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BLOCK SCHOLARS: LOST CAUSE VIDEO TEASER
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7 second teaser of our new music video COMING SOON!!! Thanks to Kidron Productions!!!
SLIMDOG, NOBULL & 2MENTAL (BLOCK SCHOLARS) HAVE INKED A DEAL WITH CASHBOX RECORDS INC., A NEW MAJOR LABEL THAT LET'S THE ARTIST BE AN ARTIST!!! DEBUT ALBUM COMING IN FALL & FREE DOWNLOADABLE MIXTAPE COMING SOON!!!
Why this name?
Slimdog, as he is known in the music scene, was born David Bell Jr. on March 22nd, 1964 in
Akron, Ohio to David Sr. and Carmen Bell. The oldest of three children (he has a brother and sister),
he was raised by parents always wanted the best for their children. Having a father in Law Enforcement and a mother who worked at a library, AAA and El Paso County's Clerk and Recorder,
they encouraged their children to be good people and to be good at whatever they chose to do
in life.
David and his siblings took up playing instruments early on. His brother Earl played the trumpet,
sister Adrienne, the piano and he the drums. At one point he wanted to be involved with the Arts;
tapdance, but with disapproval from his father, he stuck with playing the drums instead. In eighth
grade, he even choreographed a dance routine for a school talent show involving his siblings that took second place (to this day he feels he should of took first!).
David got the nickname "Slimdog" from a childhood friend and fellow highschool football team-
mate, Keith Grundy. Slimdog remembers like it was yesterday: " Practice was ending for the day.
Keith and I were walking back to the lockeroom when another teammate tried to make a joke on me at my expense. I came back with a hilarious punchline to "dog" him out. All the team was laughing their butts off. Keith started shouting, "SLIMDOG IN THA' HOUSE! YEAH SLIMDOG!".
You see, in highschool I weighed about 140 pounds if that and was 5'11". That's where the "Slim"
came from." I liked the nickname Keith gave me so much, so I got this red t-shirt from home and bought some iron on blue lettering and put "Slimdog" on it. That was in my Senior year of highschool."
The nickname stuck so much that when he attended college at The Colorado College
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, not many friends even knew his real name. Some don't even know to this day!
Even though Slimdog played the drums from 5th grade through highschool (marching band, orchestra and jazz), things kept him too busy in college to the point where he stopped playing. He did find another "instrument" that caught his interest...turntables. It was aound 1982 when Slimdog volunteered to dj for the college's Black Student Union and a "Soul Night" they wanted to sponsor.
With this so called new music "fad", Hip Hop was just in its infant stages in the genre game and Slimdog's love of this music and R&B, he had amassed a good collection of albums and tapes to keep students dancing all night long. At first "Soul Night" was a bust. Then the Black Student Union dropped their sponsorship. With some help from Slimdog's friends and fraternity brothers (Kappa Sigma), word spread around campus and eventually Colorado Springs. Soon, Slimdog deejayed to a packed house at "Benjamin's Basement every Tuesday night.
Because of the popularity of the night around Colorado Springs, this caught the attention of the music director and radio personalities at KRCC 91.5 FM, the college's radio station and Slimdog was asked to host a radio show featuring the Hip Hop and R&B he played at "Soul Night". In 1983, Slimdog teamed up with another host, "The Player", and did a show called, "The Nightshift" from 12 am to 5am nightly. The show ended up being #1 in its timeslot for the city of Colorado Springs by Arbitron Ratings. After 2 years of airtime, the show was cancelled because KRCC needed donations from its listeners for each show it broadcasted and because Hip Hop was in its early stages, no support was given for the show. Slimdog and The Player soon accepted another radio show offer with KPIK-AM in Colorado Springs, but that lasted only a year. After doing various jobs, in 1991 Slimdog was hired by a major carrier as a flight attendant. A job he still has to this day.
The music bug bit Slimdog again in 2004 when a good friend opened a cd store at a mall and built a studio in the store to have local talent come in and make tracks. After watching for sometime, Slimdog felt that he also could make music that people would like. He invested in music programs and equipment and he put some of his music on indie music sites such as Soundclick.com, ArtistLaunch.com and Audiostreet.net. Some of his material climbed up the genre charts with some hitting #1 overall in the specific genre. Sometimes the same song would hit #1 on two different sites. Artists began to request his music for collaborations and some of those collabs would top the charts as well. Slimdog has proven to the indie world he is serious and he is in the music industry for the long haul...NOW, it's time for the rest of the music world to know...
Discography:
2007: 2mental & Jewelz
-Dear Momz (2007)
-4/6/2008 IACmusic.com’s
IAIA’s 2007 INDIE HIP HOP/RAP SONG OF
THE YEAR
-Enters CASHBOX MAGAZINE’S TOP
10 INDIE PICKS FOR R&B/HIP HOP
at 10 for the week of 11/25/07.
It comes in at 1 for the week of
12/17/07
-3/18/08 Nominated for
IACmusic.com’s 2008 IAIA Golden
Kayak Award for Best Hip Hop/Rap
Song
2007: Def Jam's DJ DMA & Shadyville DJs
DJ DOMINATION present: Coast 2
Coast: Instrumentals Vol 1.
-MOS Definitely (2006)
2007: Sprite's: "NBA Freeflow on B.E.T." 2/13/07
-2 to da 3 (2007)
2006: Slimdog has 5 songs in the score of documentary film , "Mixtape Inc., The Movie" by Cando
Entertainment and Pixel Propaganda:
-Hateradez Beat (2004)
-Bubba's Beat (2005)
-The Westside Rattle(2005)
-Tripped Hopped (2006)
-Xtra Tight (2006)
The Unknownn: The Unknownn by Darkstone Ltd. (UK)
-The Unknownn's "Raw" Slimdog Remix ft. 2mental of The M7
Movement (2006)
-The Unknownn's "Raw" Remix (2006)
-The Unknownn's "Duplicituous Too" Slimdog Remix (2006)
Akron, Ohio to David Sr. and Carmen Bell. The oldest of three children (he has a brother and sister),
he was raised by parents always wanted the best for their children. Having a father in Law Enforcement and a mother who worked at a library, AAA and El Paso County's Clerk and Recorder,
they encouraged their children to be good people and to be good at whatever they chose to do
in life.
David and his siblings took up playing instruments early on. His brother Earl played the trumpet,
sister Adrienne, the piano and he the drums. At one point he wanted to be involved with the Arts;
tapdance, but with disapproval from his father, he stuck with playing the drums instead. In eighth
grade, he even choreographed a dance routine for a school talent show involving his siblings that took second place (to this day he feels he should of took first!).
David got the nickname "Slimdog" from a childhood friend and fellow highschool football team-
mate, Keith Grundy. Slimdog remembers like it was yesterday: " Practice was ending for the day.
Keith and I were walking back to the lockeroom when another teammate tried to make a joke on me at my expense. I came back with a hilarious punchline to "dog" him out. All the team was laughing their butts off. Keith started shouting, "SLIMDOG IN THA' HOUSE! YEAH SLIMDOG!".
You see, in highschool I weighed about 140 pounds if that and was 5'11". That's where the "Slim"
came from." I liked the nickname Keith gave me so much, so I got this red t-shirt from home and bought some iron on blue lettering and put "Slimdog" on it. That was in my Senior year of highschool."
The nickname stuck so much that when he attended college at The Colorado College
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, not many friends even knew his real name. Some don't even know to this day!
Even though Slimdog played the drums from 5th grade through highschool (marching band, orchestra and jazz), things kept him too busy in college to the point where he stopped playing. He did find another "instrument" that caught his interest...turntables. It was aound 1982 when Slimdog volunteered to dj for the college's Black Student Union and a "Soul Night" they wanted to sponsor.
With this so called new music "fad", Hip Hop was just in its infant stages in the genre game and Slimdog's love of this music and R&B, he had amassed a good collection of albums and tapes to keep students dancing all night long. At first "Soul Night" was a bust. Then the Black Student Union dropped their sponsorship. With some help from Slimdog's friends and fraternity brothers (Kappa Sigma), word spread around campus and eventually Colorado Springs. Soon, Slimdog deejayed to a packed house at "Benjamin's Basement every Tuesday night.
Because of the popularity of the night around Colorado Springs, this caught the attention of the music director and radio personalities at KRCC 91.5 FM, the college's radio station and Slimdog was asked to host a radio show featuring the Hip Hop and R&B he played at "Soul Night". In 1983, Slimdog teamed up with another host, "The Player", and did a show called, "The Nightshift" from 12 am to 5am nightly. The show ended up being #1 in its timeslot for the city of Colorado Springs by Arbitron Ratings. After 2 years of airtime, the show was cancelled because KRCC needed donations from its listeners for each show it broadcasted and because Hip Hop was in its early stages, no support was given for the show. Slimdog and The Player soon accepted another radio show offer with KPIK-AM in Colorado Springs, but that lasted only a year. After doing various jobs, in 1991 Slimdog was hired by a major carrier as a flight attendant. A job he still has to this day.
The music bug bit Slimdog again in 2004 when a good friend opened a cd store at a mall and built a studio in the store to have local talent come in and make tracks. After watching for sometime, Slimdog felt that he also could make music that people would like. He invested in music programs and equipment and he put some of his music on indie music sites such as Soundclick.com, ArtistLaunch.com and Audiostreet.net. Some of his material climbed up the genre charts with some hitting #1 overall in the specific genre. Sometimes the same song would hit #1 on two different sites. Artists began to request his music for collaborations and some of those collabs would top the charts as well. Slimdog has proven to the indie world he is serious and he is in the music industry for the long haul...NOW, it's time for the rest of the music world to know...
Discography:
2007: 2mental & Jewelz
-Dear Momz (2007)
-4/6/2008 IACmusic.com’s
IAIA’s 2007 INDIE HIP HOP/RAP SONG OF
THE YEAR
-Enters CASHBOX MAGAZINE’S TOP
10 INDIE PICKS FOR R&B/HIP HOP
at 10 for the week of 11/25/07.
It comes in at 1 for the week of
12/17/07
-3/18/08 Nominated for
IACmusic.com’s 2008 IAIA Golden
Kayak Award for Best Hip Hop/Rap
Song
2007: Def Jam's DJ DMA & Shadyville DJs
DJ DOMINATION present: Coast 2
Coast: Instrumentals Vol 1.
-MOS Definitely (2006)
2007: Sprite's: "NBA Freeflow on B.E.T." 2/13/07
-2 to da 3 (2007)
2006: Slimdog has 5 songs in the score of documentary film , "Mixtape Inc., The Movie" by Cando
Entertainment and Pixel Propaganda:
-Hateradez Beat (2004)
-Bubba's Beat (2005)
-The Westside Rattle(2005)
-Tripped Hopped (2006)
-Xtra Tight (2006)
The Unknownn: The Unknownn by Darkstone Ltd. (UK)
-The Unknownn's "Raw" Slimdog Remix ft. 2mental of The M7
Movement (2006)
-The Unknownn's "Raw" Remix (2006)
-The Unknownn's "Duplicituous Too" Slimdog Remix (2006)
Do you play live?
-I don't, but my homies; 2mental & NOBULL do shows. I just produce. My special moments are when I hit #1 on both the Jazz and Smooth Jazz Charts on Soundclick at THE SAME time November 15th, 2005 with the song, "Majestic Son". Another moment was when the song, "Dear Momz ft. 2mental & Jewelz", entered CASHBOX
MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 INDIE PICK the week of November 25th, 2007 and hit #1 on their charts the week of Dec. 12th, 2007. With God's blessing, hopefully many more honors are to come!!!
MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 INDIE PICK the week of November 25th, 2007 and hit #1 on their charts the week of Dec. 12th, 2007. With God's blessing, hopefully many more honors are to come!!!
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
-You reach a worldwide audience for alot less than hand promo or word of mouth.You can reach an audience of millions with just one song and a click of the keyboard or mouse...The internet IS the future for artists, indie and major alike. The major labels are starting to find that out now.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
- Block Scholar Entertainment/Slimdog Productions just signed a deal with Cashbox Records Inc., a brand new major label that the world will be hearing about soon. Our goal is to help get Colorado on the map music wise. I believe it is an untapped market with unlimited potential.
Band History:
Just started doin my thang in 2004 and I am getting better...I kind of see myself as a vacuum for musical styles and sounds. I'm just trying to take it all in...
Your influences?
-All kinds...Mostly R&B, Hip Hop and Jazz. Groups and people like: The Deele, Guy, Mint Condition, Ready For The World, Mtume, SOS Band, Cameo, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Temptations, Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Dazz Band, ConFunkshun, Ohio Players, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Special Ed, Slick Rick, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Loose Ends, Robert Plant, The Police, Boston, Van Halen...You get tha' picture. I love the samples that people like to put on beats, but if your song becomes HOT, and someone famous wants to use it, then you have to go through the red tape to get the sample released. I like doing original mostly because I don't have to worry about that. That is ONE less step to really getting your ish out there...
Favorite spot?
-I like many places: Paris, London, Japan, Mexico, South America...To travel the world is my REAL job...for now. LOL
Equipment used:
-My creativity, Fruity Loops 6, E-jay Hip Hop 5 (don't laugh, I make that program WORK to its potential), Steinberg programs (which one you ask?) and a Fantom Xa Keyboard.
Anything else...?
-THANK YOU FOR THA' LOVE AND SUPPORT...OF COURSE, I'm always going for the #1, but I rather have 20 or 30 top 10's than just that 1 #1...Don't wanna be one of those "one hit wonders". CONSISTENCY is the name of the game. Keep striving to be that number 1...
MC's and Beatsmith's keep puttin' out them bangaz!!!
Slimdog
MC's and Beatsmith's keep puttin' out them bangaz!!!
Slimdog
NEWS
Thanks to all you fans for listening. More to come!!! Please join our mail list. You'll find out what's really happening with us before the non listers do.
Music
Block Scholars tell it like it is...Brian in the backgound chorus. Thanks to STK (Self Taught Knowledge) for tha' beat!!!
This is one of the singles from the album: Block Scholars: Weather The Storm coming in October from Cashbox Records!!! Special thanks to GID Productions for this great beat!!!
Block Scholars and Vagabond are telling it like it is with Hip Hop nowadays and how it needs to go back to the ways of the Old School. May be track on first album on the Cashbox Records Inc. label...WE MAJOR NOW!!!
Rise With Me is a techno cut that moves fast and takes no prisoners...
This is the single version of a song I made, kind of inspired by 'Flashing Lights' by Kanye West. There will be a rap version by NOBULL and a extended version ft. numerous artists coming soon...
A SoundClick Top 100 song
This is the breakbeat style remix of the top 100 instrumental of, 'The Rhythm Of A Scholar'. This remix will feature: NOBULL, 2mental & Main Course. You can only hear this version HERE!!! Hip Hop version coming out this Fall!!!
Tight Club instrumental remix. R&B single ft. Brian Jerome out of Portland coming late summer-early fall of '08.
NOBULL gets SERIOUS on the hot House track, 'The Rhythm Of A Scholar', about what's happening in life and surviving it. Coming soon: The extended remix version, 'This Is For My People: The Rhythm Remix', COMING SOON!!!
2mental says it all in the message at the begining and NOBULL finishes it off at the end. This will be a single off of our debut album: :'THIS IS NOT YOUR KIDS HIP HOP...THIS IS GROWN FOLK MUSIC...'Coming Fall of '08
The Block Scholars bring tha' funk. Dissin' those fake, no good 'rappers'...You KNOW who you are!!!
2mental's song for his mother for Christmas ft. my girl Jewelz..4/6/2008: IACmusic.com's
IAIA’s 2007 GOLDEN KAYAK INDIE HIP HOP/RAP SONG OF THE YEAR. #1 in CASHBOX MAGAZINES TOP
10 INDIE PICKS FOR R&B/HIP HOP CHARTS for the week of 12/17/07.
New collab featuring me and NOBULL from our EP coming out Fall of '08!!!
NOBULL gets straight GRIMEY on this one about the disease in the Hip Hop game today and how it needs to change...This is a BONUS track from our upcoming collab album, 'THIS ISN'T YOUR KIDS HIP HOP...THIS IS GROWN FOLK MUSIC.' Coming this Fall 2008!!!
2mental & Trinity ask the world why and ask the question of themselves too...2mental says he gets alot of great feedback from this song and he has a extended 3 verse version coming to me soon. I'll put it up as soon as I receive it.
This smooth-ass instrument will soon be a smooth-ass rap by 'The Council'. STAY TUNED!!!
'The Council' is Blackjack (Louisiana), Madison (NYC) and NOBULL (Colorado Springs). They are talking about the hustle needed in this game, dissin' all these fake rappers that are in the game of Hip Hop right now. Has an Old School feel to it.
This is the Focused (Majestic Son) track ft. Elise just on the chorus. Elise hails from the Denver area. She sang backup for CASE & LL COOL J to name a few. THANKS FOR MAKING IT #1 IN JAZZ AND JAZZ VOCALS (2006) Check the full length version on my p
A SoundClick Top 10 song
THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT #1 ON THE JAZZ AND SMOOTH JAZZ CHARTS(11/15/05-11/17/05)!!! NOT FOR SALE!!! A smoooooth-azz joint that I can see Common rippin' a new on on!!!
A SoundClick #1 song
Been awhile since I made a Jazz song considering my last one went to #1...
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Tasty treat. Funkdafied with vibes and good for ya' too!!! Peaked #3 in Soul Charts
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Just something I cooked up awhile back...THANK YOU for making it hit #1 on the Latin:Salsa Charts!!!!
A SoundClick Top 10 song
I remixed and mastered this top Soundclick banga of mine of yesteryear...Peaked at #1 on Instrumental: Latin charts. If making into a song, give credit where credit is due please.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Jazz song of Soundclick yesteryear. Went to #26 in Jazz Charts in 2005