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The Making Of Series (1st Edition) "You Got Me"

"You Got Me" is the first song we are using here on the Garage Band BBS/Tha Hood On Remote's new Series: The Making Of....... This song was made in 2003 back when OH10 had not yet started dating Luana Lewis (who is now his Baby Mom). This song was made when Va'Les used to live on Walnut Lane. Va'Les and Luana were always friends because Luana was close friends with Va'Les's Baby Moms....They had wanted to collab for years but never got around to it. This was back when Kwin MD had the Roland 880 EX and used to bring it all over tha hood as a portable studio. All's he needed was an electrical socket with 3 holes to plug in his 3 prong plug and the magic was on & poppin from there... Kwin went down to pick up the artist at her Grandpa's crib in SWP.....They went over Va'Les crib and the collab took place there. Luana Can Sing, man she can Blow! Luana Can also Flow pretty smoov too...Va'Les played her a series of beats that he ma

Special Announcement

Right now at www.mckomandoni.com you can get 2 FREE CDs for Voting in the POLL.... The "Special" announcement is: If you participate in that POLL now, we will give you 3 FREE CDs for voting... The Code you need is this: THA HOOD Send that with your name, address,and 3 choices you wanted for your FREE CDs in an e-mail to mckomandoni@yahoo.com but remember to included the Code.... Only 1 of the FREE CDs can be an artist that isn't on the list, the other 2 have to be off the list of choices we provide.... Right now The Garageband BBS / THA HOOD on Remote pays off well because this is the only forum that is offering the 3 FREE CDs...

Thursday/Friday Lay Over....

Special Christmas Countdown Post Volume 2 that was posted here on Christmas Eve: Had the schedule pretty much layed out for the next few weeks. Had This in it too: 12-27 segment is supposed to be "what's in store for the S.O.A.z in 2008" 12-28 Is a special announcement (that won't be revealed until it's the day of) Then in the end it had this in it too: The segments from 12-25 through 1-2-08 are all subject to change due to possible holiday celebrations that might involve heavy consumpion of alcohaul....That's what some people would call "wiggle room"....If anything changes then just push back the dates to get each segment in...Like if 12-25 get's taken off, then that post will show up on 12-26 and everything will go back one day.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah so I missed yall on Thursday 12-27 & Friday 12-28.... So we gotta push som

Street Value Records

This is a subsidary Label under APG Forx Records. The rights to some of the music that APG Forx releases under the sub label Street Value Records are owned in Part By Shallow aka Nvisible Beats and PL (Paul Love)... Yesterday we posted: The idea was to have PL mail his solo songs to ascap for his own 100% ownership of his music through ascap publishing. Kwin did that for his solo music under his Publishing Company known as APG Forx Records. Street Value Records was the name of the publisher for both PL & Kwin MD....PL never copyrighted his solo music, so, only the collab songs were published & copyrighted under Street Value Records. Friday, December 21, 2007 we posted: The last e-mail's sent before the recording and music business relationship had ended is here execlusively in THA HOOD BBS ON REMOTE: Sat Apr 23, 2005 PL wrote:word!-credits for Woofie-read as follows:Miles Heinz III(the third)akaWoofie In an earlier message Kwin wrote: Any monday in May on the reschedule da

APG Forx Records

The history of the APG Forx Record Label dates back to Jan. 0f 2005. The entire movement of two albums getting ready to be released were on the way. "Double Up Double Down" and "Boilahmaker Sippah". The moment that PL (Paul Love) had chosen not to continue on with the process of the "Double Up Double Down" album which was ready for press & promotion months from hitting the stores. Kwin had already made arangements for Publishing and Copyrights of his own music (which is now on the "Boilahmaker Sippah" album) and the music for the "Double Up Double Down" album he was waiting on some final touches by PL at the studio in Bowie, MD (Nonsuch Productions with engineer Rob "The Bear" Consentino).... The album "Double Up Double Down" got mailed to Kwin by PL (all the finishing touches complete) the master was ready, but the credits needed to be identified. The idea was to have PL mail his solo songs to ascap for h

Special Post for The Christmas Countdown!!! Vol. 2

APG Forx is scheduled to be 12-25 segment Street Value Records is scheduled to be 12-26 segment 12-27 segment is supposed to be "what's in store for the S.O.A.z in 2008" 12-28 Is a special announcement (that won't be revealed until it's the day of) Monday 12-31 is the first edition of "THE MAKING OF" series we will start that series with "You Got Me" by B.I.P. & Luanna Lewis....Beat by Drama Q Va'Lessance aka BHN or Va'Les Tuesday 1-1-08 will be the 2nd edition of "THE MAKING OF" series which will be about "Billion Men Marching" WED 1-2-08 will be the 3rd edition of "THE MAKING OF" series which will be about "After I'm Gone" Thursday 1-3-08 will be the 4th edition of "THE MAKING OF" series which will be about "Shorty Let me Be Remix" Friday 1-4-08 will be a segment about the "Best of Urban Underground 2002" sold by Garageband Records on Yahoo Stores which will

Official TRACK Order of Double Disc Album "Best of Kwin MD (est. '99 son)

Disc One: 1. Throw Down 2. Money 3. Time Bomb Featuring PL (Paul Love) 4. Nasty Talk Featuring Bodacious & Shallow 5. Backseat Lover Featuring PL (Paul Love) 6. Right Hand Man Featuring Champain 7. The Condum Song 8. Microphone Solo 9. I Seen Enough (Everywhere I Look) F/ Shallow 10. Toast the Cheers (Everybody's got a 12 Pack) F/ Omega Redd 11. Drunk Again (radio version) F/ PL Disc Two: 1. Come With Me F/ Shallow 2. Money Remake (post Prequal era) 3. Drug Life Featuring PL (Paul Love) 4. S.O.A.z Reign Supreme (By Common Ground) 5. I Coverse 6. Alwayz Daydreamin (By B.I.P.) 7. Stick And Move 8. Throw Down 2005 (By Common Ground) 9. I am (first mix) Featuring Metaphysiks & Shallow 10. Judgement Night F/ Champain & Mike Pacino 11. Walkin Through the Jungle (Radio Version) F/ PL This is the official order of the Double Disc album.... For more details on this and information on how to get this album go here: CLICK THESE RED LETTERS Next Segment: is scheduled for 12-25 but

Special Post for The Christmas Countdown!!!

Here's an example of an e-mail sent to mckomandoni@yahoo.com when you have just voted and want the 2 FREE CDs: Hey there greenguy. I just voted in your poll (on 2/1 @ noon) and would love to have 2 free CDs! My mailing address is: Your Name The Street Address, State Zip (Uh oh - now you know where I live! ;-) Then include the 2 CDs you want, you can pick 2 from the list or pick an artist you really like & we'll send you the hottest CD they got plus one from the list.... The List, The Poll, the 2 songs to listen to and give us your oppinoin for 2 FREE CDs is at: www.mckomandoni.com We pay the mail man, it is truelly 100% free! The best time to vote is now, FREE CDs solve your holiday last minute gift problems....

"Double Up Double Down" album history

This album was supposed to be released in Early 2005 about Feb...PL (Paul Love) & Kwin MD made this album. This was a album like the "Blackout" album by Redman & Method Man. They had a record label for it that they owned together 50% each called Street Value Records. PL handled most of the master mix down over at Non-such Productions in Bowie, MD. He felt as though he was contributing more financially then Kwin MD. Well the shows they did in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Virginia Tech were funded by PL because Kwin's money wasn't right then...The thing is, "Scramblin", "Aggrevated Assualt", and "Constant Misery" were 3 songs that Kwin MD executive produced. Kwin MD executive Produced a solo PL song called "Don't Touch the Stereo" and also ghost wrote that song for PL too... that equals $400 right there. There was less then $400 spent by PL on those trips to perform those shows mentioned. There were other things fac

"The Nutcrackka" album history

" Tha Nutcrackka"" http://www.network54.com/Forum/40599/message/994914574/The+Nutcrackka was heavily promoted in 2001...As a matter of fact the 12 track album that was picked up by UGF (Under Ground Family) / Mad Flavor Ent. which signed Kwin MD to a one album deal...They were supposed to release this album around August of 2001. They didn't give Kwin MD a recording budget and they kept pushing the release date back. They listed Raptor Ent as the name of the distribution company, when Kwin MD called Raptor, the CEO of Raptor told Kwin that the distribution deal with UGF was over. Since UGF lost the distribution deal and UGF didn't fund any of the making of this album the one album deal was null & void. The 12 songs included one feature of Champain aka: New Jack of Domino Soul Ent. from Jacksonville Florida (who was on several songs in the PREQUAL era including most of "Step into my office...") and Metaphysiks featured on 2 songs on this album (&quo

"Never Done Volume Two"

This ablum was put out not long after Volume One & like the first one it has songs from post the PREQUAL era along with some of the songs from "The Nutcrackka" that were not on the 1st one. It had a mix similar to the first one. Between Volumes 1 & 2, many of the songs that were on 1 & 2 are on the "Boilahmaker Sippah" album. The reason why so many albums came out in the Post Prequal Era with similar songs is......"The Nutcrackka" was never really released by Mad Flavor Ent, the bootlegs that leaked the street were it, the "Never Done" (Volumes 1 & 2) were put out online on the old kwinmd.com through the mp3.com/kwinmd distributor which (that owner sold to today's owner of mp3.com which does not cator to unsigned artists in the same way). When mp3 sold the site, the last of only about 10 copies for each album were shipped back to Kwin from the old owner of MP3 in California. Kwin sold the last ones on the street and these &quo

"Never Done Volume One"

This album was sold on the old kwinmd dot com which is now basically transformed into the site today for Kwin MD (we mention all the time) http://www.mckomandoni.com/ and it was distributed by the old owners of mp3.com through the mp3.com/kwinmd site which got linked to kwinmd.com.... Since kwinmd.com has not existed for a while now... So what you are about to get a chance to see is from that old website kwinmd.com and at the same time, it is not part of the new website http://www.mckomandoni.com/ which means that this post is the only place to see this web page about this album.... This album was created with the use of some UGF/Mad Flavor Ent. music that would have been on "The Nutcrackka" album if that record company didn't lose the rights by nature of losing the distribution deal & nolifying the contract. This album includes some music from post the "Prequal" era & post the Mad Flavor Deal being nolified, and as mentioned above, the parts of "

The song "Forest Fire" and the story behind it....

Well this one started in 2003 on the day that Omega Redd introduced Kwin MD to Va'Les. As typed about in previous blogs, they did a whole lotm of recording that day on Kwin's Roland 880 EX machine. JAY TEE & OH10 (AKA TEN) were at Va'Les house that day too. The verse Omega Redd recorded that day was the one used on the song "Forest Fire". Sal Graci made the beat and Kwin added the samples & sound effects. Va'Les had a verse he added later at APG studios but, his part after Omega Redd's verse was from that day. The 2nd part added to the song was Kwin MD's parts added at APG Studios. The 3rd part was added in Newark Delaware by Sherese (a Jamacian Singer) who asked to be known as Traci because of the lyrics the rappers were using. The 4th part (all of this on the Roland 880 EX) was done in Croften Maryland at PL (Paul Love's crib). The 5th part (as mentioned above) was Omega Redd & VaLes at APG Studios adding some addlibs and other finish

"Triple 2" album by the S.O.A.z

The "Triple 2 " album is an album that never hit the streets, it was released execlusively to the internet in April 2006.... This download Album was only $3.99 and was meant to be affordable online and appealing to people who don't want to spent too much paper on the internet but might wanna cop a S.O.A.z CD..... It was availible on the Soundclick page up until today. It became a collector's item today and was discontinued but not to worry because some new music is coming soon from the S.O.A.z There was 10 songs on the "Triple 2 " album here's some information on 7 of them: "Forest Fire" is a song by Kwin MD, PL (Paul Love), Traci aka Sherese, Omega Redd, Va'Les, and Sal Graci.....That song is going to be the topic for the Next Segment on Monday 12-17-07. We will give a fully detailed backround on "Forest Fire" then... "Pressed" was a concept that at one time was going to be a title song for a album post the Mad Flavor

The Album "Eraser" sold primarilly on the Streets

Before the "Eraser" story can be told, the falling out by PL (Paul Love) and the S.O.A.z including Kwin MD (first) the Common Ground chapter (Omega Redd & Va'Les) and even Shallow aka Nvisible Beats....PL (Paul Love) basically alienated himself from the whole team back in late 2004. Here's a disclaimer message from the modified version of the "Double Up, Double Down" album (which is modified due to the falling out)....Message: PL (Paul Love), was Kwin MD's old recording partner.They made a whole album, once, together called "Double Up, Double Down" scheduled to get released under the branded name: Street Value Records...The deal did not ever go through due to a heated arguement when PL claimed he contributed more financially then Kwin MD.PL made these comments & quit the project during the Press & Promotion process shortly after the master mix, copyright, & trademark of the CD was done ("Double Up Double Down" &

The Newest album "Best of Kwin MD (est. '99)" by McKoman Doni

Since this Album has not been released on the Streets yet, it is only availible two ways online. The FREE way by voting on our poll http://www.mckomandoni.com/ and the expensive way by downloading it. We have been Kicking Around a Track Order for months now & everytime we think we had a track order we see a flaw. The last one Omega Redd & Kwin listened to & Looked at seemed okay but it still isn't written in stone. No one asked for this as a choice for there 2 FREE CDs because (hardly any votes came in). So the order you see this (below) is not the track order. Sometime between now and 2009 this album will hit the Streets (as a limited edition item like "The Prequal" rare and execlusive) when it does the track order will be solidified....After reading about each song you can go here: CLICK THESE WORDS to download this album and burn it to a CD at your computer and put it in whatever order you want or VOTE in the POLL and select this as your choice for 2 F

Mad Flavor Entertainment/UGF ENT.

UGF Ent. was the parent label to the sublabel Kwin MD got signed to for a 1 album deal back in 2001. Jay Hudson from Michigan was the CEO of UGF & Mad Flavor ENT....The album that Kwin MD completed was called "The Nutcrackka" which had 12 tracks one was "Throw Down" which got played on A Radio Station in Richmond, Va Called "The Beat". Mad Flavor didn't get that played, Kwin met one of their D.J.s at a Willy's Records Store on Hull Street across from the South Side Plaza... UGF & Jay Hudson had a distribution deal with Raptor Records. "The Nutcrackka" release kept stalling and stalling, the distribution deal was lost by UGF before the album ever got pressed. Kwin MD and his Lawyers got the rights (execlusive music & Publishing rights) back from UGF and then made the contrack null & void (and moved on). In 2002 Kwin released "Never Done Vol. 1" which had half the songs from "TheNutcrackka" and the re

2008 S.O.A.z Flavor Of the Month Song Line Up:

This song line up was released on http://www.mckomandoni.com/ about 3 or 4 months ago. The rest of the line up has already been discussed by Va'Les (prior to his case) Omega Redd & Kwin a while ago. About every one of these songs slotted to appear on http://www.garageband.com/ as another S.O.A.z Flavor of the month is subject to change. The last one written about was JUNE 2008, the July Flave in 2008 was already picked, so has August through Demember of 2008. August has already gotten a VETO vote from Omega Redd so that one might be pending down to the last day (final day before the upload)....The list was finalized before Va'Les got locked up and as mentioned earlier most of this music is subject to change...The first 2 songs are a LOCK though. Them 2 songs are garenteed to appear in Jan.2008 & Feb.2008....Then the 3rd one (March Flave 2008) is totally decided by the fans... JAN '08 FLAVE- "REIGN SUPREME" COMMON GROUND FEB. '08 FLAVE- "VEITNAM

The Poll Question:

There has been a Poll Question in THA HOOD that pays off well if you answer it. "I AM" by Metaphysik, Shallow aka: Nvisible Beats, & Kwin MD was ranked very high in 2003 on Garageband but never made it to the second round. It was in the top 10 & still holds some records after thousands of songs were entered to the contest since. We can submit it to the contest again & see if it makes it to the 2nd round. Then it would have to win in this contest here first. Toe to Toe, Head to Head, Face to Face....Sudden Death playoff against "Damn Shame" by Common Ground. "Damn Shame" was started in November of 2005. It was completed in the Summer of 2006. (each member of Common Ground had busy schedules and we didn't spend 10 months on this song, we just had long gaps of time were we couldn't get together & when we could, we couldn't record just chill drink & smoke). We liked 60% of this one when we started it, we had some Mix Down trial

"The Prequal...Step into my Office" the lost album (came out in 2006 on the Streets only)

The Prequal came out in Jan. 2005 when the last copy of "Step into my Office..." was sold online, APG Forx decided to put out a CD on the Street to tribute the 1,000 copies of the November 2000 release being sold. Back in November of 2000, 1000 copies of Kwin MD's first album were made. In 2006, they were all gone. If you check put the online distributor, it shows in red letters, that they are sold out.... Peep that Link: www.cdbaby.com/kwinmd But this is about THE PreQual Not the 1,000 copies getting sold out in 6 years. We know that aint nothin to brag about. If the CD was hotter then it was, it would not have taken 6 years to move them 1,000 copies. The Prequal has 15 tracks to the 10 of the original "Step into my office..." Some of those 10 original tracks were used again on the Prequal. Some of the originals were not used on the Prequal..... This album was recorded prior to the Mad Flavor Entertainment signing of Kwin MD. (more on the details of that record