so this past Saturday was my first experience in a beat battle at the peacock bar and lounge in Toledo. shit was pretty cool, unorganized but pretty cool. well i shouldn't say unorganized because it had a pretty good layout with 16 competitors but the funny part about this was the mixing of genres. i was told to be prepared for any type of music but should i have too?
club music is cool and all but the sounds usually associated with it are common... real common... so common that i heard the sound several times over that night. bothersome, repetitive and lacking but pleases the "hood" crowd well enough for a win. i say hood crowd because i no longer belong to that crowd... a child of the 80s spoiled by the 90s and heres the 00's and the hood is so one dimensional that you can predict what could go down before it happens.
i lost... not in a one round knock out but in a guns blazing with bombs falling from the sky kind of way. it was live tho. cuz i dropped a banger of a track that got alot of respect from others. yet i fucked up by forgetting to check the mixes on my other tracks and i think that contributed to my lost... other than the fact that the two cats i went up against were vets of the sport and played dance type tracks which i shun.
still a great night.. ill have to think about doing it again... but maybe in my own way... watching youtube vids i shouldve known what to expect... meh fuck it... back to the beats
if you havent copped this issue yet you really should... the article on bob power alone was enough for me to buy it. i mean E.badu, Gil Scott, Bilal and Dangelo... nuff said... go get it!
Cheif of KOTR outta NY came through and blessed me with some dope dope dope lyrics.. real hip hop will overtake the wack ish that the radio plays... no dance tunes here... jus pure love of music and HIP HOP
It crazy how ive had all this time off due to surgery and bot one day was good enough for me to get something goin... Damn
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The ability to sample is a great one... I know ive been talkin bout droppin a beat tape soon.... Things have jus been tight on time but itll happen... Peace
Friday, January 29, 2010
Gotta give an early shout out to j dilla... Happy b day r.i.p... Keep bangin them pads...
Monday, January 25, 2010
Choppin up some 45s tonite... Ah gotta enjoy them back to back day off joints
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Sorry that ive been away for so long... Gotta new job and its been destroying my creative flow... But ill be back