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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
ok so i'm glad i didn't watch the BET awards...wack sound systems, & a bunch of negroes trying too hard isn't exactly a night of fun. i get these dry spells of music & when i come out of them, I COME OUT...pause...a lot of this stuff has been recorded & written in the last 48 hours. check back regularly cuz i'ma be updating this regularly
I haven't paid much attention to this thing lately...been crazy busy, which has actually been a gift & a curse...
Maybe I'll have something decent to write about soon...I gotta watch what I say because some of y'all don't need to know certain things...
Just know I'm safe, the music has been coming out crazy (pain creates pleasure) & last but certainly not least, God is great...Jesus is wonderful, the Lord's love is forever lasting...y'all be easy now. I'll hit y'all with some music later
no song of the day, imeem is getting wack with these 30 second snippets
aiiiiiight, i'ma be nice...it IS the Lord's day (well everyday is, but still). but in order for you to get ready for Wake Up 3, you gotta hear Wake Up 2, right??? here you go...
if you want an actual CD copy, hit me up & let me know, I'll send it to you
1st off, go to www.winrar.com & download WinRAR if you haven't gotten it already, it'll help you unzip the mp3s
tracklisting 1. Intro 2. Wake Up (spoken word performed by Quote) 3. Hard To Believe (produced by L-Win) 4. Closer pt 2 5. Wake Up (produced by Sandman) 6. Good Morning featuring L-Win 7. Ask About Me (produced by Sandman) 8. Be Yourself (Interlude) 9. Away Too Long (produced by Sandman) 10. You Don't Know My Name (act one) 11. Say What (Triangle Effect Anthem) featuring Ca$h, Quote, H $ Bagz, & Will 12. Take A Ride pt 2 (act one) (produced by Doc) 13. Ashtray featuring Sandman & L-Win (produced by Sandman) 14. Out My Face/Be Too Soon/Foolish (act three) (produced by J Dilla, 9th Wonder & Sandman) (edited version also included in folder) 15. Waiting For You (produced by Doc) 16. Good Days featuring Darien Brockington 17. The Drought (produced by Doc) 18. Nobody Knows (produced by Doc) 19. You Will Never Know featuring K. Wilder 20. Living In Pain featuring Ca$h 21. Can't Go On This Way featuring Ca$h 22. Walk Alone 23. Beautiful 24. God In My Life
all music is copyrighted & for promotional use only(so don't try it son!!!)
so my dude Ca$h calls me telling me about the Military Meltdown concert that went down in Oki last night. am i upset??? very... i miss performing with my boys, & holding the island down along with Siege, Snubb Geez & the whole Crackhouse Ent squad, the Int'l Grindaz, Dirt Road Hustlers, & everybody else (and if i didn't name you...i prolly didn't like your music, or i forgot about you...but more than likely it was choice #1 :-D )
ANYWAY...
Ca$h was telling me how a lot of cats were asking about the Effect, where we been, what we've been doing post-Oki, etc etc...
i guess i forgot about that feeling. how fun it was performing, how before the Effect & Siege, it really wasn't no hip hop on Okinawa aside from a few battles & n**gas freestyling in the dorms/barracks/outside the club which eventually turned into a fight. now y'all are filling up stadiums, opening up for major label artists, i'm proud of each & every one of you.
it makes me wanna blow the door open in this city i'm at now. just like Oki in 2005, there's no hip hop scene. there's one independent label & all they do is sell their (not so good) cds at the mall. it sucks i would have to do it without my crew, my brothers, but if we can somehow spread the Effect from 3 continents(sp) to 4, then i'm all for it.
so me & Ca$h are plotting to do some things...personally i'm excited. i haven't been this excited about music since Mood Musik 2 dropped (and that was a year & a half ago...sad huh?)
here's today's song...Skyzoo, Torae & DJ Premier- Click...wow
ANYWAY...
i'm wondering who checks this blog out yet...have y'all made it a point to check it daily??? cuz i sho ain't made it a point to update it errday...
so yesterday, i decide to take the new whip out:
replace black with maroon
but yeah, i decide to take the new whip out & drive around the mean streets of Spokane, Washington. figured i'd get lost, take some time out to reflect & marinate on my life, and hopefully find a Wal-Mart somewhere in the process. threw the ipod on & low & behold...rap sucks, i was too sleepy to hear r&b, & i don't have any (recent enough) gospel that i'd wanna blast. so i figure, let me listen to myself. better yet, let me play Wake Up 2
now if you DON'T have this CD...i'm sorry. if you want it, i'l post it up tomorrow or sometime this weekend...
but i'm sitting back, listening to the CD...how it was put together, the things i spoke on, the beats, the hooks, the concepts...i must say i surprised myself. i'm my biggest critic & i was floored, especially at the ending (starting with The Drought, ending with God In My Life)
the story of a skinny punk from St Louis & how he went from running the streets wreckless to finding God, having a daughter & moving in the right direction to get his life right was real REAL dope.
then i dropped Ventilation, worked on All Angles & i just stopped...
then i was gonna drop Welcome Back last month, but I wasn't liking how it was coming out. way too preachy to be a mixtape. but last night it hit me...
you should turn it into Wake Up 3
so i am...i have no idea about the concept, what songs i'll be using, what beats & producers i'll be getting at...i just know that the world needs Wake Up 3
so expect a whole lot more frustration from your boy...this just might be my best work yet
if i can't hit you with an update, at the VERY least i'll give you a song a day.
today's track comes from Lisa McClendon, she's a gospel artist. i'm not exactly familiar with her work so if you're up on her, recommend me some more tracks of hers.
today's 20-something often comes across a sea of "rappers", "singers", "a&r's" (aka people that can't rap) & "managers" trying to "grind" "get it poppin" & "do their thing"...
but this should make you stop...even for a second
my girl's in the car with her little brother (he's a pre-teen). some old school comes on the radio. she tells him "this was hot when mom was your age". later they change the station & an Akon record comes on (pick one, they all sound the same) & he says "i can tell my kids that this was hot back in my day"
[dj kool]FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE[/clear my throat]
you know we ALL have our nostalgic records. whether it be stevie & marvin, nas & jay, donny & roberta or rakim & krs...there's a few albums you have in your stash that sound as fresh as the day you bought them. you remember what store you got it from, how much you paid for it, what time of the day it was, who you were with, you remember how the plastic smelled (remember that new tape smell?? aight, maybe it's just me...forget y'all). you'll start tripping back down memory lane; the friends you hung out with, the boy/girl you were crushing on, what name brands, tv shows, toys, etc etc were poppin' back then. it's a great feeling.
fast forward to the present. today's ringtone driven, hot hit single but terrible album, fake beef to sell records, youtube gangsta-infested music industry. does anybody think of the chil'ren anymore???
the God in me has led me to stop cussing in my rhymes for one. it's not a good feeling when your music has caused people to change their lives for the better, yet your family hasn't heard a bar you've spit because you're ashamed of the language you're using.
remember when the radio stations would mix on the weekends?? regardless of what was in heavy rotation during the week, you "had your tape decks ready" because more than likely the DJ was gonna:
1. play your favorite song 2. play some old song that was still hot 3. world premiere some heat
don't forget pump it or dump it, where the LISTENERS actually got to decide what new songs went into regular rotation (no your 106 & Park votes aren't tallied, labels pay the channel for their position...stop trying).
why does these label heads have little to no faith in their "fan base"?? why do we allow them to force feed ignorance down our throat (no that's not a shot @ the south...EVERYBODY'S guilty) & we allow ourselves to buy into it??
why do these "real hip hop heads" strap on their Jansports & proudly scream "hip hop is dead!!" all while downloading the latest Pharoahe Monch CD, posting on a message board, critisizing everybody else that openly DOES NOT buy records about what they should be doing.
genius, the music industry is money driven. record sales=money...if you're not buying the records, nobody's gonna care about MC Discombobulate regardless of how dope he is. imagine if something like Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor went platinum last year??? it might not have shook up the industry, but i bet you more talented MCs would get picked up, as opposed to some lame with white sunglasses, a repetitive hook & a catchy dance to go along with it.
why do amazing artists have to make some fun catchy song in order to get any type of support from their label (coughJoeBuddencough)... i don't always wanna hear fun & catchy. sometimes i wanna hear something depressing, or deep & captivating. maybe i just wanna hear you rhyme 900 bars over a hot beat. stop trying to make me dance. i can hear the uneasy-ness (shut up, i know that's probably not a word) in your voice, this is not what you do...BE YOURSELF
i haven't listened to the radio in years...yes good music is still out there. however i will admit it's not as plentiful as it once was. and you have to actually go look for it. there's not much of an outlet for it.
i do know that when my daughter is 18, she will not know who Pretty Ricky is, or where they went...frankly, nobody else will either.
