Friday, October 30, 2009

UNI-Verse-ALL and My Life EP

I've worked with a pretty long list of artist so far. Every once in a while I run into someone who's talent is so dope to me that i don't want to simply produce a couple of songs for them; I want to combine sounds and styles so we can both get out "Gangstarr" or "Pete Rock and CL" on..feel me? About 5 years ago I met and started working with 2 emcees. Lethal, one of the dopest female rappers I've ever met, and Cajwell is so versatile with his flow that it should be illegal. One thing that you have to understand about South Carolina...especially circa 2005, there were very few places to do your thing.

"If you lived in a confederate state with no place to showcase your talent you'd be ready to break"
-Dan Johns - "Give Them What They Want"

It takes an extreme amount of drive and focus to stay on your job with the music out here. I admit, things have really gotten better as far as music activity and national attention, but the fact still remains that the landscape still doesn't match the dreams that the music community has for success. Its inspiring to be in a major city that has a music history that the entire world knows about, or to be able to drive right by a famous studio or record label headquarters. Knowing that you can make music and not drive far to put it into the hands of a famous producer, promoter, etc allows a lot of people to create their music with a certain ease of mind. With that not being the case here in South Carolina, my friends and I can go down the list of legendary rappers (people who aren't from SC laugh at that term) but its the truth...we have legendary talent here that could easily take out your favorite rapper, singer, whatever. I'm not saying that Lethal and Cajwell are legendary, but they can be. With the activity and attention happening right now it is time for them to really pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make there dreams come true. I love listening to these songs because its much more than just music. These songs are a time stamp of what was going on in our lives 5 years ago. It seems like it was just yesterday and I'm sure I'll say the same about it 10 years from now. I remember exactly what I was doing when I made each and every one of these beats and when they got recorded. I've grown so much as a producer since then, and I realize that none of the parties involved will EVER sound like this again..its impossible to go back. Please enjoy these 2 projects. Its not to late...maybe in the future they'll be able to be released professionally. In the meantime, enjoy, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Post feedback about the music

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

where can i download the tracks in the player in the upper right hand corner of the page? there pretty chill, im a big fan of yours, raised in the projects remix is dope