Before you READ it anywhere else..."Dancing With The Devil" by Mark Curry

No matter how great our job may seem...it's still called WORK and at some point we all hate it, apparently some hate it a little more than others.

Lets flash back to summer of '01. The King of Self Promotions (not me, I'm just the MAYOR of a small town called SELF PROMOTIONS) , Sean "P. Diddy" Combs had the clubs dancing (as usual) and seemed to have been preparing for is second go'round with a newer,fresher, rooster including G-Dep, Black Rob, Loon, Carl Thomas, Mario Winans, those kids that did the Harlem Shake really well, and Mark Curry.

Fast-forward to 2009 and G-Dep has only released one album,Black Rob has been in jail a few times and came back on his own with something for the streets...if you count his block in Harlem as the streets, according to Jim Jones, Loon is in Atlanta selling burnout phones...and I believe it,Carl Thomas released an independent album while John Legend came out at the same time and that's all we've heard from him since, Mario Winans is back at home being "Scooter,son of Vicky," the "Shakers," went off to college and became "Male Cheerleaders," and Mark Curry now works at a burger joint a few blocks from the Def Jam building in NY.

In between prepping onions and flipping burgers Mark Curry took the time to write in his journal on all the reflections of his life and somehow gathered enough material to publish a book entitled "Dancing With The Devil:How Puff Burned The Bad Boys of Hip Hop." iKnowTANK, along with the help of some industry insiders (iKnow people at publishing houses too), has the 1 chapter here for your enjoyment. Buy the book (scheduled to be released 2/2/2009) and thank me later.