My reggae dancehall remix moniker just got signed, thank God, for a brand new vinyl release on a major DJ's label. I can't go into too much insider info on the release, as people as per norm will attempt to step in and squash my personal success and initiative musically. All I will say is that the DJ signing me for this vinyl release is of epic historical legendary status. I really had been advised by many people to simply give up on my guns and ammo oriented jungle project (called Clip & Carbine). They said the blacklist has been so all encompassing that you would be best advised to not release under that moniker if you ever want to get released. Much like my Emo Headache digital hardcore project, the naysayers turned out to be wrong. By sticking to my guns and never selling out when it comes to the hardcore style of digital dancehall, I've come to a place where I can say comfortably that getting signed for a vinyl E.P. release is a personal victory. I'm so enthusiastically excited about this future project. God knows I'll be getting rough and rugged in the studio this summer, so pray for me that I don't overdose on marijuana! No I'm kidding of course. I started this digital dancehall project back when I was 17. They said it couldn't be done. But over 20 years later, my hardcore ragga dancehall moniker seems poised for success. I mean I actually never had a vinyl release of my digital dance hall music. I was able to get my hardcore punk moniker Emo Headache released on vinyl couple years back, yet somehow my digital dancehall project still had yet to achieve a hard pressing on vinyl. So suffice to say I'm pretty excited about the future! I ask my readers out there to pray for me for guidance that I might do the will of Jah through music. In fact, one of the most shockingly Christian elements of what amounts to stoner music, is that it uses a breakbeat called the Amen break. So sure enough we're bringing the Amen to the forefront. As opposed to long time producers and DJs moving away from the Amen mash up style, I've been asked by the legendary owner of the label to do nothing but Amen mashups. This don of digital dancehall requested four tracks of Amen mash ups for the release. So suffice to say, I will be paying legendary dancehall vocal artists to do an exclusive voicing just for the label and my release therein. I get kicked around a bit by people who claim to speak in the name of everything counterculturalist, and they always seem to get some sort of satisfaction out of tarnishing my name and success. But I am here today satiated, and I can get satisfaction. They say famously in the Rolling Stones crap "I can't get no satisfaction". Well I can get plenty of satisfaction. I know it sounds a bit too hardcore, but I literally am going into this project figuratively looking to murder a sound. And murder a sound I intend to do. When the entire world is against me it seems, there still is a place for success. I'll never forget where I was when I got signed for this release. It was the end of the month, the last day until I got my welfare check on the 1st. It's a hard shrift for a man to go through. But when you live on the dole, the last couple days of the month until you get another infusion of money to live on, is often the most stressful. When everybody gets paid on the 1st? You best bet n****** be wilin'... however the end of the month for welfare recipients can be a sad state of affairs. So I'm sitting here, on the last of the month before the 1st when I get my dole check, and I open up my email inbox to see a new message from the owner of this legendary stable of hardcore jungleism, and what do I find? I found out I got green lighted for a vinyl release. For years and years and years I had succeeded with my ragga dancehall act, but never came quite up to the point of getting pressed to vinyl. So I guess I should say this was a long time coming. Look at it this way. After years of service, it's slowly gradually but ultimately timelessly a joy to find that doing it myself had finally paid off. A lot of musical and arts acts oftentimes seem a bit, how do you say, baked in. A kind of counter-cultural circle jerk, with still to this day especially with the vaccinated zombies as I see them, appears in my eyes to be vacuous and hardly redemptive. That's the thing about this amen break stuff. It's not really respected by a lot of people who claim to have been part of the scene, but really don't look back to the roots of the music as such. Those bandwagon jumpers never cease to amaze me. So remember when this release comes out? This one isn't for the scene.
This one goes out to all my n****** on lockdown and all my people in the streets!
Selah