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Is it ironic that the last time I posted a blog there was about 6 inches of snow on the ground outside, and now theres about 6 FEET (slight exaggeration its about 3-4 ft.) of snow on the ground?! Its Crazayyy! We just went through what the news people are calling “The Blizzard of 2010″. Ridiculous amounts of snow, power outages (about 70,000 houses affected), people making bad decisions, scavenging into the wild, the whole nine. It’s been quiet an experience. And we’re still snowed in…

But being snowed in was somewhat fruitful. I got a chance to re-write a spoken word piece that I had written a longg time ago.The piece that I had written initially was actually some of the preliminary writing for what is now known as “Souljas Story“. Join me as I tell you this interesting story.

So, before Souljas Story was Souljas Story it was actually a Love Story. After hearing that instrumental by itself for at least a month straight I decided I wanted to do my own rendition of Heer Ranjha by Waris Shah, which is a really famous love story from Punjab (sort of like the punjabi version of Romeo and Juliet). But I wanted to do it with a twist so I wrote it from the perspective of a character named Khaira, who was actually Heer’s husband at one point. But anywho, long story short – The Love story somehow mutated into a Souljas Story and took with it the core elements of the Love Story, which are Love and Infatuation. If you listen to the track carefully, you’ll be able to tell that Love and Infatuation have a lot to do with this Souljas Story.

But more than a year later, I’ve decided to bring that story back to the drawing board. And its still in the editing stages, but I’m happy with the revised draft. Still debating whether I want it to be a rap song (like souljas story) or make it more into a spoken word type piece. Suggestions are welcome.

Also I’m not sure what inspired the song’s re-appearance, but it may have been the single candle light that I wrote it under, or the blistering cold, or the power outage and craving for hot food, or a combination of it all…but needless to say, the ambiance definitely played a huge role in this resurgence.

Will keep yall updated with this as I make more progress.

Until the next time.

- Saint

One of our biggest accomplishments this past year has been the launch of this film. What started off as a music video for a 4 minute song, finally ended up being a 17-minute short film that was a great debut for us on the “big screen”.

The film turBAN has been directed and produced by our good friend Sartaj Singh Dhami from MD, and features our song “turBAN” from the Souljas Rise mixtape. turBAN has won First Place in the Sikhnet Online Youth Film Festival in 2009, been featured at the N.Y. Sikh Arts and Film Festival, has won 2 awards at the L.A. Sikh Arts and Film festival, and has also been featured in the Toronto Spinning Wheel Film Festival 2009.

So if you haven’t seen it yet, now is a good time to catch it. The Video is in two parts. Check it out here.

turBAN by Dashmesh Pictures & G.N.E. – Part 1

turBAN by Dashmesh Pictures & G.N.E. Part 2

To check out more of our videos, songs, and performance clips check out www.youtube.com/tanmit

And to view more amazing short films by Sartaj Singh and Dashmesh pictures, check out their website at www.restoringthepride.com