RaYz Blizzog

This is my 1st official beat making video for the world. I was inspired to make a simple beat and I recorded the process in which I make a beat. I mentioned in a earlier blog post about aspiring to be a great producer and I took my own advice in the section of emulating a style of music I like. I was feeling a 2001 Dr. Dre west coast feel when I was playing this beat. I felt that if I recreated something like the Chronic 2001, I would be able to appreciate the music and its respective layers. Check the video out and subscribe to my youtube channel for future updates.

I have been pretty surprised that there hasn’t been more mudslinging between the two nominated candidates for President. Usually around this time the Republicans or Democrats start digging up some crazy information about each other and then smear it all over the media (insert Barrack “Yes I inhaled marijuana”)…hopeing that people will not vote for the candidate that is being smeared.

People are smarter than that….I hope… well…are we? Our country some how let George Bush run the White House for 8 years straight. Even though a majority of the country didn’t vote for him, and even with the massive anti-war protests. Well, I don’t have the answer to every question in the universe but here is an awesome propaganda video to get Obama elected into office. This video is silly, but the lyrics are powerful. I am pretty sure if you have that “A Milli” sample stuck in your head you are going to have “Obama” stuck in your head soon.

Shout out to A.P.T. for making the song. They have a blog you can check out with other videos. These dudes were also organized enough to get the song posted up on iTunes to download and for ringtones.

Big shout outs to my boy @ dallaspenn.com always holding it down with fresh hip hop content and lingo from the birthplace of hip hop.

Dallas has always talked about how Rap artists seem to turn homo at various times in their career either by natural evolution of their mind, or by the people they surround themselves with. This youtube video embodies and parodies all the youtube rap stars claim to fame in one whole video. The video goes from the rediculous ambitions of claiming to be rich while owning a rediculous amount of jewlery, in order to claim and affirm that said rap star is an upper class hood civilian. To the bogus attempts at trying to freestlye on the mic while claiming that its a rappers primary job to make hits and not do anything else.

This video had me rolling on the floor and laughing soo hard. Peep game:

I am really into politics and have been following the debates with Obama vs Hillary very closely. Obama has just overtaken Hillary in the Primaries and I feel that this video tells the epic story of Barack Obama!

Jermaine Dupri seems to think so. Check out his opinon here. Big shout outs to Crate Kings for getting the video out.

I could take a reactionary response and say “f#$k Jermaine Dupri he should be thankful for all the dj’s who’ve helped him out.” But since I have another side of my brain that kicks in with some cognitive sense, it’ll probably be best to take a deeper look into this situation.

I think what JD is describing is a “new market.” Just like hip hop is ever changing, so is the market for songs and making songs available to the public via Dj’s and promoters.

9th Wonder mentioned in an interview about “young folks hip hop” and “grown folks hip hop.” Young folks hip hop is stuff that you hear today on the radio that kids like (simple pop cRap type stuff). Grown folks stuff is what you don’t hear on the radio and are the classic hip hop stuff dating back pre “bling” era.

My opinion is that it is all in the perspective of the artist to relate to which ever audience he/she is trying to reach.

JD recently tends to reach the “young folks hip hop” crowd. To market songs to his crowd it currently requires networking with all the people who have access to mass media. The radio/media outlets have been consolidating since the Bush administration which means that less people are owning the major media outlets. JD doesn’t really have to go through major DJ’s because those DJ’s don’t get the huge wold wide fan-base he needs to sell millions of albums. So to JD, the DJ’s are “dead” and he negotiates with the right winged major media conglomerates.

On the other hand, if as an artist your target audience isn’t the mass media, then you work the game at a different angle. These artists are super hungry and use any means to distribute their work (myspace, websites, downloads, limewire, youtube, DJ’s, college radio, etc.).

I think that JD’s approach in this video was to get some buzz going about old ways producers used to get songs on the radio and how that have changed. I really doubt that JD is hating on DJ’s because he didn’t completely expand on why he thinks DJ’s are dead and never mentioned his position on how he currently gets his music heard to a massive audience.

JD produces some dope stuff, but at the end of the day his managers and everyone else giving him deals need to suck money out where they can. In order to do that they have to sell records to people who still go to the store and buy them.

What’s up? I have been neglecting you for about a month now. Times have been really busy with work and school, but now school is out!! I hope things have been going good for you.

I went to LA last weekend with Cubico Media to film the store opening of Mister Cartoon & Estevan Oriol’s store called The Last Laugh. My co-worker Pistol Pete snapped up a bunch of photos while I filmed some stuff in the store and the interviews. I have it all edited together and prepared for the internets!

The machine to record my show had been broken in the studio for the past three weeks, so when it gets fixed I’ll post up more shows. The playlists should follow soon. In the mean time, check out the Last Laugh Store Opening: