Thank You StoneTrends LLC. and everyone else for showing your love!

What's up my peoples? Last night your boy rocked Blueberry Hill's the Duck Room. I had soooooooo much fun partying with everyone there and performing. I have to throw a HUGE shout out and thank you for all my people who came out. All my friends from work, StoneTrends, represented for me to the fullest! Thank you so much! And of course my church friends, BK, Dave, my girlfriend Gail and her sister Kristen, my fellow Rhyme Commissioner Jay Money and his wife Jen, and everyone else. Did everyone have a good time? I know I sure did! I'll have lots of photos and I beleive Money got some videos as well! Next show is at Blueberry Hill on March 13th. I'll be performing with Dug Holes. Holla at ya boy!

God Bless,

Big Fletch

Thank you my friends

So tomorrow night is the big night. Fletch at Blueberry Hill. Where it all began. I'm super excited about performing on the same stage as legends like Chuck Berry. I am also excited about the people who will be performing with me. Great MC's like Jia Davis, Nato Caliph, and the newest member of the "New" Rhyme Commission Dug Holes. When Jay Money and I started The Rhyme Commission some 8 years ago we had a vision. The vision was for the Commission to be almost a "revolving-door" concept, meaning that Jay Money and I would be the core of the group but all the people who work with us in music would also beome members. So, Dug Holes and I have decided to be each other's hype man at our respective shows. I respect Dug and his skills as a rapper. I've always been a big fan. We've also been friends for a number of years. I believe the friendship and respect that we share with each other will make for some great shows for both of us.

Other new Rhyme Commission members will be announced in the months to come! Hope to see you all there at Blueberry Hill, 2/27 at 10PM in the Duck Room!

God Bless,

Big Fletch

Hip-Hop at Blueberry Hill

What up ya'll? So coming up in a week I've got this show at Blueberry Hill. For those of you who don't know about the rich history of rap or the hip-hop culture at Blueberry Hill I will break it down. When I was in college, around 1999-2001, Jay Money introduced me to a hip-hop night at Blueberry Hill in the Duck Room. This weekly event was called the Science hip-hop spin and was every Friday night from like 9pm-1am. The Science was like a dream come true to me. Growing up in little Mason City, IL prevented me from really experiencing the hip-hop culture. Even the bigger cities like Springfield or Peoria didn't have real hip-hop events going on. If they did I certainly didn't know about it! The Science had several DJ's in regular rotation.......and they were dope! DJ Crucial, DJ Grocery, DJ Radic (aka: DJ Chily C), DJ Agile One, and DJ Nappy Needles. These guys and gals would beat blend, scratch, do tricks, everything. DJ Crucial would also play his own wax! Croosh was on a local rap label called F5 Records and would get songs that he produced pressed on vinyl. And his beats were awesome. There were also break dancers. There were cats doing live artwork on the cardboard that the breakers would dance on. At the end of the night there was an open mic freestyle session where TONS of cats would get up on stage and get in line for their turn to spit. When I first moved out here I didn't know anyone. No one knew if I could rap worth a shit or not, so no one would ever pass me the mic. And I didn't want to just push and shove people to grab the mic. I wanted someone to pass it to me. I wanted to earn my chance. It took about a year and a half of going to the Science every Friday night before I got my chance. It was worth the wait. After I kicked my freestyle that night people let me in. It was a great feeling. I started making connections. Then came Fletch: Broken, The Rhyme Commission: Cerebral Poetry, and The Frank Castle mixtape. My roots are in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill. It is truly an honor and privilege to play there. Check out the links below for more info on The Science and the show coming up at Blueberry Hill.

http://www.myspace.com/thescienceblueberryhill

http://www.blueberryhill.com/events

Big Fletch and friends live at the Halo Bar 2/12/10

The new Flog

What's up ya'll? Yer boy Big Fletch is starting a new blog site. Thanks Jay Money! I stole this idea from you homie! Stay tuned for some cool shit. Yeah yeah.