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in no particular order….

did you hear them all?

we may not be on the best-of lists, but we got you holding us down, and thats all that matters.

the bubble
this beat was taken from “fatbacks” off of the quasimoto album.  i first got into the lord quas album through che grand. i remember one time we drove to philly for a show, i believe P.S. and big nan was with us but i dont really remember, and we were rocking “fatbacks” loud as hell. from then i always wanted to rap over it, so when i decided to do this project i reached out to che to be on this song with me. he recorded his over at 6th sense’s spot…i think it was the same day he recorded city on fire. i recorded in the bay and that was that. when i first played this for people they thought i was mad/beefing in my verse but i really was just talking shit as usual. my part wasnt directed at anyone…just talking to “sucka mc” like everybody else.

pea greenery
I think this joint has a cali influence more than anything else I’ve ever done. haha…im bugging on some shit on this one. like evidence meets tone loc or something. haha…I love this one, but I knew id have to have it placed strategically on the album. it used to be after “all day hell” but I knew me with the extra deadpan delivery on 2 back to back songs would be a turn off. the 2nd verse is just based on different tour experiences with certain drunk hecklers in certain cities. it didn’t happen a lot at all but there’s always that one monkey trying to stop the show. (fuck yo couch nigga!) I messed my verse up a little, I meant to say “spit on yourself and get clean” my elaborate way of calling the dude a cat (read: a pussy). yay.

main jawn
on the lord quas joint there’s a line in the song that goes “we get around each other and just wanna have sex all day” so that’s why I chose such an awkward chorus. the story is self explanatory. it may come across lazy how I ended it, but I really didn’t want to go through with the “surprise!” ending coming from a mile away. with that said though, its absolutely the story I wanted to tell. anyone with a roommate has been in a situation where your roommate had…”company” and you may have not seen them but…heard them. lol…I just felt corny telling the end of the story because its painfully obvious so I cut it short. this shit is free. haha….

starstruck
ok so this is the song where I AM TALKING ABOUT OTHER RAPPERS! IM NAMING NAMES TOO! but in a positive way. I named some cats that im a fan of and they’ve shown mutual respect and support. one night we did a show and most of the crowd was like “who the hell are these assholes?” but by the end they were like “wow that wasn’t wack! that was kinda cool…but okay…get off stage now.” and that will drain you. night to night trying to convert fans, convincing them you’re dope, but they’re like “yeah whatever you guys are the openers” haha…one thing that never failed though, the people that knew us already were usually artists themselves. I don’t get annoyed by that or anything, I take it as another artist is the hardest person to impress. we’re on that “favorite rappers favorite rapper” shit in a way. I think that’s kind of dope. that’s why I said “we’re technically nice” in the 2nd bar. I actually wrote this WHILE talking to a fan/artist one night. I decided to name some artists that excite me (pause) in the verse. please belive this song would have been an hour long if I named everyone im a fan and colleague of. the skit after this song is purposely long and based on a youtube clip because im a nerd like that. if you don’t get it, ask someone else what the joke is.

ill finish the rest of the notes later i promise!

to the knitting factory, AOK, souls, the roots & friends, and nora, thank you all for this week and its been a pleasure rocking with/for yall. theres personal shit going on right now for me thats a little taxing but everything will be cool and i appreciate this past week. also shout to society clothing and everyone at the shoot, that shit was awesome.

im out!

ill start here:

a month ago i put out a mixtape that you hopefully downloaded already. i started on the notes on certain songs and didnt keep posting them up. im sorry about that, i just been preoccupied with the album that makes or breaks tanya morgan, and PWNS all other rappers on the planet earth and beyond. unless donwill gets bored one day and posts up the whole album early (just joking don) youll hear it in April and hopefully no sooner. (rant time) we’re trying to do our part to get the value of hip hop music back up. theres a lot of guys that can rap and make good music but devaluing the music is being mistaken for grinding/hustle. we’ve done it in the past ourselves so im not trying to sound high and mighty. what i mean by that is putting out a high volume of music in a short time. it has hurt hip hop because now people are just trying to keep up. when you get at least 5 new full projects a week how can you really care about any of it? now an ipod is like digging in the crates for a sample…you go through stuff fast trying to see if you hear something you like real quick. with that said, maybe its karma for sampling huh? lol…

but im not tripping. really im not. theres no answer because it seems like thats all you can do. everyone wants the exclusive brand new shit. i cant control that, i cant control when Brooklynati leaks or how long people listen to it. all i know is when it comes out you wont be listening to an album that got made in a week or a made-in-10-minutes beat or punch-in-every-2-bars freestyles. youll hear something that was years in the making…that got made twice from scratch. thats what ive been busy with for the past few weeks…the final draft. after this drops i dont want to hear “so whats next?” for a good 10 months. but anyway we’ll talk more about that later. back to “further adventures…”

taken from an email to myself:

players!
I knew that some people would expect odd songs when they found out about this project and the producer I chose this time. when it was kanye on “grand vonye” it was all good because his shit is just straightforward heat. madlib on the other hand makes you work for it a little more lol. I decided id use the 2nd weirdest track off of the lord quas album (first being “chipping”) and flip it. this is my joint I like this one a lot. I don’t know if people already know im an oddball or not, but this project should convince them by the end. also, I was trying to fit a certain mood with my voice/delivery on this one. if you don’t notice anything it both did and didn’t work! lol…

web 09
if you don’t know the original “web” go listen to “the tipping point” by the roots. I wasn’t trying to really remake the og, I just named it that because of how I started the verse. im only 27  so I don’t know a damn thing about rocking in the park back in the days, but this gave me that feeling so I just spit and kept going (or writing…). this isn’t a “oh my god he’s rapping for so long!” joint at all, its just about the feeling. this is more my version of top billin than anything. some rappity rap/b boy/old school partying shit.

all day hell
this may have been the first joint recorded. I did most of this album in the bay. we were on tour with the hieroglyphics crew for 3 months and in between that we stayed in cali for a while. I told donwill I was doing this and he said he was down for a feature if I needed him. on the lord quas album DOOM is on this song, so I wanted to spit my verse very deadpan like doom raps. I thought about doing it over later because I was having 2nd thoughts, but I felt it was perfect as is because it fit the original idea. donwill knocked his verse out, but he wouldn’t let me punch him in so he would have it perfect except for one line and he was like “nope! start it all over!” haha…I feel that though, we all do that. tanya morgan is a pain in the neck to any engineer!

so supreme
ill be honest, and don’t let my honesty sway how you feel about this track…this joint was a total afterthought. I was playing all of the lord quas beats after id already picked which ones I wanted (I hadn’t picked this one originally) and just so happened to grab this one last minute and do something over it. its based on an old rhyme from yeaaaaarrrs ago.  my rule for this project was to use the original instrumentals as madlib sequenced them. I didn’t really allow myself to loop anything up or change anything around. with that said this song is as long as the beat really was.

ill post the rest…soon?

and one more thang….if you’ve checked out the discography on this site, and you dont have some of those albums but want to check them out, that dude dave has taken care of it for you: PEEP!
http://thatdudedave.blogspot.com

upon deliberation with the homies akilah, spec, young h, and the “well you do have a point” hating courtesy of fwmj, ive come to the conclusion that common actually is NOT my favorite rapper anymore.

not because of UMC, but because ive kicked other rappers off my favorites list for less. so technically com shouldnt get special pardons. haha

(before i go any further…this is a lighthearted post. its all in fun)

i kicked many a rapper out for singing on a whole album instead of rapping. including myself for that jack benson shit.

also, if you weren’t out in the 90s you cant be one of my favorites of all time.

so…only cats left were thought, pos, com, and hov.

technically they all have a bad album….except pos?

the closest to being bad is mosaic thump in my opinion. but it aint bad. not to mention im tired of typing this post so im going to go ahead and fast forward to my new favorite rapper……

because he was out in the 90s, and he doesnt have an album where he sings for most of it…and he doesnt really have a bad album…lets give it up forrrrrrrrr…..

THE NIGGA WAS IN DUBAI! SON, COM AINT BEEN TO DUBAI! TAKE THAT COM!

(more further adventures liner notes coming up 11:59pm…because i said id do it today)