The Adventures of Good Hood

I've featured Deuce, Sabrey or both on Untitled in the past. And if you're one of six of my faithful readers, you would know that when their powers combine, they make up Good Hood (the soon to be famous hip-hop music duo). Last week I was privileged to join the two, along with Queen and Jordan for a performance during the Baltimore Music Conference at The Black Hole.

First of all, Deuce tells me that the performance is in Baltimore. Cool, no problem, I've been to Baltimore before...multiple times. But the show is actually in Dundalk, which is a little further east of Baltimore. I've never been to Dundalk; therefore, I have no problem with Dundalk. But here go Deuce and Sabrey with the stories of performing in small towns that begin with, "Remember that time...". The Black Hole, known for its rock and roll, was a solid venue. There was an actual stage equipped with lights and sound people (to be PC) and the french fries were pretty good. The only thing that worried me were the biker dudes with grey-ing pony tails sitting at the video poker machines. I don't know if anyone told them it was hip hop night.


Jordy and Sabrey trying to correct the wackness playing on the jukebox.

Portraits and Lyrics

And the unveiling of yet another one of my projects. This particular series of portraits have yet to be formally named but lets call them "performance portraits" for now.

I've known Sabrey for quite a long time...as you can see. And Roger for quite a bit longer. The Evanston born and raised hip hop duo is known as GooD HooD and I've even been known to step in the booth to spit hot fire in collaboration. But those were my younger days.

Now I just watch and listen. A few weeks ago I did a simple white seamless shoot with them for some new promo material. While at the shoot, I had them perform a verse from a few of their songs and shot as fast as my lights would recycle.

For me, what is even better than good music is the passion with which the artists performs. I tried to capture that. Shout out to GooD HooD and you can check their music out here and here.




Can't Stop Video

Broadway Miller

I photographed Broadway Miller for his mixtape Catch up or Get Caught about a month ago as seen here. He was also a willing participant in my Performance Portrait idea that that began with Deuce and Sabrey of Good Hood. So I have two questions for my Untitled audience. 1) Which Performance Portrait works better for Broadway? Leave your answers in the comments. And 2) Will you come to Broadway's listening party at Lotus Lounge (1420 K St. NW, Washington DC 20005) tonight from 9pm-10pm? Shout out to me because I'll be there.

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Good Hood

I was looking through the archives this long weekend and found some stuff that I wasn't really looking for. Sabrey (who you know) and Deuce (who you have been introduced to today) make up Good Hood. The duo hails from the North Pole aka Evanston, IL and share an affinity for the Cubbies and Da Bears. Check out their newly released video here and visit their myspace for new music.

Happy Birthday to Us

Last Sunday me and my man Pep had a birthday celebration out in Silver Spring. His actual date is the 7th while mine is the 9th. Seems that Untitled has been around for about a quarter of a century...that's longevity for ya. But this post isn't really about birthdays, its about Rog aka Deuce. You've seen one half of Good Hood here more than you can count, so here's to the other half. Rog can be seen here practicing his gameface, proving he's the corn on the cob champ, and uhhh...licking my girlfriend?! Shout out to the Cubbies who have taken over the central division since my Astros are taking this year off.

Performance Portraits

I recently finished up some work on the ongoing project called performance portraits. I photographed 10 more artists at the wonderful Union 206 studio in Alexandria, VA and had a great time kicking it with the subjects. Shoutout to Kyle Gustafson, Deuce, Angel B., Waiter, Vito Brown, Rhawty Roe, RA the MC, Gordo Brega, The Bridge, Crazy J and S.K.A.T.E.R. Here are a few of the images, but you can check out the rest HERE!

Sabreezy

Meet Sabrey Smith: The rapper/lyricist from Evanston, Illinois who will probably be making a lot more appearances on this blog. Occasionally, my good friend Sabrey and I kick it on Saturday afternoons because I need someone to shoot and fortunately for me, he doesn't mind being shot. With the skully on tilt, he's in the camera section of the new Best Buy in Columbia Heights shopping for Mother's Day.

Sabrey along with Deuce make up the group Good Hood. Check 'em out.

Way Back Wednesdays: Nation Nightclub

Remember that club over on Half St. SE? Near the Wendy's that also used to be there? Yeah, it was called Nation and while I haven't been over there in a while, I'm pretty sure it's now a parking lot for Washington Nationals' games or a building full of condos.

On February 10, 2006 Heavy Syndication artists (Broadway, Blayz, Deuce and Sabrey) all opened for Fort Minor. They even had my man Jordy (dreads) manning the merch table.