Track 5 – Dont U Holla F/ Jermiside

DONT U HOLLA, ORIGNAL DEMO

couldnt find a video of this song. yall quit hating on this song. lol…

as a treat for this being so late i decided to include the original demo. (not to mention the demo is the story) (side note: when this link expires thats it! there will be no re-up, gang.)

this was recorded during the 2006 scribble jam. you probably know scribble jam from rhymefest or eminem, but if not, scribble jam is a hip hop event that takes place in cincinnati ohio once a year and its pretty much hip hop heaven and hell at the same time. (sidebar: we also shot the “we bad” video this same week) the thing about scribble jam is you cant leave once youre inside and its an all day event. its about the size of a baseball field and theres an inside about the size of a lunchroom but youre urged to be outside more. with that said, its hot as hell, and theres people performing all 5 elements of hip hop (i include beatboxing) simultaneously. all day. for 3 days. or is it two? i think its 3 days…

theres a lot of dope performances, mc battles, dj battles, graf pieces being put up, breaking cyphers, interviews, cds being sold, booths…shoot, oddisee was at the halftooth booth with his asr making beats on the spot. at the time he’d played what went on to become the classic “once again” joint for me. i also met a lot of colleagues for the first time: murs, pumpkinhead, fresh daily, the jugganots, kaze, rob viktum, yadda yadda…but the point is, after 2 or three days…

…at one point there was a dj battle going on, and people were in a freestyle cypher rapping over the dj battle in one corner, and another breaking cypher was dancing to the mc battle, and i was high on spray paint. id had enough. we’d all begun hallucinating and i had on like 10 pairs of scion dogtags. we retreat to white castle at like 3 something in the morning and i believe donwill tried to order french fries. a guy that sounded like sam jackson grabbed the mic from the girl and said very sternly :

“SIR, YOU ARE FULLY AWARE WE DO NOT SERVE FRENCH FRIES AT 3AM.”

*looks at camera*

lmao…”IM SICK OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE! THIS IS SOME REPUGNANT SHIT! NIGGA YOU WANT FRIES AT 3AM? MOTHERFUCKA YOU USED TO BE BEAUTIFUL!”

*snaps out of it*

anyway, the next day we’re sitting in ilyas’ basement, its myself, brick beats, our friend and a&r dom, jermiside, ilyas and don. i think we were watching fight club or something, i dont remember. i was using dons laptop at the time and he had the shaft in africa soundtrack in his itunes. a half hour later i say “hey yall…i made a beat, yall want to do a song just to do it? and dont you holla is born. featuring all my scion chains and a bunch of inside jokes at the end.

for the re-recording i added che grand in the intro to reinact something that happens way too much on the road. also theres some very very subtle references to ATCQ’s “rap promoter” in this song. 20 cool points if you caught them already.

p.s. aeon, you still too close to the mic! haha….just joking…