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China on the come up! Stanced 1 Series hatch.

I am definitely convinced that BMW NA doesn’t want NA to have anything cool.

-B3/Verb

insanism:

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Just an MP3 video slideshow featuring one of my tracks, “Decision”. Pictured in the slideshow are some of my primary musical influences, along with Busta Rhymes, since the instrumental was his to begin with. :)

-B3/Verb

I went to high school with Marc (theverbiage), what a talented beast. Seriously, I can’t think of anything he isn’t good at, but mostly I remember he was the absolute best at making me laugh. Love you Marc, and best of luck with the rapping shenanigans! 

Talented beast eh? I kinda like that. ;) Thanks so much Aleena, support from people like you makes everything I do with music worthwhile.

A short video showcasing some awesome dudes with their automobiles from the Level One group out of Ontario, Canada.

Basically, I’ll always be a Euro guy, but I <3 JDM sometimes. That is all.

-B3/Verb

Just an MP3 video slideshow featuring one of my tracks, “Decision”. Pictured in the slideshow are some of my primary musical influences, along with Busta Rhymes, since the instrumental was his to begin with. :)

-B3/Verb

Favorite Girl

Good evening, Tumblrfam. Today I had the pleasure of getting to work with someone that I’ve known and respected for quite some time regarding their musical insight and visionary production, A.Sesay of Sa-Loan Productions. His work has been showcased on my blog in the past (his wonderfully produced “A Special” EP was up on here in 2010, and is still available for download/listening here), and I was more than excited when he asked me to be a part of his upcoming project The “A Chronicles” EP.

I arrived at the studio around 11:45am or so.. maybe it was a little later. Either way, we got to working right away. I had my verses written and ready for recording to a song that Sesay had produced entitled “Favorite Girl”, which also features another talent he’d come across; this artist goes by the stage name of Hawthorne, and he does an amazing job of singing the hook/bridge on the track.

Once the verses were done, we began to mix down the vocals. I even took a stab at messing around with the compression and ratios of some of the stuff. I didn’t do half bad a job with it, either (Sesay can vouch for me on this). A bit later we took a trip to the hardware store to pick up a few items for the house, as well as to Chick-Fil-A for lunch, since we were positively STARVING by this time. 

Pictured below: the obligatory shot of the 12-count meal complete with strawberry milkshake, which Sesay had put me on to, as I had never ordered a strawberry shake from Chick-Fil-A before. That will soon change (whenever I’m in the mood for a shake, that is).

I know that somewhere out there, rappers are reading/will read this. So for you rappers who don’t understand the painstaking time and effort that goes into mixing down a track, or to the ones who are CONSTANTLY pestering for your tracks to be mixed down ASAP, you should stick around with your engineer once you’re done with your portion of recording a song the next time you are in the studio. I say that to say that we spent another 3-4 hours mixing the rest of the song down after we ate, and there is still even more possible room for improvement/tweaking.

Impatient rappers, this is your final warning.

But it wouldn’t be a true studio session if we didn’t get sidetracked somehow and go on 324627384 different tangents.. which wound up leading us to just as many musically inclined conversations, anyway. This was a perfect opportunity to catch up with a very hardworking and diligent friend of mine, as well as to plan our next steps for the future and what we expect to gain from our efforts.

Once it was all said and done, we were left with a very solid song. Balance, conceptual consistency, and a lovely island vibe to the whole thing. Of course, this is one of Sesay’s project tracks, so it will not be leaked to the public until he deems it appropriate to do so. He is very pleased with what we’ve accomplished, and if he’s happy, then I definitely am as well.

-B3/Verb

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Here are a few shots from the photoshoot that was done recently with my brother Darren (R.Badwah & Murray Pictures). These are up on my Facebook and artist/producer Twitter pages already, so I figured I’d also place them here for those who haven’t seen them yet. A bit of editing, and voila. Love these.

-B3/Verb

I am going to attempt at keeping my blog posting as frequent as possible, while maintaining as much quality content as possible. I believe this video definitely falls under the category of “quality content”. Many of you are familiar with Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette”, and I’m sure that just as many of you have seen the video that was shot for it. This is another take on that song in video form, put together by gfx designer Chris Le and produced by my dude Ben Beasley (also previously mentioned in my studio blog post as Anom The Phenom).

Now when I say produced, that’s what I actually mean: the a capella was the only thing Ben had to work with, as he proceeded to remake every aspect of the beat while maintaining its melody and putting his own spin on things, which also include his signature guitars. Its an epic remake, to say the least.

I’ll go ahead and let you all watch it, and am sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. 

-B3/Verb