Wednesday, September 22, 2004
LBS. does collabo with ThRoB UGLY "Who Am I"
LBS. and I had been collabing on tracks since the Boiler Room, so when I moved in with his longtime friend Z-RO (a.k.a. Jon) we had this whole house to ourselves so we would record tracks and try and bounce em out and act all cool cause at the time-- NO ONE ELSE WAS DOING IT... He eventually used the allure to bring females out there throw down a few bars then take them home. This is one of the many tracks that I still have just wait till I find our "lost" tracks!
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Thoughts...
In all the thing's I've written in this blog- I thought its a blog write about whats going in my life? It's probably after 3:00 A.M. by the time I finish this. on technically a Saturday in mid September-- I have once again let another fucking blonde infest my mind, luckily this one didnt hit my heartstrings... The age gap was way too far!!! Just as usual one of my quote-unquote "friend" ended up with her... AGAIN!!! FUCK IT THOUGH, FUCK THA LIL HO!
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Building Your Own Routine
“I wouldn’t be an artist if I lived by a routine,” my best friend would say to me every time I would give him advice about creating a routine for his music and personal life. A routine he would say, is just so boring. There is no denying that most routines are often boring and lack excitement, however, nothing builds consistent growth like a great routine.
To build a great routine, you need to focus in on areas of your life that a routine best serves. Not every part of your life needs to be on a routine, but certainly there are areas that a routine can make a huge difference in. Lets say you’re a musician looking to have a successful career, having a routine for consistent growth in your music’s awareness and also production quality just makes sense.
So building a proper routine for growing those two area could go something like this; first figure out how much time each day or week you can dedicate to a routine. So lets say you figured out that you can spend the first 2 hours after work each day for 5 days a week. That could be one hour for music production (songwriting, band practice, music theory - etc) and the other hour you could use to build the awareness up for your music (social media, newsletter work, press, finding opportunities - etc).
With your new plan of action, it’s now time to start the hard work, actually following through and sticking with your new routine. Obviously, this is where most routines fail. However, if you just think about the progress your new routine will cause, that should be enough motivation to keep you going.
Focused time and practice will cause positive growth almost 100% of the time. That’s the power and rewards of having a great routine and sticking with it.
With your new plan of action, it’s now time to start the hard work, actually following through and sticking with your new routine. Obviously, this is where most routines fail. However, if you just think about the progress your new routine will cause, that should be enough motivation to keep you going.
Focused time and practice will cause positive growth almost 100% of the time. That’s the power and rewards of having a great routine and sticking with it.
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Microphone Check! Simple Studio Techniques
When setting up your mic in your home studio I would suggest using a nice condenser mic, you can get one from 100 and up. You also want to get a pop filter, this will cut out the excessive p's and b's from getting to the mic. If you can, you should also invest in a mic pre-amp. This will give a good clean sound. If not you can just use the phantom power on your mix board.
The distance your artist should be from the mic is about a fist away. You should also set a ceiling on your mix board or software. This will prevent clipping from occurring during the recording.
I would advise you not to put any effects on the microphone during recording. You can always add those afterwords, if you put a bad effect on the artist during recording and don't like it, you can't remove it!
Now if you have the budget you should create an isolation booth. This will stop all outside noise from interfering with the recording. If you can't do this, most people use anything from a bathroom to a closet to create a good recording atmosphere. Use foam padding wherever possible to reduce and echoing effect.
So all in all its pretty easy to create a professional sounding microphone with a couple simple steps. Good luck and stay tuned for more posts!
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
How to Survive a Freestyle Rap Battle
This will help explain the basics of freestyle, flowing, and battling.
Steps
1. Listen to previous freestyle flows and battles by great artists (e.g., rappers like Jin, Jay-Z, Milly P.aka Teja B. kim, Troy Walsh, Big L, Eminem, and any other artists that spits hardcore rap).
2. Understand the techniques those artists use to flow and battle, which will help you enhance those techniques yourself.
3. Start writing rhymes. Write down anything that comes to mind and try to rhyme it. Using your emotions is a good way to describe what you're feeling when you spit or write lyrics. Make sure you eat a hearty meal before attempting a battle.
4. Practice free-styling -- anytime, anywhere, as much as you can. Even if you run out of things to freestyle about, just continue spitting, no matter how wack you think you sound. It helps you develop better rhymes and your mind becomes more focused on what sounds good when you spit. It's like a mental workout. So always practice spitting anywhere.
5. Once you've noticed you can spit on spot (when you want to), try to spit about more specific things. Direct your raps toward things that bother you or upset you. Anything you dislike or want to talk about, try to spit about it. Once again, practice this until you feel you've got it down.
6. Start freestyle battling. The first step to freestyle battling is to practice the first 5 techniques in a battle against a friend or someone who it wouldn't matter to if you messed up. Constantly battle like that with people, especially if you can find a friend who is actually good at battling so they can teach how to improve what you lack. Again, continue to practice this until other friends you know (especially those into hip-hop music) think you're pretty good.
7. Have your first real battle against someone you at least somewhat dislike. If you can find someone who just gets you emotional or who angers you, it makes it easier to flow about them. You want to make sure when you flow about them you include 3 major things.
* Metaphors - Making comparisons with your target (the person you're battling) to something that denigrates them.
* Disses - Saying things that either make fun of them in general (e.g., how they dress, speak, spit, look, walk, talk, act, or their personality) or about them personally (e.g., the way they live, their past, their lifestyle, weaknesses about them, anything that directly goes against them in a way that makes fun of them).
* Punch-Lines - a Punch-Line basically is a bar (2 lines you spit) that incorporates a Metaphor, Dis, and/or anything else to enhance the flow directed at your opponent.
8. Don't worry if you lose your first few real battles, the point is to constantly practice spitting. Continue practicing until you've got it down. And pay attention to how other people spit whom the crowd/judges enjoy. There are many techniques to battling, but these are just the basics.
Tips
* If someone beats you in a battle and it gets to you, practice more until you think you're really ready. Then challenge them again: if you win, you will earn a lot of respect back. It's a great feeling, and chicks or dudes will dig your system and flair.
* When you think you lost it, don't worry - just relax. The worst thing to do is freak out. Just relax and keep going. You might still ace it.
* While your opponent is rapping, think how you can come back to what he says, so you get a better punchline.
* Use humor in your rhymes, especially if your opponent is dead serious, that will make them miss up and possibly crack up.
Warnings
* "Spit" as used in the context of this article is a synonym for rapping, not the forcible expulsion of saliva from the mouth. Please do not practice the latter kind of spitting; it does not make you look nearly as cool.
* For your own safety's sake, what goes on the battle, stays there. It's very likely that things get really heated, so be careful.
1. Listen to previous freestyle flows and battles by great artists (e.g., rappers like Jin, Jay-Z, Milly P.aka Teja B. kim, Troy Walsh, Big L, Eminem, and any other artists that spits hardcore rap).
2. Understand the techniques those artists use to flow and battle, which will help you enhance those techniques yourself.
3. Start writing rhymes. Write down anything that comes to mind and try to rhyme it. Using your emotions is a good way to describe what you're feeling when you spit or write lyrics. Make sure you eat a hearty meal before attempting a battle.
4. Practice free-styling -- anytime, anywhere, as much as you can. Even if you run out of things to freestyle about, just continue spitting, no matter how wack you think you sound. It helps you develop better rhymes and your mind becomes more focused on what sounds good when you spit. It's like a mental workout. So always practice spitting anywhere.
5. Once you've noticed you can spit on spot (when you want to), try to spit about more specific things. Direct your raps toward things that bother you or upset you. Anything you dislike or want to talk about, try to spit about it. Once again, practice this until you feel you've got it down.
6. Start freestyle battling. The first step to freestyle battling is to practice the first 5 techniques in a battle against a friend or someone who it wouldn't matter to if you messed up. Constantly battle like that with people, especially if you can find a friend who is actually good at battling so they can teach how to improve what you lack. Again, continue to practice this until other friends you know (especially those into hip-hop music) think you're pretty good.
7. Have your first real battle against someone you at least somewhat dislike. If you can find someone who just gets you emotional or who angers you, it makes it easier to flow about them. You want to make sure when you flow about them you include 3 major things.
* Metaphors - Making comparisons with your target (the person you're battling) to something that denigrates them.
* Disses - Saying things that either make fun of them in general (e.g., how they dress, speak, spit, look, walk, talk, act, or their personality) or about them personally (e.g., the way they live, their past, their lifestyle, weaknesses about them, anything that directly goes against them in a way that makes fun of them).
* Punch-Lines - a Punch-Line basically is a bar (2 lines you spit) that incorporates a Metaphor, Dis, and/or anything else to enhance the flow directed at your opponent.
8. Don't worry if you lose your first few real battles, the point is to constantly practice spitting. Continue practicing until you've got it down. And pay attention to how other people spit whom the crowd/judges enjoy. There are many techniques to battling, but these are just the basics.
Tips
* If someone beats you in a battle and it gets to you, practice more until you think you're really ready. Then challenge them again: if you win, you will earn a lot of respect back. It's a great feeling, and chicks or dudes will dig your system and flair.
* When you think you lost it, don't worry - just relax. The worst thing to do is freak out. Just relax and keep going. You might still ace it.
* While your opponent is rapping, think how you can come back to what he says, so you get a better punchline.
* Use humor in your rhymes, especially if your opponent is dead serious, that will make them miss up and possibly crack up.
Warnings
* "Spit" as used in the context of this article is a synonym for rapping, not the forcible expulsion of saliva from the mouth. Please do not practice the latter kind of spitting; it does not make you look nearly as cool.
* For your own safety's sake, what goes on the battle, stays there. It's very likely that things get really heated, so be careful.
Monday, January 6, 2003
AbandonLandon collabs with ThRob UGLY on "No Love"
This is the first time that both of us have separate vocal parts instead of me just doing back ups like we did in Love Rage Comedy. Since I had so much written already I dominated the track- AbandonLandon recorded more but in the final cut I did the two verses since I was more focused on being the rapper. We made this beat together on the Beast (YAMAHA RS7000.) This is the 2nd public track I did vocals on. You'll probably NEVER hear the first one!
Follow them on twitter: @AbandonLandon & @ThRob_UGLY
No Love Ft. AbandonLandon by ThRob UGLY
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
MUSIC BUSINESS 101: What EVERY "Artist" Should Know
ASCAP stands for The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) which is a not-for-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.
What is BDS?
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections. The service, which is a subsidiary of ACNielsen provides the basis for Nielsen Media publication Billboard in the United States, while in Canada, BDS helps determine the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart and the Canadian Hot 100 chart, which is published by Jam! and in the website for Canadian Music Network, in determining their radio airplay music charts and determines the chart movement in Billboard's Hot 100 chart when combined with single sales from Nielsen SoundScan. From August 2006 to its final June 2009 publication, BDS also provided chart data for R&R after Nielsen acquired the trade. On September 10, 2009, the website Radio-Info struck a partnership with Nielsen BDS to provide radio airplay charts and related data for over 20 formats.
What is Copyright?
Copyrights are huge in the music industry. Everywhere you turn when dealing with music you will come across different copyright laws and requirements. That said, it is extremely important for you to know and understand what is all involved in copyrights. You will also need to know how to obtain one to protect the music that you and your band create. This is relatively simply and most of the forms can be found at the US Copyright Office website, www.copyright.gov
What is an EPK?
An electronic press kit (or "EPK") is a press kit equivalent in electronic form. In business, electronic press kits are more commonly referred to as online or electronic media kits. They are used to promote artists and businesses via mass media. (Must be .DOC, .PDF or similar Format)
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Buy Love Rage Comedy's "Destruction Of Scully" album!
Many of you online may not be familiar with Love Rage Comedy-- we were a band based out of Steubenville, OH and we had originally over a million listens on Mp3.com before they shut it down. Then as they reopened all the hard work of uploading our material on there (over 20 albums.) We are forced to start all over! We are currently debating playing out here in Los Angeles. We would like to try to build a fan base so we can prove to the clubs we will be trying to play we can draw a crowd!
The tracklist remains the same although a few samples had to be excluded but it does not infringe upon the songs quality! Its just anyone who knows this album knows it opened up with "The Pumpkin King" from "A Nightmare Before Christmas." But I'm sure we'd of been sued, so I had to cut it. So here's the tracklist:
01. Kevin's Gate: Leo
02. Kevin's Gate: Pisces
03. The Sky Opened Up
04. Phantom Ears
05. Beloved II
06. Ringside
07. Techno Kitty
08. Life Fixed On A Thursday
09. Funkmassa
10. Baby's Ambition
11. Breech Of Contract
12. Twisted Demon Of The South
13. Never Ending Funeral
LISTEN TO US:
http://www.reverbnation.com/loveragecomedy
http://www.youtube.com/loveragecomedy
http://www.myspace.com/loveragecomedy
http://www.last.fm/music/Love+Rage+Comedy
Follow us @LoveRageComedy
Thanks goes out to everyone,
from Landon & Rob.
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