Awaken By Pain At 3:11 am

Went to sleep at 12am last night/this morning...whatever. Waiting for these pm pills to knock me back to sleep and for this DMSO medicine to kick it that I got in the mail earlier this week.(thanx, mom. love you)

While I'm up I'm thinking of other ways to spread this music out far as the internet route. Not with the beat-tapes but for my vocal-rap-project that I've been taking my time on. Using the bandcamp.com to host it is one of the things I will do. The whole "datpiff.com" mixtape website is also a route but I doubt it will be helpful...but I will still do it. I need to find more hip-hop sites or blogs that are willing to post music from artists who are not signed...and that are actually good of course. I wouldn't try to spread this project out if it wasn't my best effort. For the fact I'm not doing for attention to get a deal...for more of a fact I would be extremely pissed if I got looked at for rapping instead of my production craft. Sign me a production deal anytime...I am not a rapper. My lyrical art is my hobby and I'm willing to share to anyone who likes my taste in music.

Since the beginning of this year I've been honing my rapping craft. Admittedly I don't feel that I'm as good in rapping as I am in making beats. On the positive note of things outside opinions say that I am. One thing I am sure of is that the quality is superb. My mixing ability has surpass the "Accept My Sound" results...specially with the new studio setup I've created recently. Padded booth and all. M-Audio mic of course (the makers of Pro Tools). My lyrics are pass rookie level...not surprising being that I've been writing since I was the age of 11...just was too shy to come out with it openly. One of my people's people said I was a lyrical-weaver after hearing my "Black&Mild Muzik" track...meaning I knit many rhyme patterns in my flow. That's just my way of trying not to be boring. I hate boring and simple flow patterns...another reason why I abandoned radio hip-hop. I shouldn't be able to predict a rapper's bars before the end of the bar itself. Smh...a lot of those so called "artists" are real lazy with the creativity. Imagine if Van Gogh was lazy with paintings....no detail...no color...better yet no emotion, no vision.

No emotion and no vision is part of the problem with mainstream music these days. Well...I refuse to add on to that problem.

Granted that the project I'm working on won't be clean far as content or curse words...but it'll be real. No stunting about money, diamonds, sex and women. More about problems I've had, past events that I've never shared with anyone, current events, hidden thoughts, etc. Warning, it is sort of an hippie project....meaning damn near every song you can smoke a blunt to...but the content is not about "smoking weed"...but I do touch upon that subject. Overall it's an positive project...well, there is a few tracks where I just vent off angry....at least it's creative/poetry like angry though.

Oh...I'm also making an "radio friendly" version of the project...where I creativity hide the curse words or edited them out without killing the mood of each song. But the profanity isn't as heavy as I make it seem. I don't think I've said the word "fuck" even once yet. The "nigga" word is purposely avoided. I'm pass that stage. So far just a few "shit's" and "damn's" lol.

Bout to try this sleep thing again. Politic w/ y'all soon.
Hit me back.

-Gambitt-

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It Is What It Is...

On and off cloudy day...fits my description of health.
Little bit of everything hurts. Arms, right shoulder, thigh muscles, my finger joints, both knees, mild headache. Feel like an old car battery...not quite dead, still have a spark but could use some serious recharging instead of a jump-start from time to time.

After the week of some of the worst arm pain I've had in a awhile...whatever I'm going thru now doesn't bother me as much except that it's interfering with the recording of my vocal project. Or-though I've made some of my more "sensitive" beats between last night and night before.

A few weeks ago...alittle bit before I got my internet back, I posted my "SoultapeLvL4" beat-tape and sent it to 8 blogs and websites that normally post my music. None have posted the new beat-tape. That kind of thru me for a downer. I know I've been gone for awhile but.....
ahh.....who cares.

Kind of made me feel like maybe I fell off production wise. I will admit, I've haven't been releasing what I consider my better results of production. I've been either putting them to the side for my project or giving them to my artists(P.A., Justin Allen, Al.N York, etc), but doesn't mean the beats on that last beat-tape aren't considered by me as good work. Most of them are just old, I like to keep fresh material on deck for projects in progress. Once a beat is two months old without being put to use, it falls into a certain folder of mine and I come back to them later.

Yesterday was the 14 year anniversary of the death of 2Pac Shakur. So naturally I was blasting my favorite 'Pac music in the headphones or in my mother's Scion xB....that has six 10 inch sub-woofers. I uploaded a few new tracks into the music player on to the right of the blog...including the 2Pac sampled beat "Me Vs. The World"...that's also on the "SoultapeLvL4" beat-tape.

Going to try and lay down. Maybe I'll wake up feeling better enough to continue recording.
Peace

-Gambitt-

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SoultapeLvL4...

I've been battling with the idea of letting another beat-tape loose on to the internet. I mean, the beats are copyrighted but I hate the idea of someone using a beat of mine without giving the proper credit to the producer (me). That's all I ask for in return for those releases.

My boy Rob that I've been cool with since middle school was politicking with me last weekend and one of his people who raps has heard a few of my joints and wants to use a specific beat for a project. He's willing to credit me as a writer and/or engineer...but he wants the production credit.......to my beat....a beat I produced, not him. No.....No again.....a Hell No if needed. For what reason u would want to take credit for something u didn't create, I have no idea. But that....is like asking me for a piece of my soul. No...making music is the only thing I have in my life to take pride in. The idea of letting someone take credit for my work by itself makes my temper go into over-drive.

Anyway.....for those who ask for it, here's another beat-tape. My vocal project is still being worked on....a long with a few other things. I'll be back to blogging on the regular after one of the following...
1.) I get my cell-phone and internet back on.
2.) move to ATL in October.


....Click Here To Download

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Daring Concepts Vs. Music

A comment I left on someone's blog earlier...
"Dare to be different....easy.
but to dare someone to accept it.....1up"

...this is a weird & uncomfortable battle. Reasons why is, as a music artist you should dare yourself to be different with your art & then dare the public to accept it. BUT...a different style or sound in music doesn't automatically make it "good music". That's where the problem is located, in figuring out what's different but yet still good music.

Maybe it's because the concept is laid out too simple. Example, not everything that is different is good. I'm starting to feel that the more time you put into certain projects or ideas, the better the outcome will be. I've had unfinished beats that have sat in my FL9 program for 7-8 months and randomly one day I'll trip upon a beat & catch something that I hadn't heard before, finish out the beat and have a nice gem.

Anyway, ...the "daring someone to accept it" part, now that I've put more thought into it, that's done on the regular with radio stations and music video channels. Just so happens the quality of music that they're daring you to accept is garbage. Or maybe that's just my opinion. Value or reject it.

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To Blog Or Not To Blog...

I've been on & off of this thing for many reasons.

Internet issues.
Being afraid of saying or posting the wrong thing.
The thoughts of "Who gives a shit?".

Being that I don't have a lot of interesting events popping off, it kind of makes me fall back on blogging. I mean, most artists, producers, etc who blog have fans...I have none. Then again, if that was the issue I would be doing it for attention...both blogging & music.

The music....hell no, I do that for me. That's what kept me sane with the little sanity I have left. The blog....expression....I can say blahblahasscuntmuncher & no one can stop me HaHaHaHaaaaa.

#random every one has a bit of a villain side, hero or not.

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