London N.E.W.S ft Sway, Baby Blue, J2K and ME

We done this tune some years back - someone on my twitter (http://twitter.com/Incisive1) reminded me about it the other day so I thought id put it up - enjoy..

Raw Smilez : Mini Vid

You know I dont normally post other peoples content on my blog but this is my dawg from round the way (In the background of the vid is the nursery I used to go to!!!).

He been on this music thing for a while as well. He put together a tidy little Mini "Hood" Video of a quick freestyle - I like the way it came out - better than alot of "official" stuff thats out there - lemme know what you think :

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YASMIN!!!

Yasmin Baker is the very talented pianist AND vocalist I met through performing with Shakka's band. She also accompanied me and duncan james on my performance and long road trip to CIRENCESTER and recently on one of my favourite songs on my upcoming album.

If you see myself or Shakka perform, after us (hopefully), one of the first things you will notice (apart from the talent of the entire band) is Yasmin behind her keyboard dancing her HEART OUT to the point you start to wonder if she is ACTUALLY playing the keyboard - I mean she moves more than I do and shouts out and backs my verses more than shakka does...lol...but trust me...she plays keys with the best of them!!!

More than anything though, I consider her musical family now so when her 20th birthday plans fell through, me and the band got together to throw her a surprise "do"....here's how it went (Drama's included)!!

HAPPY BDAY YAS!!

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Knew we were trouble

Hope you enjoy the video above. I really really feel what Mr Hudson is doing - I first saw him a while back at a Kanye concert he was opening for - I went straight home and found his blog and was the FIRST PERSON EVER to leave a comment on his FIRST POST EVER ( HERE - the bread and roses post). Then I got his album at the time "Bread and Roses" and realised this dude has got something VERY special.

So yea man, I took his tune (from his new album "Straight no chaser"), looped it over and got some random things off my chest - namely the fact that music has taken over my life and technically it has been "Trouble" from the start. Without music, I wouldve focused soooo much time, effort and money elsewhere in my life and I could be in a completely different space. Fortunately, this path is nothing that I regret - so this song is not a regret song.....its more of an observation.

HOPE YOU LIKED IT!!

Video Diary : Mobo Special

I know its been a while since the Mobo's but here is a video diary of my trip with my team - Myish. The 20 seconds intro sequence alone took 6 man hours, 4 packs of haribos and 14 glasses of tropicana (and you know how expensive that stuffs is!) So enjoy and watch all!!

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Video Diary Episode 4 Part Two

Video first, explanation after :

14th September : In Studio with TE1 recording my album
20th September : Back in studio with TE1 recording my album
26th September : In Home Studio with Yasmin Baker....recording my album
PLEASE FOLLOW ME ON MY JOURNEY AND WATCH IT ALL!! THANKS!
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So,

As I explained in my LoNG last text post, ive during september (and still this month) I stopped almost everything to complete the album. Its about 75% complete now id say - Ive recorded ALL of my verses but ive got one more feature to record then mixing and mastering to go throught which I guess would be the other 25%.

So this video diary is nothing but studio sessions - I hope you still enjoy/enjoyed it and see what time and effort goes into a 3:30 song or even an album that you may or may not like...hopefully you like mine.

Nice one

'Cisive

P.S I HAVE GOT A SPECIAL VIDEO DIARY FOR YOU NEXT TIME!!