Step Up 2 The Streets

Decent movie, with the LRG hat and Casssie.....not my point at all. This post is a reiteration. You, him, her, them, or it cannot beat me in Street Fighter. Mr.Fauste wanted to say his friend can beat me in the newer version, Street Fighter IV. After today's meet, good luck! He never even saw him play, which pissed me off even more!

He wants to bet $20 AGAINST ME! Yeah, do that. To get paid for shit I can do in my sleep, you may as well just hand me your paychecks.....Speaking of getting paid, a while ago, Boogie had me read his strategy guide. They hold these big ass tournaments and apparently I missed the biggest ones: Destruction and Evolution I believe were the names of them.....Those cats were using E.Honda and Balrog, I could've busted SO much ass! Now......road trip to South Dakota?

I guess it's the greed in me, but I hate that "top-three-winners-share-the-prize-money-bullshit". If I do end up there, I hope A LOT of people come, I got bills, and clothes I want.

"Hadouken!"

P.E.A.C.E

P.S~I think the only way for me to shut up about this is for somebody to lay me out, in the flesh or online....when pigs fly.........

"Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice!"

The Sample Versus The Original

A lot of people question why some producers sample. I cannot speak for every sample based producer, but the reason I sample is because I cannot produce a good sounding original beat. Some cats who make original beats don't know the first thing about sampling, then you got your chosen few who can do both.

Some question the sample. "Why do you sample if you can't make money from it?" It's about the music to most. You can't get sued by the original artist you sampled unless you sell the newer material.



Don't sleep on sample based producers like there's no work involved. Chopping a sample, and getting it to loop right is an acquired skill. I can make it look easy because I know my program without looking at it, literally. You really have to give props to old school producers like Dr.Dre, Pete Rock and RZA. They layered at least two or three different samples in one beat and you wouldn't know the wiser.

My favorite original beatmakers are The Runners and Timbaland, who have been caught sampling/interpolating, and Mr.Bangladesh and The Neptunes. It takes skills to make original beats that are catchy and change up as well. My uncle, Seth Boogie, is a master of both sampling and making originals. They're dope either way. My other uncle, I won't state his name, you might steal it, is the master of original beats.  He'll shit on you and your whole crew, lyrically or beat-ally.

Sometimes, you can catch producers who boast originality stealing elements of older music, and that's okay. For instance: I was going through my Beatles music and stumbled upon "Wild Honey Pie", which sorta reminds me of Lupe Fiasco's "I Gotcha", produced by The Neptunes.




YouTube is wack by the way, you can't get any of their videos.....

My opinion, original beats are more for club/regular rappers, samples are more for lyrical or conscious emcees. Not to say rappers and emcees can't rap on other beats, but that's how it's been for a while now, you know?

I'm out...

P.E.A.C.E

Some Kinda Backwards Patois

In case that was a tad over the head, "patois", (pronounced: pat-twah), most closely means: nonstandard words. There, you learned something.

What brings up such? Well, I was looking for songs to sample and I stumbled upon an article about Queen's song "Another One Bites The Dust". The article stated, if you reverse the chorus, the singer can be heard saying, "It's fun to smoke Marijuana." Me being as curious as can be, I downloaded it, chopped the chorus out of it and reversed it..........You'd have to be a bored muthafucka to make up words a reversed lyrics is saying. Did it sound like it? Loosely.

Remember in the 60's/70's where parents complained the rock stars were putting satanic messages in their records? I wasn't alive to experience it, I bet it was crazy. The technique of putting messages in the music if played reversed is called "Backmasking". Since that craze, a lot of musicians jokingly and intentionally put hidden messages in their songs. One artist I know a lot of folks have heard of, Lil Wayne is too a member of the Backmasking Club. The song is "Hustler Muzik". The lyrics are part of the third verse, "I ain't never killed nobody I promise that. And I promise if he try me, he gon' have to rewind this track. And make me go back." The hidden message is supposed to be "She starved us, why did you starve me?" Even deeper research leads people to believe Wayne murdered a white girl....YIKES!

There also appears to be one for another Weezy song, "I Feel Like Dying". I won't put it here, for I don't really like the song. They claim the song reversed is another song in itself. Guess I'll never really know....ever....

!xuaeH, gaB .T.M

E.C.A.E.P.

"Red Monkeys Pissed Off Cuz The Bathing Apes Keep Startin' $4!+"

I'm not the biggest BAPE fan, nor am I the biggest Red Monkey fan, but you gotta admit, they both release some interesting items.

(Red Monkey Jeans...E.Honda?)

(The only pair of BAPES I'd spend MY money on)

I'd show more, but BAPE's website doesn't let you take their pictures from them, smart, I guess...The other Red Monkey Jeans I saw were either too cheesy, or looked faked. People spend $500 on the jeans, and $300 on the sneaks? Japan Yen must be some shit!

Twas a wasted post, huh? NO. When it doubt, get lifted!

(LRG--The Karmaloop Exclusive Soft Pack Tee)

Haha, the shirt looks like a pack of Newports.

(The Official Cigarette of the African American Community)

I did my research to understand why this particular cigarette is accepted by Black folks....the company originated in North Carolina. About 49% of the sales made by Newport are credited to African Americans. I guess I understand the word "square" now....no I don't.....Wikipedia calls them "Ghetto Breath-Mints". Makes me wanna laugh out loud, but can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

P.E.A.C.E

"To Walk In Fields Of Gold"

Oh, the treatment you get when you're a "celebrity". Your own television program revolving around your meaninglessness, everyday is Picture Day, and EVERYTHING you say is golden. Speaking of gold, jewelry isn't the only thing you can put it on. Some celebrities like to game with style.

This is Russel Simmons' Playstation Portable with a golden plate cover. The only other celeb I've known to have one of these, and was the first one with it, Sudanese model, Alex Wek.

More recently, game developers, THQ, sent the Queen of England a custom gold Nintendo Wii................why?

P.E.A.C.E

"Blow Holes In You Weak N!99@'$ Theories"

I read something from Diggs, or was it Cracked? Anyhow, they were discussing the top 5 reasons Terminator makes no sense. I can come up with only one, there's no such thing as time travel, for there is really no such thing as time. It's a smooth concept to flow with, I give 'em that. Besides that, the series doesn't even follow its own rules. Follow me:

(This is written assuming you've seen these movies.) The fictional enterprise, Sky-Net, has developed a time machine and these robot soldiers, the Terminators. Gone crazy, or something, a man, John Connor, rises to stop the robots. Back to Sky-Net, they develop a time machine and send back T-800 to kill the mother of John. I think the rebel dude's name was Reese, he sends himself back as well. Rule #1 regarding the time machine, it cannot transport anything else except living organisms. Reese could go back, but with the T-800 in human skin, wouldn't he look like this?

As for The Terminator part 2 and 3, how would they come back through the time machine? T-1000 and T-X were made of "liquid metal".

When it comes to the factor of Time, I guess what they're getting at it is, you cannot change your outcome or something, kinda like The Butterfly Effect. If Reese traveled back in time and became the father of John Connor, how does that figure? If Sky-Net was built from the chip found in T-800's head, doesn't that mean somebody had to have built the robot in the 80's, then built again in the future?

"The Revolution will not be televised........The Revolution is here."--Common Sense

P.E.A.C.E

The Man Without Fear

I've been in search of a decent Twilight Zone episode. I've seen ONE thus far that made me go,"that was damned good." Other than that, the other three or four episodes I've seen are interesting, but not well rounded, you know? While watching it this morning with the Boogiemayne, he brings up the upcoming cinema, Drag Me To Hell. "Do you wanna go see it?" "Shit, I'll go if somebody takes me." "You scared?" "That looks like a thoroughly scary movie." There has only been one movie in my history of horror films that scared the pants off of me.

What struck fear into the man without it?

(Thirteen Ghosts)

I could watch this front to back in the dark alone no problem today. Back then, on a 60 some inch screen, surround sound, and young mind intact, I WOULDN'T go to sleep. There's a video game that had me in timid mode too.

Well, sir...The ONLY time I could play this game was at night. I had school and constant basketball games in the 8th. I'd come home, knock out homework if I saw fit and played this. To people who enjoy this franchise, I probably come off like a punk, huh? Okay. If you're used to zombies not getting back up on Playstation, tell me you didn't freak out about the Crimson Zombie!

I feel this generation's defintion of horror is gratuitous blood and gore. People don't have to bleed for a film to be qualified as a horror.......I think this film is the "Renaissance" of the horror genre.

P.E.A.C.E

"Swagger International"

Back again. Boogie and I did two tracks last night: "The Big Fat Kill", the sing-songy track from the upcoming Cin City project, and "Dead On Arrival", a Music On A CD song. YES! In the words of Relly Boi, "Straight CRACK!"

Here I am with some more clothes and sneaks for you to peep.

(I call it "The Ryu")

("The Adolf", laugh out loud if you wanna)

("Freedom Fit")

("King Me")

("Yellow Fever"...the Hendrix Dunks ought to be redder)

I really don't have anything else for you.

P.E.A.C.E

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

In the words of Kanye West, "When you go to sleep, what do you think 'bout?"

I think about a lot of things. How can I help advance this effort? Where will I wind up in ten years?
The usuals. Today, or yesterday rather, was a mind opener. Grimm brought up a good point, I watched You Don't Mess With The Zohan, and I read about Lupe Fiasco's We Are Lasers concept.

Grimm's observation: "I look at people and see the pain in their eyes. Why have they just given up?" Good question, right? I see a lot of older people, the generations before us. Some have fulfilled their dreams, others have settled for reg'. Why is that? Why do they teach us "follow your dreams", but turn around and say we can't do it?

You Don't Mess With The Zohan has taught me, if anything, follow your heart, do what feels right to you, and you can't help but shine. They laughed in his face when all he wanted to do was do hair. Silly to you, everything to the dreamer. Why doesn't anybody respect anybody's dreams? Why? Well, some people who feel they have no calling in life, take it upon themselves to make everyone else around them miserable. Some of these people feel they have the best interest in mind. I respect that. Sometimes...you gotta let people do their own thing. Humans are instinctless, we learn from experience, let's do that.

WE ARE LASERS....Lupe Fiasco's next album, slated for the tail end of this year. The concept: We are not Losers, we are Lasers. Lasers are the opposite of Losers, apparently. I don't know too much about it.

I guess the moral of the story, be you. Don't let anybody make you feel bad about being you. Stay conscious. Work towards what you dream to do, whether it be acting, modeling, music, fashion design, plumbing, skating, cooking, fucking, killing, robbing, driving, swimming, WHATEVER! Do your thing, because nobody can do it like or for you....

P.E.A.C.E

Go Ham On 'Em!

I check my Facebook. Necole Bitchie updates with: Charles Hamilton gets punched. So, I go to her site. I see this:


You make a couple sex lines and call somebody a square and you get socked like feet!

This is why battle rap should be against the law or something...If you can't have a quick cipher without somebody getting shot, stabbed, punched or beefed with, what's the purpose?

Nevertheless, that shit was funny as hell!

P.E.A.C.E

We Are Lasers

NBA Name Change Up

With everybody going nuts over the finals, and me not caring, I decided to participate somehow someway. I took the liberty of renaming the teams. Czech it.

(Lakers-->Bakers)

(Clippers-->Trimmers)

(Kings-->Ayatollahs)

(Warriors-->Boy Scouts)

(Sonics-->Tails)

(Blazers-->Blazers)

(Spurs-->Sperms)

(Nuggets-->Tenders)

(Rockets-->Saucers)

(Mavericks-->Alapacas)

(Jazz-->Techno)

(Timberwolves-->Shih Tsus)

(Hornets-->Gnats)

(Suns-->Moons)

(Grizzlies-->Adams)

(Knicks-->Nicks)

(Celtics-->Geats)

(Hawks-->Sparrows)

(Bobcats-->Pumas)

(Pacers-->Pacemakers)

(Pistons-->Carburetors)

(Bucks-->Cents)

(Heat-->Cool)

(Magic-->Logic)

(Bulls-->Toreros)

(Wizards-->Grand Wizards)

(76ers-->69ers)

(Cavaliers-->Samurai)

(Raptors-->Pterodactyls)

(Nets-->Internets)

I'm aware of there not being one of these teams anymore, I forget which one, but Thunder is not real.....so.....

P.E.A.C.E