VERSUS Review – Skope Magazine

Posted: January 9, 2011 in Music

January 4, 2011 – Skope Staff

I’m gonna be honest and say that mainstream hip-hop music is in trouble right now.  This V.I.T.A.L. Emcee from Long Beach, California has an answer for this problem and it’s Versus-Verses.  With not much to offer the public today as far as quality-driven rap music goes, this MC comes with a total package that’s vital to hip-hop fans everywhere.

Noel Vinson is the man behind the mask and he is a rapper, songwriter, artist and activist.  All 16 tracks on this record exhibit major substance not to mention catchy beats and feverish rhymin’.  V.I.T.A.L. proves on Versus-Verses that he is no joke when it comes to rap skills and flow.  The nice part is that you’re getting so much on this album with it all hitting you at once.  You have plenty of party-driven songs that you can get down to, but Emcee also mixes in good messages and thought-provoking lyrics.  One such example would be on tack five “Put Down That Gun” where you hear V.I.T.A.L. saying “the kids say my favorite rap star got one”—referring to a gun.  What’s being stressed here is that guns are way too accessible and people like rappers glamorize them.  Kids see this on TV or online and think it’s okay to carry a piece, but Noel Vinson is saying hell no to that notion and telling everyone to “Put Down That Gun”!  “Doomsday 101” is another track that will get you thinkin’ big time because it’s about the end of the world that mentions December 2012 being that time.  On track six “Spanish Harlem”, you’re getting a smooth Spanish flavor that will make you move.  “Whiplash” is a standout number that is an instant smash hit and one hot single.  On song 14 “Strait Jacket”, you’re experiencing a hype jam with beats galore and the DJ cuttin’ it up nicely.  I also enjoyed the LL Cool J “Rock The Bells” intro to go along with Method Man in the background.  V.I.T.A.L. goes out with a bang on the final track “The Last Song” that displays ridiculous energy and one crazy, fresh hook.

I was diggin’ this entire CD, but some of my favorite songs that really stuck out were: “Off With Their Heads”, “Whiplash”, “Strait Jacket” and “The Last Song”.  I’d also like to add that there were a ton of talented guest musicians on this disc that savored the moment.  One such individual would be Lauren Coleman who showed off some nice singing on “Boomerang” and “Against The World” while adding an element of soul to the mix.  V.I.T.A.L. Emcee stated that “hip-hop needs a savior” on “Off With Their Heads” and I couldn’t agree more.  That savior could very well be V.I.T.A.L. Emcee, so keep doin’ your thing and never quit because the game needs you!

Happy New Year

Posted: January 4, 2011 in Goals, Life

You ever wish you were born in another time?  Like you just feel older than what your physical dimensions display.  The term old soul would be cliché by definition, but the sluggish feeling and emotion that accompany it can only color the detail of your true character.  That is, assuming you have met your true character; self and shadow minus persona.

I feel old.  Not in a bad way.  Just more mature than I should be allowed for my age.  No more party for party sake (that’s for your twenties), but no more emaciating from sloth either—and no more excuses of why things never worked out.  If you wanna know the true issue, the problem has always been me.  Fear of failure, fear of success—two sides of the same self-righteous counterfeit coin.  And playing for the stakes this way, complaining could always be justified when life flipped on you.

But is this where it changes?  We are surrounded with so much manufactured stimuli that something is bound to get it’s hooks in us.  I can’t complain, I’m an artist…and between news and entertainment, I’d be pretty fucking bored without it.  I choose health and fitness as my current state of being, as it seems to help with my pursuance of music, and proves more useful than the old concoction of energy drink, nicotine, alcohol, nerve and valium.  Been there before and I’m really not the desperate type.

The whole point is that, for me, for my actions and for my outlook, it all begins here, in 2011.  I am now at this point where everything means: now, balls out, all or nothing.  Baby steps, giant steps, I could care less.  Forward is progression and movement is kinetic, because life is cyclical.  Once we become in touch with our truest sense of self, the mastery gained comes from the control we have learned to exercise. In this now, we are accountable only to ourselves.

From here on, any obstacle becomes a stepping stone.  And the mantra that follows is I can do anything, I can do anything. Just like you can do anything.

Happy New Year.

Bar Work

And I was going to clean today.  Saturday, April 17th was supposed to be one of those rare days where I planned to buckle down and be responsible for once…or twice.  I woke up early enough, read a few chapters from one of the many books I have yet to finish and even took my dreary ass to the gym.  It was all set.  I had my to do list out and even a strategized playlist full of diverse tastes fired up on iTunes.  I done fucked up.

Upon return from the Bally’s I hate to frequent, I was presented with 3 free 3-day passes to the 2010 Comic Con and the geek in me geeked.  Drowning in thoughts of Stan Lee lectures, William Shatner Priceline monologues and Bruce Campbell Evil Dead one-liners (boomstick anyone?), I decided to seal my fate as the fire-engine-red-fox-ears perked up and let the chips fall where they may.  I’d clean ‘em up later anyway.

Then it dawned on me: people dress up for this kind of shit.  It excites them as it makes the experience that much more memorable.  Good thing I just happen to have a dozen or more Hawaiian shirts, daunting pairs of short short 1970s OP shorts, the flyest fishing hats, aviator sunglasses that come with the coveted Top Gun theme song, and the piece de resistance: an elegant cigarette holder that only a drug-induced journalist could love.  Throw my custom-copied jacket on and here we go.  Just a side note:  I can’t wait to pull this off at shows.

As for my partner in crime…I did not have an attorney to advise me against this…I told my buddy to throw his dealer’s visor on and the scene was set.  It was kind of like Van Damme in Double Impact, except this was worthy of a movie.

The Empire Strikes Crack

I’m never one to pay for parking if I don’t have to.  Maybe a lame idiosyncrasy, I know, but it makes for much more fun at the bar later.  Plus you can always score and walk off your daily intake if you put a few miles between your vehicle and your destination–and your feet eventually get used to it too, trust me.  That being said, this day was no different, other than trudging to the Anaheim Convention Center in what ex cons and pedophiles could easily mistake for daisy dukes.  Needless to say, safety remained paramount at this point in the juncture, and we came out on the other end gleaming.

I’ve read years ago that if you want to enter any room looking like you’re somebody, then you pause in the doorway and survey your surroundings.  First thought here: too much stimulation.  Might as well have been in the depths of an ether binge, as multitudes of characters flocked in every which direction, risking impending doom in attempting to reach some highly anticipated booth and pay for a $30 dollar photo op with someone you and I kind of remember seeing on TV when we were kids.  Meet Cal Worthington and his dog Spot. Not to say that it was full of has beens, but you catch my drift.

Maybe things would have been a little better had there been a Pay it Forward system integrated because it was interesting for me to ask Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase for a photo and be interrupted by his apparently still-bodyguard Virgil (who mistook me for RUN-DMC) and informed the spectators as well as myself to run to the nearest ATM because this was the paying section.  Although having the Honky Tonk Man give you a thumbs up because he recognizes you is pretty cool.

Anyway, during all of the commotion congealing from Hall D, recognizing cats like Jim Kelly and Robert Wall (Ohara in Enter the Dragon) and watching Bill Mosely next to Jason Mewes, was really cool.  I really wanted to know how much Jay would charge for a feature; something in the vein of mother mother fuck, mother mother fuck fuck, but unfortunately he was too busy chatting it up with the line of eager fans who paid their $30 to take their photo with him.

The best thing about all of this was that my boy and I were not charging for our photo ops, which kind of made us the hit of the convention.  Everywhere that we turned we were reminded that many people indeed loved Hunter S. Thompson…or Johnny Depp (insert sad face emoticon).  It got to the point that I made a deal with many of these people: if they wanted a picture than I wanted a picture.  It’s all love!

And there was an omnidirectional amount of Spidermen, Vaders, Jokers, Doc Ocs, Catwomen, Leias, Predators, Aliens, Predaliens, Ghost Riders and Supermen showing the love, but for someone like myself who appeared to have congealed out of Bat Country: there was a plethora of Batmen (Adam Wests to Christian Bales) and Batgirls (??? to Alicia Silverstone) who were just as amazed at us as we were of them.

Predator Hunter

All in all this was one of those days that you would never really remember to forget…something that was well worth the risk of a dirty house.  To get to see and speak with the people who were geeked at me just because of my outfit and banter (and free VERSUS download cards) really set the light bulbs off in my head; 1, my next project is going to be nuts.  2, ya’ll are gonna love it!  And 3, prepare to be surprised because it is going to go there and touch those spots that may get me arrested and tried.  But fuck it.  Envelopes must be pushed, microphones must be crushed, and Christina Ricci needs to paint more portraits of Barbara Streisand, goddammit.  I really feel as if I am too weird to live and too rare to die, but if you’re still with me then beautiful fucking tits man!

PS  Much love and respect goes to Paco the Bartender who charged me well prices for premium alcohol.  The American Dream is still in existence Hunter!  May we not get it twisted.

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Review from Verbicide Magazine

Posted: April 8, 2010 in Music

V.I.T.A.L. EMCEE – Versus – Verses

reviewed by Matt Edmund cd, music, reviews | jackson | April 7, 2010 at 1:41 AM


I became familiar with Noel Vinson’s (AKA V.I.T.A.L. Emcee) work while checking out the Southern California hip-hop group Seekret Socyetee. The group, which also features Matt Embree of RX Bandits (founder of MDB Records) and Maylay Sage was one of the first hip-hop acts to be featured on MDB’s roster of artists.

V.I.T.A.L. released his debut album, The Secret of the Invisible Man in 2006. Its dark sound and socially conscious subject matter were clearly a continuation of what was started with Seekret Socyetee’s material. Leading up to present day, things in Camp V.I.T.A.L. had been fairly quiet until the release of his sophomore album Versus – Verses. This 16-track album comes off as a total departure from V.I.T.A.L.’s last release. The subject matter isn’t as political or dark, but rather comes off hitting on a much more personal note.

There are a few political tracks that are featured here. “I Don’t Want To Be Right” revolves around the argument here in California around Proposition 8 to legalize gay marriage; the “right” being the evangelical conservatives who are against gay marriage. Lyrically, the song has a scathing message to those who claim to be speaking a message of “love,” yet come off looking very hypocritical. “Against the World” is a beautifully sung song that deals with the high and low points of being in a relationship, clearly touching on some personal experiences. The song features Lauren Colman, who also is featured on the song “Boomerang.” Her amazing voice adds a lot to both of these tracks. I was also impressed with the diversity of the beats that accompany V.I.T.A.L.’s vocals. Many of the tracks in The Secret of the Invisible Man were simplistic in their beat structures. There was very little sampling and scratching on that album, but this new album features a wide range of beats and samples. From a soulful sound with the song “It’s Love” to a very cool sample of Richie Haven’s performance of “Freedom” at Woodstock, the beats featured here make the album extremely diverse in sound. V.I.T.A.L.’s vocals are smooth and are well executed, especially when he flows with quickness (something he attributes to studying Bone Thugs N’ Harmony).

Versus – Verses is a fine example of what hip-hop should consist of. It’s not watered-down, mass marketed dribble found on the radio or television — it’s real music from the heart.

(MDB Records, PO BOX 941, Seal Beach, CA 90740)

Greenest Rapper Alive

Posted: April 8, 2010 in Politics

From Long Beach Magazine

It’s not uncommon to hear a rapper proclaim themselves the “greatest rapper alive.”  But not many hip-hop MCs have the right to proclaim themselves the “greenest rapper alive,” except for V.I.T.A.L. Emcee, who may have the title sewn up.From eco-friendly CD practices, to ensuring the food served at his shows and record release parties is organic, he has proven himself to be an artist with a higher consciousness.
But V.I.T.A.L. (stage name for Noel Vinson) doesn’t think of himself as an expert on green living.  “It’s something I follow and practice,” he said, “but I’m still wet behind the ears with it.  There’s a perception that I’m some sort of guru, but I’m not.  There’s people that I hang out with who know way more about it than I do.  I’m just trying to do my best.”

Modesty aside, it’s easy to see why V.I.T.A.L. developed a reputation for being a green-conscious rapper.  With his sophomore album, VERSUS/VERSES, V.I.T.A.L. has made the life-long switch to green music distribution, with carbon-neutral pressing, and all eco-friendly merchandise.  The record release party for the album was held at the Sky Room, where V.I.T.A.L. requested that all food and alcohol served were organic.  “Anything I do musically, if it’s a show I’m headlining or a release party, I want to make sure the practices going on are eco-friendly,” he said.

Perhaps the most public green-centric thing V.I.T.A.L. has done was attend the 2009 Grammy Awards, where he was a blogger for Waste Management who sent him to observe and report on everything the Grammys were doing to go green.  In addition to helping launch his reputation as an environmentally-conscious artist, V.I.T.A.L. says the experience helped motivate him to think more about his own footprint, as well as giving him ideas on how to run his events in a more eco-friendly way.  “That’s when I really started to look into it,” he said.  “It affected me, but before that it was never really in the forefront of my mind.”

His dedication to green initiatives expands beyond his own footprint–and his own work.  V.I.T.A.L. has participated in beach cleanups in Huntington Beach and Seal Beach with the Surfrider Foundation, and has helped clean up the Alamitos Bay area, with Resource Water and Whole Foods.  He recently was at a Whole Foods Market in West Hollywood, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony with mayor Abbe Land, where they unveiled a Greenopolis Tracking Station, a piece of technology he sounded very excited about.

“They take all your recyclables and put them into the machine,” he explained.  “Then, you can get your CRV to go redeem, but they also give you a number to put into their website, so you can track and find out what all your recyclables are going to become.”

V.I.T.A.L. isn’t just a green spokesperson, either, but an artist in his own right–his last album was a finalist on the Grammy ballot in several categories, including Best New Artist, and he’s gained a strong reputation as an underground artist in the competitive ranks of the local music world.  Having come to the city from Orange County, V.I.T.A.L. says it’s the best place to be an artist with a unique take.  “There’s a respect here among local performers,” he said.  “If you’re do it yourself, it’s perfect, because Long Beach is a mecca for artisans.”

Here, V.I.T.A.L. says he found the creative space to help reinvent himself as a green artist.  “I wanted to change my own ways, and minimize my own footprint–with CDs, and everything else,” he said.  “I want to be an influence about it.”

If he continues to influence others to follow in his footsteps, V.I.T.A.L. is unlikely to see another artist even bother to challenge him for the title of “greenest rapper alive.”

I know hip hop is mostly about boasting and bragging, talking about what you can do on the mic and how many crews you wreck. At least that’s the way it should be and that’s the way it was in the beginning, but that slowly changed, for better and worse. Of course, we have the bling, bitches, brew and buds of today’s music, which has it place. In the early 80’s, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five dropped “The Message”, and hip hop started tackling real issues. I still like powerful hip hop that provokes thoughts and thinking. That’s exactly what V.I.T.A.L. Emcee’s “Boomerang” does, it makes you think and, if you have any conscious or feelings, it might even move you some. Backed by a nice guitar and some vocal backing that reminds me of some Suzanne Vega type shit, V.I.T.A.L. spits a song about a life of a woman who has had a rough life. After being sexually abused as a child, she turns to the life of turning tricks. The story continues on over the haunting music, as a business man watches her day in and day out from his cubicle and starts to fall for her. Soon, this business dude starts dating a hooker…and well, you have to listen to the rest of the story. Haunting music and a good story that makes you wonder about the ills of society, oh and teaches you to never date a hooker.

Artist Spotlight – WYDUBlog

Posted: February 18, 2010 in Music, Uncategorized

Artist Spotlight: V.I.T.A.L Emcee


I know cats like to categorize hip hop, it’s the new thing. Hell, I’m guilty of doing it myself at times. You got crunk, gangsta rap, hipster, underground, nerdcore, and probably another ten to fifteen others you can name. But sometimes an artist comes along with music and/or an album that you just can’t apply a label to. That can be good and bad sometimes. People, I think by nature, want to be able to label things, to be able to put them in a box. If they can’t, they are not sure what to do with it and sometimes they just avoid it. Others embrace it and run with it, that’s what I’m hoping happens with this week’s second Artist Spotlight artist, V.I.T.A.L. Emcee. Stationed in sunny Southern California, Vital comes with some intense music. You can tell the dude puts his heart and soul into the music on his latest album, Versus/Verses. It’s not something you can sit down and easily digest, trust me, it didn’t work for me the first time through. But the more you play it, even if it isn’t your thing, you have to see the the passion and soul that the music contains. He has straight up hip hop, social commentary, dark shit, light shit, it’s all here. The cats that are more open minded to music in general will be more likely to accept this one.

Just from judging the music, I knew it was going to be more than interesting to sit down with Vital and talk with him. He drops the knowledge and explains where he is comign from…..

V.I.T.A.L. Emcee – Whiplash
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WYDU: What’s good my man, how about quick introduction of who you and what you do?

V.I.T.A.L. Emcee: I’m V.I.T.A.L. Emcee and I am here to bring Hip-Hop back to it’s organic state with refresher courses in b-boyism, early to mid-90s gangsta flows before they became played out (though I’m no gangster), consciousness, and socio-economic issues–all with an undercurrent of positivity and relatability. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I’m the Christ figure who is willing to be a martyr for his cause.

W: Let’s get a little background on you and some of your history. Why hip hop? What made you want to be an MC and try to make it in this messed up music industry?

V: Since I was a kid I always had an elaborate fetish for music period! I wanted records and tapes instead of GI Joes. I didn’t discover Hip-Hop until I was about 7 years old and I discovered DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince with “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” Being 7 years old, those were the truest words I had ever heard and I was attracted to the cadence and the rhythm of the words on top of the production. From that point, Hip-Hop definitely demanded my attention and I started learning the songs that appealed to me. 20 years later here I am in the beautiful state of DIY and with the advent of the internet it makes things a lot more obtainable than searching for the elusive record deal that usually fucks new artists in the end anyway.

W: I found it interesting when I read your bio that you mention; “….(my) prime objective of bridging the distances between the underground and mainstream as well as the positive and negative aspects of human nature.” First off, why is important to you to bridge the underground and mainstream hip hop genres, is that something even possible?

V: When Chris Rock discussed politics he said that one can’t be either 100 percent conservative nor 100 percent liberal. I feel that explains my outlook on the two scenes respectively. Coming full circle musically in my own life, I think it’s the younger cats who want to keep something a certain way and stamp a label on it, and somehow that makes it their own. I’ve been there, but now I accept things I didn’t accept then. I like a lot of the joints that the underground scene produces, but I also have that bone in my body which can get into certain mainstream tracks before they become saturated on the radio. In my own journey, I want people to bounce. I want them to bob there head to the track. I wanna see people hit their switched with my shit in the deck…and I think that my music has the flavor to pull it off.

That being said, I’m not the “shake your ass bitch, make my cash stick” cat. I do me and that is more universally related to who we are and who we want to become as opposed to what we see and what we want to portray. I think it’s a fine line which I walk rather well.

W: Just by listening to your music, you definitely get the dark feeling to some of your songs such as “Boomerang” or “Put Down The Gun”, on your latest CD and you most definitely divulge into the psyche of the human nature. Why is that something that is important to you? Do you think the human race is generally good with some bad seeds, or are we all f’d up?

V: I try to be Shakespearean with my swagger, therefore there is a bit of theatrics in the methods to my madness. I’m not a prophet nor am I a psychologist so I can’t be the Carl Jung of Hip-Hop. A lot of what I write is through observation or experience. As humans we all have those fucked up days and I think that everyone can relate to that. When it all boils down, it comes to one person in their room or ride listening to your music. That’s my targeted fan base.

I used to be dubbed “dark” because of my first album, but that’s just where I was in my own life at that time. It doesn’t mean that every consecutive thing I drop is going to be dark. I have to grow and learn from that growth. I think all of us in life have to learn from our experiences instead of being haunted by them. Human nature is definitely fucked up by it’s surroundings, but that doesn’t mean that we as a people are bad. It comes down to individuality and the equality inherent in it.

W: I can tell you do have a wide range of influences, both musically and lyrically, just by listening to your two releases, “The Secret of the Invisible Man” and “Versus/Verses”. What are some of your lyrical and musical influences?

V: Wow. As I touched on earlier, I like a lot of different types of music outside of Hip-Hop. When it comes to Hip-Hop though, I lose my mind at cats like Tech N9ne, Gift of Gab, Chali2na, Aesop Rock, Jay-Z and Nas, etc. I came up with everything from NWA to Too $hort and Bone Thugs. I find my own creativity through the adrenaline they give me just by listening to them. Outside of that, I love things like Pink Floyd, Rob Halford and Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Dave Brubeck, Regina Spektor, RX Bandits, Mars Volta, Pantera, Stevie Wonder, MJ, Nina Simone…and the list goes on forever.

W: Why is important for your music to have those influences such as the rock and the such?

V: I think the more stuff that you are open to and even inspired by makes you better at what you do as an artist.

W: Let’s talk about your new album, Versus/Verses, what’s the significance of the title?

V: Since the Secret of the Invisible Man dropped, I was continually fighting an uphill battle in my personal life just to find the confidence to be me. I went through a lot, moved to New Orleans and subsequently to Oakland, weathered falling in and out of love, financial burdens all the while trying to gain some recognition musically. To sound cliche, where I stand now is in a much healthier place…a triumph against adversity. Therefore the heart and soul of 4 years was implemented in dozens and dozens of tracks and I chose the joints that made up the best representation of who I am now. So in essence the Verses came from fighting back the negative and trying to change for the better (VERSUS VERSES)

W: How would you describe this album for someone who hasn’t heard it yet? What kind of things (besides those that we discussed) are you trying to accomplish?

V: First and foremost, I want people to have a good time with it–just ride to it. It’s been described to me that if you like 2Pac AND Tool you’d like me. I would just say that if you pop in the disc you’ll be one on one with one of the greatest rappers unheard…and there are a lot of us out there.

W: Who are some of the producers and guests on the project?

V: I got to work with people who I thoroughly respect for grinding and putting out the energy to manifest their goals. This round I got joints from the Optimist, who I believe is one of the best producers in the Hip-Hop scene far and wide, as well as cats like LD, who is just mad ridiculous, and the Dysposable Heroes who did a Genius VS. Genius mixtape which is incredible. I also got features from some heads who definitely are going to be heard from more. Cats like Hochii from Technicali, Castor Pollux of Gutter Water, C4mula and Los Vega$ from the Committee Fam, and Ariano who is doing a dope project with his DJ, LD, and Medusa of Project Blowed fame. I also got to work with Matt Embree of the RX Bandits again which is always an honor and Lauren Coleman from the group Peba Luna. All in all, I had a lot of great energy conspire to help me get this album made.

W: The album artwork, inside the CD reminded me of some of those old Tool videos, what kind of mood were you trying to create with the art? How important is that kind of thing these days?

V: I’m a cat who likes the whole package–more than just a download from iTunes. That being said, artwork and presentation is MAD important for me. It tells it’s own story and compliments the music in many ways. For “VERSUS” the mood I wanted was a touch of darkness fueling the creative juices, hence the invisible ventriloquist and the dummy who has his heart on his shirt. It’s a depiction of how I feel once I get into the zone…I’m the instrument being played to the audience.

W: I know a lot of people say the retail music is in an era of doom and gloom, how do you catch people and get them to buy your CD or download?

V: Promo, promo, and more promo. All do it yourself, therefore I can be a bit better with the hustle, but at the same time, I feel better than I ever have with pushing myself forward. I really believe I can be successful in this medium. I’ve got nothing but good people around me who inspire me to do what I do. Word of mouth is the best thing an artist can have these days and I am doing everything in my power to generate that buzz.

W: So there is a rumor that you were nominated for a Grammy? What’s the dealy with that?

V: I was actually working with a company who really believed in my first album. They were the ones who got me on the ballot. Out of the initial 20,000 somewhat submissions, it was then narrowed down to about 2,000 nominees in 100 plus categories. “Slouch Hat,” “the Writing on the Wall” (song and video), and “Agoraphobic/Claustrophobic” all made the ballot in seven categories including Best New Artist and Record of the Year.

Obviously I didn’t end up in the top 5 next to Lil Wayne or Jay-Z but because of this (and my eco-friendly agenda), Waste Management chose me to attend the ceremonies on their behalf and blog about how the Grammy’s started pushing a green initiative this past year. It was a very surreal experience, so I can only be thankful that an album which came from a dark place brought me there. It’s ironic like one of God’s little gests.

W: What does the future hold for VITAL EmCee?

V: I’ll keep this one short–EVERYTHING!

W: Any last words?

V: Yeah. No matter who you are, no matter what you believe and no matter what you do–as long as you believe in yourself, the World can be yours. Believe that!

Thanks man!