mighty hungry.

the business of the business sucks balls sometimes.

i'm not pressed or anything, especially since i know that this stuff rarely EVER goes like clockwork, but i'm still checking my email account every 5 minutes for an update.

walt should have received my cd by now, and at the very least given it a listen. i'll keep you updated.

conversely, my man Nate is also trying to manage me. he'd be more of a rookie in the business, but he really believes in my music, my sound, and we're friends. there's alot to be said for that partnership.

add to that that he's already found a buyer for 2 of my beats and will be talking prices and legal etcs. this week... he's really giving walt a run for his money. whoever can place the most beats for the most money in the shortest amount of time, that's the person that gets a 15-20% cut off top as compensation for services rendered.

i'm going to knock out 2 beat cds before wednesday, a hip hop joint and a r & b'sh joint so he can parlay em accordingly. it was dope, i was over my homie Mo's house, and i had to interrupt our movie watching to take a business call. haha. and we talked dollar figures! it was great. a taste of the life.

Nate works where lots of big big name artists come through. he just saw Jim Jones last week. that's sick. if he can land a few beats with those cats... i don't even want to dream too much.

it's crazy.

next few months is gonna be a crazy ride. i expect "business trips", lots of phone calls and industry parties, and lots of money spent. but if it works out like it should... by my 27th birthday i should see my first big payoff.

here's to the hustle.

yeah, i'm back.

think my last post here was back in july, and i was exclaiming over the purchase of a new midi controller.

it's integrated into the workflow quite nicely, and i routinely use it before anything else in my set up, save for the computer. coincidentally, on of my hard drives (the one with about 20gb of samples from wax and other source material) apparently went bad while i was trying to install a brand new 160gb SATA drive.

85-90% of the beats i had made prior to that moment were suddenly rendered useless. it was a traumatic experience, but from cataclysm rises awesome change. i went to tower records and bought some quick guides on chords, fired up the endless synths i had installed and tooled around.

now, i won't pretend that i'm anywhere near a good keyboard player, but the combination of midi technology and my rudimentary skills/ceaseless keyboard fondling/studying of those books has brought out the beauty of sample-less music. of course i sample my drums, i don't imagine ever stopping that, and i will continue to buy and sample records, but wow.

i love making keyboard beats.

not that 1998-99 swizz beats stuff either, although i can and will do that from time to time. here's a hint, i've been listening to Prince's 1978 "For You" album incessantly. yep. that and various Neptunes offerings, including pharrell's "In My Mind".

i've got a group in the oven. i also have been soliciting mcs for my producer's record a la Welcome 2 Detroit. i finally sent off my beat cd to Walt Liquor, a manager holding the reigns on the careers of the likes of Jake One and Planet Asia.

that last sentence didn't sound right.

anyway.

something is gonna go down, i can feel it. i feel better at this than i've ever been, and i feel like i'm STILL nothing compared to what i will be. i'ma own this feeling right now, 'cause it's pretty bleak without it.

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Battery 3 is on it's way. this program has become a staple of my way of working, far beyond it's intended use of drum sampling.

the new version promises alot of the things that previously drew a line between it and the industry standard drum sampler, AKAI's MPC series, best of which being able to sync the machine to a tempo. since battery's software, you'd obviously sync it to the sequencer's tempo. if i can figure out how to mimic the MPC's note-repeat, it's safe to say that it's a wrap.

it drops some time this month. it's looking so good- and i'm getting so good- that i might actually drop cold hard cash for this one. i owe NI my career, for real. NI and Imageline, of course. once this grind starts paying dividends, i'm going to make it all official. it feels much better that way, anyhow.

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to say i'm excited would be an understatement.

i feel like i have a real chance at this music thing. but it's more of a nervous excitement where i'ma be scared as fuk if it don't work. it HAS to. i haven't literally given up health and home for this grind, but mentally, i'm so far gone into it that anything less than a home run with this at bat is pretty much a failure.

batter up nigga.