North Side Records
Presents:
The North Side Syndicate
The Premiere Rap Talent From Northern Michigan To Portland
The North Side Show
Ghetto Rise Records, Dopehouse Records, Tone City Recordz, Bow Wow Records, AWOL, Backstab the KingpinI feel its time to adress a few issues. I will break it off to you in a summery of my biography. I was raised in Portland oregon the largest city in Oregon in the early 90's crime was at a peak level in Portland due to the growing gang population. I was moved to the city from a small North woods town in Michigan in the second grade. I was raised by a single mother and had liveing with me my big sister and big brother. Being a low income family we stayed in the ghetto zone. The North Side.
By the 6th grade i was involved with the negborhood crip gang. I was expeled from fernwood middle school for very bad behavor and sent to an alternitive school where i meet the other members of the NORTH SIDE SYNDICATE. Things progressed into drug use assult breaking and entering auto theft and a rash of other crimes. I was arrested for the first time in the 8th grade. By the 10th grade i was serving the rocks on my block. I smoked weed as if it was leagle. And was damn neer a acholoic. I was sitting on my front porch as I did on the daily. Sipping on a forty and smokeingh on a bowl. I thought to my self damn it seems like im always looking at a pipe and a flame. If i dont stop thim im going to hit the pen are fuckin die. Just then on 30th and Stark street there was a head on colision. I watched two people die befor my eyes. I knew it was a sign. With in two weeks I was on the greyhound headed for that same small town. I inrolled in school and stuck it out. I was 20 when i graduated. I was ridiculed and marked by the police as a gangbanger. The school and the police made it verry hard for me to graduate. But i did it for me. I had a dream to graduate high school and go to college. Get married and raise a family. I made that dream come true. Its not a big dream but for sure for us that lived or do live in the city we know just how hard it is to make it come true. I nver graduated form college but i did have a chance and if i was in the hood i personaly would never have seen that happen. Im a lucky mother fucker I stay in contact with the hommies and know what has happened to many of them. I am one of those that made it out. I rap because I have something to say. I have a lesson to teach. Yes i do speak about the terrorable things that happen on the other side of the tracks. I am proud to be from the hood. Like the saying gos you can take the boy out of the city but you cant take the city out of the boy. I am now a man and those things that i seen made me who i am. I know what is out there and know many of us are still in that place. I will never forget where i came from. What you see is what you get. You might think its fake you might get mad. You can call it what you want but we know that there is no shame for being from the ghetto. I stand tall and keep my head up. I am proof that my hommies in Texas In Portland in DETROIT can make there dreams come true. You can hate me if you choose. I tell you this. Befor you lay judgement on me look in the merior.MrPoohbeaRPanic J's Postulations We all love violence don't we? I don't know if I even want to explore why, other than to say that for most people they read the headlines as if they are watching a soap opera... But it is entertaining isn't it? NBC's evening line-up is jam-packed with Law and Order shows, Crossing Jordan, and the like. These shows usually kick off with the analysis of a molested and/or murdered person/child, and the ensuing investigation. What gets press? The O.J. Trial, or any celebrity who can perpetuate this voyeuristic soap opera by killing someone and bringing Camelot to a grinding standstill. I don't want to hear any haters talking about being called the North Side, or for singing about fantasy violence, because apparently they are failing to put two and two together.
They hate on rap, but go home to watch Law and Order or some other crime show. Well guess what? Hater probably couldn't tell the diffence if we happened to take our songs and made them into a made-for-TV detective story. Or has it happened already? Keep your eyes open for the North Side Star or anything with the North Side label on it, cuz these boys like to entertain...The time has now come for me to announce my official departure from the Northside Syndicate.
Through the years, Ive remained determined and focused on preparing myself for my future, so thatI will be able to deal with the unexpected yet inevitable fate in which we all lie.One Thing that I held on to through homelessness, abandonement, self induced oblivions, family deaths and any other thing that made me want to die, was my dream. I still hang on. My dream that even if for a second the world could see through my eyes, I would show them the pain and suffering, we all have endured through the struggles and conflicts we have survived. Thats all I want to do.The Northside Syndicate is no longer fitting in that dream. I no longer wish to jeopardize my career, having so-called friends publicize me outside of my true charachter, and distorting my
image to fit their M.O.saying that, I pray the best of luck to Pooh bear, Panic J, and Rousseau, and hope that with maturity and good judgement, you will continue on without me, As I will do the same...
