My son's in the hospital

I haven't written in a while and so many things have transpired since then that I don't have time to post it all. One of the major things that has recently occurred was that the foster care agency put my son in the mental hospital so they can re-evaluate him. Honestly I disagreed with there approach because I felt it was a bit extreme way of addressing a issue he has been dealing with in school. I have no real problems with him at home it's just the school that is unable to properly supervise him. Unfortunately they reported that he missed numerous days of school so that is why the agency put him there. We were unaware that he wasn't going to classes because everyday he would get on the bus and after school he when asked how was school he said it was fine. A month ago it was discovered that he was hanging out in the music room playing drums rather than going to class. Although JD says he has been going to class since then It's my belief that he may have found another hang out spot in the school and that may be why he has been marked absent.

Just last night I went to visit him in the hospital and spent time talking with JD and playing cards with him and his brother who I brought along. I also found out that's it's been an entire week already and according to him he has not met with a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist yet. He also reported that there form of school in the hospital is a teacher who reads from a book for 20 minutes and then they go to gym and lunch and then gym again. Really sounds like a wasted of time. I really don't understand why they haven't met with him yet and I hope he get's out soon. Please pray for JD and that he comes home soon. This is the 2nd time that he has been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. The last time was just before he moved in with us and that was over a year ago and they had him in there with his brother for about 4 months. Thanks for your prayers. God Bless You!

Inspirational Freestyle Mixtape

I'm releasing a new project called INSPIRATIONAL FREESTYLES. It's a mixtape which contains all freestyles raps. Nothing on it is rehearsed or written. It's rawest form of Hip-Hop that you can ever find. I like how wikipedia defines it.

Freestyle rap is an improvisational form of rapping, performed with few or no previously composed lyrics, which is said to reflect a direct mapping of the mental state and performing situation of the artist. It is non-scripted, non-rehearsed, uncut, and the rawest form of hip-hop. Artists will often refer to places and objects in their immediate setting. Freestyle rapping forces an individual to think on the spot, describe their surroundings, and, to a certain degree, rap uncensored from what is inside. It is similar in this sense to improvisational music or acting and draws comparisons to improvisational jazz in particular.

Here's a video link
to all the videos I posted so far of some of the songs on the mixtape. One of my favorites so far is called "I SEE YOU"

Craig doing a concert with Teddy & Shine

Me and my two 20 year old boys Teddy & Shine were invited to perform a few songs at a concert sponsored by Pastor Jeff Nightingale of True Life Center.

It was a special occasion for me because I'm really proud of my boys and how they have grown into young men of God who are not ashamed to rap about their faith in Christ. The crowd was really amazed because it's not that often that you get to hear two young black men who grew in foster care share their faith in Christ and how they came out of gangs, broken families and the things of the world that hold so many of our young men down.

Teddy just finished his first semester at Nyack College and Shine is currently working as a security guard where he was just promoted and he plans to attend Nyack College in the summer. He's working on applying now so please pray he gets accepted into the HEOP program where they pay for about 90% of his tuition like they do for Teddy now.