Thursday, April 2, 2009
new video
its shud be a youtube link to the first 1 on the right...Poor Boys Dream...Music video, please go and enjoy
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
ES B "FACE"
okay so heres a little video i threw together to promote my first solo mixtape "Nurd or Nothin", set to be released in March, completely produced by myself Es B...This is the instrumental to one of my solo singles titled "Mrs. Popular"...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Pink Gold, and Broken Wallets
Aiy yo daddyo, New Vega Star music coming soon to the blogspot, gotta get the mixed down version out of the studio next week, but in the mean time heres a sample of our new single poor boys dream...Enjoy...Oh and this is not completed yet so bare with me...Gracias.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Influence?
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Influential Artist and Cultures.
My biggest influence in making music would have to be Young L. Now I bet you ask yourself who is Young L?, good question. Young L is a west coast rapper/producer, and member of the Rap group known as “The Pack”. Young L is one of my biggest influences mainly because he doesn’t give a shit what people think of his music: He’s not the greatest producer ever, and he’s also not that great of a rapper, but regardless of what many people may say about how ignorant his music is he still does it. Young L understands what many people don’t so intuitively grasps I like to think, and that is whatever your profession may be your supposed to have fun when you do it, regardless how much better the next man may be at it or how many people tell you no. Young L makes a very obscure type of music, he takes very complex ideas or topics so to speak and makes them extremely 1 dimensional; now this in many ways makes his music come off as ignorant and dumb, but it also matches the simple minded thought process of many African American youth. This brings me to the subject of influences of my culture. My culture has influenced me greatly as an artist, I grew up focusing on the more political and intelligent rappers of the 90’s, artists had voices and stood for something important at the time. If you go and look for the opinions of old Hip-Hop artist on new Hip-Hop artist many of them say that new “M.C’s are not fit to be Hip-Hop artist or that “Hip-Hop is dead…” (rapper, Nasir Jones, XXL). The only difference between then and now is that there are more and more Hip-Hop artist who have gone through more privileged lives where it is possible that they have not experienced racism or prejudice, so I feel as though there is no need to focus on making a music that empowers one race over another or discuss topics such as racism. Not to say that these prejudice no longer exist, but that they are wearing thin amongst Americas youth. I myself have experienced criticisms from many people within the Chicago Hip-Hop community, on how my music isn’t real enough or that it’s “white boy music”. From the simple minded prejudice that my predecessors have developed from old Hip-Hop music, I am sure to create music that is relevant not just to a specific culture but to all cultures and people.
My biggest influence in making music would have to be Young L. Now I bet you ask yourself who is Young L?, good question. Young L is a west coast rapper/producer, and member of the Rap group known as “The Pack”. Young L is one of my biggest influences mainly because he doesn’t give a shit what people think of his music: He’s not the greatest producer ever, and he’s also not that great of a rapper, but regardless of what many people may say about how ignorant his music is he still does it. Young L understands what many people don’t so intuitively grasps I like to think, and that is whatever your profession may be your supposed to have fun when you do it, regardless how much better the next man may be at it or how many people tell you no. Young L makes a very obscure type of music, he takes very complex ideas or topics so to speak and makes them extremely 1 dimensional; now this in many ways makes his music come off as ignorant and dumb, but it also matches the simple minded thought process of many African American youth. This brings me to the subject of influences of my culture. My culture has influenced me greatly as an artist, I grew up focusing on the more political and intelligent rappers of the 90’s, artists had voices and stood for something important at the time. If you go and look for the opinions of old Hip-Hop artist on new Hip-Hop artist many of them say that new “M.C’s are not fit to be Hip-Hop artist or that “Hip-Hop is dead…” (rapper, Nasir Jones, XXL). The only difference between then and now is that there are more and more Hip-Hop artist who have gone through more privileged lives where it is possible that they have not experienced racism or prejudice, so I feel as though there is no need to focus on making a music that empowers one race over another or discuss topics such as racism. Not to say that these prejudice no longer exist, but that they are wearing thin amongst Americas youth. I myself have experienced criticisms from many people within the Chicago Hip-Hop community, on how my music isn’t real enough or that it’s “white boy music”. From the simple minded prejudice that my predecessors have developed from old Hip-Hop music, I am sure to create music that is relevant not just to a specific culture but to all cultures and people.
Young L's myspace:
Vega Star/ If Music went to space?
Vega Star
If this class wants me to passionately relinquish my sincere opinions & thoughts writing, then it might as well be about what I am most passionate about, which my pursuit of a music career.
I started writing song lyrics and rapping when I was 10 years old, I’d go to open mics and group ciphers with my brother and his friends. My brother Julian (rap name Keysar Soze) had introduced me to music and Hip-Hop, as he had his own Hip-Hop group known as the Black Soxx. They wrote controversial lyrics about politics and the prejudice of the United States government. Because of my introduction to Hip-Hop I began writing lyrics and rap songs with the inspiration of rappers such as Nas, Rakhim, and Big L. Of course with the particular upbringing of Hip-Hop music I was exposed to I was influenced to also write political and controversial lyrics about black pride and a life in the hood. The more and more I’d write, I realized that the topics and subjects that I was writing about had no relation to my life and what I knew to be true, personally. I then began to write about topics that genuinely interested me, contrast to the cliché “rapper”.
My sophomore year of high school I met my compadres Enrico Thomas (a.k.a. Rico Armani) and David Bradford (a.k.a. Dave Coresh). Dave, Rico, and I would collaborate on several songs, and later form a Hip-Hop group named Complex. As Complex we wrote songs about girls and clothes with verses filled with similes about money and women. After a year or so myself and Rico grew tired of the formula east coast rapper music we had been making, Dave on the other hand as being a rapper from the east coast felt right at home; so Rico and I parted ways with Dave Coresh to discover our own sound in Hip-Hop music, or music period for that matter. We began to look at all of our favorite musicians and artist and what kind of music they made, after discovering who these artist were and the music we truly preferred, we decided to try our best to merge each of these styles of music.
The first song that Rico and I wrote was titled “Sing 2 U”, this song was a proclamation of love to the girls we were dating at the time.
As the song stated: “I know I can’t sing, I can’t sing for shit but I’mma sing to you girl…”
www.myspace.com/complexsince1990
We recorded and distributed this song to our peers via our MySpace music page, and by handing our single at our high school. After a bunch of good reviews from our song “Sing 2 U” we began to write more songs, mainly about the topics of girls we had dated and teenage party life. In 2007 we released our first mix tape titled “The Backpack Chronicles” under the group name Vega Star (Genesis, & Rico Armani). We distributed this 14 song mix tape through our MySpace web page, and soundclick.com, from this we had generated a buzz from a couple local Chicago high schools such as Whitney M. Young, De La Salle, and Martin Luther King Jr. college preparatory high school, and of course our own school the Chicago Academy for the Arts. At this point we couldn’t quit, we developed a fan base, a small fan base, but a fan base none the less.
My inspiration now came from several different artist such as:
Kanye West, The Pack, Lupe Fiasco, Flight of the Concords, Willie Hutch, Curtis Blow, Young L, Hall & Oats, Stan Bush, Eddie Murphy, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, and Gym Class Heroes.
On February 11th of 2008 I went with my compadray Rico Armani to see one of my favorite rap groups in concert, The Pack. I just happened to have a friend who attended high school with 2 members of the group, so she was able to introduce me to them. I submitted them “The Back Pack Chronicles” and in that instant the 2 members StunnaMan, and Lil’ B invited us to they’re tour van where we smoked and listened to our mix tape and then had a freestyle session rapping over beats I had myself produced. I got Stunnaman’s cell phone number to later collaborate with them on our next mix tape.
With the inspiration of meeting one of my favorite rap groups in the music industry, I was excited to begin working on a 2nd mix tape. In March of 2008 we released our 2nd mix tape “Here for the Party”, known as an instant classic by diehard fans of Vega star. We also released a 3rd mix tape on October 16th of 2008, “Avant-Garde”, this mix tape didn’t do so well with returning fans of Vega Star. On Avant-Garde, we attempt to turn our music into a new direction of French house/ rap/ Electro.
Now Vega Star is working on perfecting their own original sound from merging their favorite styles of music being: French House/ Hip-Hop/ and Funk.
If this class wants me to passionately relinquish my sincere opinions & thoughts writing, then it might as well be about what I am most passionate about, which my pursuit of a music career.
I started writing song lyrics and rapping when I was 10 years old, I’d go to open mics and group ciphers with my brother and his friends. My brother Julian (rap name Keysar Soze) had introduced me to music and Hip-Hop, as he had his own Hip-Hop group known as the Black Soxx. They wrote controversial lyrics about politics and the prejudice of the United States government. Because of my introduction to Hip-Hop I began writing lyrics and rap songs with the inspiration of rappers such as Nas, Rakhim, and Big L. Of course with the particular upbringing of Hip-Hop music I was exposed to I was influenced to also write political and controversial lyrics about black pride and a life in the hood. The more and more I’d write, I realized that the topics and subjects that I was writing about had no relation to my life and what I knew to be true, personally. I then began to write about topics that genuinely interested me, contrast to the cliché “rapper”.
My sophomore year of high school I met my compadres Enrico Thomas (a.k.a. Rico Armani) and David Bradford (a.k.a. Dave Coresh). Dave, Rico, and I would collaborate on several songs, and later form a Hip-Hop group named Complex. As Complex we wrote songs about girls and clothes with verses filled with similes about money and women. After a year or so myself and Rico grew tired of the formula east coast rapper music we had been making, Dave on the other hand as being a rapper from the east coast felt right at home; so Rico and I parted ways with Dave Coresh to discover our own sound in Hip-Hop music, or music period for that matter. We began to look at all of our favorite musicians and artist and what kind of music they made, after discovering who these artist were and the music we truly preferred, we decided to try our best to merge each of these styles of music.
The first song that Rico and I wrote was titled “Sing 2 U”, this song was a proclamation of love to the girls we were dating at the time.
As the song stated: “I know I can’t sing, I can’t sing for shit but I’mma sing to you girl…”
www.myspace.com/complexsince1990
We recorded and distributed this song to our peers via our MySpace music page, and by handing our single at our high school. After a bunch of good reviews from our song “Sing 2 U” we began to write more songs, mainly about the topics of girls we had dated and teenage party life. In 2007 we released our first mix tape titled “The Backpack Chronicles” under the group name Vega Star (Genesis, & Rico Armani). We distributed this 14 song mix tape through our MySpace web page, and soundclick.com, from this we had generated a buzz from a couple local Chicago high schools such as Whitney M. Young, De La Salle, and Martin Luther King Jr. college preparatory high school, and of course our own school the Chicago Academy for the Arts. At this point we couldn’t quit, we developed a fan base, a small fan base, but a fan base none the less.
My inspiration now came from several different artist such as:
Kanye West, The Pack, Lupe Fiasco, Flight of the Concords, Willie Hutch, Curtis Blow, Young L, Hall & Oats, Stan Bush, Eddie Murphy, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, and Gym Class Heroes.
On February 11th of 2008 I went with my compadray Rico Armani to see one of my favorite rap groups in concert, The Pack. I just happened to have a friend who attended high school with 2 members of the group, so she was able to introduce me to them. I submitted them “The Back Pack Chronicles” and in that instant the 2 members StunnaMan, and Lil’ B invited us to they’re tour van where we smoked and listened to our mix tape and then had a freestyle session rapping over beats I had myself produced. I got Stunnaman’s cell phone number to later collaborate with them on our next mix tape.
With the inspiration of meeting one of my favorite rap groups in the music industry, I was excited to begin working on a 2nd mix tape. In March of 2008 we released our 2nd mix tape “Here for the Party”, known as an instant classic by diehard fans of Vega star. We also released a 3rd mix tape on October 16th of 2008, “Avant-Garde”, this mix tape didn’t do so well with returning fans of Vega Star. On Avant-Garde, we attempt to turn our music into a new direction of French house/ rap/ Electro.
Now Vega Star is working on perfecting their own original sound from merging their favorite styles of music being: French House/ Hip-Hop/ and Funk.
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