• Early Music

    Shyste Shawnee

    05-26-2026 By Joy Lynn Clark Shyste Shawnee was my good friend and a good rapper that I collaborated with from 2000 to 2005. We did a few songs but we partied mostly we traveled to New Orleans and Miami along with different crew. So this is Shyste’s old mixtape joint.

  • Journal

    Beach Glass

    By Joy Lynn Clark 04/18/2026 It was the summer of 2004 or 2005 when I met my son’s father at the studio.  I had never worked with my step niece-cousin before but I was excited. I called her my cousin because we were the exact same age even though she was my step niece really. People would shake their heads as I tried to explain to them that she is my stepbrother’s half sisters stepdaughter. She had just moved to the north side of Chicago from Dayton OH. When we arrived at the studio, we were stuck in the waiting area because the last group was still in session. My…

  • Projects

    Gichugot

    By Joy Lynn Clark (BMI)(IAPWE) 03/04/2026 I just wrote this one lickety split. In real life, I had alot to say about this. Gitchugot By Joy Lynn Clark chorus You aint got money in the bank Try to get you got Saying that you sell drugs Just to get you got Can’t have sex Trying to get you got Telling people you in jail Getting you got Cant have shit On some getting you got Say it’s cause you sick Getting you got And you owe people money You deserve to get got never made that much They take what you got Refrain Can’t have money and they live with…

  • Journal

    OC

    By Joy Lynn Clark 1/27/2026 Back in the day I had lots of jobs.  Another one of my earliest positions was as a junior graphic designer for a design firm.  I did business card layouts and club flyers mostly.  I was still a production student but I had already taken graphic design classes and that was enough to get the job.  After about a month, I decided that the owner just was too cheap.  I was always begging and begging him to pay me.  Turns out, he also had a cell phone shop in the front portion of the office and he was like, “How about this cell phone instead?”.…