Yo, it's ya man I.G. representing for the Almighty OYD, Oracles of Dialect, NYC, DMV, and the ATL! I'm feeling like i got my own swag right now so peep da tracks a let a brother know wussp!
LMAO... man, i been down with Da Mysfitz, OYD, KOC, Black Ops, Oracles of Dialect, Reality Check, Da Lunaticks (not the one's down with Nelly) and a few others that i have long forgotten about!
I've done a lot of shows at NYU... did a few parties up in Manhattan and one in CT. I haven't performed in years but i'm on a whole new thing now and I'm almost ready to get back out there. I think the moment i knew i could do this for real was when I was in King's Plaza Mall in Brooklyn and me and my boys got kicked out for rhyming and "loitering". We went outside and continued the cypher... just me and and like 3 other dudes zoning out... not paying attention to anyone, ya know. I break out into this one song i had called Who Wants Some.... and while I'm rhyming and doing the hook I start to hear more and more people joining in with me... next thing i know we got like 50 people around me chanting my chorus while they were waiting for the bus! It was bananas!
Rakim the GOD of hip-hop, public enemy, KRS ONE, BDP, BDK, Craig G, Kurtis Blow, Sugar Hill Gang, Afrikaa Bambataa, DOugie Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, Dana Dane, Slick Rick, Run DMC, LL Cool J, NWA, EPMD, Souls of Mischief, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Jungle Brothers, Tribe Called Quest, Leaders of the New School, Redman, Black Moon, BIG, Tupac, Big L, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Terror Squad, DITC crew, Brand Nubians, Heltah Skeltah, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Spinbad.... and a bunch more i can't think of at the top of my head right now (and that's just the hip hop kats... i haven't even touched R&B and Soul and any of the other genres of music!)
I have a few programs that i haven't learned to use yet but for now I am using Acoustica Mixcraft and my Samson CO1U along with beats I buy on the net. Trying to get that upgrade soon!
All I ask is for good quality feedback... good and bad... what can be done better what should i stick with... any special tricks or techniques to make my sound quality better... my delivery.... the flow... the content.... I do this because this is me and it's what i do... but ultimately I want the fans to give me input because some of what i feel I know someone else may be feeling too! One thing you will never hear me do is brag about what i got, how much money i spend, how many "hoes" I get or how hard or gangsta i think i am... there's enough of those phony asses out there giving all the rest of us REAL emcees a bad rep. If you want real music with real emotion and rings true to REAL life then you will find that here.
Real recognizes real!