flicks around town

a night walk to the studio and a day around the new haven streets, freshly uploaded to flickr.

BACK IN THE STUDIO!

Parental Advisory - PG13 vocabulary (i.e., I say bulls**t in the chorus... my bad. dont listen if this will cause you to stumble; or talk to me about it first thats good too)

BUT GRAND MASTER IS BACK IN THE STUDIO!
WRITING UP HOOKS!
AND VERSES!

WE BACK UP IN HERE MAN!!

dropping that hot, hot, fire (as opposed to the cold fire) that you have been missing.

but you already know that! you are the ones what done been missing it!

NEW INTERNETS SINGLE: HUSTLE & GRIND

Also streaming at the Grand Master - 108 Tongues/BUSTOUT - myspace page.

Original collabo version with Macken' available too....!

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Studio night

It is currently 2:30 AM.... I been in the studio since 11:30 PM... And I got to get up to teach children's church at 10 AM...

but the night went well, after going to a play and then kicking it with some friends I got in the studio and turned out 3 tracks!!!

-1 mastered collabo for a Chinese mixtape
-1 mastered solo joint for my new mixtape... coming soon... (next month??)
-1 rough track to mix + add a sung hook (featuring??!?)

so now i get to throw on my clothes + walk about a mile in this weather back home:


Maybe I should sleep in the studio? It's warm in here... sure warmer than 6 degrees F!

But nah, I'm headed home even tho it's straight brick outside!

Now that's hip-hop!!!

Last Studio of 2008 / Dinners

12/18/2008

[The second in a series of photographic montages
relating my activities throughout the pre- and mid-
holiday season.]

Thursday12.18.2008

Before heading out of town, the boys from SOS and I
headed into the studio one more time to polish off [||]
some of the work we been doing this semester.


GM in the hizzy.


SOS: quality time in the studio.


Eman, a large fraction of the SOS family, came thru.


Laying bars down like railroad work.

After the studio sesh, it was time for other work - I
headed over to BK to kick it with David over dinner.



Organic beef, all natural.

Afterwards, I headed over to Old Campus to hang out with Liz Kim
and then to dinner, part 2.

On the way over to Bangkok Gardens, Liz and I passed a winter
carriage ride wending and winding its way thru New Haven.


The menu item: "Fresh Spring Rolls". As opposed to, I suppose, the
stale spring rolls that are only served upon request (More
reasonably: as opposed to fried spring rolls?).


Thanks to Liz's mom a/k/a Mrs. Kim for the Christmas present!!

Flyness obviously runs in her family:



After walking Liz back to Old Campus, one more shot of the lights
shining, casting wide rays from the visage of Durfee's.

[Next up: Hitting New York with Ray Lee, chilling with Landon,
and my life in Delaware.]

Living Water / Lock-In / Studio

11/7 - 11/8/2008

Friday11.7.2008

Kickin it with Living Water, Yale's Christian a capella
group (no Andy Bernard)






SBTG Dunk SB lo's. Asia Exclusive.

Later that night was UCW's lock-in. We have
literally been trying to put on one of these joints for
years, with no success. We soldiered on this year tho
and it was thorough.


Liz look fly in my gears.




Yooj!


Ayoo, Dan.


Moh lei made some mad foods for our sustenance.


Chea!






Ben look fly too.


He's filled with glee, on the inside [||].


Errbody love to get behind them drums.


aaand...

Lights out.


We did praise and worship, alternating with prayers (individual,
group, and communal), for two and a half hours. This was less
ridiculous and more spectacular than it sounds.


Culminating in kicking it up behind the podium on some family sing-
a-long ish, but no kumbaya.

Afterwards, we retired to the basement to enjoy the
goods prepared by Emily, plus ramen (always got to
have the ramen at church functions, nullus j.i.c.).

I call this next series of four shots, people eating
rice krispy treats.


Dan eating.


Alice eating.


Lills eating.


Grace was eating, then stopped.


Blee can't stay away, sonn be coming in from the city
all over the place. Good to see him around.


Cutting up.


Madd good, sonn.


On the electric gui-tar, Mr. Garrett Fiddler.








Blee looking bleeful.





A short while after finishing the praise portion of the
night, and during the jus kickin it segment, Esther
showed up (having fulfilled well her nightly allotment
of Freshman Counselor duties) with two young
charges in tow.


Yena be intense.


David be nonplussed.


UCW does love its kimchi.


Roughly two hours after I'd excused myself for bed, I
found myself back up and rockin steady in the church
office with the stalwart remainder of kinfolk still doin
they thing.




aha ha, ha.

Saturday11.8.2008

Having outlasted the rest of our group, three of the freshmen and I
sent ourselves to sleep at 4:30 AM. A scant four and a half hours
later, we were rudely (or not so much) awoken, to some Will Smith
pancakes (i.e. they was so fresh) and sausages (nullus), OJ, etc.










Janice capable.






Liz, proud of her handiwork.


James' butterfly.

After finishing breakfast, we headed back: the students
to campus and me to home. Planning to hit the studio
that afternoon, I finished writing up some bars and
knocked out for an hour, then headed down into town
and to work.


SOS New Haven: Sheemo, Eman, Ca$h.


GANJI aka So Yoon (a/k/a So Money) came through as
well to bless the mic and take some flicks. The next
photographs are courtesy of her camera, ably wielded.


Da Boof'.




Stuntin' (pronounced stunnnin).









After an afternoon and evening well spent in these sorts of pursuits,
I headed over to Dport and kicked it in Erin's suite with some local
flavor for a long minute.


Local flavor, major [||] on this one, ayo.