I do think that tonight I may have victim to the type of cheating you are talking about. I quickly dropped from #16 to off the leaderboard which required my song falling several spots on the charts. I don’t see how that many negative votes would come in during a short period of time when I’ve done so well this week. I hope the admins investigate and ban anyone who is caught cheating the system.

After thinking about this posting for a while, I guess I feel like puttin up my thoughts too, like anybody else…
Hummm…. Why can competitors vote for/against each other again?? Like a lot of people said, that’s where the real issue iz! It’s really puttin the artists in the situation of a catch 22. Don’t vote people down, cuz we see it, n it’s bad n unfair (n I do fully agree with that); but then they will vote U down, n you won’t get ur material heard (cuz gotta make it to that top 20, right??). Honestly what r u supposed to do?? True. they are some kidz playin around here, still livin with mom & dad, n if they don’t win, oh well, they’ll finish college next year… But how about the true MCs? How about the ones who get up every morning n gotta go out n grind to sell their music to make their bread, n support their family… Might not be the majority, but there ARE some people here for whom, this is not just a competition, it’s their life on the line. How about them? They should jus let other people blow their chances away??
Like I said I don’t support that, but I think it’s jus unavoidable… Whatever happens, n whoever did what, at the end of the day, we all hope the judges WILL SEE who shines thru, n make the right pick !

P.S. By the way, I’m not gonna lie, I did vote some people “down” (if I may say)… but those were honest votes, cuz while there is some talent around, some of these niggaz out here SUCK man, leaderboard or not!! WACK is WACK, no matter how fair u wanna be!

Is there any way I can subscribe to your blog? Thanks!…

Deshawn Lamont Harper, who told me he grew up in Virginia, spent a few years in Atlanta, Ga. before his family moved to Bridgeport. It was in Connecticut that he said he started writing lyrics he describes as rhythm and poetry (which I just figured out stands for RAP, DUH, my dumb!) He recorded three different albums titled “Bread and Budda”, “From Pain to Blessing” and most recently, “It Takes a Hood to Raise a Child.” Here are images from two of his album covers…

Deshawn, who is 30 now, seemed pretty pumped up about his work - but a little nervous too and not sure about how to tell me all he wanted to say. I thought he did okay for a cold phone call to someone he didn’t even know.

“The first album “From Pain to Blessings,” has songs dedicated to President George Bush another album is titled “Bread and Budda,” on that one I have songs dedicated to the Senator of Bridgeport - (ex-State Senator) Ernest Newton and (former Bpt.) Mayor John Fabrizzi,” Deshawn said about two controversial Bridgeport leaders who made media headlines quite a bit over the past few years. “They went through a lot of ups and downs. Hopefully they will turn around and do the right things.”

The third album is about how Deshawn has tried to turn himself around by taking his personal experiences and using them toward creating a more positive life. He said he formed his own publishing company called Dark Legion Publishers/Mystory Entertainment. This third album and the upcoming autobiograpy he’s written with the same title, represents his life’s journey, he said, a chance to get the things in his head out there - things he’s seen and experienced, but could never talk about in the open without feeling like a “snitch.”

“I’m walking through a real life book right now, you have to capture the moment and don’t let it go,” he said of the book, which he hopes to see published within the next few months. “The story is about a young man growing up in a neighborhood, going through everyday experiences…changing his life from violence to an entrepreneur life.”

You can listen Deshawn’s songs by going to http://cdbaby.com/cd/darklegionmyztery. All the albums are there. When the book comes out, Deshawn said plans to distribute it to local libraries and book stores.

I’ll keep my eye out for this book, could be an interesting read.

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