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Precedent

wordplayboy / enigmagician

About Me

I write rhymes. I do many other things well, like making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches--but folks round the way seem to like the vocals & the vocab, so you probably will too. If you're not used to processing oratory quickly, you may need a few listens, heh heh.

Performances are nigh, just filling in the set and rehearsing. Nibble on the tracks that are up, I'll rotate them in when the newer stuff is ready.

Gonna rock your socks off, so wash your feet first

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/17/2004
Band Website: is coming soon, delayed by late rent payments
Band Members: Myself: Precedent, aka Chimp, aka Mr Muggles, aka that fool on that hill, etc etc

My man Hellfish produced the tracks up now, but he's been busy of late, so I've been doing a little self-producing. I recently found a vet in the LA music scene who's hooking me up with some other talented folks, as soon as this is more official I'll throw up info on my collaborators.
Influences: I don't like to cite influences--I prefer to list "inspirations".... so here are some of em:

(in no particular order): Blackalicious, Lyrics Born & Lateef, Sage Francis, DJ Shadow, Danger Mouse, Mos Def, Dead Prez, Jurassic 5, Outkast, Public Enemy, Digable Planets, Pharcyde, The Roots, Slug, Sole, Alias, Del, Souls of Mischief, Digital Underground, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, KRS-One, Wu-tang, Kool Keith, Organized Konfusion, Aceyalone & the Fellowship, 2Mex & Visionaries, Shapeshifters, Living Legends, LA Symphony, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Beasties, and a WHOLE lot more...

oh, and then there's Beck, Prefuse 73, RJD2, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Modest Mouse, Bjork, Eels, Soul Coughing, PM Dawn, G Love, Primus, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Pixies, Rage against the machine, Fugazi, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Wierd Al, and WAY TOO MANY more to name--infuriating, isn't it?

Props to all the DJs and friends who ever introduced me to any of these

and about a billion more

go check out the new John Frusciante if u can
Sounds Like: If it's out there, I haven't heard it... Maybe like a kind of positive-political-philosophical-analytical-socially conscious-humanistic-type material, clever-revolutionary-concerned with upliftment, but still shakin glooty maximuses to contentment
Record Label: Busy Being Born Productions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Spoken World" MySpace page now up

A homepage has been created for "Spoken World"--the first hip-hop musical sitcom:  http://www.myspace.com/spokenworldmusic Interested parties can keep track of its progress, preview a song or two...
Posted by Precedent on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:16:00 PST

Underway! Hip-hop musical coming together

Currently casting up to seven parts for MCs who also have some acting chops, also looking for producers to donate beats, will need 6 tracks overall.  Please see my classified post for more info.&...
Posted by Precedent on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:51:00 PST

Don’t call it a comeback...

I'm in the thick of writing a groundbreaking musical project that's gonna hit some headz sideways...   do keep posted as we'll be needing some volunteers next month to round out the already-...
Posted by Precedent on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:01:00 PST

I'm on the local... whoa-ohh... radio...

"Catch the 22nd" has officially crossed over into the FM frequency ether... An obviously upstanding gentleman DJ on KXLU 88.9 has played the track on his Monday show (10-2pm) twice over the past tw...
Posted by Precedent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

First of many performances to come...

For those out there (just about all of you on this myspace dig) that haven't caught my live show, be sure to catch the upcoming this Saturday--a shorter set, but it won't disappoint. I like to bring ...
Posted by Precedent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lyrics Now Up!!!

Cool beans.  I'll leave these up for a little bit, then put up the new tunez as soon as I get the go-ahead from the "legal dept." I'm compelled to put at least some clips though...  y'a...
Posted by Precedent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A fire under my ass

Thanks anyone who checked out the profile while I was MIA for a couple months, computer problems blah blah blah, now my soundcard isn't working properly so decent home recording is out... But fortunat...
Posted by Precedent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

so much music...

so so busy these days, I'm gonna end up releasing three albums at once in a couple months just hooked up with a new producer who's worked with folks from Aaliyah to Nate Dogg, and he's bouncing me ...
Posted by Precedent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST