“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”

So last night was yet another Woo Night, naturally I shoulda been happy. But as per usual, for some reason, I was in a funk. Don’t even ask me why, because I don’t know.

I do know however that it actually was a great night, personally I know I was dead on stage. At least for the first two sets, my chest was hurting and my throat was sore…I just couldn’t keep up or really put out the energy that I know is required of me for a Woo Night.

I could barely even keep to the basics (Smile,Wave,Sing) - but it came right in the third set, thanks to a splash of Whiskey here and there. Sad, but ultimately true.

I really wanna quit both drinking and smoking. They’ve been trusty vices up and until now, but I just don’t need them in my life anymore. For the first time I felt like I needed more air in my lungs and I already know that I hate the lack of clarity that comes with drinking. I guess its just hard in the environment, but thats no excuse…its about discipline and focus.

I’ll figure this shit out, not to worry.

Peace,Love & lavender leaves on ya tongue (wtf!)…

Tehn.

P.S. Saw massive mammaries last night. Met a dude who works on The Amazing Race. Woke up in my jeans this morning. No more ALCOHOL !!!

At the start of the year I started “The Magic of Thinking BIG” and promised to have a report on it by the end of Jan. Well here it is….

Alright, to be a hundred percent honest I got to about Chapter 8 of this book. It was cool and interesting at first. Then it just got to be too much, too many chapters. Too many exercises to do. A lot of the stuff just struck me as common sense. In the one chapter it says to smile more and walk faster…I forget why it was asking this of me but I remember thinking “I smile heaps and walk pretty fast as it is….the magic of long legs”.

So in conclusion, its really only gonna be a good read if you haven’t read a hundred other self-helpish types books and if you have some sorta trouble wrapping your head around the notion that what you see in your mind you create in your world.

But with all that said, it was good for just reiterating certain beliefs I have and also solidifying a couple others. But I wouldn’t read it again or even read the whole thing. Just too wordy.

In fact in this whole past month when I was meant to be reading this book, I read “The Tipping Point” again and read “The 50th Law”. Maybe I’ll do my next book report on one of them….

And as we can tell my book reports suck. So I’m gonna try and get better at ‘em real soon. And give you better value…

KEEP READING !!!

We rarely ever get to see our favourite MC’s just fucking around and chilling. Its either always looking super like gotta keep it real styles or just lots of shoutouts and stuff (okay i go too far….but you get my drift).

Anyway for me thats why this video of J.Cole is both hilarious and HILARIOUS !!

Tehn Diamond

SLMAO HARD !!

Okay so its no secret my Shona ain’t the meanest or the cleanest but you’ll get my drift easily, can’t help that I’m sala, but it doesn’t affect the love for H-Town.

So here it is the third and final verse. Its my favourite, not necessarily lyrically, but cos I get to rap in my native lingo for a sec and cos it really sends out and solidifies the message I’m tryna get across with this song.

Like I said, this is bout to be the anthem. Now if u’re from H-Town and ur reading this well, show a little hometown love and make sure this gets to the right ears. I make this music for me, but I put it out there for all of you.

IM SO SORRY BUT,
ASARA ASARA ISISU TAKANYANYA KUNGWARA //
SO TRY HOLDING US BACK WE COMING HARDER //
KNOW THAT EVEN WHEN WEARING maPATA-PATA FROM BATA//
WE CAN STILL GO FURTHER AND FARTHER THAN ANY OTHER//
JUST ASK OUR LITTLE SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND BABY COUSINS //
WHERE WE AT…THEY’LL BE POINTING AT EVERY SPOT ON THE MAP //
WHERE WE AT…DOESN’T MATTER AS LONG AS WE COMING BACK //
TO PICK UP WHERE LEFT, IN FACT I NEED TO ASK//
ALL MY H-TOWN BOYS WHO LIVE IN THE UK STAND UP //
….WHILE U AT,IT PUT A LIGHTER IN THE AIR //
ALL MY H-TOWN BOYS WHO LIVE IN THE US STAND UP
….WHILE U AT IT,PUT A LIGHTER IN THE AIR //
AND ALL MY H-TOWN BOYS WHO LIVING AUSTRALIA //
MAKING MONEY, MAYBE YOU MAKING OUT IN ASIA //
LET THE WORLD KNOW WE READY TO HIT THE MAJORS //
AND NEVER STOP REPPING THE CITY THAT TRULY MADE YA //

Done and done. Leave ya comments and feedback. Cos’ the track aint done till its done, lemme know if you have ideas or anything. This is our year !

Peace,Love & lighter fluid….

Thu Thousand & Tehn Diamond

P.S. Here are Verse.1 and Verse.2 (both with the hook in ‘em).

So at this point right here, in verse two, the track transcends. In the first one I kinda just gave some general H-Town ‘isms, but in this one I feel like I needed to say whats on our minds right now. From a city thats part of a country that gets doubted a lot I felt that certain things needed to be said.

I wasn’t playing when I said this was gonna be the anthem. This is gonna be the track you play when people wherever you may be in the world have shit to say about the land of milk and honey that we come from.

This is to keep us focused on the positive and proud. I write Hip-Hop, thats music not for the old folk but for the young folk aka the future. So if u hear and u feel it, share it on your walls, send it to an H-Town Boy near you and let it set theire hearts on fire….THIRD VERSE IS GONNA SEAL IT OFF NICE THOUGH.

H-Town STAND UP ! Thu, I got this brother. On my life and yours, our dreams will come right.

THERE’S NO NEED TO HATE “H” COS THAT’LL KILL YOU AT A GREAT PACE //
TRYNA SAY THAT WE CAN’T MAKE IT, THROUGH THE DARK AGES //
THEY SAY WE JUST STAR GAZING //
BUT THEY’RE READING THE WRONG BOOKS AND THE WRONG PAGES //
I TOOK MY OWN LOOK, ONLY SAW GREATNESS //
I CAN SEE US BACK AT THE TOP RUNNING THE GAME AS //
THE BREADBASKET OF THE CONTINENT, YET AGAIN //
SO THEY BETTER BRING THEM SPONSORS IN, YET AGAIN //
AND IT’LL BE A MEAN CELEBRATION //
WITH A BIT OF SADZA NEMURIWO AND ITS TASTING //
SO GOOD WITH THE ROYCO IN IT //
GOT ME LICKING BOTH LIPS ON SOME H-TOWN SHIT //
SIKE JUST KIDDING ON SOME LL COOL //
ONLY THING THATS MISSING IS THE JAY LETS BLAZE //
AND KNOW ITS NOT HOUSTON, SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION //
MY H-TOWN IS THE CAPITAL OF A PLACE CALLED ZIM //

I know I say it all the time, but the flow is ape on this one. Go ahead and Follow The Flow, to feel and hear for yourselves.

Peace,Love & liberation…

Tehn Diamond

P.S. here’s verse one if you missed it family.

- generally pissed off at the fact Thu’s gone. sad to the core and pissed off, so this is confusing. Whats worse I guess is that I don’t feel like talking about it anymore.

+ got baked a bunch of awesome little goodies by a fan/friend, not really sure. But they were awesome. One was marshmallows smothered in dark chocolate with skittle inside. Nuff said.

- I slipped on my budgeting thing for the month and also kind falling behind on keeping track of my goals and stuff.

+ made a concious decision to write a fucken hit this year, but something for my peoples. Came up with “H-Town Boy” and from what a certain Passion of HWMiT tells me, he may just have the right beat to bring this to fruition.

- slipped back into a few of my bad vices, so this week need to be about rebuilding discipline and conviction of character.

Peace,Love & level headed excellence…

Tehn Diamond

Today’s Posts:

1. Live in Effect - J.Cole “Losing My Balance” (Acoustic)

Not only is this one of my favourite tracks off his mixtape, “The Warm Up” but this performance of it is extra sweet. Sometimes keeping it simple and nice and stripped down brings out the best in a song.

*Note to self* get some smooth acoustic shit going.

Needless to say J.Cole is an astute Student of the Game, dude paints in depth stories about varied subject matter with maturity and pure skill.

This song has been a great comfort and reminder this week in particular, that despite the us and downs of this crazy world we gotta always strive to maintain balance. Only way to survive really.

Enjoy

Needless to say, I was devastated yesterday. I don’t think I’ve cried like that in ages. To the point that my chest hurt. But then something awesome happened, I asked for a sign and he sent me one. I’m the most religious person out but I’m hella spiritual. And I believe in the good and bad omens of this world. And I got my omen. I didn’t know what to do and I kept asking and the universe answered.

Nothing changes, only the intensity. Keep shining was the message I heard. See cos’ me and my brother had a plan and this year was it. So I keep keepin’ with a big ass grin on my face like he woulda expected.

I honestly don’t feel like he’s gone though, since hearing the news of his passing, I didn’t sleep for a good 24hours. Between finding out and finally sleeping, I received my sign from him and I just went on a writing spree. He loved my music and pushed like nobody else. So now its like he’s up in the sky pull the strings of my mind and filling it with the kinda inspiration I know he always had for life.

So I’m not unhappy, I’m very happy. Life is short, but love is forever.

Peace,Love & levitation…

Tehn Diamond aka Thu Thousand and Tehn

Today’s Post:

1. Follow The Flow - “H-Town Boy” (This is gonna be the track of the year back home, I’m gonna make sure of that.)

I know I didn’t finish posting up the verses for “Been Here Before” but right now this is the track I feel like working on. One of the greatest H-Town Boys I ever knew passed this week, and he knew I was working on this track but never got to hear it or see the verses.

So to my big brother and friend, Thulani, here it is for ya while your soul is still flowing close enough for you to catch a glimpse of what I’m cooking up. I know you woulda approved.

On this track im using a lotta hometown references and lingo, so if you ain’t from there you may not get it, but in time you will.

Enjoy

IT AIN’T HARD TO TELL HOW TO SPOT AN H-TOWN BOY //
YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY THAT I WALK, THE THINGS THAT I SAY //
LIKE VOOM TO THE DISE //
COS IM TRYNA KAME A VOOM ON YOUR DAJE //
IS THAT OKAY, I MIGHT FOOL YOU TWICE //
SO YOU BETTER GET YOUR EYES OFF THE GAME //
PUT ‘EM ON YOUR SO-CALLED GIRL COS SHE HEADED TO THE BAR WITH ME //
GIVE IT A SEC NOW SHE’S HEADED TO THE CAR WITH ME //
UH OH, YOU SHOULDA KNOWN BY THE THREADS THOUGH //
MAYBE NOT THE BEST SHIT, BUT LOOKING THE FRESHEST //
PLUS I GOT A PRISTINE SHOE GAME //
SEE THE KICKS CAME CLEAN BUT I SPRAYED THEM AGAIN //
WIPED THOSE DOWN, THEN I SPRAYED THEM AGAIN //
TILL I HAD ‘EM LOOKING BRIGHTER THAN MY COLGATE GRIN //
SO ANY SENORITA SWEETER THAN SUN JAM //
CAN SEE SHE NEED TO BE RIDING WITH AN H-TOWN MAN //

Jus reading it doesn’t really do this one justice, so you best Follow the Flow and get a little step closer to the beauty of this soon to be anthem. And thats a promise, lemme just get the right beat.

Peace,Love & Life

Tehn Diamond aka Thu Thousand and Tehn

Today my big brother passed away, his name is Thulani. Taller than a building more fun than a bowl full of skittles on a sunny day. I’m the oldest in my family, but the way we’re raised in Zimbabwe we learn to love our friends like family…sometimes more. So yea I lost a brother.

First time I got drunk and threw up it was on the side of his car, hanging out the window the night before my first rugby tour.

First time some dude tried to fuck me up but failed, it was because he drove all the way back to the place I was at and shut the dude down.

First time I got high and rolled around the city bumping nothing but Jay-Z was with him.

First time I felt like quitting music, because I was back in Zimbabwe with no contacts and no idea where to step next, he looked out for me again. He became my manager, though he didn’t have the time for it he made time for me. Got me my first gig on home soil.

And the last thing he sent me was a beat to make magic on

My brother was an artist, he could just create amazing shit. Give him a paintbrush, a pencil, some charcoal….WATEVA !! Just give him the space and the time and he’ll make magic.

I wanted to fall back and just not do this for a week, but fuck it, he pulled me back up so I could make all of this work out and happen. So no days off, no letting up on the gas. For me, the greatest respect I can pay to his memory is to show him while he smiles down from the heavens that his little brother kept his end of the bargain….so now I gotta make it. And I’m not afraid cos’ Thu was never afraid.

I love you dude and I miss you. Thank you for everything. It hurts tryna write this, but writing is all I know. And oh Lord, how you made me write…you just pushed me. And I’mma hold on to the last piece of advice you gave me, just to remind me how fucken crazy u were in that head of yours.

See u soon. You are Forever Young !

Tendai