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Metaphysiks Story/BIO

First Read the Shallow BIO before your read this........ Metaphysiks is from Emporia Virginia...His cousin Travis, used to work in Petersburg with Kwin at a factory. Travis introduced Metaphysik to Kwin. Kwin introduced Metaphysik to Shallow. This was in 2001. In 2002, when Mike Pacino & Shallow tried to start a record label, they wanted to sign a few local acts. Espanosa was their no.1 priority. Bliss and Metaphysik were both about the same level of priority (they both had great talent but both needed transportation to the studio). PL and Kwin were the bottom level of priority, Mike P. wanted Kwin to work on his flow game and thought PL was not going to be easy to work with. Mike Pacino said PL was "Unorthadox" and he would only sing PL if he was signing PL with Kwin on the same contract as a group. Mike Pacino did collab with Kwin 2 times before he tried to combine his money with Shallow's money and start this label up. PL decided not to sign because he wanted a sol

GNP Story/BIO

The first message that Va'Les got from GNP, a group from Northern Ireland....WAS: From: stephen_music Received: 5/17/06 06:11 AMSubject: collabo? Hey man, I havent heard any of your spittin, but you're probably good. I produce music and was wondering if you'd be interested in spittin over one of my instrumentals??i can send it something to you if you are up for it. let me know.i have a few tracks on my artist page if you want to check them out.cheers. Then Va'Les responded with, send me a beat as a e-mail attachment & I'll Spit on it for ya.... The GNP wrote: From: stephen_music Received: 5/20/06 04:02 AMSubject: Re: collabo? nice, nice. its good to hear an artist who's quick and efficient with what they do. makes a good change.i'm just sorting out the track now, making it an mp3. ill email it to you today.cheers.Steve. Then after the boy Steve of GNP kept going back and forth with Va'Les because he was waiting a long time for the track to be compl

Virginia Beach - August of 2000, The Story behind the picture:

It was the summer of 2000. "Step into my Office..." had not even come out yet. Kwin MD's brother had a old friend who was originally from Virginia but recently moved to Atlanta, come visit for a few weeks. This guy had learned how to play guitar pretty good and braught his accustic with him to the beach. His name was Matt. He and Kwin began to freestyle together. Matt would keep a pace rhythm on the guitar of steady chords and Kwin was flowing to the guitar. People stopped walking on the boardwalk to listen. They decided to open the guitar case for tips. They both stayed there on the Boardwalk mostly all night long just freestyling.... The website was kwinmd.com back then not http://www.mckomandoni.com/ but this picture and story behind it never made it to that website. In November of 2000 (a few months after this day/picture) the first Kwin MD CD was out: "Step in my Office..." but the picture on the back of that CD with the list of tracks was of Kwin & hi

Shallow (aka: Nvisible Beats) Story/BIO

This man played the guitar in a band for years. Differant Bands, as we all know, playing guitar in a band is whole differant level then just playing guitar. His first Hip Hop music he ever made was under the producer name Shallow with Kwin MD. About 89-90% of Kwin's instramentals were made by Shallow. Shallow got into film making real big back in 2001. His main music clients then were X-Ray from Baltimore, MD and PL. He directed the video (and was the camera man for) a song by PL (Paul Love) and Kwin MD's collab album "Double Up, Double Down" (that has been to this day unreleased) called "$6,560,088". Shallow also directed PL's solo music video "personal demons". Today, he goes by the name Nvisible Beats and still makes the cream of the crop hip hop beats. People from all over the world buy his beats online. The main artists he has worked with are X-Ray, Degrees of Realness, and others. He once tried to start a record label with Mike Pacino bac

A-Bomb on Blast (the 2nd time)

This guy is from Wenatchee, Washington right. What kind of Rapper, Hails from Wenatchee, Washington as in Washington The State? Here's his garageband page: http://www.garageband.com/artist/theatombomb But do yourself a favor, don't listen to any of his songs, they are not Rap music, not hip hop music, they shouldn't even be legally alowed to be called music. Look at this, here's a review of one of his songs: Review of Agonie of Defeat by A-Bomb Genre: Rap 1.7 STARS Haterade You sound bitter dude. The sample is cool, sounds like an late 90's action cartoon. Just alot of babbling. What did you mean by "if you were black,I'd have to kill you"? It wouldn't be that bad if it had a hook. Here go ANOTHER review of one of A-Bomb's songs: Review of SAP by A-Bomb Genre: Rap 2.1 STARS WHY! Who told you you could rap! hope you dont have any cd's for sale If you sell one of these to some one you should go to jail this is damnnear a crime. Extra Cred

The BBS famous post: "Puttin MCz on Blast"

This was one of Greenguy's best posts in the Rap/Hip Hop Forum of Garageband's BBS. This was where, any MC could get put on blast. Any MC on BET, MTV, MTV2, the radio, VH1, or unsigned underground MCs on or off garageband....Ziplok, A-Bomb, even PL (Paul Love) who was (Kwin's old partner) got put on blast there. It made for some good reads & some good laughs. It also gave some insight to problems & what is wrong with some of the songs that people were putting on garageband. The irony of Puttin PL on Blast was that in December, PL and Kwin's song "Aggrevated Assualt" is S.O.A.z 12-07 Flavor of the month. PL was never part of the S.O.A.z but he did a few collabs with Common Ground. (Due to Kwin initiating the collabs). The next Segment: A Classic look back at this fine Post Thread: "Puttin MCz on Blast" We're gonna put A-Bomb on Blast again. Next Segment 11-27-07 is: A-Bomb on Blast (the 2nd time)

Va'Les Story/BIO

The name Vary Less or Va'Les was created by this man who not only named his own artist name, but he thought up the names of S.O.A.z and B.I.P. As a child, his parents had him and his brother learn music. His brother and him started to rap together as teenagers. He went to a studio for the first time with Omega Redd. He always said that he'd perfer to stay behind the scenes like Timbaland (did in the 1990's, he's in the spotlight more so in this day and age). Va'Les used to be one of the main S.O.A.z street team members. In the days when Kwin had his Roland 880 EX, and when Omega Redd, Va'Les, and Kwin used to have at least 9 music session meetings per month, it was Va'Les's crib where everyone would always meet up. Mainly because Va'Les stayed home most of the time back then. In the summer of 2007, the 3 MCs of Common Ground (the 3 core founding members of the S.O.A.z which is Va'Les, Omega Redd, & Kwin MD) recorded their (possibly) last song

Thanksgiving Special: The B.I.P. Story/BIO

B.I.P. or Black Irish Productions, the name like S.O.A.z was made up by Va'Les. When Kwin MD had his Roland 880 EX, he used to make his recording part of his studio portable, and bring it anywhere. One song that he recorded mixed was done partly in New Castle, DE; partly in Croften, MD; in Glenolden, Pa; and in Germantown (at Va'Les crib). Va'Les had a drum machine, a keyboard, and an organn at that time. He used to play tracks and tracks of music into that Roland....Kwin and Va'Les found out that it had so much memory, they learned the Roland had the ability to store "virtual tracks", so they used to record together for hours and hours, many times staying up all night. Sometimes Kwin would go back to the lab, and add soundeffects or other wrinkles to these peices that Va'Les would lay out to make everything fit while mixing it into a instramental format. When Kwin would add things in the mix, Va'Les would listen and tell him to change it a few t

The S.O.A.z Story/BIO

The name came from Va'Les's idea of a perfect name to use for these MCs together to market a CD or Mixtape from their music collectively. Self owned artists or S.O.A.z for short. The idea behind it is that Record Labels tend to "Pimp" the royalty and Publishing Points from the Artists who get signed. If you are an S.O.A. then you own your music, your publishing points, and Royalties are owned by you and you own your music by 100%. If 3 S.O.A.z collab on a song, each one owns 33.3% of the rights to that song. If 2 S.O.A.z are on the Street Team selling CDs, and they make 200 dollars, they share it, each take home 100 bucks. The "Break down shake down" as we used to call it (the end of the day, break the bread). The biggest year the S.O.A.z had was 2004. From Georgia to New York to Japan, CDs were sold to fans across the world. Omega Redd, Va'Les, and Kwin MD were highly active in studios and promoting in clubs and on the streets...Today, the move

Tuesday's other post in THA HOOD on remote: Garageband's BBS on remote:

Since THA HOOD is located somewhere else, this is THA HOOD on remote. Since The Garageband BBS Forums got shut down by Ali P. when iLIKE bought garageband, this is also: The Garageband BBS on Remote.... Most of these messages in "This Arena" aren't duplicated or repeated in THA HOOD. Tha Hood used to get all these messages, but the loyal members of tha hood all aint tryna get these messages e-mailed to them every day. THA HOOD, now, has 3 sections. The place where Images get stored (The Blog spot in yahoo's THA HOOD), the place where members can join and post to a network through e-mails (yahoo groups THA HOOD) and this one right here. Since tha BBS and tha Hood on Remote (this arena) was created, most of the messages go from here. The fact is, unless it's breaking news, I aint e-mailin the message to the loyal members of THA HOOD (Yahoo Groups).... Today, I had a point to make, for anyone and everyone to read about, that isn't a NEWS Headline. This has b

The Omega Redd Story and BIO

This one had basically been told already in a combonation of posts prior to this post here on tha hood on remote BBS on remote dot "B.B.B.B." Redd has completed his recording for "Yall done Fucked Up Now" and is currently finishing up the CD (on the business side) his website omegaredd.com doesn't exist any more, however: you can hear 3 of his songs for free at: www.audiostreet.net/omegaredd and his S.O.A.z (Redd Solo Songs) Flavor of the months he did solo were pretty darn successful on garageband's charts, especially his song "Forbidden Fruite". The Garageband site with Omega Redd music is: http://www.garageband.com/artist/redd and on iLIKE: www.ilike.com/artist/emerging/REDD Check him out, he's one of the 3 founding members of the S.O.A.z and still currently makes music and music decisions for the S.O.A.z

Sal Graci Story/BIO

Sal Graci knew Va'Les and Omega Redd for a long time before he got introduced to Kwin MD. Sal Made Beats and Rapped MC style. His cousins and Brothers also rapped. He had made a deal with Kwin MD in 2003 (when kwin had the Roland 880 EX and used to record and mix songs) that for every song Kwin produced for Sal, Sal would get recognition in the album credits and give one beat to Kwin. Sal's music was self titled "Interself Productions". He made the beat for "Seveth Conscience Mind", "Forest Fire" by Common Ground Featuring PL and Traci, and other Hood classics. Kwin MD was introduced to Sal Graci before Va'Les. Both of them 2 were partners and Associates of Omega Redd (Redd introduced Kwin to Sal before Va'Les). Sal and Va'les were friends, they hung out and were cool, Sal even invited Va'Les to His wedding. These 2 both made beats, you would think they'd collab all the time....Not really, they made a few beats together

Common Ground Story/BIO

In 2003 when Omega Redd introduced Kwin MD to Sal Graci and Va'Les the S.O.A.z movement had been started. "Self Owned Artists" or S.O.A.z for short was thought up by Va'Les. On night, after moving units on the Streets and freestyling they were in the Basement (Va'Les, Omega Redd, and Kwin MD) when they thought of some new concepts. One thing these 3 realized was that, even though they had many other artiists involved with the S.O.A.z movement, they where the main 3 on most of the songs on each CD... They were the founding members of the S.O.A.z and they decided that they needed a name for their "3 headed monster" when the 3 of them did a song. The first song they did was in September of 2003. The week that Tampa Bay beat the Eagles in the first game of their new stadium Omega Redd, Va'Les & Kwin were supposed to go to Jacksonville, Florida to see Champain (who just got out of jail and had been in there for almost 2 years) to record with him

PL (Paul Love) Story/BIO

PL (Paul Love) was born and raised in Lanham, MD which is part of Prince George County. In 2001, he watched the Greenguy vs. Rinx beef on the BBS. Today, PL is 36 years old. In 2001 PL was 30 years old. Keep in mind that Jay Z & LL Cool J were in their 40's when they last released an album. PL and Kwin collabed for the first time in Bowie, MD recording a track called "Scramblin" in 2001 after several phone conversations about this which came from PL's watching the Greenguy vs. Rinx beef on the BBS. PL's Studio Producer: Rob "The Bear" of Non Such Productions owned the studio in Bowie, MD. Kwin brought a beat made by his producer in Richmond, Va Shallow (now goes by Nvisible Beats). PL paid The Bear and Kwin paid Shallow. They ended up doing the same thing, (a Shallow Beat in the bear's studio) when they recorded the 2nd song together "Aggrevated Assualt" (which is schedule to be 12/07 S.O.A.z Flave). They recorded about 3 ot

The Kwin MD Story/Bio

Born in Philly, Kwin MD moved around the eastcoast many times. In 3rd Grade moved to Wilmington, DE. Lived in Richmond, Va from 4th to 5th. Lived in Allentown, Pa from 6th grade to 8th grade. Moved back to Richmond half way through 8th grade. In 9th grade Kwin began to write and record rap. In 11th grade, Kwin got into trouble at school and was sent to school in Atlanta. When Kwin turned 18, he was legally able to cross the Georgia State line & moved back to Philly. This is where he met Champain and Splash City. Champain and Kwin had never been to a studio to record, boom box recordings was all they knew before Kwin & Pain went to Germantown (a part of Philly) to record with Splash City. Pain was originally from Jacksonville, Florida and he brought Kriminal from Darby, PA along for the studio too. Pain and Kwin went back to G-Town to record with Splash City a few times. Kwin knew God Father Geek from Virginia Beach and recorded down there with Lost Elements (aka L.E

Underground/Unsigned Musician Websites

So much of tha hood-BBS on remote has been about the past. In order to understand today you gotta know about yesterday, na mean. In this segment, we will tell you about the internet as it was for underground musicians back in 2000 and then go through time to get to now days. The best way to explain it is to tell you first about 3 Eras of time. These 3 Eras of time go in accordance with the 3 differant ownership groups of Garageband since the year 2000. The first ownership group is the the first Era 2000-2003. The 2nd Owner came in 2003 and was there until iLIKE bought garageband in 2007. We are now in the 3rd era of time on this time line. The 1st owner had a deal with Yahoo Stores selling music from Garageband and paying royalties to the artists they selected to appear on these CDs. "Nasty Talk" by Kwin MD featuring Shallow and Bodacious was selected (off Greenguy's music pages) to be on a CD that Garageband Records that was sold on Yahoo Stores called &qu

The BBS Inspired: "S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month"

In December 2005, Greenguy had plenty of Beefs and ongiong wars in the BBS. Around that timeframe, Indecent and Krypto were getting airtime on MTV2. They were making noise on the westcoast. Greenguy knew, he had to do something to make noise on the Eastcoast. The Hip Hop Haters of the BBS did insult and disrespect Indecent3000 and Greenguy. They did, however, respect Indecent's MTV2 appearance. Greenguy realized he was uploading more then one track at once. Knowing that the S.O.Az had a surplus of songs that could be uploaded to the charts, greenguy wanted to chase the haters out of the forum. He had been posting messages with abundance in efforts to chase them out. So he came up with "S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month" and installed the first one Jan. 2006. This would solidify the S.O.A.z Legacy and it Gave Greenguy something to post about. Greenguy used to promote these songs, give updates, and even post reviews of the songs in the BBS. Cee Jay and Len Gay used to

Classic BBS Wars

The 1st Big War in the Rap/Hip Hop Forum that Greenguy was a part of took place back in 2000. It lasted for weeks and only 2 screen names in the War were hip hop oriented. Mictruama and Caindogg. They were on Greenguy's side of the arguement which was about Punk Rock and Rock oriented screen names reviewing in the Hip Hop Genre in a Bias Way to Keep Hip Hop Songs ranked lower on the Garageband Charts and sort of stack the ballots Jeb Bush style in favor of Rock Songs on the charts. The next time Greenguy got in a BBS War was against Rinx. Rinx was from Charlottesville, VA and he wanted to talk badly about Gettos and Hoods to degrade most rappers both signed and unsigned.nnMaking Comments about Hoods and Rap music in the Rap/Hip Hop Forum because of his own racist views. Back in Maryland, PL (Paul Love) was following this beef on his computer for months. When Rinx publicly apologized to Greenguy and the Hip Hop Forum, PL immediately sent a message to Greenguy to congrad

What's Hood Family?

Back in 2005 the Garageband BBS had taken a new direction. Greenguy had been a member since 2000 and had a long history on the BBS. From Classic battles with Rinx, to meeting PL (Paul Love) from Maryland, to meeting Doug Evans from Bu Bonic Inc, to making posts about the Garageband Records CD "Best of Underground Urban 2002" album that paid royalties to Kwin MD (greenguy's artist name as a rapper) for a song that was track #2 on that CD. Between 2000 and 2002 Greenguy's presence was known in the Rap/ Hip Hop Forum (in the BBS). From 2003 through 2005 Greenguy was never seen in the BBS. Kwin McKoman Doni (greenguy as a Hip Hop Musician's name) was busy doing shows, recording, and marketing mix tapes on the streets with the S.O.A.z street team. PL (Paul Love) and Va'Les were doing shows with Kwin, and Sal Graci and Omega Redd were big recording names that Kwin primarilly worked with. In that 3 year timeframe that Greenguy left the BBS alone, the BBS got t

Everything BBS, Garageband's on Remote right here:

I'mma start the whole gauntlet back up too. No Moderators to stop me now. Tha Hood was foreshadowing back in April of 2006: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wE14_Io8eK2Dz8zZLaGTpYx7Ew--?cq=1&p=7 Because the BBS was put on blast about the Boarder, the Wall, and more facts that ties racists to Garageband staff members: Just look at this page in THA HOOD that developed around the same time frame where Garageband Staff were helping an unsolicited contest for racist music: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wE14_Io8eK2Dz8zZLaGTpYx7Ew--?cq=1&p=8 So after Greenguy put them on blast, they evicted him from the BBS... Then, they let greenguy back in, and about 2 months later they sold it to iLIKE... Cash in the chips. That's just what they did. Speaking of bring the gauntlet back, BBS members: Remember these famous posts: Upload or Ship Out, Puttin MCz on Blast, & What's hood family? They are coming back now to...THA HOOD BBS Forum We will try to recreate them, becuase we did

THA HOOD

Well Well, I am back in this arena. THA HOOD was create because the BBS never could support strong trueths from strong trueth tellers. After they evicted me from the BBS, tha hood was born. Once my "credit score" was proven good enough to come back to the BBS, I was back....Soon enough though, the BBS was sold for a ham samich to iLIKE Big Butts.....So THA HOOD remains the spot for BBS type type info & news & blogs. Here's a place on the internet where BBS Forums from Garageband posts were copied and pasted and still live: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wE14_Io8eK2Dz8zZLaGTpYx7Ew--?cq=1&p=33 Tha Hood has a famous beef between Len Jennings and Greenguy here: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wE14_Io8eK2Dz8zZLaGTpYx7Ew--?cq=1&p=9 So many other fine posts and blogs can be found in tha hood. Right now you can get 2 FREE CDs in tha hood. You can join tha hood for free: Tha_Hood-subscribe@yahoogroups.com You can get updates on the S.O.A.z at www.mckomandoni.com