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Fantom Island
St. Loui go Stewey!
We have a love/hate relationship with St. Louis. The thing about it is there’s a lot of love, but yo, there’s a whoooooooole lot of hate (we’re not the ones hating though, we swear!!). Lets start with the love.
On Wednesday the good people of ABS and Connect4 at Washington University piled us into their cars and brought us to campus where they fed us with bomb ass Thai food and homemade cake with our name on it (this is the love part).
And you know what…if we had it our way, we’d always get to come in a day early and be fed noodles and dessert. It was so much more than that. Oh yes…controversial jokes, and as a very first, the organizers broke out in a cypher and freestyled for us! And then they took us out to buy wine and demonstrated the stanky leg for us. What more can a bunch o iLL-Literates ask for??
Well how about some RACISM?? The next day hotel management mistook Drizzle for a Chinese delivery boy, and then an old white lady complained to that same hotel management because we were on the lobby computers when she wanted to use them. Guess whose side they took???? Hmmm. Maybe the Sheraton just doesn’t like spoken word. That must be it. (That’s the hate part)
Fortunately, the Washington University people saved us and brought us to campus where we had an incredible show opened up by the WU SLAM poets and The Middle Class, quite possibly the dopest new artists in all of Missouri. And Missouri’s a huge state! Well, it’s medium-sized. But that’s still pretty damned good.
Shouts to Bryant Stewart, manager of The Middle Class, and iLL-Lit supporter for some time now. And just so you understand just HOW fly these STLiens roll…………………………………
PENNY LOAFERS WITH AN ACTUAL PENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Untouchable.
Aiight St. Louis, it’s been trill. Off to bed we go. BTW, we tried our best to online-check into our Southwest flights early, why are we still in the B section??????????
