When I was a kid, I used to want to be a rapper. The older kids called me Tiny Tim, so when I started rapping they called me MC Tim. I had another name as well and that was DC, which stood for Devastating Chris. Me and my friends would be at school putting on little shows at recess and such.

*edited June 2008* [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Ruff Ryders compilation album had just come out a few weeks prior to my high school graduation. I drove my dad’s truck up to the school and I bumped this most of the way there, along with Juvenile and Drag-On’s “Down Bottom” Anyways, graduation [...]

Stylin’ On You Originally uploaded by MannyWallace [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This song came out when I was in the sixth grade. That was me in the sixth grade. I think this song was one of the first songs were I started to notice how the girls were developing and all. Yes, [...]

Buyer Beware (089:366) Originally uploaded by MannyWallace [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I believe I was either nine or ten years old when this song came out, and they premiered it right after The Fresh Prince of Belair went off (I think). I think it’s just one of those feel good songs that [...]

Candlelight & Honey Originally uploaded by MannyWallace Perhaps I should have done this yesterday for a two for Tuesday kind of effect, but hindsight is 20/20. Anyways, back in 2001..I met this girl and we hit it off pretty well. Around that same time Usher had a song off of his 8701 album. [Audio clip: [...]

Back In The Day (120/366) Originally uploaded by MannyWallace [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I believe I was around 11 years old when The Chronic came out. I begged my mother for the money to buy the tape (yes, tape) when we were at the mall. I never really stayed with my mother [...]

I figured that a good way for me to get back into writing is to do a short Mood Music series. I plan to have a song for each day this week(Monday through Friday anyways) and reflect on a moment in the past and think about what the song makes me think about. First up: [...]

I get into these moods from time to time. I’ll feel lonely, discouraged, unappreciated, upset angry, and essentially any other adjective that can be used to describe that feeling of “blah” I seem to escape them, by either sleeping, eating, playing around on the internet or talking to a few folks on the phone (about [...]

So I like taking pictures and all…I have these two personal photo projects that I’m working on over at Flickr where I have to take at least one picture per day. They call them 365 Days (or in my case 366). One project is self portraits and with the other one I can shoot whatever [...]

My title comes from the name of a music store that I went to when I was back home. Anyways, at the risk of sounding too recycled, I’ll be brief. I really enjoy listening to music. We all have our own likes, dislikes, guilty pleasures and so forth. More than likely we all have those [...]