THERE IS SO MUCH TO BLOG ABOUT TONIGHT!
But I'm just gonna vlog...
Dizzee continues on his drive with us through East London...
And well...
Friday, May 23, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
TODAY IS THE DAY!
BUN B DAY!
Go Get 2 Trill NOW!
MAYNE HOLD UP! Today is the day!
BUN B'S 2 TRILL IN STORES NOW!
I generally say support the independent retailer, and still say that and will always say that, but um, if you didn't know, Target has it for $9.98 today and I am pretty sure that the Target edition comes with a DVD that you can't get anywhere else. So I'ma go get me the disc there this morning, and possibly some slacks FOR THE EVENT TONIGHT!
HOUSTON ITS GOIN' DOWN!
Bar Rio - 6400 Richmond Ave. - BUN B'S TRILLIONAIRE RELEASE PARTY!
HOSTED BY LIL WAYNE!
Then tomorrow night WEDNESDAY MAY 21ST IN AUSTIN!!!!
BUN B LIVE AT EMO'S!
I gotta get on the road, go get that album and leave a comment here telling me what you think. I think it's the first rap album I have listened to more than 10 times in the past 3 years (yeah, yeah, yeah, I did what you did too. But I'ma buy it. For real. I'm 'bout to right now. Don't judge.)
BUN B'S 2 TRILL IN STORES NOW!
I generally say support the independent retailer, and still say that and will always say that, but um, if you didn't know, Target has it for $9.98 today and I am pretty sure that the Target edition comes with a DVD that you can't get anywhere else. So I'ma go get me the disc there this morning, and possibly some slacks FOR THE EVENT TONIGHT!
HOUSTON ITS GOIN' DOWN!
Bar Rio - 6400 Richmond Ave. - BUN B'S TRILLIONAIRE RELEASE PARTY!
HOSTED BY LIL WAYNE!
Then tomorrow night WEDNESDAY MAY 21ST IN AUSTIN!!!!
BUN B LIVE AT EMO'S!
I gotta get on the road, go get that album and leave a comment here telling me what you think. I think it's the first rap album I have listened to more than 10 times in the past 3 years (yeah, yeah, yeah, I did what you did too. But I'ma buy it. For real. I'm 'bout to right now. Don't judge.)
Friday, May 16, 2008
AustinSurreal Exclusive! Dizzee Rascal Takes MattSoReal and Family 'round East London
A coupl eyears back I shot a bunch of video while on the road in Europe and wherever, but I did a really bad job of it, especially audio wise, so I never did anything with it till now.
Now I know how to post this shit so seriously, you're gonna see some thangs. I got a couple more dope parts to this here day with Dizzee Rascal and I've got some RAW footage of Bun B, Devin the Dude, Slim Thug, man I have a lot of dope video that you need to see. I'm on it. Keep coming back to AustinSurreal.com to see the real.
Today here's a couple clips from when Dizzee took me, my wife and Dave Stelfox thru his childhood home of East London. Enjoy...
Now I know how to post this shit so seriously, you're gonna see some thangs. I got a couple more dope parts to this here day with Dizzee Rascal and I've got some RAW footage of Bun B, Devin the Dude, Slim Thug, man I have a lot of dope video that you need to see. I'm on it. Keep coming back to AustinSurreal.com to see the real.
Today here's a couple clips from when Dizzee took me, my wife and Dave Stelfox thru his childhood home of East London. Enjoy...
BUN B LIVE IN AUSTIN WED. MAY 21 AT EMO'S!
2 Trill In Stores on Tuesday!
EXXXCLUSIVE FIRE REMIX FROM THE AMP'S!
Well the time hath come. It's here, it's leaked, though I'd recommend not downloading it and waiting for the full retail version, and it's about to take over the rap game.
Bun B's 2 TRILL!
I already told you "Get Cha Issue" is the best track. :If It Was Up To Me" is a close second, with "Keep It 100" rounding off the holy triumverate of jams. Pick it up Tuesday then AUSTIN come out Wednesday to meet the man at Music Mania, and see him live in concert at EMO'S!
Bun B at Emo's? YES EMO'S. On the main stage. 1,000 capacity. If you missed him at SXSW, you should not have this problem this time.
Ande check this out, my first jam with big name, national features:
DOWNLOAD "MATTSOREAL FEATURING BUN B, DJ KHALED AND RAPID RIC - REAL TALK PLAYAZ AND BALLAZ IN THE ATX JAM" NOW!
But seriously folks, THIS is what you need. An exclusive Remix of "That's Gangsta" by The Amps, to keep you jammin' till Tuesday. These boys are really on another level.
DOWNLOAD THE AMPS REMIX OF "THAT'S GANGSTA" HERE!
Anyway, it's beautiful here in Austin today. Surely will be next week as well. Come party with us.
Bun B's 2 TRILL!
I already told you "Get Cha Issue" is the best track. :If It Was Up To Me" is a close second, with "Keep It 100" rounding off the holy triumverate of jams. Pick it up Tuesday then AUSTIN come out Wednesday to meet the man at Music Mania, and see him live in concert at EMO'S!
Bun B at Emo's? YES EMO'S. On the main stage. 1,000 capacity. If you missed him at SXSW, you should not have this problem this time.
Ande check this out, my first jam with big name, national features:
DOWNLOAD "MATTSOREAL FEATURING BUN B, DJ KHALED AND RAPID RIC - REAL TALK PLAYAZ AND BALLAZ IN THE ATX JAM" NOW!
But seriously folks, THIS is what you need. An exclusive Remix of "That's Gangsta" by The Amps, to keep you jammin' till Tuesday. These boys are really on another level.
DOWNLOAD THE AMPS REMIX OF "THAT'S GANGSTA" HERE!
Anyway, it's beautiful here in Austin today. Surely will be next week as well. Come party with us.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Real Rap from Austin Texas
My boy RObert and my girl Jules hipped me to this program back in January. Basically they have been working with the kids at Kealing Middle School and teaching them about creating art and music in a hip-hop context. They brought in some of the cream of Austin's crop for this program and this Thursday they will present to us a final project of sorts, a finished rap song, done entirely my therse MIDDLE SCHOOL students. Here's the info, the flyer and an mp3 of the song.
DOWNLOAD THE SONG "DESTINY BY DESIGN" BY THE KEALING MIDDLE SCHOOL PLAYAZ CLICK!
(At least that's what I call them...)
The Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center invites you to come witness the kids of Kealing Middle School perform a rap song they both wrote and produced in our Destiny by Design afterschool program.
With the assistance of local artists including DJ Baby G, Tee Double, Lady Legacy, Gerald G, DaBosnian, AC, Wes Sanders, Capoeira da Rua, LuxuryMindz, Tosin, and Dat Boi Drew, a class of 7th and 8th graders studied the history and techniques of hip-hop culture.
Weekly meetings over the course of the Spring semester culminate with a performance by the kids on the Kealing Cafeteria stage at 4:00 the afternoon of Thursday May 15th.
The Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center is proud to announce the start up of its 'Destiny by Design' afterschool program at Kealing Middle School beginning February 28th.
In cooperation with CitizenSchools, the Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center will teach its Destiny by Design afterschool program, which focuses on hip-hop culture and opportunities for career development within the artform. Weekly classes will be taught by Music Journalist and Narcisse-Banks Co-Founder/ Director Robert Gabriel over the course of the Spring semester and will include local artists as guest lecturers. Guest artists including DJ Baby G, Tee Double, B-Boy and B-Girl City, Lady Legacy, Blacklisted Individuals, Pilarsito, Capoiera da Rua and Dat Boi Drew will provide introductory information as well as direct training in content areas such as music production, performance, dance, and graphic design. Development for the program will be supported by Educational Specialist and Narcisse-Banks Co-Founder/ Curriculum Coordinator Jules Narcisse. While Narcisse-Banks as a foundation will be volunteering its efforts to Kealing students, funding has been raised so that guest lecturers will be well compensated by the foundation for sharing their expertise with students. At the end of the Spring semester, Destiny by Design participants will showcase their newly developed talents at a culminating event on the Kealing campus, so stay tuned!
The Narcisse-Banks Communty Center would like to thank Mr. Alex Hendrex, a Social Science teacher at Kealing, as well as our most generous donors for making the compensation of guest lecturers possible. We believe in paying artists to do what they do best, share their art! In the Fall of '08, Narcisse-Banks expects to continue its work at Kealing and extend its Destiny by Design program to Bedichek Middle School as well. Please visit our website and library lists at www.myspace.com/narcissebanks for further information on the non-profit endeavors of the Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center.
Destiny By Design - 'Choose your path, Create your future'
www.myspace.com/narcissebanks
DOWNLOAD THE SONG "DESTINY BY DESIGN" BY THE KEALING MIDDLE SCHOOL PLAYAZ CLICK!
(At least that's what I call them...)
The Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center invites you to come witness the kids of Kealing Middle School perform a rap song they both wrote and produced in our Destiny by Design afterschool program.
With the assistance of local artists including DJ Baby G, Tee Double, Lady Legacy, Gerald G, DaBosnian, AC, Wes Sanders, Capoeira da Rua, LuxuryMindz, Tosin, and Dat Boi Drew, a class of 7th and 8th graders studied the history and techniques of hip-hop culture.
Weekly meetings over the course of the Spring semester culminate with a performance by the kids on the Kealing Cafeteria stage at 4:00 the afternoon of Thursday May 15th.
The Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center is proud to announce the start up of its 'Destiny by Design' afterschool program at Kealing Middle School beginning February 28th.
In cooperation with CitizenSchools, the Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center will teach its Destiny by Design afterschool program, which focuses on hip-hop culture and opportunities for career development within the artform. Weekly classes will be taught by Music Journalist and Narcisse-Banks Co-Founder/ Director Robert Gabriel over the course of the Spring semester and will include local artists as guest lecturers. Guest artists including DJ Baby G, Tee Double, B-Boy and B-Girl City, Lady Legacy, Blacklisted Individuals, Pilarsito, Capoiera da Rua and Dat Boi Drew will provide introductory information as well as direct training in content areas such as music production, performance, dance, and graphic design. Development for the program will be supported by Educational Specialist and Narcisse-Banks Co-Founder/ Curriculum Coordinator Jules Narcisse. While Narcisse-Banks as a foundation will be volunteering its efforts to Kealing students, funding has been raised so that guest lecturers will be well compensated by the foundation for sharing their expertise with students. At the end of the Spring semester, Destiny by Design participants will showcase their newly developed talents at a culminating event on the Kealing campus, so stay tuned!
The Narcisse-Banks Communty Center would like to thank Mr. Alex Hendrex, a Social Science teacher at Kealing, as well as our most generous donors for making the compensation of guest lecturers possible. We believe in paying artists to do what they do best, share their art! In the Fall of '08, Narcisse-Banks expects to continue its work at Kealing and extend its Destiny by Design program to Bedichek Middle School as well. Please visit our website and library lists at www.myspace.com/narcissebanks for further information on the non-profit endeavors of the Narcisse-Banks Community Resource Center.
Destiny By Design - 'Choose your path, Create your future'
www.myspace.com/narcissebanks
Sunday, May 11, 2008
ARABIC RAP IS THE NEW JUMP OFF!
MAYNE IT WENT DOWN! We also just moved into our Austin house, and are in the process of moving in and such, so I can't write now. Must sort things and sit in my new garage and wonder why I have so many cdrs with one rap song on them and somehow they followed me, they wouldn't just stay behind, or leave, or throw themselves out, no they ended up in boxes in my garage, along with every magazine I have read in the past ten years, also not sure why they made it. Also records. And VHS tapes. And such.
So yeah, full review forthcoming but suffice it to say, ARABIC RAP IS THE NEW JUMP OFF! At least the way Dam and Mohammad Al Farra do it. Word to them.
You don't understand the realness of the situation at hand.
Dred Skott are very important. Austin, get ready for the revolution.
Like I said, I PROMISE to write more.
Southbound is also the TRUTH! Very important to the Austin landscape and such.
Mohammad Al Farra live in Austin!
Joined on stage by Tamer of DAM to do a song about "Smoking Hookah." Which I am all in favor of.
Me doing the host thang thang. Photo courtesy of D tha Sandman
These boys WRECK!
Flows for days. You don't have to understand it, but you gotta respect it.
DJ RHYME!
Also courtesy of D tha Sandman. BUSTED!
Melissa and Richard Henry
D and James Dean
DRED SKOTT!
DRED SKOTT!
Rapid Ric wreckin'...
Richard Henry Drinking
Southbound and Dred Skott are the future.
On to Houston
Savvi of HISD hath crafted something wonderful in this HISD thang thang.
Equality is one of the best MC's in Houston. And I don't even know if he'd call himself an MC. He's the poet laureate of the whole region. Keep your eyes and ears opened and such. Mind too. All that.
BOY WRECKIN'!
I should have taken more pics of the ladies in the place at both events. But I was working and such. But Dam attracts an attractive crowd. There is no doubt about that shit right thurr real talk know'm sayin'.
WRECKIN'!
Trish aka Crooked Cricket done went and got the HD Footage. IMPORTANT!
BOYS KILLED IT TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW!
You really need to see these dudes.
Especially if you are a rapper. They can teach you a thing or two about flows, showmanship, respect, many things.
Me and my cousin Kassandra
Tish getting footage too! SEND ME PLEASE!
Monique and Friends
Hadeeel was the brains behind this entire operation! THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF THIS HADEEL!
KB DA KIDNAPPA THE LEGEND PLUS THE PALESTINIAN LEGENDS! OMG OMG OMG!
I get real geeked out. Excuse me. But here's Jackie Salloum and Hadeel. Jackie made the film Slingshot Hip Hop which is also EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!
Wrecked.
The end of the night dance and such. Also very important.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE!
Serious I will write more later, must prepare house. IT'S GOIN' DOWN! Thanks to all who supported and more to come.
So yeah, full review forthcoming but suffice it to say, ARABIC RAP IS THE NEW JUMP OFF! At least the way Dam and Mohammad Al Farra do it. Word to them.
You don't understand the realness of the situation at hand.
Dred Skott are very important. Austin, get ready for the revolution.
Like I said, I PROMISE to write more.
Southbound is also the TRUTH! Very important to the Austin landscape and such.
Mohammad Al Farra live in Austin!
Joined on stage by Tamer of DAM to do a song about "Smoking Hookah." Which I am all in favor of.
Me doing the host thang thang. Photo courtesy of D tha Sandman
These boys WRECK!
Flows for days. You don't have to understand it, but you gotta respect it.
DJ RHYME!
Also courtesy of D tha Sandman. BUSTED!
Melissa and Richard Henry
D and James Dean
DRED SKOTT!
DRED SKOTT!
Rapid Ric wreckin'...
Richard Henry Drinking
Southbound and Dred Skott are the future.
On to Houston
Savvi of HISD hath crafted something wonderful in this HISD thang thang.
Equality is one of the best MC's in Houston. And I don't even know if he'd call himself an MC. He's the poet laureate of the whole region. Keep your eyes and ears opened and such. Mind too. All that.
BOY WRECKIN'!
I should have taken more pics of the ladies in the place at both events. But I was working and such. But Dam attracts an attractive crowd. There is no doubt about that shit right thurr real talk know'm sayin'.
WRECKIN'!
Trish aka Crooked Cricket done went and got the HD Footage. IMPORTANT!
BOYS KILLED IT TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW!
You really need to see these dudes.
Especially if you are a rapper. They can teach you a thing or two about flows, showmanship, respect, many things.
Me and my cousin Kassandra
Tish getting footage too! SEND ME PLEASE!
Monique and Friends
Hadeeel was the brains behind this entire operation! THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF THIS HADEEL!
KB DA KIDNAPPA THE LEGEND PLUS THE PALESTINIAN LEGENDS! OMG OMG OMG!
I get real geeked out. Excuse me. But here's Jackie Salloum and Hadeel. Jackie made the film Slingshot Hip Hop which is also EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!
Wrecked.
The end of the night dance and such. Also very important.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE!
Serious I will write more later, must prepare house. IT'S GOIN' DOWN! Thanks to all who supported and more to come.
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