flirting with change.

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

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.

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?

know whats funny?

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.

yeah so i pretty much dont blog anymore.

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!

if you havent gotten it yet

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.

verbatum!

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

monday folks! monday!

*huge gigantic mega sigh*

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

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

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.

lets go do some shows

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

holloween was fun

DEAD ON NIGGAS. DEAD ON.

in more important news, 88 keys posted the song we did with him on his myspace page. its the one called "cuddle bums"

the song is about what its about because his mixtape/album is a concept about a bachelor that is dating and you know, testing the waters, sewing his oats and what have you.

in other other news, we are about to go traveling again. i dont know if this link will work, but click there for all of your show dates. its not a bunch, but if you can be at any of them, by all means! show up...

now im outta here! YULLLLL

had a dream last night

i owed credits in high school and had to go back...like that adam sandler movie. but i had music classes too...strange thing is the are was in my music class. the only "cameo" in my dream and it was the are! lol thats mad random because i havent seen him in weeks. anyway i kept trying to go to music class and id go out one door and end up back outside, or on another side of the school, or something like that. there was this one odd stairway that definitely challenged my fear of heights because there were no rails to it and it was like a 5 story drop. i fell and landed...i thought you dont do that in dreams! i got up and walked into the lunch room then the janitor grabbed me like "hey do you go here you look too old to go here! and i woke up.

i took that as a sign to start working on "peas gotta..." again. you know, since its about high school. im working on one of the few that i produced right now...its almost just a drum break, it reminds me of this slim thug song "i aint heard of that" but its an actual drum break not programmed, and...its just some...for lack of a better term..."raw shit"...damn im trying to not use typical rap terms lol

if anyone is wondering how this is coming out its dropping on von pea records and im serious like ti on satellite radio...next year!

this is random...not about music

im gonna keep it random this go round like my n*gga don does...i just had to post this


i was going to explain why im posting this but fuck it, i just think this is funny and i love how...this is like reverse mysogyny and shit...but thats only half the reason its funny. PR0N STARS ARE REAL PEOPLE!! WOW!! i want to hang out with her and never ask questions about pr0n or try to hit. awesome.

we disappeared!

a few people that got used to seeing us hang out (us: the NY chapter of the lessondary) might be wondering where we've been!

spec boogie has "introspective" and thought i dont know the date its basically finished and coming out...January?

Che Grand has also been at work on his record "E.G.U." and hes also starting the NEXT one so he has a head start. (they say the 1st album takes your whole life so you need as much time as you can get for the 2nd)

Tanya Morgan has been doing business and more business and more business but the results are we're going out on the road to do a few dates for a week or two. We're also supposed to work on a new project to drop some time before BrooklyNati and that will be the "sunlighting" this time, but it wont be over other peoples beats. that will probably will go into full production once we come off of the road and i pray to god we can finally put together an album again! all this business has stopped the tanya morgan music but hopefully we'll get back on the ball and put all of this focus into the music. thats what got us here in the 1st place! yall wont want to see us if the new shit is wack! lol

next week is CMJ so all the rappers reading this someone tell me where the scion joint is this year so i can get a free hamburger and a heineken. networking? ill hand out some grand vonye cds. but i really want a free hamburger.

HEY EVERYONE!

not the album, the album title.
this is a cautionary tale! you might just lose your mind trying to do whatever it is im trying to do. what am i trying to do again? lol!
have a great day!

if you got cable check out that hip hop honors tonight! and if you dont itll probably be online tonight...hopefully? don if youre reading this, you sure reasonable doubt "classic albums" isnt on vh1.com? if not ill still bring it over one day.

but yea...yall, keep your job until...nah just keep it. lol

*hits craigslist*
*turns the mic on and opens cool edit*

we are the champions.

positive music.

why does outkast "hold on be strong" make me feel good? its just a minute long intro.

i consider that some positive shit...not that "mos kweli and common!" umbrella people like throwing out there, but its on some simple but effective "yo...fuck that other shit, just be strong youre going through for a reason" tip. and its just an intro!

i think sometimes aritsts that may want to say something positive think they have to be extra well read and be talking about something deep and specific. like, a dead pres or P.E. joint may be thrown into the positive pile and it can be about revolution and eating healthy and and AND, but what about the people that just need to hear "dont worry you'll get the rent paid one way or another"? i think kanye did that to an extent on graduation. thats whats up. i dont know, i dont have a point. just a random thought.

whoever still reads this blog, thanks. i know my shit has zero media or pictures lol so it means something. thanks.

MANSWOON.

this dude is responsible for hours upon hours upon hours of happiness in my life. from his music/his groups music to his site to his liner notes to his PUTTING ME ONTO J DILLA (well i was up on jay, but i wasnt jocking like that at first until i heard fantastic...which i wouldnt have known about if it wasnt for okp) to him getting everybody jay z tickets etc....

and now this?

and now this?!!?!?!?!?!??!

man listen....

this just in: BACKSEES

if ive ever given you a (free) beat and you havent put out a song to it yet and its been more than 6 months? guess what?

fin.

*emails these beats to customers*