a message from an old flame

years ago, i'd have to say back before i was homeless, which would put it at about 1988 or so, i think it was around that time, i met a kid, whose name is robert clivilles. he lived in the projects on east 28th street in manhattan. it was an area that i went to to get drugs. anyway, he was in his bedroom on the 2nd floor with the windows open so the whole neighborhood could hear the music he was playing. he would practice dj'n for his gigs, which were parties held in different places in the lower east side. well, i fell for him immediately. a real hottie he was, but too young to do anything with, so i basically became friends with him, and helped him with his mixes by lending a critical ear, actually he didn't need much help as he was a star in my eyes already. to tell you the truth, he was teaching ME some things. scratching was still in it's infant stage, but he was starting to incorporate that technique long before it became the thing to do. anyway, i was still living with man parrish, but that was about to end.

i ended up moving in with an old working buddy, tom kinzy, who had a 2 bedroom spacious apartment on 7th avenue between 17th and 18th streets, on the grounde floor. it was a remarkable dwelling, featured in architectural digest. anyway, i remember one time when i invited rob and some friends over to the house where we got partied until the wee hours, and rob ended up sleeping in my new bed, even before i had a chance to sleep in it. i passed out before the others in tom's bed, so that's why i didn't approach either one of them with sex on my mind. iow, God saved me from getting involved with a minor.

anyway, there's many more memories i have of rob, and his cousin ricky. now ricky was more approachable, as i think he was older, not much, but older nonetheless, which made him legal age. but that's for another story, another time. back to rob.

i just happened to put his name in the search bar on facebook, and sure enough, his name bounced back rob's page, which is HERE. so i contacted him with a facebook message, and he replied right away (as i've learned since then, he's getting his notifications on his phone) with this nice note:

Robert Clivilles April 16 at 7:13am

What up D!!!!!

Of course I remember D Shimth..

Man it's been a while...

I'm still making music part time, I'm about to release a girl that probably will blow up with the hot music we created together.

How have you been D?

Some people told me you had passed away a long time ago.

Wow, it's great to see that you are well and healthy.

I hope things are good.

How come I never saw you while I was in C&C?

I had a huge studio on 13th street in the westside man.

I always thought you would come around and say hey..

Or had you moved by then?

My spirituality?

Yeah I Matured, I've always believed in God, it just took me to make it and have all my dreams come true and experiance life good & bad, poor & rich to see what's really up.

I know and most importantly accepted the truth now.

We can talk about it anytime.

I have a big family now 4 kids!!!

Everything is good, I had taken 7 years off when my partner passed away, ended up creating this big family and then went back to work 4 years ago with a group I had created called MVP( most valuable playas) had to hits in Europe with them and then took off another year, now I'm back for a few years with this new girl to maybe do another 5 years and then I'm done..

Anyway stay in touch...

You remember my cousin Ricky Crespo?

He's here in facebook, I think he hung with us back then?

anyway, i just wanted to preserve this in my records. i spoze i should add this to my timeline on hitchhiker. but i'm gonna have to wait until i get some bud. it'll be better to embellish the story, add more to some memories i have of that time period. so until then, i'll be crawlin and searchin for more people/places in my life.