Watcha gon do today?
I’m gonna rock out to some dope Blue Scholars… this song is hot. If you don’t know much about Blue Scholars, you should start becoming a fan now because they have a lot of good songs, and this one happens to be a free one. They seem to add some fantastic beats to their incredible rapping. The blue Scholars rep Seattle and tour a lot with Macklemore, who also happens to have some really good songs, too. Long weekend for me, so I’m hoping to have a good time. I hope you all have a great weekend, too. Shouts to Haas for adding the mp3.
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Occasionally, Geo and I find ourselves stuck in these phases of indecision.
In the studio (also known as my brother’s video editing room) we were wrapping up a new cut for release on the iNtErnetZ and, for whatever reason, were completely unable to come up with a hook for it. The beat was done, the verses were done, but alas, no hook.
Now, I’m not saying we didn’t have ideas. We did. Plenty. But they were just a whole bunch of whatever-blah-ideas and none were really anything we could decide on and polish. I was beginning to get annoyed.
I mean, we shouldn’t be frustrated right? It’s not like music is our job or anything…
Anyway, at some point Geo shrugs his shoulders, steps to the mic, and starts shouting “Watcha gon do today?”
I recorded it.
While I’m playing back the recording, he starts answering himself by shouting random stuff he plans to do that day. It was an odd choice, but I ended up recording that too.
When that take was finished, we played it back… kinda sat in silence for a second.. looked at each other… said something to the effect of “$@# it!” then hi-fived in a way that wasn’t lame and went and got some Crispy Ginger Chicken at the Kauai Family Restaurant.
Did we finish the song? Yes.
Was the hook a good choice? I dunno.
Did the events described in this email really transpire exactly the way I said they did? Most likely not.
