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

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.

2/3rds of tanya morgan has a show coming up in DC

be there!!!!

ITS EMOOO TIIIIME!!

i was out chilling with brick beats and donwill in cincinnati when i found out another one of my colleagues sold his equiptment. this rap shit sucks.

i never signed up for the extra shit...*sigh* fuck it

im out.

p.s. i hate business

i have a spitkicker blog

http://www.spitkickers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=84&Itemid=82

thats whats up!

canada was fun. we stayed on suites on this college campus...i always thought all dorms were alike but the suites had bedrooms. thats dope. i dont know my infatuation with college dorms but stayin in the suite helped. i enjoyed that. that was in hamilton...then we went to toronto and did 2 shows there. all was well and nouveao riche made a new fan (in me)

im looking forward to colorado this weekend with dj low key. this time che grand is coming out too to perform. it should be fun times. god willing next year we will finally have a lessondary tour with everybody with some music out.

to my folks from the last entry...yea those cities you named? we'll most likely be there. i hope.

and im still working, i know i stopped blogging about the recording of (new ish) but its still happening, im just being quiet about it lol

yo..real quick

i dont have shit to say right now.

this is lighthearted though; im not depressed at all. did i use that semicolon right? f*ck it.

i just dont have anything i feel like rapping about right now, im interested in working on my production though. im gonna stop using "the beatmaker" name in a while. theres 2 albums i produced under that name and thatll probably be it ima just be von pea and stop confusing people in that regard.

i know i dont blog here a lot and probably lost all the luster from the tour blogs but well be back on tour in august im just finding stuff out myself. ilyas is helping put this together. i dont know if i can say who yet (have i said it yet?) but its someone new that we been ranting and raving about for a few months now and an established underground group who is always on tour so that makes me feel secure that this go round will be less janky. maybe.

p.s. some people been waiting for us to hit their town. i seen some of the dates; none of this is written in stone, but i will say were supposed to finally hit: san diego, seattle, detroit, florida, and houston

PHantastic

Philly was fun. i always have fun in philly though. we (tanya morgan minus ilyas) had a show with dumhi, cosmicfunkallstars, sankofa, che grand, and ghetto song bird. i have a headache thanks to me sleeping funny or something (and i gotta go record) so this is gonna be short: the show was dope. the PA crew came out to show everybody love and we tried to put on a good show for them.

fuck it...lets sum up the show in picture.

what says "underground rapper" in this picture other than the de la soul is dead shirt? NOTHING.

underground rappers dont do THIS:

im off to record...

peas gotta have it...this winter on von pea records

canada

was dope. i wish i had a passport though.

sigh times 5

i was on the train for a very very very very very very very very long time. going wasnt bad because the HOURS went by fast but coming back was pretty bad. customs is a trip with all the questions on the train. next time im taking a plane damnit. when i get that passport (im going in the morning if its open on saturday...if not then monday. i tried to go already but i need a witness since i have no license. damn do i have ANYTHING?)

they probably dont even check this but just in case shout to everyone that held us down in canada. with all due respect to everyone that has given us a place to stay in the states while on tour/in town, i can safely say the good folks of toronto got me spoiled! claudine, cecilia, romeo, maria, everybody. yall made us feel like we all hang out all the time and we were only there for less than 48 hours. the actual show went well, i enjoyed it more then usual because i was playing dj too so id run back and forth between rapping and djing, but my djing was just dropping the beat out strategically. haha...in a perfect world id be able to really dj the whole set, but i do like rapping to the people as well so....eh thats not gonna work.

so next up is galapagos next week in brooklyn. check out the tanya morgan myspace page for info on that.

and were performing at the BHHF! google it! google google google!

THE SHOW WE JUST DID

I TAKE IT ALL BACK.

everybody gets an A for not beating anyone up last night.

KanCHE west did almost break a speaker hahaha

the show last night was fun in retrospect...i just looked at the pictures and basically the gang was all on stage. elucid left the stage to holla at his lady but other than that we had the rap entourage all on stage in full effect (which i didnt even notice til i seen the pictures...i was zoned out...with that said E may have still been on stage! i was just out of it from drinking my glass flask in the corner)

elucid, hook me up with that so i can finish grand vonye! i got 5 dollars for you soon as i get this tax refund