Ill Poetic “Instrumentals” Vol. 2
I make beats.
Then I flesh the beats out into productions. Then I bring in musicians to play my ideas, and vocalists to accentuate the song-writing. Then I begin the process of mixing, post-producing and anal-retentive analysis that leads to months in a basement working on a single song.
I can’t use them all. Some of them have to just stay beats and semi-fleshed out ideas. These ideas need homes. They’re orphans with empty bowls of porridge, looking for a singer, emcee, or musician to nourish them and put a blanket over their sad, cold bodies.
Oh, and here are some more from before.
Ps – Shouts the homie David Perez for the always amazing pictures of pretty ladies. And shouts to this coffee shop I’ve been in ALL DAY designing the cover.
FREDDIE GIBBS x MADLIB x GUNS..LOTS OF GUNS “THUGGIN”
A couple nights ago, I had a nightmare that Freddie Gibbs robbed and killed me.
The next day, I saw this video, and realized why.
Funny story:
Illogic and I had a show with Gibbs last Spring, afterI interviewed him for Citybeat a month earlier. Gibbs and I were sitting right next to each other at the Merch Table. Illogic told me I should introduce myself and tell him that I had just interviewed him a few weeks back. Since we just rocked a pretty big show with him, I though “Ok, cool, I can do that.”
So I introduced myself to him. And then he looked at me the same way he looks at the camera in this video. Then I went back to my seat. So that was that.
The End.
Enjoy the video. This song is amazing.
(Strength) Video
For those who don’t know, I’ve been diving into Sound Design and Scoring.
It’s been an amazing ride, as it’s really helped me develop the direction I want to go with my own upcoming releases.
Above is a project I did with David Damen at Arris Productions. It will be entering into the Arnold Sports Film Festival this March, so wish us luck.
For now, enjoy the video.
PS – If you dig the music, you can also find the instrumental HERE.
“The Hip-Hop Unseen” Read-In-Full
…Kinda like “Paid-In-Full”….or not.
Ok.
Since I’ve retired this column, and the last one got such an amazing response, I figured I’d like to present a link to every column written over the past couple years. Start at the bottom and read up, and you can get a gist of my early zest, focus and determination. Then travel past the first few and embrace my pockets of uninspired repetition until I burn out in a dull flame, only to semi-ressurect my dignity by the end. Yay.
Citybeat Column # 20 “Life After Death”
One Final CityBeat Column:
Enjoy and Farewell to my journalism career:)
The Weeknd “Echoes of Silence”
I can’t even download this mixtape at the moment, as I’m being cock-blocked by lame wi-fi. But I’ll have it ASAP. So get it before me right HERE and tell me how fresh it is.
Hit the jump for the “Dirty Diana” cover.
Black Spade “Nobody’s Fool” Converse Track of the Week
Anyone who comes to this site knows I’m a big Black Spade fan. I’ve been waiting on a new record from since 2010′s “Build & Destroy”, which i still play very regularly to this day.
Came across this video on his FB Page. Hoping this means a new record is on the way. Joint sounds serious.
The Weeknd “The Knowing” Official Video
Why do I love this so much? Shit. Of all the fan-made super-high quality videos made for Weeknd songs, dude really went left-of-center with this video. I’m going to have to watch it so many more times to catch everything in it. But it’s so unique. I love watching artists do things like this. Just awesome. Fuckin’ awesome.
J*Davey “New Designer Drug”
Yup, I always post about them. Now they’re album is out.
$3 on their site. Grab it. Don’t believe me, Stream it HERE first. Ordering mine right after I post this message.
New Ill Po Song “Numb”
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- Ill Poetic “Instrumentals” Vol. 2
- FREDDIE GIBBS x MADLIB x GUNS..LOTS OF GUNS “THUGGIN”
- (Strength) Video
- “The Hip-Hop Unseen” Read-In-Full
- Citybeat Column # 20 “Life After Death”
- The Weeknd “Echoes of Silence”
- Black Spade “Nobody’s Fool” Converse Track of the Week
- The Weeknd “The Knowing” Official Video
- J*Davey “New Designer Drug”
- New Ill Po Song “Numb”