Nov Blog Category
Saturday 27 November, 2010
C’monSon
If you’re up on hiphop you need to be up on C’monSon. Shout outs to Ed Lover for enduring through the years in the hiphop game
Friday 10 September, 2010
Video Editing
Whats good Y’all,
Here at KOTRmusic we appreciate all the help we can get from our fans (from designing tshirts and flyers to shooting our music video for 321 ). As you may or may not know we do a lot of our own work in the camp. We’ve been working on video content and were wondering if you guys had a preference in video editing software? Please give the pros and cons to any suggestions you make.
Thanks Y’all
Nov
Monday 06 September, 2010
Back up
As you can see the site is (finally) back up. It’s taken us quite a while to finish editing it, but it’s finally to a point we feel is suitable. The new layout allows us to give more content in a MUCH more organized manor. Stay tuned because now we can get back to work
Peace,
Nov
Tuesday 20 July, 2010
How it happened: The Product
whaddup y’all
Here’s another look into how the KOTR comes up with those hot records. Today’s edition is none other than the fan favorite “The Product” produced by Unc Mike. The craziest part of that classic record has to be the fact that the day we came up with, wrote AND recorded the record was the first day we met Unc Mike. Unc was a long time friend of mullaney so it was only natural that at some point those ingredients would get mixed up to see if we could cook up a hit. Unc bought a beat CD that had like 10 beats on it (for y’all, last song, the product, hand on the bible…) and as soon as we heard it we knew we had to get to work. In typical chief fashion before the rest of us scribbled down any rhymes he called his dibs on the hook. About an hour later we had completed the record that later became known as “the product”. The number one question we get asked about that record is: why’s it called the product? We don’t mention those words anywhere in the song… Well, it’s called that because it was the product of everything coming together perfectly. The right instrumental, the right chorus, rhymes that resonated with the listener. It was the product of Us. Keep In mind that before that day, there was no group or label called the KOTR…
Saturday 03 July, 2010
How it happened: For Y’all
Ever hear a record and wonder… How the hell did they come up with that? Well here’s the answer. We gonna try and give y’all a glimpse into the kotr and the situations that helped us come up with our hits.
For Y’all was one of those records that had to happen. It was crazy Thro and I (nov) were in the lab going over the most recent batch of Unc Mike beats tryinna decide what would be the next to get the work put on it… It was almost immediate that we decided on that one. About 30mins later we had the foundation set. Thro and I had recorded our verses and organized the beat the way we needed it. All we needed to do now was get the rest of the team on it. Vital was over an hour away in Long Island so we uploaded it to the dropbox (dropbox) which allows us to sync sessions from our studio to Vitals, and chief had pneumonia. Literally. So we got the joint back from vital bout a day later and chief came through to see how much work we’d got done like a week later (you know on his General shit. Lol) still barely walking but couldn’t resist the song. The rest is history. But keep that in mind the next time y’all listen to the record and hear chief say “they done pissed me off like I’m too sick to spit sick” he literally was!
Stay Tuned,
Nov
Saturday 22 May, 2010
Our deepest fear…
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
the quote is by Maryanne Williamson. It has been made popular by the movie “Coach Carter” and Nelson Mandella in his 1994 inauguration.
This is one of the most inspiring quotes I can remember so I decided to share it. Hope it inspires you.
Peace,
Nov
Thursday 08 April, 2010
Next Video
Alright yall,
we finally delivered that 321 music video. If you gabby already checked it out give it a look and tell us what you think. But, here at KOTRmusic we can’t afford to slow down. So we’re on to the next one. We want to start the shooting for the next music video ASAP, but, what song should we shoot it for? You tell us. 321 was picked by the fans for the first one. Now we need the fans to tell us what would yall like to see for the second video.
Holla at us,
the KOTR