For fans searching and who don’t know already yes I’m on the Official beatbox remix of I Love College (SRC/Universal) The remix video spread virally and hit #34 on the Viral Video Charts today. You can download this song for free by going to www.myspace.com/chesneysnow

It’s a fun song and Asher is a talented Emcee. As this remix blows up which is apparently what is going down I’m still working heavy on the release the beat machine I can’t stop talking about which comes out this May. Who knows maybe we’ll have a contest on Ourstage to give one away. Shhhhhh. :) Look for the video on Youtube or go to my site to download the song.

livin life to the fullest.

Congrats to all the winnerZ for the month of April… I have not been on lately as I have had a lot going on… but it’s a new month and time once again to have some fun! I must say that I’m really feeling this site like everyone else… it’s a lot of fun! It’s great to be in the company of great artists all reaching for dreams…. OH What Dreams May Come :)

keep grinding…

I felt compelled to write about the event I conceived and co-directed with Eden Connelly for Project Reach Youth and a non-profit I have co-founded with Will Moore called Wrighterz Ink. First I want to say that I never wanted to be one of those artists that simply appeared at a benefit and said I support this or that cause. I have always wanted to actually do what I could to change the world for the better. To take a line from the performance “You can’t change the world, but you can represent what change looks like” this is why I applaud people like Angelina Jolie and others, someone who actually goes to the places where humanity is crying for someone to just care and gives a piece of their heart.

In my previous blog I wrote about a project that I was working regarding HIV and AIDS in response to controversial post I wrote about beatboxing and oral sex. Well, I wanted to go more in depth about the project and it’s background as we have just premiered it at one Brooklyn’s (BED STUY) hottest venues Solomon’s Porch Cafe. The evening was incredible and so was the work. The play Portraits in Life – Speaking Out Against the Silence says it all. Our culture which prides itself on “religious freedom” and “freedom of speech” is eerily silent when it comes to sex. This silence of the taboo subject of sex has led to a strange realm here in this country.

Our play is a documentary theatrical performance and visual arts presentation which followed the real life stories of 4 New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS and transformed their stories into dramatic presentations. Acclaimed visual artist Michael Newton led the group of Brooklyn teenagers to create a gallery of portraits of our the four people’s stories.

The teenagers are now embarking on a journey to take their presentation throughout Brooklyn. Brooklyn is the epicenter of the HIV AIDS within the United States. The statistics of our young teens becoming infected with HIV is staggering. In some neighborhoods 1 out of 3 teenage girls has contracted HIV. A disease which is spreading through a lack of information, through silence on issues regarding sex is effectively wiping out an entire generation.

To say wear a condom is simply not enough. It’s as if that is all that needs to be known about sex and it simply not true. A person needs to know how to use a condom properly, or perhaps young women could be taught about the female condom. Empowering women. By talking candidly about sex, oral, anal, vaginal, hetero, bi-sexual, whatever we create a culture where it’s the discussion is a normality and not something reserved to pornography, Hollywood, or advertisements. A community of artists I would have hoped would be progressive on the issue of sexual dialog.

I am a hopeful person.

Our event focused on the Hip Hop community particularly… as much as Hip Hop has been sexualized there appears to be a distortion of facts about aids within the Hip Hop community. During a our panel discussion we had an empowering dialog from with Hasan Salaam (Hip Hop Artist)and Sos (Hip Hop Violinist, Alicia Keys/Jay-Z/Kanye West), Winifred Maitre (Program Coordinator from CBAPP) Osvaldo and Annette two of our four subjects for the documentary play. We had special performances from Sos and myself a clip of which is here on the video… with other performances by Hasan Salaam, G, Eden Connelly, and poetry performances from Project Reach Youth STAGE CREW. An overall incredible evening and the start of a street campaign we hope will change the discussion of sex from the bedroom to the block. Saving lives along the way.

revolution and light…

I’m thankful that so many people are feeling my work… it’s a blessing and I’m extremely honored to be in the company of such talented lovers of music…. thank you again for helping to make “dragonfly” #1 in experimental. When we were making this song… we knew that we felt what we were creating was uniquely us… that it might not be accepted by many industry people and indeed it was not; yet as time went on fans from myspace… well from all over really began to pick up on the song and it has enjoyed some real love from people online… in fact I received word just 2 days ago that a popular radio DJ in London would begin playing on a top London station! KUDOZ! Yeah it’s very exciting. I remember the first time I heard it on the radio here recently in NYC… it was a feeling that I still can’t describe. So thank you Ourstage and thank you fans for Biggin Us Way Up! I’m extremely grateful… and owe you a piece of my dreams…

stay fly!