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  • Music

    You Got Me Wrong

    5/18/2016 By Joy Lynn Clark “You Got Me Wrong performed by Dazee Dizzle” I love hip-hop.  The first time I heard it I said, “I need to do that”.  I love all kinds.  Conscious, b-boy, gangsta, and the unusual.  When I was much younger I was inspired by the conscious stuff, danced with the b-boys, and impressed by the courage of gangsta rap.  At first there were more women although still not many. Years go by and I am trying to make it in rap.  Rap was getting so big it was more mainstream than it had ever been and the theme: Pimps, Hos, and tricks.  I had to find…

  • Music

    Blackface The Album

    By Joy Lynn Clark BMI 5/16/2016 This is one of the last records that I made on the Southside of Chicago. Just off of 19th street near Lozano Library. Boy did I rock out along with all of the other musicians from the neighborhood. Of course I lost my privacy, and I ended up moving south to get closer to Nashville. I was still fumbling with the titles but, it was still a great album.

  • Journal

    Unprotected

    Off To The Clinic by Dazee Dizzle   4/28/2016   Some months back, I had unprotected sex on a first date.  Risky and dangerous.  I want to tell all of the b.s. that I fell for and justified but at the end of the day I had unprotected sex on a first date.  For a minute he had me thinking it was going to go differently but, he ended up standing me up.   Damn.  I made an appointment with my MD to get tested. I talked it over with my psychologist.  I was told not to beat myself up about it.  I came up clean just after the incident.…