Archive | July 2008

over here is all the in between. yo…I AM NOT COMPLAINING but allow me to say that living out of the suitcase is wack! ive done it on and off of tour (just being on vacation in general) and its always been wack and probably always will be. you want to hear the wackest complaint ever? are you ready?
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ok…..i dont have enough space in my suitcase for all the new free clothes.
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im sorry yall thats wack i know. im just saying, i shouldnt have packed so much but i didnt think we’d get more clothes. thats not a usual thing on the road. if anything we pick up some stuff before we leave. thats not a big deal though. when i get a chance ima take a picture of the “schwag”…not on no fronting ish, just so you can see what we got. feel free to say whats ugly. that’ll be what i dont wear on stage. haha…

so dj low key is on his way right now, he’s on the plane as i type. he’s trying to change the setlist already! damn let us do a show together first! haha! all the songs went over well last night, but we still have to get into a groove so itll be second nature/routine. that usually happens by the 4th show…if you know me personally ask me about the wack shit that we’re gonna nip in the bud asap when you see me. its finna be clobberin time. it has nothing to do with any of the acts by the way (for the most part everyone is cool as hell) i just dont want to put it here. peace…

got 2 get done!

produced by this guy:

except it was 2007 lol

one of the 27494672782 times we said “we’re starting brooklynati NOW” birthed this song. 2007 was spent talking and talking and talking and talking about brooklynati (our next full length album) but not starting it. we’d tell brick to send beats and he would but we werent crazy about any (for the record he produced half of brooklynati) and I was just plain afraid to make any beats because I knew what I had in mind but didn’t know how to start (for the record I produced half of brooklynati). this beat was when it started to turn around and we got some new brick joints we really liked a lot.

don and I live fairly close to each other in bk so we sat around and wrote to this together but I think we just wasn’t in the right mood to really knock this song out. we wrote and dons verse ended with the funniest phoned-in 16th bar ever and he knew it cause we cracked up when he said it. something along the lines of “stay on your grind but take a break…or at least have time to yourself!” it was like your uncle giving advice it wasn’t even a rhyme haha…

then my original verse?? I was mumbling and there was no real flow to it. something about “I’m telling myself tonight I’m gonna sit down and work on beats” that was a line. say that to yourself right now and try to find a rhythm. aint one is it? too many words! shit was awful. haha….

later we redid it once ilyas sent his verse from cincinnati. I was listening to atliens and got rejuvinated! “like e s, to the pea’s in a zone….” damn that! that’s fly! espn zone! lol….nah but seriously this songs about persistance if nothing else. its donwill’s least favorite, so he’s usually surprised when people like it so much. its not a brooklynati throwaway, we put it on the ep because it just seemed to fit the current state of the group. same thing with “get me inside”…that was recorded with brooklynati in mind at first too.

I feel like I’m rambling now so…that’s that.

July 6, 2008

great minds thinking alike!!!

(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

July 4, 2008

“1st date” vs “a word from our sponsors”

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.

July 1, 2008

Filthier Interlude aka “Place”!

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…”)

so we record to it (black milk being on it is why I said “I make em all duck like milk and rick dees”) and I think ilyas had another verse that we ended up changing…sent that version to black but didn’t hear back…sent the one on the album (it was a rougher version) and I think that’s around when he got real busy so we never got the chance to make it happen. then donwill runs into black thought at a neauvo riche (I spelled that all kinds of wrong) show and THAT black is like “yo what’s good? when we doing a joint?”…don wants to put him on place and have thought AND milk if milk gets a chance. as you should know by the final results they didn’t get a chance, but you never know what the future holds! I “owe” people guest spots myself so I know how it gets when you’re busy and have to prioritize. for the record though? tm and black thought over one of those “type of shit a nigga really wanna make” black milk interlude beats would be SICK. I can only imagine what ilyas would do on THAT track. sheesh.

I think “filthier interlude aka place” came out dope with just us though. thats my boy filthy gomez at the end of the song because when I told him there was a sequel to filthy interlude he said he couldn’t miss it. so I asked him to do what he does best! haha!

donwill said he has a beat he made for “filthiest interlude” so stay tuned. yep, don makes beats on the low low!

favorite line: “Mcfetridge, the vandals and a true tee, thats it!”-don, because for some reason that sums up the end of that old tour for me. it was a great time in life but it happened because of a bad time.

next up: “got 2 get done” aka von needs a redbull…aka “yeah your new verse is much better than the wack one”-ilyas