Straight to the Point: May 2008

Friday, 23 May 2008

I'm on kinkybluefairy.net, now I'm really famous!

Everyone in the Malaysian (or international) blogsphere knows the infamous kinky blue fairy a.k.a. Joyce Wong. Guess what blog peeps? I'm very honoured to be featured in her blog at last ( as part of an advertorial, so she got paid too, make that monay joyce!) and it was quite a mention too( includes pics, links and youtube video links, and a short historical writeup from her perspective.

Thanks again for the support Joyce and hope to see you in the Henessy Artistry show too:)

Checkout the post here! or go to this url:
http://www.kinkybluefairy.net/2008/05/23/hennessy-artistry-aloha-on-the-31st/

Monday, 12 May 2008

CHAMPIONS!(Again, ha-haa!)

Anyone that knows me personally will know that I'm a hardcore Man United supporter! You can see the corporate colours of my company (Voyeur Records) were inspired by the United red, black and white(yellow didn't work for us),So you can imagine yesterday, 11 May for a great night for me!
What can I say? It was down to the last day but it was beyond doubt that Manchester United are the CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND for the 10th time! Chel-Who? Arse-Whut?Liver-whut? WE are deservingly the champions for playing the best football this season. And that boy Ronaldo? Anti- United haters diss him being gay, hahah, say wht your loser asses wants this IS the best footballer of the year...now on to the Champions League...but for now..CHAMPIONES!CHAMPIONES! OLE, OLE, OLE! Its a great day for all United supporters worldwide! GLORY, GLORY, MAN UNITED!

The first goal! 31 Goals for a winger in a season? Unbelievable! Our heroic no. 7!

PFA Player of the Year, The best player in the world at the moment!

Waza a.k.a. Rooney on his second title!He made the right choice coming from Everton!United is where you win championships! Dumbass Torress..haha!

Our legendary Gaffer! This man is amazing...

Captain Giggsy, the true Legend (fck Fowler, haha) lifting up his tenth Premiership title!

Man United, Premiership Champions 2007/08! Two seasons back to back Champs!

Point's next show is: Hennessy Artistry 2008

Checkout the detials below in the pic and website link! See you guys there this 31 May 2008 at Aloha club.

Checkout the weblink for more detials: http://www.hennessyartistry.com.my/hennessy.html

24 Herbs in KL

Hong Kong based super hip hop group 24 Herbs was in KL recently for a showcase. They rocked The Loft KL along with my boi Jin and brought the whole mother****in' house down! Their live set is pumpin and brilliant. I'm really glad to see Asian/Chinese hip hop on the rise! Hopefully I can work with them one day:) For those that missed the show, check it out on youtube:-

For more info on 24 Herbs aka Yah Sei Mei peep their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/24herbs

Crazy shoutout and mad love to the dudes at 24 Herbs and thanks for being down to earth and for keepin' it real with a dude like me:)

Some cool shiet!

Just a random post about some cool stuff I came across while surfing the INTERgalacticNET! Check it out! Pics courstesy of Kanye's blog and some site I forgot!

This is too cool! A songwriter/emcee/beatmaker dream come true! Step up your rhymebook game!

I wonder how many sounds they have in that lil' keyboard...

I gotta cop myself one of these...anyone knows where I can get one?

Rappers like their LV and Gucci..so how bout these babies? A LV gas mask?DAYUM!

Next time ur buddy farts, rock out 'ur Gucci Gas Mask freshness..

Monday, 5 May 2008

AIM don't like Point...

We constantly hear " Our music industry needs support, We need to support our local acts, etc" from all this big powers that be that represent our Malaysian music industry. Sadly, when it comes down to doing something about it, they then revert back to their rigid old ways and say "sorry, these are the rules"...hahah, hyprocrisy?

Me and the whole team spent a lot blood, sweat and tears (and lots of "independently funded" money) on "Straight to the Point". We wanted to break new grounds, do something that has never been done before. Multi lingual international standard hip hop but still retain the Malaysian identity. We did it and recieved lots of good reviews and most importantly support from the consumers and fans. Heck, we even had one of the biggest songs (Ipohmali) of last year.

But Point Blanc and "Straight to the Point" was not refelcted at all in this year's AIM awards. Why is that? I asked the same question when I found out that we were rejected from the AIM submissions. Excuses like " Too many rappers or singers and can't reconize the main artiste" surfaced (which is bullshit cos' most hip hop albums are packed with features)and their main point was that the album had to be 60%MANDARIN to qualify for the Best local CHINESE album. Does that make sense to you? Last I checked Chinese people also spoke Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc..so why don't just call it best local Mandarin album? And apparently when you don't qualify for a main category you can't qualify for the sub categories like best music video, best album cover, best vocal ,etc...DAMN!

The sad part is it is very hard for independent artistes to come up with a good product, it's not like every year there is a new album coming up as it involves a lot of time, effort and money. As for us, we put everything into "Straight to the Point" only to be snubbed due to a stupid technicality.

I had a lot of believe in the AIM awards previously having won some but somehow along the way, they have lost their way and main focus, which is to support and give credit to GOOD Malaysian music. I didn't even bother to watch this year's AIM not because I feel bitter but just that I don't see it's authenticity and what it stands for anymore..'Nuff said. Read the writeup below in the Star newspapers recently.