Chapter Seventy-Six: Airborne

got the news that it was possible to parachute into the top 50 of the Billboard singles chart in the first week, Song Ya temporarily changed her itinerary, and took people and Lao Qiao to fly directly to Los Angeles on the evening of the 27th, Detroit asked Big A and Tony to help them run, and Little Lowry had an affair with a famous daughter in the music industry in Detroit, and Tony is now a bit of a way to follow.

It's all about the 29th list.

"Old Joe, you've lost ...... weight"

"Huh? Is it? I've been so tired lately. On the plane, Lao Qiao sat in his seat in a daze, and his spirit was sluggish.

Song Ya thought of the figures of the four aunts, and felt sorry for the old Qiao in front of her for a second.

Old Joe was preoccupied, but he didn't take the initiative to say anything, and soon squinted after getting on the plane, and slept until Los Angeles.

As soon as she checked into the hotel in Compton, Los Angeles, Song Ya hung up the phone on Halle Berry.

After the MV aired, Hallie called to thank her, and according to her, various invitations have skyrocketed, and she is struggling with her agent. Of course, she didn't forget to tell Song Ya that she would 'entertain' him well when she came to Los Angeles.

"Thank you APLUS!"

Harley on the other end of the phone was excited, "I accepted Spike Lee's offer to star in the movie 'Jungle Fever', which he wrote, directed, and acted in!" I'm ready to join the group, right! It's a supporting character. Oh my God, in just two days, I feel like the whole world has changed, thank you for giving me the opportunity, where is the hotel? I'll go over it. ”

Spike Lee is one of Hollywood's rare black directors who has risen sharply, having been nominated for an Oscar for Original Screenplay and the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year.

Song Ya congratulated twice, and half an hour later, Harley's phone called again, this time she became a little hesitant, "My agent wants to meet you, is it convenient?" ”

“CAA?”

"Yes."

It seems that CAA senses that his brokerage contract is coming, and it is good for him to have someone compete with William Morris, but now he has not had time to think carefully about the pros and cons, and he knows that Hallie's agent is a small role, "It may not be convenient, my agent lives next door, and we are in a hurry to travel in Los Angeles." ”

"Okay, I'll go alone." Hallie hung up.

A moment later, there was a knock on the door outside the room.

He went to open it, and Old Joe walked in in his pajamas.

"I thought about it again and again, you still don't want to see 'Big E' tomorrow, I'll just help you say hello to him about the promotion of the single." Old Joe sat on the sofa in the room with a serious expression.

"Why?"

Song Ya was a little confused, didn't she come for nothing? This old Joe, do you regret it and don't want to let yourself get involved with N.W.A?

"That's right, '79 ......," Old Joe said a piece of history.

In 1979, Williams, the founder of the CRIPPLE GANG TO WHICH N.W.A. belonged, entered a Los Angeles motel and robbed it, shooting and killing the Chinese owner and his wife and wounding their daughter.

Because of this and several other bloody cases, Williams was arrested in '81 and sentenced to death.

"Although the Cripples are in fact split, and Williams has had the rudiments of the Cripples before, in general, they all recognize Williams as the founder. So ......"

Old Joe said slowly: "Although it was ten years ago, as far as I know, the Chinese community in Los Angeles is still trying to get Williams to be executed as soon as possible. Due to your ancestry, you have to be extra careful when dealing with the lame gang, and it may be that most of the young people on both sides don't know about this past, but as long as this topic is related to you, I just thought about it in the room, and you can't deal with it perfectly. Neutrality will be looked down upon by both sides, biased towards Chinese, morally correct, but will lose the black market, and will attract the hatred of the lame gang. If you are biased towards blacks, Chinese Americans will look down on you, let alone please blacks. ”

"Is that so?"

Song Ya sat at the head of the bed, "The lame gang is the largest black gang in the whole rice, right?" He muttered.

"It doesn't matter, there are just a lot of people, the Cripple Gang has long been split into pieces, and their own people are killing even harder." Old Joe said.

"Thank you, old Joe." Song Ya's gratitude came from the heart.

"So you remember, in the future, you must cooperate with the lame gang through an intermediary." Old Joe admonished.

Sending Old Joe away, Song Ya sat in the room and thought for a long time, until Harley knocked on the door outside, and he didn't get out of this heavy topic.

"Aren't you busy?" At ten o'clock in the morning, Harley put on her clothes and prepared to leave.

"I just don't want to see your agent."

Song Ya perfunctory her and dialed Song Asheng's phone, "Do you know about the motel murder in Los Angeles in '79? ”

"Yes, I would like to donate a sum of money to the Chinese American group urging the execution as soon as possible, in your name......"

Although he didn't leave any memories of his past life, Song Ya still knew that he was Chinese, so he didn't have anything to worry about which side to stand on after thinking about it.

I don't know how Lao Qiao communicated, the big 'E' service was quite so-so, on the 28th, when Song Ya left Los Angeles, there were already many DJs here who began to push I feel it coming, but the momentum was much smaller than in New York and Chicago.

Song Ya didn't have the idea of giving money to 'Big E' to work harder, that guy and the team's Cooper had black money, and their reputation in this regard was really bad.

Letting Old Joe go back to Chicago on his own, he changed his itinerary again and went to another big city on the West Coast, San Francisco, a city with a large number of Chinese Americans.

This time, he took the initiative to let Columbia Records contact a Chinese-American radio station, and the whole interview was in Chinese, during which he also showed two broken Cantonese sentences.

"You also have investments in Silicon Valley?"

The average economic power of Chinese Americans is much higher than that of blacks, as is the enthusiasm for investment, and at the end of the interview, he and the people on the radio naturally chatted about Silicon Valley, which is very close to San Francisco.

Song Ya reported a few stocks she bought.

"Wang An's computer ......," several radio staff members laughed.

"What's wrong?"

The other party laughed but did not answer.

Song Ya knew that this was not optimistic, but the other party did not say it clearly out of the cautious character that more Chinese is better than less, so he hurriedly commanded Song Asheng and asked him to contact the stockbroker to clear all the shares of Wang An's computer.

"It's a loss to sell now, it's better to make up the ......," Song Asheng suggested.

"I'll make up for your mother!"

Forcing Song Asheng to sell his stocks, he hurriedly ended his trip to the west coast and rushed to the south of the United States.

On the 29th, on the Billboard singles chart, I feel it coming dropped to No. 15 with less than 100,000 sales, just behind Mariah Carey's Love Takes Time.

Billboard Magazine also included a biography and short commentary.

Alexander Song, known by his stage name APLUS, is of Chinese and African descent and rose to prominence in Chicago in 1990 and is known for his talent and variety of genres.

The rap song second-hand store composed by him and co-wrote the lyrics with Lowry II has three platinum sales. He then wrote an equal rights song to De Klerk, which was sung by Milla Jovovich, a single that achieved double platinum sales in North America and a very positive overseas sales momentum.

At the end of the year, after signing with Columbia Records, he made his debut single I feel it coming, which included lyrics and singing, and dropped to No. 15 in the first week of release.