Archive for July, 2009

Dinner and a Beat

Jul
27
if you aren't viewing this post from the group site WWW.UnioNoMics.Net then you suck...

I told you all that i just moved into my new place about a week ago no? Well if not, then i did and here's a video of me cooking and making some music after settling in.

The hit

Jul
24
So earlier this week, one of my male co-workers received the notorious pink slip. The actual releasing of employees was not totally foreign idea because there has been multiple announcements that corporate was coming down hard on upper level management to let about 500 employees go by a certain date. One could possibly argue that us employees who are low on the totem pole should have been well prepared for the event. However, one would be wrong. Despite the numerous warnings, it is always an extremely sad scene when a person gets fired for "political" or "financial" reasons. Homie getting fired was exceptionally sad because he was dragging his feet with the super frown and he looked at every one of us who survived the last wave of elimination as if we were to blame for his hard luck.

As I said before, the above stated events were somewhat expected...not what happened next:

At six o'clock, my department carries out our daily routine of logging out of all of our systems, leaving the building to celebrate our freedom from the tight corporate shackles and rejoice in the last few moments of sunlight. My boss and I, having a conversation about her ex boyfriend whom works as a cop in baltimore, are walking side by side exchanging quotes from the movie "police academy." After walking through the revolving doors and exiting the building, we become blinded by the sun beaming his bright ass face on ours. Then I see a red glare come across my eyes and hear my boss scream. A bit of what seems to be her blood drips on the ground outside of the building and we all take cover assuming the worst (aka bill cosby finally got fed up with us "niggahs" to the point that he decided to take "making a change" into his own hands). As we all retreat in shock, I look across the street to see my former co-worker running away at full speed cheering and pumping his fist in celebration of his successful hit. Just picture a slightly over weight niggah in an all black outfit wit a bb gun (that has a phucking red beam on it) in his hand rocking flip-flops.

1st:
Why are you shooting a woman that was your boss an hour ago? You're a prime suspect should anything happen to her aaand should anybody be able to identify you at the scene of the crime, SHE HAS ALL OF YOUR FRIGGIN INFO!!!

2nd:
Why are you wearing ALL black? Its like 6785642811615545 degrees outside and yo fat ass running in all black? I know you musty. Get yo stankin ass some deodorant!

3rd:
Killas don't rock flip-flops period.
Ask Cam...flip-flops never get computers 'putin

So after sharing this with you, I have one question for y'all stankin asses...how far would you go/have you gone for revenge?

~Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest

New site!!!

Jul
23
I have a new website with my homie/rappin partner Knowledge its called

www.UnioNoMics.net
Go check it out wit y'all stankin asses!

So let's get wit this quick update

Um...
New music out!!!!!!!
About a month ago I made a mini-mixtape in 3 days. It came out pretty nice... The title is called Nefarious Snapshots of an Arteest's Perspective and it's available for FREE download @ TheUnion.BandCamp.com so go support people. (There's a link on the side if ur viewing our new site www.UnioNoMics.net)

I patched up a seemingly lost frienship I think. The person used to be a great friend of mine. We drifted apart for multiple reasons but I hope our recent conversation served as a foundation for future convos and meetings alike because it was refreshing talkin to the person.

I moved to Bricks City last weekend!!! I will talk more about that in a later post.

Since the new site looks good and I'm trying to be a better artist to my fans I vowed to myself, as well as others, that I will start postin more often and when I don't feel like typing a post I will record a video and post that (lazy I know lol).

With that said, I look forward to keeping you up to date with our music, lives, and funny stories/interesting opinions & perspectives.

Follow us on twitter and get informed/entertained:
www.twitter.com/VerbalArteest
www.twitter.com/KnowledgeTU

Catch you all later wit ya stankin asses
~Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest

Best Sprite Ad Ever!

Jul
20


If you're on knowledgethinks.blogspot.com, you really oughta be on the new website

EDIT: I refound the ad

A Very Interesting Article About Mike J

Jul
14
The article, c/o hiphopdx

I can't this say this is as well-written as it could be, but it seems to make two points. Michael Jaskson never spoke about/for Black people, which was a wasted opportunity. And his career paralleled early hip-hop. I'm not sure that I care about the hip-hop parallels. And I don't know enough about the man to give him a position on the spectrum whose poles are Bill Cosby and Malcolm X. But it's an interesting read nonetheless.

A short update:

  1. Thru Playin' Round Here is dangerously close to done. I know I keep saying that, but it really is. I've tweaked the master a few times (breaking the once-over rules of mastering, but hey I'm a perfectionist), and I'm happy with this latest version one but it's too quiet again. Didn't have time to fix that yesterday cuz of a Groove-Swing meeting. So tonight that'll be fixed, then I'm done!
  2. The Union will hence forth and forever more be known as UnioNoMics for now on. We changed the name to avoid conflicts with other people, groups, and companies. And to always be at the top of the google search results.
  3. Bookmark UnioNoMics.net. Right now there's nothing there, but I promise you a preliminary website will be there very soon, and our full site coming a little while after
  4. Ron has a beat tape uploaded at theunion.bandcamp.com. It's called Gimme Da Base, check it out.


Drop It Like It’s Hot Country Remix

Jul
9
Trolling the internet today, I found this. I never would've guess in a million years that somebody would do country remixes of gangsta-ish hip-hop, and humorously enough it apparently took a German country cover band to take the plunge. Normally I'm not one to make "looka this dumb-but-kind-of-funny youtube clip" posts, but I actually found this to be funny (for the whole first minute that I could stand to listen to):



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Wale’s New Single? Trid-ash!

Jul
8
So, trolling the internets today I see that formerly-local DC rapper Wale has an album release date(finally), and a new single. The video for the single:



I gotta say I'm not feeling it at all. Wale has never been the most conscious cat on the block, but this song doesn't even try to be about anything. First off the hook is stupid and jacks that "nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye" melody (same as Jay-Z's Death of Autotune, I'll take horrible timing for $2000 Alex). Lady Gaga, who my head-in-the-sand fuck-the-radio ass is hearing for the first time via this song, sucks hairy donkey nuts. Add to that a boring beat and Wale talking about nothing in a completely UNspecial(boring) way.


I'm all for rappers having fun sometimes, but everything you do has to be ill in some kinda way. Either in sound or content. These lyrics don't even try. To be fair, I'm sure son is being pressured to sell x amount of records. Hopefully the rest of the album is better, in the meantime I'll be looking for more of his mixtapes.