Man, I told you guys a year ago that, my niggas, Mizfitz Soundz were on their way to the top. Basically they got an interview with Nodfactor. So if you got time check it out!
And Anything Goes is my favorite song off of Halfway House, I'm not being biased either.
So my Christmas went pretty well. I got a camera, just in case you were wondering. A pair of house shoes, MF DOOM's Operation:Doomsday, an Underdog shirt, pajama pants, and a record player!!! I basically stayed the night by my parents house and then came home around 5pm on Christmas.
I dont know about you guys, but I'm looking forward to the New Year. I was actually going to go to the Wu-Tang concert on New Years Eve but I decided to go to my Aunts New Years Party. Why? I dunno, I guess I put fam first.
Well, expect a couple videos from me. I don't go back to work until Jan. 5th and I ain't got shit to do. I'm still learning alot about videos and making them but its all in fun.
-Malcolm Maximillion
So yesterday, my roommate and I got into a heated discussion. It basically started when he asked me did I hear a song, by Jay Rock featuring Lil Weezy. I told him no, because in all honesty I don’t check for Lil Wayne that much. Not to discredit the guy, but he’s not my cup of tea. And then he looks at me and says “Only you and Porsche (my girlfriend) think he’s wack. He sold a million records in a week, so its obvious that the Carter 3 was a good album”.
And as usual, I got into sonning mode and told him I can name 10 albums better than The Carter 3. Again, its not that I hate Lil Wayne or anything. I’m just saying, people often let the radio brainwash them into believing something that isn’t true. So without further ado.
1.)Q-Tip “The Renaissance”- This is actually probably the best album that has came out this year. No, I do not have a copy (Christmas present?) but I’ll be getting one soon. My roommate has not stop playing this cd since he bought it. So I’ve heard it numerous times already. Dope shit.
2.)Elzhi “The Preface”- Man, if your not up on Elzhi I’m not sure what to tell you. Talk about dope lyrics and wordplay, Elzhi baby. The bulk of this album was produced by Black Milk so you know its heat already.
3.)Black Milk “Tronic”- Speaking of Black Milk, dude went totally left field from his sound and it didn’t completely suck (ie. Kanye West “808s and Heartbreak). Not a totally 1 dimensional cd either because dude got rhymes.
4.) Nas “Untitled”- One of the most controversial cds of this decade but it was still hot. A lot of people just write Nas off. Sure he fucked up a couple of times (ie. Nastradamous) but when he comes through, he fucking comes through (ie. It Was Written, Stillmatic, Illmatic)!
5.) 88 Keys “The Death of Adam”- A nice concept album that doesn’t really feel like a concept. The beats are all banging on this album. Now holla if you’ve ever been placed in handcuffs (all kink intended).
6.) Erykah Badu “New Amerykah, Pt. 1- 4th World War”- Don’t even front, this was one of the most hard body cds of this year. Listen to the drums on Solider and the sample chops for Master Teacher and prove me otherwise. You can’t
7.) JedI Mind Tricks “History of Violence”- I’m not a huge fan of Vinnie Paz but when Stoupe is behind the boards, you gotta listen. This is probably the most hardcore cd here. Reason being is that I like that hardcore shit but its too many carbon copys, ya know?
8.) Kidz In The Hall “The In Crowd”- I mean Kidz In The Hall aren’t the best duo since Rae and Ghost but both of them being “ok” at what they do makes their efforts sound golden. You can’t put the best together all the time but they don’t disapoint. I loved their first cd and I like this one just as much.
9.) Prodigy “H.N.I.C. 2”- So your really gonna sit there and say P didn’t go hard before he hit the slammer? I mean I think he’s a slouch compared to Infamous P but still he’s able to hold his own. Havoc might be slightly better than him now but he can’t make a better album, I’ll put money on that.
10.) Jake One “White Van Music”- Dopest producer album out right now. Jake got the mainstream and the indy meeting and it doesn’t sound forced. That “The Truth” joint, is the truth!
So there you have it, 10 albums better than the Carter 3 in my opinion. And just to be an asshole, 5 mixtapes better than the Carter 3.
1.) Nas “The Nigger Tape”- Esco Lets Go? Yeah, that’s all that has to be said.
2.) Joe Budden “Halfway House”- Slaughterhouse anyone?
3.) Kid Cudi “A Kid Named Cudi”- I didn’t like this at first but off the strength of “Day N Nite” alone”
4.) Charles Hamilton “Its”- Starchasers, Wrong Side of The Bed, The Honeymoon is Over > Any song on The Carter 3
5.) Bronze Nazareth “Thought For Food Volume 2”-BaRonze Obama anyone?
Cop that one because the album that me and Broken Pen have thats coming out in 2009, your gonna have to pay for it :)
Man, if your in Baltimore and ain't doing shit on Jan. 24th, you have no excuse but to be at Speakerboxin'! Why? Because, ya boy (me) will be in a producer beat battle! So you gotta be there to support. Don't worry I gotta bring the heat and knock em dead. So if all I talk about is beats, beats, beats for the rest of this month and Jan, you know why. Don't worry if you forget, I'll remind you!
Well, I'm not in the greatest of moods ever. My bank won't let me withdrawl any of my money out although I have alot in there, my school canceled my night time econ class, I still haven't found an apartment to move to in March, my mother just got out the hospital for her apendix, my internet connection is being a bastard, my internet connection cause me to turn in my take home final a day late, and I'm still not finished Christmas shopping.
So there you have it, shit that makes me mad 101. But check this video out, it made me laugh.
edit: I had to add that other video in there too. Too many quotes.
PS: I always wanted to use that picture on this blog. My desk actually broke 3 weeks ago and I took a picture of it. Welp, I finally got to use it lol
-Malcolm Maximillion
I'm not sure if ya'll saw this but apparently Charles Hamilton and Soulja Boy are in a little disagreement (I refused to call this beef). According to Sir Charles, Soulja Boy is the reason why artist that are using the internet for its main promotion such as Kid Cudi, Mickey Facts, Cory Gunz, and himself, are being taken as a joke. But according to Soulja Boy, its not his fault.
What do I think? They both are right.
I understand where Charles is coming from. Hes basically saying that every new artist that tries to come up through the internet is now gonna be compared to Soulja Boy and not taken seriously. Why? Cause Soulja Boy did that shit the best. I mean, I hate his music, but like Charles said, dude did have a mean marketing plan. When your truely an artist in this shit we call hip hop now, its harder to get on for you. But when your not an artist and you just need some dough real quick, its kinda easy.
Look at it like this. Charles Hamilton was barely known on the internet until that video of him freestyling with The Game and Kanye West surfaced. Then you have the Hamitonization process and him being on the cover of Freshmen 10. Soulja Boy on the other hand, was known on the internet when he was coming up. Why? That marketing plan! I remember seeing a video of him rapping "Crank Dat" like a year before it even got played on the radio.
Now in Soulja Boy's defense (I never thought I'd defend the lil dude) its not his fault that Charles can't be taken serious. Soulja Boy's right, maybe he should try something different. Not musically, but try getting into the game a different route. I mean he already does have a record deal. But I remember watching "Crank Dat" and telling E-Rich that Soulja Boy sucked balls and would never pop off. Boy, I was wrong.
In a time where music doesn't really matter to the younger generation, true artist will always suffer on the mainstream level. So what am I suggesting Charles to do? Go independent. Think about it. He has already gotten the biggest amount of buzz he's going to get (I could be wrong). I'm pretty sure that the people who has all of his mixtapes would cop an album. Tell Jimmy peace and go start your own indy label. Sure you probably won't go platinum but I'd rather not go platinum on an independant then a major.
When it all boils down to it, comparisions shouldn't be mad. Charles Hamilton makes Charles Hamiton music and Soulja Boy makes Soulja Boy music. Truthfully speaking though, there are a couple Charles Hamiton songs I wouldnt mind hearing in the club (Especially "Starchasers" so take that Soulja Boy!). But when you only make club music you never get taken seriously (take that again, Soulja Boy).
It maybe better for Charles not to be taken seriously by the mainstream. I'm scared he'll go pop on me (Kanye West, anyone?). For a fan like me, I rather him not get sucked up into the mainstream and lose his integrity. He could have a better impact if he remains underground (MF DOOM, anyone?).
So what do you guys think? Soulja Boy or Charles?
PS: I just heard that "Head Shots (freestyle)" by Soulja Boy. Not a better way to ether your career than try to battle someone that everyone knows can rhyme better than you. I'm just waiting on Charles' "unholy ether".
Ok, I have been posting youtube videos (with the exception of yesterday) alot to replace blogging. I shouldn't have to tell you that its crunch time because of finals, you already know.
I got two finals and I'm finished until January 26th. I picked out my classes today and was surprisingly fucked out of my electives. Yeah, you read it right. I have no more electives for my lower division courses. So that means one thing, I'm almost done with college. Well not almost, 2 more years!!!!
But back to the matter at hand.
I changed this motherfucking blog drastically. Why? Cause that green layout was ugly as fuck. I'm not sure what I was thinking when i decided to use it. So now I have a different layout, different widgets, and other shit I don't need. I hope ya'll like the layout. I should be hitting ya'll with some crazy, random, fly, hip hop shit soon!
-Malcolm Maximillion
Well if you been following the Witness My Growth portion of my blog, I have already shared a lot of bullshit tracks with you guys. I haven’t shared anything in a month though. Don’t worry, I’ll catch ya’ll up on Friday, heavy.
BUT I’m feeling good today (Word to Randy Hayes).
So I decided to give ya’ll something new and different. Yeah, something new, not something I made two years ago.
So today you guys are getting A Clipse of Jazz. This is basically a Clipse remix album made with jazz samples or if the sample wasn’t jazz, I made the beat sound jazz. I originally started this project in August. I actually did all the songs in August with the exception of Gangsta Lean, which I did early this morning. I wanted to drop it in October but as with my fellow bloggers, school hit and I didn’t really have time for shit.
I have a couple favorites off the tape but my favorite, favorite, favorite joint will be “Wamp Wampin’”. Its this guy on myspace by the name of EC/DC and about a year or two ago, I tried to join his production team. He’s a very creative and dope producer all around. Before I even thought about this project, he did this dope ass Wamp Wamp remix. While I was doing this project, I was getting worried that I couldn’t make one as good as that one. So its actually two version of “Wamp Wampin’”. I don’t think I bested him but I do think that mine is just as good as his. So props to him for bringing the best out of mewith that.
But overall I put a couple of the Clipse remixes on my page and I’ve been getting an awesome respone. Someone hit me on aim the other day just to tell me that my remixes was dope. A couple people sent me myspace messages telling me they really enjoyed it. So fuck it, I’ll share the dopeness with ya’ll.
-Malcolm Maximillion
Malcolm Maximillion Presents: A Clipse of Jazz
1.) Got Caught Dealin’
2.) Pussy
3.) Virginia
4.) Gangsta Lean
5.) Mr. Me Too
6.) Wamp Wampin’
7.) Cot Damn
8.) When The Last Time
9.) Fast Life
Get it here.
Me in the Play Cloths shirt
Now that everyone is either blogging about “808’s and Heartbreak” or Alfamega knocking someone the fuck out. I decided to do something different. Lets face it, I love violence but I couldn’t find any footage of Alfamega knocking dude the fuck out. L
I was listening to “808’s and Heartbreak” today and thinking before Kanye, who else was doing this type of music. That’s when it hit me. SLUM VILLAGE!
Yeah, Slum Village, you know they good for that good ol rap, break up music or getting over your girl music. I’m surprised no one has said anything about that.
Songs like “I Don’t Know”, “Fall In Love”, “Look of Love”, “CB4”, or “Tainted”. Now from a rap perspective, those shits speak to me.
At this point fuck “808’s and Heartbreaks” break out that Slum Village!
Face it my niggas, shes right. Niggas be fronting hard!
Not I. I could give a shit how big you think my package is.
But niggas be fronting son. You see em, scoping the magnums. Or the ones that always try to televise they use a magnum. Nigga please. At the end of the day its not what you using but who's using it.
So to all of you, step your condom game up. Its not the size of the wand, its the magic inside lol.
Today, I decided to listen to 808’s and Heartbreak to see if it deserved my money. As I was listening to the songs, I was countered with the fact that I was in his position February 2007.
Now I’m known for throwing a rant or two on this blog but I’ve never really felt the need to get extremely personal until now.
Anyway
In February 2007 a couple days after my 18th birthday, I found out my ex-girlfriend was cheating, approached her about it and we decided at that point to just be friends (which didn’t work cause she would still try to get with the god on the low). I was heartbroken. I wasn’t heartbroken because she had dumped me. I was heartbroken because she was pregnant with my child (I’m kinda skeptical if it was mine though now). Anywho she had a miscarriage shortly afterwards and shit just got grim.
I remember smoking tons of weed, almost being kicked out of high school in my last year for not attending, and just wilding out. I became a complete nothing. Not only did I just get out of a relationship in bad terms but a child, that I thought was mine, was gone too.
I did what Kanye is doing now, relayed that shit through music. At that time, I just wanted to make a short album or ep called “Greetings From Venus”. The idea behind “Greetings From Venus” was the whole “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus thing. As a man I belong on Mars but I was going to Venus or back in the vaginal pool as I like to call it lol.
I was experimenting with synths and some crazy shit just was coming out. I only recorded 3 songs for it. One was called “Always”, it was a sample speed up with a woman singing, “you and me, for always”. And the rap I had written for it basically was saying how for some people always is momentary. Then I did a joint called “Imagination” which really was about focusing on getting that one girl. But my favorite joint I did for it was called “Machine Love”.
I’m not sure if E-Rich remembers this or not ,but one night he stayed the night at my house. We were in the basement fucking around with beats and I played that joint. At that point we were on myspace geeking about comments I was receiving from chicks at that time. So as the song was playing he sings “She saw me on myspace, she said she liked my face” and then I went, “Machine LOVE!!!!”. Mad funny because this chick actually said she liked my face in the comment. Never got to really record that one but I loved it.
Back to Kanye West
I know what he’s going through and what he’s feeling right now. So I understand the record fully. Might not be able to relate to the loss of a mother but I have experienced loss. As for the record I’m only feeling “Say You Will”, “Heartless”, “Paranoid“, “Robocop“, and “Coldest Winter” I think everything else sucks. These songs speak to me for some reason.
Like “Say You Will” was shit I was telling chicks after my ex. I was gaining jumpoffs via the internet and when I met them they’d promise me all this shit. I’d just be like “Really?”. I didn’t trust any girl for a minute. I mean I just didn’t want to get caught up thinking shit was going one way and it was going another. So I started letting the jumpoffs knowing they were jumpoffs.
“Heartless” speaks to me cause I remember seeing the picture of the dude she was cheating on me with. Like Kanye West said “You’ll never find nobody better than me”. I mean that. I could see if he looked better than I but he didn’t. I could see if his pipe game was tight but it obviously wasn’t cause she was calling me back trying to getting something popping off, fuck outta here!.
Now I’m at the “Paranoid” stage in my current relationship. I mean I trust her but I just can’t do it fully. She hasn’t done anything to not have my trust, I’m just one of those “who, where, and what” guys. For example last week she was on the phone. I walked in the room and asked who was she talking to. She was like, “A friend” and I’m like “A friend who?”. She looked at me and said “My friend, Issac”. I thought who the fuck is Issac and told her I didn’t want to be nosey and start anything so I left. So yeah I’m paranoid than a motherfucker. Not because I don’t trust her but because I brought a lot into this relationship and I’d hate to loss it on a bad note. If you doing something, let a nigga know. I’ll say cool and we’ll just be cool.
I just find “Robocop” funny but I completely understand. I’m not a fucking robot and you will not be going through my shit cause I don’t go through yours. I don’t have this problem now but when I was with my cheating ex, I had to remind her that I knew other women besides her. Which kinda makes me feel weird about being paranoid now. Because if I can talk to the opposite sex via internet and phone, why can’t she? Maybe I’m not secure enough for that yet.
And “Coldest Winter” is one of the greatest records he has done. Mad emotion into that record, I really like it. So truthfully and I felt that way in July when my uncle died. Just everything was so cold and I didn’t even want to be around people. I guess it was a cold summer for me.
To conclude, 808’s And Heartbreak is by no means a decent album. But the songs that really touch you, really do touch you. Listening to some of these records I feel or I have felt that way so its easy to relate to for me. Monday, Kanye will be getting my money. I’ll never listen to it straight through again. It’ll get the “Digi Snax” treatment, just put on the shelf with the other cds.
If you guys didn’t notice, I’m somewhat becoming a twitter whore. Moving on, I haven’t really endorsed or co-signed any rapper in a while. Sure I promoted 88 Keys a couple times on this blog. But I haven’t really co-signed a rapper in a minute.
As a person who raps, I’m always listening for lyrics. Sure I like Project Pat but I’m always looking for rhyme patterns, metaphors, wordplay and etc. I can honestly say I haven’t been this blown away since hearing Elzhi, Jay Electronica, and Bronze Nazareth.
Which brings me back to the artist of the week: Holocaust/Warcloud/Robot Tank
Man, if you’re a wu fan, you’ve heard the song “Holocaust” by RZA featuring Holocaust, Dr. Doom (rip), and Ghostface Killah. I do not need to say that the way Holocaust opens up the track is amazing. The verse is so good, RZA decided to name the song after him.
At that point, I felt like I needed to listen to Holocaust. I got on Wu-Corp and asked someone to put me on to some Holocaust. They did but it wasn’t that Holocaust, it was Warcloud. Now this can get confusing so let me break it down.
Holocaust/Warcloud/Robot Tank is from Los Angeles, CA. When he takes on his different monikers, he changes his voice, and his rhyme patterns accordingly.
So when I heard the Warcloud shit, I immediately threw it off as weak. It wasn’t the Holocaust I was used to. It was some high pitch voiced nigga rapping about random shit, literally. I never listened to him again. I’m lying, I decided last week due to the wack shit out now, check him out and see if I was missing something.
HOLY SHIT, I WAS!!!!
Man if he kept rhyming Holocaust style which he described as a “The Mixed Forest Zone” (I’m not making that shit up lol) he could have been a top 10 emcee. Shit he still might be… I mean he literally embarrassed Killarmy on all 3 songs he appeared on them with, especially on "Doomsday".
Peep this verse from a freestyle he did
Hazardous waste leaks out my brainstem, light up a dark room
Then mark goons with large wounds from knives and sharp spoons
It’s harsh doom which starts soon, the gifted merchant
Fuck the apple, I tackled it then bit the serpent
You get the curtains, controversial critical thinking
While the sound intensity bedazzles pitiful weaklings
Sinking deep into a trancelike state, battling illness
Manifest allergic reactions that’ll be realness
So feel this vitamin pack, battleaxe
Chop that ass into stack type raps, it rattles tacks until they crack
Back smack wack cats for touching mics
Ducking spikes in an ancient temple where nothing’s bright
Fucking trife ‘Running Man’ bombs expert
With networks spraying up your sweatshirts
Pressure until your flesh burst
So what, I like Project Pat. Pat needs to hit us with another "Don't Save Her". Saw this shit at NahRight.
So last Thursday was a normal Thursday like any other. Work, school, walk home from Timinonium. Until, I was approached by a news anchor from WJZ after I just got off the light rail.
"Sir, would you like to talk about the troubles with the light rail", she said to me.
"Is she with the news? I see a camera! Fuck that, I'm about to be on the news, nigga!", I thought to myself.
"Sure I'd like to tell you about the light rail", I replied back to her.
Sure as shit the camera man just put the camera in my face and she started asking me about the light rail. I basically told her that its crowded and the delay is causing me to be late for my Biology class. Afterwards, I immediately called my mother and told her I was gonna be on the news. The next morning sure as shit, I was on the news at 5:45am! Luckily, I found a clip on the internet.
I'm shaking cause it was cold as fuck and I didn't want to put my polo hoody on in the vid and look ghetto.
You can watch it here, just click the video to the right, I come on during the 1:21 mark. They put my name all coolish on the bottom and shit!
The Rules Go As Follows:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six however many people you want at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
E-Rich
2. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
A. I own more graphic tee shirts than all of my friends and probably you too
B. When I don't currently like the person I'm talking to and/or I'm being "shy" I won't look them in the face.
C. Before even thinking about being a rapper, I wanted to be a rock star. I even had an electric guitar!
D. I learned the art of freestyling on a street corner in Paterson, NJ at the age of 9. In high school I battled all four years and only suffered one (arguable) loss. But if you ask me to kick a quick freestyle now, I'd probably suck cause I haven't fully practiced in two years.
E. I produced a song for some bum ass nigga that featured Cappadonna on it for $50 in 2007. I used to have a copy but not anymore :(. I think my girl does though.
F. I was always an "artist" type of person. Before wanting to be a rock star, I wanted to write novels. Even after discovering I wanted to be musician, I wanted to draw and paint pictures. Oh and yes I was pretty good at drawing until I put it down to become better at writing and making music.
3. Tag some random motherfuckers
Danielle
Superwoman
I must say I have had the honor of talking to 88 Keys a couple times throughout this year. He's a real down to earth and overall cool dude.
With that said, this cd "The Death of Adam" is worth copping! I've been waiting for this to come out since E-Rich and I went to go see him perform live about a month ago. I've also heard early versions of some of these songs too. I never posted them because he really didn't want his shit out there like that and I respected that.
But I'm listening to the album now and I must say its gonna live up to its hype. Tommorrow, your not doing shit anyway, go cop "The Death of Adam".
See this is one of the reasons I don't fuck with religon. You saw that shit? That bitch and her child is nuts god, word is bond.
From what I'm hearing from alot of "religous" people, Obama is the antichrist simply because he's black and some scripture in revealtions. The scripture supposedly is in Chapter 13. I think you overly religous motherfuckers are reading into it too deep.
Is it me or everything thats remotely, black is put off as something bad? Black is suppose to be the true color of the people. That is, if you overly religous assholes actually follow the bible fully.
I'm not saying the bibles false. I'm saying that people put too much faith in it and this is the results we get from it. They don't look at it as the basic instructions before leaving earth. They look at it like a fucking timeline and its not. The bible is moral instructions to lead a decent life.
I mean so what I said we treating dude like Jesus right now.
To get off topic for a second, this bitch ain't even american or black for that matter. Whoever she is she needs to just breathe easy. She needs to take a chill pill and stop reading whatever the fuck she's reading. I mean its amazing how books (Yeah I said it, the bible is a fucking book, with lovely metaphors) can fuck peoples heads up.
I mean like I said I'm not the most religous person on Earth. But in all honesty I'd expect the antichrist to be white (racist I know) because thats who we have been oppressed by the majority of our time on Earth. So I'm not bashing anyone who believes in the bible (I come from a bapist and penecostal family), I'm just saying think logically and stop with the fucking conspiracy theories!
And if you still think Barack Obama is the antichrist, check this blogspot out!
Are you ready? Well get ready for.... Disappointment. Don't give me that look. I voted for Barack but don't expect too much from dude right now. I'm hoping that he does everything we all want him to do. In reality alot of the shit we elected him to do will take a term or two.
I'm just saying, we treating dude like Jesus right now.
Don't take it like I'm saying he's not gonna do shit but I'm saying prepare for just in case he can't fix all the shit we want him to. Change takes time people as you saw. It took this country how many years to barely get over racism? Last great depression lasted for a decade this one could very well do the same.
We already know my man Barack got Bobby Kennedy's swag (I hate that word but it was needed here). Lets just hope he some how inherits Bill Clintons money making abilitys to lead us out of this economic shithole. Lets just hope he can lead us to victory in Iran!
But remember, don't expect too much.
Now if you remember awhile back Joe Budden was trying to figure out who had the best verse on this record. The record is out now. I'm giving best verse to Joell Ortiz, that nigga is killing every fucking thing he touches.
Hear it immediately
-I should have cut my hair yesterday
-I wonder whats for dinner tonight....
-Can I afford a smoothie now that I got paid?
- Wait I cant my credit card bill is due...
- WTF my cell phone bill is 175? Who the fuck am I talking to!?
- I could really go for some sexual activity right now but wifeys gone, shit.
-Is it me or porn isnt as excited as it used to be...
-Shit I want some pizza!
-The Cheesecake Factory is overrated. IHOP > The Cheesecake Factory
-Paper and presentation due thursday, motherfucker!
-I hate waiting for the bus
- Gotta get a drivers permit in December or my mother in law wont talk to me...
-I should call my momma now
- Wait shes in church
- I am sexier than a motherfucker, motherfucker
- Did I leave the tv on?
-Fuck I need some cereal
Well today and hopefully every Friday night from here on out will be my beat drop series I'm calling "Witness My Growth". This is basically a series in which I am planning to display my artistic growth by dropping every piece of music I have done starting from the beginning.
Today we will start from sometime in 2005, I’m sorry I can’t tell you exactly when. I think its summer though because I didn’t get the drum machine until September.
But basically I made all of these beats on a video game called Digital Hitz Factory, it was like an upgrade to The MTV Music Generator series. It was the only thing a 15 year old could afford (I started making beats when I was 15, didn’t learn to record anything until I was 16). So what I did was go to the library and got a bunch of cds (still owe late fees from them shits) and started sampling.
I recorded these by my friend Kadeems house cause I couldn’t afford a computer at the time. So I have 2 disk that he gave me with these joints on them.
I laugh when I hear these joints now. This shit is like memory lane for me. I remember I borrowed that Jimi Hendrix cd from the library (one of the cds I still owe money for) and I believe the song is called Angel. I liked it so I sampled it on a beat I named "Angel" after it.At the time I thought it was dope as hell. Not so much now. "Can’t Get Enough" was from a Barry White song, I had to speed that shit alllllllll the way up. My first chops sucked as you can tell on “Don’t Leave Me” which is my first attempt at horrorcore. I made up for it in "Love Is" I think thats an ok chop with some digital shit behind it. One of my first vocal samples is in “Nobody Does It Better”, I think that came from a James Bond soundtrack (which I owe money for too).
I’m not even gonna front (and don’t want ya’ll to either) but that "On The Grind" beat is still kinda hot to me. Like if I knew how to eq and all that other shit, it would be pretty aight. And I didn’t use no samples in that shit! I think that was the first beat my friends liked of mine (we never recorded to it though). I forgot what I sampled for “Youngblood” but that was ok I guess. I mean it was ok for the time period, I sure do wish someone taught me how to mix at that age though these shits are horrible.Grimey is a failed attempted at another horror core sound but non sample. I can’t wait to figure out when I learned to do drum programming cause in all of these beats my drums suck (except “On The Grind”) But in reality it was all in fun and I thought I was the dopest lol.
I have beats before these too, just gotta see if E-Rich still got them on his memory card.
Don't worry guys things will get interesting the futher we get into the series.
So here is the first beat drop "First Beat CD". Tracklisting is
1.) Angel
2.) Old Beat 1
3.) Can't Get Enough
4.) Old Beat 2
5.) Old Beat 3
6.) Love Is
7.) Don't Leave Me
8.) Nobody Does It Better
9.) On Da Grind
10.) Old Beat 4
11.) Youngblood
12.) Grimey
Get it here
Apparently, my girlfriend been getting alot of flack lately from her jealous bitterass peers because she's a woman dating a boy. Yes ladies and gentlemen, a 19 year old boy. She's two years my senior and they just can't stand my age. WTF?
Why do we live in a society where age limits who we date? I thought I was legal, Feb.9, 2007. I thought I was grown, a grown ass man if you will on my beloved 18th birthday. Guess not.
I get the picture now. I think.
I've been going through this for a while. I've always dated older girls/women. I was the dude in high school fucking the college girls. But its the same arguement everywhere. I'm young. I've been told your cute but a little young so many times by girls 1-2 years older than me.
ANd its not that I act young, no. I've been supporting myself since I was 16. I've always had a job since I was 14. Its not like I still live with my mother but even when i did, I took care of my own shit. From phone bill to paying part of the electric bill. Shit, last semester I took 15 credits at school (making me a full time student) and worked 2 jobs. All while living at my moms.
Right now I go to school full time and work full time. I help support my girlfriend and I and I'm constantly trying to do something to better myself. But I'm a boy because of my age? not because of my actions but because of a number?
When will women start respecting the mustache? Start respecting us younger men as men, not by age but by definition. And some women wonder why they can't find a good man.... SMH
This interview clears up alot that we haven't and been hearing from Sean Price lately. I can't wait for Random Acts....
Everyone is corny except for me - Sean Price
Mr. Acid Rap himself, Esham, wants to be Detroit's new mayor. We all know Detriot had its fair share of fucked up politics but could Esham possibly do the city some good? Well he did give Detriot a rap scene at the age of 13. He is the creator/pioneer of acid rap. He does have the ability to be controversial but could possibly be Mayor? Well read what he has to say bout that here.
-Malcolm Maximillion
Watching that video right there, a historic video in hip hop history makes me want to step my studio game up. Bink got a 78 inch screen to mix records on! That shit looks mad official and crazy. Last year around November, well whenever I made this post, one of my friends, Drew or GQ, made me want to step my studio game up. But Bink just basically taunted me.
In march wifey and I are moving again. I'm currently looking for a two bedroom apartment. We found one but we just gotta make sure we secure it. So basically I'm just saying whatever you feel like you do, step it up just a notch. I mean its always something you can do to improve whatever your doing.
First off I'm not related to Joe Budden or one of his internet soldiers but fuck this. If you watched the video you'll understand what I'm about to say. Awhile ago Joe Budden made a video about dudes trying to holla and spit at chicks on myspace. In the video he read one of the messages and basically some dude dedicated a song to his girl. Joe responds with your a lame and your song is corny. End of story or so it should have been...
I look on Worldstarhiphop to see what kinda bullshit they had tonight and found this video. First off, the white dude, you know the one that keeps popping up. NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP. Son, its obvious your reading off of a paper when you say "Joe Budden? Who's Joe Budden? I've never heard of the man". Get the fuck outta here. He wouldnt be as annoying if he didn't keep popping up through out the fuck fest of the video saying "Fuck Joe Budden".
Then its the testimonials by real people which is hell of biased. First off the girl sounds like she listens to the radio. "What does he rap?", she says. Of course she wouldn't know jerk off. Then the dude in the red shirt coming out the house. Now this nigga knew who Joe Budden was tried to play stupid. Refers to him as that "rapper nigga from back in the day". Then responds with he ain't dropping shit. Get the fuck out of here!
Finally the Jadon Success nigga pops up in some ugly ass shirt. Hes the one that got mad cause he sends everyone the same message and Joe read that shit. Now first off if you was gonna respond in a manly manner, you wouldnt have responded. Like why would you want people knowing that was you?
WARNING: I'm about to go in on this dude (no homo)
The dude next to you is like "whats hood, fuck Joe Budden". Get the fuck outta here! You want to know whats hood? Record like you really in the hood, during the day so we can see that shit to verify it. From the looks of it, it looks like a decent neighborhood. Now I'm not claiming any hoods or anything but I was once in my lifetime in poverty so I can tell a hood. Most of my family memebers are in the projects so I know whats hood. You outdoor pool having ass niggas need to be glad your not hood, thats whats hood.
Then your ass got the nerve to be popping some "bottles" in someones house party some club. Oh I see, you live, you doing it BIG. Do it big and get a better camera biatch! Niggas like you make me sick cause you fronting over bullshit. The dude in the next clip (forgot his fucking name but fuck it) talking about no bitchassness. That 6 minute clip was complete bitchassness.
Why cant dudes just be men and take a l? Or at least be honest. Like if he made the clip and it basically was like "My name is Jadon and I send that message to everybody so I don't see why he was tripping", I wouldn't be mad. Niggas want fame so bad that they'll talk tough on youtube and shit. Cause a nigga called your song corny? FUCK YOU. Its people like you why people in hip hop can't take critism and why the artform is falling. FUCK YOU. Its people like you that got black artist looking like when we get on all we do is pop bottles and talk shit. FUCK YOU.
This might turn into a long ass post, I hope not but fuck it. Once again this idea was not generated by me. It was generated by my fellow fucktards at Wu-Corp (my after school hangout spot besides twitter). I did and still do think blogger doesn't give you the chance to properly introduce yourself on your "profile" and I don't think I properly introduced myself on my first post. So lets get this thing started.
Name: Malcolm Maximillion
AKAs: Mr. Millionaire, Millionaire Max, Malcolm The Millionaire, The Ghost, Eugene, Gene Gene Dancing Machine, Millionaire, and Allah Maximillion
Age: 19
Physical: "6 Foot 1 with a big ass gun"- Redman
Representing: I was born in Paterson, New Jersey, lived there for about 9 years. I now consider myself from Baltimore, Maryland. So I rep both how about that!
School: In college, University of Baltimore, 2nd Year. (Yawns)
Plans: Going to school for Network Information Systems, might switch back to Entreprenuership. Whatever I pick, I'm going to obtain my Masters Degree. I do plan on starting my own production company, Millionaire Radio, in 2009. Sounds awesome right?
Favorite Sport: Boxing and Lacrosse
Favorite Athlete: Mike Tyson
Favorite Sports Team: New Jersey Nets and New York Giants, don't really care much for Baseball or Hockey to claim a team. Sorry.
Hobbies: I like to make music, surf the internet, bother my woman every now and then. Blogs, reading, you name it. I'm more of the listener. Like if you told me something, I'd remember it, forever. I like conversation which is why I'm on aim all day, get bored hit me if I'm home you'll know maximillion1989.
Favorite Rapper: Ghostface Killah
Favorite CD: Only Built For Cuban Linx... (Thanks E-Rich)
Favorite Food: Burgers
Favorite Clothing Brand: Ralph Lauren's Polo, I like copping old shit cause the people my age aren't wearing it and it looks great! I used to fuck with LRG but its been kinda MEH lately. But wardrobe is mad tshirts, Polo, and LRG
Favorite Website: Fuck thats a hard one....
Marital Status: Married kinda...
Religion: Fate lol. I'm not atheist but I'm not christian either. I kinda fall into the Muslim category but I don't like to box myself in with that either. Any who I believe in a bit of it all. With all due respect its only history right?
Well now its time for some pics!
I was just fucking around with that, I don't wear fitteds and you couldn't catch me dead in those stronger glasses
See I don't wear fitted cause I take pride in my waves. Although I cut my own hair now too so its kinda to showoff also
Thats my nephew, not my son but I am the current father figure in his life :)
My woman and I, although she drives me crazy. Old pic though, I would take one now but shes playing her DS. :(
I write this letter to you in regards to your recent statements made to HipHop DX. I'd like you to know I've been a fan of yours for quite sometime now. Ever since I heard rumors of you working with Ghostface Killah, I've been gathering your shit and peeping it. You truely are a dope emcee, producer, and the king of the underground. Operation: DOOMSDAY, classic. Madvillain, classic. Even the KMD shit is nice. But your tactics have me going wtf sometimes. Prime example, this DOOMposter shit people claim you have been doing lately. Whats up with that? When people pay to see you, MF DOOM live thats what they want. We are already past the image, we want to see the man in the mask do the rhymes. Not any man in a gladiator mask, Daniel Dumile. You are our gladiator (no homo) so don't take advantage of us. I'm not saying you are, I'm not saying your not. I'm saying don't take the very people who put you at this "cult" status at stake and have to question your credibility. I like the idea behind the whole DOOMposter thing because again its just about the music, not the person. But if I pay to see MF DOOM, Daniel Dumile better be behind that motherfucking mask. Its kinda of like when I read somewhere that people were selling Operation:DOOMSDAY and come to find out, it wasn't an authentic Operation: DOOMSDAY. It had a computer printed cover and a generic cd that was burned. I don't want the cd that was burned, I want what I payed for. So I hope its true that you are indeed trying to get healthy because your beer gut on Adult Swim was scaring me lol. So again, I'm not saying you did anything, I'm not saying you didn't. I'm saying don't.
Thanks,
Malcolm Maximillion
PS: Hurry up on Madvillian 2!!!!!
After watching the video, it still is funny to me in small doses. After all it is a disease thats not curable. I'm just glad I don't have it.
Fucked up Lil Wayne stole his flow, don't say he didnt. Its evident.
Not saying that the shit he get isn't up to par but do you hear this? He sounds wayyyyy better than Jay sounds on his own shit. This song comes from the Amerian Ironman Mashup by DJ Chong Wizard. He mashed up Ghostface with American Gangster beats and Jay Z with Ironman beats. I'm just saying someone should just do a whole mashup of Ghostface over Blueprint beats. That shit would be tooooooo ILL. Not to mention Jay should get with RZA quickly cause he sounds like he was fit for a couple of those Ironman tracks. Check out this remixed Ironman trailer too.
I stole the picture above from 2dopeboyz.com. Dead serious though, this has got to be the greatest posse cut this year. No posse cut is coming close to this (except "5th Chamber" but that came out in 2005 I think). Everybody comes through on this shit. Its hard to say who had the best verse. Lol @ all the Yung Berg disses, take the hint nigga. Not to mention one of my friends got a beat placement on Halfway House, so cop that shit October 28th!
Stop reading, listen to this shit now!!!!!
Thats what the fuck I'm talking about! I was actually planning on recording something similar...
But where do I start? I'm not sure if everyone knows but, I have a significant other and thats one of the main reasons I don't really go to her myspace page. Niggas be on some "fuck your boyfriend" type shit, which with all due is cool. I personally don't give a fuck, I don't have to hawk over other niggas girls. NO MATTER HOW LONG I KNEW THEM. If I wanted her when I first knew her it was a fucking wrap, just like it is now. What niggas need to realize if that you do actually get her from me or whatever, I'll have another one next week. Unlike the majority of you myspace niggas, I'm not always on the prowl, I'm always on the browse.
But word is bond though, I don't see this happening with her. Its just the attempts that you bastards be doing that have me like "wtf". I guess they see that I'm not actively posting on her page, constantly telling her she's beautiful. Thanks for doing my job for me, really y'all make shit wayyyyyy easier on my part. I know she's beautiful, that's why I'm with her.
But really, where is the man to man respect? I'm not gonna act like I know these niggas personally but wtf! Respect me as a fucking man, if you know shes taken be respectful about it. I read the craziest shit on her myspace coming from Baltimore niggas. For those that never been to the "Home Of The Wire", Baltimore is small as fuck! I don't forget shit that makes me mad, I'll eventually cross into one of you niggas. This isn't no "blogging", "myspace", "tough talk" type shit. I will see one of you dudes and fuck you up over something you typed. I hope you can fight. Lol.
In all seriousness (I was dead serious about that last paragraph though) us boyfriends with girlfriends on myspace are just asking for some mutual respect. We don't like going to our girlfriends myspace and seeing the corny shit ya'll put up. At the end of the day I can say I have never treated womens pages on myspace with nothing but respect, I'm just asking for the same. Niggas ain't gotta be fans of my music or add me but chill the fuck out cause I'm already thinking about contacting a few before I feel like I'm gonna have to find them and give the the talk (jabs at computer screen).
And ladies reading this or niggas reading this, I'm not insecure. Not at all. I'm in a good space about our relationship. I live with her. These internet niggas don't see her 1/10th of the time I see her. I truly don't give a fuck, I'm just getting annoyed. I mean thank Joe Budden because my video was gonna be harsh as fuck. I still might make that shit though.....
Rest In Peace to my bestfriend, my lover, my Boss Sp 505. In case you guys had no clue or didn't know, I've been making music on that thing for the past 4 years. It was the first piece of hardware I have ever purchased. But Monday I went to turn it on and it wasn't working. It won't cut on. Maybe its not dead, maybe its just me. Who knows. I will be putting it on ebay hoping it can be respired for future use though.
In the mean time, I'm saving for an MV-8000. I can pretty much get a new one on ebay for about the same price as an MPC 1000. It has mad features and I can hook up my monitor to it. Plus I can burn cds from it. I can't wait. I won't be getting that until 3 months from now but when i get it, you guys will know.
I've been meaning to type this for a while now. Time flies when your doing shit.
Well about 3 or 4 weeks ago my cousin came down to visit me from Jersey. I want to do the basic shit, hang out, get into shit, and basically chill. I had to go to work so I would take him over there since I worked down the street.
This time we were on my way to my apartment....
I boarded the bus and we had to sit up front because my cousin, jail bird looking ass, couldn't fit in the other seats comfortably. So this old white guy gets on the bus and sits diagonal to us and across from some black lady. He drops his change on the ground and picks it up, the whole time complaining. He continues to say he should have neer moved back to Baltimore because the people are friendly.
The black lady is eating some candy and he says "Give me a piece of candy". She quickly replied back on some "thats not how you ask" type shit. The old dude says please and she gives him three pieces. He opens one and then keep asking people to open the other pieces. I completely saw this shit coming though.
My cousin looks at me, I looked back at him like "I hope this old fart doesnt ask me to open it". Guess what that motherfucker did, ask me to open it. He picked the candy up rose it to my level as if he was gonna hand it to me before I said anything. He goes "Open this for me" and I went, mad bluntly, "No". And thats where it started.
"YO MAMA", he shouted back. "What you say?", I replied back about to go into South Central mode. "Your probably about to go smoke arent you?", he said. "I don't smoke. How do you FEEL!?", I said back mockingly. He pretty much left me alone.
As for the other people on the bus, he fucked with them until I got off. He told one guy, "I wouldn't touch you with my DICK!". And thats my story of the old fart on the 10 bus.
Kinda put my remix of Poet Laurette on his myspace. Its not one of those "unauthorized" myspaces, its his official one. So I take it he or someone in his camp liked it. Check out Canibus here at his myspace and listen to "The Poem" produced by Me. Its one I did called "Get Em Bis" floating around here on zshare too if you want to hear that one.
I got on my myspace today, checking my messages because I wrote a verse and sent it to a friend, wanted to know what she thought about it. I opened my messages to get this message.
Subject: WOW
Body:
Your my new hero amazing :)
I even got your song on my profile
bless u I really hope you get a big break :)
So peace to Amelie for loving my music. Which actually fueled my inspiration for finishing that Clipse/Jazz album just for her.
On a sidenote, mad women love my music. I thought I made hard shit but women love it.
The people at Wu-Corp thought we should lace sir Canibus with beats for Poet Laurette Infinity. While I don't mind doing that, that shit is 1000 bars long. Thats like doing an album. So my plan is to just make little songs from it. This one in particular, I chopped some bars out and fucked with the order a bit. I think I'm gonna change the 3rd and 4th bars. But without delaying shit any futher. Check out Canibus "The Poem" by way of zshare
Truthfully, I don't see why more rappers don't meet face to face and come up with some sort of conclusion about their problems. But at the end of the day, this wasn't even getting to the level of Tupac and Big. Niggas on youtube stop worrying about this shit a long time ago. I personally don't think rappers come hard enough when battling. In all seriousness, Cassidy would have ripped Mook like he did Freeway. I'm glad to see they reconciled though.
SMH @ Murder Mook talking about some street shit with his college going ass
SMH @ Cassidy talking about killing people and beating people up with his just getting out of jail for murder ass.
I'm not gonna post about how Clay Aiken is gay....
Although I will post about Bronze Nazareth today. (Didn't see that one coming did you?)
Well as most of you know, I am a Wu-Tang stan and he is one of the affiliates that I fuck with. Because truth be told not all wu affiliates are good. Holocaust was promising and then he went on that WarCloud and Robotank shit. But when he rhymes as Holocaust its fucking awesome.
Anywho, Bronze Nazareth great producer and you guessed it, great rapper too. I'll give him emcee status. This dude is like if Killah Priest and RZA formed together and didn't focus on religon that much but the realness in life. I find myself listening to his music and feeling it kinda the only reason people liked Tupac because of the emotion. But Bronze has way harder lyrics and for the most part it takes a while to get them. These aren't your average similes and metaphors. But its not like that history lecture either.
Well his mixtape "Thought For Food Vol 1 and 2" or just Vol 2 (depending on who you ask) is coming out next Tuesday. I suggest an immediate cop. I bought two copies. One with both volumes for 20 bucks and the other one, which is just Vol 2, signed by Bronze himself for 10 bucks. Check him out at http://www.myspace.com/bronzenazareth
BONUS: BaRonze OBAMA
PS: I know I've been slipping in post recently so bare with me. I wanted to make this longer but I gotta get up for work in 4 hours.
I know I haven’t been blogging in a week or two. My fault, my cousin came to visit and I’ve been introducing him to Baltimore. Word.
So I went to the GZA concert Wednesday. Let me tell you guys one thing. FUCK RAMS HEAD or just the nigga that comes up with the prices. If you bought your tickets online, in advanced, then it was 18. If you bought them like a nimwad at the door like I did, it was suppose to be 20, then 22 and then they added a fucking surcharge, which made it 24. I know that’s cheap for a concert, but seriously come on now. Also note that may be because my cell phone bill is due next week. L
I saw three of the sexiest black, female, Wu-Tang fans I’ve ever seen in life. Word is bond. I mean I have a girlfriend or a queen as I’d like to say, but (insert ric flair “woooo” right here) I wanted to get one of them and take them back to the lab. Back to the issue.
Concert was cool as shit. Killah Priest opened up. I’ve never seen him life before, not to bad. I don’t know all of his joints and I was getting checked by security when he first arrived on stage so I missed a song or two. I’m pretty sure he did a joint or two off of Heavy Mental. Last thing I heard from dude was songs off of Behind The Stain Glass and The Offering. (The Offering is my shit!). He did “Redemption“, “Happy“, and Uprising. Its funny, he had people screaming Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with to “Happy”. (Youtube them)
The some group called Folk and Stress came on and performed. Not your average white hip hop group. Dudes definitely brought something different than expected and could spit. Not sure what songs they did though. But they were pretty cool.
After they left it was GZA next but he was on some not coming out for a hour let the do do his job type shit. So my cousin and I walked around, scoping bitches and what not. I was hungry and I went and bought chicken tenders. Once again, FUCK RAMS HEAD, them shits was 9. And they gave you hell of fries so you’d need water, which was an additional 4. Like my cousin said, “I hate paying for water, the shit is free. I might get one for a dollar, shit two if I’m that thirsty but 4 dollars they better suck my dick too”.
So I ate my expensive as fuck chicken tenders and was just chilling out looking at broads watching me, watching them you know, the usual. Then out of nowhere Killah Priest walks from the side of me to the bar. I looked at my cousin and said “He’s gonna sign my Liquid Swords cover”.
I walked over and was like “You, Priest” and he didn’t hear me so I said it again. He turned around like “Whats up?”. And I’m like “I see you trying to get your drink on but could you sign my cover of Liquid Swords?”. Then he signed the album and I gave him a hip hop handshake. I went to walk away and I must have forgotten my pen cause he’s like “Here” and placed it in my hand. Only for me to come home and find out Killah Priest broke my fucking pen!
Shortly after he left, GZA got on stage and ripped it. The entire Liquid Swords album, minus a coupe features was performed and some more shit. He was just straight raw with it. It was great except I learned that white people or women cannot dance. This one drunk broad just kept dancing, she looked mid 30’s and knew every fucking word to Liquid Swords. It was another one that bouncers put out cause she was crowd surfing, touching GZA, and stripping, all at once.
All in all the concert was great. Two mid-age white guys came through mad late in the concert and told me that they got in for free. Dude was like “I was doing karoke next door and I heard “Triumph” and was like dude is that Wu-Tang?”. Lmao. GZA had a weird audience though. Mad Wu tats. A lot of young heads too, he pointed that out. It was a 14 year old there. Someone was holding a paper plate for Curtis cause that’s what he ended the concert with.
In short, if you like Wu-Tang and haven’t heard Liquid Swords, buy it now. If you like Wu-Tang and Liquid Swords or just the GZA in general when he comes to your town go see him. Its worth it!
Shit today is finally here, I'm almost off to my bio class. Don't really know what to expect from this semester. I'm actually going for all A's, so I can raise that gpa and get a better scholarship. My job sucks thanks for asking.
Oh yeah, I'm still working on music. I got tons of shit that still needs to come out. I got like two albums done with other artist, working on a remix project for the clipse, working on an instrumental cd, and working on a regular cd also.
Ya'll don't know about Latarian Milton? Well look at the Youtube clips and then listen to this interview. Mad funny and ignorant.
I thought today was my first day of school but it wasn't. Unfortunately, I got up, showered, played video games, and then said time to go to class. I got to school, bought my expensive as fuck books, and then I went to my "class". I stood there for about 15 minutes and then looked at my schedule only to see the dates of the class being 9/2/2008-12/21/2008. Ain't that a bitch?
