Dare To Dream & All That Stuff

It happens all the time, half hearted belief and the like.

Pursue your dreams, but have a back up plan.

What for? If your passion is your passion, shouldn't that guide you to the heights you wanna reach?

The upcoming debut of MTV's Taking The Stage further inspires me to accomplish my goal.

When M.T. Bag had a brief band meeting, Skeem mentioned how his own father didn't believe in his rap career. We get it all the time, but parents have reason to worry, they've seen all that we're gonna see.

The same treatment went down in my household at times. When I was growing up with Stuntman, it seemed as if cashing in on the talented kids, Joe Jackson style, was the way to go. My aunt always said I was too smart to be a rapper, I'm no rapper, I'm a musician now. My mom doesn't quite agree with my pursuit options, but she supports me for doing what I wanna do.

I'm not too sure what it's like at the Fauste or Boogie household, but there are parties they know that give us full support.

I know some young'n's that do thangs that aren't quite straight shot careers, so what do I tell them?

Originally, in February when I was on my 'do-what-the-fuck-I-wanna-do-mind-state', I would've told you "Quit school(do whatever it is you do)". Not the best advice, but I learned a lot over the time I've been out of school. For instance, well, I knew this already,but: NOTHING IS GUARANTEED.

That goes for tomorrow, your state of your current situation, et cetera. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. I think this is a great idiom to live by. See, not everyone strives to entertain and such. I always thought it was odd that some people actually wanted to do things like become Botanists, Marine Biologists, and all the other shits. That's what makes everyone different, and if that's their passion, so be it.

Also, you can't please everyone. Example: The Beatles are arguably the best band of all time, there are some cats who could care less for them.

The Most Thizzle Boys And Girls aim to please all, and with the ideas I got for Music On A CD, I think we may do that. I'm still working on this 1980s style beat where I plan on having the band sing, or sing-rap, on the track. The drums sound really 80s, but I need 80s synth sounds to complete it. There's gonna be a Spoken Word track, the fast rap track, a slow jam, shit, maybe I'll throw a Country jam on that bitch....ooh, ooh, and an Electonica jam! This CD is gonna be so much fun.

It's not gonna be a bunch of random songs on a CD, it's gonna be a classic, see me? So does that 12/20/2012 release date still stand, who knows, if that's how long it takes.

Remember, if you act, sing, rap, paint, or aspire to be a caterpillar, don't be ashamed, follow your dreams.

Thizzle, thizzle!

P.E.A.C.E

In The Morning W/ Matthew Neruda

I'm a bright cat and I shine when I want to, but there are some things in this lifetime I will never throughly grasp the concept of: most Mathematics, and a shit ton of Women.

I just thought this shit was funny, back to it.

I like how half these cats out here claim they know women and usually put them in the same category. I learned, "To each is own". No two females are alike., like snowflakes, or fingerprints.

I do a lot of Facebooking, I watch a lot of TV, and I browse through Twitter nowadays. What do I commonly see in the midst of it all? Grown ass men talking shits about how hard it is to crack a female mind. I don't do it often or to the extreme, but I learned how feasible it is. Some do it with ease, others think it's harder than finding the G-Spot, which I hear is easy pickin's........

Neruda likes how the first three paragraphs began with 'I" or "I'm"........So I found this thang from Casanova's autobiography about his method on seducing women. It's a 10 Fold that'll make any chick drop the drawers, pardon my French. He wrote how he slept with a boatload of chicken heads, from noblewomen, to actresses, a nympho, and five sisters AND their mom. Hot damn! So what are these stizzeps?

1. To Make A Woman Feel Special, Do Something Special. (What You Should Do: Control the night. Women appreciate any kind of efforts made to flatter them, well, not any.)

2.Privacy Is Sexy. (WYSD: This is where a lot of n!99@$ shine. You can give no greater gift to a woman than your full attention.)

3.Let Her Admire You Admiring Her. (WYSD: Pay compliments outside of the obvious. They're used to that. Compliment a quality about her that exists within, and show the impact of her words on your face.)

4.Ask Her What She Thinks. (WYSD: Ask open ended questions, I learned that from Flash/Fauste. Let her know you're interested in the total package, not just what you both know you're after.)

5.Encourage Decadence. (WYSD: This is probably for the ballers. If you pay luxury tax, you got no problems. If you're broker than The Joker playing Poker, prepare a meal you cooked yourself or take her somewhere 'different'. Pretend you like shit at the art museum, ha!)

6.Appeal To All Her Senses. (WYSD: Shave, take a bath, get a haircut, brush your teeth, iron your clothes, be funny, know where to touch her, et cetera. What more can I say? Give her flowers? Ooh and that bullshit candy that comes in a nifty heart shaped box!)

7.Savor The Anticipation. (WYSD: Skeem told me about this one. Make the chick wait when she's got that feeling! Let your time together flow at its own pace, don't slow it down, don't rush it. You got nowhere else to be at that point and time, but together. )

8.Be Playful. (WYSD: Yeah, they want a man, but not some cat who's serious as fuck 24/7. To most, this is an easy task. For you who don't know how to loosen up, crack a joke, do shit that requires two people, what like Solitaire?)

9.Be Spontaneous. (WYSD: Make it so your time with her never has a dull moment. Make her always remember why she chose to be with you. Go for a walk, this is very rare in America.)

10.Surprise Her With A Gift. (WYSD: I saw this in Finding Forrester. Sean Connery said, "The key to a woman's heart....an unexpected gift at an unexpected time." Gee whiz! I know unexpected gifts at unexpected times make me happy.....just don't over do it, bub. Material things are just things, remember that. Make it personal as opposed to trendy. Let her know you think about HER. Also, the hot point on this on straight from Cassy, he said, time your gifts delivery. Give it to her at that point in the evening where there is no other way for her to show her gratitude.)

If this came obvious to you n!99@$, then more power to ye, other than that..........Time for a smoke and pancake.......

P.E.A.C.E



Two words, n!99@, Tube-Steak!

Pitch

Ok, ok. I got this movie idea, it's gonna be really good, so don't steal it, ok?

Czech this out.....It's gonna be called

"Longitude & Attitude"

It's about this drifter fellow who travels across the country and goes from job to job. He never met his parents, they died before he was born.(yeah, before he was born) Everywhere he goes he meets people who claim they knew him from a long time ago. Since he doesn't have a consistent place to sleep, he usually sleeps in motels or under highways. He has these dreams about being somebody else in another time and place. He meets a woman in Utah who tells him she is his mother. Taken aback, our hero has a series of flashbacks that unfold the story. He is indeed his own father. He met his mother in Vietnam in 1968. They came back to the States and had our hero. They both died. They also had another son, who is our hero, but the opposite, he's black, and likes Classical music. There's like 1,000 random explosions, 40 extraneous, vivid sex scenes, and 15 out of this world, car/gun sequences. In the end, we find out, our hero doesn't even exist. The "Longitude & Attitude" part is like 4 and a half hours, then the movie ends with a pile of clothes on a couch wathcing Al Pacino in Scarface, all the way through. So the complete running time is like 7-8hours.......

Good pitch, right? The budget is only gonna be $450,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, so..............................................................................................................................I'm taking donations. 

 

 P.E.A.C.E

20/20

We could be talking about anything right about now.....by 20/20, do I mean Juvenile Hall? Do I mean the one on one talk show? Do I mean the junior version of Jay-Z's 40/40 club? No, close, but no cigar. I'm talking eye sight, yo. I've been thinking, do these people look anything alike to you at times?

Christopher Reid from Kid 'N' Play and Rom Hanks. I'm convinced they're the same person.

(Formatting is tedious) Pornstar, Lavish Styles and singer, Rihanna, yes? Maybe, no?

Chew on that awhile!

P.E.A.C.E

"Biggie Smalls Is The Illest"

Christopher Wallace a.k.a The Notorious B.I.G was born May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York. He first appeared on Heavy D and The Boyz's "A Buncha Niggas"

1994 saw the release of his first album, which made it onto The Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time list. The album's theme was, well, being ready to die. Smalls proved he was a worthy emcee on the masterpiece which featured, Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Method Man, and Lil Kim. The stand out songs that gave Biggie fame goes as follows: One More Chance, Big Poppa, Juicy, and The Warning. My favorite track is "The What" with Method Man, it allowed Smalls to flex his lyricism. "Suicidal Thoughts" was the best track on the album, for no other rapper dared to talk in such a manner....

The original title was "Life After Death....'Til Death Do Us Part". Released in 1997 shortly after Biggie's death. This two disc feature probably contains Biggie's most quoted and Hip-Hop recognized songs. Hynotize, Fuck You Tonight, What's Beef?, You're Nobody('Til Somebody Kills You), Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious Thugs and Ten Crack Commandments. the album featured a wide variety of producers from, Primo, RZA, to Clark Kent. The album features, Jay-Z, Ma$e, Puff Daddy, The LOX, R.Kelly, 112, Lil Kim, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

 

This was the original Biggie Duets album, for, no new songs were recorded, just old verses and unreleased songs. The only uber noteworthy tracks, "Rap Phenomenon" and "Dead Wrong"...Not to say the other songs were doo. The featured artists were, Mobb Deep, Eminem, Method Man, Redman, Nas, Too $hort, Hot Boyz, Beanie Sigel, Lil Kim, Lil Cease, Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube and K-Ci & Jojo. Production from the usual Bad Boys producers, and Primo and Clark Kent again. Really the most unknown Biggie album in my opinion.

On the grounds of me not counting compilations, soundtracks and best of's as rap albums, we won't talk about the Biggie Duets or the Notorious Soundtrack.

Biggie had small beef with some rap characters, mainly, 2Pac and Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-Tang didn't like Biggie because they felt he bit his Ready To Die album cover from Nas' Illmatic cover. (Refer to Raekwon The Chef's "Shark Niggas" on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx)

Tupac was taken in 1996 and Smalls followed in '97. Recognized as Brooklyn's Finest, Mr.Wallace will be missed. Will we ever see an act like or better than Biggie Smalls? Who knows?

R.I.P

P.E.A.C.E

A Weekend On Epic Proportions

The goal of this weekend was to participate in the Rap Olympics...well, that never happened. Nonetheless, the weekend was on 'a whole 'nother level'. I believe this weekend was what the band needed to get our head in the game.

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The week's end started unlike any other. I was dropped off at Ace's house on Friday, mind full of questions regarding what I was gonna be getting into later..........I knocked a few times on the front door. No response. I took it to the side of the abode and knocked on the basement window. Angering the Double Dragons down stairs, I was let in by Ace. We chilled for a spell. This angered Ace who proceeded to yell at Skeem and I as he set to depart from the crib. He assigned us to record at least three verses. So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

He dipped, and Skeem and I went to work. I layed out "Young Entrepreneurs" and "If You Love Me" while Skeem wrote in the background. Skeem did his thing on "If You Love Me" and we chilled more. 

I spent a few whooping ass in Dead Or Alive 4. Hungry. We ordered Papa John's and muthafuckas went 'ham', for real. Fauste arrived. Let's get it. He brought popcorn chicken, Toaster Strudels and Hot Pockets, that's what's up. We recorded and played NBA Live and that's how that day went.........But, WAIT! Skeem and Relly Boi had been feuding that day over who the better rapper was. It got so bad, we could only settle it with a battle. It was recorded at first, and that first cipher, Relly took it home, but we went Smack DVD on 'em and did a video. Skeem shat! Relly deleted it......."My bars are infinite, can you spell it?......no, stop, forget it!"

Saturday was marvelous. Fauste and Ace were working on "Nikes And Pumas" when I awoke. Fauste did his Slick Rick on the track, now we await for M.O. to come and drop some Spooks and Spoons tracks. Me and Fauste filmed our spin on MTV Cribs, it was comical. We were skateboarding, tryna kickflip and ollie and what not, almost busting our asses every chance we got. We were supposed to get a 'shipment' and my fiance was to drive us to receive it......plans change up, we need to take action before it was too late. The "Iceman" was to get off at 5PM. Man, it was 4 o' clock. We needed to move. "Skeem, hold the fort down!" We walked it out. Murdock in the pink polo and CM Swags, Fauste in the Black Label and Dunks, and Ace in community college attire.

Pedding, pushing, moving, ambling, all of that. We walked and walked. I guess we were a really conspicuous bunch because Fauste got like three hollers to my one, (sad face). The clock hit the half hour mark, we were running out of time......We ain't gonna make it. M.O. called us to tell us he was on his way, we hit a highway overpass.....Somehow,someway, we ended up walking on the side of a highway. I seen and experienced some thangs! The ground kept giving away, but it wasn't muddy. We approached a fence leading to a drainage ditch, I think that's what it was, I saw a decomposing something.....Have you ever walked straight on a slope, it's not real. Fauste got mud on his Dunks, wow, and he spotted a bent part on the fence, we hopped out the sewer, we're making good time!

Charting through a quaint little neighborhood, we headed towards Kroger..."Together we made it!" We walked in right, M.T. Bag swag was on a milli squared, so much so......Grimm, in a rush to find Iceman, walked between a beer display and a woman with a cart without saying excuse me.....it was a tight space, and that woman was pissed!

We found Iceman, but to our surprise, there were no more green shirts. Are we S.O.L? Hell no! Ace's uncle came through to help us with transportation, and Grimm and I stuck around to receive a newer shipment. Look for a Mitsubishi! We were chilling in the front sitting on those electric wheel chairs. A cop rolled by and said, "That's not for your amusement." I pointed to the 'Out Of Order' sign on the front of the cart and replied, "I can't take it anywhere". He drove off, that's what I thought. The new guy arrived and we ended up at a Speedway down the street. I sat on the ice machine outside. Grimm grew thirsty, I hopped down as an employee walked out. She goes, "What are you doing?" I go, "Chillin'." She's like,"Monkey". I'm tryna squeeze out, "Is that supposed to be a racial slur?" As Grimm tried to shush me. Ace and his mom came to scoop us, and we picked up M.O.

Right down to business. He did "I'm Gone" and "Nikes And Pumas", go to listen to those, by the way! I tapped Grimm's ass in Live since they thought I couldn't do it. We got quite up there too. The evening dwindled down into night and chicken was on the menu. N!99@$ apparently caught the itis. Ace's uncle came through and I learned how to play Tetris. This was an odd ball night. Remember Macerina? Well, she came down to play with Ace's........Yeah. Grimm wanted some too and got it the same. Don't touch a hot oven....We stayed up ALL night. Skeem was asleep, so it was me, Ace, Grimm, Macerina and Ace's sister walking to the gas station at four in the morning. Bitch was closed. On the way back, it was two on two in the street. The girls love to attack nuts. I saw Grimm doubled over, so I jump in to a nutcracking surprise. SMASHING! Time to pass out!

Grimm left. I slept the latter part of the day and I don't remember a lot of Sunday, except for the Ace-Skeem- Macerina-Love-Triangle. Man, that was some dumbfounding shit, right there. Ace departed and it was a so so weekend. I left from the crib today, where Skeem, Relly and I had a Tetris battle. I left with at least one victory over each player, so I'm happy.

What's in store? I'd love to tell you beats, but this computer is deciding to be slow! M.T. Bag is back on task, and the dream isn't deferred.

P.E.A.C.E

The Anatomy Of A Classic

 

Open up your textbooks to Chapter 420. Today we are going to discuss what makes a Hip-Hop album a classic album. The makings of a classic varies from one person to the next, but the main themes that seem to stick out are, Beats, Lyrics, Emotion, Atmosphere and Timelessness....Remember BLEAT, like a lamb!

BEATS: Everyone knows in order to fully enjoy a rap artist, their beats have to be good and fit the character of the artist. The key to a classic album is, if another person can rap on one of the beats from that album, odds are, it isn't classic. For example: Pete Rock & CL Smooth's biggest hit, "T.R.O.Y(They Reminisce Over You), it is considered a perfect song, hence, no one ever tried to rap on the beat or remake the song in any fashion....I tried and failed miserably.

LYRICS: Lyricism is not key to a classic album, but it DOES help. Albums that were given XXL or 5 Mics usually contain potent, thought provoking lyrics. Rhythmic rhyme schemes and the use of words is what usually tickles the ear drum of most listeners. For example: Nas' Illmatic album contains some of the most advanced lyrics known to his time period. The way he uses his words to create images and stories, it's a notbale classic.

EMOTION: Everybody loves the backstory to an artist. As the saying goes, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." For example: MF DOOM is probably one of the best rappers alive, but he doesn't catch enough attention because of how he says his lyrics. DOOM has some of the wickedest rhymes, but he's getting slept on pretty badly. Not enough emotion can be a problem,  as well as too much. Example: Canibus, he gets really angry on his songs, causing listeners to say he's groaning on songs. The best example of delivery has to go to Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne, for right now. The way they emphasis or twist up the English language is quite the spectacle. For example: 50Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin', he put his all into that album clearly. With songs like "Many Men", emoion is pretty essential in making a classic.

ATMOSPHERE: This is the vibe people get from the album. Sometimes albums are created around one tone, i.e: 808s & Heartbreak. Some albums jump around here and there, The Blueprint. There is no specific way to create an atmosphere, just keep in mind, people will only listen if they like the vibe. If your first song is about suicide, you may get a stop button. It all boils down to taste on this one. Create an atmosphere that people would like to submerge themselves in. For example: Kanye West's College Dropout, EVERYBODY can relate to school....ok, not EVERYBODY, but you get it.

TIMELESSNESS: Probably the most important aspect of the 'five-fecta'. If your album can't survive a month without people forgetting about it, why'd you make it? The other four tie into this one pretty nicely. Can an album's beats, lyrics, emotion, and atmosphere survive the times. This is a little hard to come by in the Hip-Hop world. Since rappers usually rap about what's around them as opposed to what's inside, the highest selling album today, may not last til next year. For example: Any Lil Bow Wow album, since he's not that lyrical, his style relies on the luxurious that were cool during his time, who knows, people in the future may think Nike G-Shocks are lame....Think A Tribe Called Quest, though old school in sound, very little of their subject matter has become dated since they rap about what they know and often tell stories.

You got the basics down. It's time to apply it. Let me pick a classic album....

 

1.Can't Knock The Hustle

2.Politics As Usual

3.Brooklyn's Finest

4.Dead Presidents

5.Feelin' It

6.D'Evils

7.22 Two's

8.Can I Live?

9.Ain't No

10.Friend Or Foe

11.Coming Of Age

12.Cashmere Thoughts

13.Bring It On

14.Regrets

Ok, so if you pick it apart by the BLEAT principles it's like this:

BEATS:He's got production from Primo, Clark Kent and some other talented cats. The beats are purely sampled, but they are so wonderfully enlivened and used very well.Example: All of 'em.

LYRICS:Hov was in top form, with appearances by Biggie Smalls, Mary J. Blige and Memphis Bleek(...), he couldn't help but be nasty. The content is drugs, violence, guns, and his own life, and they are very ill lyrics. His punchlines and wordplay could be matched by very few. Example: Brooklyn's Finest and Politics As Usual.

EMOTION:The thing some listeners have a problem with Jay-Zwise is the way he speaks his lyrics. Some argue that he just talks over beats. It's very nice talking. For example: Friend Or Foe, it is made to sound like he's talking to someone, this impresses some who pay attention, it doesn't amuse most who just hear it.

ATMOSPHERE:The tone is a mix of the hard streets of New York and "Good Fellas" living. For example: Cashmere Thoughts, luxury at its finest.

TIMELESSNESS:Does this album survive 1996? Hell yeah, not in its entirety, but that's ok. You know Hov talked Cris' this and Rover's that. Now its Ace of Spades and Maybachs.....A few references to the VCR and Magnavox makes him sound like he shops at Goodwill nowadays, but it was a big deal then.

So, what have we learned today children?

"The rest you fill it in"

P.E.A.C.E