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Artist: The You Essay |
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Genre: Sampled beats, rapping. |
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Brief Description: An attempt at a classic, straight-ahead, "crew" hip-hop album (w/o the crew.) |
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The You Essay was supposed to be a vehicle for my crew to rock on (my crew at the time was supposed to have been Meesh, Uncle Mic, Eso, and some extended members of Oldominion: Bishop, Gash, Freeze, Bits and some other Seattle cats maybe Native maybe Specs maybe Beans) but the problem was, none of these people beyond the first three was a very good friend of mine at all and we certainly weren't really in a crew. So, I didn't personally have enough lyrical ideas / raps for a whole album, nor did I have the friends to fill in the blanks. So what you end up hearing is a bunch of production ideas with sparse lyrical content.
I suppose I could always try again to find rappers for these beats. I've fantasized before about random people on the Internet recording their own raps to these songs but so far it hasn't spontaneously happened as it's supposed to.
"crzy" is perhaps my proudest achievement of this kind (classic boom bap) of production. The samples I used are just too dope. Eso said he thought it was a perfect piece of production when he heard it (coming from a musical genius such as himself, that's saying something.) I'm pretty psyched about "Torture" too... Uncle Mic loved "Yung Gurlz". I dunno. I think a lot of this stuff is awesome. A bit bummed I couldn't rustle up the enthusiasm to get some heads on these tracks... Had the cart in front of the horse at that time in my life; was putting no energy into friendships then wondering why I had no friends.
The majority of these beats were made by triggering samples or sampled instruments on my E-Mu ESI-32 sampler with my Korg X3 keyboard along with some synthesized instruments on the Korg. I recorded all my vocals onto MOTU's Digital Performer on a Macintosh in bedrooms in Seattle and did the skratching myself. I mixed and mastered the album myself. I made the cover artwork.