Be there... or Be ■.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
What The Hook Gon Be?
So... As I sit here listening to beats and planning a studio session tomorrow. Something takes me back to an earlier conversation I had with someone. It was actually quite gratifying and wierd at the same time. I was walking thru work and this guy, who I didn't think knew me at all, and didn't know I made music said to me:
"Yo man... "DayToday" is sick. Real sick man..."
Bewildered and humbled, I reply:
"Thanks man, means a lot. I worked hard on it."
Then he comes back and asks...
"Sooooo... How come there's NO CHORUSES?"
CHORUSES? You mean HOOKS?
And I answered matter of factly, "Because I don't really dont like hooks that much. I'll do one or two songs with hooks... But I kinda like to get to the point."
The thing is... I really don't believe in myself as a "HOOK" guy. I can't make a hook like "Good Kush & Alcohol" or "No Lie". For every one of those, you'll get a...
"Diamond in the back... Suede roof... We in the ol' school baby we dont need a coupe... Why we standing here? What you wanna do? We on the top floor... (The liquors top shelf too)"
"Top Floor" (Which you'll hear soon) is probably one of my favorite and greatest hooks I've ever done. That was also a nod to Curren$y, one of my FAVORITE rappers. To be honest... Curren$y inspired some of "Life at 20,000 Feet". He inspired ALL of "DayToday"... Not so much as style, but because he really doesn't use hooks that much... He rarely does. And he songs rarely goes over 3 minutes. After talking to Spencer and Brian... and calculating my own theories, The listener really only catches up to 3 minutes. So I give you E V E R Y thing. Some don't notice there's no hook... But if you listen carefully on some tracks, there is... Its at the end. Four bars. That's it. I'll get there as a hook guy soon, and I am trying. So, you'll get a hook sooner or later...
I would like to thank everyone... (That means the 40 of you) who have like my band page on Facebook and the many who have made me #14 artist in Vista on Reverbnation. This is quite wierd and baffling to me because... How is that happening? Anyways, I was featured on a guy from Colorado (Joseph AM) track the other day... The song is called "What it sounds like". I actually did the verse back at Studio317, the old stomping grounds before there was Karma and Dungeon Studios... LOL. It came out dope so ima throw it on here somewhere...
#JaxTellerChronicles... Actually starting on that tomorrow with Karma... 3 hour session... Yessir.
#TunnelVision
#WaveGang
NYCE.
"Yo man... "DayToday" is sick. Real sick man..."
Bewildered and humbled, I reply:
"Thanks man, means a lot. I worked hard on it."
Then he comes back and asks...
"Sooooo... How come there's NO CHORUSES?"
CHORUSES? You mean HOOKS?
And I answered matter of factly, "Because I don't really dont like hooks that much. I'll do one or two songs with hooks... But I kinda like to get to the point."
The thing is... I really don't believe in myself as a "HOOK" guy. I can't make a hook like "Good Kush & Alcohol" or "No Lie". For every one of those, you'll get a...
"Diamond in the back... Suede roof... We in the ol' school baby we dont need a coupe... Why we standing here? What you wanna do? We on the top floor... (The liquors top shelf too)"
"Top Floor" (Which you'll hear soon) is probably one of my favorite and greatest hooks I've ever done. That was also a nod to Curren$y, one of my FAVORITE rappers. To be honest... Curren$y inspired some of "Life at 20,000 Feet". He inspired ALL of "DayToday"... Not so much as style, but because he really doesn't use hooks that much... He rarely does. And he songs rarely goes over 3 minutes. After talking to Spencer and Brian... and calculating my own theories, The listener really only catches up to 3 minutes. So I give you E V E R Y thing. Some don't notice there's no hook... But if you listen carefully on some tracks, there is... Its at the end. Four bars. That's it. I'll get there as a hook guy soon, and I am trying. So, you'll get a hook sooner or later...
I would like to thank everyone... (That means the 40 of you) who have like my band page on Facebook and the many who have made me #14 artist in Vista on Reverbnation. This is quite wierd and baffling to me because... How is that happening? Anyways, I was featured on a guy from Colorado (Joseph AM) track the other day... The song is called "What it sounds like". I actually did the verse back at Studio317, the old stomping grounds before there was Karma and Dungeon Studios... LOL. It came out dope so ima throw it on here somewhere...
#JaxTellerChronicles... Actually starting on that tomorrow with Karma... 3 hour session... Yessir.
#TunnelVision
#WaveGang
NYCE.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Remember, Remember... November...
So... Ive been working on this EP of mine for about a week and a half now... And needless to say, I'm so excited for you to hear it. Some of it is personal, some of it is fun. Some of it you can vibe to, some of it you can just put on if youre have a bad day. These are my thoughts, feelings, fears... All in a week. So i hope you download when its released... That date will come soon. All it needs now is one more song and the album art. Both of those should come soon. November... I'll see yall there.
Day One: 515 Wake Up Call
Day Two: For The Wave Tho
Day Three: You're Welcome
Day Four: Pound
Day Five: Check
Day Six: Chaos Theory
Day Seven: Solana Beach
There it is. The list of songs. 7 songs for 7 days of the week. November... See you there.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
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