mic check

sound quality.

 

i dont care, but some listeners think theyre dr dre now so now i have to make studio quality music :-(

 

as much of a control freak as i am i cant see walking into a studio, putting the session in someone elses hands totally and just recording. im gonna go crazy! i know/knew that it had to be better sounding from this point on but i was banking on improving the home recording so things could still be in my/our hands. che grand has been tripping down to allentown PA to record his album. i went down with him to load up the songs i produced and do rough mixes and that studio is real ill....but then again i cant imagine leaving my work in the studio and i get home and cant hear it/tweak it. also im good for rerecording something as many times as i have to to get it the way i hear it in my mind. i can count the amount of times ive worked in a "real" studio on one hand. every time its been me settling.

 

so yea when i finish being broke (haha) im setting up shop. i have a lot of people i can talk to about mics and shit and id love to get the sound quality up on my own terms. its not that hard! yall dr dre niggas? throw your wu tang albums away or stop being hypocrits! lol

im from the era where sellin out aint fit

so now that them shows are over let me tell ya whats been up.

 

panic. haha...

 

earlier this week it was kind of like "WE HAVE TO GET IT TOGETHER! WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO US!?!?!?!?!?" but now its like...just keep it moving. we did damn well! not to mention...none of us should be stuck with "tanya morgan". tanya morgan is ilwil and von pea. not on no breakup shit, but we gotta remember that tanya morgan is madvillain. it was a side project. the album is called moonlighting for a reason!! we just ended up becoming popular off of the side project. we had plans to do 3 albums from the beginning and thats still a go, but while theres no new TM album til 08, we can still work to get the dayjob albums out. (get it?) that would suck if nobody wanted to hear the ilwil album without me, or my album without them. maybe by the time bknati is ready itll really be like a supergroup project AND a reunion in one fell swoop! ha!

 

i was thinking about living off of making music...if i only lived from music id probably have to do a lot of things just for the money. jay z should have said "you from the era where selling outs the shit!"

LOL...dont get me wrong, theres nothing wrong with "selling out" on some fly shit. like being in a video game or getting your own shoe, or even that common gap ad is dope.

 

haha...maybe i dont see the bigger picture yet but i want to put out product i completely stand behind and not drop shit all the time/work with everybody because the rents due. its funny, now i watch tv and everything just looks like a check. celebreality, cell phone endorsements in your video, all the side hustles. im really thinking hard right now about what i want to do. im not down with doing anything half assed for a check...well when it comes to music anyway. ill take a job and half ass it all day. do my job for the check and make sure that the only time i ask for peoples money is when i fully stand behind whats on that cd.

 

and for the record, i stand behind everything thats out so far.

i found the missing blog entry

(here it is)
before i get into this blog entry...spec boogie finished his album! for real this time! im excited man..."introspective" is being mixed right now and bout to be mastered and sent to press asap....trust my judgement on this one....

okay now where the hell do i begin....

friday night we performed with strange fruit project, kaze, sean price, douja raze, and bekay...

the show went pretty good. median, oddisee, illmind, k slack, and who knows who else was in the crowd, along with our supporters and our co-d's (spec boogie, bennie guinness, nonameko, elucid, aeon....nigga the gang was there!)

saturday we tried to go see the halftooth show in alphabet city but we had a show to be at by 2am. ive never been that tired in my life....walking at least 10 blocks to the halftooth joint then having to run back to the train to our own shit and missing the whole damn halftooth show!

we got to ours on time though....actually we didnt go on til 3am!!! the juggaknots, j live, polyrhythm addicts, pumpkinhead, fresh daily, and ralph mcdaniels were all in the back chilling. dj automatic (remember the tour we were on when this blog started?) came to the show too...i heard wajeed was there, and donwill just told me truth enola was there and was talking to him afterwards about how we were dope and shit....im happy as hell that we got to rock and all of these people seen us rock...i hope that shows that we are a valid group and not some internet novelty act with a girl name.

breezely brewin and j live said they been waiting to see us rock...uncle ralph had been waiting to get our video when dj jer2 gave it to him...now that i think about it there was a dude in the front row that was stonefaced for half of our show...then by the end he was feeling it...that was truth enola! wild shit man. you would think this is shit that would gas me....this stuff is super humbling man because its like...these cats all are playing a role in what keeps hip hop relevant. so now its like...wait...are we apart of that now? are we? am i? damn im on some "were not worthy" idish. you name one of my favorite artists and chances are they've shown us some kind of love one way or another. i walk in fat beats or amoeba and half of the people on the racks are mutual fans. what. the. fuck.


i said all of that to say this...i thank god for all of this.

i made a blog

and i cant see it. what da hell? if "we did a show in dc" is the last blog you see then something is wrong with my blogger account or something.

we did a show in DC

Thanks to everybody that came out to the DC jawn...Kev i wanted to say thanks but you dipped out quick!

 

The show went pretty well but...and this is gonna look like im trying to dis but im not...Mello D went for like 40 minutes...i mean damn he should have been the headliner for all that! were not tripping on order, i prefer going early as possible so he could've/should've went after us with such an elaborate & legnthy set. When we finally did go on the crowd enjoyed it and they were jamming with us. Afterwards we took some flicks with Jati Lindsay and went to breakfast and went the hell to sleep. Che Grand performed too so i drove down with him, our peoples Tim (thank you again Tim), and P.S. from Ches joint "Gold Chains". We got there and had to go right to XM radio for the Subsoniq show with K Murdock from Panacea...we took over the show yall...i think its gonna air in November....be on the lookout for that...then to "soundcheck" (theres no such thing as soundcheck...its a myth) we left like 10 minutes later and came back for the show and you read about the show a few lines ago...im on some tarantino ish son!

 

its CMJ week and we've just been chilling for the most part. Because of our experience last year, I always think CMJ is about having a grocery list of things to do to further your career within this week, but that hasnt been the case and i honestly am not tripping...lol. wheres the free beer. no question mark, its a statement.

 

when we started this tour, our show on saturday was the last date so once again i consider that the end. its almost over!!