Finally Here- Sorry for the wait.

All I have to say is I'm a man of my word.  As far as the music video I was working on, I don't think it's going to happen due to the high standards I uphold for my image on this blogger website.  I just don't have time and when I do things don't happen the way I want them to.  Other then that the mix-tape is already done but I'm adding a couple adjustments here and there so I'll be 100% satisfied with what I distribute.  Stay tuned in for more.

Connecting The Dots

Things are starting to look up for my project.  Lately I've gained and re-gained musical contacts to help get my project jumping off.  My panel member Three-zo (Tyrone Hill) hooked me up wit his nephew J.Marquis who is a producer and CEO of MarqMillion Productions.  From now on I'll be receiving beats from him and working on separate projects outside of school.  I haven't talked much about it with him, but hopefully I can get in his studio and record a couple songs professionally. I have a studio connect  close to my house that I just started going to this past weekend.  It's a home studio where we recored in a sound proof closet, but he has a better microphone than the one I am using now.

Last and the best of the news, I re-gained contact with my former colleague Bebo.  This guy was like a big brother to me back in the day when I was in middle school.  He put me in the studio and introduced me to the rap game.  We lost contact a little before I came to Chinquapin due to the fact that I left rap alone and got more involved in the streets.  He commented on my last blog post before this one; he left me his phone number and told me to call him.  That only means good news for my project.  It means that I will have a rap mentor/coach, studio time, performances to come, and a CD to be made.  I'm starting to connect my dots and visualize the bigger picture.

Perseverance

With a week consisting of two tests, a late book report that I had to turn in, and going to the Gala, I must say this week was hectic. I wasn't able to get much work done with my music, but next week is creativity week and I'll get about two official songs,and half of the documentary done. I can't wait!! I'm going to get an early start by checking out the school laptop so that I can compose a couple beats over the weekend and get some lyrics knocked out so that when I get back to school I'll mainly work on recording and presenting to one of my panel members, Mr. Dillworth. He will give me constructive criticism on my songs and from there I will spend the rest of next week working on bettering my tracks. Mr. Dillworth has also offered to help me by filming me for the documentary. Thanks Mr. D!! Fueling off of motivation, I'll face my goals with perseverance; one step at a time moving around obstacles in my way.

On The Road to Success

So far so good with my project except for getting my beats uploaded to this page. What I will do is upload one of my songs to youtube and hopefully embed it into my E-portfolio. I say hopefully because I've made a soundtrack for a short video of our Burrs basketball team and I had no success with embedding it, but I did link it to my portfolio. With that being said, if your reading this now check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVoh-YAXsAs

On the other hand, I've been working on songs that will be on my final product, but haven't yet completed one. Although, I have been making songs for myself that I just do for fun which serves as practice and a sort of training for the real showdown: the CD. I've been experimenting with new styles of writing and working on collaborations with singers such as, Shomari and Chassidy so stay tuned in.