From the sound of it, Bam and Geo destroyed this MTK beat. And Bam’s Paper Cut’s concept is ridiculous. He’s one of my favorite writers on the coast right now, and is definitely extended NW family. Support this one when it drops.

A Love Supreme 2.0 (Trailer) from DRG Films on Vimeo.

Damn. This promo video is done right! These guys are always on there pub game major. And from the look over at www.theaudacityofdope.com the homie Hyphen is narrating this? Fresh.

One of the best grimy rappers to ever do it. Got to see him live at the Highline Ballroom and he murdered it. I grew up on Boot Camp.

With the iphone?! Get off me.

To play at the Triple Door, to a sold out crowd was definitely a grown man bucket list check off. I hope they post the next part of the interview and the other two performances. But for now, here’s this…

Kinda…But it’s colder then a

Alright, that didn’t turn out as clever as it looked in my head. And no, that is not my toe. But I am out in New York staying at Saba’s place in the Financial District along with Geo and Ryan. Unfortunately, I left my ID in the town, barely made it on the plane and now I’m stuck going to all ages raves in the daytime (which are awesome).

New York is a beautiful shade of freezing. Every pigment of person, varying degrees of polarized income, all sharing the same sidewalks. There’s a constant race happening here, and everyone is out to defeat a different obstacle; Catching a train, making a flashing crosswalks or just escaping the cold. The pulse of this city is set uncomfortably high compared to my West Coast strut. On the West Coast I walk, here I maneuver. But, like all things you get accustomed to this way of life.

Outside my obsession with purchasing fake jesus chains on Canal Street, the excitement of this city isn’t the same as I remember it 10 years ago when I was living in Brooklyn for the summer. Obviously a lot has changed in my life since I was 17, so I can’t attribute all the lost luster to New York. The perfect setting was a staircase, a deuce deuce and a homie that could beat box. The backdrop of those teenage moments being Brooklyn, I easily had one of the best summers of my life (and the alcoholism starting winning).

Although the magnetic pull that propelled me to spend my days walking from borough to borough has faded, this place is still unique to anywhere I’ve been in the world. The networking you can do in a matter of days in NY is more then months in Seattle. Everyone is constantly checking each other out, sizing each other up and determining if they’re someone to know, cool guy or tell there friends about. There’s a nauseous inspiration that comes from realizing what is to gain, and how far away you are from it. It makes home feel so small. It is. Sometimes it takes leaving to remember that.

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.