mighty hungry.

making moves.

yesterday i finally decided to make some upgrades to the pc.

the 2200+ chip was getting a bit long in the tooth, and was really starting to struggle under the weight of things i do with my computer, so an upgrade's really been long overdue. it's just hard spending so much money at one time. much easier to spend it on a pair of kicks and some records, maybe a shirt and some jeans.

anyway. it's going towards my small business tax break, so i'm going for it.

so far, i've put a few hundred into a new motherboard and cpu. i'm dumb stoked, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor (2.2ghz) and an ASUS socket 939 motherboard (which i've read mixed reviews about. pray that my purchase goes well, pc building can be fickle and unpredictable when you're treading the line between budget and power)

i'm also shopping for a dvd burner so i can get...er...my unmentionables off the computer and free up that drive for other more important things. my unmentionanbles are starting to swell to ridiculous proportions. darned torrents.

i still need to holler at a few sticks of dual-channel ram, probably a large capacity drive or 2 (250gb+), a flat panel monitor and new keyboard/mouse combo before it's all said and done, but it all depends on the money. thankfully, this motherboard provides headers for IEEE1394 (firewire), so i can move on to the tascam. this set up, though, should hold me for the next 2 years or so.

i'm thinking about upgrading to winxp64, as well. if anybody knows what the benefit of this would be, get at me.
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other than that, though, all is quiet on the music front. still putting together the mother of all beat tapes, and i've got some requests for submission of beats for some new projects. i got a track i did years ago (literally) in my email yesterday with vocals laid, and though i've improved exponentially with technical and creative skills since then, the cut actually sounded good. i'm hoping it makes these guys' album.

first and second week of july, i'll be in the park buying up records. i have alot of beats to get done... just got a ridiculous payload of drums that are ready to be flipped too, so i'm not wanting for inspiration right now, at least not from a sample standpoint.

these next few weeks should be productive. keep an eye on the myspace page.

OH YEAH!

the goodness got a website on the way.

check!

alright fams.

i figure i can share this with anyone who still visits regularly for updates, as it is close to nil, i won't be shooting myself in the foot with the ubiquitous jinx.

but i do wanna talk about it because i feel like i'm on the cusp, on the verge of something real big.

i've noticed recently that mental preparation has been key as far as being successful goes. i've also noticed that that's been a huge part of my process in setting myself up for the work involved in making this thing work- it's been sort of a philosophy building process that i can apply to all areas of my life, but specifically with my music.

it's a mental thing, 80% of any risk-laden venture is a mental challenge, where you've got to outthink your own insecurity and take fate by the balls so to speak. i'm my biggest obstacle at this point, 'cause on the real, there's a gaggle of niggas getting steady work who CAN'T do what i do.

musical talent is a SMALL percentage of the game, fam. cats who's aspiring to do this for a living, hear me OUT. the most gifted musicians sometimes are the ones with no jobs, always hoping the next gig is the big one. kool dj red alert said it best a few weeks ago, it's about figuring out how to market yourself for the most success possible.

this selling one beat every 6 months for $500 minus the paypal transaction charges ain't working, so i gotta shoot for bigger things.

so this is the situation.

i got something i'm working on. not a nebulous something, something specific and concrete. it's new and it's a bit different from my usual productions... it's basically me brandishing my various skills in flurry-punch fashion.

so it's gonna be like an album, but not.

more like a glorified beat tape, but that's okay if that's how it's recieved. i want it to feel like an album though.

and here's the killer:

it's gonna be FREE and limited edition!

i stand to make ZERO dollars on it. in fact, i'll spend more making it than i'll recoup distributing it. and i have a short list of folks whose hands need to be holding this disc.

i'm going to pay somebody a fair price to do some great artwork, too.

it's all marketing, fam.

you show niggas what you can do, niggas who have mobility that you don't, and hopefully they'll want to help you get into a position of mobility too. it's the dilla model. dilla had a beat tape circulate through some helping hands before he blew. cats like ?uestlove, q-tip, d'angelo, etc etc.

next thing you know, dilla's working with all of them. and niggas say that i've got it. i've been told that too many times by too many different UNrelated people. i'm not fronting on that anymore... i'm riding with it until somebody tells me that somebody lied to me. lol

for some reason though, i don't think i'll be hearing that.

GMFB nigga. it's about the dough now.