My homey JC from TheMeaningOfDope sent me a message about this video saying that Busta had outdone his performance from the VH1 Hip Hop Honors show.

What do ya’ll think? Which is the Busta you know and love?

1st Busta (Rock The Bells Tour) or 2nd Busta (VH1 Hip Hop Honors)

Ooooh that’s a close one.

A few months back I was in Revival in Toronto partying at ‘Shuffle’ and Ed aka True Numperor of the Inquiringmind camp comes up to me while I’m staggering around with a couple of beers in my hand and says, “Yo, Neil Armstrong (aka Jay-Z’s tour dj for the Heart of the City Tour) was wearing your Missing James tee at the Jay-Z/Mary J show at the MGM Grand in Vegas!”

I immediately lost my mind like a fucking child, went to the bar and bought 2 six packs of Heineken and started celebrating like I had won the fucking lottery.

I gotta admit, I was geeked. He’s a dope ass dj, and that’s a pretty good look for someone just starting out in this clothing game like myself.

After a couple of phone calls and an email, I received these pics of Neil rocking that shit while partying after the show.

It’s gotta be the shirt.

She loves how it feels on her back.

Big Homey autographed the Reasonable Doubt LP for Neil. I just gave him a couple of my Ideall Clothing shirts. It’s about the same effect I’d say.

Shout out to Ed. Good lookin out homey.

DAY SEVENTEEN RESULTS:

Face Shape: Bang on.

Eyes: Eerily revealing and indicative of what was going on while I was drawing this. The face that I didn’t draw the left eye adds to the drawing.

Nose: Not the best execution, but still very much a good depiction of my nose.

Mouth: Could use more detail, but is still a good representation of what my mouth actually looks like.

Details: The method I used to tackle this 5 Minute Me was based on attacking the shadows first, and to my partial surprise it worked out eerily well for the mood I was in during this illustration. The details of the rest of the drawing aren’t exceptional, but the detail in the look in my eye is what does it for this 5 Minute Me.

Final Thoughts: This, all around, is my favorite, most honest, most heartfelt 5 Minute Me. It was hard getting through the written portion.

DAY SEVENTEEN PIECE:
Oh Dear Anxiety. (written in 4mins 48secs)

Oh Dear Anxiety.
thank you.

thank you for doing this to me.

for making me afraid

to leave the house.

afraid to see my
friends

get a job

and live like a

regular person.

thank you for
debilitating me to a

person without choice

and making me want to be

right back in the hospital
they swore I belonged in.

thank you for
ruining

my weekend,

damaging my meetings

and helping me lose
that job,

never get that other job,

not make it through

that interview,
and that one too.

thank you

for helping me never

take that acting role,

never leave my house
without

a hat,

and helping me

cry on this

fucking
page

so that I can’t

write out

how much I
mean,

fuck you.

you’ve helped
me ruin
my
own life.
and i hate
you for
it.

be.
08.05.08

DAY SIXTEEN RESULTS:

Face Shape: A little short, but that comes with the perspective of the drawing.

Eyes: Proportionately too big, but I like how the reflection in the eyes looks. My right eye does tend to stay a little more open than my left. You’ll notice this when I’m chugging beers or brushing my teeth for some reason, so it is actually quite possible that it was a little more open while my left eye was squinting.

Nose: A little too big on the left side and not enough definition altogether. It doesn’t match my nose, but it does resemble it.

Mouth: Once again, I ran out of time. I think that it would have been a good representation of my mouth, but I just took too much time on the eyes and didn’t have enough left for the mouth.

Details: I felt like I needed to draw in the top line and my shoulder line to show that I was sitting in a car, peering at myself in the rear view mirror of the drivers side to get this illustration done. The actual physical facial details of the illustration aren’t that good, but the eyes and the depiction of me obviously in a foreign environment outside of the regular 5 Minute Me’s is pretty good.

Final Thoughts: As soon as I stared out the window to draw this one, I was shook. It’s weird how much I was used to drawing myself at a particular angle with a particular type of lighting. Once I had to step out of that, my whole order of drawing the 5 Minute Me had to switch up and it was difficult to capture the likeness of myself as quickly. Although it doesn’t necessarily resemble me, I think that this is one of my favorite 5 Minute Me’s thus far.

DAY SIXTEEN PIECE:
Global Equality. (written in 4mins 39secs)

New found.
I choke like telling bad jokes,
a noose sound.
Proud of land.
A man,
guess I’m still partially moose bound.
It’s glory.
A mime with a mind can only tell a half a story.
A man who talks is still inside a box.
This is liberty.
East and West exist inside a toppled state of symmetry.
It’s ugly face doping any chance for a fair race.
“One of these days
we’ll all be of color”,
said my brother.
“You better marry a nice white girl”,
said his mom.
Dear Lady Love,
My faith in you
is gone.

be.
08.04.08

DAY FIFTEEN RESULTS:

Face Shape: Too long and too wide at the bottom. I look like Kanye post-crash.

Eyes: I really like the eyes in this 5 Minute Me. I drew this in the morning and you can tell by the way the light shone in through my window and reflected off of my eyes versus how it is in the rest of the 5 Minute Me’s. I always tend to pay a little more attention on the right eye (left), as was the case again in this one.

Nose: The nose is too long and too narrow. There isn’t enough definition around the bridge, and it was just poorly drawn.

Mouth: Looks really rushed. I was probably running out of time as I usually do when I get to the mouth. It does look like my mouth though, just a poorly executed version of it.

Details: There aren’t a lot of details in this 5 Minute Me. It’s pretty bland with the exception of the seriousness in the eyes.

Final Thoughts: I was anticipating having to draw this 5 Minute Me during the day because I was leaving to go up north with my lady later on in the day. I think since I’m not a morning person I wasn’t alert enough to get this illustration to a point of detail that I would have liked it to be at. There’s been some regression from day 14 for sure. And where the fuck is my right ear?

DAY FIFTEEN PIECE:
Let’s Have A Man To Mom Talk. (written in 4mins 45secs)

You’ve lied and tried to make up for it in sweet Hallmark remarks and Christmas gifts and cards. I hope you know I see right through it.

A friend told me that if you had just come down those steps to see him beating me with belts, naked, face down on that wooden table, it would be too real for you. So you stayed upstairs and kept it out of your mind.

I wonder how it feels to lie so consecutively that they cross one another over. You’ve X’ed your place in my heart with a red flag for tainted love. I see your name and maybe should change it. And I know you’re happy I’ve made it.

I’m also happy that you tried in the way that you did.

Kanye and Pac make me feel like I should praise you. I thank you for paying all the doctors and youth centers to raise me.

I’ve been a grown ass man.

Don’t
Call
Me,
“baby”.

be.
08.03.08