Haven’t blogged in a VERY long time. But I just wanted to get some stuff off my shoulders. 

First of all I’d like to say, I miss East Side Union so bad! You all don’t even know. Lately, we’ve all been scattered doing our own things, but even with a little problem like so, we all still see our crew as our main crew or in other words, our Family. I’m still waiting for the day where ALL OF US attend a session together and get plans settled as a crew. When that day comes, my fire as a bboy will light even hotter than it already is.

Its crazy how many of us has been getting offers to join big name crews which I won’t name, but I really do hope they run into this blog and read it. We’ll just identify the crews as the “Heavy Hitters of the 408.” Not necessarily have I gotten offered but it was more of a conversation of basically letting me know that they’re looking for younger bboys and one of them just happens to be me. I’ve negotiated with two crews from San Jose and another one out of Sacramento, but for now, lets just keep the San Jose crews in the picture since I could care less about the crew from Sac.

Well, here’s the part where I hope those 2 crews run into this blog. For me, East Side Union is my main crew; my crew I get down with at all of the jams, and I hope it will always stay that way. And for the other two crews trying to recruit many of us, I just wanted to say, BOTH of you two crews should recruit us, recruit us as the next big crew coming out of San Jose. Right now, you two crews only want us to carry your crews name and become a second generation but, I want to have my OWN crew. I hope none of you 408 heavy hitters take this the wrong way, all I want to get out is that all of you guys should take us under your wing and pass knowledge down to us so we can become successful bboys, achieve our own goals, and live up to our own dreams. You all know damn well that San Jose hasn’t been active. The last two big/fully active crews in San Jose were you two that i’m speaking of right now, and that was back in your own time, but now, It’s ESU’s time; It’s time for us to represent our home town and if we ever win any major jams/events, we’ll always credit you guys as our teachers and mentors. I really want you all to keep this in mind and have an open mind about this idea. Thanks to all that supported not only me but, my crew. Thanks you.

-Ricks (EAST SIDE UNION)