Von Voyage!

vonpea.com

2008-03-30T15:23:00.001-05:00

yeah, I'm outta here!

please bookmark vonpea.com and rss that and all that fly shit.

peace, blogger!
--
fin.

tanya morgan is not only a rap group...

2008-03-26T22:12:00.001-05:00

they are also an opening act!

I just want to make sure folks know that I'm not sitting around
delusional and hype over any of this stuff. I just wanna make dope shit.
I think some people want to believe that we think we should be rocking
stadiums because we were on the myspace front page. LOL! YEA RIGHT.

we are an opening act right now...in my opinion a pretty good one. we're
not out here opening though, they got us "headlining". so were not
packing out the hole in the wall spots. the worst crowd was in asheville
last november...maybe like 8 people. a lot of times its 20 to 40 folks,
but that's cus the crowds don't know us like that. but know who does
know us? the people that drive 2 to 4 hours from their town to the show
on a weeknight. the people that shake my hand and say "I'm a big fan,
keep doing it man...". the people that say "I looked for moonlighting
for like 3 months and finally found it! can you sign my cd?". the people
that catch the show in their town, and still drive out of their way to
see it again in the next town the next night. they know us.

ima be honest, I'm usually quiet during any gloating. and this aint to
blow anyone up, there's nothing wrong with being proud of yourself. its
just because I personally aint got shit to gloat about. I instead wait
around for the negative.

to those that are watching and keeping a checklist of the negative, I'm
watching with you, lets compare notes.

the difference is when I fix those, I'm a better person. you just got a
checklist.

go get that mixtape.
http://www.myspace.com/tanyamorgan
--
fin.

new orleans is crazy

2008-03-23T22:57:00.001-05:00

there's a dude with blinking lights on his fingernails, a bunny chasing
a guy dressed asjesus, a woman drunk outta her mind in a dress and new
orleans fitted cap, and this band with a lead singer singing through an
effects thingamajig so her vocals are all waawaa-ish, and its not even
11pm yet.

the tour is going good, keep up with donwills blog for better tour
coverage, I'm just trying to chill and soak it all up for the mental
archives.

ima holla!
--
fin.

flirting with change.

2008-03-14T02:49:00.003-05:00

now as a music blog, this entry SHOULD be about how i just changed my equipment or how ive been trying to come up with a new style or whatever, but nah. im somewhat of a geek and i just spent an hour transferring my blog to wordpress.

too bad you cant blog via email over there...if you could this blog would be DELETED! As we head back out on tour next week, who knows what ill have to blog about when i cant get to a computer. i dont even have a laptop yet.

its 4am and im watching pulp fiction for the 3215235th time blogging about...a blog. lame.

those tanya morgan guys are crazy

2008-03-08T02:38:00.003-05:00

von pea email to 88 keys (12:00am): "can we put cuddle bums on the mixtape? dj soul loves that joint"

88 (12:30am): "well...actually i want that to be on the "adams case files" mixtape first...but we can do another new one!"

von (12:35am): "you gave us another beat not too long ago so i will tell the guys we have to swap cuddle bums out and do that new joint asap! word!"

(thinking to myself...how the hell are we going to do a brand new song by monday night when everyone in the group is unavailable for the weekend??!!??)

von text message to ilwil (1:10am): "yo we cant use cuddlebums for the mixtape but he said we can still use that other joint lets try to do this asap...il i know you started it right?" (not expecting them to respond til like...noon march 8th)

don (1:11am): "man you know we take forever to finish a song"
ilyas (1:11am): "i didnt like what i did so i erased it"

(panics to myself)

von to ilwil again (1:15am): "IM WRITING TO THIS JOINT RIGHT NOW! IMA SEND A DEMO OF MY PART! LETS GET IT *HARLEM SHAKING*"

ilyas (1:16am): "word up just email it and text me when you do! ill knock it out (pause on saying "ill knock it out" at 1am)"

don (1:16am): "i started writing already"

don (2:27am): "check your email"

von to don and il (2:31am) "check your email yall!!!" (rough demo of said song with my verse , dons verse, and a chorus sent)

maybe i shouldnt be saying all this right now, but im just happy that we "rose to the occasion like a first date".

we'll be doing the real version of the song tommorrow afternoon god willin...

ima start blogging again.

2008-03-06T02:25:00.002-05:00

but the catch is you have to comment so i can know someone is reading. i dont do it for the comments, i just wanna know someones reading!!!

i have a question for you...do you feel like there is too much music out right now?

im looking at my itunes right now...the g unit mixtape is dope. "free at last" has some good joints on it. that fat ray & black milk has some joints on it. kidz in the hall put out a dope mixtape just now. i think the gnarls barkley new lp is good. i still want to give "we got it for cheap 3" another chance. i just got my hands on "the college kicked out" (im sorry danny, i owe you money. if theres anything i want real copies of its your albums. your albums make me want to run and get back on my solo shit asap (no dis to TM of course haha)). pete rock???? erykahs album??!?!?!

thats a lot of music i like/think i like/want to digest. not enough time to play all that shit. i still havent digested stuff from earlier this year/last year.

so my question to you is what are you listening to and is it all overwhelming for you too?

tanya morgan is a rap group, coming soon

2008-03-03T01:48:00.005-05:00

i want to say as early as March 14th, but we shall see...

theres a method to the madness folks trust me

here's a taste of the mixtape

please spread this around if you like it/us! thank you.

know whats funny?

2008-02-22T02:27:00.004-05:00

you drive yourself crazy
because you think you have
to prove to people what you can do...

...when in reality you have
to prove to yourself
what they know you can do.

young dro is better at life than you

2008-02-20T01:53:00.000-05:00

disclaimer: in no way is this blog entry making fun of young dro. dude
is nice and in my opinion better than you know who

without further distractions
YOUNG DRO'S ATTRIBUTES ACCORDING TO HIS LATEST PROJECT "I AM LEGEND"
(these are all real lines):

he went in more niggas grills than paul wall.

he walks up in the club and makes it a hurricane watch.

his ice is so cold, he needs chili.

he has cars, but he'll pull up on a horse like "howdy"

he's known to keep a pussy bumpin like a sony, yo, he had beef, but he
turned it to bologna though.

his chevy paint is tropical..."aweemaway, aweemaway",
he got em callin fema, cause his chopper is on katrina spray.

when he finds out niggas are looking for him, he drives around playing
cindi lauper.

hoes are drunk, cause he's in an aston-martini.

his trunk be kicking so hard, he thinks jackie chan in it.

his bricks flip like dominique dawes.

he'll kills a nigga while hanging with his mother in law.

he shines like he's oily.

he's wild like a mammal, he should be on the sopranos.

his jewels got jewels.

young dro knows judo.
his ice so cold, that's why he got the flu though.

his ice is so stupid, he'll shoot a nigga with a bow and arrow like
cupid.

he has an elevator in his house, and he's offended that you'd take the
stairs.

his ride sits up so high, he has coffee with jesus.

yes, coffee with jesus. don't hate cuz you haven't had coffee with
jesus.

he rides around with a french bitch. and she speaks french fluently.

he waters his ficas, then orders 9 rifles.

he's black enough to have blue children.

he's spiritual, he can make a mountain bow before him.

he likes bitches that smell like caress and use mousse. not to mention,
they jump in his car like a trampoline.

he eats whale.

he goes to starbucks for a cafe mocha,
his bitch caters to him like beyonce told her.

he is the hottest nigga in georgia, and his car can go under the water.

his monthly weed bill is mortgage,
he got so much money he need storage.

I think that's enough. so everyone let this be a lesson, be more like
dro.

get the mixtape from nahright.com.

Beat Thieves TWO

2008-02-19T19:39:00.004-05:00

http://www.rappersiknow.com/media/ilwil/Beat%20Thieves%202.zip

allow me to get on my bobby brown/left eye shit. this damn project took fittylemn years to drop. fittylemn. i remember ilyas gave me a test mix to give feedback on and i was walking around the city listening to it...without a jacket on!

"i get it! that means it was a long time ago! because its february, and its been cold enough for a jacket since september! haha!"-the foreign co-worker from family guy

im happy its finally here, and i know its been a hell of a lot to get it from point a to b, so you guys go download that!

yeah so i pretty much dont blog anymore.

2008-02-04T18:49:00.001-05:00

sorry :-/

im on that just blaze.

its all good though, im uninspired to blog but im inspired to make music and thats all that matters. peace!

sicko

2008-01-24T16:54:00.000-05:00

ear infection.
tonsil infection.
mild stomach virus.

tylenol 2 perscription pain killers
penecillin
perscription ear drops
140 dollars!
:-(

and the tylenol 2 works for like an hour, which would be fine if I could
take it every damn hour! it knocks me out then I wake up an hour later
and the ear infection doesn't hurt for another 10 minutes. wack. damn
what's good with tylenol 3? the remix?
to those that listened to the podcast today I wasn't joking! I'm f-cked
up in the game haha...its a bad day when I haven't listened to music all
day other than what's on the tv. anyway onto what you care about:

the bridge ep is still almost finished. one of the producers has to
finish his beat and ilyas has to send me 2 verses (he probably sent them
today I haven't turned my computer on) then it'll be pretty much
wrapped. then the mixtape with dj soul has also started which will be
more of a tanya morgan 101 for some new fans. there will be about 3 or 4
new songs on that too though. then that lp we keep talking about!
brooklynati is just waiting to go into production but we have to finish
the other projects first. there's plenty of songs that are started
though so its not going to be rushed at all. right now it does have that
90s feel we're known for, but its like...hard to explain, its new but
still throwback. the demos remind me of the main ingredient meets
baazare ride 2 the pharcyde right now. the people that have heard demos
(in person) have said moonlightings ass is kicked already. man I just
hope they're right.

til then back to being sick.

teehee

2007-12-26T01:34:00.000-05:00

jay z says:

2007-12-22T15:24:00.001-05:00

"you've got to allow artists to be artists. you've got to build a
career. only people with careers can establish a brand. so the music,
absolutely, comes first. you can't make a deal while you're making the
album. make the album, then do other things. everything gets shut down
when you're making the music." in the november 07 rolling stone

I just found out that the label wants not only the ep "the bridge" but
the new full length "brooklynati" by february 1st. and the peas gotta
deadline was valentines day. know what that means? we are going to need
3 life coaches asap. lol

I'm gonna go and finish pulling out the hair I still have left. holla!

if you havent gotten it yet

2007-12-18T13:48:00.000-05:00

here is "American Angster" my remix project...

i have a problem...i knew everyone would do one, but im the kid that stops wearing his jordans to school because everyone else has the same pair. lol

http://www.zshare.net/download/545364616e09b6/

(and if youre on a mac and dont know how to use .rar files:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ZXHDBQJ)

Waajeed said "American Angster" is fire.

2007-12-12T12:51:00.000-05:00

verbatum!

i got the respect of one of the producers i look up to...good shit!

monday folks! monday!

huge gigantic mega sigh

2007-12-11T16:20:00.000-05:00

the music business is torture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in other news i finished the hov remixes and ive been getting good reviews from the few folks that heard it.

im supposed to now be working on the new Tanya Morgan EP "The Bridge" and I THANK THE LORD that its so close to being done already. well, the songs are all songs we've done in the past 6 months just to do, but they have to be put together as a cohesive project, and theres a few songs that have to be rerecorded and like 2 or 3 to do from scratch. i have mad respect for those that make great music and can survive all the other shit while trying to make great music. i need a rap big brother and shit haha...like, buckshot or somebody to talk me down from the rap cliff every other week lol. its not that its work, its just really difficult sometimes to keep it goin and theres still so far to go...but go where?!?!!? i want to be a non-broke legendary nigga in 15 years. thats it. somebody get buck on the phone asap.

this isnt a "rappin is lame i quit..." entry i didnt mean to go off on that tangent, this is about the jay z shit being finished and to let you know that the new TM EP "the bridge" will be on its way come march or so. then the full album around the summertime. american angster will be available for download sooner than christmas now, look for it next week.

thank you scott

2007-11-21T20:55:00.001-05:00

American ANGST-er
(the name makes perfect sense for me)

all of the beats are officially initiated and approved (not done)
now the most important part...getting the damn accapellas!
i was eqing a few bars of every song and looping them, then making a new beat around that...so this whole time i havent had the actual accapellas. once i get those the real work/fun begins. you may be wondering why im putting all of this work into this...ANGST N*GGA! PAY ATTENTION!

& I STILL WONT/DONT CARE WHAT ORIGINAL WAS BETTER SUCKAS

hello brooklyn

2007-11-19T14:41:00.000-05:00

im home!

i got other things to tend to this week that ive missed since ive been out of town but here is a quick recap?

jacksonville florida
crowd: small but hype
promoter: paid without having to be tracked down
our performance: we werent ready to go from not performing for a while to 40 minutes but we pulled it off enough
accommodations: hotel 6 in the building! nobody was shot while selling drugs during our stay. win.

asheville north carolina
crowd: who? wha?
promoter: cool guy but it take money to make money, money.
our performance: we performed for the openers and the 7 people walking around and they loved it
accommodations: i dont wanna talk about it

charlotte north carolina
crowd: large de la soul following
promoter: paid once we found her in the club across the street
our performance: a speaker fell on my ankle and we kept going thats a a plus off the top haha
accommodations: college friends of don and ilyas and the coolest couple in NC. i still say the worst part of touring is having to impose on people/find someone to crash with on certain stops (we need that tourbus popping)

chapel hill north carolina
crowd: small but hype
promoter: i dont even remember, with all due respect at this point i was just ready to leave nc. that monday was the longest day ever
our performance: this one was a lot of fun to me. they didnt have a cdj and we had to use a discman :-( but we made it work.
accommodations: another college friend of don and ils.

savanna ga
crowd: danny (d swain!) and off duty strippers were in the crowd. great crowd already!
promoter: awesome! she didnt show up until after the show which had me worried, but she came through like "whats up sorry heres your money...and heres some more money for a hotel...and hey maybe if you find some girls heres some more money for liquor or whatever...you guys have a good night"
our performance: doing all of that energetic shit at the end officially started to wear on me at this point. not complaining, but from this point on i just began to dread the final 2 songs. i dont know how people do 2 hour shows and whatnot
accommodations: to the laquintaaa we went (c) big boi

cincinnati ohio
crowd: nice crowd! it was looking shaky for a minute but a lot of people came at the last minute
promoter: paid in full and let us draink a few
our performance: good minus the super loud accapella monitors i literally thought i was gonna damage my eardrums and shit lol...joints were LOUD AS ALL HELL. this was a really fun performance.
accommodations: it was home for il and don! we were straight

lexington kentucky
crowd: mad cunninlinguists fans (it was their album release party)
promoter: kno knows how it goes so of course an artist made fellow artists feel comfortable and shit...paid!
our performance: i think the people dancing and screaming and nodding and waving and etc....was a good sign.
accommodations: back to cincinnati

cleveland ohio
crowd: pretty good crowd
promoter: great dude. everything was fine.
our performance: it was iight. i can point out things that brought the performance down but i wont make excuses. it was only iight.
accommodations: the smoking jacket (after-partying on the road is super super super super super super super super overrated)

pittsburgh pa
crowd: decent but not enough
promoter: another cool cat. where were these cool promoters on the new royalty tour? van damme. aside from everyone being cool, everyone actually PAID! WOW!
our performance: i was wack because i was officially sick by then, but don was really everywhere so he made the show. i got worried for a second when he straight up stopped when his mic cut off early on, but he came back and him and il held it down.
accommodations: they stayed at the holiday inn and i slept on the bus back to brooklyn.

now what?
in my perfect world id find a job i didnt mind going to and id go to it for a few months while working on the tanya morgan ep that comes out around march 2008. id also take that job money and renovate my "studio" situations. i dont know whats next for me personally but i do know im about to lie down an get some rest.

cleveland ohio show.

2007-11-18T01:25:00.001-05:00

a man walked up to me after the show and gave me 8 dollars off gp. said
that was all that he had.

I'm like...."what's this for?"

he said "I downloaded moonlighting and I play it everyday. the least I
could do is give you some kind of money for it."

word.

I don't remember if I said so

2007-11-14T16:52:00.000-05:00

but they got us the room and they took care of us. thanks savanna...the
show was off the damn hook!

danny! whatup!

savanna is good peoples.

now we are in the car back to cincinnati. there's a show there tomorrow
night at the gypsy hut i believe. 10 hour drive!

de la soul broke my leg!!!!

2007-11-11T12:31:00.001-05:00

nah lol

last night was bugged out. i was gonna talk about this on the
spitkicker blog but i want to just put it here and ill think of a
cooler blog for spitkicker...my next spitkicker blog will be mad
thought provoking and shit son!!!

so we got to the venue and the promoter or the house didnt have any
music. to play at all! AT ALL!!! so we went to the car and got some
cds for them to play. they played getback (including the skits) and
when it went off we got on stage haha...charlotte was like new york.
they just looked and nodded a little...BUT when we got off stage they
applauded mad loud and we sold mad cds and i heard the people were
telling don and ilyas they really liked it. i went out and spoke to a
few cats in the crowd and they gave props but i had to hop back stage
and sit my behind down. like 3 songs into our set a speaker fell from
the side of the stage and landed on my ankle and i had to keep moving
like it didnt hurt. BUT BOY DID IT HURT. its still sore right now but
i can walk a lot better today than last night.

i was just in the back mad as hell and talking on the phone. then the
promoter came back there like "oh...uh...your leg? wow...im
sorry...uh..." and someone then came and helped wrap my leg up. then
the de la rider stuff started coming in you know the tea and the
fruits and the water and the CEREAL! lol i dont know why thats so
funny to me. they had cereal.

anyways they came back there and it was cool to just see them in their
element before they do a show. pos came and sat and was just chilling,
dave was on his phone, maseo was running around getting ready to dj.
he turned grand vonye off (yea the club was forced to listen to grand
vonye because we were the djs until de la got there. assholish haha)
and the party got started. as midnight hit i was on the side of the
stage watching de la soul rock...what a way to turn 26!!!! yea its my
birthday today and we dont have a show today so were just hanging out.

and we got paid after tracking the promoter down for a while. thanks.

am flowers thanks for the beer mayne! dave and pos thanks for the beer
mayne! miko and doug thanks for EVERY THING. sheesh, people letting
you stay with them on the road is like....heaven sent. seriously.

alright im out of here. i know i probably didnt say anything because
im just typing and not reading over this but thanks for readin folks.
and supa if you still read my blog i just wanted to tell you before
you left last night...that song. you know what song. yikes!
hahahaha....

peace

ITS YA BOY VON PEA! SHOW 2!

2007-11-10T02:15:00.000-05:00

sucked. well, not completely. I still go by being happy if one person is
vibing. we had about....10? one big fan was there with his boy cliff,
and his boy cliff is vomiting outside the venue right now. when drinking
goes wrong. yay.

yo, asheville is smaller than my first girlfriends butt. and that sh*t
was mad small son. this homeless dude just came up to me and showed me
he's missing a hand. damn I was gonna give him money regardless!

ilyas will be mad if I mention the money but lets just say it was a door
date. you do the math. literally. were stayin with the promoter and his
big a$$ dog. pardon the censorship, my sidekick does that automatically.
I'm out...WE OPEN FOR DE LA SOUL TOMMORROW IN CHARLOTTE. this white guy
just started randomly rapping to me and he's doing it right now. I'm far
from the venue so he has no idea I'm a rapper. is that racist?

f*ck it I'm out. peace.

ps this show sucked but I'm still appreciative.

the show in jacksonville tonight

2007-11-09T03:31:00.001-05:00

thanks to those that came out especially my 2 peoples that shall remain
nameless because they don't do it for the fame (I'm just trying to make
it sound cool lol) thank you guys. 2 other guys drove 2 hours too, but I
known yall longer so I appreciate it more haha...

I'm really really tired and maybe my tiredness has me grumpy or
something but I'm much more greatful than happy or amped or
anything...regarding the success of the show tonight. the crowd wasn't
packed but they were so dag on (yes, dag on) energetic and we were too.
it was really fun up there. right now I just want to rest though. back
on the road to asheville north carolina tonight (meaning the 9th).

things went right, no funny business, no drunk n hot girls stripping,
no trashing the hotel room. we are all just chilling. I'm not for all
the extra nonsense! all that stuff is only my scene in theory haha...

I hope things continue to go good. ima keep praying on it, you know, I
gotta thank god cause he gave me the chance to rock haaaarrrrrrrd! (c)
L.L.

I feel like I'm forgetting something. oh yea, waiting around to go on
stage is the most nerve wrecking thing in the world. I'm not complaining
but it really is better going on early/opening instead of goin last,
that is if you're like me and get anxious until you finally get up
there. I was nervous for a few hours!

okay its 330 I'm going to sleep! ill probably say something about all
the shows even if there's nothing to really report. peace!

lets go do some shows

2007-11-02T16:18:00.000-05:00

as you might know tanya morgan is about to jump in a rental and go do some shows. call it a tour if you want. well it is...a short tour but a tour and we have been struggling to put this together for a while now. its hard to juggle regular life and rap life and thats why its so hard for us to go out sometimes but now we are going at it again. NY ill be back around november 20th.

but for now...come to the show! bring people with you! buy a 5 dollar cd! if you ballin buy a tee shirt! wish me a happy birthday! (i just decided since my birthday is November 11th, the whole tour is my birthday party.)

wish us well, pray for us, and keep checking the blogs for updates on whats going on on tour. dons will be the cool one mines will probably be complaining. haha...

p.s. be a naked bitty in sneakers and get in free