Recently my song An Addiction featuring Olivia Thai was the winner of SINIMA's song contest, and been featured on his page. A few days later the song has climbed all the way to number 1 on the hip hop charts!
check it out and please support the music and buy my album! www.cdbaby.com/cd/rumorz2
Brazil is also joining the forces on the GO GREEN campaign. But forget the basic simplified concept of just not wasting paper and cutting down on gas, they have taken a different approach: Peeing in the shower! Yeah that's right in an effort to save the rainforest Brazil has launched a new ad campaign encouraging citizens to pee in the shower to save water. I guess a lot of us have been going green for a while!
A while back I did a feature on Sinima Beats, a producer out of Queens, NY. He is responsible for about four of the beats I used on my most recent album 'Crocodile Tears', and each week he has been picking a contest winner to feature on his page. This week, I was selected as the winner of the contest with the song 'An Addiction' featuring Olivia Thai...
So there is a track surfacing online that is apparently Eminem dissing Soulja Boy. Now I definitely wish this was true because I can't stand what he has contributed to rap and son but I've heard news it is not him, just something someone else put together. Either way, because I can't stand Soulja Boy that much i'm going to post it anyway.
Well while you're checking out that, if you have not heard the REAL diss Eminem released about Mariah, it is something you NEED to hear. This track has a little old school taste of Eminem back when he really got at people instead of the half-ass attempts he had on his last album. Check it...
"He had this kind of music that nobody else was doing. I thought he really had something crazy, something great. He was like a living poet." -Neil Young on Charles Manson the musician!
I found out pretty recently to my complete surprise that Charles Manson, the famous murderer whom I'm sure you've all heard of, was actually an aspiring musician before he became a very influential and powerful cult leader and committed all those murders.
But plenty of people aspire to be musicians... big deal right? Well Manson wasn't just some aspiring musician, he actually wrote a few songs for The Beach Boys (yes, a crazed murderer wrote The Beach Boy material) and became good friends at one point with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. In fact, if you had just overheard these few tracks of his I will post for you, I'm sure you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between him and any other folk artist. His material content-wise is actually quite the opposite of what the public lifestyle we know him for as.
Another funny thing is that Phil Spektor (another murderer and famous producer ) just got transferred to the same prison as Manson, and apparently, Manson has been trying to contact him in order to work something out musically... Spektor apparently has been freaked out by the idea and denied Manson a collaboration...
check it out, and believe it or not, maybe, enjoy.
Home is Where You're Happy
Look at Your Game Girl
HERE is a link to the song ( a great song actually) recorded by The Beach Boys written by Charles Manson Never Learn Not to Love performed by The Beach Boys
haha I found this on my friend Sara's facebook page... it's about 6 months old of me spittin' over Oochie Wallie beat at like 3 in the morning after some party... Don't mind the weird reactions we just wasted... lol...
Also subscribe to me on YouTube because soon I will be adding footage of time in the studio, up comming shows etc...
On Saturday I hit up the Boston show of Rock The Bells featuring everyone in the underground hip hop scene from M.O.P. to Eyedea to Slaughterhouse with Nas and Damian Marley headlining. It was a beautiful thing for the hip hop world to have all the true hip hop heads in one place. The one thing I noticed about this show compared to most shows I see is how much energy these dudes all had. Every one of them knew how to perform well, not in the sing with the crowd type of way, but there were some artists where many did not know a single word and by the end of the song you were bumpin your head. That's hip hop.
Of all of the performers I must say my top 3 of the night were Nas, Slaughterhouse and Tech N9ne. Nas of course had all the songs I knew and grew up on, and he did them well for the most part. Slaughterhouse killed it, with a dope set of songs and Budden and Royce just tearin shit up. But Tech N9ne really impressed me. He came on at 4 oclock where many people were just arriving (and defintely not as drunk and amped as the later shows), and he absolutely rocked the house down. He took people who normally would hate his lyrical content and style and made them fans for the 45 minutes he was on stage, and that's what performing is all about. If seeing that show doesn't inspire a fellow musician, I don't know what will....
I just got done watching the end of the MJ tribute and had a few things that came to mind I wanted to speak about. First off, it was crazy to actually see/hear his daughter Paris speak, seeing as his children have been completely hidden from the spotlight since birth. For those who didn't see it, she made a brief but very powerful statement about her love for her father.
Another thing I noticed was how amazing Martin Luther King Jr.'s kids were at speaking. It truly runs in the family, because his son and daughter made very amazing speeches and carry that pounding inspirational thing in their voice. That was cool to hear from them, because I havn't heard much of them ever.
Lastly, this kid Shaheen Jafargholi who is 12 years old performed an amazing cover of Who's Loving You, originally written by Smokey Robinson. This made a few things noticable: Smokey Robinson was probably the best or defintely in the conversation of the best song writers ever. Look up his resume, it's ridiculous, and when his songs are covered today, they still hold relevant. Lastly, you should check out this kid Shaheen. He has a future. I posted a video below of him on Britains got Talent. And for all you Simon Cowell haters, watch this clip and try and tell me that he isn't a very gifted talent scout and knows his shit whether you believed it before or not.
That's right peoples, my new album Crocodile Tears is finally here! Starting Friday, July 9th it will be available for purchase from me for an actual physical copy, and starting next week it will be online (iTunes, CDBABY.COM, Amazon etc...) so look out for that.
I really hope and ask of my fans to spread the word about the album and please buy it! There is a lot of hard work behind it and good music to be heard! Please tell everyone you know!
ONE LOVE -Rumorz-
Monday, June 29, 2009
Just a ridiculous cover of Rihannas Don't Stop the Music by Lola Astanova. Some skills right here.
As you all know by now, Michael Jackson passed away today of a heart attack. The sad thing is that his last few years he got so much criticism by people hating him cuz of how crazy he went. I think people forget he was arguable the best performer of all time along with the best selling of all time. No doubt in my mind he is among the top ten most famous people on the planet as well. So I don't got to say much except I always admired how amazing an artist he was, and I hope people remember that part of his life. I will leave you with a few videos of him performing live.
A while back I posted a piece about the band called The Script, a very talented group from Ireland. Here is a dope ass cover of Lose Yourself by Eminem that is def. worth a listen.
What's good? Before I introduce a new blog a friend of mine recently started, I want to mention a few things about how the studio session went last night. It was the first time with a new producer so I was a little unsure who shit would go, but things worked out even better then expected. I got about 11 songs recorded which I can honestly say all came out hott. I got a bunch of footage in the studio too so look out for that to hit YouTube soon, and look out for a few mixtape tracks to hit the myspace too.
Next, I want to talk about a new blog I recommend called The Life of Lemmons. It follows the life of a friend of mine, Chris Lemmons. So why should you be interested in his life and thoughts? Well after knowing him since I was about 13 or 14 I can honestly say there ain't many people who think like him. It's pretty hard to explain, so I suggest you check out his blog for yourself, but his different perspectives are a breath of fresh air in a world of repetitive viewpoints and cliche concepts. So if you are looking to follow intelligently written stories from a unique angle, check it out...
So tomorrow I'm going to be in the studio with a new producer basically all night long getting a bunch of shit done including finally redoing a few tracks from the Crocodile Tears album and finally getting that out. And due to the lengthy delays with all the BS that been going on, I'm actually about 8 tracks deep on my next album haha so I will be recording some of those as well. Just to keep you guys updated, I got a bunch of things planned to get completed this summer. I will start posting videos of me in the studio, freestyles, and other behind the scenes type stuff up on youtube, as well as updating the myspace frequently with new freestyles and remixes. So check for all that, and I'll keep everyone updated on how everything goes tomorrow.
1. Crocodile Tears intro.2. Hard Times
3. Words Can't Describe
4. She's Gone5. Vodka and Redbullfeaturing S. Money6. Kill that Bitchfeaturing Grafite7. Reality T.V.8. The Entertainerfeaturing S. Money9. An Addictionfeaturing Olivia Thai10. Dumb Politics11. Do it Rightfeaturing Roc12. Thats Cool
13. Hard to Find
14. She a Winner
15. The School of the Drugs
16. Bonus Track
17. Bonus Track
Thought I'd let you guys in on a few pics of the new studio I've been going to. Enjoy.
