we$tside wednesday.

DOM said he'd be deliverin' somethin' every Wednesday; last week he introduced himself with This is DOM Kennedy; Life as I Know It. this week he tops it with visuals for what seems like EVERYONE's favorite song off that From the Westside with Love, Locals Only.

this video, i mean, short film made me appreciate DOM & his music that much more. from the French credits & the subtitles, the girl is a WIN (i love her eyes), DOM is lookin' mighty cute himself & the THIRD verse, where did that come from?! it's so dope! (& makes me wonder why it never made it on the project). all around, this short film is a CLASSIC!

1997.

here's DOM Kennedy's video for 1997. now we all know i LOVE me some DOM (i love sayin' that) but after viewing this video a couple times, i don't know what i think of it.
i like the concept of the video but i think it should've have gone with another song, that's just my opinion.
take a look at the video & see what urs is!

1997.

due to other commitments, i wasn't able to attend the JBC Global COOLin' Block Party. i KNOW i missed out, i mean it was LA Hip Hop Galore!

here's what i (& some of you) missed!
here's a video of DOM Kennedy performin' my second favorite song off From The Westside, With Love.
the crowd went CRAZYYYY when they heard the song & how cute is DOM at the 24 second mark takin' in all the love the crowd showed.

Dom Kennedy - 1997 [Live] from Orange Calderon on Vimeo.

from the westside.

so i FAIL for not postin' this yesterday when Dom FINALLY decided to drop it but it's here!!!!

From the Westside, With Love.

The best part of watchin’ someone like Dom is bein’ able to watch him grow musically, progress his craft & accomplish what he set out to do & can I mention he’s easy on the eyes & them pearly whites ;]
His reason for releasin’ ‘From the Westside, With Love’ on the 25th was because 2 years ago, he introduced himself & 25th Hour to us. If you listen to 25th Hour & have followed him since, you can hear & feel the growth he took & goes without sayin’, this is HIS BEST WORK to date!

It amazes me how these upcomin’ LA artist do all this on their own with no record deal. Just them doin’ music that they LOVE because they LOVE it. It speaks volumes as you will hear with this project! This project shows if you do somethin’ with love, you can never lose.

With that bein’ said, here’s a quote from Dom at his listenin’ party describin’ his project:

“you get 100 emails you’ll focus on the 1 person who didn’t like u, instead of focusing on the 99 who give a fuck about you. So I just look at it like if I care about the people that got me here, we could get real far.”

So do yourself a favor & download this project because word on the street is u’re gonna have to pay for the next one.

Congrats to the whole JBC family for havin' #FromTheWestsideWithLove trendin’ in LA on twitter ;)
& of course Dom who's a bit over 20,000 downloads in the first 24 hours.

From The Westside, With Love...

... drops tomorrow!

I, along with JenBunnie, was one of the lucky ones to have heard this project a few weeks ago at Dom Kennedy's listening party. I seriously can't wait for it to drop so that EVERYONE can finally listen to what Dom's been talking about. Production is sick, lyrics are heart felt. Few more hours until March 25th, then we can all bump From The Westside, With Love.

*update* From the Westside with Love is droppin' march 25th @ 3:25 p.m. get your blank cds ready :)

COOL recap.

I KNOW we were all anticipatin’ the release of Dom’s ‘From the Westside, With Love’ today but Dom took to his twitter to explain his reason why he’ll be pushin’ it until March 25th. Two more weeks might be a lil’ much for some of us but I heard the whole thing & let me tell you, you won’t be disappointed!

On Sunday, Camille & myself had the opportunity to be part of Dom. Kennedy’s Focus Group for ‘From the Westside, With Love’
I LOVE the idea of Dom getting 30-40 people to sit & listen to his project & give our honest opinions. As I glanced around at other people around me, everyone seemed quite impressed with this project. I was talkin’ to LazyLou of LAUSD & he told me this project is his best work thus far. I would say about 5 songs in, that statement is sooo true!
The intermission on this is DOOOOPE (shout out to LAUSD’s Polyester & LazyLou for that one) & that’s just the INTERMISSION! My favorite track is ‘Locals Only’ which I heard LIVE a few days ago at At The Rox & I love how personal this song is. The production is incredible but the words, I feel comin’ from Dom’s heart & that alone speaks volumes.



Here are some pics of our COOL sunday!
Shouts to LAXpaperboys; Mizzle & FredMac for bein’ the COOLEST muthasuckas on the planet!

Intermission Part II

if you have heard Dom's FS/DS, you will find many of the beats
produced by Polyester the Saint, from LAUSD.
my favorite track has is "Hellagood Intermission"
Dom hooked up with Polyester again for his upcoming
"From the Westside with Love" and Dom decided to leak a
little preview of what "Intermission Part II" might sound like.

Polyester is killin it!