Corina's (Intern) Blog

Corina's experience as she joined up with the tour in ATL...

     So I decided to do a blog for every city that we hit...this is esp. for my people because I'm so busy its hard to call. So I'm in texas en route to El Paso now but I'm going to backtrack to my first tour experience : ATL.

     Lets just start off and make clear I am going on this Frontlines Tour as an intern. What do I do? I have NO idea. So EVERYTIME someone would ask me: "so what will you be doin on tour?" I would give them that dumb look and respond like a fool, "I dunno!!!"

     Now I have met the 7 other people who I will be living with, sleeping with, working with, eating with, and traveling across the country with for the next month. We did the South Atlanta Hip Hop Show last night and I want to shout out my people for comin helping and supporting me. It ended up being more of an artist jam session but it worked, Sharod Allen and Abyss held it down on the guitar and worked magic on the mic, Blackmail was holdin it down for the youth in the A and Big Nel brought craaazzzy energy to the room. Thank u all..yall showed out. The Read Nex came in and brought it...dey worked de mic, worked de crowd and spoke the truth. After the show we met with Kathleen Cleaver, the amazing woman of the Black Panther Party, she sat and talked with us on our bus (which by the way is HOT!!! Graffiti and revoltionaries cover the exterior). It was good talkin with Queen Cleaver because she was and still is in the struggle, and elders speak from experience that we youth sometimes do not have, they are walkin history. After we said our goodbyes the Frontlines crew came over to the house I'm staying at and I cooked them grits (I left out the small fact that I just cooked my first pot earlier that week, and they never knew).

     We are now in "The Beautiful Restaurant" eatin breakfast, and so far all I kno is that we might leave a guy named Graham who is running 2 hours late. Still I have NO idea what I signed up for, and I'm startin to think my friends were right to call me crazy, but either way I am excited: REVOLUTONARY ROADTRIP!!!
--Corina