UnioNoMics 101

This Chippy D shit got me thinking: if she ends up staying semi-important for 5 or more years, some kid who’s now in middle school is later gonna read her bio and see that she’s Laurence Fishburne’s daughter. And they’re gonna say, “who the FLUCK is Laurence Fishburne?!” And their friends will say “psshhh just some old-ass actor, my mom likes him.” Laurence-fucking-Fishburne! Will someday be “just some old-ass nigga, who cares who he is?”

You know what else? Kids right now have no idea who Allen Payne is. They have no idea about New Jack City. Wayne named his albums The Carter, and they think that is only a reference to his last name. They’ve never seen G-Money scream “am I, my brother’s keeper!!!!” And for that matter, never seen Charmaine crying over “Laaaaance” in tThe Cosby Show. Haha, they’re gonna be judging his career based off of House of Payne. That’s gotta suck, one bad decision, and unless he redeems himself, it’ll be all that young heads know about him.

So anyway, that’s my random thought for the past few days. Besides laughing at Chippy D’s over-moled rump, I have been working on music. Real life keeps trying to distract me, but I did get a song done. So check it out, and keep checking the site for more stupid thoughts and intelligent music.

~Knowledge

Unionomics has been too quiet lately, and we plan on ending this trend very soon. Actually, Da Vinci has been making a lot of music with other artists in New Jersey, but like a biotch he hasn’t been posting any of it. Severely wringing his neck is the appropriate method of punishment for such gross oversights.

I on the other hand, have been battling regular life for a while, and the fight sapped my creative mojo. Stress decided that it couldn’t stand my happiness and attacked almost every portion of my life. That shit’s mostly over now, but expect some darker-than-usual music at some point where I reflect on these times. Someday I’ll air out this shit out in detail on some Are You In That Mood Yet? shit, a la Joe Budden, but I haven’t found the right beat yet (if you got one, send it!)

Anyway, we’re working on a few new songs, some solo and some together. Expect at least one new song from me by next week, I got a bunch cooking on the stove right now. In the meantime, when’s the last time you’ve been to http://unionomics.bandcamp.com? There’s a lot to download there, and it’s all free! And check out the share button at the bottom of this post! It’s new! Click it now! I’ll wait…good job! We encourage you to share each post, share every piece of music you download, share your thoughts on us, share everything! Thanks folks

~Knowledge

1. Fuck John McCain. It's funny how one side gets pissed when the other does the same shit they been doing. Politicians, as a rule, can go fuck themselves. They all suck, and to varying degrees, they're all disgusting human beings who lie for a living.

In case you're too lazy to click the link, Harry Reid (a Dem), back in 2008, said that Obama could win because he's light-skinned and doesn't speak with "Negro dialect." Use of the word Negro aside (seriously who the fuck still says Negro), Reid didn't say anything that isn't true. If Chris Rock had said it nobody would give a fuck. Cuz we all know that a light-skinned (half-Black even) bruh who "speaks so well" is the best chance Black people could have to get in the White House.

So anyway Republicans are pissed cuz Obama pretty much doesn't seem to care that Reid said that, and it seems that Reid will keep his job and position as Senate Majority leader. Really I could care less. Obama knows that cats see him as Black before anything else, so this revelation really didn't open his eyes to anything. I'm sure Reid will be punished in some other, stealthier way. Issue deaded as far as everyone but Republicans and other stick-uptight-in-their-ass people are concerned

2. Black Rob needs to get outta jail and stay outta jail. Today I rediscovered his two albums, and my feeling is hip-hop needs Black Rob. Real good story, realistic thug-rap.

3. Fuck my job. That shit has ruined my creative mood since TPRH was finished. Gotta find something new, VERY fast. For various reasons my writer's block is crazy, and I'm sure the job is a part of that. Fuck real life in general, in college it was much easier to get inspired.

4. Go download Da Vinci's mixtape!! Don't just listen to it, download it. Post comments with your thoughts on it

it feels so weird to post on this blog. One of my resolutions was that I'll post on here more consistently and everybody knows how OD I get with my resolutions. anyways I need to think about what my next few posts will be about. until then, just download a copy of my new mixtape "The Coming" off of

thanks much!

by the way...you all should be reading this from

Not yet, but we're working on it. Me and Da Vinci are still working on Kick In Ya Speakers, and we got a bunch more coming. He's got a mixtape aaaaaand ...an EP and a ...book coming soon? Whatever I get confused trynna explain his plans, he's got way too much going on. Anyway there's new music from him, coming like next week. And there's our mixtape. And I got a couple songs I'm working on. No idea how I'll release em, but they're coming in some sort of way. And of course we're still working on setting up performances. This shit is not nearly as easy as it looks.

But back to recording, I had a terrible time trying to record earlier this week. See back in September I moved to a new spot. I had been done with TPRH, and was taking a break from recording for a while. So even thought I set up my studio during the move-in, I didn't test everything for a while. By the time I came back to it, I forgot what settings were best for my audio interface (presonus firebox). Long story short, this week my recordings were either too loud(static was doing my overdubs and ad-libs), or too damn quiet(damn firebox doesn't route its preamp for it's stereo inputs). So I'm trying to get a new mic sometime in the next week or two. I'll finally get a compressor mic and use the full power of this firebox. In the meantime everything I record is just for me to reference and practice, you guys will hear none of it. The new mic should sound so much better than what I got now, it doesn't even make sense to take my current recordings serious.

Until then, keep listening to our old shit(to the right), keep giving our music away, and keep supporting other good artists. Snoop has a song with Brandy on his new album that sounds so good I'ma have to download the album despite the trash that is I Wanna Rock. Also, the four songs I've heard off the Clipse' album were nice as hell, minus one that features Keri Hilson (further fueling my ire for her.) And go download Freeweezy's The Beat Made Me Do It, this joint knocks!

~Knowledge

UnioNoMics convo:


Da Vinci: They got a grown up dora the explorer?!?
Knowledge: The ass fat?
Da Vinci: Wtf is she explorin? It better be my draws
Da Vinci: I can't see it from the front so I think not
Knowledge: Damn
Knowledge: Where is she?
Knowledge: Hook us up
Da Vinci: Lol iono all I know is [my sister] and I are watchin icarly and the commercial to play on her website came on. This big headed bimbo got the nerve to have more taco friends
Knowledge: Taco friends?!!!!!
Da Vinci: Lol yeah they all got goya tatoos on they legs and everything
Knowledge: Bwahaha
Knowledge: They wildin
Da Vinci: Lol u kno I made up the tat part
Knowledge: U never know
Knowledge: U is what u stay eatin
Da Vinci: U is?
Knowledge: Maybe goya ass niggas become gorditas
Da Vinci: Lol
Da Vinci: I heard in mexico hoes be trickin for bottled water
Knowledge: Son if they made condoms that could protect against hot sauce pussy I'd be down there rat now!
Da Vinci: Lmao

The article, c/o hiphopdx