I Am DLO. I Am an Artist. I Am What I Am.
I been rappin for almost 5 years now. I started out speaking my mind about my philosophy, how I viewed life, my experiences, partying and doin the Whoop Dop. Now as time went on I find myself still speaking of those same things, but in a simpler more condensed form. I have a total of 4 albums. They include: The Chronicles vol. 1 (2004)..... Games Observation (2006)..... Lake Sides Finest (2006).....and Days We Livin (2007).....
"The Chronicles vol. 1" speaks for itself. It's mostly short stories regurgitated through the art of hip hop. My very first track I ever made is on this album. The chorus went as follows: "Days go by in a flash, we live everyday like fuck the past; people come and people go, I'm stayin here tryin not to let go." This track was how I felt at the time. It's about having a big crew of friends that you been chillin with for a few years and all of a sudden, it seems as if the crew is falling apart one by one. It's also about paying attention to shit and getting something out of it. It's definately one of my deeper tracks, as I said earlier: "I started out speaking my mind about my philosophy, how I viewed life..." It's funny cause' I just listened to the cd the other day with my buddy Baby B after blazin a little n it occured to me how much my mind has grown and expanded since then. After finishing "The Chronicles vol. 1," I kept it to myself and only let my boys hear it who of course showed it to their girls, sisters, acquaintances and so on. Quite a few people said they liked my shit. It made me feel good, but I thought to myself, "where am i going with this?" So I took a break from it, reevaluated my music and style, then basically forgot about it. I didn't make a single track for almost a year. By this time I did forget about making music, it honestly didn't cross my mind again until a blessing came and brought it back into my life again. Let's give this blessing a name, Tyson. I really didn't know him too well, all I knew was he made music with a group in Erie, P.A. I knew one of the members brothers. We went to high school together. So anyways, when I first met Tyson we were talking about music and he mentioned that he he liked to record. I was like no shit brotha, I do too but haven't for a while now. We started recording music together and became good buddies through a music bond. This is about the time I started to write again and came out with my second album, "Game's Observation." I named the album this because of one of the tracks on it called "Game's Observation." It was a track about a rapper looking inside the rap game and observing what he saw and what he needed to do for people to hear him. On the journey of the making of the album, "Game's Observation," I collaborated with another buddy of mine, Swifty C, who sings. We put our minds together and crafted a masterpiece called "Gettin Mine." From beginning to end the transitions, the tone, the vocals all came together just right. Me n Swifty still bob our heads whenever we put "Gettin Mine" on, while he sings the chorus and I rap out my verses out loud as energetically now as we did then. We gonna get it again sometime soon! Good looking out playboy! Well anyway, in 2006 I got busy. I was so hyped up on makin tracks that I did another album in the same year, called "Lake Side's Finest." At this point in time I felt as if I was at the peak of my rap game. I had a great buddy, Swifty C, who was also my mentor, and I found myself a good girl. My n Swifty went on to do another track together called, "Lookin' Real Smooth." Believe me, it was smooth. This track was mainly a freestyle. But the lyrics were like they were written, so when We played it for people, they didn't believe us when we told em I was freestylin.' I didn't care. A good track is a good track no matter how you got the vocals on it. Another track on there that was more of club/cruisin track was called "Ridin Down The Strip." The chorus goes as follows: Ridin dow the strip, yea I'm livin that nightlife Blunt 2 my lips, yea I'm hittin that litebright." It was like me feelin good, you nam sayin? It's when I felt I had everything in order and felt nothing could go wrong. A couple lines from the first verse go as follows: "Ridin down the strip wit my bitch, blunt 2 my lips as her cigarette flicks. Take a sip of that shit that make me trip. Lights all green as I roll by slow. Might seem the night scene just gettin started as i take a hit of the doe doe." You know what I'm sayin now, it's just that feel good feelin.' Then, I took a blow. I ain't gonna lie 2 ya, it got me down a lil bit. All of a sudden my girl was gone. I kept recordin, but the shit i was doin wasn't good. It was like all of a sudden I lost my touch. Then slowly I got it back, but not all the way. This is around the time I finished "Days We Livin." This albums title came from the albums' signature song, "Days We Livin." It's about what I was going through at the time. the first few lines go like this: "I see that these young G's wanna look up 2 me n ask, "Yo D, How u do this? How u do that?." Fuck out my face out my way, got my own plan, my own brain, you nam sayin? Had a girl, Goodbye. There she goes kinda like a kite that just flies over your head. I'm lookin' 4 somethin that can't be found. It's like why am I even tryna walk around, tryna look 4 it? I don't even know man, just ignore it just go past it, walk past that boulevard street sign, just don't be too hard to find. I gotta find my way, my path, my days that I do last in this lifetime. It's right and I'm like goddamnit, my eyes standin too slanted. I'm a little frantic. Havin some paranoia. It's like I'm a schizophrenic. Where do I go from here? I'm askin myself, I'm askin God why with a tear. Why do I do what I do when I do it? Don't know DiLo, just pursue it. Follow your dream, follow your career that u wanna do, just listen to me right here: this is what I'm doin, rappin in yo ear, this is what I'm doin 4 the fuck of it. You nam sayin? Yea." Then the chorus goes as follows: "It takes time 2 find whatcha lookin' 4. Watch the street signs. Keep ya head up, and ya flow. Ya can't find something that's not there. Ya can't have everything ya want. It's life. It ain't fare."It was a hard time for me n a transition in life where I knew I couldn't have what I wanted because what I wanted, didn't want me. N I was trying to tell myself that i gotta watch out for the signs, just like I was saying on "The Chronicles vol. 1," but this time I wasn't talking to the audience. I was talking to myself. I was trying to let myself know that I gotta watch out for the signs, and find the path that's right for me, cause the one I wanted came to a sudden roadblock. sort of like a pitchfork in the road, you know? So I had to make a decision: Where do I go from here? And the funny thing is: what makes the track so crazy is that it was a freestyle. After "Days We Livin" I took a little break to try n reevaluate my style for the 2nd time, n figure out where my mind was again. Let me tell ya, It worked. So far the tracks have been crazy good, and I'm really happy with it. It's been a rollercoaster ride so far. I been working with my buddy Kuhns, who made his debut on "Lake Side's Finest" on a tracks called "Round Here." And, another DiLo/Swifty C composition is also in the works, hopefully sooner than later. So far, the making of my next album, "D Tour," has been a blast and I hope to have it finished by summer this year. Perfection takes time. Remember that.DiLo
Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!
