I've Got Beats.

If you haven't noticed already, I have my Soundclick up and runnin' and loaded with beats. Only fifteen so far. I plan on doing the rest tonight. Bouncing tracks is boring, tiresome, and just... lame. But hey, comes with the job, right? Anyway. If you are an artist interested in buying my beats, feel free to email me. You know the address. Hit me up! Also, feel free to critique me as well. I'm always open to constructive criticism.

And about that last entry. Don't worry about it. I'm cool (kinda). I'm still feeling a little down. My best friend is going back to Charlotte, which sucks, but I suppose it had to happen. I'll get over it. It's not like we'll stop being friends or anything, so it's all good. Still sucks, though.

Well, that's it for now. Beats, beats, beats! Buy 'em!

I'm going to be a bit more ... cryptic than usual in this entry.

I am a very lonely person, which I was fine with up until recently. I found that being a loner isn't what it's cracked up to be, and that it might be a good idea to have someone to confide in, someone that may be capable of giving me some advice without patronizing me, and, at the same time, not make me feel like an idiot. I have yet to discover such a person. So, as an inherent loner, I figured that maybe it was best to just... keep to myself.

As a result, I've become starkly fascinated with death, and the idea of dying. Call me dramatic or "emo" if you wish, but... yeah. I don't think I'll do anything as serious as suicide, though. So no worries.

It's just really fascinating.

Things are coming together.

Slowly, but surely.

Been putting things together for my marketing campaign. Had to set up a new PayPal account, and re-signed up with Soundclick and Bandcamp.com. So, soon enough, artists will be able to cop beats from yours truly, be they near or far. ;D I'm excited to get things underway, but first thing's first.

Before I post up beats for potential customers, I need to take care of fam first. My homeboy Cutty Boi has been waiting for new beats from me for a minute now, and I need to just get around to making him some stuff. By the time I'm finished, I should have things up and running.

That is all for now. Once I get everything the way I want, I'll start writing like I used to. Instead of the mindless dribble I've been spouting the last couple of months. So hold tight! (© Slum Village)

I need more music.

I know that before I complained that I had too much music, but recently I've been cutting away the fat so to speak in my music collection. Been tossing out stuff that I never listened to, rarely listened to, or tried to make my self listen to. No point in keeping shit you're not feelin', right? Right. So, if anyone out there has dope music, feel free to send it to me. I don't care if it's yours, a friend's or just your favorite artist. I don't care what genre it is, so long as it's dope.

Been makin' a lot of beats lately. Not enough rhymes, though. I had started this thing where I wrote a rhyme everyday, no matter how dope or wack I thought it was, but after getting stressed out about having to reformat this PC (again) due to it being attacked by an UBER virus, I kind of stopped. That lasted all of four days. I need to get back to it, though. Practice shall make me even more perfect. ;)

I might lose my driver's license. Or go to jail, or somethin'. LOL. I ain't paid my court costs YET, and they're a few days overdue. I tried getting it extended, but no one at the court house seemed to know how to help me. So... whatever the fuck happens, happens. Whatever they do, I'll have to roll with the punches, suck it up, and get over it. Yah'mean? Haha, "yah'mean." Anyway. Talk to you later.

P.S.
Spec Boogie is dope. Check out his stuff. If you don't, you stink. That is all.

Rap Battle Musings: The Game vs. Jay-Z

Uh...yeah. If you haven't heard by now, I guess I'll tell you. So, Jay put The Game's name in a rhyme, or so it's speculated. According to the source (which I'm too lazy to find. Do a YouTube search and I'm sure you'll find it), Jay spits:

I ain' talkin' 'bout gossip
I ain' talkin' 'bout game/
I ain't talkin' 'bout Jimmy
I ain't talkin' 'bout Dame/

The Game gets giddy, happy to get the opportunity to finally make a diss record to Jay-Z and Amber Rose (Kanye West's girlfriend) while he's at it. Why Amber Rose? He's The Game. Does he really need a reason? Funny thing is, he makes a lot of "Yeezy is my homeboy" comments... it's weird.

He made a diss song, and it... sucks. I mean, it sucks. For someone that's supposed to be so "dope," this diss song sucks. There are a few lines in there that are okay, but overall, the shit sucks. If it were directed toward me, I don't even think I'd respond. I'd probably get on some Rick Ross shit: "he has 48 hours to come up with something hotter."

I know what you're thinking, though: "But Chris! It was a bait song! He's not going to go all the way in on his first song!"

Why the fuck not?

Shit makes absolutely no fucking sense. Back when I use to battle a lot, I had but one rule for myself: "Go hard. Go all the way hard." It was my job as the emcee to entertain those spectating, and to intimidate the FUCK out of my opponent. So that "give him a throwaway verse in the first round" BS was not in my strategy. First of all, if I wrote something dope, I can always write something even doper. I do it all the time. Every time I think I wrote the illest shit in the world, I come back and do it times 2. Besides, I don't like cats shitting on me in the first round. It's not a good look.

Besides, baiting only works on really wack rappers. It lulls them into a false sense of security. But even then, I intend on punishing you every round, from start to finish.

So why the hell didn't game just go fucking hard with this song? He's been waiting to do this shit for years, obviously. Why not just go all the way in? What makes him think that Jay-Z is going to give him a proper response? Jay might toss a couple lines at him, like he usually does, and that'll be it. It won't ever be on some Nas vs. Jay shit. Some LL vs. Canibus shit. It'll be subliminal potshots and obscure references in Angie Martinez interviews. Shit is just going to be garbage.

Alright, let's say I am at the Game's level of success right? Do you think Jay is more inclined to respond to me if I go hard on my first song? Or just hit him with a little bait rap? If I went all the way in, and tried taking Jay's head off from the beginning? It would get cats talking. Hell, there might be a chance that it gets enough people talking that it gets Jay curious. It might make him nervous. It might get under his skin. He might listen to my song and feel slightly intimidated, like he has to defend his honor. He might go after me on the principle that he thinks my record is wack whilst everyone is thinking I'm on the road to destroying his legacy.

Baiting him would just haveh im laugh at me. And fuck that.

KRS-One went after MC Shan's HEAD with his first joint.

Kool Moe Dee went after Busy Bee's HEAD when he dissed him on stage.

Hell, 50 Cent went after Ja's head when he first went at him.

Go hard, or go the FUCK home.

"Chop his head off, kid!"
- The RZA

Hi, I'm a PC... soon to be a Mac.

Been working my ass off as far as the beats, man. Like... as many as four or five a day... and I actually like these beats, too, which is a definite plus.

I had to reformat the hard drive... again. Yeah... turns out my PC contracted a real bad virus ("virtumonde," I think it's called), and it wouldn't allow me to do anything outside of click the Start button. Yeah... that bad. So I had to reformat, and spent the majority of the day reinstalling my DAWs and instruments and stuff. I'm not even sure how I caught the virus to be honest. I keep away from "attack sites," I don't pirate a damn thing anymore... so... what the fuck?

I am sooo gettin' a Mac, man. And after finding out that the Macbook comes in black? Sheeeit. It's on, breda. I'll be making most of my tracks on there, where the risk of contracting some super duper virus that will shut down my entire system is very, very, very small. Tell you what, though. I am not looking forward to learning new DAWs. Specifically Reason and Logic. Granted, I know my way around them a little bit due to my homegirl Tiff, but a brother knows FL Studio in and out. Still gettin' a Mac, though. >\

But I shall keep the PC as well. There are a lot of VSTs that I like that are only compatible with the Windows OS. I ain't giving those up for shit. Besides, it's good to have multiple weapons in your arsenal, right? I thought so.

Speaking of FL Studio... is anyone familiar with this new SliceX thing? Is it better for sampling than the Fruity Slicer?

Talk to y'all later.

Fuck the PC, I'm getting a Mac.

I'm tired, man. Real, real, real sick and tired. I've stuck by the PC for a long time, man. Put up with all of its bullshit. Even acted as though some of its problems didn't even exist for the sake of shoving it in a smug little Mac user's face. Boy, those Mac users are smug. And with good fucking reason, I bet. Hopefully, in the very near future, I get to be smug along with their asses. That's right, I'm crossing the fuck over.

As many of you know, I create music. Music is my fucking life. So imagine how freaked out I get when I fire up my trusty PC to find that its audio device mysteriously vanished. Yeah, into thin fucking air. Reboot? Done. Nothing. "Don't freak out, Chris," I calmly tell myself, and do a Google search to see how I can rectify my little problem. I think I must have read through at least a hundred message board pages, and found none of their solutions of any use.

I fucking panic.

I tell a friend of mine my problem and she tells me that I should check my BIOS to see if my Audio Device is on. I do so, and voila. Problem fucking solved. I freaked out for three hours straight, but problem fucking solved. Now, time to make some music—

Holy fucking shit, my KORG VSTs are GONE! Yes, man. Fucking vanished! Don't know what the fuck happened to them! I made 200 beats with those VSTs, and they were gone! Reboot? Nothing. Re-install? Nothing. Nothing works until I place the .dll files into a new folder and scan them in FL Studio. Finally, I make my beats, and all is right with the world.

So, paranoid, I decide that I am going to make a new Backup Kit just in case I need to reformat my hard drive or something. I go to the Dell website to download the drivers and then... the fucking drivers aren't there? Yeah, they gave me this stupid fucking "Dell Driver Download Manager" that's supposed to find all of the drivers I need and download 'em automatically. Convenient, yes... IF IT FUCKING WORKED.

I'm done with PCs, man. Fucking done. The moment I get enough money, I'm shelling it out for a fucking Mac. Sure, it'll cost me a year's worth rent, but it's GOT to be worth it, right?