WTF

Well this is just a free writing session. What I wanna say is somewhere in the recesses of my brain. I thought about that word 'recess' and never knew why that word meant break from school. In the dictionary the word means a small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest : a table set into a recess.

• a hollow space inside something : the concrete block has a recess in its base.

• (usu. recesses) a remote, secluded, or secret place : the recesses of the silent pine forest | figurative the dark recesses of his soul.

2 a period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended : talks resumed after a month's recess | the Senate was in recess.

• a break between school classes : the mid-morning recess.

verb

1 [ trans. ] [often as adj. ] ( recessed) attach (a fitment) by setting it back into the wall or surface to which it is fixed : recessed ceiling lights.

2 [ intrans. ] (of formal proceedings) be temporarily suspended : the talks recessed at 2:15.

• [ trans. ] suspend (such proceedings) temporarily.

• (of an official body) suspend its proceedings for a period of time.

Whatever! I'm outta my mind and I like it. Waking up at odd hours to write or to watch NetFlix has been my norm for I don't know how long. One of these nights/early mornings, I'm gonna come up with the okey doke that will change the world. My family depends on it. Our future depends on it. The moves I make are not for me anymore. Everything is for them. When they grow and have pickney they may very well continue the legacy ill innovation.
My oldest Genesis is an ill dancer and a brave communicator. My youngest daughter Zuri Elle aka @BKLYNZU has mad talent. A freestyle beast. Nazzy, my son, is bonkers. Super intelligent, crazy funny and has a photographic memory.
The LORD has been real good to my family. If we never get filthy rich (which I can't see why wouldn't we) I'm content with where we are now. Its a happy moment. Namaste

Worst Show Ever

So yes I'm back! But for what? Same problems and worst than what I was going through before. The lid on my macbook is done so I have to prop it on the fruit bowl on the dining table for it to stay up. That's really not big of a deal. however because the camera is in the lid, there have been times the lid would drop BRROOP and close hard and there must be some connection damage in the hinge, there are times the iSight camera feels like it don't have to come on today and it don't care if I got a show to do or not. All them things can fix so I continue cut and go through.

There's a new Ustream broadcast web app which is great but it further reveals how lame my situation is. I get a message telling me either my computer or my web connection sucks because the quality that I desire to do my show with is not gonna happen according to them.

Then the video looks like old school MSN Messenger webcam interaction with the stop and go shit. Ain't nobody got time fi that. Still. Regardless of the challenges, I press on because I've had experiences on other cats sights and radio stations where the components appeared labored but I still enjoyed the music and the on air personality AND THAT AINT BROKE OVER HERE.

Please keep rocking with me and I know that day will come when Decent Something will be sounding like Hot 97 or something.

Just wanna big up Miss Lily everytime. I was listening at work and they had The Beatminerz Mr. Walt and Evil Dee on there rockin'! They broadcast from NYC and there is no extra antics. You don't see video, you hear music and the personalities. Me nuh thinkn me ago mek video kill da radio star yah!
This post is a bit of catharsis because InI just realize me nah go show off my face no longer. Just music me a go penetrate. See my live in LA Feb 26th for UMOJA at DUB CLUB if you love watch mon perform. In the meantime, keep on riggling and jiggling to the sounds of our age. BOOM

FastBook - Give It Up To Me

I been on Facebook from when and I've given it some of my best writing, ideas, jokes, memories, grievances, prayers, proverbs, pictures, reviews, etc. I've spent more time on facebook than with my god, my family and my friends. So today I'm deactivating my account. No worries. I appreciate facebook. I just need to spend more quality time with the people and things I have neglected for some time.

I'll still have my CoknIODire facebook.com/cokniodireone page but my personal O Williams aka King CoknI situation will be done done. If you don't hear from me that would be unfortunate because that means our only connect is just facebook.

Reach out when and if you can as will I (am) (stupid) LOL.

We'll see how it go this week. I'll know if I'm an addict in about an hour. Whenever I get the urge, I'm gonna draw for the basic instructions before leaving earth. After that I will spend a likkle time with my family. If they are not around I will call. If they can not be reached by phone I will write them a letter. True me have stamp. Then I'm a check for me real friends dem. Many of them are DJs and I want to be able to help them out as they have helped me out immensely.

Just had a thought. My sound system UMOJA has events to promote and has decided not to rely on social media solely. To do that is not the move. We know better to reach out on the real side. Invite through mail and phone. So me a'go do the same something. I'm mad excited about the outcome.

Pray for your boy king!

Peace.

PRO DUCTION

Thee frustration is that my current mac is mad slow. I have been pining to get more RAM for it and eventually get a new machine. In the interim I guess its best not too complain. I know people who don't even have electricity and me deh riff about latency. Still, I just wanted to know what you thought about the new edition to the site? As you can see you have the option of looking at past shows, see what them a say in the Social Network and chat with me and other viewers live all without interrupting what's being presented above. A friend at work had a problem when visiting the site for the first time and wasn't sure if they should click the 'Chatty Chatty" link to go tot the chatroom or what. By clicking it you were taken to another page and the show would reload. Not the best online experience in my opinion.


One thing that I work hard at, sometimes to a fault, is doing whatever i can to make the user experience high quality. Which leads me to why I'm even blogging right now. I've been listening to past performances of Decent Something and the OTO Morning Show and while the shows are dope, they need quite a bit of improvement. I'm doing a lot on the fly and many times I commit trainwreckage. Right now s I type, I am laying out the whole scheme of my show just like a professional director would do and have all the elements pre selected because when I'm live and I think of things on the fly, the searching over burdens the processor and causes the infamous beachball leaving me in cyber limbo. Then I got to fill up space with mindless banter about naught. Not doing that no more.


Thee other thing I've noticed that my energy as well as my viewership has plummeted so definitely I need to get on it on it alright alright. My health is stable and I fixed the headphone jack on my mixer. You will hear better blends, iller freestyles, appropriate effects and graphics and of course the best in decent music.


Please holler at me and let me know you read this and if you have any ideas as to make the shows any better I am open to hear at this stage of production. JAH BLESS

GIVE THANKS

Happy Thanksgiving and I pray you have a great holiday during this time. I have a lot to be thankful for, but right now all I can think about is the digital recorder my brother in law let me hold. Its been I don't know how long since I made a mix cd or posted a podcast. The only means of recording I had was the input on my computer that's jacked up and only records the left channel and my cassete deck that hasn't  worked for maybe 10 years or so.

Now that I got this component, I'm back in business. Now when the ladies at my kids school ask for a work out mix or a Christmas CD or an old school this that and whatever, I can be like BAM!!. Now I need to get some ink for the printer to make some cool labels and ting! Oh! Yo! I told you I got my cards made right? See?

Now I can't make any excuses. Look forward to my soundcloud poppin and nuff more things before 2012. You see me? I know you can see me now.

A Niceness

CHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE

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SOUND CLASH MATERIAL# 10. Courtney Melody - Bad Boy

Impressive tu Ras

Little John - Smoke Ganja Hard

Not afraid of lashing ...

John Wayne-Call The Police

Its me It's Me It's Me ...

Admiral Bailey & Chaka Demus - One Scotch

Dooba Dooba Dooba

#COKNISTRONG

Let me just explain myself real quick yeah? My speech is fueled with the queens English,  the motherland's patois, the Hip Hop slang and the Rasta code so pardon me if you lose me. Just refer to the aforementioned references and compare phrases. So whe mi ah say? Basically my birthday was Wednesday the 23rd of February and I turned 44 aka my earthstrong aka my birthstrong bka my COKNISTRONG. 44 is culture culture all being born to build and destroy according to Supreme Mathematics. I take all that stuff serious. My culture culture is Raggamuffin Hip Hop. That sounds mad corny to me however it is what it is as they say.
Histrionics as they may, I just know that It seem pon that day deh I go mad love from all corners. Text, Twitter, FaceBook, corners, etc. mad love was just heading my direction. Hundreds people hit me off no exaggeration to give me a birthday shout or whatever. Filled up my love cup no doubt. I was floating by on a natural high.
Right now I'm broke as all get out and I had the intention of getting a cake and bringing it to work to celebrate with my compadres, but I couldn't back it. As blessings go, one of my dudes supported a box of fresh fresh donuts!! Thn after work my man Steve complimented my six of Guinness with a bokkle of Strawberry Stoli. I got charged and got online to play some music for whoever would rope in. I knew The Beatminerz was comin on later. Even though I was zu, I was conscious that they was comin on. I'm nothing if I'm not loyal. The show was fun as you can see on my Ustream channel.

COKNISTRONG COKNIWEEK
I was bugging out wit the acronyms for CoknI on twitter buss em : #COKNISTRONG #COKNIWEEK

Iron Gold along with the CUTTER.

The thing I love probably most about DanceHall is the fact how we did so much for Hip Hop and never beg no recognition. We stay true to our format and its so communal that anybody who catch the vibe run with it and flex and nuh even have to give props to who dem getty from. I'm not like that and I would hope more of us would give respect due to the old school crew. So I just want to thank Bammy Man for being the illest if the only human beatBox comin outta the dance and the original buthcher Cutty Ranks for crafting raggamuffin style in my book. Nobody voice like his. True Burro have that tone of voice but Cutty just too nuff widdit. Enjoy the video though ...

LEGALIZE IT

Sammy Levi - Come off The Road

This is my era. Tears upon tears

Alexei Sayle - Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?

THIS IS HOW I GOT ME NAME

Sizzla & Ninjaman live in Jamaica 2006

I Got It Now

Its been over a year (still can't believe it) doing this Ustreamness. Its been all that I thought it would be. I play what I wanna play for people all over the world. Met some cool folks and I'm learning from a great network of DJs that we call ONE NATION RADIO. The Most Dangerous @DJMELLSTAR, @BOOGIEBLIND, @DJ_SKINNY, @SISTASTROKE, @DUMMYTHEDJ to name a few who inspire me and have shared their music.
One of our listeners Dooks P from the UK actually gave me some advice about how to format my shows, He simply asked if zi ever thought of a theme? The thing is, I pride myself on not playing predictable formats, but just so that I don't lose anybody including myself, I will share with you the DECENT SOMETHING LISTENING GUIDE.

Sundays at 7PM EST 4PM PST I do my Reggae program. I start with the intro chune "PREPARE" by Luciano and from there for the first half hour I play JAH-centric music. This is music that glorifies the Creator. My ideal is biblical in which you seek the LORD first and then everything after. I used to practice RastafarI and Islam and even though I am Christian I haven't canceled out my allegiance to Rasta or Allah. My belief is Ras Tafari is Christ in His Kingly character and Allah means more than our concept of God. Much bigger than our human physical understanding. (Pardon me for proselytizing. We can talk about that on a later date.)

The next 15 minutes I play some crucial roots music. The intro song is "Roots" - Bob Marley. After that on the East it oughta be 7:45 so I start play pure 7" 45s for the next 15 minutes. My joints rep my whole show as I juggle from Ragga to Rocksteady to Roots to Dub to Ska to Classics. At the top of the hour its FIRETIME at 8PM so its time to shake off the crosses and have a good time for a half then its all about ROCKERS (Lovers Rock, Rocksteady, Classics and the like.)
Glory to GOD I have been getting great response. Thanks again Dooks P, Richie Criss and my wife and Queen for helping me structure the program.

On ALIVE ON ARRIVAL Mondays 2PM EST I set it off with GOSPEL (Not the stuff that made you wanna leave church but the stuff that make you wanna got to church in the first place. LOL) Then I don't where I go from there but I trust the LORD that I wind up there. Please send me any requests or critique. Its all for you! decentsomething@gmail.com

SALUTE

Sinus is a Minus, Plus it Sucks!!!

Real quick. I been sufering for bout 2 weeks with severe sinus congestion and drainage. Its wack as hell. I be having a conversation with a colleague or client and my nose would run like Bolt. Its the worst. I'm getting allergy shots form my doc, but I don't love that. I truly believe there's a cure in the herb. If you have any answers to how I can be cured naturally. Please hit me up at decentsomething@gmail.com Thank you and I'll talk to you later man.