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Capone and me "shooting myself in the foot"

I’ve been seeing some recent posts on Capone-N-Noreaga promoting the upcoming release of their third album, “Channel 10″, which leads me to this photo that I dug up from my archives.  Back in March of 1999, while I was working for TRACE Magazine I got offered the opportunity to interview Capone  for a Queensbridge-themed music issue.  Mind you, I wasn’t originally hired as a writer, I handled ad sales and marketing, but with such a small staff I got the fringe benefit of being able to ‘wear different hats’ while I was there.

I remember the day vividly, it was such an indelible experience for me to get an ‘official’ tour of the historic QB projects from one of its very own and being able to see and experience the neighborhood that inspired and spawned so much talent.

Suffice it to say, I’m not that good of a writer, hence my short lived career and to even further add insult to injury, the story ended up being dropped from the issue!  Hahahahahaaa…

Fast forward seven months and now I’m working for Triple 5 Soul, (Yes, I mentioned it as 555-Soul in the previous post, because it was totally different then.*) and DJ Soul was music editor for Mass Appeal. (R.I.P.- Patrick Elasik)  He was trying to close his first issue, so I asked him to consider the story for an upcoming issue and joked that if he wasn’t going to run it I would be left with no choice but to drop Mass Appeal from Triple 5 Soul’s ad plan!  I guess he took me seriously because he ended up running the piece and it was the first story in the magazine only four pages in from the ad we ran on the inside-cover-spread.  I’m joking…I don’t think that was the reason…Regardless, I’m just glad he ran the story and gave me a shot.  Thanks DJ Soul…

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