Food, Clothes and Shelter is finally here

Wa'Jee's "Food, Clothes & Shelter"

So here's the album I produced (for the most part).  It took alot of time and 40 ounce bottles of malt liquor. Enjoy.

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Bang Bang

Sofa King Incredible

Greetings.  I'm back in the blogosphere.  Here's my first offering: a solid mix I put together...just because.

Tracklisting

1 Gladiator - Common
2 Thunder - J Dilla
3 What Up - Busta Rhymes
4 Tight - Rah Digga
5 Real Thang (Club Mix) - Erykah Badu
6 Pocketbook - Jennifer Hudson ft Ludacris
7 Ridiculous - Musiq Soulchild
8 Higher - Q-Tip
9 Fantastique - K-Os
10 More Mess On My Thing - The Poets of Rhythm
11 You Got The Love - Rufus
12 Give The Drummer Sum - Black Milk
13 Disperse - Consequence
14 Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes ft The Black Eyed Peas
15 I Am Music - Common
16 Magic (Mark Ronson Remix) - Robin Thicke ft Wale & Mary J Blige
17 Get On The Good Foot - James Brown
18 Egg and I - Yoko Kanno
19 Jungle Fever - The Chakachas
20 American Gangster (Fela Remix) - Jay-Z
21 Uprising - Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
22 Don't Sweat The Technique - Eric B. & Rakim
23 Agadez - The Mars Volta
24 Electric Feel - MGMT
25 Dirty Love - J*Davey
26 Manwomanboogie - Q-Tip ft Amanda Diva
27 Blame It on the Boogie - The Jacksons
28 Caveman Boogie - Lesette Wilson
29 The Brainwasher - Daft Punk
30 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
31 Hello/Goodbye (Uncool) - Lupe Fiasco
32 Here I Come - The Roots
33 Looking For The Perfect Beat - Afrika Bambaataa
34 Universal Mind Control - Common ft Pharrell
35 Radio Ladio - Metronomy
36 Say Goodbye To Love - Kenna
37 Your New Cuckoo - The Cardigans
38 Sex Shooter - Apollonia 6
39 Erotic City - Prince
40 White Horse - Laid Back
41 Stress - Justice
42 Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These - Eurythmics
43 Gifted - N.A.S.A. ft Kanye West & Santogold
44 She Wants To Move - N.E.R.D.
45 Lollipop - Snoop Dogg
46 Come Around - M.I.A. ft Timbaland

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It's so tight man, let me tell ya

Here's the title track to Wa'Jee's upcoming album, "Food, Clothes and Shelter" (the leading single). Produced by yours truly.

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photo by wayne miller. buy his book

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Wednesday, 1am in the Chi

Flyin in the cold damp sky with ELP, it's me. Yay for you.  Too bad I'm only gonna write 3 words that are extremely overused (so what?) after the word this:

life's crazy.

peace

P.S.

The Food, Clothes & Shelter LP is going to make your life 10000000% better than without it, guaranteed or YOUR MONEY BACK! (No, seriously. I will personally refund the exact amount you paid for the album.)

Go vote. Tomorrow. And Forever

Don't have a whole lot of time to post right now, but I do need to encourage the 3 or 4 people that read my blog to vote. It's really not that hard...

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Color me dope

On the week of turkey day, I had a series of unfortunately fortunate events. First, I dropped like $110 diggin with my buddy Options (who moved to Japan a little over a year ago, but visits us simpletons every now and then). Even though I didn't really think it was bad at the time, it really was. I got some dope shit, but I also got some shit. The worst part about it was that I didn't get paid at a gig in full that Saturday, then I had bills due the next week, then one of my roommates didn't pay their portion on-time--in order to keep my credit intact I had to pay the difference (keeping in mind that I'm like a second away from broke at this point--I didn't really wanna dip into the savings).

Needless to say, I wanted to pull my hair out--but, sadly, I have no hair to pull.

Hehehe...crazy right? Not really, some people got it worse than I do. Ehh...I survived.

Anyway, the FCS project is coming along really nicely. We've recorded 11 songs or so in the three weeks we've been in the studio. I won't go as far to say that we're ahead of schedule. What I will say is that we're going at a damn good pace.

thats all for now...i posted this late as hell so you're just gonna have to like it.

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Didn't I blow your mind this time...

YESS!!!! We finally started the real work for this next project. Wa'Jee has dubbed it "Food, Clothes and Shelter"...FCS for short. I like it. His reasoning behind it was that the title was something everybody can relate to, hence making it something everyone needs. I guess each and everyone of us has our own genius in some form or fashion...

This album is going to be very, well, personal for Jee and the rest of us. Ken and I were talking about how FCS is going to be different from Younger Frame because of it's content. Younger Frame was an album for Jee to say "hey, I can write thought provoking shit, and I'm clever with it." It was an album to garner interest and intrigue those that were willing to listen. FCS is here to get everyone into his mind and his soul...to see who this brother really is. We're all excited about it and we can't wait to get it done.

On my side, I'm on a whole different plateau musically, mentally, emotionally--even physically. I'm going to have so much fun making this album it's hard for me to convey that feeling and passion to others. When December hits I'm going to have all the time in the world (at least until early/mid-January) to attack this project fully. I might even fuck around and get my own shit done (which I've been putting off for the longest time). Not to put my foot in my mouth and say something too outlandish, but I feel really good about the future. I'm leaving some things behind that have been really irritating me (changing schools is one of those things)--I'm starting to take action on what I've been thinking about for way too long.

In other news, I have a gift for you all. I'm aiming to make it a monthly gift, actually. I've started a podcast that I call "Astro Funk". It's a collection of random mixes of whatever I'm feeling at the time. I was going to call it "iPod de Issues" but that sounded a bit lame...
The link to the feed is http://issues.podbean.com/feed
For some reason iTunes hasn't listed it in their podcast section yet. I sent in the URL weeks ago, and I really don't know what else to do. So, in the meantime, just use that link to the feed and download it that way.

Here are some instructions to download it though iTunes without using the store (copied directly from iTunes, so please excuse the bubbly language):

A podcast I want to subscribe to isn't available in the iTunes Store.

It's easy to subscribe to any podcast using iTunes, even ones that aren't available in the iTunes Store. To subscribe, find and copy the podcast's feed URL. In the "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste the feed URL into the dialog box.

Welp, there you go.

I know you've been wondering "What the hell is that video at the top?" Well, I'm glad you asked buddy! It's a video of Eddie Hazel, the guitarist from the early days of Funkadelic, playing one of the most famous guitar solos from the title track of the Funkadelic LP "Maggot Brain". I was on youtube wasting precious time and thought I'd share it, seeing as how it's one of my favorite songs of all time. It really has nothing to do with this post, but it's good and I strongly suggest you sit and listen--standing is okay, too.

On that random note, I bid you farewell until next time. It's almost 3am and I got stuff to do early tomorrow...

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