Hip-hop, Holidays and the tracks of my goat tears...

You always know the Hammer is about to drop on  your creative project when the office assistants bring you the good water...

And as I sat in one of the "Big Three" networks penthouse offices holding a 24 oz. Myrtle green bottle of fresh mountain stream water squeezed from the tear ducts of baby Peruvian goats in the shape of a triangular prism, I knew I was in trouble.

"Break-dancing..." is all I heard the Suit say.

       "What..?" I muttered as I sipped on my goat tears...

                "You're break-dancing in your Christmas video... that's a little "aggressive" don't you think?" he said with a forced smile on his face.

I swear to God, if Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers had told me way back when on that set of Lionel Ritchie's ALL NIGHT LONG that I would one day hear a big TV Exec incorrectly call my Poppin' - "breakdancing" I would have laughed long and hard...

But I never danced to be sitting in some Exec's office... Hip Hop was always a form of expression for me - and poppin', breaking' and paying homage to the great Michael Jackson by bitin' his "Moonwalk" move at the end of this video was just my way of keeping' it real....

But things have changed - I have a family now.

And I have to keep food on the table, so I bit my lip, drank my goat tears and agreed to do something more "commercial".... God, I hate myself.... I'm sorry, Boogaloo...

Next year, I WILL "Keep it real!" -
                                                    Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kwanza & New Years!