the brooklyn hip hop festival

i dont have pictures, or even a lot to say, because i dont know what to say, im just really happy man...

i want to thank Alma, Michelle, Dom, Ronnie, Ryan, Al, Ilyas, Don, Che, Spec, Noum, Bliz, all the interviewers, Dan, Ebony, Double O and Nalege, Torae, Fresh, Nola, Starr, everybody that caught us and enjoyed it, everyone that tried to catch us, and you for reading this.

this blog is lame because my mind is racing nowadays, im sorry about that folks!

im still workin on the new music. i came in here and caught my brother rocking out to the demos and made him turn it off and delete it from itunes haha...

a**n you got 5. i might need the raegae joint* sped up if youre cool wit that (*its not a raegae joint)
beatmaker, you got 4
b***k, you got 3
b****o you got 2 until i get that 3rd from che (CHE?)
n*n and s****b you got 1 each (im waitin on that toss it over bassline man!)

the not fun part of finishing it is about 2 months away thats when the nonsense COULD start. im lookin at february though. we'll see. people have to be paid for their work on the record.

heres some news i guess: its a concept rekkid now. or have i said that already? im in high school and thats all im sayin for now

p.s. theres too many people on the album :-(
so theres gonna probably be some remixes done now too

peas gotta!

think of something to say.

brooklyn hip hop festival saturday.

other than that, nothing is guaranteed other than good music.

absolutely nothing at all. other than good music.

no idea when anything is coming out or how its coming out. :-(

but i guarantee good music.

peace?

(sorry)

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

BACK IN EFFECT SON.

shout to my mother for donating 20 dollars and donwill for donating 5 dollars lol

so i went to GIT-TAR center and bought a regular 4 channel audio mixer trying to "step it up" on a budget but i got home and realized...fuck that shit. if it aint broke, dont break it. forget trying to fix it...dont break it! so i went back and got this joint. it was more money (that i didnt have) but its a necessity. man its such a rush to plug some shit right in and GO...withthat audio mixer i was scratching my head like "hmm okay i need a new cable for this...where do i..." but with a regular ass dj mixer i literally JUST plugged it in and recorded something. and guess what? shit is clearer then that janky lineartech. the buzz that i used to have to filter out doesnt exist in this recording i just did...see? better already.

i know im ghetto with it but lo fi is me...its my thing...when the money is right ill upgrade. next up is a soundcard built for music (not looking forward to installign that) and im gonna get more ram at the same time, then finally a new mic. aka i gotta go hand out some more fliers soon. lol

dead mixer

if you ever heard a von pea verse other than von sees or word from our sponsors or the loosie stuff and wondered "why does this sound like crap!?!?!?!?" well 1) youre a fake ass bob powers and 2) its probably partially due to this mixer right here. i keep it ghetto with the plastic cups and i run my mic through this (pause?)

(taken with the ill camera phone. 000000000000000000000000000.9 megapixles son)
and its dead now.

turned it on to make a beat earlier today, and it worked
turn it on to make a beat about a half hour ago and no sound came out of it, but you could hear the music in the cue...not the outs though.

one day ill get a real recording mixer and just sample/run my mic through that. AND GET A GOOD MIC! but until then?

im getting another cheap ass mixer. why? shit you read donwills blog and were in the same group. put 2 and 2 together. WE BROKE SON

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

walk my way cause thats the way

new tanya morgan: "walk my way (dream on)"
step 2 of 3 in tanya morgan having the coolest songs for the summer (Step 1 was sitting at the bar)
produced by aeon
mixed by "paycheck" haha
written by tanya morgan
step 3 "and you say" coming in 3 weeks!!!!!!

go listen to it here: http://www.myspace.com/tanyamorgan

p.s. youll be able to download it soon

i finally did it

stopped being a wuss and submitted some beats for brooklynati.

im gonna describe the beats to yall for the hell out of it

back to me
what i describe as my "new shit" its dark, sounds like a rainy afternoon and you just broke up with your man/woman (it aint a girl song...well its not a song at all its just a beat right now)
its missing some money (aka some live wind baby!) or ill just find a record with the horns im looking for

concerned
I LOVE THIS JOINT. if don or ill are reading this, if yall dont like this one consider this my solo interlude or something, haha...this is hmm...imagine a more agressive "late" (last song on kanyes last album) this one is missing money too. i hear a piano part but i want to play it myself. better start learning huh?

dont you holla
yall may have seen us recording this on youtube but you didnt hear the beat. well im REsubmitting this beat because i really like it. id describe it as...youre in the jungle at night (yea im on that dark shit...dont worry well have some happy ass shit later) being chased by someone playing a saxophone. yep.

do your face like this
(by the way these aint real names) i cant say much about this other then i used a popular break but used more then the break...nothing new, its just kinda dope. i aint in love with this one but it has potential to be a good song...its not always about an amazing beat, but a good canvas.

wild honey
UH.....UH........UH UH UH UH......UH......
OOOOOOOHHHHHH....YEAAAAAAA YEAAAAAAAAH.....OOOOOOOHHHH....
thats all i can say about this one. this may be the first chaotic (did i spell that right?) song with such a slow beat.

this just in: ilwil likes "back to me"....yay!

peace

some of my favorite things part 1

im just going to post some of my favorite verses...from me. why not? may not even be "out", may not even be all that. may just be some words to you...but believe theres more going on to me. a lot of times im rapping to myself and referencing things from my life i may have experienced alone.

you may have heard this if youre over there with me. ("who")

 

this aint a club song...duh!

this is backpack shit, i grew up on,

never had much, so i gets my clutch on,

to anything i own, and dont run up on...

me like its 88, flashin bathing apes,

without knowin the kaws(cause) you lost in the fader, mate...

you can have your style and i can have mines,

i rock rap perks that aint cost a dime heh...

paid ze-ro, yea lucky me bro...

yall paying the same to memorize pea quotes,

peeing in a stall, free pea is in your peacoat,

should i (make change*) selling weed, e and d-ro?

nah, people need me, ever since "we be"

cats like i love running up to me cheesing,

why do i still think im a weakling?

i aint "shaking the haters off"? aww damn thats a loss....

 

 

*in the version you may have heard i was supposed to say "could i make change" as in...make money, but also make a difference

 

 

this will be on gotta have it so im not sharing it if ya didnt hear it! but if you care, i appreciate that shit. stay tuned.

disregard this

im just doin this cause its my damn blog

suckas

hi mom :-D

i didnt forget i said i was working on that record that i wanted to finish as soon as i could

im trying to get back to working on that i have all the beats and some songs were recorded (that "slowest song ever" came out wack so forget it)

im not gonna get disgruntled but lets just say self untitled means too much to me to just put it out the way us underground dudes put albums out. you know, "if you cant find it in stores...." and all the distro headaches and shit. f*ck that times 50. id rather never put it out.

i got a special email today from someone that told me i inspire them. they been listening to me for a long time and today they said im inspiring and they been listening to grand vonye a lot. then if you read donwills blog you know a guy at a show said TM bought him back to hip hop, then he was sitting there quoting lines i said back in like 2003 and whatnot...so dope. i thank you folks. im about to go on a "i love music money aint shit" rant but i wont.


so heres whats going on with me:
tanya morgan is about to take the summer over. remember i said this: "and you say" and "walk this way (dream on)" are your 2 summer jams. just have to finish em.

im going back to workin on that album i said im working on.

and getting ready for the brooklyn hip hop festival...

my favorite angry rapper asked me to be on a song with him (hes not a mad rapper hes an angry rapper. its all in his voice. he always sounds like he just finished fighting and i love that shit) so im trying to hurry and finish that

my favorite "i got shot but not for real" rapper asked me to be on a song with him so i have to hurry and finish that

and a bunch of other sh*t thats in its "when we doing a song together? stop playing!" phase. with that said KENN WHERE YOU AT!!!

and im also turning down every thing i hand in to myself for brooklynati.

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!

brooklynati

blog one

so we picked some brick beats out

the end

haha

medicate yourself i mean pump up the valium

i am MAD restless

grand vonye is finished but thats not a big deal its just a promo.

so back to that "real shit" from back when i was on tour

since these promoters dont have any money i guess tanya morgan cant go back on the road huh?

i assure you were not asking for a lot but it always goes back to door dates. DAMN that

people have bills to pay....but since im not working im seriously thinking maybe i can just go. i mean the struggle isnt over...this doesnt happen overnight, and its not even midnight yet anyway. if we did something we'd be doing something ya dig? so maybe we didnt do anything at all?

its fun to blame people but its more fun to make money and good music at the same time so im more into that. im working on (more of) the good music, looking for the money, and blaming von pea for anything blame worthy.

fwmj from ohsonappy.com hooked the grand vonye cover, and itll be on his other site, rappersiknow.com on march 9th (r.i.p. big!)

if you didnt know already grand vonye is what a von pea album would sound like if kanye west produced it

and its defintely not for the suckers!

that shit

dj low key just sent me "that shit"...the whole song! you know, that joint with tribe and jay dee that was on funkmaster flex's album but cut off after tip. im just happy about that.

grand vonye is finished minus the one missing guest verse and guess what? I DONT WANT TO PUT IT OR ANYTHING ELSE OUT EVER AGAIN.

THIS SHIT IS WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK


THIS = THE MUSIC CLIMATE

NOT THE GRAND VONYE...THATS DOPE

I NEED SOME HENNESSY, A CHEESESTEAK FROM LARRYS AND A LAPDANCE TO CALM ME DOWN

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ENJOYING "A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS"

NOW A NIGGA NEEDS TO ENJOY A CHECK!

IM SELLING A KIDNEY TO WHOEVER NEEDS ONE FOR 15 DOLLARS.

IM JOKING AROUND, BUT SERIOUSLY, THROW SOME G'S ON THAT BITCH.

GRAND VONYE BOUT TO DROP A SINGLE THOUGH....

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

im stealing blogs

donwill said, and i quote:

"musicians have to be businessmen to survive but businessmen never have to be musicians. thats wack. i hope you ppl reading this know how fucking wack that is. i have nothing more to say right now"

GRAND VONYE!

i started "grand vonye" back in 2004...early 2004 at that. then i...oh the name. like grand marnier but vonier looks like "von-yea-r" and vonye looks like "von-yay!" and thats how we say "grand mon-yay" anyway...maybe thats another rap pronounciation massacre like "may-back" and "chris-staal" LOOKWHATEVERTHECASETHESHITISCALLEDGRANDVONYE.

and i dont care what you think about that name! im sorry, i just have a complex now that people are listening...like, i think i have to do what i think they want now. maybe i spend too much time online looking at criticisms but i know people nitpick and come across like eddie in MJ's "remember the time" video...sitting there waiting to be entertained and if they dont like it you're fed to the lions. FUCK and THAT. 2 times. thats a whole nother rant that i wont start.

anyway grand vonye is a...mixtape :-(

i dont like mixtapes. i know the lessondary has nuff mixtapes between them but im just not into mixtapes anymore. i love the clipse but i dont even listen to the "we got it 4 cheap"s like that. i mess with mixtapes that are basically "street albums" like spec boogies' "brassknucleraphustle" and little brothers...all the mixtapes they do (haha) because its mostly original songs (meaning not rapping over an instrumental).

but grand vonye is something that i left to collect dust back in 04 and donwill would ask about it every once in a while. that was the only meaning it had...one person asking about it (haha) i dont know why im finishing it, because i hate mixtapes! actually i do know why...because in the back of my mind i miss the experience of recording nobody's "what album?"

that was a week to myself recording shit for no reason. not for a chess move. just recording shit. call me too much of a romantic but i just like the feeling. doing songs so so and so can hear it or so and so can put it on this and get it to that person etc. is...im kinda over it already. no political shit i just wanna do songs and have em come out dope. theres hardly anywhere to buy cds from anyway! the record stores are closed down! get a job already! leave me alone! bitch im broke! (c) cody chestnut....im convinced theres no money to be made.

if you havent already noticed im slowly losing my mind. im on that good Mariah. if i was somebody this would be on a gossip blog as soon as i hit "publish"

but yea, im going to finish grand vonye (jack benson makes an appearance btw) by next week hopefully, then go back to workin on "nobody's perfect" and "the double entendre" (it aint really a double album i was joking lol)

take it slooowwww

so im working on making the slowest rap song ever. but reasonably slow, it may not be the slowest ever, but 62bpm is pretty damn slow.

 

not a south bounce song, not a screwed song, not a love song, a regular rap song...its tough though because its a story song and the story isnt going anywhere, its like....someone is telling me something and they keep telling me the same thing, but i have to turn it around on them at the end. i have to brainstorm on it and figure out where the story is going to go, but im not with the surprise ending thing anymore..."1st date" was enough.

 

the beatmaker is on the track....you can do pro level ice skating to the joint. figure skate to the beat! hip hop ice ballet. yea, hip hop ballet on ice. thats what it sounds like. like its some shit tanya harding would listen to, you know shes a G.

 

i dont know where im going with this entry, or this series of entries, but its going to be fun describing these songs as i make them and not letting anyone hear them. ha!

i never did finish that verse

but ive written some other things since then.

hopefully youll hear these albums this year:
spec boogie - introspective

che grand - everythings good ugly

donwill - re:iteration

von pea - self untitled

elucid - save yourself

theres a show coming up feburary 8th in NYC and all of those rappers will be there. im a lil sad right now because che didnt make the final 2 in that clipse battle, and its like damn dude would have fit perfect on the next clipse joint, but what can you do?

i think im gonna start blogging to myself about this music im working on right now...im giving myself a deadline of march 1st and i want to see what i can do (at this point in time) from now til march 1st. some people do whole records in 2-3 weeks! im gonna try to do one by march 1st. not "self untitled" just some new shit.