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About Me

I haven't even made a song I like yet.

Before We Knew is almost a concept album. I would call it me and Defizit's take on the mid-90s golden era NYC sound, tempered with west coast sensibilities and bay area steelo. No gimmicks, no fake shit, no catchy dance songs and no conscious bullshit. Just dope sample based beats with ill chops, bangin drums, graceful fat basslines, etc. And ill verses in the vein of what I'd like to call classic lyricism. This is paying homage to the shit that inspired us from the past, while simultaneously tryin to wake this game up and kill all the wack shit currently out there. That ain't hip hop to me. Before We Knew is short for a reason; we're just gettin' started. It is the product of some big dreams and hard work, and as of yet we're only gonna get better. - TAO.
This album is the result of over a year of hard work. We put a lot of heart, time, energy, and money into this project. Thanks for the support and share this shit with everyone you know! Hi sample haters! - Defizit
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/06/2008
Band Members: livin' is neva enuf
Influences: My main influences in real life were negative or absent, as a result I turned to hip hop music for role models and morals while growing up in a ill environment. My Old shit is wack, my new shit is lately just frm listening to hella mob figaz, hella melodic indie shit, 16bit videogame tracks, doen graff on public transit or kickin it with girls in parks, walkin around in the hood and basically being alone a lot.
Sounds Like: I guess just a young cat reminiscing on being younger dumber...
Record Label: nada

My Blog

new shit, what i been recording on lately or soon..

gucci mane- icystyles p- alone in the streettupac- painjadakiss- whygame- hate it or love itand probably hella more coming in the next few weeks. these are all ft. RO by the way but really its me feat...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:51:00 GMT

All I Want For Christmas

all i want for christmas is a Built to Spill tee shirt.what the fuck?and world peaceand realer friendsand wack$hit to be eradicated from earth!and some money from momsand a gold compression microphone...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:57:00 GMT

about the album; Before We Knew

Before We Knew is almost a concept album. I would call it me and Defizit's take on the mid-90s golden era NYC sound, tempered with west coast sensibilities and bay area steelo. No gimmicks, no fake sh...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:43:00 GMT

what i've observed lately

the rain makes mundane experiences seem profoundpretty girls look prettier when theyre mad at you (me)the old orange buses = more graceful than these new gray hunks...i'm tryin not to think of howthe ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:18:00 GMT

the album is in final stages of mixing....

so... all the tracks are recorded. all but two of them are mixed. just an update in case anybody still cares. but yeah its all dope as fuck. you'll hear it soon.as for how everything else is going... ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:46:00 GMT

before. we. knew.

the album will be recorded in its entirety (11 tracks) the night of august 15th, 8pm-4am.you. know. what. it. do! i'm really so fuckin saucy wit the shit though, i just cant wait to have it so i can g...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:13:00 GMT

the story behind ALL4U! well, just the last 16...

featuring the vocal talents of merk the madscientist, vash vega, and sin...plus some credit for the beat goes out to gavin as well as the popproxx duoso merk, with my favorite opening line to a loveso...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:47:00 GMT

The TAO & Defizit EP coming soon...

so yesterday the homeboy hit me with the final beat for our ten track EP, as of today i think 6 songs have ruff versions already, the rest are on the waythis is gonna be that real ill shit yo, none of...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:37:00 GMT

just to keep it constant

soo all the new shit is gonna get recorded in the next couple weeksi changed my style again so you'll get a little taste of that...um, i wrote another song today.i dont really know what to say so, i j...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:30:00 GMT

All My Old Songs Are Hurt

I hate fuckin listening to my own voice.I don't even wanna release em.I just wanna record all this new shit I been writing.Fuck everything from yesterday to the first track I cut when I was 14...Your ...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 10:35:00 GMT