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/

Normal...

I think my new job should be to pretend to act like a normal person all day long. I think someone should pay me to just walk around earth pretending like everything is perfectly normal and I have no objection to the life I am subjected to. I like smiling and saying "hello" to other human beings. I like listening to other human beings speak, especially when they have genuine charisma and confidence in their words. Even if the content is bullshit, I fucking love listening to people who are so goddamn complacent. Ignorance is not bliss, it's consciousness obliterated. It is the effect of perception deleted from the mainframe. If consciousness was evolved it really boggles me to the reason why...

I read portions of this book a long time ago and it made sense.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6Q0kSEh_beUC&dq=inauthor:%22Julian+Jaynes%22&hl=en&ei=BSFKTvz7MoPmiALjxrSkBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA

If you asked for one beat that would summarize the defintion of a heater...this is what'd show em...

Murder - Mr Ridley by MrRidley

1 more gem...

So here is the now infamous pop song I made with my daughter about 2 1/2 years ago. She is almost 6 now but we recorded this when she was 2 1/2 or 3.

"Who's Dat Dare?" (Let's make POP) by MrRidley

2 More tracks from "F**K POP"

So here are 2 more tracks from the forever unfinished and un-mixed correctly album F**K POP. The first joint is BIG-E and BIG-L Remix with the band Dead Weather. I love it. Only problem is this terribly dirty final mix that I am forced to live with as a final product. F**K IT!

IfIShouldDie (BIG & Big-L Ridley REMIX) by MrRidley



Second song is "What Goes Around" Justin Timberlake Ridley Remix. I just took the vocals from this song and threw some well chosen strings behind it with the classic "Levee" drum loop. I hate to admit it but I think JT might be my guilty pleasure music. Cry Me a River was a good song damnit.

Justin Timberlake -What Goes Around (Ridley REMIX) by MrRidley

F**K POP

So again, pre-crash I was working on and almost finished with my instrumental and Remix album titled, "F**K POP". At this point I figure I will just upload it one track at a time and then zip up the files eventually for free download. Here is one of my favorite remixes I did to start you off:

Sippenona40 (Ridley EAsy-E- REMIX) by MrRidley

MY UNFINSHED DUBSTEP MIX

So about a year and a half ago I started experimenting with dubstep. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff, flipped some dope hip-hop and reggae joints and eventually started working on a mix of all my own original dubstep songs. I made it to 30 minutes b4 I lost everything. So here is the only remnant of Mr.Ridley's Original Dubstep Mix: Friday Night Lights. Featuring the voice talent of Amanda Jane Hank.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS - All original Dubstep Mix by Mr Ridley by MrRidley

A New Day...

This is my new website. I'm just gonna use this page as a central hub for all the different shit i'm working on. I lost my hard-drive and my laptop in the same week. Lost all my work of the past 5 years or so. All my songs, samples, sounds, stems, lyrics, video, writings, pictures, MUSIC...everything.

The weirdest thing happened though as soon as a I realized the gravity of the situation...

I felt relief.

Not panic. Not anger. Not fear. Not sadness. Not regret.

Relief.

And so begins this beautiful new chapter in my life.