Nothing Out The Textbooks.

well nah, but this is pretty funny to me. maybe its in bad taste, but i think its funny. people have been way more disrespectful to bigs death.

and ultramag aint heard nothin! lol…what original version of threemcees? the one with ilyas cursing up a storm on the hook?

i guess this will be the threemcees update. so how did this start….ok so we did “cuddlebums” with 88 keys and he said “hit me up for the payback track” which made me smile pretty hard because now we get to do ANOTHER song! and we can put it on our EP?!!?! WOW!

we go up to his crib and his adorable daughter is tearing up magazines and laughing like kids do. we go in the beatmaking room and he starts going through a stack of records he picked out. 88 makes beats and throws them away and makes another one and throws it away and makes another one and throws it away and…now keep in mind we on some “fanboys playing it cool” ish so almost every beat sounds good to us, but he had a certain one in mind. we just asked for something upbeat to rappity rap over. long story short we got around to the threemcees beat about…3 hours later or something (haha) and left happy. i think by the time we got back to brooklyn 88 was like “i might do something else”

a week or two later he felt like he didnt give us a good enough track and wanted us to have a BANGER. I was happy with the beat we had, but he insisted and its just an honor already to get anything from him in my eyes. ilyas also had started writing the song already. actually, here’s the demo i think ultramag is talking about:

so back to the process…we had gotten back from a 1 off show we had in denver when i got SICK AS HELL. like, i thought i was dying for real. i never felt that way before and it all started with my ear stopping up, then getting infected. i was fucked up for about a week and literally wasnt sleeping, just laying there til the sun came up in pain…shit was crazy. i say that to say this, someone had to go get the session/tracked out beat from 88 (the tracked out beat is all the parts seperate. 4 minutes of just a snare drum, 4 minutes of just the kick drum, then the hats, then the bassline, etc…) and since im the album producer most of the time thats my job. i couldnt do it, so donwill went to get it. 88 was working on his album that day too so don was there allllllll day haha…and 88 is analogue so i heard everything had to be burned in real time which took even longer! haha…

all that, and i mix the joint (i hate mixing and i retire from it lol) and send it off to the label to be mastered and whatnot. weeks later 88 isnt satisfied with the jam and still thinks he can do better so we end up recording what became “take the w” on the tanya morgan is a rap group mixtape. thats a story too.

so i think i told the whole story….88, i thank god we crossed paths. its definitely an honor and a pleasure to know you, man. you are absolutely on my “whatever niggas need, im there” list. Timm See? thank you. i feel like i always write your name wrong (lol) but this wouldnt have happened without that phone call.

and oh yea, to anyone who has caught us at any of the “freshly dipped tour” shows and stopped to tell us you think we are dope, thank you for the love. im sorry to my NYC crew for dipping out…i had to come see my moms and my brother!

and im sorry to my FELLOW LESSONDARY GANG MEMBERS che grand and spec boogie for not being able to stay at their show for the same reason. peace to AOK too…homeboy sandman, what you told me tonight means a LOT coming from you. when niggas try to hate, i have a decent list of super emcees like yourself that think im dope, and if i can impress a super emcee then im doing something right.

ok this might start sounding like a love fest but i just want cats to know i appreciate them because its real easy to hate/be indifferent and jaded nowadays. we all need each other to keep going.

oh yeah, threemcees. produced by this guy:

up next, hip hop is dead 2 aka the “moonlighting” era “self untitled” outtake…