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Record Every Month - June 2024 - This song was my first step into ambient music, a genre which since I have been enjoying working on. I think I created the bass first, I wanted a buzz. I believe Headphones by Björk was a large inspiration.
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 19 becomes finished song number 10.
10 down, 40 to go. 20% of the way there!
My first toe-dip into a swing groove. Just a little. I like this one. It could maybe go for being a smidge faster though…
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 18 becomes finished song number nine.
Slow enough to pass for a funeral march. Not sure I like that anymore. I am happy with the lead guitars for the first time this summer. I think I was feeling it a little…
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 17 becomes finished song number seven.
I don't know what to think about this one. The leads at the end are really sloppy. It must have been the last song I worked on that day and my fingers weren't responding…
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Vocals: Bukupanda
Produced by Anubot
Mastered by Kirke Godfrey
Cover Art: Katinkera
Another Year: Katinkera & Bukupanda
Another Year Lambykins Mix: Same as above, produced by Kirke Godfrey
Summer Vibe: Bukupanda, produced by…
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The demons been forcing me to switch lane
Dem be joking with me like DJ on a mixtape
Boy in hell been trying to act like a friend
I stay mute when I noticed I gah no cash to spend
Hey, don’t near me plz just stay where you’re
Am gonna…
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2024 50/90 Challenge song idea number 15 becomes finished song number six.
The never ending mission to demonstrate that 3/4 time may in fact at times rock.
Also, any excuse to use a backward guitar track, right?
The rhythm guitars are…
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“Summer Rain” was written, recorded, and produced on July 23, for the July 2024 REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
Written in five minutes. Recorded in 10 minutes (used take #3). Added additional instrumentation and mixed in about 45 minutes…
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 10 becomes finished song number four.
I kinda like the verse. I don't like the mix. The hook is kinda meh. I like the random key changes. I should have done more with the dynamics in the outro. I dropped…
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2024 50/90 Challenge song idea number one becomes finished song number three. Only 47 more to go!
My morning routine got messed up and it became a song. Fascinating source of inspiration, eh?
I like the chorus in this one. Well, I like…
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2024 50/90 Challenge song idea number 12 becomes finished song number two.
Two down, 48 to go.
So far this is the only song that was written on guitar. Everything else started out with a MIDI bass part and was built up from there.
Sometimes…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Abu Dhabi Lyrics
Anyhow it be, it no matter
Who be you, wey I go fit die on top ur matter
Bruh, u ain’t do me no favor
Carry ur cross, everyone be he’s own Jesus
Though Oluwa Nikan lomo eni tii irekan
I no panic…
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 11 becomes finished song number 1.
One song down, 49 to go, but at least I won't be shut out this year.
This song is overly simple. The vocals are pretty bad and the lead playing is worse, but it's a decent…
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earth sounds - what happens when you put piezo pickups on a DIY psaltery and take it outside to record the wind.
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I wrote and recorded this song in March 2021, the day after we lost our precious little cat Carmen. It was recorded in one take to my iPad. A heavy version of it appears as the closer on our 2023 RPM album "No Confetti"
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from Scraps…
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Written and recorded on one hot summers day in 2006. Then buried and forgotten about it until 2024.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written by Damian Lethbridge (2006)
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An unfinished track from 2012's "Red Milk" RPM sessions. Danielle had this cool piano instrumental that we never got around to doing anything with. I feel like it stands on it's own as an instrumental.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released…
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I think this is were I was trying to go with "End of the World" back in the 90's. From the 2002-2005 lost sessions.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written by Damian Lethbridge (2003)
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Another weird song from the 90's I found on a cassette tape.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written by Damian Lethbridge (1998)
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An acoustic-synth version of "Horses" I recorded for the Anniversary album. Dad always loved the song but I wanted to make it less "heavy metal", hence this version.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
Written by Damian…
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I wrote this circa 2001. We used to jam this one live a lot. It was fun to play. Marc would go nuts on the drums. This recorded version is from the 2002-2005 lost sessions.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written…
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I found this song scrap on a cassette tape from 1997. I think listened to Radiohead's "OK Computer" and immediately ran up to my room and recorded this.
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written by Damian Lethbridge…
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A demo version of "Treehouse" from 2005. I different version of it appears on 2009's "Whistle & Sing"
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from Scraps (1994-2024), released July 11, 2024
written by Damian Lethbridge (2005)
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Another one of Dad's favorite songs from the Anniversary album. I grew up listening to this song played over and over and over in the car and house. Hope I did it justice. Who knew decades later I'd get to shake the hand of the legend that wrote…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Higher Lyrics
Kon shey Dan Dan ni ki motor TOBI koto peni oko bogini
Alamdullilah for what I have V. Soon oma plenty
I pray make my helper no go stress me
Jah go run am, God Is over everything
Oluwa joor jekin raye…
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“Believe” was written, recorded, and produced on June 29-30, for the June 2024 REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
Another example of trying to write and produce something in a day, to have something submitted for this month’s REM Challenge…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Uptown Disco Lyrics
Benni, Mon kanra, Mon para
Omije jabo loju mii, nigbati moh Gbo rate dollar
Aboki Ogbo kan Kan Oti dii dullard
Agba Baller, 001 Asisat Oshoala
Koko jabele, onikaluku Lon Shey thieh
Alamdullilah, kii…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Synchro System Lyrics
Ahh, Bii Gongo aso kutupu ahu
Gbo Gbo olowo koni Odogwu
If U’re not taking about money, Meshu onu
Stop steering at me joor Gboju so hun
Oju laari aomonu
Lodi fa fùn eni Ton kè tio sukun
Different…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Hello Habibi Lyrics
Let’s go to the store to get Richard mille
After that m gonna chop u like tanfirin
Tin baa nii kobo Kini yen mabamii shagidi
I’m repping my city, I’m from lasgidi
Them think say I no fit do am…
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Written by John Turner from his new release The Whole Shabang.
John on Drums & Lead vocal,
me on all guitars and backing vocals
and Ken Hornoff on bass and recorded at his Tukar studio.
First time we did the power trio thing!
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A very slow piece built by two different synth sequences inspired from trial/error development/build of an electrical synth circuit I began in late 2023 created by Moritz Klein. I have recently after several attempts gotten it to work to the…
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Background drone is one of the saved "sequences" on my Roland SE-02 synth, likely from its original owner. The plucked string sound is also from the SE-02, but triggered via MIDI by a Casio DH-100 and played while the drone was running. These…
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Poor old Reg more bad news, it never rains but it pours......
All i want to do is go get high
Suddenly theres a chaos come to my mind
It’s like someones had it perfectly designed
I couldn’t answer how
I couldn’t answer why…
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Latest musical heroes cover is the amazing 10cc, and this brilliant track....a bit of test to put it together but hopefully sounding good!
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I wrote this last year after an enforced absence from work. I discovered a really nice piano loop that I then chopped around by changing the key and adding some different melodies. This in turn sparked a chord sequence for the chorus and the…
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The Skybeam engineers were placed in sensory deprivation pods and dosed with specially designed psychotropic drugs to enhance perception and creative abilities, the music injected directly into their cerebral cortex for maximum effect..
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I'm working on a new album of electronic pieces with modular synths and Pure Data and possibly some electro-acoustic, electro mechanical. This one will be in the mix.
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Everyone is outraged over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Palestine and for good reason
And while it may seem like we ordinary people who live in comfort can’t do much about it except to protest, there really is something much more…
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This was my sophomore year final project when I was a classical guitar major for two years of my life. I managed to sneak in my strat in this though :-)
For Bass vocal / speech contrabass bowed and used as percussion, piano, electric guitar…
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A girl who knows my hear when ever I'm angry and happy
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“Nothingness” was written, recorded, and produced on May 31, for the May 2024 REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
It was done out of desperation to have something submitted for this month's REM Challenge. It is terrible!
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You pick your artists based on money
My favorite artists haven’t won the lottery
But they’re lucky in love
You think there’s about ten important artists
For every one, there’s ten thousand more out there that are just as ‘bout it
Awesome…
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Plugged my Kaiser Electrical Instruments Drone Stack and Hypno-Drone into my interface, fired up Reaper, and hit Record. Decided to split the 2-minute Drone Stack track in two and pan it hard left and right, just to save the listener some time…
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What’s the big idea?
Are you judging me? What’chu want from me?
Put me on the spot, you don’t want it from me
Put me in the hot seat?
Why do you question me? Are you obsessed with me?
Test me, press me, get next to me, like you want some…
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I just wanna say
I wanna thank you
It’s for you that I do this and
It’s ‘cause of you
You made me rap
You put me here to do that
I met you in the womb
But you had plans much sooner
Much farther back than that
For this
It’s because of…
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A Blues style song about the dangers of working in the corporate world.
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A sound collage for Sound-In on that theme. Sources include Backbone and Scratch, Uli Jon Roth, Mexican radio and me.
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An R & B style love song about keeping your lover.
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[Verse 1]
I want a woman
Don’t think much of them
What is one?
When all there is are robots
Show me they’re not some
I’ll show you flying saucer
I want one who recycles
Kind one, plant strong
Feet planted on ground
Normal weight, great…
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3 strats, bass, vocal
There was a place for me
I knew that it was free
Inside your heart
Inside your heart
There was a place for you
And I thought always true
Inside my heart
Inside my heart
I didn't think that it could go
I didn…
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[Verse 1]
Is it the age of getting together or sticking together?
Or the age of we-are-never-ever?
Are the women super feminists? Or too loose with the pussy lips, I mean promiscuous?
I don’t know, I keep my distance, I keep from wishing…
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Teejay’s WRLD - On God Lyrics
Where hope Dey na for baba god side
Me no get strength to Dey follow u drag
Owo shay koko, I only get eye on the bag
No fugasii, cause I be king for my yard
Oro poo Lopo Lopo
We Dey on God! But, Iyen…
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It was a rainy Mother's Day.
EOB strat and Bass VI
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Teejay’s WRLD - Bad Vibes Lyrics
Good Vibes Make Me Stay Energize
Double Six Anytime I roll dice
I have fun every time, I don’t fight
I stay jonze when the feelings really bad
only money can be use to survive
If u hate me, I won…
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Korg Volcas, bass, Minibrute 2.
Recorded with a Tascam DP-006, reverb with preset "Bathroom" added in Audacity.
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a reading by daughter Brit, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig. Are laws of nature just human inventions, like ghosts?
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Teejay’s WRLD - Alubarika Lyrics
Everyday I Dey pray make I cash out
Lawujo Egbe mii ki emigan bale stand out
I be peace man I can’t shout
Eni ti olorun bati gba fun otun need Ati ma doubt
Woo, Mako mako loye Nnkan
Mo beleda mi soro…
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I wanted a loose nod to “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, so I started it in the rain and ended it with returning to someplace I used to live. But then because of Bud Cort I thought the singer should inexplicably die at the end of each verse. This…
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Teejay’s WRLD Dealer (Cover) Ayo Maff Lyrics
Smoking Blunt in the moonlight to Dey meditate
Working, Working All Day, Ajeh Koma Si Holiday
Nd I Dey as I Dey, mio kin shafara weeei
Na to puff I sabbi, Ajeh Mio Mo Igo weyy
Ori lomo…
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“Six Years” was written and recorded on April 27-28, for the April 2024 REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
A quick write-and-record short song to submit for the April 2024 REM Challenge. Half truthful, half tongue in cheek. I recently defended…
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“The Wild Ones” acoustic cover recorded live very quickly on my phone (Pixel 4a) using a Seagull Entourage acoustic guitar.
“The Wild Ones” written by Anderson/Butler, originally by Suede.
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Life Lessons, ninth installment, call it Life Lesson 9 if you would be so kind
for all the employed out there
if your job is trash, or if a part of your job is totally unimportant, unnecessary, or destructive or harmful of someone or something…
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Want To See Started From When I Had To Perform Mostly On Stage, So A Thought Came Into My Mind To Do A Song That Will Capture The Hearts Of My Fans.
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The Challenge posted on the Deluge Discord group for April 2024 was to make an ambient drone track, and to share some new patches. I wanted to see if the new effects in the Community Firmware v1.1 Beta were up to it, and they seemed to be! I crafted…
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Last nights work. So nice to blank everything and start from scratch. Digging the rig.
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a max generated midi file of notes is being played into Surge XT free vst3 and I am ,,, kinda playing the vst plugin in reaper there are trials and errors as I learn this new synthsoft synthesizer --- it is very very powerful and I don't quite…
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The 11th and final song for the seventh edition of Quarantine Tunes. I promised myself I was going to stop at volume six and now we have volume seven and I've already started working on volume eight.
This is okay. I like the three part harmonies…
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics by EPMD)
[Hook]
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I wanna do it for you, I do
Whatever you want
Whatever you need
I wanna do it for you, I do
[Verse 1 (Erick Sermon)]
Let's get up, let's…
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Yes, the new album is still coming.
The drums are FINALLY almost done!
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Noise drones with percussive colors and other textures
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You could not be faithful in the end
You could not be faithful in the end
I only asked for eternity, forever and again
But you could not be faithful little friend
Every sunrise to paint the mountain dew
Every honesty Rembrandt ever drew…
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Bob Dylan from '63. Single track, single take, broken guitar and broken man trying to sing and forgetting Bob's beautiful lyrics.
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings…
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Where’s my makeup bag?
Gotta get ready
Wait, man, my hair isn’t straight
Hold steady
They’re always scrutinizing
Fuck thinking about stupid guy shit
It’s girl power
It’s girls' hour
Gotta work hard
‘cause the top is the thing I want…
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Recorded in Escalante Canyon..late 1970s..enjoy
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Recorded this somewhere on Boulder Mountain early 1980s. During the song you can hear the thunder as a massive storm was approaching..enjoy
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[Verse 1]
Through you I am, I do all things
All credit to you and to your gifts
And your help which is plentiful
You steer me clear of trouble
You lead me to a place of wonder
When I get a curve ball
You want me to learn from it
And I…
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Ambient Track Created at home for the March 2024 Record every month Challenge
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This is an instrumental accompaniment for choir. A bit too heavy-metal-like and overdramatic. I have earlier posted a version for kids choir, for accompaniment by Orff instruments and piano.
Here are the lyrics:
Christ is Risen! He rose…
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A Richard Serra memorial performance by the tribe inside the Serra sculpture Vortex at the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum. A passerby provided some vocals.
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Another ancient recording for posterity. Still learning how to play guitar, and at this point I think I knew two chords.
The lyrics were not intended to be offensive at the time, so don't cancel me.
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Created from an initial modular sequence then added lap steel, processing and in the end a smattering of piano.
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Well guess what it was raining again and Reg was bored so he got Tom on the phone out of the workshop... god knows what he was creating in there and got him to lay down a vocal for him. Rainy days are the worst.....
Reflection…
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I became part of the tapestry
I went and glitched through the floor
I don't know where I am again
I looked but can't find the door
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Freesound Samples Used:
lost.wav by shadoWisp -- https://freesound.org/s/260932/ -- License: Attribution…
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Hello peeps!
Long time no public activity from me.
I've been working on a bunch of stuff with the guitarist from my old band. None of its ready...
However, I've been experimenting with different ways of jamming and doing demos. And in the…
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[Part 1]
Big blunts and forties
New Lambo off the lot, can’t afford it
Bust the head of a sucka
For speaking out of order
Liquor on the curb
For my homies not here
Gotta get my bread up like yeast
I ain’t talkin’ bread crumbs
Fold my…
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Tworegs visited and we couldn't help but get at least one colaboration song done in the studio. I wish we would have had time to get some other songs he wrote in SF recorded in my studio but I was out of town during part of his stay, and to be…
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Another influenced by my recent visit to San Francisco
Always say no
Hey now always say no
Cause you never can guess where your life will go
You can turn your back and everything gone
close your…
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(interpolates lyrics by Nas and samples music by L.E.S. and Trackmasters)
[Man 1] Hello?
[Man 2] What’s up, man?
[M1] Nothing really, my girl just left, she’s geeking out, talking ‘bout big house and kids, Norman Rockwell shit again
[M2…
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The Tenderloin is only few streets in San Francisco where the homeless and drug addicts congregate its kind of at the bottom of four hills so you have to walk up a steep hill which ever direction you try to leave the area. which kinda leaves them…
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The Woman You Love
She never needs to compromise
Strips paint with a simple cut of her eyes
As warm as a summer sun; as cold as a winter moon
Likes to relax with a book on a rainy afternoon
She lays tables cooks our food
Laughs a deeper…
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A song influenced by my recent visit to San Francisco and seeing the redwoods for the first time
WHERE THE TREES GROW INTO GIANTS
I had to travel thousand’s of miles to find it
That goldmine up there in them there hills
Where the rivers…
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