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Title [Music With Friends ] ░██▓
Artist [Sankofa ] ██▒
Label [ ] Genre [Hip-Hop ] ██░
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 50,4 MB] Ripped [11-14-2008 ] ▒██
Grabbed from [CDDA ] Enc [Lame 3.97 ] ▓██
Website [myspace.com/rapsankofa ] ▒██
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Track Time Title ██
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01 03:36 Just Rap ██
02 02:45 Human Vending Machine ██
03 02:17 Live From Fort Wayne ██
04 03:42 Rime and A Grin ██
05 03:05 Rose Mcgowan's Face ██
06 02:55 Nachos ██
07 03:42 House Of Games ██
08 02:41 Our Song ██
09 03:23 Commodore 64 Impala ██
10 03:14 Shark Jumpers ██
11 03:00 Instant Karate ██
12 03:27 Every Hero Needs A Theme Song ██
13 02:14 Orange Electric Lawnmower ██
14 03:26 Cholestreol ██
15 03:13 Geetar ██
16 03:02 Fearless Jones ██
17 04:11 Bumper Stickers ██
18 03:07 Hopalong ██
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18 57:00 min ██
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Music With Friends Volumes One Through Three... ██░
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This CD is a compilation of my first three ██
Music with Friends EPs. ██
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Production includes work from Purify, Brenn Beck (Left Lane ██
Cruiser), Agent Orange (Wordsmiths), Geno, Ebro, and Jon ██
Ross (Superhunk). ██
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-------------------------BIO------------------------------ ██
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I enjoy finding dope beats and writing raps to them. URB ██
magazine selected me for 2008's Next 100 and dubbed me the ██
vanguard of new crunk. I have no idea what that means. ██
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----------------------TRACK BY TRACK---------------------- ██
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MWF1 (Agent Orange, Purify): tracks 1-8 ██
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It was none other than the driving force behind 2007's "The ██
Tortoise Hustle" who suggested a download-only release. El ██
Keter of imageyenation and okayplayer fame hit me up ██
suggesting we use beats he had in his archives. Me being me, ██
I got overly enthusiastic and impatient. Fortunately, I ██
opted for the route of not bugging Keter about beats and ██
reached out to two folk I know-AO (formerly Agent Orange of ██
the Wordsmiths) and Purify. I'd not worked with AO before, ██
but he exhibited perfect timing in looking for ██
collaboration. After laying claim to an unfair share of his ██
beats, I then hit up Purify to see if he had any beats ██
sitting around. I'd previously worked with Purify on the ██
song "Iowa to Indiana." Once I combed through each ██
producer's stash, I sat down and put pen to paper. About 3 ██
weeks spanned the time between my getting the beats and ██
calling the project done. I've always placed an emphasis on ██
working on music with friends and hopefully this is the ██
first of many installments. ██
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Just Rap- Nothing like rapping for however many bars in a ██
row with no break for the listeners to open an EP. Just Rap ██
is along my more traditional fare, though the line "found a ██
beautiful wife and then started a home" would not have been ██
found anywhere near the vicinity back in the days of ██
breakneck and beatjackolantern. Let's hear it for beautiful ██
and determined women. ██
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Human Vending Machine- I wrote and recorded a verse a while ██
back for a possible Can-U collaboration with some of the ██
Plague Language folk. The concept was already there-scene ██
set at a casino. I chose the character of an old man too far ██
gone to change. Fortunately, it worked out where I ended up ██
sitting on the verse and finding a different outlet. The ██
juxtaposition of what could very well be a standard format ██
radio hit beat and a character study still makes me smile. I ██
first recorded this song in a more subdued tone (fitting the ██
concept), but rerecorded in a more animated manner to better ██
fit AO's production. ██
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Live from Fort Wayne- The first of Purify's contributions to ██
this EP was initially written as a "rap all the way through" ██
track. Good thing I decided to take a couplet and strong arm ██
it into being my de facto hook. The good thing is, the end ██
of the original song isn't on the track and can thus be used ██
elsewhere when a suitable context presents itself. Two ██
baseball references in one song must be a personal record. ██
Odds are good it'll never happen again. ██
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Rime and a Grin- I tried the Rose McGowan's Face lyrics over ██
this beat and it didn't feel right. I can always trust ██
driving to and from work with a burned CD of studio sessions ██
to let me get a good measure of material. As it turns out, ██
I'd already written and recorded a song to AO's beat. It's a ██
shame I can't record more often with this more ██
conversational tone of voice. The third verse counts as my ██
favorite, as the lyrics bounce around the rhythm in ██
unexpected ways. ██
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Rose McGowan's Face- I was combing through that mysterious ██
land referred to by some as the internets and chanced upon a ██
picture of a Rose McGowan I didn't recognize. After a few ██
stops over in googleville, I discovered she'd had some post ██
-accident surgery. Thing is, I didn't recognize the new her. ██
Figured this was as good an opportunity to strike while the ██
inspirational iron was warm and write a song about it. I'd ██
been sitting on the "customized hips, lips, bust and thighs" ██
line for a while and found it to be a suitable starting ██
point for hook work. The EP was all but done and I realized ██
I still had another AO beat. Luckily for me, the beat worked ██
out perfectly. If you check out the HOK section, you might ██
even see a video. ██
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Nachos- A wholly organic song courtesy of my rime book. I ██
really have been meaning to keep my rimes in one area and ██
have taken to carrying around a little notebook that is full ██
of random scribbles. I'd record a bit of the song, stop, ██
find another page, and record some more. I figured it only ██
right to throw in a shout out to Henry's (local tavern) best ██
nachos for the hook. Nothing rings true quite like a plate ██
of deluxe black bean nachos. ██
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House of Games- Here's me fixating on people needing things ██
again. I'd originally conceived of the song consisting of ██
just 2 verses, but started writing a hook that didn't stop ██
until 16 lines had passed. Said sixteen lines became the ██
second verse. Proof of my patchwork method being the last ██
line of verse one riming with the first line of verse three. ██
Titlewise, I couldn't resist a nod to the Mamet flick. ██
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Our Song- The first song recorded for this EP and probably ██
tied (with Nachos) for my favorite. The vocal sample seemed ██
to be a perfect way to close out the EP. ██
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MWF2 (Brenn): tracks 9-13 ██
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This project came about as an offshoot of the quickly ██
defunct group Lenin's Jukebox. Brenn, drummer for Left Lane ██
Cruiser, was still interested in collaborating and had been ██
honing his one man band skills. Thus the group Fun with ██
Chicken??? was born. Fort Wayne has a great Vietnamese ██
restaurant called Saigon which lists ingredients under each ██
menu item. My favorite dish was noted as containing chicken ██
followed by three question marks. Of course, Saigon has ██
since gotten new menus. Thus was born Fun with Chicken???. ██
Brenn recorded one man band stuff in his living room, burned ██
it to CD and handed the sucker to me. I figured the Music ██
with Friends series would be a good outlet for the tracks. ██
After releasing Music with Friends 1, I determined it would ██
be best to stick to my original plan of each EP being ██
between 4-6 tracks. Best to leave folk wanting more than to ██
overstay one's welcome. ██
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Commodore 64 Imapala- A fine chance for me to goof off, bust ██
out a song title I've been sitting on a while and drop some ██
of those rimes which were on scraps of paper and never found ██
a home. Brenn's singing the hook in his best drive through ██
dragon impression. ██
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Shark Jumpers- The three times I've had a can Guiness, I've ██
not been able to resist breaking it open to get to the ██
personal flotation device. It was either good for ping-pong ██
or fake eyeballs and I'd already done my Slick Rick crack on ██
Still Means Something's "A Handful of Words." Much like ██
Music with Friends 1's "Nachos", this song built itself up ██
quite organically. ██
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Instant Karate- Though I spent a good deal of thought when ██
naming Still Means Something's songs, I imagine this release ██
has the majority of world championship song title title ██
belts. Brenn came over with a garbage can, banged on it, I ██
got too excited and was shouting over it when it was being ██
recorded, then laid straighforward "better than you" type ██
raps. Nice and simple. ██
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Every Hero Needs a Theme Song- After realizing how many ██
times I mentioned our group name, I realized this song could ██
have but one title. The only question that remains is "How ██
did he go to the bathroom with all that stuff?" ██
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Orange Electric Lawnmower- Inspired by my former neighbor ██
Eric Tarr and his tidy yard habits. I was chatting with ██
Keter looking for something to start the song and he ██
suggested "Peter Griffin fighting a giant chicken." I took ██
his idea and ran with it, enjoying some syllable slicing en ██
route to the final FWC??? track ██
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MWF3 (Joe Harvey, Jon Ross, Geno, Ebro): tracks 14-18 ██
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I've been lucky to continue finding dope beats to make songs ██
for your ear holes. After the rambling nature of Music with ██
Friends 2, round 3 found me a little more focused. ██
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Cholestreol- I swore when first hearing this beat that the ██
guitar lick was from Cake. Joe Harvey (Twilight Sentinels ██
world champ) assured me it is not. There are certain song ██
snippets which stick in my mind, one of which was Ice Cube's ██
verse on the DOC's "Grand Finale." It, right next to Nas' ██
"Verbal Intercourse" verse, ranks as my all time favorite ██
guest spot. As Cube is in the midst of running rampant on ██
his rampage, he utters the line "I stay on your ass like ██
cholestreol. Cynics would point to such an instance and ██
automatically disqualify the verse for all time badass ██
status, but I disagree. I have thus called one of my songs ██
"Cholestreol." I made sure to spell it out during the hook ██
to clarify that, yes, I was indeed in the house that Dan ██
(sic) Quayle built. It's true, I really did ride my bike one ██
day on a "hey no hands...eyes...hands...feet" jag. ██
Thankfully, youtube had yet to be invented. ██
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Geetar- I went over to Jon Ross' house with no plans ██
whatsoever other than to work on music. He plays drums, ██
piano, guitar and a lot of some online war videogame. I was ██
most vague in saying what I was hoping to get out of our ██
basement studio sessions and he came up with this accoustic ██
guitar piece. Clearly, the part of my brain which summons ██
awesome song titles short circuited. As luck would have it, ██
said short did not prevent me from putting battle type raps ██
over a guitar for the hell of it. This is the song I listen ██
to and play loud knowing that I won't get pulled over for ██
making other people listen to rap. Think of it as accoustic ██
ninjacraft care of the multitalented Jon Ross. ██
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Fearless Jones- The internet is a strange place, full of ██
names and aliases connected to transient personalities. Such ██
is the case with Ebro, a guy I knew by said name online from ██
years ago whose more recent moniker didn't get the seven ██
degrees of net Kevin Bacon treatment from my brain. I can't ██
keep score of real world names, let alone rap aliases that ██
shift with time and the underlying given names. Ebro hit me ██
up talking about a beat he didn't like and I bugged him ██
until I got to hear it. I thought it was dope, asked to rock ██
it and happened to be on a Walter Mosley tear. Verse one is ██
me recapping his book Fearless Jones while the rest of song ██
ambles along with thoughts on disposable culture. ██
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Bumper Stickers- Another Joe Harvey production. Apparently, ██
this beat had made the Indianapolis rounds and been passed ██
on. I will forever be thankful to those Indianapolites for ██
letting me get a fresh beat. Much like material on The ██
Tortoise Hustle, this song was driven by my dislikes. In ██
this instance, craw stickers included the south will rise ██
again, abortion, and counterculture. The song is pretty ██
self-explanatory and my advance apologies to Nick Fabini ██
over at Cardinal Tattoo for possibly spilling more beans ██
than desired. ██
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Hopalong- This is what happens when I have a day off, ██
inspiration, and a beat. Geno worships at the analog temple ██
and has been sending me dope snippets of works in progress ██
for years now. I bugged him one day saying I might just take ██
a snippet and make a song. Soon as I got permission, it was ██
done. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know ██
Geno has much grander plans than this. As the song is an ██
ambling type, I figured "Hopalong" would make for a fitting ██
title. This song is heavily indebted to the Nonce. There's ██
nothing quite like the warmth of a crackly record. ██
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