How Refreshing (Outlaw Remix)
I’m pretty proud of this. If you never saw the original then do that first…
Featuring Rob Rush, QM, Pudge, Lone, No Wonder & Z-Boy.
For the behind the music story hit the jump.
So I wrote my verse one night and called up No Wonder to see if he wanted to get on the track… Once he agreed I took the 20 min walk to his house. On my walk I texted Pudge in Denton and told him I wanted him to get on this remix. I fwd’d him the beat from my phone since I had just sent it to No Wonder so he could write his verse on my walk over. By the time I got there he had already written a verse and we were ready to record. We downloaded the official instrumental from iTunes then we knocked our verses out that night. About an hour later we got Pudge’s via email.
That same night we emailed Z-Boy in Los Angeles to record his verse which he did sometime in the wee hours of his studio session. It was in our email the next morning. QM came over to the Hall Of Fame the next day and I played him what we had done, he decided to get on the track as well. I texted Lone to hop on board and we were all set. QM recorded his verse the following day and we began to plan the video shoot.
We started the video shoot without having Lone’s verse done but knowing that he’d be rapping 4th. I got his verse emailed to me sometime before we hit the bar durring the shoot. When I got up on the 22nd to finish the mix of the song, No Wonder sent me a DIFFERENT verse that I mixed in as well as Lone’s verse that I had gotten the night before. I also re-recorded by verse because I wasn’t quite happy with it. A few cuts and chops between the instrumental and original version and the track was finished. The video shoot was done from 4PM on March 21st to 4pm on March 22nd. All hangovers are real and nothing was simulated. I started editing around 5pm on the 22nd and was finished by 10pm. I credit most of that to my incredible talent but more so that all I really had to do was work off the original video and add some of our patented SF RL style to it.
Kudos to the Umlaut Productions team and of course to Shalem for providing the inspiration. Hope you enjoy.
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Rob.. you killed it. That was the fastest turnaround ever..
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Fuck. Wow.
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Definitely my favorite video to shoot so far
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 am
fast facts:
If you take the first letter of every word at the beginning of each bar in my verse, you spell “How Fresh”
Holy moly man what have we done? we gonna
Out rap every cat under the sun with that
Wild style sound we be second to none and
Forever getting famous when i’m catchin’ the drum
Rob Rush & Rec-League steppin’ up the tempo in
Each and every stay we make it fresher than a Mento
So someone remind me why i try to keep it simple when
Half the rappers out is bout as fresh as a pimple
neat huh!
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 am
Cant beat the Fab and Rec teamin up. Just cant. You kids along with being my among my best friends are my idols like billy. ‘yer darn tootin.’
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 am
Fuck! YouTube is down I can’t watch this and we are leaving soon. I’ll be back
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 am
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha YES!!!!!!! haaahahahahahahaaahahaaa
You guys really went in. I can’t believe you guys did it like that. All respect due. Reeeespect. Remixing the song is one thing, remixing the song AND the video is some next level shit. Hahahaaaaaaa. Can’t stop smiling.
I’m gonna email this to Adrian. He will love it.
Hahahaha. Wowzers. HA!
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Little Box-head action. Respect.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Glad you like Shalem! We were laughing the whole time while filming it
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
This shit is so bananas, I would refer to it as Nestle’s Quik Brand Banana Milk. Hats off, gentlemen.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
beater goes through all the RL shirts. thats pretty fresh.
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I’m glad Shalem liked it too. There were two other rappers I invited to get on it but it didn’t work out. I say we start a national trend REFRESH THE SCENE!
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I’m with that! Who’s getting on the next remix?
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Can’t figure out my favorite part of the video. Top two spots go to me watching the original video and getting pulled around by that giant beast of a dog
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
You guys are my favorite. Fucking brilliant!
March 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Appearing in both versions. I’m like Blade.
March 24th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Speaking of trilogy’s (Blade) Bun B is dropping his 3rd solo album this year called…The Trill OG…Genius.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
That Last comment was actually me…although if Jess was reppin Bun that would be tight
March 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
ALl hail the Buwee-Bot 1000
March 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
rap songs.