Took some pictures of Sir Thomas Gray the other day. Here’s one of them, with the Photoshopped assistance of my friend Jkoe photo. Peep game http://www.jkoephoto.com/. He took all the VS. pictures for our EP, assisted Ryan on “Fake Empire” and is a creative beast.

G-Dough’s back yo! I actually never knew G-Dough left. Better yet who G-Dough was. But I’m assuming G-Dough is the homie Ryan Grant. He is an infamous town character and the only person I know whose eyes get redder then mine when he smokes pot. Along for the voyage he brought the one and only Hella Maze (best rap name in the city, hands down). This video kind of hurts my eyes in the same way that it is awesome. Shout out to both these gentlemen along with JR over at Winners Circle for getting me hip to all that is G-Dough.

I was cleaning out the basement today and came across an old box of CD’s. A bunch were CDR’s from my early Roland VS-880/MPC days. A lot of people don’t know I use to make beats, and from time to time still do. Nowadays I’m more like Dr. Dre in the background yelling at Ryan “yea, do THAT shit!” Here’s a couple random ones that never got used from back in the good old days. Before Computers. Before Condoms. Before “Slaps”.

Rock Shit by Macklemore

This was made around 03′/04′ when I was wanted to be a baby Vitamin. I can hear Karim rapping on this. My SCSI drive broke on the MP and I was left with this 2 track. I always wanted to remake it, but you know how that goes. The chops and the pocket is still kinda fresh…minus the midget bass. There was another part of different chops that got lost. RIP.

BenWishesHeWasTimbo by Macklemore

I made this in 99′/2000 when I first got my MPC. The name says it all. If Timbo got hired to do the soundtrack for BIG (Tom Hanks), was stuck mixing on broken headphones, got high, and never finished the beat it would sound like this.

Loving You by Macklemore

Was did this around 03′/04′. I planned on it being on “The Language Of My World,” but I couldn’t write to it. Worked on it for too long and lost inspiration.

XP has been needing press photo’s for a while.  I thought we had some left over’s of him from “Fake Empire” but somewhere along the exchanging of memory card’s they got lost.  Ryan was the homie, let me borrow the 5D and XP and I set out for my first ever “Photoshoot” (behind the camera).

I’ve been taking some random pictures around the Studio the past month.  Ryan has been showing me little tricks here and there (turning on the camera, powering the flash, and hooking up the proper settings).  I’ve spent the last 4 years of my life, over his shoulder watching him edit pictures on Photoshop for hours and hours at a time.  I’ve learned a little by observation.  After a lesson a couple months ago, I’ve been putting in work on my bootleg CS4.

The entire shoot was hella fun.  XP was extremely photogenic and we had a great time clowning like we always do.  Huge shout out to Ryan for letting me borrow his camera, and getting me hip to the photo game.  Very appreciated.

I’ve been following Fences for a little while now, after getting introduced to his work through “Songs For Eating And Drinking” (peep the video of it above). I’m really inspired by this dude as a song writer, performer and what I know of him as a person. If you come to Neumos this Thursday, you might even get a chance to see him on stage *wink.

The homie Jordan got Beanies, and they’re fresh.  It’s available for $15 at www.megalodonline.com

Taken from the homies over at http://winnerscircleseattle.blogspot.com/

I wish this came with a fake gold chain on Canal Street. I would give it to Onry. This is fresh.

I like this. Evergreen One has got some genuine charisma indeed. Tac Town.

Noah is an artist from Seattle, now living in LA.  We grew up together.  He is one of my favorite people in this world and also happens to be creating beautiful art.  To see anyone I grew up with, do what they love for a living, make a name for themselves and contribute their creativity to the world, makes me proud.  Town Biz.

All things entertainment are centered around timing.  It’s more then just inflection, delivery, voice and content.  It’s using your silence.  The ancient art of the pause.  Silence, the forgotten 5th element of performance.  At certain shows, the time in-between songs is more important then how you deliver the songs themselves. I  learn from comedians the same way I learn from rappers on stage.  Working the crowd. How to use silence and pausing to your advantage.  Aziz Ansari is perfecting his craft.