We don’t stop cuz We can’t stop…
Feb 21, 2010 General, Life, music, real talk, session
What’s up people! Chief here to give you the pre-game run down of the ins and outs of a KOTR show day. Yeah we have 11 tracks that we as a team have to be ready for even though every artist is not on every track. You do the math that’s at least more than 11 16′s to remember and 11 choruses to remember. Producer/engineer: Novynova is on his way back from visiting a mentor and extended family upstate but he will still have to check over the show mixes, coordinate things between Young Lo and the DJ as well as the rest of the group, and there’s still new tracks for him to mix after the show… LOL Seriously though with all the necessary non-stop communicating that goes on I almost forget to sleep and and eat before the show. It’s all business all day until showtime then its hard work, then the funs over… Its back to business moving and shaking with the movers and shakers making sure things end properly. To top it off we still have unfinished Unc Mike tracks to finish let alone the 6 new ones he gave us; like I said “We don’t stop cuz We can’t stop”
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Pain and Glory
Feb 4, 2010 General
I’d like to take this time out to deliver a message to our listeners conocerning difference between entertainment and fact; and where those lines may cross.
You may hear me rhyme a nice punch line about a gun or drugs and honestly thats entertainment, I wouldn’t want the listener to think I was going to shoot them or sell them drugs: I’m a rapper! Still for those who live a street lifestyle there is vivid truth in those lines because it speaks to them in a laguage which is familiar to them.
We make music with that idea at the core of every song. No matter if you a london OG or you a canadian banger we all know the streets. And if you’re street where you’re from then the streets will always be where you’re at!
I dedicate this post to my nigga Ramsey Burnett holding it down in the GMDC as well as his wife Yolanda and his daughter Jannea. There is no glory in the cases young black men catch while trying to manuever the traps of the streets. The pain does not start or end with his incarceration; just like all our incarcerated young men and women- the pain spreads to family members and friends as brothers, sons, and fathers are ripped out of our lives. I pray you come home safe to all your family and friends with a fresh start at being the best you can be my nigga, I’ll be there…