open mic yesterday
as my first week of summer comes to a close, I have a pretty decent outlook for the rest of summer. aside from some snags that aren't as bad as they seem, shits lookin up. or am I just a chronic optimist? somewhat yes, but in my defense if you're gonna go thru life negatively, why do it at all? if stuff(including life) isn't pleasurable or beneficial to someone, whats the purpose?
anywho, I started my job wednesday. I'm secretary for my school's physics office. Some people are scared of that word secretary, wanna say office assistant. why? are you that insecure in your manhood? I'm actually at work right now. The biggest job I have so far is answering the phone, transferring calls, and sorting mail and faxes that come in. then for the other 80% of my time I chill on my computer. I wrote some lyrics wednesday, yesterday i shopped online for a new computer, today I plan on writing some more, reading souls of black fold, and actually buying the computer I want.
my computer died 2 weeks ago. same issue as before, cept now I know the power supply is good. It's just that the connection is bad between my motherboard and the power supply. so sometimes it wants to stay on, sometimes not. I don't have time for this shit, I got songs I need to record. we coulda had vinci's album mostly done by now. so I been checkin out tigerdirect.com. they got some good shit over there, only problem is that I'm not sure if I'm getting the best deal. that'll be decided today.
so that's that, now my music news. da vinci is stayin on campus this summer in a different dorm(for now, money issues might change that). he's next door to this producer he knows named nico aka nick fury(yes same name as my brother) aka nickel and diamond. so we went by nico's spot, and i got to check out his beats for the first time. shit's nice. and nico is good about givin free beats if he likes you. so thats lookin good for me.
then my friend lesley is stayin in the same building, 4 floors up, his roommate Rob makes beats as well. this dude is good, but so far all i've heard from him is club-type singles, which he does well, but I'm usually lookin for different beats than whats already in the mainstream. he wants us on his shit, but we goin have to see if he has the range we need. or maybe we'll take one of his club beats, and put a parody on it. like have real verses that are about something, and a meaningless chorus. and somewhere in the song talk about how people don't listen to lyrics. that'd be funny, but I'm still not sure I like the idea because it's been done before(the roots recently with don't say nuthin)
we went to an open mic yesterday. the day before I talked to chuck the madd ox about the place, he said he featured there before. and that it's a real "raw" type of spot, with a thuggish crowd. so we went for a free open mic, turns out chuck was right. the place is a bar over a sub-spot in the hood, which allows people to throw free parties. so the promoters decided to have these open mics. so far so good. only problem the owners only alow free parties/events because they know they can get their money on drinks. so they don't like when people come in who can't drink. hence me, just turned 20 16 days ago. i tried to explain to the people that we don't wanna drink, we're here for the show, and she wasn't havin it. she said its policy not to let no1 under 21 in cuz of the bar. fuck that, they don't want me in cuz they can't make no money off me. so their thinking is, why have a body there makin us no money? kick him out. so they made us go on first for the open mic, then we were supposed to leave. we did whole city behind us then black thoughts. during our "set" some drunk nigga came onstage. then after he started freestyling, saying muthafucka at least 3 times per bar. our set pretty much went over niggas heads. my friend lesley told us later that one dude was like "do you know what these niggas are sayin? I can't tell what they're talking about." these definitely weren't our deepest songs. not at all. so we sat down and started watchin the show, waitin for the barwench to kick us out. the host freestyled some, his name was black wind or windz? he was pretty good, looked like freeway wit slightly less beard. some crew named rawdoc came on. avg drugs and guns shit. they brought some groupie niggas so it appeared like they were well received. I'm not so sure. their website is rawdoc.com. then we were startin to get kicked out, so theblack windz let us go on again. we spit victory over some beat the DJ made. left out. all in all a sub-decent night, but def not bad. as we left a cat named m1 of rawdoc told us keep up the good work. said he was listenin when we was spittin and he liked it. so I'm happy. at least one person caught some of what we said. incidentally he was the best out of his crew, I wouldn't listenin to him.
anywho, I started my job wednesday. I'm secretary for my school's physics office. Some people are scared of that word secretary, wanna say office assistant. why? are you that insecure in your manhood? I'm actually at work right now. The biggest job I have so far is answering the phone, transferring calls, and sorting mail and faxes that come in. then for the other 80% of my time I chill on my computer. I wrote some lyrics wednesday, yesterday i shopped online for a new computer, today I plan on writing some more, reading souls of black fold, and actually buying the computer I want.
my computer died 2 weeks ago. same issue as before, cept now I know the power supply is good. It's just that the connection is bad between my motherboard and the power supply. so sometimes it wants to stay on, sometimes not. I don't have time for this shit, I got songs I need to record. we coulda had vinci's album mostly done by now. so I been checkin out tigerdirect.com. they got some good shit over there, only problem is that I'm not sure if I'm getting the best deal. that'll be decided today.
so that's that, now my music news. da vinci is stayin on campus this summer in a different dorm(for now, money issues might change that). he's next door to this producer he knows named nico aka nick fury(yes same name as my brother) aka nickel and diamond. so we went by nico's spot, and i got to check out his beats for the first time. shit's nice. and nico is good about givin free beats if he likes you. so thats lookin good for me.
then my friend lesley is stayin in the same building, 4 floors up, his roommate Rob makes beats as well. this dude is good, but so far all i've heard from him is club-type singles, which he does well, but I'm usually lookin for different beats than whats already in the mainstream. he wants us on his shit, but we goin have to see if he has the range we need. or maybe we'll take one of his club beats, and put a parody on it. like have real verses that are about something, and a meaningless chorus. and somewhere in the song talk about how people don't listen to lyrics. that'd be funny, but I'm still not sure I like the idea because it's been done before(the roots recently with don't say nuthin)
we went to an open mic yesterday. the day before I talked to chuck the madd ox about the place, he said he featured there before. and that it's a real "raw" type of spot, with a thuggish crowd. so we went for a free open mic, turns out chuck was right. the place is a bar over a sub-spot in the hood, which allows people to throw free parties. so the promoters decided to have these open mics. so far so good. only problem the owners only alow free parties/events because they know they can get their money on drinks. so they don't like when people come in who can't drink. hence me, just turned 20 16 days ago. i tried to explain to the people that we don't wanna drink, we're here for the show, and she wasn't havin it. she said its policy not to let no1 under 21 in cuz of the bar. fuck that, they don't want me in cuz they can't make no money off me. so their thinking is, why have a body there makin us no money? kick him out. so they made us go on first for the open mic, then we were supposed to leave. we did whole city behind us then black thoughts. during our "set" some drunk nigga came onstage. then after he started freestyling, saying muthafucka at least 3 times per bar. our set pretty much went over niggas heads. my friend lesley told us later that one dude was like "do you know what these niggas are sayin? I can't tell what they're talking about." these definitely weren't our deepest songs. not at all. so we sat down and started watchin the show, waitin for the barwench to kick us out. the host freestyled some, his name was black wind or windz? he was pretty good, looked like freeway wit slightly less beard. some crew named rawdoc came on. avg drugs and guns shit. they brought some groupie niggas so it appeared like they were well received. I'm not so sure. their website is rawdoc.com. then we were startin to get kicked out, so theblack windz let us go on again. we spit victory over some beat the DJ made. left out. all in all a sub-decent night, but def not bad. as we left a cat named m1 of rawdoc told us keep up the good work. said he was listenin when we was spittin and he liked it. so I'm happy. at least one person caught some of what we said. incidentally he was the best out of his crew, I wouldn't listenin to him.