J.A.M.E.S. WATTS | THE GAME NEEDS J.A.M.E.S

A few weeks back, New Jersey-based graphic designer (& homie) Aaron Brown invited me up to his Montclair office to do an interview piece for his website, ParodiesOfMyLife. We covered a gamut of topics ranging from my music to the current presidential race. Good times.

Aside from his day job working with the Brooklyn New Jersey Nets, he’s currently building a graphic design brand which will extend from digital based artwork to clothing; POML looks to go beyond design-for-the-sake-of-it by shedding light on the idiocies and hypocrisy evident in everyday American life.

Pics from the office after the jump.

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“Could It Be I Stayed Away To Long?” - The Other Michael.

Yeah. It could be, and actually is. It’s a little too easy to believe that the kid hasn’t updated in a whole TWELVE days. In the new “blog era” of hip-hop, as it has been ridiculously affectionately named, that’s an eternity.

Granted, there’s a good excuse for said fuckery — as my beloved Macbook (despite its small screen and lack of dedicated video RAM) prepares for its Ebay-sponsored trip to God-knows-where, I’ve been without appropriate ‘net access. Nonetheless, we’re back on our job. In between prepping for the Knitting Factory show a week from this Tuesday, finally messing with VSTi’s (yes!) and listening to the new Gemstones mixtape (yikes!), I present (on the 23rd of June, coincidentally) the latest installment of “Made Me Everything I Am”.

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Someone get News3Online on the phone, NOW.

Get your own here. Props to Download Squad.

To my faithful, I apologize for the late post — between picking up eats for the evening and withstanding Jersey’s recent bout with the sweltering heat, the kid slipped up on his usual early afternoon posting session.

Nonetheless, I come with the second edition of the “Made Me Everything I Am” blog series; the first paid homage to New Jersey hip-hop legend Reggie Nobel. Today, I remove my hat in respect for the robots in disguise, the ones who waged their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons….and to protect the planet Earth. Uhh…well, actually, I’m paying respect to Megatron’s evil legion as well (yeah, they were pretty dope too), but who’s counting…

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In celebration of the win, I go in over Ti$a’s (b.k.a. Taz Arnold of Sa-Ra) original.

Download: Ti$a feat. J.A.M.E.S. WATTS - “Vote Obama Way”

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