Well as some of you know, I'm moving out of my home next year. There is a few things I need to get for my new home before I get there. Such as.... 1.) A Desk 2.) A Drum Machine Stand 3.) 2 Tier Keyboard Stand 4.) I need to get my Wu-Tang Forever autographed album framed 5.) My M-Audo studio monitors and the Q40 Headphones
Also I'm from New Jersey (Paterson stand up!) so I feel its only right to get my favorite players from the Nets jerseys. Well, I'm looking for Richard Jefferson cause I just order Jason Kidds, and I'm gonna get Kenyon Martins later this week. I'd like to get these framed and hang them up in my room with my equipment for nostalgic purposes (2002 was the first season I really watched Basketball).
I remember hearing RZA saying that line a couple of years ago when I purchased that Bobby Digital album. I haven't seen the movie and my sources (mainly wu-corp and chambermuzik) tell me that only wu fam have actually seen the entire thing. Speaking of Bobby, RZA is bringing his digital ass (no homo) back out. I'm copping Digi Snacks, gotta support the real while its still here. I watched the video and absolutely loved it, now if only Wu-Tang got a video like this for 8 Diagrams (for Campfire).
Well I'm back on my blogging shit again. This time its for good. I won't be going to summer school this year so I got time on my hands cause I work in the morning and don't really be having shit to do otherwise. So what you guys plan on doing with your summer? Shit, I plan on getting a second job, so I won't have too much free time on my hands. I plan on going to New York and Jersey. Also or most importantly rather, I plan on getting some more music equipment (as soon as I figure this midi thing out. Which brings me to my story or purpose for writing this blog.
I remember when I first started making beats, I was using anything I could get my hands on. Basically I didn't have shit but Music Generator 2. Then I upgraded to Music Generator 3 which basically just allowed you to utilize loops of actual songs. Then from there I got that Funk Flex joint, Digital Hitz Factory.
I remember hounding DJ Victorious and even convincing him to give me his phone number. I wish him all the success in the world, he probably won't even remember this though. I used to email him and Jim Bond constantly trying to get put on (mind you my beats were ass) and DJ Victorious was kinda like on some Dame Dash shit, if you came correctly you got a chance.
Well he gave me his number and an appropriate time to call him. I called him shortly after and we talked. He basically said keep making beats and send him some tracks and keep calling him. Long story short, I stopped calling him because I couldn't figure out how to record my beats (the ones I was making with Digital Hitz) to send him.
Fucked up ain't it?
Today I was working on my secret project (8 Bit Theater) and I was realizing how far along I came. I managed to find some old beats from like the "Digital Hitz" era and I bet if I get E-Rich to look he can find some from the "Music Generator" era. Now I got the Sp 505, Reason 3, a midi keyboard, and I'm gonna have a microKorg by the end of the summer. Came a long way but never changed really. Only thing that changed was the equipment, my chopping and looping style is still the same (kinda). Drums are more on beat if anything lol. But I can actually tell I made those beats..... Maybe I'm just bugging. -Millionaire
Well I did manage to get a new computer. I wound up getting the computer like 3 weeks ago. Only thing bad about it so far is the internet connection can be buggy at times. But other than that I love it. Anywho, I haven't update the blog because Im really busy (school, work, and work at school) shit I hardly got time to make beats. Also I'm sick of rap. Seriously this shit is getting lame. I mean seriously rappers dissing basketball players?50 out to get Lil Bow Wow?NYOIL bitching aboutNas' song "Be A Nigger Too"? Whats wrong with the game? Especially since we are in a time of importance right now. Shit it feels like the 1960's all over again. The blatant police brutality (they let them pigs walk? wtf!) and no one is doing shit about it. These fucking musicians/rappers that we look up too are not saying shit about it. They too busy trying to go platinum or trying to so called "change the game" which is just another ploy to go platinum (I see you niggas). So right now I'm saying fuck rap (although I'm listening to Ghostface right now) or fuck rappers rather. Theres a genocide going on in Darfur but niggas not rapping about that. What happened to the issues? This felt like a good year for rap but with so much going on, it feels like just another year. I wanna get excited again, I wanna break shit, I want to feel like I'm supposed to be a better person. Now as a rapper (sort of) if someone would tell me that I would tell them "Fuck you looking at me for directions for?". But now I understand the (semi) responsiblity rappers have to the community. I'm not saying all of them should be kicking knowledge, I'm just saying I miss the golden era of rap 87-98 and we'll never get that back. I just got to face it rappers are cowards. -Millionaire
My computer is down at the moment so I'm a little sad about that some shit happened after I installed new ram. But anywho, I was deciding what to post today. Looking at the normal hip hop sites but this is my blog so it supposed to be personal.
Anywho
I stumbled (via myspace) across some old memories. I will tell you have 1.5 albums, and 1 mixtape with a group called Y.I.C. Funny thing is never put any of the shit out. Like any of it. Maybe its me but I think that alot of the material is pretty good. In particular after the first album when we were recording for the second one. Alot of the shit we were making was (and still is in some cases) ahead of alot of the shit that was out. Beats could have been mixed better but other than that I believe we did fairly well.
Which brings me to this post. This one song on the myspace page is called "Techno Bullshit" and it was basically about nothing, just spit some crazy shit. I remember exactly how the session went. My man E-Rich had did the beat and played it for me by my house, I thought it was crazy so next time I went to record I brung E-Rich and the beat. I played it for DeMar and he like it. We had no hook for the song. Like none! But I was thinking because E-Rich had been saying "bullsheit" all day. So I was like "Fuck it, DeMar you say this and E-Rich after that you say this". And it fucking worked. The verses were decent and great. Mine was so abstracted, E-Rich came with the Lupe Fiasco type flow (we didn't even know of Lupe then), and DeMar came with a superflossy flow.
If only I could get niggas to record like this now
I heard about this cd about late last year. All the heads on Sohh.com were bragging about how great of an album this was. Usually the niggas on Sohh.com are either too much into the music to give a decent reveiw or they don't really listen enough to give a good review. With that being said, fuck "The Cool" this shit was album of the year, I really need to change my chart. Now Exile has been around for sometime, I've heard about doing doing a beat battle at Beat Society (speaking of beat battles, I got some shit to tell you guys) and he did the infamous "Pearly Gates" song for Mobb Deep (best song on that garbage ass cd). Blu on the other hand is a rapper from Cali. Normally I wouldn't fuck with it because dudes on the West Coast don't really appeal to me and its not because they are from the west coast, its usually in the flow, choice of beats, and delivery. But I heard him rap like once and I thought he was cool, but I really didn't pay attention. Dude is a beast! His flow is kinda like Lupe on "The Instrumental". Throughout the whole cd as I was paying attention to his words I was just like, "Wow", "Damn", and (insert "oooohhhhh shit" face), especially on the introduction "My World". Don't even get me started on Exile's beats. If you like "Pearly Gates" then pop in this cd and sit back and kick it. All of the beats are diverse (I know samples for two of them, I sampled them before) and the drums are so so crisp. Niggas always talk about how hip hop is dead. Well if you believe that shit you havent heard this shit. This shit got me more excited than sir Jay Electronica and you mofos know how excited I am about him. With that said go cop "Below The Heavens" by Blu and Exile and keep real hip hop alive or grown folks hip hop rather.
I'm still alive.... Just doing a bunch of shit like work at my daytime job, go to school, work at my nighttime job and making beats in between. Just wanted people to know that I still do exist, not going on hiatus. I would blog more often but my phone doesn't allow me to blog from this site, trying to find a way to get around that. So I'll catch ya'll tomorrow around this time with the artist of the week and a bunch of other shit. -Malcolm Maximillion
