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Niles (twitter.com/nilesisbetter)

About Me

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Trying to lose my cool.It's Art.It's Life.Lead to paper, fingers to keyboard, mic to speakers.ADDENDUM (5.24.08)Atunement. Spewin a new gospel towards all you fossils in the pews. I stand. Slightly Hostile. No Apostles. A Man. Push through the Static. KeyNoteComing Sooner that never.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/07/2006
Band Members: Niles Heron, Young Niles, Nawls, Kick Knowledge, K. Know, NiLust Heron, Niles Peterson, Niles Davis, Keynote.
Influences: Saul Williams - ?uestlove - J Dilla - Khary Kimani Turner - Black Thought - Common (Sense) - Jella Biarfra - Sonja Sohn - Slam Poetry - Robin Moten - Robert Fanning - Antonio Turner - Prophecy, Mylez, Slay Mob - Blackstar - Souls of Mischeif - Pharcyde - Amp Fiddler - George Clinton - Gil Scott Heron - Madlib - Common - Invincible - Pharoahe Monch - Ta'Raach - Jack Sample Pros - Houseshoes - Guilty Simpson - Detroit - Miles Davis - John Coltrane - Thelonious Monk - Outkast (Mr. 3000) - The Neptunes - Naimless, Shellz, St8uvMind - Rakim - Nas - Jay-Z - B.I.G and Pac of course - De La Soul - Slum Village - Q-Tip - MF Doom - Danger Mouse - - Everybody Keeping it real - Everyone who ever told me they didn't like my style, my music, my hair, my haircut, or my life.
Sounds Like: The realest shit you never wrote.
Record Label: none

My Blog

Man Up, Do Over

The do over was retarded.For those of you wondering what I do with my life, I've been working. Alot. Collaborations with Shawn Jackson/Taraach/Big Tone, and then with Blu out here, as well as some rea...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 22:49:00 GMT

Intangible

So it's been about a month since I've been out here in LA and I've been in touch with some of you all, and out of touch with most of y'all, and that's just how it is. In lieu of me not communicating w...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:32:00 GMT

Backseat DJ Blog: Detroit 2 LA Road Trip (Day 1)

"Hi, I'm Jeff, I'm driving."That would make me Niles, typing in the passenger seat while we move forward. Jeff is currently rambling about doggystyle and the quite insightful observation that when one...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:59:00 GMT

LA 2/23 and the Boogeyman

To everyone who supported me through all, some, or any of the shit I've been through and done over the past 6, 10, 12, 20 years thank you. To everyone who failed to support me through any of the sh...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:03:00 GMT

ATTENTION ATTENTION (bulletin repost)

Gotta leave that 9 to 5 up on the shelfand just enjoy yourself.groove.let the madness and the music get to you.life ain't so bad at all...so.do what you wanna do.there ain't no rules it's up to you (a...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:41:00 GMT

Chasing the Sun towards L.A.

So i'm hardheaded right....I know nothing about this world except for what i've infered from what people i know or know of have experienced or what i have been through. Of that limited bank of knowled...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:29:00 GMT

stream of conscious.

my life flows fluid, rivers under bridges troubled waters lay me down, float me up streams of consciousness build micro, the tree in the forest detonate macro, a capital city and the structures within...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:37:00 GMT

no fear

loosen leevees and push back flood gates.let the waters flow inaround your feetup past ankles(let the waters flow in)knees and thighswaist deeplet the waters flow infeel this ocean wrap around your ri...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:01:00 GMT

Music Theory

These past few weeks I've been doing alot of thinking about music theory and really moreso, the lack of originality or feeling in music. It's 2006. There are humans... Driving... that don't remember a...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:01:00 GMT