I originally flipped this track (Willie Hutch’s “Never Let You Be Without Love”) for The Sh*t I Shoulda Dropped for a track dealing with my relationship with Raquel and my first-born son. It’s a pretty deep song, and details where I was mentally and whatnot before Raquel and I reconciled after the original One Year Later and […]
Read moreRanking True God’s Discography
A couple days ago, True and I were talking about his discography and began debating how we’d rank the albums he’s put out over the past three years. I mean, why not? As an integral member of DAR, we talk about these sorts of things from time to time. He always says that One Year […]
Read moreAn Interview with True God, Part Three
As promised, below is a followup interview with TeamDAR compatriot True God. In this interview (Ed. Note: Here are parts one and two), we’ll discuss what’s been going on in True’s world in the past year-plus, his thoughts on music, and more. The always outspoken–sometimes controversial–True God delivers with some hard-hitting answers to some hard-hitting […]
Read moreThe Beat-Making Thought Process of Speed on the Beat
(RAQUEL RELOADED on iTunes) Greetings and Saliva, dawgs. Over the past couple months, I’ve been asked two things: 1) Why do your beats sound the way they do? (Sometimes, that’s positive. Sometimes, that’s negative. Sometimes, that’s just pure hatred. Either way, it’s a valid question.) 2) How do you make your beats? Well, first and […]
Read moreThe Great American Bash and How It Relates to DAR
Happy Independence Day (or to some “Happy Day that America Became Powerful Enough to Start Colonizing Other Countries, Thus Continuing the Tyranny that They Just Escaped From”). Last night, I watched the Great American Bash. WCW slander aside (seriously, Vince. Did you have to put the “WCW Nitro never rated higher than Monday Night Raw” title card in during […]
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