Oooooohhhhh yea, I have a website!

Sooooooo yea, I've been busy with stuff...sort of. If by busy you mean, "watching my life slowly fall apart piece by piece" and by stuff you mean "my sophomore solo album that has literally (yes I mean literally because the dictionary officially changed the definition to finally mean figuratively CNN: Dictionaries change...)  changed tracks, styles and even GENRE's over the course of 10 years (yes, that's right it's been 10 years since I released my first solo album). 

Long Hard Road to Nowhere


     But that's not why I am writing this post. You see, lately I have had an immense amount of trouble finding gainful employment. But as I look for your run of the mill "9-5'er" I am supplementing my income the only way I know how: music! And by music I mean primarily selling beats. 

 








 Now with that being said I come to the point of this post:




My Top 10 Pet Peeves About Selling Beats

1: Bargain Hunters
     Now don't get me wrong. I'm all about hooking people up. I am always the first to offer someone a discount or accommodate budgets of any size. But it's when someone scoff's at a price like $50 a beat or some other extremely low bargain I offer. Do they even realize they are talking about my art? Do they realize they are literally bartering with my perceived worth as an artist? Do they really truly believe that my art is not worth more than $30? If so then why the fuck did they hit me up in the first place? 

2: The Customer is Always Right

         Eh-em...I AM NOT MUTHA FUCKIN WALMART, SON. I don't even like to call kats that buy beats from me "customers". But you wouldn't believe the amount of dudes that'll just start barkin orders at me like i'm behind a counter at a drive thru...bitch please. And I know these are the same kats who treat fast food workers like they're less than human. Don't you know those are human beings? Human beings that handle your FOOD? No sense...

3: "I Gave You Money So..."

          Now this one is similar to #2 but it goes a little beyond that. It just seems like certain people, no matter how low the dollar amount they have given me they suddenly feel as if I owe them the fuckin moon. Like that money entitles them to unlimited beat arrangements, revisions and expansions, track outs of any beat as many times as they lose them or just don't have the effort to really look for the ones I have already given them (and this goes on for YEARS), Etc. And of course they always need it NOW. And then when I try explaining to them how long it takes to do said tasks(2+hours minimum per beat) and that they only spent $50 originally so maybe show me a modicum of respect and appreciation by offering me a little loot or in the very least your respect & appreciation they have the nerve to act like i'm out of line!

TBC...

CLOCKWORK SLANG

So an album a few years in the making with Parker and the Numberman s now going to see the light of day. Peep it out here

Or just peep out http://clockworkslang.bandcamp.com

Oh Snap! Updates that nobody gives a shit about!

Well a week or so ago I got to play an event put on by NBC with my group Anti Citizens. That was fun! Yay! Or was it?

Also, some pretty good (retarded) hip-hop "beef" was inspired from the event! Check it out here:

Banish & AIms You're Welcome old english DISS TRACK

And Old - E's response video:

AMERICAN SMITH

American Smith is a project I have had in development for years now. The band consists of the beautiful and talented KAT and myself. This is definitely my composition angst at full speed into whatever style of music I felt like writing at the time. Unfortunately, I have not had the ability to complete the project the way I intended it so I have released a few physical copies and am uploading the majority of the tracks onto soundcloud for your listening enjoyment. I am extremely proud of the music Kat and I have created and I hope you do too. PEEP IT MOTHERFUCKERS.

AMERICAN SMITH by MrRidley

UPDATE!

Your not interesting. Your a black hole sucking the life out of the universe.

But on a lighter note...

Life in Los Angeles is fantastic. Working on a new album with Orko...STUPID FRESH features for it. My daughter turned 6, yay!

Trying to quit smoking crack is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

I have nothing further to say.

My first video from "F**K POP"

I filmed this a long time ago (entirely in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego) but have finally decided to just edit it together in shitty ass IMOVIE and put it out.

JIMMY POWERS - Cali​-​Foreigner

Dope album by a 2012 family member. I produced a grip of beats on here so please take a listen. Jimmy has flows for days...

http://jimmypowers.bandcamp.com/