craig owens.

the lyrics to this song by Dead Prez sums up how I feel about music, and the world that surrounds it. open for self-interpretation, like all great writing. listen, and apply to your life as you see fit. as for me, i promise to be open like a book.. and on every page is a lesson measured by what you can carry away from it..

“”Rather attack than not react

Back the beats it don’t reflect

On how many records get sold
On sex, drugs, and rock and roll
Whether your project’s put on hold
In the real world
These just people with ideas
They just like me and you
When the smoke and camera disappear
Again the real world (world)
It’s bigger than all these fake ass records
When poor folks got the millions
And my woman’s disrespected
If you check 1,2,
My word of advice to you is just relax
Just do what you got to do
If that don’t work then kick the facts
If you a fighter, rider, lighter, flame ignitor, crowd exciter
Or you wanna just get high
Then just say it
But then if you a liar-liar, pants on fire
Wolf-cry agent with a wire
I’m gonna know it when I play it

Don’t think these record deals
Gonna feed your seeds
And pay your bills because they not
MC’s get a little bit of love and think they hot
Talkin’ ‘bout how much money they got
Nigga all y’all records sound the same
I sick of that fake thug, R & B
Rap scenario all day on the radio
Same scenes in the video, monotonous material
Y’all don’t here me though
These record labels slang our tapes like dope
You can be next in line, and signed
And still be writing rhymes and broke
Would you rather have a Lexus or justice
A dream or some substance ”“

head over to facebook.com/craigeryowens for a video announcement. <33.

so, for the past few months.. ‘we’ have been working really hard - creating a new record for our new band. ‘we’ have a ton of material & plan on spending a little more time perfecting the songs- to ensure that this is the best record we have ever written, as individuals, and as a group. ‘we’ really appreciate all of your patience as this has been a long process for all of us.

I do believe though, that it is about time that I begin to slowly start sharing more information with all of you on what it is that has had so much hard work and time put into it..

so, how about.. on Tuesday? would you guys be into me revealing a band member via my twitter on that day?

this isn’t a math equation, and I’m no mathematician. I’m a boy of simple persuasion. a small town kid, just full of passion. <333.

everything in my life, has prepared me for & lead me to the very place that i am…& the journey that i’m about to embark on, i’m ready for.

recently, i’ve been keeping a journal. it’s basically this entire process of writing the new record. the changes that i have been going through. most of the new lyrics are in it-raw form…. and i have the idea of somehow publishing it, and sending it out with copies of the record at some point… doodles and all. it’s something, that i would LOVE to do.

would you guys be into something like that ?

this is an entry from my old online journal… a friend asked for it, so i hunted it down and thought it would be fun to share with everyone on here as well.

***FROM MY JOURNAL (sometime early last year.) ***

” **Journal** just back from Mexico. i haven’t really been able to stop writing lately. so, i thought that i would type up a quick entry and share some of what’s been transferring from my mind, to my pen, into my journal lately… ‘ as she sits next to me, i look away… and for that moment, even in her presence, my heart sinks. i find myself missing her. my head turns again. this time in her direction, and our eyes meet. they widen, and all sight is gone. i find myself numb, sitting content, and staring in her direction. my heart fills up once again… and it continues to overflow each and every second that i spend looking in her direction. ‘ “