we out there. yeah, we out there.

(if these links dont work pretend i never made this entry)

i started this beat last year and never finished it. i believe it was may 2007

this song is on the roots album that came out this year

my beat is whatever, but the point is its the same drums, similar synth, just theirs is much more complete since its an actual song and mines is just a beat i started and never finished. nobody has ever heard it, but it was on my ipod and came on shuffle today…wow! thats crazy that i did something even remotely similar to what the roots did a year before id heard their song.

listening to their song is like “so THATS how its supposed to sound!” lol…

ONE MORE THING:

go to my myspace page and listen to that remix before they make me take it down.

myspace.com/vonpeamusic or myspace.com/vonpea

when it comes to people knowing/pretending to know who i am, if they dont know me from tanya morgan they know a) von sees b) 1st date or c) a word from our sponsors.

i always get comments about the song “1st date” that i did with nicolay, but in my opinion the best “oh okay, i heard of you…whatever…” song is c, a word from our sponsors. i dont really get comments about that but a lot of people seem to like 1st date, especially women for some reason.

so im asking you, whats better? 1st date or word from our sponsors? IF YOURE READING THIS PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT.

produced by this guy:

so we were in detroit in 2006 after a show we had in ann arbor (we will be returning to the same venue very soon check myspace.com/tanyamorgan for the tourdates!) chilling at this bar. in walks black milk. now I don’t know the full story but I think one of our peoples told him to stop by cause we were hanging out. I want to say big tone was with us too but I might be wrong…whatever the case black is there and he’s just coolin out and talking to the people he knows and us a little, and we had previously emailed each other about working weeks prior. so him and don exchange info and we then went to hang with elzhi in the studio.

now I had been apeshit over “sounds of the city” for a while ever since I heard “duck” on his myspace when he first put it up…haha I thought I discovered something nobody was up on but he was in br gunna and I didn’t realize it til later. we get back home from detroit (and that tour) and I decide I want to do something like “duck” but without it sounding like duck. so connecting the dots I reference our song from 2005’s “sunset ep” titled “filthy interlude aka the duck” and decide to do a sequel to that. I had this beat I started a long time ago but it was just a loop of “place……place…..place….” and nothing else at all for 4 minutes. after listening to it again with “donut ears” (think about it) I chopped it up a little more to keep it interesting, yet still wanted it to sound like a broken record (”place….place…”)

before we set this off, please peep the previous blog! be there if you can! please!

okay…we doin our. produced by this guy:

I never NEVER ever enjoy making beats around other people. I’ve never been on the “5 beats a day for 3 summers” tip so when I finally do sit down to make a beat like once every 3 weeks (I know…horrible) it never sounds good after the 1st sitting. I come back a few times and tweak and tweak and re-chop and re-play and re-program and tweak some more until its right…even if it still sounds like it took 10 minutes.

I said that to say this: this track came about after I went over to don’s apt and tried to make a beat on the fly. it didn’t work out at ALL, jack. at ALL. I went home embarrassed and as I was en route to my crib I played the original song to this and basically broke it down in my head. I got lucky that it turned out how I heard it in my head, once I got home. I sent it to il and don later that night and they liked it.

the interlude right before this song was produced by aeon (of “walk my way” fame. the song that helped us win that showcase in vegas.) and you hear it a few more times on this project. he actually was making that beat and asked for my input…I took it raw (PAUUUUSE) and put it on the album. he probably doesn’t consider it finished…oh yea, he hates “we doin our…” lol

my favorite lines, based on what was said OR how it was said:

“pea is free they sendspace my bass, zshare my flair, megaup my cuts, n***a what the f**k? itune my tunes! real store for more! you never up your bucks :-(”-von pea (yes i made a sad face in the booth haha)

“all the checks scream my name, in a definite pitch, inner devil in fits, but i raise my level of sense, to seven from six, my inner son and moon are in an eclipse”-ilyas

“check one…check 2, who cashing mic checks? word is bond im cashing in on rhymes i aint write yet!”-donwill

next week: filthier interlude aka place aka “where the hell is black milk?” lol

why? why not?

We’re gonna try this again.

please go to this blog or this blog and note that we have a FREE show this saturday at 23rd st. and the east river.

4:15PM…its early and free on a saturday!!! i dont know much else about it, but please please be there if you can.

learn more at http://www.citysol.org/

disclaimer: a) we all make mistakes b) dj low key is my mans and im not mad at him c) please dont leave a “i told you so/shoulda known better” comment cause that dont help! sucka!

sometime last tour, around march or something like that while driving to another city: “yo low key! we need to come out again for your birthday bash! hook or crook! by any means! make it happen!”-donwill

“hell yeah!” me and ilyas

wednesday june 18th 10:30pm: “yea man i dont know about going to denver anymore its last minute and we dont have flights yet. il aint even going anymore”-me, don, and che grand

“im the smartest man alive right now”-ilyas

thursday june 19th 3:00pm: “YEAH MAN DON AND I ARE GOING ON BUDDY PASSES YO! OUT FLIGHT LEAVE 8AM! WE GONNA MEET YOU THERE CHE! YOURE ON A DIFFERENT FLIGHT FROM NEWARK!”-me

“:-( man i dont want to fly out alone from newark thats wack”-che

“ITS ALL GOOD WE’LL MEET YOU WHEN YOU GET IN FAMS! WE’LL KEEP THE BEERS COLD HAHA!”-me

friday june 20th 7:00am: (after being mollested by airport security) “im sorry you guys are flying standby and there is no room on this flight. come back at 5:30.”-desk clerk at frontier airlines (yo FUCK frontier airlines. no offense gary)

9:00am on the way back home: “yo i dont even want to go anymore man…fuck it yo im going to hip hop karaoke or something”-me

“word”-don

11:00am: “yeah spec we were standby…forget all that man if its this hard going we’re gonna mess around and miss the show monday! we cant miss that!!”-me

6:00pm after getting some rest, and ironically waking up restless: “yo….theres a flight at 11:30. wanna go to denver? fuck it lets roll!!!!”
sunday june 22nd 10am

11:30pm: (after being mollested by airport security again) “sorry but the flight has been delayed due to a flat tire”

1:00am: we finally get on the plane

3:00am mountain time (aka 5am on my EST body clock): “LOW KEY WE HATE YOU! FRONTIER IS GARBAGE!! YALL HAD A GOOD NIGHT AT THE BIRTHDAY PARTY? OH RLY?”-me

sunday june 22nd 10:00am: “so what time is the flight? im saying we’re standby who is flying out to ny from denver at 12:30am anyways? lets catch that one.

10:00am-10:30pm: time spent in denver just chilling. aka bullshitting like we didnt have to get back home. che was also smart enough to leave sunday afternoon.

monday june 23rd 12:35am: (after being mollested by airport security AGAIN) “yo low key can you come back to the airport? yea man this joint was full we couldnt get on”-me

monday june 23rd 10:40 am: (after being mollested by airport security AGAIN!!! YO TIP FUCK IS WE DOING THIS FOR?? *KNOCKS SHIT OVER* (c) busta)”yea low key we couldnt get on that one either, but thats cool the 3 o’clock one has 19 open seats. we’re in!”-me

monday june 23rd noon: “yeah low key those 19 open seats are gone. and all the flights are booked full til like wednesday night. damn i guess we’re moving to denver”-me

12:01: “yo (the label)!!! we are stuck in denver! can you help us get home?!?!!? theres tickets for $225 with a cincinnati layover!”-don and i

so the tickets go from $225 to $770 in 5 minutes. aka we’re back to being stuck in denver. but in another half hour Dom (the label!) kept checking and they went back down to like 400 dollars. so they get those. but THATS OUTTA OUR POCKETS! that wasnt no label shit that was a personal favor on the side. label had nothing to do with us goin to denver.

you know what this story is heartbreaking so ima cut to the point…we get to cincinnati for the connecting flight, find out its been pushed back to 11pm…and we have to go on stage by midnight so we cant do that. we beg them to let us catch a delayed flight to newark airport so we can get there by 11 and haul ass to the knitting factory (path train to WTC…knitting factory isnt that far away from the WTC (ground zero))

we did just that…so 800 dollars, 6 tickets, 2 airlines, a cab, a path train ride, and 4 states later, we arrive at the knitting factory at 12:30am. only to see spec out front saying “yea man they just shut the show down…this club closes at 12:30 on monday”

man i have been to the knitting factory and seen shows START at 1am. ever been to a beat society there? dude you can go straight to breakfast afterwards.

so long story short the lesson learned is dont fuck with buddy passes when you have to be somewhere important. or just dont fuck with buddy passes at all. yeah, dont fuck with buddy passes at all.

its 2:43 am and im still disappointed and mad as hell.

if you say “shoulda known better” im not your friend anymore. serious.

should’ve went to karaoke man. we wouldve had two shows this weekend!

im no photoshop whiz, but that angster cover was iight though.

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please share this link and pass this song around….PLEASE!!!

and once again, be here, for reals.

produced by this guy:

featuring this guy:

we were at the 2007 power summit in las vegas for the xm/myspace “show em what you got!” contest when we came up with this track. we were in the hotel playing music and ilyas puts on a cd by this cat named “mysterious” out of cincinnati. it gets to this beat and I think il was skipping it but I wanted to hear it. we basically did the “head nod in unison” thingamajig and out of nowhere we all started singing “the bridge! the the the bridge!” obviously it wasn’t all at once…on some “grease” shit (haha) but that’s such a classic hook (its lifted from mc shan for the younger cats) that once one person hinted at it we all just knew where it was going and loved it. we then told il to put the beat in the stash and finished drinking. then I think we went to in and out burger. man we took a 20 dollar cab from the rio hotel to in and out and another one back like some real hood rich nig…brothers. all for in and out. one thing about tanya morgan: no matter how many times we visit one of our favorite cities, we act like new nig…brothers every time. anyway when we got back to brooklynati we went to work. elucid of loosie/lessondary fame came through to dons spot and did the hook because his delivery is so ill. now if you don’t know elucid, please get familiar! he’s in another world. don, filthy, and I just sat there hype…this was simply him doing a hook! and this is our boy! he still geeks us out when he rhymes. fanboy shit. sue us. I added the epmd “you gots to chill” influenced echo to the verses at il’s request, turned them down at the label’s request(blah), and that’s that.

im probably not gonna be putting the lyrics, but i love my verse on this LOL:
Von Pea, I’m ahead of the game, I warp zone the microphone, I cheat code the beat,
flow’s abundant, keep shows erupting,
the fans leave like kids with candy,
when I flip a beat they trick or treat,
they in for the latter, the hymns leave em flattered,
I trust it wasn’t a bust,
commute well worth it I leave hoarse it seems,
every rachel and samara is trying to give me a ring,
bling, you are so rich, but you are no “this”,
leave competitors irregular, no shit,
Pea’s a predator, Americas, #1 fear,
a black man working between his ears,
I don’t follow you hoes my woman is my peer,
my weapon is my expression I speak and leap tiers,
echelon devon, the 1st out the limo,
and next out the ghetto and last brother to quit so…

6 pm.

ever seen that prince paul “politics of the industry” dvd when he had the in store and noone was there? ha!

I guess on tuesday ill start posting my liners on the ep here. I’m doing one a week though. not because I’m lazy but because that way I can guarantee you’ll remember us for at least another 9 weeks! it won’t be a big deal though. very basic. hopefully I will be able to since we’re supposed to be on tour starting mid july. I don’t know when the actual tour will be announced but I will say this: cali, we’re coming! I know some of you are mad at us but it wasn’t our fault. it was nobodies fault! he did it! nobody loves us, and just likes telling us what we need to do. lol

I need to learn piano too. I got plans and goals!

ima teach myself some shit, watch.