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ATLAS

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About Me

ATLAS: Rochester native, gets busy behind the mic and the boards.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/27/2005
Band Website: WRITTENRAW.com [under construction]
Band Members: ATLAS is down with: Written Raw; Babes Dance; Bite Em Down Productions Ent.; Zahyia Rolle; Henri & Brass Taxi; Sogets Management; OneLifeOneLove Ent.
Influences: Jazz
Ron Carter, Charles Mingus, Grant Green, Elvin Jones, Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, Ahmad Jamal, Stan Getz, Lou Donaldson, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Marcus Roberts, Joe Sample
Hiphop
DITC, Gangstarr, Boot Camp Clik, Zion I, Binary Star, Nas, Beatnuts, Jazzy Jeff, J-Live, Salaam Remi, Roots, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Jay-Z, KRS-1, Brand Nubian, Jeru, Tony Toca, Mos Def, Kid Capri, Large Professor, Poor Righteous Teachers, Hiero, AZ, Royal Flush,
Other
Sade, Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Tom Petty, Bernard Purdie, U2, Buena Vista Social Club, Police, Buju, Bob Marley

If it's powerful music, I'm with it
Sounds Like: Them joints you snap your neck to. Most cats tell me my beats put them in story telling mode. Melodic, diesel boom bap.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Face to Face

it's the twenty first century(the sun still shines) butlust, greed and every other viceare still doing finealive and welland how long can we survive in this hell?without driving all the virtuousto hid...
Posted by ATLAS on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:18:00 PST

new beats soon come

I been slack on the maintenance. New material waiting in the wings. Next couple days. Word.
Posted by ATLAS on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:32:00 PST

poor mouth hungry

it poured out from the poor mouthdirty, grit rhymesjumped in your ear and tore it all out;crowd scattered like the pumpshot balls outBB blast lyrics penetrate craniumsknocking walls outhard core with ...
Posted by ATLAS on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:29:00 PST

come anew

where I been, is a dim roomfeeling the earth spindealing with a grip of cold stressunder my skinstealing time to let my thoughts play throughpunching the clock in the faceout to lunchscraping for scra...
Posted by ATLAS on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:00:00 PST

ventilation

I swagger through like a...thick skull gorilla thumping my chestor a pitbull lusting for fleshspent my last- fistfull on a bottle of lava-when it's finished I'll be wrestling stresstreading water at b...
Posted by ATLAS on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:42:00 PST

Rochester Hiphop?

So boom- we had the open mic jumpoff at Javas for a few years-- that was straight. Probably the best pure open mic for emcees that has come along in a while. Now we have an assortment of spoken word t...
Posted by ATLAS on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:47:00 PST

Microphone Fiend

punks jump up, but don't live to boastmy mic sounds nice every time I toastso I'm gonna make it real funky for younot five, not four, not three, not two-one mic, is all I need with one versecause firs...
Posted by ATLAS on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:59:00 PST

Freestyle

I was at my man Blakammo's house the other night...ain't been through there in ages. He had a few cats through and a session went down. Yo it has been a minute since I really got down for mine. In fac...
Posted by ATLAS on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:45:00 PST

2006 til infinity

The one thing I'm mastering this year [with the birthday having just passed] if nothing else, is the CLOCK. Time management has a lot of other disciplines built into it, of course. Discipline its...
Posted by ATLAS on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:45:00 PST