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The Harlem shake story
Great read.
My parents went away last week for their 20th wedding anniversary and left me home alone. So ive been talking to the german exchange chick in my Bio class for most of the semester and this week was perfect to make my move since i got an empty house. I told her i was gonna show her a "piece of Germany".
So yesterday i grabbed the keys to my moms Benz wagon, had some stoner dude pick me up a 6 pack of Becks, and i thought we could finish the night off with a sausage tasting
Long story short, we're in the car, the Becks is kicking in with her (i didnt drink and drive) and she says its cool to go back to my pad. In the back of my head i start flipping out. Then when i go to make a uturn i forget that i have it in freaking reverse. I backed up into a telephone pole!!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! nooooooo!! Sea blocked by a pole, pole blocked! I got a MEAN dent it the back and im flipping out and it kills the mood. I was in a get in those ribs mood and she was in a take me home mood.
So i take it over to this oily machanic dude i know to get an estimate today. He tells me $950 BUCKS!! Im like Allah, jesus, whoever, please just kill me. So i go to my boys house and everybody thinks its FUNNY! This girl Casey was there who is like the head of all the dances and all that says she might have an idea to help me out.
She said that our school dance team was sponsoring a HARLEM SHAKE contest on monday and the GRAND PRIZE IS $1000! At first i was like yessssssss but then i remembered i didnt know how to Harlem Shake.
Im determined to get this done whatever it takes but the compitition is supposed to be steep. Like 100 kids signed up and they're bussing in actual Harlem residents to judge the contest. I need some soul quick! If i win i can get the car fixed and cleaned up before the parental units get home next thursday.
Any tips? anything? videos? i just spent an hour watching this girls copy of Darrens Dance Grooves and my head is spinning. Im practicing in the mirror but it just looks like im drowning. My arms are just flapping all over the place and i almost dislocated my shoulder. broke. My parents left me money to eat and stuff but thats just about to run out. I spent most of it on a couple pairs of Dunks the day they left now all i can afford is like a slice of pizza a day.
Now i hear that "Pete The Pop Lockin Playa" and his friend "Hustlin Hank" (yes, thats what they call themselves) were trying to get their hands on the German chick. Tonight! GOD does my life SUCK. Shes a sweet girl and very impressionable. Now these dancer kids who run the school are probably gonna foul her before i get my shot
my shoulders are killing me This kid DJ Tanner is gonna be on the wheels of steel for the competition. Im cool with him, he wished me luck when i saw him today. He said he's been saving some of his dopes beats and freshest grooves especially for tomorrow. I wanna be ready for whatever he puts on.
I can feel the funk in the blood. If dancing was a house, Poppin' Pete would be evicted So I get to school this morning all braided up and there’s a huge buzz about the contest tonight. People I don’t even know heard about my story started wishing me luck in the hallway. So I’m in the library during my 3rd period study hall and one of Poppin Pete’s henchmen “Funky Brewster” (again, I’m sorry, all the kids in my school are total douches and refuse to go by their real name) comes over and starts talking to me.
He says that Pete The Pop Lockin’ Playa heard about all the junk I’ve been talking and wants to challenge me to a DANCE FIGHT after school BEFORE the HARLEM SHAKE CONTEST. Im like . I told him I had to practice my routine for tonight and I was totally against unsanctioned dance contests.
So now it’s lunch time and I see Poppin’ Pete and Hustlin’ Hank making a bee line right for my table. I’m sitting there with Anna enjoying my kiwi strawberry Capri-Sun and Pete is like “You better get down (dance) or lay down (die). 3pm, out by the dumpsters in the parking lot. ”
I couldn’t back down in front of Anna so I was like “Sorry to knock your HUSTLE HANK but it looks like your boy PETE is gonna get POPPED!” In my head I was like, what the hell am I getting myself into. Word spread around school quick.
Now it’s almost 3pm, I cant find Anna, and there’s no way to get out of this. I make my way toward the dumpsters and I see this huge crowd. Its Poppin’ Pete and the rest of his goonies, “Hustlin’ Hank”, “Funky Brewster”, “Willie Wiggles”, and “Newman Beatbox”.
I see Poppin’ Pete and he’s got his hands around ANNA teaching her to do the THUNDER CLAP. I’m like
As soon as she saw me she ran over and said I didn’t have to do this. Someone could get seriously hurt or even expelled and to save all my energy for TONIGHTS CONTEST. I just said, “I danced my way into this mess, now I’m gonna dance my way out” And tossed my Jansport to the side…
Nobody had a radio so “Newman Beatbox” said he would lay down a stone cold groove. He sets it off with alittle “BOOM, BAP, BOOM BOOM BOOM, BAP!”
Pete starts HARELM SHAKING. He starts with a couple rare combo’s I’ve never seen and he says: “SHA SHA, SHAKE, SHA SHAKE SHAKE… SHAKE SOMETHIN’!” His whole crew was like OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!
My face goes . Its my turn to rock. I thought i would start it off safe with alittle LEAN BACK, LEAN BACK… and then slip into the ROCKAWAY. All of a sudden I freeze up, catch a cramp in my leg and hit the floor. I didn’t know what the hell was happening. Even more OOOOOOOHHHHH’s now.
All of a sudden his whole crew takes advantage and jumps me! There was this huge cloud of dust and I was at the bottom in the fetile position. Like SIX guys just HARLEM SHAKING on top of me(pause?). I think one of them was doing the RUNNING MAN too because I felt some feet near my groin. Anna ran and got help, so the assistant Principal ended up coming out so everybody started running. I finally got up but the damage was already done.
Im battered and brusied, and only a few hours from the HARLEM SHAKE CONTEST! They just wanted to take me out so they can have tonights prize money all to themselves.
God I hate typing… more on the actual CONTEST in a bit. Sorry, yesterday was so nuts i fell asleep after all the madness...
So anyway, I go home and get myself cleaned up after getting HARLEM SHOOK. It wasn’t pretty but im over it. I hope my mouth didn’t write a check my HARLEM SHAKE skills can’t cash.
I just put on my game face and got ready for the CONTEST. So I show up at school and get signed in. They give me a trucker hat with my number on it and said I was gonna be in Group 6. The gym was PACKED. Poppin’ Pete was already there gassing up the crowd by doing some unintentionally -erotic dance routine with “Funky Brewster”.
I just gave them a and sat down with ANNA to wait for my group to be called.
The contest gets going and I’m starting off strong. Kids are just dropping like flies. 100 turns to 80…60…40 and im still in there. The judges are like “YOU, OUT…YOU OUT!” I’m in the TOP 20 but unfortunately so are the usual suspects, Pete, Hank and them.
I know this is the time to put my HARLEM SHAKE skills in OVERDRIVE. I start doing all types of combos: bounce combos, hop combos, cheddar cheese pretzel combos, you name it. Anna’s on the side doing her little offbeat German Poka shuffle to the music but I can feel her support. BOOM, 5 more people go down including FUNKY BREWSTER!
Right now my legs are crazy and im just rockin’ steady. Its like im channeling Crazy Legs or something. Im pretty much having a seizure on the dance floor. I had to fight off one teacher from trying to stick a wallet in my mouth. He thought I was gonna swallow my tongue or something. People couldn’t believe what they’re seeing. IM IN THE TOP 10!
So then I go into this BUCKTOWN BOUNCE shake just trying to keep up with POPPIN PETE and everybody else. Then alittle DIRTY BIRD shake with a smooth transition into the ROBOT. JOHNNY 5 was alive! Now a few more kids get eliminated!
The top five is me, “Willie Wiggles” “Poppin’ Pete” “Newman Beatbox” and this kid who’s not part of Pete’s crew “Dance Armstrong”.
So I set it off with this hybrid DAME DASH dice roll shake. Im doing the shake with my left and trying to ROLL TRIPPS with my right. Im dropping invisible singles on the floor, blowing on my imaginary dice, all that. Its like im playing CEELO….with myself, right there on the dance floor.
Beatbox & Wiggles get CUT!
Now it’s TOP 3 and im staring to freak out. DANCE ARMSTRONG is coming on strong and POPPIN PETE is doing his usual thing. I come out of nowhere with some Lord of The Dance type footwork comboed with a Savion Glover type tap step. It didn’t faze either of them.
I see Dance Armstrong starting to slow down alittle so I decide to hit him with the FLINTSTONE FLOP. As soon as he sees that he just runs out of steam and hits the floor! He’s OUT!
This is it, the finals! Im not a big Phil Collins fan but I can feel it coming in the air tonight. I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, oh lord.
ME vs POPPIN PETE in the showcase showdown. The judges tell us this is gonna be a winner take all, no holds barred, sudden death shake off! We were like two gladiators in the Roman Coliseum except instead of swords our weapon of choice was dance. We start going at it and the place is going absolutely bananas.
Im movin’ & groovin’. Pete’s shuckin’ & jivin’. We’re going back and forth, it’s a dead heat.
I start doing this year 2019 slow motion ghetto matrix bullet time shake. People couldn’t believe it. Pete looked stumped. He looked at the judges and was like “Is that even legal?’ I just told him: “A real man doesn’t have to say NO SLO-MO!”
The crowd was like OOOOOOHHHHHHH.
We keep going back and forth but I can see Pete is fazed. He’s starting to get tired and his Harlem Shake looks like its drifting towards the Upper West Side. I’m just doing a fist pump shake and a 2 step. My adrenaline is pumping and it look like Pete’s legs are gonna buckle.
I felt like SUBZERO when I heard ANNA’s sweet German accent slice through the crowd and yell: “FINISH HIM!”
I know what had to be done. I just start shaking double time, triple time. The whole crowd was a huge blur, it was surreal. I slow down for a sec and look him right in the eye. The place goes silent. I just said “TIMBEEEEEERRRRR” then brushed the dirt off his shoulder.
THE KID JUST TOPPLED OVER!
I WON! Everybody came pouring out of the bleachers and rushed me. It was INSANE. Anna couldnt stick her tongue down my throat fast enough. They ended up giving me this GIANT cardboard check for $1000. YES! I got the money, power, and finally some RESPECT. I felt like a LOX song!
As of today Mom’s Benz is officialy in the shop getting fixed and I got $50 left over to try and buy my way into Anna’s pants. CRAZEST day of my life, I’m still trying to recover…
My parents went away last week for their 20th wedding anniversary and left me home alone. So ive been talking to the german exchange chick in my Bio class for most of the semester and this week was perfect to make my move since i got an empty house. I told her i was gonna show her a "piece of Germany".
So yesterday i grabbed the keys to my moms Benz wagon, had some stoner dude pick me up a 6 pack of Becks, and i thought we could finish the night off with a sausage tasting
Long story short, we're in the car, the Becks is kicking in with her (i didnt drink and drive) and she says its cool to go back to my pad. In the back of my head i start flipping out. Then when i go to make a uturn i forget that i have it in freaking reverse. I backed up into a telephone pole!!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! nooooooo!! Sea blocked by a pole, pole blocked! I got a MEAN dent it the back and im flipping out and it kills the mood. I was in a get in those ribs mood and she was in a take me home mood.
So i take it over to this oily machanic dude i know to get an estimate today. He tells me $950 BUCKS!! Im like Allah, jesus, whoever, please just kill me. So i go to my boys house and everybody thinks its FUNNY! This girl Casey was there who is like the head of all the dances and all that says she might have an idea to help me out.
She said that our school dance team was sponsoring a HARLEM SHAKE contest on monday and the GRAND PRIZE IS $1000! At first i was like yessssssss but then i remembered i didnt know how to Harlem Shake.
Im determined to get this done whatever it takes but the compitition is supposed to be steep. Like 100 kids signed up and they're bussing in actual Harlem residents to judge the contest. I need some soul quick! If i win i can get the car fixed and cleaned up before the parental units get home next thursday.
Any tips? anything? videos? i just spent an hour watching this girls copy of Darrens Dance Grooves and my head is spinning. Im practicing in the mirror but it just looks like im drowning. My arms are just flapping all over the place and i almost dislocated my shoulder. broke. My parents left me money to eat and stuff but thats just about to run out. I spent most of it on a couple pairs of Dunks the day they left now all i can afford is like a slice of pizza a day.
Now i hear that "Pete The Pop Lockin Playa" and his friend "Hustlin Hank" (yes, thats what they call themselves) were trying to get their hands on the German chick. Tonight! GOD does my life SUCK. Shes a sweet girl and very impressionable. Now these dancer kids who run the school are probably gonna foul her before i get my shot
my shoulders are killing me This kid DJ Tanner is gonna be on the wheels of steel for the competition. Im cool with him, he wished me luck when i saw him today. He said he's been saving some of his dopes beats and freshest grooves especially for tomorrow. I wanna be ready for whatever he puts on.
I can feel the funk in the blood. If dancing was a house, Poppin' Pete would be evicted So I get to school this morning all braided up and there’s a huge buzz about the contest tonight. People I don’t even know heard about my story started wishing me luck in the hallway. So I’m in the library during my 3rd period study hall and one of Poppin Pete’s henchmen “Funky Brewster” (again, I’m sorry, all the kids in my school are total douches and refuse to go by their real name) comes over and starts talking to me.
He says that Pete The Pop Lockin’ Playa heard about all the junk I’ve been talking and wants to challenge me to a DANCE FIGHT after school BEFORE the HARLEM SHAKE CONTEST. Im like . I told him I had to practice my routine for tonight and I was totally against unsanctioned dance contests.
So now it’s lunch time and I see Poppin’ Pete and Hustlin’ Hank making a bee line right for my table. I’m sitting there with Anna enjoying my kiwi strawberry Capri-Sun and Pete is like “You better get down (dance) or lay down (die). 3pm, out by the dumpsters in the parking lot. ”
I couldn’t back down in front of Anna so I was like “Sorry to knock your HUSTLE HANK but it looks like your boy PETE is gonna get POPPED!” In my head I was like, what the hell am I getting myself into. Word spread around school quick.
Now it’s almost 3pm, I cant find Anna, and there’s no way to get out of this. I make my way toward the dumpsters and I see this huge crowd. Its Poppin’ Pete and the rest of his goonies, “Hustlin’ Hank”, “Funky Brewster”, “Willie Wiggles”, and “Newman Beatbox”.
I see Poppin’ Pete and he’s got his hands around ANNA teaching her to do the THUNDER CLAP. I’m like
As soon as she saw me she ran over and said I didn’t have to do this. Someone could get seriously hurt or even expelled and to save all my energy for TONIGHTS CONTEST. I just said, “I danced my way into this mess, now I’m gonna dance my way out” And tossed my Jansport to the side…
Nobody had a radio so “Newman Beatbox” said he would lay down a stone cold groove. He sets it off with alittle “BOOM, BAP, BOOM BOOM BOOM, BAP!”
Pete starts HARELM SHAKING. He starts with a couple rare combo’s I’ve never seen and he says: “SHA SHA, SHAKE, SHA SHAKE SHAKE… SHAKE SOMETHIN’!” His whole crew was like OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!
My face goes . Its my turn to rock. I thought i would start it off safe with alittle LEAN BACK, LEAN BACK… and then slip into the ROCKAWAY. All of a sudden I freeze up, catch a cramp in my leg and hit the floor. I didn’t know what the hell was happening. Even more OOOOOOOHHHHH’s now.
All of a sudden his whole crew takes advantage and jumps me! There was this huge cloud of dust and I was at the bottom in the fetile position. Like SIX guys just HARLEM SHAKING on top of me(pause?). I think one of them was doing the RUNNING MAN too because I felt some feet near my groin. Anna ran and got help, so the assistant Principal ended up coming out so everybody started running. I finally got up but the damage was already done.
Im battered and brusied, and only a few hours from the HARLEM SHAKE CONTEST! They just wanted to take me out so they can have tonights prize money all to themselves.
God I hate typing… more on the actual CONTEST in a bit. Sorry, yesterday was so nuts i fell asleep after all the madness...
So anyway, I go home and get myself cleaned up after getting HARLEM SHOOK. It wasn’t pretty but im over it. I hope my mouth didn’t write a check my HARLEM SHAKE skills can’t cash.
I just put on my game face and got ready for the CONTEST. So I show up at school and get signed in. They give me a trucker hat with my number on it and said I was gonna be in Group 6. The gym was PACKED. Poppin’ Pete was already there gassing up the crowd by doing some unintentionally -erotic dance routine with “Funky Brewster”.
I just gave them a and sat down with ANNA to wait for my group to be called.
The contest gets going and I’m starting off strong. Kids are just dropping like flies. 100 turns to 80…60…40 and im still in there. The judges are like “YOU, OUT…YOU OUT!” I’m in the TOP 20 but unfortunately so are the usual suspects, Pete, Hank and them.
I know this is the time to put my HARLEM SHAKE skills in OVERDRIVE. I start doing all types of combos: bounce combos, hop combos, cheddar cheese pretzel combos, you name it. Anna’s on the side doing her little offbeat German Poka shuffle to the music but I can feel her support. BOOM, 5 more people go down including FUNKY BREWSTER!
Right now my legs are crazy and im just rockin’ steady. Its like im channeling Crazy Legs or something. Im pretty much having a seizure on the dance floor. I had to fight off one teacher from trying to stick a wallet in my mouth. He thought I was gonna swallow my tongue or something. People couldn’t believe what they’re seeing. IM IN THE TOP 10!
So then I go into this BUCKTOWN BOUNCE shake just trying to keep up with POPPIN PETE and everybody else. Then alittle DIRTY BIRD shake with a smooth transition into the ROBOT. JOHNNY 5 was alive! Now a few more kids get eliminated!
The top five is me, “Willie Wiggles” “Poppin’ Pete” “Newman Beatbox” and this kid who’s not part of Pete’s crew “Dance Armstrong”.
So I set it off with this hybrid DAME DASH dice roll shake. Im doing the shake with my left and trying to ROLL TRIPPS with my right. Im dropping invisible singles on the floor, blowing on my imaginary dice, all that. Its like im playing CEELO….with myself, right there on the dance floor.
Beatbox & Wiggles get CUT!
Now it’s TOP 3 and im staring to freak out. DANCE ARMSTRONG is coming on strong and POPPIN PETE is doing his usual thing. I come out of nowhere with some Lord of The Dance type footwork comboed with a Savion Glover type tap step. It didn’t faze either of them.
I see Dance Armstrong starting to slow down alittle so I decide to hit him with the FLINTSTONE FLOP. As soon as he sees that he just runs out of steam and hits the floor! He’s OUT!
This is it, the finals! Im not a big Phil Collins fan but I can feel it coming in the air tonight. I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, oh lord.
ME vs POPPIN PETE in the showcase showdown. The judges tell us this is gonna be a winner take all, no holds barred, sudden death shake off! We were like two gladiators in the Roman Coliseum except instead of swords our weapon of choice was dance. We start going at it and the place is going absolutely bananas.
Im movin’ & groovin’. Pete’s shuckin’ & jivin’. We’re going back and forth, it’s a dead heat.
I start doing this year 2019 slow motion ghetto matrix bullet time shake. People couldn’t believe it. Pete looked stumped. He looked at the judges and was like “Is that even legal?’ I just told him: “A real man doesn’t have to say NO SLO-MO!”
The crowd was like OOOOOOHHHHHHH.
We keep going back and forth but I can see Pete is fazed. He’s starting to get tired and his Harlem Shake looks like its drifting towards the Upper West Side. I’m just doing a fist pump shake and a 2 step. My adrenaline is pumping and it look like Pete’s legs are gonna buckle.
I felt like SUBZERO when I heard ANNA’s sweet German accent slice through the crowd and yell: “FINISH HIM!”
I know what had to be done. I just start shaking double time, triple time. The whole crowd was a huge blur, it was surreal. I slow down for a sec and look him right in the eye. The place goes silent. I just said “TIMBEEEEEERRRRR” then brushed the dirt off his shoulder.
THE KID JUST TOPPLED OVER!
I WON! Everybody came pouring out of the bleachers and rushed me. It was INSANE. Anna couldnt stick her tongue down my throat fast enough. They ended up giving me this GIANT cardboard check for $1000. YES! I got the money, power, and finally some RESPECT. I felt like a LOX song!
As of today Mom’s Benz is officialy in the shop getting fixed and I got $50 left over to try and buy my way into Anna’s pants. CRAZEST day of my life, I’m still trying to recover…
Sunday, March 21, 2010
If you havin girl problems...
When you first get a girl's number, what kind of stuff do you text her?
How to Pick Up Girls in the Bar Scene?
How often do you approach girls?
Looking for advice on girls? Threads like these are always popping up on NT. Here is a few may be somewhat helpful to some of you.
How to Pick Up Girls in the Bar Scene?
How often do you approach girls?
Looking for advice on girls? Threads like these are always popping up on NT. Here is a few may be somewhat helpful to some of you.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wes Duce Interview.
WES DUCE.
LC:
Where did you get your name from?
Wes Duce:
Well at first, it was Just Wes but it seemed....dry...like it needed something else...so I was in the process of moving from St. Louis to Texas and i figured everyone down here said deuce.
I liked the way Papoose said his name (papoose, pap-poose) so I came to Wes Duce as a name. Originally I thought I'd say wesduce, wes-duce lol...but turns out i don't, then I dropped the E to be different. and there we have it Wes Duce. Spell it right!
LC:
Ok, cool.
LC:
So where are you originally from?
Wes Duce:
St. Louis missouri ...
LC:
When did you start to rap and who are your influences?
Wes Duce:
Id always rap other people songs as a kid. I think in 5th grade, I actually wrote a rap for the first time and since then I've been trying to work on it.
Some of my influences are Nelly, Bone thugs n Harmony, and Jay-z; my brother grew up on that so I'd always hear it. Kanye West also, Through the Wire is my favorite song to date, Lupe Fiasco, and anyone doing them and having fun making music.
Wes Duce:
That's the most important part.
LC:
Two Chicago artists there, lol. Do you have a coast-specific sound?
Wes Duce:
Haha, and nah, I just try to rap and be good at it.
LC:
Do you have any mixtapes out?
Wes Duce:
No. I do have one coming really really reallly super duper, ultra soon. Hopefully. I'm just waiting on some mixing and mastering.
LC:
Do you plan on reaching out to some NTers for collaborations on this product? But before we go there, when did you join NT, and what has it done for you as an artist?
Wes Duce:
I joined in 06. I think I found the site in 03, started browsing in like 05 or 04 and it use to just get me angry as an artist lol.
Then Seymore Cake reached out to me while everyone was downing me, and he told me to email G.o.D. Jewels. From then on I've learned a lot. There was also another NTer who helped me a bunch more than any other. He is an RnB artist by the name of DMV. As far as collaborations, my project is straight NT from the artwork to the one feature (G.o.D. Jewels) and all the production.
LC:
That's whassup.
LC:
What kind of artist are you? What do your lyrics consist of? Are you a backpacker? Mainstream artist? Underground? Madateveryonefucktheworld?
Wes Duce:
Haha ... I'm just someone aiming to make good music. I want something that I can listen too.
I usually rap about things in my life or what I know about and what I've been through: experiences, events, regrets, everything... I'm a universal artist.
LC:
I understand, lastly, from what I understand, you're not even 18 yet! When will you be?
Wes Duce:
July 7, 2011.
LC:
Lol, alright. Well thanks for your time, and good luck with your music and future projects.
Wes Duce:
Thank ya! for taking my time (o_o) good luck with these long ass interviews lol....I appreciate it.
Contact Wes Duce: http://twitter.com/wesduce
Well at first, it was Just Wes but it seemed....dry...like it needed something else...so I was in the process of moving from St. Louis to Texas and i figured everyone down here said deuce.
I liked the way Papoose said his name (papoose, pap-poose) so I came to Wes Duce as a name. Originally I thought I'd say wesduce, wes-duce lol...but turns out i don't, then I dropped the E to be different. and there we have it Wes Duce. Spell it right!
LC:
Ok, cool.
LC:
So where are you originally from?
Wes Duce:
St. Louis missouri ...
LC:
When did you start to rap and who are your influences?
Wes Duce:
Id always rap other people songs as a kid. I think in 5th grade, I actually wrote a rap for the first time and since then I've been trying to work on it.
Some of my influences are Nelly, Bone thugs n Harmony, and Jay-z; my brother grew up on that so I'd always hear it. Kanye West also, Through the Wire is my favorite song to date, Lupe Fiasco, and anyone doing them and having fun making music.
Wes Duce:
That's the most important part.
LC:
Two Chicago artists there, lol. Do you have a coast-specific sound?
Wes Duce:
Haha, and nah, I just try to rap and be good at it.
LC:
Do you have any mixtapes out?
Wes Duce:
No. I do have one coming really really reallly super duper, ultra soon. Hopefully. I'm just waiting on some mixing and mastering.
LC:
Do you plan on reaching out to some NTers for collaborations on this product? But before we go there, when did you join NT, and what has it done for you as an artist?
Wes Duce:
I joined in 06. I think I found the site in 03, started browsing in like 05 or 04 and it use to just get me angry as an artist lol.
Then Seymore Cake reached out to me while everyone was downing me, and he told me to email G.o.D. Jewels. From then on I've learned a lot. There was also another NTer who helped me a bunch more than any other. He is an RnB artist by the name of DMV. As far as collaborations, my project is straight NT from the artwork to the one feature (G.o.D. Jewels) and all the production.
LC:
That's whassup.
LC:
What kind of artist are you? What do your lyrics consist of? Are you a backpacker? Mainstream artist? Underground? Madateveryonefucktheworld?
Wes Duce:
Haha ... I'm just someone aiming to make good music. I want something that I can listen too.
I usually rap about things in my life or what I know about and what I've been through: experiences, events, regrets, everything... I'm a universal artist.
LC:
I understand, lastly, from what I understand, you're not even 18 yet! When will you be?
Wes Duce:
July 7, 2011.
LC:
Lol, alright. Well thanks for your time, and good luck with your music and future projects.
Wes Duce:
Thank ya! for taking my time (o_o) good luck with these long ass interviews lol....I appreciate it.
Contact Wes Duce: http://twitter.com/wesduce
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Attention Blog writers, web designers!
I am currently looking for writers and web designers for this blog! Not a paid gig but will allow you to showcase your writing/design abilities. If you are interested contact me by e-mail TheBloggyLama@gmail.com or twitter at twitter.com/TheBloggyLama.
Pray for MPLSDunk
NT member MPLSDunk was involved in a severe car accident recently. His liver was practically torn in half from what I gathered. He goes into surgery tomorrow to repair his liver. Even if you aren't the praying type, keep him in your thoughts. From what I remember via conversations with him he's a pretty good guy and I hope he makes a full recovery.
You can keep progress with the situation here:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/iancosgrove
You can keep progress with the situation here:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/iancosgrove
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Qualmes Mr.Choad Himself
TheBloggyLama: Whats your NT name?
Qualmes: Qualmes.
TheBloggyLama: How long you been on there for?
Qualmes: Since 03.
TheBloggyLama : How were you put onto NT?
Qualmes: One of my older homies used to browse it in class and I caught on from all the pictures and shit he would go through.
TheBloggyLama : I see. How often do you visit NT?
Qualmes: I visit it pretty often I sell a lot of shit on there and its mad helpful pushing out music,etc.
TheBloggyLama: Definitly. Where did the name Qualmes come from?
Qualmes: My moms...she always told me when using words never say um like everybody else...if I didnt have a problem with anything itstead of saying I dont have a problem with that say I have no qualms with that...it stuck with me just flipped it a little.
TheBloggyLama: Haha nice. Whats your real name?
Qualmes: 0_0
Qualmes: Tor. This better not be some shit where u end up stealing my social security or some shit.
TheBloggyLama: Where do you bank at?
TheBloggyLama: Just kidding. No seriously where do you bank at?
Qualmes: I dont bank, keep the stash in a shoe box.
TheBloggyLama: Is your name short for Torrance?
Qualmes: Yeah.
TheBloggyLama: Cute.
Qualmes: Ayo.
TheBloggyLama: How old are you?
Qualmes: 22.
TheBloggyLama: Where are you from, and where exactly do you reside?
Qualmes: From La...Im all around La all the time so where I stay is up in the air lol.
TheBloggyLama: I see. What exactly do you do? I know you rap but what else?
Qualmes: Song write..pretty much anything involved with creating music from the writing aspect whether it be rap,r&b,pop,etc.
TheBloggyLama: Have you wrote for any known artists?
Qualmes: Yeah...some things were picked up, some not ,some tentative...cant really talk about it till the paperwork is done but I'm getting my feet in there.
TheBloggyLama : Sounds good. How long you been doing music?
Qualmes: I been taking it serious for about 4 years now.
TheBloggyLama: You put out any mixtapes?
Qualmes: Yeah. Dropped one with Blackwallstreet a few years ago and one with Shadyville last summer.
TheBloggyLama: Really? What are they called? I'm a little embarrassed I didn't get a chance to do some homework on you. (no Homo)
Qualmes: Lol no prob the Blackwall joint is called Recipe For Destruction and the Shadyville one is called From The Ground Up.
Qualmes: They both to me like my feet in the water joints but the tape I'm about to put out next month called Red Eye Flight is really gonna be the attention getter.
TheBloggyLama: What else can you tell me about Red Eye Flight? Features? Production?
Qualmes: Its a concept joint...the dark songs are the equivalence to the turbulence during the flight so you go from take off to during the flight to landing. The take off portion is a take off from the end of the last mixtape.
Qualmes: And the landing/end of the tape is opening up a whole new chapter in my career.
TheBloggyLama: Are you signed?
Qualmes: Nah I'm not signed right now but I'm talking to a few labels.
TheBloggyLama: Is "What you gone do" on Red Eye Flight?
Qualmes: Indeed thats the first single from it...prob gonna end up pushing 4 joints as singles off it.
TheBloggyLama: Is it a album or mixtape?
Qualmes: Mixtape, but we treating it like an album.
TheBloggyLama: Thats how you got to do it these days. Push it and make videos and quality work mixtapes.
Qualmes: Exactly, you gotta pre sale yourself already.
TheBloggyLama: Yup make sure you keep the bidding from labels up.
Qualmes: Indeed, you gotta treat everything like your pushing it on a big label, everything has to be a big project.
TheBloggyLama: Yea with this blog I'm doing I'm trying to get members of NT connect a little bit more. And helping them promote there projects in one place.
Qualmes: Yeah thats def a good luck, I know a lot of cats on there wanna reach out more with each other but just dont have the tools for it.
TheBloggyLama: Yea I'm hoping to get this picked up and progress from it.
TheBloggyLama: So what inspires you?
Qualmes: Everything in life, from the first breath I take in the morning. To many people stress out about shit instead of taking things step by step and making it fun and positive.
TheBloggyLama: Thats true. Who do you think is the best rapper out?
Qualmes: Currently I would say Drake. Complete package artist. There a lot of rappers who are more lyrical yatta yatta yatta but fail at putting together quality music.
TheBloggyLama: Yea Drake has mastered his craft pretty much in my opinion, at least we'll see when his album drops.
Qualmes: Yeah...that first album is what determines your longevity in the industry.
TheBloggyLama: Who are some of your musical influences?
Qualmes: I'm real heavy on Sade...shes always one step ahead of every genre when it comes to writing...Coldplay,Tim Mcgraw,50 cent,Eminem,Jay-z & Nas to name a few. There all at the top of there genre when creating musical pieces, not just rapping or singing but actually putting together works of there art.
TheBloggyLama: Nice to see somebody look at more forms of music than their own, that is really what you got to do these days to make your creativity standout.
Qualmes: Indeed, you gotta see the creativity people put in there music, to make you want to step outside of your own box.
TheBloggyLama: Exactly. Who would you like to work with in the near future? On NT as well as not on NT.
Qualmes: On NT..Jewels,Illi,Jynx,etc...just about anybody on there whos serious wit it ya know...Other than that Sade, 50, Bishop Lamont, Drake to name a few...As far as producers Timbo, Nottz, Boi da 1, Khalil, 1500 or nothin Sledgeren are a few heads I def wanna get it in with on the production side.
TheBloggyLama: Lets shift away from music. Lets talk about you personally.
TheBloggyLama: Alright so whats up with the TinyChats? What goes on?
Qualmes: LOL man we just all go wild in those, pure roasting, It brings everybody together to just wild out on there. Have bitches in there stripping anything can happen on any given night lol.
TheBloggyLama: What bitches? Any from NT?
Qualmes: 0_0 possibly lol, you gotta ask around for the nudes.
TheBloggyLama: So you talk a lot of shit in there its like a open roast?
Qualmes: Yeah basically, niggas just go crazy on cam talking shit.
TheBloggyLama: Who's the best shit talker?
Qualmes: I think I hold the crown but Low End Theory gets it in with me as well, Retojays goes in on the photoshops.
TheBloggyLama: LOL, I saw the video of you and Biff Lawson.
Qualmes: LOL, classic.
TheBloggyLama: Where do you think of all that stuff?
Qualmes: man my mind moves a million miles a minute, the more random the funnier, predictable shit is to used.
TheBloggyLama: Ever thought of being a comedian?
Qualmes: It's crossed my mind...I'm sure music will open the door to it or vice versa...I'm def gonna be doing both at some point.
TheBloggyLama: Maybe make a comedy album.
Qualmes: Im def down for that, but you gotta come at folks serious first for the respect, cause soon as you get to silly going serious is out the picture you know what I'm saying.
TheBloggyLama: What is a "choad?"
Qualmes: apjidfoh0er9ghiube LMAO.
Qualmes: Anybody whos just acting like a dickhead, or doing some silly shit, anyone can follow into the choad category.
TheBloggyLama: Ramdom question. Does Qualmes watch The Bad Girls Club?
Qualmes: Nah lol.
Qualmes: I'm not to heavy on tv, I got bum ass cable lol.
TheBloggyLama: You got channel 2-13?
Qualmes: Damn near lol, I got basic shit MTV, BET, Sports center, need that good TV tired of this boring ass Flintstone shit.
TheBloggyLama: Yea and I'm sure you get your fix of re-runs of Full House and Family Matters daily.
Qualmes: Not even that good. I'm on that love is marriage shit. Fail.
TheBloggyLama: So whats the next thing for Qualmes?
Qualmes: I'm dropping The Red Eye Flight at the end of this month/early April. We pushing it hard, on some So Far Gone steez.
TheBloggyLama: How can people get in contact with you?
Qualmes: Everything Qualmes basically. Email qualmes@gmail.com you just Google me type in Qualmes and you can find me.
TheBloggyLama: Qualmes at AdultFriendFinder as well?
Qualmes: *DEAD* shit probably. Niggas have made me a got damn eharmony.
Qualmes: God knows what else niggas got me under lol.
TheBloggyLama: Any last words?
Qualmes: Be ready for the movement this year..Im coming out of left field out of nowhere on everybody in the game.
TheBloggyLama: Shoutouts?
Qualmes: Shout outs to NT all yall choads is a movement regardless how small niggas think they are. Shout out to my nigga GQ cause hes def brought me to the forefront in this music shit.
TheBloggyLama: [coughs]TheBloggyLama[coughs]
Qualmes: Most def my dude, I appreciate the time and reaching out. I def fucks with folks like you first :hat.
TheBloggyLama: Appreciate the interview good luck with everything music and may your shit talking excel
Qualmes: :hat thank you my good sir
Monday, March 1, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Hi-Jynx
TheBloggyLama YoJynx: Hello.
TheBloggyLama So lets start off with. Whats your NT name?
Jynx its Hi Jynx.
TheBloggyLama Where did you get your name from?
Jynx It's a play on the word hijinks. by definition it means "loud, boisterous merry making" thats the type of feel and atmosphere I would expect my music to convey. It fits my style to the T.
TheBloggyLama How often do you visit NT?
Jynx Everyday I'm mostly in general and music used to be in Jordan Brand forum before the countdown packs dropped.
TheBloggyLama: Weren't we all? How long have you been on NT?
Jynx Since 2006, I believe came to find more information about the diamond dunks. Been there ever since.
TheBloggyLama Do you still have the dunks?
Jynx Yeah, vnds size 9.5 get at me with offers, lol http://twitpic.com/rssdp
TheBloggyLama How old are you?
Jynx I'm 23 years old
TheBloggyLama I know you rap but people want to know What do you do?
Jynx I'm a part time student. education comes first.
TheBloggyLama Where you from? And Live?
Jynx I'm from New York City. Southside Jamaica Queens.
TheBloggyLama What are you going to school for?
Jynx Business management. It interests me to know how to run a business and handle my own money. Especially since selling music is a business.
TheBloggyLama I can def agree with that. Who/what inspires you?
Jynx Its not really what inspires me now a days. Generically I'm inspired by bringing people together through music and escapism but unconventionally I'm inspired by everything that isn't a formal means of inspiration I get inspired by the way people leave their messy kitchen dining tables... the way old people look while taking public transportation things like that, thats where the spark of creativity lies. when you try to make something out of sheer nothingness.
TheBloggyLama Thats deep! I gotta give it up to you :dabs:
TheBloggyLama How long you been doing the music thing?
Jynx I've been recording songs for about 4-5 years now. Over all interested in rapping for about 12 years.
TheBloggyLama Who you think is the best rapper out? (yourself doesn't count)
Jynx Right now I have a lot of respect for the boy Jay Electronica.
TheBloggyLama How many mixtapes have you put out?
Jynx I've put out Hi-Jynx Presents: Music Monday back in November 2009. Before that I released a free mixtape in 2008 but later deleted all links for it. To answer your question, two, but only one has been fully marketed.
TheBloggyLama: Why you decide to do that?
Jynx The mixtape was being called an album by a lot of people who downloaded it. I saw that as an opportunity to go back and rework the records on it to a higher level of perfection. Those that still have it respect me and still keep up with my ethic and those that have only heard whispers about it are interested in its content.
TheBloggyLama Well thats a good reason, the quality of work must be good.
TheBloggyLama So if Jay Electronica is the best rapper. Who's the baddest bitch? (not talkin rap)
Jynx Well the baddest woman right now has to be Amber Rose she really has found a way to stand out an utilize her assets..or Kanye whichever comes first.
TheBloggyLama: She the baddest in your opinion now? Cuz everybody hypeing that bitch up!
Jynx Hype is what makes people now adays. I call it like I see it. Let her release an Amber Rose "rose red" color way of the yeezys and the world would explode. Haha.
TheBloggyLama True. So are you signed or what?
Jynx No I'm not signed, the only papers I have signed are for a ringtone situation. As for being signed to a record label, I think I'll wait.
TheBloggyLam What you waiting for?
Jynx: I'm actually just waiting on a situation. I havent seen anything that puts me in any power. And by power I mean power to make the music that would be the best representation of me.
TheBloggyLama Feel you. When I listened to the latest NT mixtape you are one that stood out the most lyrically.
Jynx I pride myself on my lyrical ability and choice of wordplay as well as content. Thank you for the compliment.
TheBloggyLama Who are a few people you'd like to work with in the near future?
Jynx In the near future I'd like to work with Diplo, more with Jaguar Skills, Boi 1da, and 9th Wonder.
TheBloggyLama Interesting. Any NTers you'd like to work with?
Jynx Dom Kennedy and Wale. Respectively.
Jynx Shout out to GoD Jewels and The Boy Illinois I've worked with Sais and the two aforementioned. As well as J Diction and Mr Jefferson. On the production side Plan the producer has some great production, I would like to feature on as well as Keen-Y. Jynx As of right now the only producer I've worked with from NT is Half Amazin.
TheBloggyLama Damn you might as well shout out TheBloggyLama with all that. Haha.
Jynx I was saving that for the wrap up, however big shouts out to the TheBloggyLama for theinterview as well as the clever name :hat
TheBloggyLama :hat :hat
TheBloggyLama So I caught you on twitter you don't tweet much you have a site/blog/myspace/facebook anything you wanna put out there?
Jynx Yeah I haven't tweeted much lately, been working on the launch of my website. As well as shooting multiple music videos for records off of Hi-Jynx Presents: Music Monday. Listeners can reach me at JynxUrself.com, Twitter.com/JynxUrself, Youtube.com/JynxUrself, Myspace.com/JynxUrself, or just be brave and google Hi-Jynx or JynxUrself.
TheBloggyLama Where can people download Hi-Jynx Presents: Music Monday?
Jynx On JynxUrself.com
TheBloggyLama I see So any shout outs or last words?
Jynx Hi-Jynx Presents: Music Monday can be downloaded for FREE at JynxUrself.com, Your Love: Smells Like Money, will be available in the Fall. Thank you to TheBloggyLama for the dope interview and a big shoutout to the Secret Society and all the supporters. Steady To The Top Yall!
TheBloggyLama Thanks for the interview man appreciate it
Jynx Take care, and thank you.
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