What the hell, dusting off the old studio mic.

[magicmike]

Well since I have been without work and my consulting business has not really taken off I figured I'd get back into the studio. I'll give you all the history real quick.

My screen name here "MagicMike" comes from when I was around 25 years old (almost 10 years ago). Me and a really good friend of mine Jay "J Smooth" started this little fun part time project we called the Playa Pimp Possee. Jay is literally a lyrical genius. He writes the funniest rap lyrics you have ever heard. Now this was before that Ludacris fellow started with his funny songs but right around the time Eminem was popular.

I was working at Tweeter inc at the time, a consumer electronics store for you non new englanders. I had to go to a training and when I went a guy there we went to lunch and he let me listen to "his" cd that he made with some friends. I couldn't believe that with a home computer you could produce a descent sounding song. The software he was using was Acid Pro 1.0. I got a version right away and started buying up loop cd's at about 50 bucks each! This software was awesome. Any old boob like me could put tracks together and come up with some good royalty free music.

I would basically work on tracks during the week and would write my own funny lyrics myself. We'd get together at my moms house where I had setup a little recording area with a pretty descent microphone going through a tube amp for some warmth and into the digital sound card on the computer.

Thursdays were the night we would go out. This was before Jay got married and had 3 kids of course. I'm still single as all of you know. We would get together around 6pm and start putting some lyrics to the different samples I had created. We would be drinking and laughing our asses off. We basically created a new song every week and made a CD.

We loved what we were doing. We really enjoyed it and basically did it for ourselves. We would give CD's to everyone we saw. None of this selling shit. We just wanted everyone to hear our stuff.

We sent out demo CD's to a bunch of labels and I heard back from one in NYC but they were a bit shady I thought.

So flash forward to now.

I recently acquired the new version of the acid software. Sony bought them out a few years back and sow the latest version is 7.0. There are a ton of new features and plug-ins etc that I have been trying to figure out. I also just got some new loops that are from the old school drum machines so I'm working on some tracks with the old roland 808 beats. Its coming along well.

Me and Jay are going to get together for a comeback song and this time I'm going to make up a new website and get the songs on there for sale for a buck i-tunes style. Maybe I can at least make back the initial investment of all this equipment.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know what I was working on while I'm getting unemployment lol.

If you want to hear some of our original songs we have a Myspace music page.

http://www.myspace.com/playapimpposse

Let me know what you think... Constructive criticism welcomed.

[mike-tracy]

Not my style but I can appreciate all the hard work you put into your music.

[evolutionmovement]

That's some funny shit! Has a real old-school rap sound that reminds me of the '80s. Sounds like something I'd hear coming from a red boom box at a park, people break dancing on cardboard and me on a BMX. I think with some development, you could definitely sell some stuff. But, like me with my books, it's something fun to do that's all your own which is most important. Well, I say that now, but if I was offered 7-figures I might have to eat those words.

An ex friend had a pretty sweet keyboard that could take any sound and allow you to modify it on the keyboard to change the octave or the speed of it as well as doing a ton of different instruments. Also came with an assload of sample sounds, several of which I recognized from songs. It could also layer beats underneath and such. I don't know what the limit to tracks it could layer, but it also connected to the computer, so I think you could use that to add layers if the keyboard ran out. It was way cooler than he was and it ended up collecting dust.

[N1446]

this is commical
since 2pac vs. BIG , the demise of this style has disenegrated
no more real mc's anymore , no more creativity , no more beastie boyz
mainstream rap is garbage

[magicmike]

this is commical
since 2pac vs. BIG , the demise of this style has disenegrated
no more real mc's anymore , no more creativity , no more beastie boyz
mainstream rap is garbage

This was created back in 2000 and we were ahead of our times I think.

I hate to say it but we have a strong following in the stoner category lol. I only have 4 or 5 songs uploaded to mysoace because I hit a limit on there. We have about 14 total that we did for the first album. I made some solo songs as well that are in the mix and they all have a funny theme.

"Assman" for example is all about anal sex.
"Internet Pimp" is all about picking women up on aol instant messenger.
"STR8 pimpin" is about going out the club and getting into a fight after we try to pick up on a guys girlfriend.

What makes our songs so great is that its all true! we never made shit up to be cool or to seem bad ass or gangster. We did roll around in my friends beat up assed 83 lincoln town car and we loved it!

I'm working on getting an autotune plugin for the prgram so we cam make fun of t-pain lol.

[magicmike]

p.s. if you do go to myspace to check this out, friend me so I can be cool!

[Mattheww044]

this is commical
since 2pac vs. BIG , the demise of this style has disenegrated
no more real mc's anymore , no more creativity , no more beastie boyz
mainstream rap is garbage

WOW, THANK YOU! I love older rap. The music where the words actually make sense when put together, the music where half the words aren't made up. This new stuff is absolutely rediculous. I have moved on from rap for the most part just because of what it's become. "RAP" is a whole new style now... NOW it sucks!

[magicmike]

WOW, THANK YOU! I love older rap. The music where the words actually make sense when put together, the music where half the words aren't made up. This new stuff is absolutely rediculous. I have moved on from rap for the most part just because of what it's become. "RAP" is a whole new style now... NOW it sucks!

Thank you, you gotta listen to "getting dissed" its all about giving up on fine girls at the clubs and going for the fatties. Can you believe that we used to get dissed by fat chics too? lol we had to write a song about it lol We used to go nuts at the clubs lol