-)

Since The Union has been making moves musically, I anticipate more traffic on my blog. With that said, don't furrow any eye brows when I stop acting lazy and start posting regularly.

Moving on...

"The Perseverance Volume 2: It's all in Your Mind..." Is slated for a late summer release (the first week of August). Am I excited? A little bit. I'm more confident with myself as an artist and this year's release will be different.

You see, this time around, I will actually distribute physical copies of the CD along with the digital downloads (all free). I have more supporters than I had last year (I mean real, loyal, "spit that shit Da Vinci!" in the face ass supporters). The cover art will be official (complete with mine and Knowledge's label logo's). As far as the music is concerned, the lyrics will be great and serve as a testament to my songwriting credibility. The songs are more heartfelt and moody than last years installment and the production has taken leaps progression wise.

I'm not going to talk your head off. Just know that if you've been following me for a minute, expect for your jaw to drop when my CD does.