Lateboots and Amber Rose

Look at this, I haven't posted about Lateboots in a long time. Ever since their site revamp all Marquis talks about is himself. But I checked it out today and came across this pic.

Not much to say but I think this pic is cool. ( I still don't fux with either of them really)

Elaquent "Love Story Promo"

I find myself up at all hours of the night more and more now-a-days, working on everything from videos to graphics to all kinds of stuff. So every now and again I take time out to just search the web with no real goal in mine. While randomly searching you can come across some pretty crazy stuff and some pretty good stuff such as the video below. I've had to have listened to this track at least 15 times this morning, it's ill, that's all I can say. It has this slow jam smooth vibe, with a nice kick of funk when you hear the boards chime in. Ok I'm going to stop before I begin to ramble, but random accidental finds are AMAZING! lol enjoy...

Cry While Driving Because of Mommy (I wish I could make that rhyme)

Yesterday, I was cruising down the street lanes in my whip (ha!) listening to Late Registration (my FAVE Kanye album). Usually I sing-a-long to every song because I actually know the words to most of it and singing-a-long makes the trip to your destination much shorter. Somehow, I got into the zone around track 16 which is titled "Hey Mama". Instead of singing along, I truly took the time out of my safe-traveling experience to truly enjoy the meaning to the song. Of course, Kanye is speaking of his relationship with his mother (by the way, this song means a lot because he wrote this song BEFORE his mom passed away...alive and well...always the best time to show your love for someone), but a LOT of it relates to me and how I feel about my mother. And guess what my a$$ started to do??...........I started crying!!! WTF!!??!! I haven't cried on a song since '91 (true story....I used to cry to some sappy Christmas song at the age of 4. I was weird). After I realized I was crying, I started to laugh at myself for being a sappy bum. I think I must have embarrassed myself (the people in the cars next to me probably thought that I was having an emotional breakdown...menopause at the age of 22...break downs and ish). but ANYwhooo...after I stopped thinking that i was a rah-tard, I realized that I had a reason to at least drop a small tear (I only had like 2 tears throughout this process). The reason is:

I FREAKING LOVE MY MOMMY!!!

I am one lucky mamma jamma. BELEE DAT! My mommy is goofy just like me, funny, weird (a good weird), has nice jewelery (random quality but who cares), helps with funds, gets on my nerves at times (but that just proves we are normal and our souls are not possessed or nuthin' like that), has a crush on Mos Def and Common (at least i think so), laughs at things in church that are not supposed to be funny, does not try to be cool and wear Air Force 1s, looks younger than her age, still will wrestle me, gets manis/pedis every week, drives a Jeep Commander, likes to go bowling and has her own bowling shoes and 2 balls even though she is not a professional, has 3 weirdos for kids, knows how to work the Wii, plays Bingo at home for money, cheats when playing Scrabble (you are not supposed to look at the dictionary if you want to be a legit winner in Scrabble...it's just not fair), drinks Malibu rum with pineapple juice, says "easy greasy" as a salutation when we get off the phone, lets me eat in the living room with the cream carpet, takes pictures with crackheads because the crackhead's sign is funny (click HERE for proof!!), and there's so much more but I would take over the Made Monarchs blog with my antics alone and I love my fellow Monarchs so I will not go thus far. Just know i looooveee my mama.

I have decided to end this post awkwardly...

soooo.....the end.

Good Morning

Ja Rule had a Birthday Party. . .

None of his Celebrity friends came. . .

Ashanti Stopped by. . .

Thats all. . .

Been Gone!

Haven't posted in a while, been stupid busy, designs, videos, homework, blah blah. I won't bore you with all that but know we got some good stuff coming in the works. Anywhoooo check out these scratchings i found while searching the web, i need to get my creative game up. All scratched out of old doors and plaster.

Twiggy & Sleepovers

So the picture up above is me around the age of 7 or 8 bout to head to the Christmas Program at church to say the speech that I practiced oh so hard and long for. The rest of the post will be about me in the 7th grade...*blank face*...nothing to do with the picture up above...but this was the only picture that I could find on the web that gave you a sense of my youth. In case you are trying to imagine what I look like in the 7th grade for the remainder of the post, just look at the picture up above, color me in a tad bit browner (just a tad), add a couple inches of height, scratch the dress, and grow my hair out and you have the 12-year-old Twiggy. Any questions???....oook...let's go.

My friends and I happen to randomly talk about our childhoods around lunch time (I don't know what it is...it's like the word "lunch" cues childhood memories). But ANYwhooo, somehow, it got on the subject of sleepovers. I use to be a big fan of sleepovers as a child because I wanted to show my childhood friends that I had a fun house with a cool a$$ mom. A show-off if I must say (luckily, that characteristic has deteriorated but I like to say that I show-off modestly these days). If you are unaware, getting a group of girls together (regardless of age), may result in abandoned friendships, injuries, or whatever else you want to choose from the list. I have been a cute tomboy since I got to pick out my own clothes, so those things that most girls get upset over didn't quite occur with me. The first time I can remember being mad at some chicks at a sleepover was because they were cheating while we were playing "Red Light Green Light" (I believe in winning fair and square and if you have to cheat to surpass me, you ain't nuthin' but a SUCKA!) Besides all of that nonsense, my sleepovers have been in the clear......

UNTIL....

I had a sleepover with 2 of my girl friends in the 7th grade. This was the smallest sleepover I have had in my life and turned out to be the worst....ain't that a biznitch! I will NOT put out the names of these individuals because I have realized that even events that happened years ago still affect the soul....and um...I don't want anyone's soul to be affected. So for the sake of hearts, I will call the individuals 'Tee and Jee' throughout the post. Tee is skinny and Jee is fat.

This story is not long, and I will get straight to the point. What is crazy is that only ONE of these chicks ruined the sleepover and caused me to permanently delete sleepovers from my list of "joy". Jee is the cause. (GOT DAMMIT JEE! I probably could have gotten a couple more years of sleepovers in! I just realized that.) ANYwhooo...me, Tee, & Jee were having a grand ol' time doing our sleepover things....trading Pokemon cards, playing streetball, and even got some Barbie time in. Midnight hit and we had made it to the TV to watch those scary movies that you look at now to be a disgrace...but back then they gave you the creeps. Me and Tee were sitting in the TV room frightened from a scene in the movie when I realized that Jee had been missing for quite awhile. Me and Tee searched the house and found Jee knocked out on the floor in my room. Me and Tee laugh instantly...ready to crash her face with the historic toothpaste prank...but we decide to let her get good and sleep before we execute the plan....so we go for snacks. Joyfully, I open the cabinet and look for all of the goodies that my mama had bought for us....Hmm....couldn't find them. I search the other cabinet...2 bags of chips. Next stop...the fridge...2 juices!! Where are my muthasuckin' snacks at?! We had way more than this! Then I hear Tee say quietly, "umm....Jhonna....check out the trash." Can you BELIIEEVVVEE that in the trash can there were tons of chip and candy bar wrappers and juice boxes EMPTY?!" Me and Tee look at each other and instantly run back up to my room to search Jee for evidence. Lo and behold, there by Jee's hand was a half-eaten bag of Doritos. WTF!!!! This fat a$$ seriously ate up all my snacks!!!....These snacks were for 3 people and she smashed a good 85% of it!! I was through. I woke Jee up and told her that both her and Tee had to get the hell up outta here in the morning.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Twiggy Don't Fux Wit' Fat A$$es at Sleepovers

MM x PhotoBooth x Randomness

This is what happens you have too much time on your hand and macbook photobooth...lol

Check out Twiggy mouth while she sitting on the couch, looks like straight "o's" lol

introducing...."THE RAP SUMO"

Glimpse of Chicago

Venezuela.Nine-Tails.Loft.PhotoShoot

like $hit boy

"LET YO SOUL GLO LIKE SHIT BITCH"

Monarchs at IHOP

Three way flip...the beauty in music

When it comes to music, beats/instrumental always resonate with me way better then lyrical stuff does. Dont get me wrong though, i love lyricism as much as the next dude, i just prefer to hear the sound of music/instruments themselves. A lot of times i will just sit on the computer watching cats on mpc's and asr's or fruity loops and reason just making beats and always dope to see everybody's own interpertation of how to flip a sample. Perfect example is the video below Billy Paul "Let The Dollar Circulate"

Also when you listen to the song its interesting that a song made in 1975 is so relevant to today's economic state...music is timeless


So first we have 9th Wonder's version, if you know anything about this guy's production then you know his drum layouts go HARD!


Next up we have the legendary J DILLA who made this track for Steve Spacek, ILL, but what else do you expect from the man Jay Dee (R.I.P)


Then last up we have Don Cannon's, better known as CANNON, track he did for young jeezy off the reccession album.


All three were pretty good flips but it was something 9th Wonders drums that practically had me snapping my neck from so much head nodding lol. Dont get me wrong though, Dilla's version was still insane and classic it was just something about the simplicity's in 9th's. And as for CANNON's/Jeezy's well.....umm no hate, but it was pretty much just the sample chopped in a few places and a few drums *shrug* thats just me though...anywhoo music is dope...that is all...lol

I give you.....CleverBot

So while i have been at home reviving myself from sickness, ive been rolling around on the internet checking everything from twitter to hypebeast to vside. While on the hypebeast forums i came across this interesting site called CleverBot. The site says the whole time you're talking to a computer but you would almost swear you're talking to a person......check out some of the conve me and cleverbot had below and try it out for yourself here at Cleverbot.com

Cleverbot: Tell me something exciting about you.

User: I jump off roofs.

Cleverbot: Was it fun?

User: Yes but it was kind of painful.

Cleverbot: We're moving on because you have stopped making sense. How is your day going?

User: Sense? I have 5 of them, my day is good.

Cleverbot: Money is ok but it can really blind people to what life is really about.

User: Yes dollar is burger.

Cleverbot: I like burger king's thing.

User: I like chicken tendercrisp.

Cleverbot: Everyone does. Even chickens like eating chicken.

User: I know cuz I eat them too.

Cleverbot: Nasty.

User: Yes I win.

Cleverbot: Good for you.

User: Haha you're not a computer.

Cleverbot: Stupid!

User: I know you are.

Cleverbot: And I know you are!!:D.

User: And I told you I am you and you are we.

Cleverbot: You are not! Your 50.

User: Ska ba che se BINGO!

Cleverbot: Can you ever be nice?

User: BURR.

Cleverbot: Aaron?

User: Gucci.

Cleverbot: Give me a hint.

User: Oleydoit.

Cleverbot: Ole ise.

User: Babashegi.

Cleverbot: I don't speak that language.

User: Unburr.

Cleverbot: I think so.

User: Me too.

Cleverbot: Yes.

Skip-neh-neh

Happy Wednesday!

THE SKIPPER

Umm.....wow

I will let the video do the talking LOL

Where has The Skipper been??

One word.....Grinding! This is my 09 wrap up i guess (late i know) lol...but here is some new and old stuff all from 09 that ive worked on....so if you need those graphic services, photography, and video work GET AT US! chea! 2010 we up in der! POW POW! i feel like saying pow alot lately lol ...random



^Above is a taste to a concept to come for a MM apparel piece, full version soon

i fux with @DRAGONFLYJONEZ

Today started out pretty weak. 1st I found out I didn't do as well on my last test, which resulted

in me having to take the final for the class to get a B. 2nd I had to wait 45 mins in the advising office to get registered for classes next semester and 3rd I got stuck with one of the wackest advisors known to man...

LUCKY FOR ME TWITTER WAS INVENTED!!! AND I follow @DRAGONFLYJONEZ. By now you all should be on Twitter...and if you are...you should be following this guy. This is his third feature on made monarchs so it should tell you something about this guy. THIS WAS HIS RESPONSE ABOUT HER ABOVE........

DragonflyJonez
@Mademonarch_O She looks like Cliff's neighbor from the Cosby Show ---> FUCKING PERFECTION! This was tweeted 5 mins after I posted the pic. THAT MEANS HE KNEW WHAT THE HELL HE WAS TALKIN ABOUT!

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT @DRAGONFLYJONEZ MADE MY DAY......

Regular People

These people are regular as hell and funny!! It makes me think of a few people.

When its gets to about 30 seconds you will get the idea.

[Really A big ass Concert Green Room](Us sitting in the ABC Office)

Chris Brown = Adrian

Soulja = Will Hump

Teyana = Jhonna/Paris

Polow Da Don = Anonymous Insolence

Akon = Udoka (lol)

Tyga = ?

Lloyd = ?

New Boyz = ?

POLO FAIL

STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PRODUCTS BUT I NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE.

YES THAT POLO RANGER IS EATING MY HAND, It must have been a TOTAL DEFECT WITH THIS PARTICULAR BOOT. LOOKS LIKE RALPH LAUREN NEEDS TO STEP HIS SWEAT SHOP GAME UP.

Paw Boots

Over Thanksgiving weekend, me, my sister, & mother were watching The Wiz...u know...the hood classic rendition of The Wizard of Oz. ANYwhooo...I love my mother. My siblings and I received our goofy traits from her. In the movie, she points out that the Lion has thick heels on his paws. (I wish I could have gotten the part in the movie that she pointed out, but the photo will have to do.) If you look VERY closely in the photo up above, you will see that I pointed out the infamous heel. Can you believe that is real?! What kind of lion needs heels on his paws?!! The movie is unrealistic already on its own...but to put HEELS ON PAWS?!!!!....a disgrace. After careful research, I decided that the heels on paws must have been requested by the actor portraying the lion...(after all, he is the one who has to bear the pain of walking around on paw heels)....and I was right....

--LOOK AT GUY ON FAR RIGHT--

He LOOKS like a person that would request some heels on some paws... *3 snaps in Z-formation*