Props to the homie Tara who took a flick of me holdng my disc and emailed the picture to me the very next day.  Most cats on the street who say they'll do something don't even do it at all, let alone get it done that quick. 





It's just that, since I don't got a camera, any time I notice any pic bein taken of me, I gotta ask them to send it to me.  What can I say...I'm short on pics yo.


I always see rappers constantly changing up they Myspace photo (like every other day), and I just can't compete...damn. 


So right up above is a brand new pic of me properly reppin my CD.  What are you waiting for??  Cop it off CD Baby today!







I'm gonna end this with a Quote Of The Day.  I know I aint been layin down the quotes for some time now.  Forgive me please.


This kid, he was like 13 or somethin, wanted the CD and asked his moms if she would buy it for him.  He was goin real hard like, "Please mom, it's a cool CD."  She finally gave in and bought it for him.  Then when he got it he was all holdin it sayin, "this is cool!"


Of course I was pumped.  Then, while walking away he says,  "Does it have Lollipop on it?"


NO MUFUCKA THERE IS NO LOLLIPOP ON MY CD!!!

Yo!


Here's the link to cop The Taybot/Phil&Numberman Mixtape off CD Baby:







Buy it today, jus like the homie Toyokazu all the way in Japan did (read below for more info on that).


In other news, I started really goin in, working on my album.  I wanna have this sucker done by June and it's gotta be FILTHY, so I figure I better start now yadig?


Today I been goin around to all these different producers websites, listening to what they have to offer.  Some of it was super dope...some of it not exciting.


Attn: Phil


Finish the "Runnin Shit From The Inside" beat.  I know you're reading this and you're probly thinkin to yourself, "Yea, I do gotta work on that."  Your conscious is right homie you gotta finish that!


Attn: Everyone That's Not Phil


Pay no attention to the above rant.  It shoulda been personal but sometimes I jus can't help myself.  I gotta express myself PUBLICLY.
 

My CD release party was las night and it went pretty well.  Altho not that many of MY people showed up, the homies Phil&Numberman pulled thru and brought out tons of people.  That left me with a good crowd to rock for. 


My set went really well up until the las song when three things happened unexpectedly:


1) My uncle walked in, which startled me cuz I didn't think he was coming thru.  I wasn't bummed out that he got there late or nothin...it jus kinda startled me. 

2) My homie offered me some water and I really didn't want any water.  Maybe my voice was sounding rough and I needed water, but I knew I only had one song left and I just wanted to finish the set, not take a water break! 

3)  My microphone stopped working.  It suddenly went dead or something.  I could still do the last song but I had to clench the cord in this certain position so that my voice would come thru.  This was by far the biggest problem that fucked things up.  It's just that it was the last of three things that all happened within about 20 seconds, so I'm counting the other two as well.


Like I said, except for these three things, the whole night went great.  I gotta alot of good feedback afterwards, sold a bunch of CDs and even gave one to the barista at Trabant...he said he was tryin to play it during his shifts.  Thanks homie!  


The Taybot/Phil&Numberman Mixtape is available on CD Baby now and I'm about to put the link up.  I will make another post when I get this done and then yall should cop it cuz it's dope 4reals!

Damn it was SO hot out today, selling CDs was insane.  I was sweatin and mad tired.  It's still about 3,000 times better than sweating indoors while telemarketing tho.


Tonight I went to a bar and it was way hotter inside the bar than outside.  I was enjoyin the nice warm night on the walk to the bar, showed my ID to the cat at the door and then stepped inside a furnace.





I didn't have any drinks to cool me down either.  I didn't quit drinkin  or nothin.  I'm just too too cheap to buy drinks nowadays, I dunno what my deal is. 


The people on the street were tough to sell to today.  I went to the UW campus to promote my show and sell CDs at the same time.  Kill two birds with one rock yadig?  My show is in the U District of course, which is why I headed to the campus (remember...my CD release party, which you are definitely goin to this Saturday)!





That fish fry joint on Cap Hill looks like it has...really good fried fish.  Go figure.


The other night I seen Dark Knight on Imax and it was the second illest thing I seen in recent memory.  What was #1?


Glow In Tha Mufuckin Dark


Really tho, that movie is the future.  All I can say is it was Empire Strikes Back for my generation. 

The homie Tim Hall gave a great review of The Taybot/Phil&Numberman Mixtape on his People's Critic blog for the Seattle P.I.  Damn that is like...important. 


Yay someone important is paying attention to me!!!  I'm ecstatic!!!


Here is the link:  http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/peoplescritic/archives/146022.asp


Once again, for all the lazy heads out there, I will post the whole review up for ya.  Read the review, buy the joint off the sidebar, then go to my show.  That way you'll know all the words when you see me rock it.

Seattle's Hip-Hop scene as a new up and coming rapper named Taybot. I recently listened to his Taybot Mixtape with Phil & The Number Man.

The Good:

The album intro "New Dawn" sets the tone for the content on the rest of the mixtape. Taybot uses his samples well on the tracks "Get This Money" and " Jingle". On "Hold Tight" you can hear as Taybot switches up the flow showing he has versatility with his rhymes.

Some of what sets Taybot apart from other Seattle artist that I've heard is his storytelling ability. Check out "Caught in a Scam" Part I and II. Those two songs show you he wants to be more than just a local rapper.

My favorite track on the album is "My Pain" where Taybot spits, "Text books feeding my fam the fake facts/cats taken up rap/just to chase them stacks." At the end of the track he chants "I'm thinking on a whole nother plane/If you're with it reach outside your range.

The Bad:

There may be too many interludes on the album. "The Drunken" interlude has a nice melodic flow, but the others just take up space on the mixtape.

"We Stay Fly" feat Scribes seems a bit lazy. There isn't a lot of foul language on this mixtape. I can count on my hand the number of times Taybot curses on his album. Scribes profanity laced verse doesn't fit the flow of the album.

Surprisingly the end of the mixtape lacks the same hunger and enthusiasm you hear in the first 12 tracks. Although I enjoyed some of the songs, they sound disconnected from the rest of the album.

Overall:

I enjoyed the mixtape. It doesn't hit as hard as I would like it to hit, but the kid is just getting started. There is some good production from Phil & The Numberman. Their instrumentals add good sound to the disc making more hits than misses.

Taybot is a refreshing new MC. If he is only going to get better, we have a lot to look forward to.

Today was a pretty big deal for me.  The reason why I say this is cuz I finally returned back to Bank Of America.  If yall remember, last year I got scammed and robbed for hecka money.  My bank account turned into a debt and shortly after that I got kicked outta Bank Of America. 


At that point my finances was so wack that no bank would accept me.  Ha I was livin purely on cash for months and months.  All I can say bout that is, you never know what you got til it's gone.  And by that I mean, you never know the true convenience and luxury of havin a debit card until you aint got one no more.


Paying for everything by cash is mad annoying.  The only good thing about it is, you don't wanna buy stuff nearly as much cuz you gotta watch all your green dissipate. 


After a few months of dealin with that I finally found a bank that would accept me as a member.  I entered the world of Wells Fargo.  The moment I joined them,  I decided I wanted to get back to B.O.A ASAP.  I even changed the name of it from B.O.A to B.O.A.S.A.P (Bank Of America Soon As Plausible).


Wells Fargo wasn't lousy or nothin.  The customer service was a lil slower than B.O.A and the nearest bank was in a complete different direction from where I usually go...but it was mostly a sentimental thing.  I really liked it at my old bank, and I just wanted things to be back the way they was before, namean? 


Now here I am, less than twelve months later and I'm sitting with a brand new bank account at my originoo bank.  That is a good look for me so I'm happy, for the moment at least!



This is the B.O.A.S.A.P logo...i never looked at their logo without the text above it but, for all those wondering THIS is what it looks like

Yo I said I was gonna get a collaboration posted of me spittin over a beat made by the homie Keyboard Kid.  I actually finished it last week, but I played it for my dood Praxis and he told me to switch up the first verse. 


I did that las night and posted it on the Space.  So now, I present to you, with much love, the collabo between me and Keyboard Kid.  It's called Street On Speed Dial.  You gotta go to the Space to peep it, but I even made it a free download.  Enjoi!






And don't forget about my CD Release Party this Saturday!  It's all ages and FREE!

One more thing I wanted to mention, and this ties in with the post below so read that if you haven't yet.  Toyokazu just bought my second to last copy of estrella-the good mixtape.  The very, very last copy of this great CD is sitting at the CD Baby warehouse in Portland, Oregon.  I have no more at the crib and I don't intend on reordering these ever again. 


Also, the way things is lookin, me & Praxis aint gon be getting together to make serious music ever again.  That means, one lucky person out there has the chance to get this dope CD, and then that is it for my old group estrella.


Damn that is kinda sad now that I think about it. 





The point is, make your mark on history and be the last person to cop the good mixtape by estrella!  You can get it directly to the sidebar on the right.  After that sells, I guess I'ma take down the pic completely. 


Damn now it's even sadder.

Yo this is kinda crazy.  Today I got a message in my inbox sayin I sold a CD thru CD Baby.  CD Baby is company that alot of independent musicians use to sell CDs online.  It's a middle man.  Cats order my joint on the CD Baby website and then CD Baby mails the CD right to them.  I aint gotta do nothin, but of course they take bread outta my pocket.


Anyways that aint the crazy part.  The crazy part is the cat who ordered my CD is some dude named Toyokazu Komatsubara and he live all the way out in Japan.  So I guess now CD Baby gotta mail the joint all the way out to Tokyo.  Yeaaaaahhhhh baby Taybot goin international. 






I dunno who Toyokazu is so I guess he's some mystery fan.  Yo Toyokazu, if you readin this...thanks homie!


But listen Toy (can I call u Toy??), you didn't even order my new record you ordered my first joint I put out with my group estrella.  Ya gotta get the new ish man! 


The funny part is, ever since The Taybot/Phil&Numberman Mixtape came out, I been selling a few copies of the estrella joint, which I don't be promoting at all anymore.  Cats been ordering them right off CD Baby and I jus think it's funny cuz, after all these months, now that my new joint is out...now they get the first CD...huh??


I'm really not complaining tho, don't take it as that. 

This weekend I was supposed to perform at a hip hop festival called Hip Nik.  Hip Nik is at St. Edwards Park, which is all the way in Kenmore, at the top of a mountain.  


King County Trip Planner said I'd have to take a couple different busses to get there, but luckily the first bus I got on went straight to Kenmore.  I guess I know why King County Trip Planner call themself that, cuz they're trippin about the schedules they set up to help people find their way. 


I got dropped off at the base of the mountain and I had to make it to the top.  It was too far to walk so I hopped on this other bus that they said would take me to the park.  Unfortunately that bus went halfway up the mountain and then started weaving thru the suburbs.  I had a bad feelin about that so I asked the driver does this bus go to St. Edwards Park??


"I dunno...I don't drive this route usually."


Coo thanks for the help, you about as helpful as King County Trip Planner. 


So I pulled the chain to stop the bus and then I found myself in the middle of this Kenmore suburban mountain, with nuthin but a bag of CDs and some burnt Starbucks coffee.  Only reason I still had the coffee was cuz it was nasty and I had to drink it mad slow.  I normally kill coffee hecka fast. 


Then it started to rain.  It was a hecka far walk, in the wackass Kenmore rain, but I finally found the park.  Soon as I got there it started pouring.  Aight not pouring like crazy thunder storm steez but for a while it was raining pretty hard.   


Luckily there was tents and bomb BBQ, altho that didn't help me much cuz my stomach was hurtin from the burnt Starbucks coffee.


When I finally got to perform it was kinda lame cuz I only got to do 2 songs and I had worked real hard to plan out an 18 minute set.  It was a dope set I had planned too I must say!


I wasn't mad about only gettin to do two songs tho, nothin like that.  I roll with the punches namean??  I can handle switchups comeon I aint a primadonna or nothin!


After my "set," I watched all the other performers rock and they killed it.  Shouts out to all my Hip Nik performer peeps!


Some real good news is later on the homie Piece broke me off some dough...and you know what??  This made the whole day like 20 times better.  I mean suddenly it was worth the entire fiasco (no Lupe) I had went thru. 


They say money can't buy happiness.  That might be true but it sure can give me peace of mind sometimes. 


I even remembered to take pictures!  Here are some flicks I took during the freestyle session at the end:





I wish I was in these pics but, alas, I was doing the
shooting, not the posing.