How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto

Speakin’ of makin’ moves, I also push the Hustle and Win book here in Northern California – SF and mostly Oakland to be exact (and even got folks in Stockon pushin’ it). Just to let y’all know, it’s available at Marcus Books in SF and Oakland as well as Verse in Downtown Oakland. Of course, it’s available from me. Just to let folks know who support the book, the brother Supreme is dropping a documentary with this Hustle and Win book – I’m definitely contributing my two cents because I’ve seen the impact it has with the young people I work with on the daily.

Here’s what Supreme’s gotta say:

Want to be in a documentary?
Get featured in the upcoming How to Hustle and Win DVD!

It's gonna be big. The first 3,000 copies of the book sold in less than 3 months. That's WITHOUT Borders and Barnes and Noble, but they'll be on board soon as well. Not to mention that How to Hustle and Win is going international. We'll be printing overseas and shipping to Europe, Canada, and possibly Africa! Envision the big picture.

We've already got DVD distributors waiting to get their hands on the DVD and mixtape. The mixtape CD for the book is nearly done, so its a bit late to submit music for THAT project (thanks to all who did), BUT we've got lots of open space on the upcoming documentary.

The How to Hustle and Win DVD will present the content of the book visually, luring in the supporters who would've never otherwise picked up a book to read. But the DVD is gonna be a mind-blowin experience in and of itself.

Many of the segments will be featured on local cable stations (if you have the connects in YOUR area, let us know), while others may be too much for TV. In between the segments, we'll have brief reader testimonials. If you want your feedback featured on the DVD, here's all you have to do:
1.) Record a short clip of you talking about the book. Doesn't matter where. Doesn't matter how you say it. Anything goes.
2.) Send us a Myspace message, asking for our email address.
3.) Either email it to us, or if the file is too large, use sendspace to send it to us.

If we like it, we'll edit it and include in the final product. If not, we may still feature it on the website (MAJOR update coming soon) or YouTube.

Aspiring musicians, if you've got a song based on the content of the book (like my profile song for example), send it our way as well. We may be able to use it in the DVD's soundtrack. We'll give full credit and hopefully increase your exposure.

Finally, for all you hustlers out there without a hustle. How to Hustle and Win remains a lucrative source of income. We wholesale to ANYONE. You won't have a hard time pushing this product. How to Hustle and Win is literary crack. It sells itself.

Peace
Supreme Understanding,
CEO, Supreme Design, LLC.
For more information, please check out: www.HustleAndWin.com or myspace.com/hustlewin

Ise Lyfe

Yo, the Yamster has been makin’ moves, right now I’m workin’ as Outreach Coordinator with spoken word emcee theatre – all around artist, period, Ise Lyfe. So if you’re interested in booking him, let me know and I can shoot you more information to book him at your local college, university or organization.

Email me at sincerejustice at gmail dot com for more information.





myspace.com/iselyfe
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I'm on a Date again and again and again...

The only reason I drop into Whole Foods is to grab some dates – it doesn’t matter whether they’re deglet noor or medjool, I’ll rock ‘em either way. The other day, Garth at Whole Foods hooked me up gave me a “sample” – a small box of dates. I need a date tree –hahah just like my Pops needs a banana tree. Oh yeah, I love rockin’ the dates with seeds, spittin’ em out like wack emcees.

Watts Up with Racism among the Chinese community?

Watts Up with Racism among the Chinese community?


After finishing Dr. John Henrik Clarke’s book on Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust, I’ve been hookin’ it up with 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies. As y’know my field of interests lie in not the black or white, but the variation of grey CONNECTIONS/RELATIONSHIPS that exist between cultures. So hold up….

Purple Yamster Storytime Exclusive: As a kid, I would often watch public television specifically Channel 28 KCET; there was a special on the Watts Towers. Damn, the Towers intrigued me, tall metal structures that reach the sky, so I told me Pops that I wanted to visit the Towers. He told me, “Nah, we can’t go there, we’ll get robbed [by black people].” In the Chinese language, there is a term used for all non-Chinese peoples, but specifically for black people, it’s called “black ghost. ” So growing up, I had this and still see this type of racism play out between my physical family and relatives.

So back to connections and relationships, I was building with a so called Afrikan sister the other day and she told me at her Chinese Holistic Medicine institute, other Afrikan sisters have been having issues from the Chinese staff saying that they are giving them a hard time being intimidating and what not. Anyways, long story short, being that I’m solution oriented, I can’t wait to check this book out: Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes toward Africans and African-Americans by M. Dujon Johnson, so I can figure what's up, know what's the root of these conflicts.


http://science.jrank.org/pages/10955/Race-Racism-in-Asia-Race-Racism-in-China.html

Conferences and Asian Political Prisoners

So during the past weeks, I’ve been going to conferences left and right: Critical Resistance 10: Strategizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex (for me, it was just learning more about this wicked system), ESPINOS (Escuelas Si! Pintas No! – similar work, but specifically for so called at risk youth) and Words Beats Life Conference, which was an array of Hip Hop non-profits, youth agencies, etc. that came together to collaborate via Hip Hop and social change.

First of all, if you don’t know about the Watts Prophets, you need check for this brother, who did the keynote, Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets at www.wattsprophets.com.

Secondly, one of the workshops I attended at CR10 was on Asian Political Prisoners. Around the time I picked up Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal was the same time I picked up Prison Writings: My Life is a Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier – I’ve always wondered about Asian and Pacific Islander Political Prisoners if they existed and if so, it what capacity. Will we be on the next Hip Hop song like Mumia is? (See KRS ONE) Often, voices from Asian Political Prisoners like Eddy Zheng, who was tried as an adult for committing a home invasion robbery and kidnapping are the voices I do not hear about period.

http://www.eddyzheng.com/
http://eddyzheng.blogspot.com/

So check this out Eddy and the Asian Prisoner Support Committee put together this book: Other: an Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology – it’s well written, organized and visually stunning. Contributions go to support prisoners’.

http://www.myspace.com/asianprisoners

High Powered Tonics for the Purple YamsterFamily

So ever since, I read up on my brother C'BS article on the Original Man's tonics, I've been hittin' 'em every a day. (See here: http://originalthoughtmag.com/mag/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=178)

Aside from my exercise routine daily, I make sure I take a hit of Ginseng, Shou Wu Chih and Baji Chiew. The only thing I do different is I rock the Ginseng in a powder form with Goji Berries. (At your local Chinese emporium, you can actually ask them to grind the ginseng up for you) The science behind that is I don't waste any part of the ginseng because 1) ginseng is expensive and 2) the Purple Yamster is plain resourceful, using every square inch.

Yo, the Purple Yamster recommends you rock all three tonics because the energy level is just off the charts. There's something about the chemistry with those three together. Also, I'm going to drop some science on this other tonic within the week, so be on the look out.

My recommendation is to hit your local Chinatown for the tonics, ginseng and goji berries. Usually, in California, costs for the 'Chih are around $2-3/a bottle and the 'Chiew runs about $6 for a small bottle and $12-14/a large bottle. Definitely go support your Original People in a Chinatown near you. On the real, Chinatown is the place where I get most of my grocery shopping needs done because I can't afford Whole Foods and plus, I get to interact with my Original Family.

For more information check out:

http://altmedicine.about.com/od/completeazindex/a/goji.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou_Wu_Chih

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry