So I’ve been feeling like I might not know how to rap any more.  As a test today I decided to make a beat and write a song.  Guess what?!  I can still rap!  Plus I made this “beat”. Just a little something to kick my ass back into gear, hey maybe it can kick your lazy ass back into gear too you lazy bum.  Here you go, drums, samples, raps, Go Time.

Rob Rush – Go Time

New song from Season 2.  Music Monday continues with this little treasure….  Season 2 is finished and will be invading your system soon.  Stay tuned.

DOWNLOAD:
QM, Rob Rush & Richie Cunning – “Our Way”

On July 7th the esteemed websites HipHopOfficial.com & iLLRoots.com announced the 16 contestants for their Artist Of The Month contest. We were happy to see that both Rob Rush & Richie Cunning are in the runnings! Now here’s where YOU the viewer can play along… The voting is open all week, and you can vote AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT… meaning, that it’s gonna get ugly and we need our friends (you guys) to make sure we get a victory. Go and check it out, give the songs a listen.. I’m sure you’ll see that the good ole Rec has supplied some real fire to the contest and your vote will be going in the right direction when it’s cast for us.

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This is Week One! The contest is 4 weeks long so we will need you to come back and vote… I know it’s a commitment, and the commitment MAY seem one sided, but it’s not. We love you and would do the same if you were in a contest, and you know that… so go ahead and check the links here:

http://www.hiphopofficial.com/?p=2062

Rob Rush vs. Tekneek
http://poll.fm/11t0m

Richie Cunning vs. MoonChild
http://poll.fm/11t0g

Make sure you cast your votes for Richie Cunning and for Rob Rush. Say you do it 10 times a day even! Also check out the other artists too! Hey why not! If you’re really in the giving mood invite OTHER people who we might not know personally (like we do all of you) but who enjoy our music and want to help get our name out. The internet and the world will thank you. Also, you will all get golden pony’s when we’re famous… each and every one of you will get one, why would I lie about something like that?

Your friends and hard working rappers,

=- Rec-League

This is the sampler we were handing out the last few months at our shows.  We’re out of the hard copies but you can still slap it on your favorite mp3 player for all your friends.  We are considering doing a lot of free comps like this… if you enjoy them, maybe hit the store and pick up a t-shirt eh?

Click HERE for the download info.

Track list after the jump

Rec-League Stadium Status 2009 Sampler

1. Qm – “Disneyland” feat. The Rec-League All-Stars
2. Rob Rush – “One More Shot”
3. Richie Cunning – “One Dollar Wonder”
4. Qm – “Party Hard”
5. No Wonder – “People Love Me”
6. Haji P & DJ MF Shalem – “Mockin’ Bird”
7. Qm & Rob Rush – “Party After Party” feat. Vince The Bard
8. Grip Grand & DJ MF Shalem – “Y’all F To The A-I-L”

Rob Rush – I Do Me (feat. Pudge & QM) Produced by Pudge

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.

The good folks over at Fog City Wrestling hit me up about a week ago and asked to use the song “One More Shot” for the intro to their podcast….

Well since I love wrestling, and I love the fog city it seemed like a perfect match. Speaking of perfect match… watch this video!

Besides featuring a tune by me, there’s a 4 way femme-fatale match match between Erica D’Erico, Morgan, Nicky The NY Knockout, and Fire.
After the match there’s a music video from Mike Relm featuring Del tha Funkee Homosapien. The next event is on March 28th at the DNA Lounge and you best believe that RL will be in the stands.  Fog City!

More lost music from Rob Rush (that’s me!).  While I’m digging through beats and sorting out all the things for the new project I can’t help but realize that I have a lot of music no one has really heard.  This one was on MySpace for a while so you might know it… Produced by Proe back in 2005 or so, then spiced up by our ole pal Ben Mills on the Dr. Dre-esque keys.  For the fans of the conceptual slow jam… here’s your new treat Get busy.

Rob Rush – Move, Stop (produced by Proe, keys by Ben Mills)

So we went big in the studio tonight, songs posted soon….

This gem however is from 2007 and somehow got lost in the mix.  This was supposed to be a mixtape joint but I think that this verse depressed everyone so much that it never got finished.  Anyway enjoy some vintage lost RR sure to impress your parents.

(photo taken at the Hall Of Fame for added effect)

No excuse for this, just found the long lost files.

I don’t think i have to explain why i don’t remember much of this… no shame no fame… game on.

I also spiced up the Video Archives and made them a little easier to navigate check-it-mon.