Big up to Arlene at Stash Magazine for inviting me to perform at this event. The video only has one song from the kid, but it has a few from Eligh & Jo Wilkinson (Eligh’s Mom) who just recorded an album together as well as some stuff from Afro Classics (Scarub & Very). The event is happening again with more Cunny this Wednesday (April 8th) at 330 Ritch in SF. City up, little doggie.

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.

Here’s a video I put together of Richie’s show a few months ago at the Independent. Crazy audio problems is why it took me so long to get it up, regardless hope you enjoy. We kept the camera rolling all night. Good Times. Shouts to Fashawn, Hecktik and that whole camp who are doin’ big things.

UPDATE: Not that it really matters in an 8 min video but this shit is driving me nuts… If your audio goes off sync in the last part of the video try watching it in regular format (just click the video it should open the YouTube page) and for some reason the regular format is in sync, while the HD isn’t. However the regualr format looks like SHIT once the credits start to roll. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the DVD release. Thanks YouTube.

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.

P.S. Rumor has it that this won’t be the Rec’s only appearance on the Warriors Roundtable this season…

Percee P is one of the coolest dudes you can ever meet. He was kind enough to talk to us for a while outside The Catalyst to a growing crowd of people. If you guys ever see that he’s playing somewhere, go to the show buy his cd, and support a true legend of hip hop.

Perseverance is available now.