Deuxieme Episode by VEUXDO MAGAZINE

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HEAD first - ECO CULTure real life soldier BOYS + specials from the premiere episode!

episode deux a.d. 2010

acknowledgements Chief Executive Officers and Editors-in-chief: Jo'el Lumpkins, Lauren Cheung Creative Director: Lauren Cheung Web Editors: Jo'el Lumpkins, Lauren Cheung Contributing Writers: Lauren Cheung, Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;el Lumpkins, Mychal Estrada, Jose Marquez, Bryson Paul, Paulina Smith Advertising and Circulation: Bryson Paul, Jo'el Lumpkins, Lauren Cheung Marketing: Jo'el Lumpkins

WELCOME TO THE DEUXIEME EPISODE ofVEUXDO MAGAZINE :)

What’s good world!!!!???? Welcome to our second issue of VeuxDo (voodo) Magazine. Yes, Lala and I are still coming up with amazing and epic ideas that’s going to be expressed through VeuxDo Magazine through out the year. I am very excited about how the 09 year ended and as well as the start of the 2010 year. There’s a lot to look out for as far as in VeuxDo Magazine this year like more party events, community events, tours, exclusive interviews and co labs. I would love to thank all of our supports, Family, Friends, Business partners, Scumbags Clothing Crew, Kaboom Magazine, OJ da Jucie Man and Simone from Mizay Ent/So Icey Ent. -Jo’el Lumpkins

Hey friends! I’m proud to welcome you to the Deuxieme Episode of Veuxdo Magazine. In this issue we’re lookin at a lot of great ideas, energy, dope new writers, and even some exerpts from the premiere episode for those of you who weren’t able to get your hands on one of the limited edition copies. I’m looking forward to starting 2010 off with a bang! There will def be more interviews, artwork, photography, and plenty more braincandy headed your way :] I would like to thank all the contributors, sponsors, readers, writers, inspirations, and artists who are helping to make Veuxdo happen. Peace and Love, Lala

Who's world is this?

It's ours, it's ours, its ours. So pay attention.

Has anyone seen that AT&T commercial with that one guy with a shoe business who needs his “more bars in more places” to so he can travel around the world and give free shoes to kids in need? Well if not, you probably don’t sit in front of the TV a lot, and for two, that’s probably a good thing, except for the fact that you might not have heard of this guy. Who is doing very cool things, by the way. So I’m talking to my very cool and friendly and all-around knowsabout-good-things-that-peopleshould-do friend Chelsea [who also very kindly wrote us a very nice article to open this episode with. Thanks Chelsea!] …where wasI? Oh yes. My friend told me she was sooooo geek’d because she just got her new TOMS in the mail.

“TOMS?,” I asked, thinking they were some kind of something that had to do with a fashion thing that existed way long ago in some vintage era passed, and that I knew what it was just just didn’t know it was called that. And I was kind of right. Sort of. See it was then that I found out that that guy in that commercial’s company was a real life thing, and that his company is called TOMS. [And I thought that all the crap they put in commercials was made-up! Glad this one wasn’t. ]

Blake Mycoskie, owner of this glorious company and today’s Robin Hood of shoe distribution, sells one pair of shoes to people who can afford it, and gives one pair to a kid who can’t afford it. Awesome. They come in an assortment of colors and materials, featuring their O.G. Sanook-esque slip on TOMS, and more recently their new, more prestigious looking Keds-with-no-laces style called “Air Cardones.” My favorite are a pair of canvas Air Cordones with cream colored canvas body and brown leather piping and heel, pictured:

Kind of Coach-esque, no? But with a more I-like-to-fight-forthe-good-and-worthy-cause look? Maybe? Perhaps that’s just my prejudice/lack-ofbig-flashy-not-outwardlycondescending-marketing vernacular. Either way, I dig them. And I dig the cause. Who wouldn’t? Whether you rock a pair of O.G. TOMS around the house, to school or to the park, or fancy shmancy it up with some vintage duds and post a picture of yourself on Lookbook, [if you don’t know what

that is by now you should seriously consider reading the WHOLE magazine, slacker. No offence.] it’s safe to say you’re doing it with a good conscience, because just like our tax dollars, you’re shopping & giving.*  TOMS are available for sale** at www.tomsshoes.com

*That last part about tax dollars is meant to be somewhat satirical, but foreals, TOMS is for a good cause. I swear.

**This article is in no way affiliated with Sanook, Keds, Coach, or TOMS... yet.

By: Lauren Cheung// LALA

Photo borrowed from: http://richarddurbin.files.wordpress. com/2009/04/toms-baby-feet.jpg original source unknown.

photo credits to http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdptcar/949798984/

SOLDIER BOYS Sports, Toys, summertime water fights, playing tag around your neighborhood, grade school, high school, college, then on to peruse the life that you’ve always imagined when you were a kid. Those are just a few of the advantages that usually come with being growing up in the Untied States of America. Even if your path didn’t go quite like that, you still had a CHOICE to do what you needed to do to evolve. Our system gives us opportunities, and we have choices and opportunities that we often take for granted. There are some children out there who aren’t fortunate enough to go to college or even get schooling at all.

fighting for the beliefs of their recruiters. They have no choice in being trained to kill for guerilla, terrorist, or rebel groups. Most are taken away from their families or have to witness the rape, abuse, and or murdering of their close kin and family. Others join because they come from poor families and their best chance at survival is to join with armed forces to keep food in their stomachs and a roof over their head. It is a shame that these young kids don’t know how it feels to grow up without a childhood -- all they know is guns, grenades, and war. They are trained to have no heart, show no fear, and to kill at the drop of a dime. The sad part about it is they are not expected to live for long. I bet if they had a choice of life paths this would not be one of them. So for those that have a choices and opportunities don’t take it for granted because I know these kids would switch lifestyles with the ones with choices and opportunities in a heartbeat.

I always told myself I wouldn’t just be doing nothing with my life, and if the career path that I dreamt about didn’t end up working out, I would joining the US Armed Forces. But it would be my own decision to make, if it came down to it. In some parts around the world, you wouldn’t have a choice. Children at a young age are forced to fight battles that aren’t their own. At this very moment, there are kids as young as 6 years old -Jo’el “Jfresh” Lumpkins walking around with AK-47s, killing and

Image rights to Banksy, respectively. Original source unknown.

Picking Apart Street Art:

Banky s Napalmed Girl

America is known for proclaiming the right to free speech for all its people, and it’s something we certainly have taken advantage of – one of us more elegantly and controversially than others. One anonymous soul seems to take pleasure in the artistry of speaking his mind through exorbitant amounts of carefully placed paint. This world famous graffiti-slash-great-featescape-artist is known as Banksy and has more or less successfully kept his identity a secret to the public while carrying out fantastic stunts of quite beautiful vandalism. Known for his repeated stunts – placing his own versions of the famous Mona Lisa painting in museums, stray elephants painted from head to toe, and pricey pieces sold to celebrities and art admirers alike – Banksy is an attention grabber who knows how to make a statement, often creating controversial political statements by way of cleverly juxtaposed images. In one piece in particular, Banksy portrays a distraught, naked, napalmed girl with a smiling Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald on either side. Although we usually associate figures like Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald as happy campers ready to conquer the world and bring smiles to all with some Mickey Mouse ears and

Happy Meal, Banksy’s piece suggests that America’s bright and happy pop culture icons might have a darker side.

Interpretation of Banksy’s piece is multifaceted and varies largely with the audience it targets. Because his pieces are often made with large stencils, they can be, and are, reproduced in locations around the world – be they in the streets or in an exhibition – appealing to different audiences each time. Due to the nomadic nature of his work, like much of that in the graffiti world, the artist creates one message that can be interpreted any way that the beholder sees fit. Hence, there are different levels of interpretation for this particular piece, which vary with the audience’s knowledge of history and or cultural experience. To the historically naive eye, this image seems nothing more than a disturbing image of a distraught naked child ironically holding hands with two familiar figures from the typical American’s happy childhood. The appearance of the imaged child suggests her are origins from some obscure third world country, rendering Mickey and Ronald to represent America’s ignorance to her pain. The icons pretend to aid her as they walk along side her, holding her hands but very obviously not doing much more. The juxtaposition of these incredibly different characters hyperbolizes the emotions they each separately

evoke. In contrast to the icons that are the pinnacle of American happiness, the already distraught young child seems doubly hopeless. Furthermore, it is all the more believable that the child’s cries fall upon deaf ears. The smiles that under normal circumstances would be more than appropriate come across as just the opposite when paired with a crying, ignored child. Everything about the position of Mickey and Ronald – from the way they turn away from the child, to the way they smile so gleefully ignorant of her tears – turns the happy characters into malicious creeps. Even the way they hold her by the wrists and not by the hands suggests abrasive or forced contact, deviating from any caring motive normally associated with handholding. They appear smug, uncaring, and as if they have something to hide. To the more experienced eye, it would be clear that the weeping child is in fact from a famous picture taken during the Vietnam War. The 9-year-old girl in the image had just been napalmed, so to minimize the burn, she stripped off all of her clothes and proceeded to walk naked down the street with her arms stretched out and her mouth agape in pain (Steinman, 2000). Banksy specifically uses this horrific image because it is symbolic of the Vietnam War, especially to anti-war protesters. A follower of the many protests of Vietnam would recall the Yippie’s capturing of Treasure Island in Disneyland in protest of Disney being sponsored by Bank of America, who also helped to finance the Vietnam War (Scoop 2008).

Banksy’s placement of Mickey Mouse in an image where he is blissfully happy holding the hand of an innocent child suffering the consequences of the war in Vietnam is darkly comical. He successfully portrays the Yippies’ message in their demonstration: that the people of America, and more specifically, the happy and carefree Disneyland-goers should not be so ignorant as to dismiss the close involvement of seemingly innocent “Happiest Place on Earth” with events that lead to more cynical and inhumane acts, specifically war. Another interesting inference is the concept of the connection between war and propaganda in America. Capitalist powerhouses like McDonalds and Disneyland, who are consistently gaining support and expanding their reign, use propaganda to promote the support of their institutions because they bring smiles and happiness for all. Similarly, the government uses propaganda to promote the supporting of our American troops in war because they promise that their ongoing presence will bring democracy and progress for all. In the same way that propaganda in support of McDonalds and Disneyland are nearly infallible, government propaganda in support of the troops is likewise nearly infallible – and as long as the troops are supported, wars will continue. Propaganda is extremely effective: if someone was is to be anti-war, they are accused of not supporting our troops, and by extension, democracy and progress – all of which is amped up

to be the paradigm of America’s pride and glory.

Banksy’s technique is straightforward, innovative, and playful in the most serious and careful of ways. Each part of the image is oriented in a way that reveals a more cynical view of two of America’s family-friendly pop icons. The high-contrast, stenciled-together image exaggerates emotions in the character’s faces, drawing more attention to their differences. As a result, Mickey looks more fake, Ronald looks more evil, and the child’s mal-condition is more intensely apparent. No matter the interpretation, the image has a train-wreck affect and evokes intense emotions from audiences all over the world. by: Lauren Cheung//LALA

Works Cited

Steinman Louise. “Salon.” August 3rd, 2000. <http:// archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/08/03/chong/> (January 15th, 2009). Disneyland Scoop. “Park closures – Did You Know???.” December 1st, 2008. <http://disneylandscoop.blogspot.com/search?q=vietnam> (January 15th, 2009). http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/Banksy_disney_and_mcdonalds.jpg

High off the Economy

Photo borrowed from: http://highboldtage.files.wordpress. com/2009/06/haitianpurple.jpg original source unknown.

Should marijuana be legal? That’s been the question that’s been looking for an answer for years. A few months ago the government wasn’t even entertaining the question. As of today you can see that the government is looking more into the question now, discussing its pro‘s and con‘s it would have on our nation. One major issue is would it have a effect on is our economy? We are in debt and are economy is so high right now that maybe giving the thought of legalizing marijuana would be a great way of pulling us out of this debt that our nation now faces. What will happen if the government decides to go through with this? I think if the government legalize marijuana it might just bring us out of a debt. Think about it, legalize marijuana so it can be sold in stores so the government can tax it will make a huge profit and will open up the market in a huge way. Yes open up the market! I mean by that is that the upper class has a better way of receiving marijuana. Ok, keep it real! Sometimes the “upper class“/the “rich”, wont drive to the hood to

go buy marijuana because of the environment and out of fear. Don’t you watch movies? And plus I know a few that told me their selves that it would be much easier having it at a local convenience store. Increasing more availability for the customer will bring in huge amount of profit for the consumer. In the past 12 months alone the Feds has discover and taken away almost billions of dollars worth of marijuana. When they discover large amount of marijuana they take it to a disclosed location and burn it. My opinion that’s like burning money and everyone knows our economy cant afford that. We want to hear from you! Should marijuana be legal??? Veuxdomag@yahoo.com   -Jo’el Jfresh Lumpkins (twitter.com/jfresh707)

? y a h W ijuan mar As a brown person, the police and I don’t get along. It’s not anything new. Our society has a really screwed up justice system where the white man dominates the brown and the black folk. This brings up an interesting thought. Every day, hundreds of black and brown people are incarcerated for the possession and sale of marijuana. But is marijuana a legitimate reason to put more of our people in jail? Marijuana has been around for a while. Indigenous people would use marijuana for medicinal reasons, much like doctors today are prescribing it to patients with Glaucoma and Cancer. I have never heard of a doctor prescribing a patient a couple shots of alcohol, but marijuana has benefits. What makes drugs like cigarettes and alcohol, which are destructive and unhealthy, more accepted within our legal system than marijuana? The prison system is a business. The more people crammed into a prison, the more money the government will provide. It is obvious that the majority of prisoners, at least here in California, are black people and brown people. It is easy for the system to incarcerate hundreds of people by keeping marijuana illegal, as our marginalized communities are commonly harassed and prosecuted and the marijuana provides an easy excuse to lock us up. After all, marijuana originally became illegal to prosecute Mexican immigrants back in the day,

as Mexican immigrants commonly brought marijuana with them when they crossed the border to work in the fields.

I have seen how cigarettes have blackened people’s lungs, yellowed people’s teeth, aged people’s face, and negatively affected people in multiple other ways. I have seen people taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, act a fool under the influence of alcohol, die of liver problems, and all that other shit that accompanies alcohol use and alcohol abuse. I have not seen marijuana affect people as negatively as other legal drugs. To me it just makes no sense. I will leave it up to you to decide whether or not you agree, but honestly, think critically about the system we are living in and the injustice that the “justice” system forces us to face every day. -Jose Marquez

YOU:

As a child my mother did not allow me to say “cant” or “wont.” This forced me to do a lot of problem solving and stop depending on my weaknesses as excuses for what I did not know yet. My challenge to you is to try it for a month and let me know how it goes for you.

ME:

A lot of people including myself have made resolutions for the new year YAY confetti and cake for everyone! However unlike many people who’ve made resolutions to quit things or stifle their hedonistic desires I havent resolved to stop anything. Instead, I’ve resolved to pursue everything to its utmost potential. This could be the ultimate mark of my insanity or the largest step I’ve yet to take in the direction of self actualization. Let it be noted: We are currently 11 days into the new year and since I have resolved to pursue everything with the utmost force I am capable of my life has been splendid! One of the things I’ve always prided myself on is spending a lot of time exhaling two hits of “Fuck It” while a good chunk of my peers choke on their own inhibitions regarding what makes them “them“. No, I don’t think Im better than you in fact I don’t think anyones better than anyone all I think is that I am simply taking a different road to Nirvana than most people are. With that said I am inviting all of you to look out my passenger window and enjoy the view because like it or not you’re all going on this trip with me; that is unless you get carsick ‘cause y‘all know how I am about puke.

Photo Credits to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kriebel/2248592706/

EVERYONE WE KNOW: From the time I was knee high to a grasshopper my grandma has told me my generation was lazy, I had no idea what this meant until I hit 20 and realized how disgustingly complacent a lot of the 16-24 set is. Yes, we have our movers & shakers those of us who get our limbs broken by cops at protests, those of us whose graduation will mark the demise of really important programs at our hoighty toighty “liberal” arts colleges, and even those of us who are committed to spreading the messages of love, peace, and dope beats but as a whole Gen Z for the most part is too caught up in trivial shit to see our potential as lovers. Now, by lovers I don’t mean Sade listening, poetry reciting, candle lightin motherfuckers I mean real lovers with a zest for life. Have you ever tried to be lazy and in love? It’s hard as hell… In fact I don’t think those two emotions can coexist and if they can there’s probably something deeply wrong with you. Not to be a jerk if you do think you can be lazy and in love but through my travels, (yup we‘ve entered that hippie hype) I’ve learned the best thing about love is it’s ability to actively conjure positive forces within people and help us strengthen our prana and I think it would be very hard to be lazy with all that energy flowing through us. Thanks to a very unknowing Chloe Lor’s Spread The Love project Ive realized Im most healthy when Im sharing my prana [whether consciously or not] So if you gain anything from knowing me/meeting me/loving me/hating me/facebook chatting me I should hope that Ive some how been able to impark the knowledge that you are perfect into your life. I dont mean perfect in the physical emotional mental or spiritual senses because none of us are.. YET! I mean that you’re perfect in whatever skin you are currently living in and there is no need to second guess yourself. awww now everybody hug! . In

a recent conversation with an amazing woman who pulls double duty as the person I emit my highest frequency around AND the catalyst for this note, I found myself reassuring her that everything she would ever need in life she was born with. I dont know how or why I was able to surmise that amount of clarity through a simple text message but all I can do is chock it up to the power of love. Whether it be something as minute as “I like your shoes” or something as huge as “I cant fathom happily existing without you in my life in one way or another” do yourself a favor and remind someone they are special. Yes I might be stealing Mr. Rogers thunder but if you think about it we really are all perfect. PiWi’s Final Thought: If I have learned anything from 2009 about the good bad and ugly of humans it’s that there is one thing that unifies us whether we like it or not… whether we even know it or not and that thing is love. It’s universal, talked about by scholars like Plato, common folks like that halfwit Tila Tequila and great thinkers like Lennon, Shakespeare and Dr. King. So in this time of the Prop 8 hearings I ask that you all remember when it comes down to it, all we have is love. P.S. Yes, my religious ties lie with Judaism but I am a big reader of eastern texts mainly of the Hindu and Buddhist persuasion and this is where I get a lot of my big thinky thoughts although I missed her on her last trip to America I am a big fan of the hugging Saint Mata Amritanandamayi aka Amma so in summary I leave you with this quote of hers: “In these times strength is found in unified action and the unifying force is love. If we can open our hearts and minds to these voices—in whatever form they appear—there is no limit to what we can achieve”

By: Paulina Smith

HEre comes some brand new fLava in ya ear

As we proceed to give you what you need musically.

60 watt kid “60 Watt Kid… erupt out of the primal goddess Rock N’ Roll, like a dream in which David Lynch produces ‘Fear of Music’ by the Talking Heads with Buddy Holly’s Crickets as studio musicians." - Rolling Stone Magazine (Germany) “[Foot Village] hurls themselves so devoutly into every second that their urgency becomes contagious… opt[ing] for rigorous precision. Nothing here is improvised, and it all has the feel of a ritual.” - Pitchfork

LALA: Where are you from? DEREK: LA then San Francisco for the past 4 years now back to LA. the band has been together for 4 years ( kev and I started it in SF) we met dylan and he started playing drums when we moved down to LA. What set do you claim? We are intergalactic pop music. Describe the first time you fell in love with sound or music... or both. When I was younger (7) my mom and I drove around the us and listening to Hank Williams and Kenny Rogers and that

made my first big impression I suppose. Any favorite reads? I enjoy most everything by Chuck Klosterman (a witty hilarious art/pop culture journalist/intellectual commedian). Favorite word? “YES.” Color? Currently bright black Number? 1111 What do you want to bring to the world? I would like to bring a healthy dose of skepticism and irrational thinking. A

long prolonged derangement of the senses to achieve the unknown.

WHO BUT

KASEENO ???

LALA: Why do you call yourself Kaseeno? KASEENO: I call myself Kaseeno because I’ve always played to win. My whole life I’ve Taken risks for what I believed in. Knowing one day I’ll hit the jackpot. Where you’re from man? I‘m originally from the Dominican Republic.….[pause] We got the sexiest girls over there! [Laughs} I grew up in New York for most of my life, then moved to Miami when I was 17 Years old. Haha aoww I bettt! So where can we find you now? What set you claimin? How long have you been in the game? Tell me everyyything!

I am a solo artist so the set I claim is myself, Kaseeno! Sky Gang that’s my crew. Shout outs to King Remmi and Dave Knickz. You can find me in Miami with a Pina Colada chillin on South Beach. Yo, I’ve been in the game, for like 12 years b. I’ve been doing this since 10 years old. That’s pretty dope so you’ve been doin this for a minute huh? Describe the first time you realized that the life of an artist was what you wanted to pursue. I’ve always been into painting, drawing, anything creative. I think music was a natural progression of all of that. Real talk. Not on some corny shit, but the first time I fell in love with music, It felt like I found my soul mate. [Laughs]

Aww. So who and what are or were your inspirations, bringing you to this point in your musical and poetical career? My mom has been the most inspirational person in my life. Seeing her working all of the time. Us doing bad. You feel me? Going through all of that, inspired me to keep moving. Thinking of my mom having to work another day, was my inspiration, feel me. Definately. Could you describe one of the best/funniest/most memorable moments of your life? One of my most memorable moments was the first time I lit up yo. [Laughs] That was crazy dogs. I felt like I was in the matrix. Real talk. Ma du. [Laughs] I remember getting up and seeing things

mad slow. My peoples had to get me water and all. It was a whole bug out. That day was a tweaker. I thought the zootedness was never gonna go away, the high….I was like “I gotta go home, and my mom is gonna see me like this”. I was buggin out.     LOL wow. The zootedness, though. Do you have a favorite word? My favorite words is “tweakin’” and “buggin” you feel me. Whatever’s ill, Whatever’s fly. Whatever look good. Anything out of the ordinary. Thats “buggin out.” If I see a shorty with a fatty…I’ll be like that shit is tweakin. Buggin’ out. [Laughs] You’re silly. You got any favorite Jokes? What’s a joke nowadays? Basically, them people who talk about others not being talented, having no talent themselves. All they do is criticize what your doing, say how wack it is, tell you how to make it, but they can’t do it themselves. That’s the joke homie. I made it, whuttup! I guess I was doing it right after all. [Laughs] Favorite subject in school? A time in my life English was a foreign tongue. When I learned English I was able to read my comics. [Laughs} So English was my favorite subject. Favorite feeling? I think my favorite feeling is feeling fly. When I have a song idea. I feel fly… When I have new kicks on. I feel fly…feel me. [ Laughs}       Haha yeah yeah you like to fly. & little spinny hats and lampshades

over your head. I think the force of that zootedness is still with you, haha. What, in your opinion, have been the best & worst trends lately? I can’t tell you what’s the best trend right now. But, I can tell you what’s the best to come. Not to throw anything out there but that Kaseeno sound is pretty epic doggy. [Laughs] I think the worst trend is those who follow trends. If you’re a trend follower, you are the worst trend. [Laughs]   WORD! Thats exactly what Veuxdo’s all about. Okay okay back to the music. Tell me about that. I got a couple of songs bangin right now. I got “My World”…It’s a song about the things I dream of. It’s hectic. I also got “Boom Boom” poppin off. You know some Spanish flava with Hip Hop in it. I’m just tryna be versatile and bring that color to the game that’s missing.   Gimme details on the new album. The new album is gonna be INSANE. The production on it? INSANE. The lyrics, the songs…the whole concept behind it is cracky. The album is a BUG OUT. That’s the detail. [Laughs] What do you want to bring to the world? I’m a bring to the world that ill shit. That Avant Garde shit. That fly shit. That real shit. I’ma bring to the world, music everybody could relate to. Anything else you’d like to add? You already know. Go to whobutkaseeno.com to stay up to date with

everything im doing. Besides that everything is good money, let’s get it. Get ready for Kaseeno. Its gonna be a BUG OUT. [Laughs]

"Peep kaseeno's thoughts on lady lady fly ass honey type stuff in THIS EPISODE's SEX ARTICLE: head first!

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Jo’el: VeuxDo is a term thats a combination of “want” and “do.” We believe if you want something in life you should just go out and do it as long as its through hard work and the right way. Whats your feeling on our concept? OJ: I feel like it’s a great concept if everything going positive… hard work and net working can go a long way. When did it come upon you that you wanted to pick up a mic and start putting creative lyrics together witch the world know as rapping? Ummm, I would say I got into it early 96 but got involve into it around 99, so I really been rapping since 99. Involve I mean as in I knew and realize that God has bless me with an talent that can take me somewhere.

I already imagine me killing it.

seeing and experiences.

You have about 25 mix tapes in the streets right now. You drop about 15 in the last 6months, how do you stay so active?

In your music you express and talk about a lot different situation you been through as well as the life of trapping.. Dose that make it easier to write music?

I just try and stay relevant in the Hip-Hop community. You know this is my bread and butter. I intertwined from what I was doing and try to use that towards my music. For the people that listening to my music Im going hard in the paint for them setting aside mixtape material while working on the album. (Otis Williams Story)

In my eyes yes, because that where all me music comes from. It comes from what I have experience and been through in my life. Coming out of the ATL, did you feel like it was harder to make it due to the amount of talent surrounding you?

Ok if I was a first time listener Na, not really saying coming out what do you want me to get out of the ATL, but coming out with of your music? that “dope/trapping music” For those that’s a first time listen- The new Album “The Ottis Wiler I would tell them to go listen liams Jr Story”…. to my first mixtape “on the come up” Yes based on a true story

How did you get into it? Any inFrom your first mixtape “On fluences? The Come Up” what has change you as an artist, progression Coming where I come from we wise now? always grew up listening to hiphop, it was apart of life. That It has change me in an huge way. played a huge role and influences Back then I didn’t really see me a lot! nothing to now I have seen a lot. My mind has elevated to were as Would you ever see yourself kill- long as I see different stuff , go places and get out of my usually ing the mix tape game today? environment my rapping style Yes, when I set out to do some- becomes better. It becomes betthing and it could be anything in ter because I seen and done more life, I set high goals for myself so things in a different environment everything I am doing right now not just the environment of the trap and what I am usually use to

Right about your life and different situation dealing with the trap… Yes I’m thinkin you have over 25 mixtapes out….is there any other thing you have to talk about other than the trap? Are you running out of material?

HaHa yeah, as long as the world keeps turning I will have more stuff to say. When I run out of words about trapping I can leach off and talk about the lavish life I am experience with the success

that I have encounter. You have any advice for the ones that’s wants to do your line of work? Yes, as far as in music just don’t let nobody turn you down. Stay true to your music, work your product and keep your loyalty. Do that and things are going to happen How do you feel about make the “Ad-libs” bigger than what they were? “Ayaa” haha it puts a smile on my face! How did you connect with Gucci Mane? I knew Gucci since I was small. He build his company and I built mine and we decided to merge. Anybody you want to work with that you havent got an chance to work with yet? I work with a lot already, but the ones that I havent worked with I really don’t want to say yet for album purpose. Any last words? I just want to thank all my fans,my crew and you guys(VeuxDo Magazine) for the support and look out for my first album the “Ottis Williams Jr Story”

OJ faves Hip-Hop artists you listen to growing up? No Limit, Cash Money, 36mafia  Favorite HipHop Artist ?  Tupac  Favorite RnB artists as of right now?  Well I have a few Peasure P., Trey Songz, and Jermiah  Favorite time in hip-hop?

When the label came down and discovered OJ da JuiceMan, late 2007 begain of 2008  Favorite place to perform?  ATL!  Favorite song to perform?  “Get Money”  ney”Your Favorite mix tape you’ve done?  “Alaska in Atlanta” -Jo’el Jfresh Lumpkins

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-the pack is back (the pack)

Ok, I am going to go hard on The Pack. I from the Bay and I want nothing but the best for the BayArea. They should of came way harder, seems like they didn’t even take their time on it. I feel like the BayArea or just the West Coast period has no room for “wack” albums or mixtapes if we want to see us back on top or a force to be wrecking with when it comes to the music. If I were you I wouldn’t copp that “Pack is Back” MixTape.

-Green Light 2 (Bow Wow)

Cash Money Bow Wow just realest the “Green Light 2” the follow up from his first mix tape the “Green Light” . There has been rumors that Cash Money “Short Dogg” helps him out by ghost writing, but if its not true you can see Bow Wow lyrical growth. The Green Light 2 is “Crack” Go “copp” that “Green Light 2”

-Rebirth (lil wayne)

If you want that Lyrics killing, Cater series, off the wall “No Ceilings” Lil Wayne I wouldn’t copp his latest Album ReBirth due to the fact that it is an rock inspirational album. Don’t get me wrong it a good album just not the wayne you are use too. I wouldn’t “copp”

-Jo’el “J.Fresh” Lumpkins

or not -SEX therapY (Robin thicke)

-Sex Therapy (Robin Thicke) OMG! This album is amazing from beginning to end! Go ‘copp’ that “Sex Therapy” by Robine Thicke

-Deal or no deal (wiz khalifa)

Known for his recent mixtapes , Wiz Khalifa did not disappoint his fans with his latest album “Deal or No Deal” In my book Wiz Khalifa is one of the top rappers around as of today. Go “copp” that “Deal or No Deal”

-"the madness (j.period+nneka)

Though you wouldn’t have to pay for this amazing free mixtape [available at http://jperiod.com/nneka/], I would donate this this cause in a heartbeat. Nneka’s been called “the next Lauryn Hill, and though I don’t generally support “next-” anythings, Nneka’s flavor is absolutey the shit, and J.Period never fails to impress. Please do yourself a favor and copp yourself a copy of this goodness.

"lala's pick

Dear Readers and Friends of Veuxdo Magazine, It's time we have a talk. No, no, we're not breaking up. Never that. We love you too damn much. Quite the contrary, we love you so very and terribly much that we thought we'd share with you a little piece of what they forgot to mention in fifthgrade sex ed. But What would our fine eductional institutes ever fathome to withold from us, you might ask? What they always do. The all the good stuff :)

Introducing the deuxieme episode of veuxdo's sex special: $%*head first: our take on that good ol' cunnilingus. enjoy.

the boys the right time to go down on my partner? Myself, I have to be in a relationship before I go down and give her some of this tongue action. But even before even thinking about diving in head first, she has to pass a few of my tests and evaluations. Evaluations The History: What I mean by this is her past sexual experiences. I usually find this out in the first stages of talking and interacting with the female that I am interested in. I go off vibes, feelings, and energy. Even though I don’t put nothing past nobody, if I feel a negative vibe or energy

Ownership: I have to be the only one having sexual encounters with this female. Appearance: Smell like water and smooth like silk. Wolf Pussy is a big no-no. If you pass some of my main tests and evaluations I want you to lay down and wrap your legs around my face. Matter of fact I want you to sit on my face and ride it like you ride my ego. My tongue game is crazy.     -Jo’el Jfresh Lumpkins

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about her past situation, going in head first might not be going down.

Lifted, that’s what type of feeling I give her when my head is in between her beautiful health thighs. Tongue is in between her wet box trying to give it a drought by making it dry, but not all my sexual partners get this treatment. It seems to me that a male going down on a female is very rare, while a female going down on a male is quite typical in our society. I can say that lately, us males are starting to open up by coming out and letting it be known that there is nothing wrong going down on their female partner. As for myself, I’ve gone down on a female partner before, but I don’t go down on just anyone. How do I know when is

O N E E KAS SAYS! LALA: How do you feel about performing oral cunnilingus? KAS: I feel like as long as the sea food is clean, Its getting dogged out. As long as it's clean...I'll take a bite. (Laughs)

“HaHa Jay you know how I feel! I feel the same way bro! For me to go down the a chick it has to be shaved, looks and smells good, and I can eat for days.” -Guy1 “No I wont ever go down on a chick, but they sure can go down on me...” -Guy 2 “The only way I am going down is if the go down on me!” -Guy 3 “Yes I feel the same way, they cant be no rips or bops.” -Guy4 “Hell no! that shit do not matter I wont ever go down on a chick.” -Guy5 “I never went down on a female before, but I think I might...its 2010.” -Guy6

es i d a L the Okay when J first told me he planned on putting this topic in the mag I was like, What the fuck I look like turning down some head? Haha, no but really. We said we’d educate you something good, and this is good stuff. Think about this. Who birthed you? A woman. And how to you think that this happened? Through some sort of act of cunnilingus. And if it was through some other act of non-cunnilingus then shame on the soul who let that happen, because woman is a beautiful being capable of a multitude of things on this planet, including baring the GIFT OF LIFE. So the least you could do is send her a nice little thank you card in the form of some head or something shit. Just saying. So as it turns out… lesbians are crazed vajayjay fanatics. [See opposite page for painstakingly scientifical researched real life evidential quotes proving this point.] I was recently at a three story gay-les party in NYC, and swear, if a song so much as whispered the word “pussy,” guaranteed every single lesbian in the whole damn club was mouthing the lyrics like they were singing the Pledge of Allegiance. And politics aside, rightfully so. After all, by “Open up her legs and fillet minon that pusssssy,” Wayne was most probably intending to express nothing more that his infatuation with and raw admiration for stimulating the female princible. Now, I can’t say any self respecting lesbian would actually want to experience Lil Wayne’s... appreciation... but atleast they have a point of interest in common. Enough to want to sing about it anyway. Back to the subject-- I have no idea why alleged “scissoring” is the epitome of what straight people assume to be lesbian sex. I honestly don’t know a single lesbian who ever gushes about how hot last night’s scissor-sesh was. Seriously. I tried that shit once, and it was like… aiiiight, but there are so many way hotter things to be doing with yo badd selves. Cough cough... cunnilingus. -Lauren Cheung//LALA

"for those of you who are still unclear on what cunni is (don't worry, we wont tell) let us reference good ol' wikipedia: “Cunnilingus is the act of using the mouth, lips, and tongue to stimulate the female genitals. Derived from a vulgar Latin word for the vulva (cunnus) and the Latin word for tongue (lingua).”

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“lol what’s to say about it?? I like ta lickey lickey...lickey lickey” -priince

"Giving head - amazinggg I love when a girl pulls my face into it I love the taste of pussy - I literally try & eat it. - rather it be with candy ice whip cream anything - I love it - I work great with my tongue - so I love rapturing women until they get the arch in their backs & explode in my mouth -shruggs- but uhh that's jus me" -angel

Being and a self-professed Nerd there’s not many questions I can’t answer for the most part I’m good with my words and especially great at answering questions simple enough to be truncated into 160 characters or less but when I got a text asking how I “got so good at sex” I had no idea what the hell to say. Was it hours of practicing on various fruits because my ten year old brain assumed that’s what pussy would be like? Was it sleeping with only the people who mattered and learning how to make love rather than just fuck? (Love vs. Lust is a whole diff article) Maybe it was just the fact that I was such a bookworm that by age sixteen I’d read about all the biological ways I could make girls climax and figured out which ones I thought I was capable of doing, whatever it was it was then and there with my phone buzzing in my hand that I knew I was up on my “pussy monster” game and it was my mission to spread the word. By this point I’m sure you’re wondering where the hell I get off telling you anything about pussy and honestly I have no idea. This is something I just know about; I get pussy the way most folks don’t, I talk to it I interact with it I am not afraid to just do whatever I feel like doing with it and that‘s an inner courage most people can only feign when it comes down to sex. They say the customers always right, so with no complaints yet I should be riding on some high horse of sexual braggadocio but I’m not, I’m genuinely humble about my “talents” like any real lady should be. You can’t go to school and get your PED (pussy eating degree), you cant just figure it out one day on accident like any real act of love of self and others it’s got to come from within it’s got to your own pilgrimage to Mecca and whatever stands in your way on the journey there becomes inconsequential. Believe me there are always obstacles, over the years man has made it his personal mission to dethrone queer women by trying his very best to occasionally go down on his girl, when he sucked at that he invented a machine with 3 speeds and 10 rotating tongues

(don’t believe me? peep it.) but worst and most ignorantly of all in lieu of just admitting he cant out do another woman he’ll often go as far as belittling his queer friends stating that he’ll only eat pussy for foreplay because girls cant really cum with out penetration. Now with everything I know to be true about the female body, this is either a testament to how stupid or how persistent a lot of men are. Any lady reading this knows damn well that the odds a woman can climax solely with penetration are about the same as spotting a black unicorn crossing a road in Alaska it’s not impossible but chances are pretty damn slim so we don’t sit around waiting for it. As if that obstacle weren’t enough for every man out there who thinks he’s better than us there are fifty other lesbians who won’t shut the hell up about how well they can do it. You know the types, they go out and get their tongues pierced multiple times, act just as chauvinistic as the males they refuse to associate with and sleep with every girl in their path not too bright and probably think Soulja Boy‘s music is dope. So I got to ask myself are these women as great as they say they are? Often times, NO, the act of eating pussy as cheesy as it sounds is an act of the soul and how are you going to have any soul if you cant shut your mouth about how great you are long enough to take your girls soul in. Even the pure act of it is mysterious, there’s something mystical about it, almost sacred, you rolled out of a vajayjay and now its time to meet face to face with another one and thank women just for being women. Taking in the body of goddess because contrary to what we’re told we’re all goddesses [yes, even the cheating lying two timing misguided nutcases] and I truly believe on some subconscious level that men are so terrified of it because they know that pussy’s are magic and will burn their retinas! Ok not really but that brings me to my next batch of cunnilingus disgraces, the girls who think they are somehow above eating pussy. Any chick claiming homo and saying she wont eat pussy is playing herself, when it comes down to it, pussy is not a neon 10 inch vibrating dildo someone’s asking you to interact with it’s a pussy you’re a chick you already have one, what the hell are you afraid of? Oh you think it smells? well you‘re lying, any queer can tell you it has a scent but nothing that’ll kill you and it smells no stronger than hair or a decent armpit can and absolutely nothing like fish unless your chicks got an infection in which case you shouldn’t even be down there walk yourself over to a free clinic or something’ If you read this article looking to find the answers of how queer women transition from conversations about how we wish Tamia would come back from where ever Quincy Jones is hiding her to trying not to get kneed in the face when our girl’s knees are shaking you’re reading the wrong article but if you’re simply down to become a pussy monster. Get at me… I’ll send you a welcome packet -Paulina Smith