EMC “Leak it Out” produced by The ARE

EMC New video for the joint I produced for Masta Ace, Wordsworth, Punchline and Stricklin titled “Leak it Out”. Nice cameos from Dj Premier, The Niyat, K-Rino and more! Video directed by Kinetik Cinematix. Album out now!!

Bavu Blakes………Get to know him

Bavu has been doing his thing for a long time now and has several projects under his belt. He’s got an EP out now titled “Extra Plair” and is getting his full length album together now. They just did a piece on him over at XXL mag. Could there be a Bavu/The ARE joint in the making soon???? Stay tuned.

Funny shit….Lice!

Man, this had me rollin. HILARIOUS!!

Congrats to my man Illmind

Illmind won the Philadelphia Red Bull Big Tune last night. For those that aren’t familiar with this is event, it’s a national beat battle sponsored by Red Bull. I was the winner of the Houston battle last year and went on to the Seattle finals Nov 1st 2007. If the event comes through your city, you should definatly try and make it.

A beat a day……or more

I try to make atleast 1 joint a day. It’s tough these days when you have a Daughter that naps less and a house to hold down. The fact is, I’ve been making beats so long that it’s just a way of life for me and if I don’t get it done, my day isn’t complete. I remember at one point last year I was cranking out 3 beats a day. Things were just rollin. I truely feel that if you want to get i done in this industry, you really have to make music all the time. If your making a beat every couple of weeks, thats just not gonna cut it. I remember giving artist beat cd’s with 3 to 5 beats on it. Sometimes thats ok for some artist cause they can’t seem to sort through to many joints and make their mind up. But, funny thing is when i started my beat vols with 25 – 30 joints on them, it worked better. Of course the music had to hold weight as well but with many joints on it, I guess it just better’d the odds for me. Bottom line, make music as much as your life will allow. If you work a 9 to 5, that just means you will have to work alittle harder to create time.

Rubbish

You know, I can’t help but feel like every artist in the mainstream is putting out the same recycled bullshit. There’s alot of artist coming with new albums soon and with each leak, I get more disgusted. Nothing sounds that good to me. The industry is just like this rediculous smart water trend. Vitamin water, smart water, antioxidant water. Are you kidding me?? Each artist with a new look and a new pitch but doing the same shit everytime.  I guess with a major industry slump, every artist and their labels are running for the hills and are deathly affraid of taking chances.

When I recently spent 3 months in Battery studios, I could’nt help notice that alot of artist that came through were a bit confused as to what they really wanted to do. “I want some pop shit” , “no wait, I want some R&B shit”, no, wait “I want some Rhianna pop/R&B shit”. They all just wanted to get a piece of what the latest hot artist was doing and that only added to the confusion. I just wish that artist and producers would take it upon themselves to create the “New”. Not just different but independent thinking. Taking chances, going against the grain a little bit. Hey, the label is’nt really gonna push your shit that hard anyway right? Why not take some chances?

Call in The Wolves

what do you get when you take 4 of the illest producers on the planet and form an alliance?? You get “The Wolves”. More info coming soon!

Paris 2002

My man Zumbi from Zion I has this pic on his myspace. This is when we were on tour over seas in 2002. We took this pic in Paris at Basilique du Sacré Coeur. The Paris show was really crazy. It was on a huge boat that was turned into a venue. The fans were insane! Amplive, Deuce, Me, Zumbi and D.U.S.T.

Nicolay & Kay “Timeline” boards

Only 50 available so don’t wait. You can pre-order yours now at www.greaterthanboards.com. This is the first run of decks by greaterthan and I know they are going to be doing a full series of different ones so you might wanna start with their 1st.

Braille IV

My man Braille has a new album out that you should check out. This dude really grinds.

I did a joint on his album called “Caculated Risk” feat Mr J Medeiros from the procussions and Manchild from Mars Ill. crazy

Calculated risk