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 about Nas' 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

I'm posting again, let me finish some homework real quick and I'll tell you guys some stories

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

Check it here though.

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

Jay Electronica is on Nas' "Nigger" album. Read it here

Self explanitory

Well if you heard the rumours its true. Seems like the Unit is trying to go back to their old methods of work. In all honesty, I'm looking forward to this. Curtis was a weedplate and Curtis got some more work to do if he wants people to look at him the same way they used to. So I hope this mixtape is good, but what Gangsta Grillz mixtape hasn't been good? I read it here.

Madlib, Madlib, Madlib
He's actually the reason I make beats today, well not make beats but he had a HEAVY influence on what the machine I picked.
I remember when I first heard about Madlib it was in a Scratch Magazine article. After reading the article, I quickly went out and bought The Further Adventures of Lord Quas. I bumped that shit on the regular (can't do it so much, my disc is scratched now; isn't that ironic?).
I had knowledge of him before that article though because I went and bought Madvillany. After finding out he produced it, my favorite joint on there "Raid", I really wanted to know more about him. In the article he said that he used a Boss Sp 303 to make most of the beats. I was like damn, I wanna be like this guy.
Now lets not forget, I'm a total Wu-Stan. So when I heard that shit he did with Ghostface, the "Block Rocks" joint, I went nuts. I'm still trying to figure out what is he sampling. Which will bring me to another point I will make in another blog. But Madlib, that dude, don't forget, loop digga. He even outshined, J Dilla on the beats on the Jaylib joint in my opinion (Dilla got him on rhymes though). He just flips so many styles and it seems like he's not even trying. He even laced Erykah Badu something terrible. God. Madlib, top 10 producer, fuck your favorite.