On the front page of the Indiana Daily Student

Front Page of IDS 4/22/09

"If there's not going to be that level of success, then I'm not interested."

To read the full article click here.

CURRENT LOCATION: Still in Chicago... Wondering when my work will actually be finished here so I can head back to Bloomington.

So I'm sitting in Chicago for one final day before I make it back to the town that I'm honored to be seeing so much support from. All the texts and calls are greatly appreciated. Big thanks to Rachel Krasnow of the IDS for giving the story the spotlight it deserves as well as for the recognition. Rachel, you did a great job and on behalf of me and my team, it was a pleasure to work with you.

The article contained a few quotes from my close friends and individuals who have been involved in my project including my good friend Jon Stein:

"Stein, also a business student, said he met Udell through a friend and has gained skills that deal with effectively marketing campaigns. The term “Burbetto” comes from the suburban and ghetto culture, Stein said."

I woke up to a text from another one of my good friends Joby Wright. I had yet to read the article, but dragged my ass out of bed before responding to Joby.

I apologize to anybody who was offended by the misrepresentation presented in that sentence. The actual "term" Burbetto is does not come "from the suburban and ghetto culture"!   Allowing individuals to speak on your behalf always puts you at risk for situations like this. While luckily I'm not in the spotlight yet, this has allowed me to pledge my faith towards awareness of Burbetto by using viral marketing tools to help "SPREAD THA WERD".  Shoutout to Mani Manglish -- mmdot.blogspot.com !

I think Joby brought up some really great points and I appreciate him for coming to me before talking to anybody else about it. Hopefully in the future Burbetto will be represented accurately, but we all know how the media is and we were obviously not allowed to see this article before it went to print or that would've been changed.

On another note, Burbetto: The Mixtape is on its way. I wanna talk about it so bad, but you're not ready for it yet. When you are, I'll let you know. hahahaha Show love.

"See No Limits. Hear No Limits."

-JQ

Missing School... Do they give me credit for hours I spend in the lab?

I sure hope so. I'm too lazy and tired to find a picture or something else to entertain you mutha fuckas. Actually, wait one sec.

There ya go.  One of my girls was imitating this on the phone today... Imagine a Romanian girl with her sexy European accent trying to say, "The back of your head is ridiculous" in ebonics -- haha, it's to die for. I'll try and get a video of her doing it... Don't say nothing.

I apologize for not getting on here sooner. Everything has been C R A Z Y! I'm going to pull one of those, "I didn't have time" things on ya -- ya know when somebody was like, "Well... I just didn't have time... I had to ____, ____, ____, and _____ and then ______, _______, and _____." I mean sometimes it's legit, but all bullshit aside I shoulda come on here for five minutes each and everyday and given you guys some love. It's aight though because there aren't many followers yet hahaha. Am I supposed to tell you that? (Although I must be doing something right because I got a text at 7:04 in the morning a couple days ago saying,

"Jake! Okay I'm sorry if this woke u but I'm sure ur up anyways cause u always are... (she was right, I was -- "Ain't No Rest for the Best" y'all) So I haven't been able to sleep and not even realizing it but for the past hour I've been reading your blog!!" So this one's for you Jen lmao - thanks for the love)

So anyway, my schedule has really been crazy like the ones above that people exaggerate the shit out of as if everybody wasn't damn busy. But you can fill all those blanks in with STUDIO TIME. I think most artists except those "crazy freestyling dudes that can release like 25 mixtapes and 8 albums in 2009" -- yeah, I'm talking to you Charles Hamilton, you're a beast -- spend a good chunk of time on their mixtape...

Like a month or month and half in the studio. It's quite the process: getting the right people to work on it from producers to features to hosts, DJ's, and drops, creating all the song concepts, putting together all the beats... While that list seems short, it's just the beginning -- the photoshoot, the funding, the cover, the manufaturing, the distribution, the publicity. It's the whole nine. I hope we're able to hit everything -- our budget's tight, then again whose isn't? We're in it to win. period.

And at this stage in the game, that's exactly what we're gonna do. Hard work usually pays off, but with music, I mean sometimes you can spend a shitload of time in the studio and still come up with some huff shitttt... I mean, think of how many FULL "ridickilous" expensive label-backed albums COMPLETELY flop.

But right now, hard work does pay off and the music is sounding like it should. I'd give you guys a preview, but I wanna save it all until the official release date -- still to be announced.

Back to this hard work thing, for those that do wanna know what it takes to make it in the music game... Here have been my studio hours this week (which will in the end start to finish have been all the recordings you here on the mixtape):

Tuesday 6 P.M. - 5 A.M. (in which I got a $150 ticket at 4 in the morning for parkig in the alley
Wednesday 6 P.M. - 7 A.M. (in which I got in a car crash on the way to the stu writing lyrics to the second verse of a song on the mixtape called "Superstar")
Thursday 6 P.M. - 8:30 A.M.
Friday 6:30 P.M. - 6:30 A.M.

NOTE: This is not a mastercard commercial even if all that time, dollars, and conflicts will in the end be THE OFFICIAL BURBETTO MIXTAPE -- which, yeah, is priceless.

I'm exhausted... Now. Time for bed... I leave you on one note:

People wanna know what the fuck I'm about, you can tell 'em the hottest mixtape on the planet just came out.

This is my path I am creating to live my own destiny and fortune. My vision is clear and my determination is unstoppable. I am <>UNDENIABLE<>

Man... Who wants to read a blog about some dude who is just talking shit all the time? I promise I'll shut the fuck up after the mixtape comes out and let y'all do the talkin' for me. Aight? Deal.

Until then, THIS THAT NEW SHIT.

"See No Limits. Hear No Limits."

-JQ

Feelin' Alive BACK in the C-H-I

Love this video. Everything is a complete piece of art with Kanye West.. He defines creativity and our generation.

CURRENT LOCATION: Just got back home...

Took the test... Drove back. Exhausted. NOT! I'm super-hyped.

This is my month. The mixtape I talked about in the last blog is just the beginning... Be ready.

I heard a rumor on campus that some promoters thought I had $ because I was opening for the Game and Soulja Boy. That's great! I hope they come to me with all their offers and opportunities. For the record, based on the amount of tickets I move(d), I actually get/got paid to perform!  Damn... Why did I just give away my secret?  Oh yeah...  Because you can't move or hustle like "we" -- thanks to all my boys who helped me accomplish that.

I bet my producer would say that's my bad attitude coming out again. Hi Vince!

Ok, I gotta unpack my stuff, make RAMEN NOODLES, and get some sleep before I wake up early, workout (I'm on the "'Bout to Be a Boss" plan), and make a plan. Speaking of workout, like two days ago, I heard some chick ask another chick if she had "that new Kanye song on her IPod... the one about working out." Other chick: "The Workout Plan"? First Chick: yeah... I love that new song! Second Chick: That came out three years ago. LMAO!

"See No Limits. Hear No Limits."

-JQ

Fuck School, Chase Bank, and... Aghz... I'll save it

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

CURRENT LOCATION: The "fucking" library

FUCK SCHOOL!

Ok, school is stupid. I can prove it. What university other than Indiana has tests only on the weekends? The weekend is defined in the dictionary as "a period taken or given regularly as a weekly rest period from one's work" -- So can somebody please tell me why I have an accounting test on fricking Sunday? I mean damn... If I was gonna be an accountant, this would all make sense: creeping up into the stacks on the east side of the library (this crazy uninhabited area of the library where one of my friends got head while studying haha) to do math problems for hours on end.

I know in order to make it in the music industry I gotta be a businessman, but I've been getting that education since I was 13 from reading real business books not TEXT BOOKS! And there's only one thing I need to know about accounting as far as I'm concerned -- Stay in the black... In other words, as Weezy would say, "MAKE MONEY". I'm gonna be a boss with or without this accounting class... Period.

FUCK CHASE BANK!

Ok, next on my list is Chase Bank. I'm getting more and more calls everyday for interviews and big events, etc. As you already know, I'll be opening for Soulja Boy on the 24th and negotiations are in existence for other shows around that date as well.  I've been steady at work on my debut album, but despite not being the typical rapper I feel I do need a way to get my music out there. I can't release the album for free because of the production costs associated with it, so I need to create a mixtape.

When I mentioned doing a mixtape to Boogie Boy, I was impressed by the names that were interested in being a part of the project. I am honored that while other artists have to pay large sums of money to get these figures to host or rep them, these figures have shown major love and cut these costs after hearing the album material. They must see me.

After hearing the names that could be involved, my mind has been doing whirlwinds. The whole point of the mixtape would be to show people who the fuck I am. In fact, that was our mixtape name: "WHO DA FUCK IS JQ?" before B.o.B. stole that shit from right under our feet -- I guess great minds think alike. Be sure to check out his dope new single "I'll Be in the Sky".  I'd attach the video, but the labels are taking sound off all the youtube videos :( -- I don't know how they possibly think that's good for the artist or their pockets for that matter.

So in order to show people who I am, especially when they witness the One Man Show LIVE! at these performances, I need to give my street teams the proper materials -- aka actual CD's and cards to promote the mixtape. These things do cost $ :(

My producer always says there is a line between the fan and the artist, but I don't necessarily support that argument. I've spent my hard-earned $ in production costs thinking I could get signed just because I had dope material. WRONG!!! The only thing labels wanna see you is you reading this... IS IT WORKING? hahah, I hope so. But it's not about that... If it was, I would've started this a long time ago, but I didn't. I started it when I thought it was time for y'all to know what the fuck I'm on (I can see my mom being like "watch the language" right now).

So what am I supposed to do? I don't fucking know. But I do know that if I do a mixtape, I'm going big. It's either go big, or go home. We either MBM (Make Big Moves) or we don't make moves at all... In other words, I gotta manufacture 100,000 of 'em.  I don't know how I'm going to come up with the kind of money necessary to put 100,000 of these things in the streets, but I am going to take off the next week of school to try and figure it out -- maybe move a piece of ONtheCOURTSports -- that's the kind of dedication you gotta pull. I know someone is out there reading this saying, "STAY IN SCHOOL!" As my girl would say, "Relax!" but on the realz, this is my life. Not school... Music.  I'm 20 years old. I'll do what I want... And right now, I wanna make a mixtape -- so fuck you.

So why are the last six paragraphs under a category title of "FUCK CHASE BANK" -- Let me tell you. My best friend told me that I should get a college loan from Chase -- He got $20,000 for being in state and I could probably get $30,000 for being out of state. Since my parents pay for school, I figured I could put my own ass on the line. The last thing I wanna do is be another broke artist. When I told my producer what was going on he mentioned how Robert Townsend funded his first movie, Hollywood Shuffle, on credit cards. I was shocked. Wikipedia said:

"Hollywood Shuffle was created on a very tight budget. Townsend personally financed the movie with his own credit cards, and, in order to avoid obtaining permits, he asked his crew to wear college sweatshirts to pose as students."

With an estimated budget of $100,000, the movie went on to have gross revenues of over $5 million. If you're smart, a tight budget can work.

Anyway, when I called Chase, they informed me they currently don't accept applications for uncertified student loans. This policy was enacted on the 26th of March, like a week ago. With an ailing economy, I'm sure this was done with good reason. I respect business as much as the next businessman, but why the fuck was I holding money in a bank for years to not get approved for a student loan? Shiyattt...

So anyway, after this 6:00 P.M. accounting test on Sunday, my journey begins. I have UNDER three weeks, to come up with the money, make a mixtape, and manufacture it. I don't even know if it's possible, but my friend R. Kelly says, "I believe that if we believe, the unbelievable can be achieved." Then again, Kelz believes he can fly! hahaha, he probably can. Shoutout to my dude: www.myspace.com/rkelly .

It's off to the races.

"See No Limits. Hear No Limits."

-JQ

P.S. In the future, longs blogs of "BITCHING" will be summed up into one sentence at www.twitter.com/burbetto !

P.S.S. The third "FUCK" is lucky I'm not calling him/them out. Refer back to my "American History X" post: Hate is baggage.

Only love.