VON PEA CHALLENGES THE GAME AND BOW WOW TO MEGA MAN.

if youve been to my myspace in the past month….

you heard this song playing….

Listen to the Solange “I Decided” Von Pea remix here!

its not a new beat, its me rappity rapping…..

ok im out thats it im tiiiiired!

motel 6….

…has to be one of the nastiest places in the world. its rediculous. the windows bolted shut, stains all over the carpet, some on the sheets, burns on the comforter, humid smelling rooms with sometimes moist (yes, moist. as in not fully dry out the dryer) sheets and towels (towels!?!!?!!!!). the one tonight smells like bad breath manifested into a full room. we are staying in someones filthy mouth. I’m straight up posting this from the van. I’m sleeping here tonight, damn that nasty ass room. yo I don’t know what happened tonight but its officially the countdown to the end of this tour…I might get back on my gabe tour “find someone to stay with” shit fuckin with these motel (triple) 6’s.

shows left: mineapolis, omaha, boulder (got somewhere to stay there), salt lake, lake tahoe…4 outta 5 possible bad motel 6’s. tonight was hands down the worst one though. the one in london ontario wasn’t bad. the one in new orleans was actually cool, this is hands down top 3 worst. one had big ass bugs, one was the OG moist sheets room, and this disaster area tonight in Wisconsin.

we reserved all of these trying to keep low overhead. you get what you paid for!

wish me luck with that shower in the morning. there was hair on the bathroom floor that doesn’t belong to any member of tanya morgan.

fucking motel 6. sigh.

live from the wisconsin hieroglyphics show

the music accidentally stopped and someone (I think it was pep love) started beatboxing right away while tajai kept rapping. like, almost unnoticably on cue. like it was on purpose. MUTHAFUCKIN PROFESHUNOWWW.

I had a long rant typed out but I erased it…maybe later.

Issac Hayes :-(

now I’m a Bernie Mac fan too and I think its sad he passed away, but it aint hit like Issac! MAN! sigh….I know why too, because my mom is a huge Issac Hayes fan. Its like my uncle passing or something.

anyway this blog is just me throwing my condolences out there to all of his fans that are as saddened as I am by this news.

Rest In Peace to both of those brothers…

The Red Giants are back!

as seen on 2dopeboyz.com

Spec, Che, and the TM 3 all hopped in a van and rolled out to Atlanta’s A3C festival earlier this year where we recorded this song with Jermiside for the new Red Giants album “Chain Reaction”

download the joint here: “Never Saw A Thing” featuring Che Grand, Spec Boogie, and Tanya Morgan

freshly dipped tour (video)

this is NOT for the suckers.

biggie is alive!

well nah, but this is pretty funny to me. maybe its in bad taste, but i think its funny. people have been way more disrespectful to bigs death.

and ultramag aint heard nothin! lol…what original version of threemcees? the one with ilyas cursing up a storm on the hook?

i guess this will be the threemcees update. so how did this start….ok so we did “cuddlebums” with 88 keys and he said “hit me up for the payback track” which made me smile pretty hard because now we get to do ANOTHER song! and we can put it on our EP?!!?! WOW!

we go up to his crib and his adorable daughter is tearing up magazines and laughing like kids do. we go in the beatmaking room and he starts going through a stack of records he picked out. 88 makes beats and throws them away and makes another one and throws it away and makes another one and throws it away and…now keep in mind we on some “fanboys playing it cool” ish so almost every beat sounds good to us, but he had a certain one in mind. we just asked for something upbeat to rappity rap over. long story short we got around to the threemcees beat about…3 hours later or something (haha) and left happy. i think by the time we got back to brooklyn 88 was like “i might do something else”

a week or two later he felt like he didnt give us a good enough track and wanted us to have a BANGER. I was happy with the beat we had, but he insisted and its just an honor already to get anything from him in my eyes. ilyas also had started writing the song already. actually, here’s the demo i think ultramag is talking about:

so back to the process…we had gotten back from a 1 off show we had in denver when i got SICK AS HELL. like, i thought i was dying for real. i never felt that way before and it all started with my ear stopping up, then getting infected. i was fucked up for about a week and literally wasnt sleeping, just laying there til the sun came up in pain…shit was crazy. i say that to say this, someone had to go get the session/tracked out beat from 88 (the tracked out beat is all the parts seperate. 4 minutes of just a snare drum, 4 minutes of just the kick drum, then the hats, then the bassline, etc…) and since im the album producer most of the time thats my job. i couldnt do it, so donwill went to get it. 88 was working on his album that day too so don was there allllllll day haha…and 88 is analogue so i heard everything had to be burned in real time which took even longer! haha…

all that, and i mix the joint (i hate mixing and i retire from it lol) and send it off to the label to be mastered and whatnot. weeks later 88 isnt satisfied with the jam and still thinks he can do better so we end up recording what became “take the w” on the tanya morgan is a rap group mixtape. thats a story too.

so i think i told the whole story….88, i thank god we crossed paths. its definitely an honor and a pleasure to know you, man. you are absolutely on my “whatever niggas need, im there” list. Timm See? thank you. i feel like i always write your name wrong (lol) but this wouldnt have happened without that phone call.

and oh yea, to anyone who has caught us at any of the “freshly dipped tour” shows and stopped to tell us you think we are dope, thank you for the love. im sorry to my NYC crew for dipping out…i had to come see my moms and my brother!

and im sorry to my FELLOW LESSONDARY GANG MEMBERS che grand and spec boogie for not being able to stay at their show for the same reason. peace to AOK too…homeboy sandman, what you told me tonight means a LOT coming from you. when niggas try to hate, i have a decent list of super emcees like yourself that think im dope, and if i can impress a super emcee then im doing something right.

ok this might start sounding like a love fest but i just want cats to know i appreciate them because its real easy to hate/be indifferent and jaded nowadays. we all need each other to keep going.

oh yeah, threemcees. produced by this guy:

up next, hip hop is dead 2 aka the “moonlighting” era “self untitled” outtake…

threemcees is coming up

I didn’t have a whole lot to do with this one, well not the good part of the story anyway (I was sick), so I’m gonna have don or 88 tell more of the story. problem is all of us are busy. did yall hear the og version of scenario though?!??!!?!?

get me inside!

produced by this guy:

okay this is a long one….

I once read a review that said my music was self depreciating.

in 3rd grade my teacher told my mother that I had low self esteem because of my extra small handwriting. about a month later my test scores landed me in the “smart class” but that was wack because everyone was already friends and decided they didn’t like the new kid. that was an interesting school year…I started answering questions on tests wrong so id end up back in the regular class, and it worked the next year…what you said lupe? dumb it down!

the same thing happened in 8th grade and this time they wasn’t foolin with me because I made it obvious I wasn’t trying to be in the smart class and  wasn’t fucking with them. it didn’t help when I came to school with an s curl. AMMO! man the girls had a field day laughing. ahhh…the good old days. I still say the prettiest one liked me because when her friends wasn’t around she would be talking to me all sweet and shit. oh and not to mention the official finest girl in school was my friend because seat assignments had us sitting next to each other. I took that s curl shit out after like 3 days. its puff daddys fault he had me thinking that was cool back in the day.

I said all that to say this: sometimes you have to find the positives and appreciate the little things! that’s what “get me inside” is about and that’s why its one of my favorite songs from the tanya morgan catalogue. I start it off with the disclaimer “this aint self depreciating” because I didn’t want anyone to hear the song and say “haha there goes those tanya morgan guys beating up on themselves again! yay!” I don’t even consider it a regular guy rap, its simply what we know. I’m bragging about having a new fitted cap and having cable. leftover applebees in the refridgerator. my girlfriends makeup laying around my house…which a) isn’t player at all (lol) and b) says she wears makeup for whatever reason. “quarter meal, not a mil, 1/4th of a cup…of noodles”. and don is on it like, he’s happy chilling in the house watching a rented movie. ilyas is happy doing….what he does in his verse (haha). its a song about being happy with the simple things in life.

there’s a lot that goes unsaid in the song, almost inside jokes. the chorus “I’m coming through….if you can get me inside!”. is an ode to people saying they will come to your show/event and support….as long as you can put them on the guest list aka “get them inside”. I’ve done it a million times myself only because shoot…some of these rap shows are expensive! especially if you just want to see your homey and he only has 10 minutes! that ties in with the verses because there’s a “broke rapper” undertone. maybe not under enough? lol…

time for nerd producer stuff:
the kicks are from both the vocal AND the instrumental versions of mr yancey’s “shake it down” so the “uh!” is apart of the kick its not layered ontop of it. when you hear it drop out that’s a whole other kick. the snare is from “she lives in my lap” by mr benjamin. the sample is a 3 bar loop and that’s a nod to a tribe called quest (”electric relaxation”, “skypager”, “lyrics to go”). factor the common sample in and I incorporated 4 of my favorite groups/mcs together for this track.

I guess that’s that!

next stop: threemcees aka “yall like this one? nah I can do better”-88