Okay here is the OFFICIAL list of the projects that we are currently working on:
Title: KickInYaSpeakers Artist(s): UnioNoMics We should be done with this project by early September. Expect to hear some great raw Hip-Hop
Title: Thru Playin Round Here Artist(s): Knowledge of UnioNoMics It's done!!! In fact, Go to the bandcamp and check it out! Physical copies should be available any week now!
Title: The Arrival Artist(s): Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest Just started working on it last night. It should be done by late August. I'll be constructing EVERY beat for you jock-jerkers *pause.*
Bottom line IS, we are getting work done. expect videos more often and new tracks. Also, We're working on setting up some performances so let me know if you'd love to come out and support if we came to YOUR area.
The Clipse have always been one of my favorite newer hip-hop artists, new as in they came towards the tail-end of the 90s golden age. Their east-coast flow, true lyricism, and great beat choices all sucked me in, since The Funeral (how many of you new jacks remember that song?) If I had decided to be a cocaine-rapper instead of the semi-conscious lyricist that I am now, I'd probably sound exactly like them.
I'm sure it surprises a few people that I fuck with The Clipse so much, but don't let the music I make typecast my tastes. Just like back in the 90s when I remember gangsta rappers saying how much they liked Soundbombing 2, and just like Talib Kweli signing Jean Graeand Strong Arm Steady to his label, don't be surprised that I fuck with some drug/gangsta ish. Good music is good music, period, to be enjoyed by all who can appreciate it. Gangsta music is like watching a mob movie or Paid in Full, so I drive home from work looking business casual as shit with a button-up and dockers on, playing Fabolous' There Is No Competition mixtape.
Anyway, we all realize that there's a difference between reality and music. I write some songs about how ill I am, acting like I battle, all kinds of bragging and shit-poppin'. Then I sit in my living room and play Guitar Hero. Point is we know it can't all be true, especially not all the time. Music inherently presents a skewed view of a person and their life. Sometimes it's not about their lives at all.
On a dvd called The MC: Why We Do It, The Clipse claimed that everything they write is real. Not some things, not "this was inspired by a story I heard around the way", but EVERYTHING. That's a tall order! One that I'm skeptical about anyone fulfilling, let alone two rappers who only talk about selling drugs, money, and girls. But hey, they wouldn't be the first rappers to be liars. *shrug* Who cares? Rappers been lying for eons. Onyx, Mobb Deep, and Wu-Tang apparently are/were fake. I could give a shit less as long as the music is hot.
So I'm Malice's website today, and I see this. Is he admitting that his music is inspired by the streets but that he didn't do everything he says he did, and that his life isn't like that anymore? Seems so:
First and foremost, if you're still on theverbalarteest.blogspot.com then you need to bring yo ass to WWW.UnioNoMics.NET
Okay for those of u who dont know, Charles Hamilton was caught slipping in a cypha after one of his shows on Penn State's campus and this cat Adam "Rone" Ferrone got the best of him.
A few days later, Rone decides to clear the air about the "battle" and drops another verse over the Primo-laced "Nas is Like" beat.
I love this video because of the goofiness and the organic feel it has to it. This is what hip-hop is supposed to be to me: diverse and fun. Watch the vid, laugh at his silly delivery and "Where's Waldo" friend in the background, then check out the funny ass hater quote at the end. I swear "World Star Hip Hop" is the welfare version of youtube.
lemme know what ypu all think wit y'all stankin asses
~Da Vinci the Verbal Arteest
