Tha Bitches What What, Tha Bitches...

I hate mixing. It is the final most important part of the creation of a song and I hate doing it. A good mix can make bullshit beats sound hot (i.e. D.M.X.'s first album) or it can make hot beats sound wack (i.e. Blackmoon's first album) . What frustrates me even more about mixing is that I cant wrap my mind around recording or mixing on computer based systems. Its a bitch

I learned how to mix in Analog studios on a 2 inch reel with a Neve board. Now everyone uses pro tools and Mackie boards. Fuck Pro Tools and Mackie, I hate that shit. I've only seen one engineer who could bend that pro tools shit like he was Neo bending tha Matrix. I'm mixing on cubase now and It kills me cause its a bitch to deal with.

Sleep deprivation is a bitch too. I swear to you that I haven't slept in the last 4 years. im tired of being tired so imma cut this short and take a nap and finish mixing later.

c-ya bitches...

Another week begins

So its Monday. It is tha first performance of the play "Soul To Keep" tonight and I'm up arguing about phone service. I'm trying to get all my last minute business squared away before the Mercury Retrograde starts. I also threw away all of my comfortable sneakers so that I would have to wear some of the new ones I bought that have been sitting in my closet collecting dust for the past few years. As you may have surmised, I tend to be resistant to change.

I also got a flyer in tha mail from some corny promoter talking about how their artist is the New York version of Nelly. WTF is that about yo? Have these cats in NYC just totally given up any shred of dignity and jumped on tha "Dirty South" bandwagon that hard...?

Yup

Look I can't front like I'm with all of the current country-fication of Hip Hop, however I will say this. For a long time NYC and the Westcoast had Hip Hop on lock. It's tha South's turn, I wont argue that. I just never thought i'd see tha day heads in NYC started riding all that down south d*ck. East coast Hip Hop used to be lyrical and about something, now the bullshit I hear is just as weak as music I hear outta Atlanta or someplace like that

And It's a lotta artists outta tha south I rocks with, Scarface, Goodie Mob, Juvenile, Outkast, Field Mob, David Banner, Bun B, and having lived in St. Louis for a spell, I even got love for Chingy. (not for his music, but because to have grown up in a city that makes it so hard to be black, this kid has his head screwed on pretty straight) I'm not hating on the other cats, but they aint really impressing me like that.

I did a skit on my mixtape "Live And Let Die" about how simplistic NYC flows have gotten and how cats is sayin they from tha "Dirty South Bronx." Heads thought I was being serious, that scared me. But alas, this is an indication of how weak tha game has become.

More on this later, I gotta pack up and get ready for tha show tonight

And another one...

Ok, so i lost what i was gonna type because i still havent figured out how to work this thing yet and somehow i deleted my original post. That means this is all you get tonight because im tired and my eyes hurt form looking at the screen again. I'll try again soon

Welcome To My Blog

Ok so im up and in effect now. I'm gonna see how this Blog thing goes. I'm too tired to write a lot now so i'll leave it at this for now.

Peace
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