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09-19-08

THA HOOD / BBS ON REMOTE PRESENTS: GREENGUY: AKA KWIN MD, AKA MCKOMAN DONI: Quizzote-"If you wanna play the Referree in this arena, you shouldn't be throughin Jabs too. S.O.A.z REMAIN suprizzy" -Me, Sniches.... That was a real Quizzote from Greenguy on the Garageband BBS Forums. BBS FORUMS FROM 2000-2006 were where this whole blog was born. Excerps of the BBS are in THA HOOD powered by Yahoo 360, also linked to earlier posts that were made here back in 11/07 and 12/07 and 1/08.... 1
"S.O.A.z, Singutter, AND THE EXTENDED FAMILY VOLUME ONE" Is coming out real soon. CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE PICS .... Tracks: 1 "We Ride Remix" created by Singutter of Sluggerville studio 7, Featuring 2PAC and Rihanna.....Watch the Video on the YOU TUBE.... 2 "Where it's out" Emcee Lo Down 3 "The Other Side" Metaphysiks 4 "Awake" Havard Blue 5 "Hustle Remixed" Produced by Indecent the Slapmaster....Rappers: Krypto F/ Yun-Gun 6 "Aint Nothin Changed" Rosco P Coldchain F/ Akon 7 "Kriminal Minded" 2Pac F/ DJ King Assassin 8 "Fuck a Hater" by 1DANA 9 "4th of July" Produced by GP Beats, Recorded & Mixed by Popwiz at Backdoor Studios on 7-4-08.....Rappers: Kwin MD & Omega Redd 10 "Inferno" by Omega Redd (at M.A.U.) 11 "Watching U" by DJ King Assassin F/Snoop Dogg 12 "Reign Supreme" by Common Ground 13 "I Got everything I wanted" Emcee

S.O.A.z Radio Show & Popwiz Radio with Guest Kwin MD

Click HERE to view all the S.O.A.z Radio Shows & also the Popwiz Radio Show that had Kwin MD on as a guest caller... Va'Les is Home!!!!!!!!!

THA HOOD ON REMOTE: Presents----SINGUTTER

Peep Sluggerville Studio 7 this is Omega Redd's cousin made a hot video by mixing 2PAC & Rianna Click below where it says Sluggerville Studio 7 to watch the video of 2PAC & Rianna made by Omega Redd's cousin Singutter from Chester Pa. My man Singutter is the best video maker in the Philadelphia region and he's got some S.O.A.z vids he's uploadin soon so stay tuned!!!! Sluggerville Studio 7 He got mad videos, S.O.A.z videos common on Singutter's video... Check out my Man

Bonus FLAVE!!! "Throw Down" is an extra S.O.A.z JUNE song in the contest

Click the "Featured on Garageband" button for Details... Oh Yeah, this video is a snippet of the song "I'm a S.O.A." which you can download the ringtone for (FREE) on the S.O.A.z Page at www.mckomandoni.com

Constellation

Well for the last 2 months Kwin MD (above) aka: Greenguy or McKoman Doni & Omega Redd (pictured in the previous post) have been working on the new album they plan on releasing sometime soon called "Andromeda". The concept involved the idea that this is the closest galaxy able to be seen with the naked eye. This is because, Musically, the metaphor of Andromeda being the closest visit galaxy to be seen from earth with out a telescope can be compared to where we are going with the music. We are bringing a whole new sound, far from our normal style but not too far away that you need a telescope to peep the style. Today, (Me Greenguy) I read about 15 books about astronomy. (Not cover to cover) I was researching the Andromeda Galaxy. You see the title of this post right. Andromeda is not a Galaxy. Andromeda is a Constellation. Pisces is a Constellation, Libra, Virgo, and Aries are Constellations. M31 is a Galaxy. M31 is short for Messier 31. There is mad Messier Gal

Saturday May 3rd, 2008

Today, Omega Redd was supposed to do the studio session by himself. Nothing went according to plan. This picture is of Omega Redd in West Philly, in a alley behind M.A.U. studios. Kwin MD ended up wakin up early and chose to meet up with Redd & record. Reese from M.A.U. was runnin late so, Kwin MD & Redd was chillin back here for a while. When Reese got there we started recording a potential song that could be #23 on "Golden Land" as a Bonus Track, or a song for "Milky way" or a song for "Andromeda". This song "You'll get Knocked" was getting started, a few tracks were layed & the computer just kept crashin. So this visit wasn't all for nothin, Kwin uploaded 3 beats he got from a producer named Westbound and Reese made Redd a CD of them 3. We gave Reese an update on Va'Les and his situation. Reese gave Kwin a Soundcard and a copy of Fruitie Loops which in Return Kwin threw him a couple dollars. Kwin's homie i

H.A.C.

"HerbanAgriCulture" This was the final album to be released on that old version of mp3.com (which no longer exists). This album was the first Kwin MD album ever to have featuring appearances by Va'Les, Sal Graci, & Omega Redd. Recorded between 2002-2003. This was sn online only release. Shortly after the H.A.C. album came out, mp3.com sold the site to current owners. Then the site became more focused on signed artists and less helpfull to underground atists. That was when Audiostreet, Imeem, and sites like Soundclick began to get much more bigger. This album had "Throw Down Remix", "Yall Still Asleep", "Enemies Close", and a few other Kwin MD street bangers. Some of this material ended up on the "Boilamaker Sippah" album. Which basically took songs from every discontinued album since "The Nutcrackka" and formed a whole album from 2001-2005 material. "H.A.C." was centered on the Grimey aspect of Rap. It had

The Making of Series (36th Edition) "Yall Still Asleep"

This was the first song that Va'Les & Kwin did together which they called a B.I.P. production. Va'Les did the drums, the samples were found placed & mixed by Kwin on the Roland 880 EX. That siren in the begining was from Glenolden, where APG Studios used to be. Every day the Briarcliff Fire Co would make that siren which was loud enough for Kwin to stick a microphone to the window & not even have to raise the volume all artificially to get this sound, that's how loud these sirens are in Glenolden. This song was the first Black Irish Production and it is the bonus track on the "Best of Kwin MD (est. '99 son)" album that came out August 1st 2007. It only appears on the physical CD though, it's not part of the downloadable version. It was originally on the HerbanAgriCulture album or HAC...Which is an album from the old MP3.com site: double-U ww.mp3.Com/kwinmd(whicsh no longer exists because they sold the mp3 site. When that site was sold, &q

Today's Diagnosis

"now's the time" replaced "7th conscience mind" in the JULY 08 slot for the S.O.A.z Flavor Of the Month today. The mistake was catch yesterday (LATE NIGHT) and Omega Redd & Kwin MD talked about 10 possibles songs to replace "7th conscience mind" for JULY 2008 S.O.A.z Flavor Of The Month.... The reason the song had to be replaced is because this song was thrown in to the poll that gives anyone who votes (at) www.mckomandoni.com 2 FREE CDs (mailman is paid by Us, this shit is 100 Percent FREE)....! This poll has been on going, but in March the poll named "I Am" March 08 FLAVE (which has been doing great on Garageband, na mean, made it to the 2nd round & today was selected to be TRACK of The WEEK by Garageband). So the new poll has the loser of the last battle "Damn Shame" against "7th conscience mind" but when that happened, no one looked at the 2008 Flavor of the month schedule until now (about 3 weeks later) to

The Making of Series (35th edition) "Pedals"

The process of making "Pedals" was not the normal way that the S.O.A.z do things. Omega Redd went to MAU Studios and recorded his solo track (which will be on the upcoming release "Yall Done Fucked Up Now") called "Inferno (which can be heard here in THA HOOD/BBS on Remote for free. Redd layed the first verse and had Reese at MAU burn a CD for Va'Les & Kwin to listen to.... Kwin went over to Va'Les crib in G-Town (the one on Sheldon Lane off Wister)...Va'Les played the CD MAU burned for REDD and said "Redd was just over here, he wants us to finish this song off". Kwin MD did not write his lyrics for "Pedals" until they got to MAU a few weeks later. He wrote them, literally while Va'Les was in the booth recording the Hook. Va'Les did the singing on the hook. The addlibs on "Pedals" during Kwin's verse were done by Kwin & Chocolate Diamond (that Freesyle with her was done at MAU the same day). Va'

NEWS: 4-1-08

The previous price for "Boilahmaker Sippah" was $11 to download & $11 to buy the CD plus shipping. Today, the price went down to only $3 to download & $5 to buy the CD plus Shipping. The 2005 Release has made it to the class $5 mark...Don't worry it aint going out of stock & becoming a collector's item like "Step into my Office..." did (no time soon). You still can get if for free by voting the poll at www.mckomandoni.com

All 5 Singles from the upcoming "Yall Done F'd Up Now" album by Omega Redd...

The scheduled release date of April 8th, 2008...We released 5 singles from the album. "Yall Done Fucked Up Now" has a song called "Come & Get it". Omega Redd & Kwin MD had a meeting on Saturday 3-22-08 and got some pictures taken all over tha hood. During the meeting several plans were talked about.That meeting will be covered here in THA HOOD/BBS On Remote all throughout the week.The next song from the album which will be released as a single is free to stream, (like this song here) but you can download this next song, as well as 2 others to come as singles from this album at Soundclick. The next song has a link to stream (FREE) and Download (for only 75 cents) here. This song is called "Still Laughin" by Omega Redd featuring Kwin MD and Va'Les. The other 2 songs that were released as singles was "What if..." and "Inferno"...The rest of the album will not be availible until 4-8-08...Signed mainstream artists always r

The Making of Series (34th edition) "Still Laughin"

In 2003, Champain aka New Jack was released from Jacksonville County Jail. Grandfathered in to the S.O.A.z, he was known to Omega Redd and Va'Les through letters while incarcerated. He and Kwin kept in touch from day one, till his release. All 3 Common Ground Members made many trips to Virginia and other places as often as possible. The day that Tampa Bay played the Eagles in Lincoln Financial Field's first ever regular season game (L.J. Smith's debute game, he dropped the TD pass), these 3 guys (Kwin, REDD, & Va'Les) were headed to Florida to visit Pain (and most likely record & promote down there). JAX town bound, for some reason, Kwin & Redd were headed to pick up Va'Les in G-Town. That's right, Va'Les didn't decide he was going until late. Kwin took I-95 from Chester, then got off in South Philly on Broad and was heading for a LONG RIDE ON BROAD TO OLNEY.... A Long ride to JAX Town next (estimated 20 hours). Never made it past Broad &a

Music Meeting Results:

We did have the meeting and get the pictures, but everything didn't go according to plan. Omega Redd did like the idea of using the New song as a second Bonus Track and keeping "Reign Supreme" as Track # 22..... More on this meeting later on in the week so keep it locked...

The Post of the WEEKEND:

Okay, the last few days we had many posts in here. One of these posts talked about a BONUS TRACK and A MEETING (music meeting between REDD & KWIN) and a possible RECORDING SESSION at M.A.U. studios.... That studio session was said to have a 70% of happening. When that 70% was on Kwin's end, Omega Redd's availibility was 100%, after today, Reese at M.A.U. told REDD his computers are down so, he's gonna need about a week to straighten that out. Kwin & REDD talked today at around 5 pm...They decided to move the meeting up to tonight at 1 am... They are gonna meet in North Philly and ride thru the hood from Ontario & Aramingo to Chester, stopping on Delware ave, heading to Pattison, then to Island Ave, then towards S.W.P. and ending up in Chester... Kwin might not go all the way to Chester he might just stop in his hood (Yeadon)... The plans are to get some pictures for the internet and album art, and talk about the choices they are going to make for S.O.A., Common

The Making of Series (33rd edition) "Shake The System"

The song which will be April 2008 "S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month". Omega Redd & Kwin MD made the lyrics. Inspired by many polical talks of Va'Les, Kwin, & Omega Redd. Any Common Ground discussion of politics, Muslims, Religion, Masons, 1% ers, triangle people, 85ers....So on & so on. This is a Common Ground Concept. This was a B.I.P. creation beat made on ACID...Kwin MD used sounds that he Chopped & Screwed from samples in his studio tape player to slow up and speed up the samples and formatted it through the Roland 880 EX. Then mixed in ACID. Omega Redd came over to APG Studios and recorded this song and his verse & his part of the hook of "Personal Experiences", brainstormed the REMIX of "Shorty Let me be" and also layed some addlibs for a song he did with Sal Graci.... Kwin layed his lyrics for this song and recorded and mixed the other stuff too. Something that happened after the making of this song: Va'Les & Kwin were

March '08 Flavor of the month: Second Round Status

Yeah the Garageband Records Track of the Day yesterday (3-19-08) "I Am" has not been reviewed since Christmas Day, (12-25-01) of 2001....It was still in the first round that day. Until March of 2008, it was still in the first round. Now it was track of the day (selected by Garageband Records) yesterday and made it to the 2nd round with out a single review. Evolutions Artists sold this to iLIKE and the BBS was closed....So many things have happened since 2001. Allen Iverson was in the Finals & MVP verse the Lakers then, now, he lost to the sixers as a Dever Nugget yesterday. 6 years and some change later, no new reviews and all these status upgrades. Seems like the ranking system has been changed in the "Dog & Pony" show....Either that or, there been so much Garbadge uploaded to Garageband that the once #4 in Hip Hop song, is about to move up from #41 to back in that neighborhood of upper top 10 status....

Omega Redd's new Webpage:

Last post to tha hood/BBS on remote, was about the old website---www.omegaredd.comwhich is discontinued... We had an old review written by some one between 2003-2005... That day, a new page was built. That review was found when we did a search engine to find the old pages of Omega Redd's old site. We was gonna use some of that to build the new, but, the old didn't show up, only thing that came up in the search was that 4 star review... Wish we knew how to find the boy who wrote that review, wonder how he'd rate the new? We got everything but Video Casting on it now...Which is in the making...Just like how the "Yall done F'd Up Now" album is. Which was originally annouced to have 10 songs, just been upgraded to 12. The unofficial Song Order is: 1 No Remorse 2 Get Balboa 3 Ruffside 4 What If... 5 Come -n-get it 6 Freestyle 7 Forbidden Fruite 8 Freestyle 9 Inferno 10 I beg 2 Differ 11 Forgiveness 12 Still Laughin Other songs might be added, the official credits

"The old domian site:Omegaredd.com got 4 stars...."

Not sure when this review was made: Here's the review--- " http://www.omegaredd.com/ (****) Okay, now I'm jealous and pissed. This was supposed to be my online atlernate persona. Now I find that there's someone else who's using the same name as I!? Dammit! Oh well, I'll give this guy some credit, he's out making the name work for him. I just made up the name (or so I thought) and just use it. He's a musician, hip hop it looks like. He has an album circulating on the street titled "Y'all done Fucked up Now". And, thanks to this website, I now have a new nic-name for Paul: 'PL' for 'Paul Love'. Wait, that sounds kinda gay. Maybe I should just stick with Paul. From the best I can tell, this guy has his own domain, but all his stuff loads from geocities. Strange. " We've been search for a better hoster page builder then Geocities for years. FREE is FREE right? This guy clearly thought PL (Paul Love) was Omega Redd&#

Leap Year

Yeah this leap year thing is crazy aint it? Easter & the Baseball season came in March instead of April....! Anyway, the leap year got the S.O.A.z puttin out Albums in March of 2008 (3-11-08 "Golden Land" by Common Ground) and coming soon: 4-8-08 "Yall done Fucked Up Now" by Omega Redd.... So since we talkin about April in March....Let's look at the April 2008 S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month: "Shake the System" by Omega Redd and Kwin MD... We will say this much, it's a Common Ground Song that is not on "Golden Land". Keep it locked here for the making of series to continue with "Shake the system"

"Yall Done F'd Up Now" coming soon

Omega Redd's new album is coming out April 8th, 2008.... Check out Omega Redd's Forum called The REDD ZONE More information will be posted here in THA HOOD/ Garageband BBS "On Remote" about this album as time rolls along. All we have for yall now about this album is that it has 10 songs and it will be availible for download (powered by Sound Click) for $4.99

"I AM" is March 2008 S.O.A. Falvor of the Month

"I Am" was selected by the voters of the last Poll to be March 2008 S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month. It did so well so quick it (was at one time ranked #4 in Rap) got into the second round. (Which we were anticipating) Garageband Records just selected this song to be Track of the Day on 3-19-08....

Today's Post

It's funny that Rick Ross came out after we made our song "Bosses" because in the hook we say "Big Original Bosses" We like Bruce Springstein, the Original Bosses. We don't say Boss on every song either. We don't have to convince ourselves of it. This picture is of a new album coming out on 4-8-08 Called "Yall done Fucked Up Now" by Omega Redd. It will be availible by download for $3.99 Oh yes, we did try very hard to have Damon Williams, Jenice Armstrong, or Jonathan Takiff write about today's release by Common Ground "Golden Land"... Jenice said she doesn't do music. She recommended Damon Williams (who we never got in touch with) but Mr. Takiff did get a copy of the album on Friday (Before it came out) and this was what we included in the envolope with the CD: Common Ground Bio- 3 Artists make up Common Ground. Omega Redd, Va'Les & McKoman Doni. All 3 artists had a solo career in music before forming a large

Today's Update

"Golden Land" has a better than 50-50 chance of getting into the Philadelphia Daily News. On Tuesday 3-11-08 Jonathan Takiff might have this album in his column (in the Yo section). (Details are in THA HOOD 360) There you can read today's post about why the album is now a Double Disc album. This whole Daily News thing is the reason that only one post was made this week. Talking to Jenice Armstrong, Jonathan Takiff, and making preparations to release this album by Common Ground on Tuesday took priority over the blogs here at: THA HOOD/Garageband BBS on REMOTE... There's still an outside chance that if Jonathan Takiff doesn't write about this that Damon Williams writes about it. That who Jenice suggested, she does write about music, she's always had great material in the Yo Section of the paper. She has the most interesting stuff in the paper that isn't sports related. She was also on Sports Talker 950 AM a few weeks ago. She's always looking for th

The Making of Series 31st Edition: "U-Turn"

This B.I.P. song appears on the "Golden Land" album. After recording "You Got me" with Luana Lewis, Va'Les & Kwin made this song. Va'Les made the beat on a drum machine that he had borrowed from M.A.U. from 2002-2004...His song is on the intro and Addlibs. The hook was made up on the spot by Va'Les. Each verse was a Freestyle. This song was mixed down at A.P.G. Studios.

FEB-'08 S.O.A.z Flave Update:

Last update here about this "S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month" was about the first 2 review it recieved (which were both fraud reviews because neither user actually listened to the song). So that said (in about 3 posts now), "Vietnam Nights" has just recieved it's first Legit Review: rawness this is for the lyricists and streets, vocals diverse and all strong, sampler is simple and sick though, lets the vocals be main focus. this is for a particular croud of hip hops heads that would love to hear this. rawness. serve it up! Reviewed by: jwillis1000 from Kelseyville, California The "Dog & Pony Show" continues, iLIKE & Garageband were notified about the 2 FRAUD reviews and still left them on the record of "Vietnam Nights"...But, if you read the post here on this blog aboutm Production (Production...Wutz Hood) it talks about two ages of Hip Hop (the Ice age 1997-Present and the Golden Age 1980-1997)....It is clear that jwillis1000 is a fan

Record Release Announcement: "Golden Land" by Common Ground

"Golden Land" will be released exclusively to the internet, download only, powered by SoundClick. The date is set, for 3-11-08. APG Forx is just like all the other ones, release the music on a Tuesday. The 21 songs will be on the download only version, although, a bonus track will be added to the FREE CD promo we mail out to voters of the new poll (that will decide the JUNE 2008 Flave)... This Bonus Track was Omega Redd's idea, so, when this Bonus Track gets recorded (a brand new song) it will be #22 on the CD track line up, that bonus track will be execlusive to the FREE CD Promo at http://www.mckomandoni.com/ and will not be added to the downloaded version powered by SoundClick... To get a sneak preview of the album Click Here .....By the way, on 3-11-08, you can cop the download version for only $4.99

The Making of series (30th Edition) "You Know, I Know"

"You Know I Know" is one of the best examples of a B.I.P. song. Va'Les came over to APG Studios one night to record "Bald Black" track #18 on "S.O.A.z Featured Presented" (a CD that came out online as a choice for FREE CD awarded to voters in the Polls we have) this song is also known as "Lyrically High & Most"...That night they also recorded "The Mickey Remix". Before recording they went to a near by Liquor store & copped some Crazy Horse 40s, after Blazin & drinkin & recording in the Basement on the Roland 880 EX, Kwin & Va'Les watched a movie together called "THE BIG CHILL". This movie, is probably the most unlikely movie to inspire any rapper to have a concept for a song. Since Va'Les & Kwin used to hang out about every day back then (2003) they had great chemistry as artists. Kwin MD used to say "You Know" all the time, that, Va'Les's kids used to say "You Kn

Production....wutz hood

In 2002, Kwin MD and Shallow had a conversation about production. They were talking about the classic "Wu Tang Enter the 36 Chambers" album and how RZA master Mixed it with some unusual levels, on purpose. Not by accident. On purpose. When the "Boilahmaker Sippah" album was Master Mixed, Kwin MD used a simalar philosophy. This is not news, to read about that click here ....Or peep this exerp: "You can't just push play on this CD you gotta bump it on your own settings for bass and treble..." On Purpose, not on Accident.... Track #13 on the new "Golden Land" album (coming out very soon) is gonna be "Across the Map". Not giving away too much before the Making of Series covers this song, the levels were E-Qed a certain way for artistic purposes (on purpose, not by accident)...Leading to the inspiration of this post: Review of Veitnam Nights by S.O.A.z Genre: Rap murder it.this one got murdered by the mix. the mix is so crucia

DOG & PONY SHOW

Check out this link: DOG & PONY SHOW Those 2 reviews were both signs that this song could not get a high rank right? So how is this song ranked 194th out of 271 Rap songs? 194 of 271 is not high, but, look at it like this....It is ranked higher then 77 other songs, the 1st review didn't hear the song at all, the 2nd one stopped listening when he got fed up with the fact that the production quality and mix down was too poor for his standard. Either those 77 songs were really bad, or this contest is a dog & Pony show. Since the year 2000, Garageband has never had a rap or hip hop song be ranked #1 overall. Since the year 2000, Rap & Hip Hop has been the most popular genre on the radio & billboard charts out of all genres. The sight has always been a "Dog & Pony Show" Fraud...But don't get me wrong, don't get it twisted, I like uploading the music there, because I value the listener critism & oppinion. It was never an effert to try and &q

The Making Of Series (29th Edition) "Bosses"

"Bosses" was a B.I.P. song. Va'Les made the Beat with his Keyboard and Drum Machine at APG Studios. Kwin MD added the sound effects and mixed it down. This one only had verses 1 & 2 on it for a while, the 3rd verse wasn't added until later on. Va'Les wrote the hook. Va'Les didn't like the 3rd verse too much. This was recorded at first in November of 2005. This song was recorded, Mixed, and finished before Rick Ross ever made a song to come out Nation Wide. Unlike Rick Ross, we don't say "Boss" in every song we do. We just made this song before he made all of his songs with "Boss" in it. Since Rick Ross did so many songs with the word "Boss" in them, this song looks like we took ideas from him. We were the originals...Other songs like "Damn Shame" and "Triumphant" were also done that day. This song is one of the 21 songs on the new (Coming Soon) Common Ground Debute album: "Golden Land&quo

Garageband BBS (On Remote) Post:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wE14_Io8eK2Dz8zZLaGTpYx7Ew--?cq=1&p=40 Before Ali P. took away the BBS Forums on Garageband.com this is the type Posts I used to do... This is why this Arena is called "THA HOOD/Garageband BBS on Remote" I copied it from THA HOOD (created back in 2006 when they banned Greenguy: my screen name on the BBS from GARAGEBAND BBS)....OF COURSE THEY LIFTED THE BAN BEFORE iLIKE BOUGHT GARAGEBAND & THEN THE BBS WAS CLOSED OFF.... ANYWAY, THAT LINK ABOVE IS TO AN EXAMPLE ON HOW TO REVIEW A SONG ON GARAGEBAND. I feel as though an example like that should be on display because so many reviews do not provide any critism or any substance. Most reviews are very lame and lack any kind of insight.... So this would have been a BBS Forum post, here it is here , on remote...

Breaking NEWS:

Well Well, the Poll we had that gave you 3 FREE CDs for your vote, which was the decider of the March 2008 Flavor of the Month, is now official closed. Thank you to all 6 of the voters, one of them voted annonomously and did not ask for the FREE CDs, oh well right? "I AM" won 4 to 2. It's a Damn Shame that "Damn Shame" didn't win. Oh well right? So the March '08 Flave is gonna be "I AM". The next poll will be set up soon, it will decide the Flavor of the Month for JUNE 2008. Hopefully we can get more then 6 votes, but of course we will still start with 2 FREE CDs and bump that up to 3 for holidays & to sweep the final weeks of the poll (like we been doing with the previous polls, e'y poll so far, we been giving out 3 for promos like Holidays & such).... Yeah, "Golden Land" is almost ready to be released. The goal is, to get the Common Ground debute album out & online (availible through download powered by Soun

Today's Post

Yo, people who been following us around in Tha Hood, been asking: "How yall gone put the "Golden Land" album out and end the Poll before yall release it?" That is true, the FREE CD poll ends on 2-25-08 and the "Golden Land" album is supposed to come out in March.... Here's the thing, we will have a new Poll in place before the new album comes out. We got yall covered.... One

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Yesterday's annoucement about "Vietnam Nights" had a Button to visit the Garageband Records Page for the Feb. 2008 Flavor of the Month, that button for some reason is not working. So, if you want to see that song on Garageband just visit www.mckomandoni.com and go to the S.O.A.z Page, then click S.O.A.z News, then go to the Flavor of the Month Page, it's right there at the top. "Golden Land" is about 50% ready for it's debute as a downloadable Album Powered By Soundclick.... Click the Soundclick button at www.mckomandoni.com and you will see some new songs were posted yesterday and today. They are availible for 75 Cents to be downloaded individually. These are about half of the songs that are expected to be on the "Golden Land" album and are all marked as "Golden Land" album songs...

FEB 2008 Flave is Here/ The Making Of Series Addendum

The S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month is now in The Active Contest Powered By Garageband Records. Feb. 2008 Flave is "Veitnam Nights" and this song was just in the Making of Series a few Days ago. Something we might have left out in that making of series for this song is the sample that was used. So here's the info about that sample, we sampled part of the 3rd verse from the song "Walkin thru the Jungle" by PL & Kwin MD saying together "Livin the night life, skippin breakfast & Lunch" we screwed to down to slow speed. We added to random parts of this song here...

The Making Of Series (28th edition) "Alwayz Daydreamin' (Remix)"

This song is very execlusive. This song was only released on a Street CD that circulated in Richmond, VA only in the summer of 2004. Most people have only heard the original "Alwayz Daydreamin" which is found on the double disc album "Best of Kwin MD (est. '99 son)" Coming sometime in March of 2008, this song will be released again, on the upcoming album by Common Ground called "Golden Land" (availible through download and FREE CD promos only). On one of the early S.O.A.z mixtapes that was in Circulation in 2004, a differant version of this B.I.P. song was released. Extra addlibs from Va'Les old crib in G-Town on Walnut lane as well sounds from Va'Les playing an Organ (which was brought over to that house by Common Ground by a donating party who had endoursed the S.O.A.z movement). This version had parts of the addlibs also done by his family members as well. This version was known as the remix and not many copies of that mixtape were in c

The Making Of Series (27th edition) "Cream Cheese"

This song "Cream Cheese" was written & inspired by Common Ground concepts & conversations when Va'Les lived in G-Town still on Sheldon Lane. This was around April of 2005. Kwin, Redd, & Va'Les were supposed to record this song at M.A.U. Studios. Kwin was living in West Philly at the time, he was working graveyard shift and slept through the time to meet up at M.A.U. Then in the summer of 2005, Kwin & REDD were waiting outside of M.A.U. studio & Reese at M.A.U. didn't show up for to open the studio (So Kwin went to Atlantic City instead & REDD went home)... Then in November of 2005, APG Studios was reopened without the Roland 880 EX but with that Mike Stand & high quality Mike Filture that was mentioned yesterday on the 26th edition of the making of Series. "Cream Cheese" was the first song recorded with this new set up at APG Studios. It was done the same night as "Veitnam Nights" and "Verbs" was done.

"Veitnam Nights" The Making of 26th Edition

The 26th edition of the making of series is about the song which is coming out soon on Garageband Records as the S.O.A.z Feb. 2008 Flavor of the Month very soon. This song was made around the same time frame as "Bosses", "Verbs", "Damn Shame", "Cream Cheese" and others mentioned before in other Making Of Series posts.... November 2005 was the time frame. Before Greenguy's return to the Garageband BBS Rap Hip Hop Forum (a polar event) and after the Roland 880 EX had been sold and was no longer being used. The studio equipment used in APG Studios to over-come the lack of the Track Machine (Roland 880 EX) was a very high quality mike filture, a good mike, and a very nice Mike Stand & Spit cover. The mike was lined onto the PC and the recording was done on the software known as ACID.... The method with the Roland 880 EX was similar but, Cakewalk was the software used to mix down and the Mike had no stand & no spit cover, They used a cl

Track of the Day 2-12-08

Garageband Records has selected "S.O.A.z Reign Supreme" by Common Ground the fathers of the S.O.A. coalition to be the Track of the Day on Tuesday 2-12-08. This song was uploaded to the contest as Jan.-08 Flavor of the month. The Honor is all S.O.A.z to be Track of the Day...

The Making of Series 25th Edition: "Verbs"

Recorded at APG Studios. On this song Va'Les says in his freestyle "We at Nan's" which was true, that was where APG Studios was located at from 2002-2006. Nan was Kwin MD's paternal Grandmother who lived from 1933-2007. Nan was a great friend of Omega Redd & Va'Les as well as Va'Les' family and even Champain got to meet her. That is who Kwin MD lived with from 2002 until 2004. When Kwin MD moved to West Philly with his girlfriend (and now wife) he left his studio in the Bedroom he was staying in at Nan's House. Everyone misses Nan may she Rest In Peace. This was one of the last songs recorded at APG Studios. A simple Freestyle done by Common Ground after finishing off the written lyrics to "Cream Cheese". This instramental was also used for written material on a song by Common Ground called "Earth up in the Air".... Usually when Common Ground gets together to record a written song at least one Freestyle song is record

The making of Series 24th Edition:

"I'm a S.O.A." is a song by Common Ground. Recorded with Maurice at 72nd & Lindbergh in S.W.P..... Shallow made the beat, the concept was organized at Va'Les crib on Sheldon Lane in Germantown. Omega Redd layed his verse in 1 take. This is a studio that Montana Black uses frequently. This was the studio where the beat for "Everybody's Got a 12 Pack" Kwin MD did verse 2 in a few takes. Va'Les did verse 3 in a few takes too. The whole song was recorded with Pro Tools...

More Announcements from APG Forx Records and the S.O.A.z

The 1st announcement is from APG Forx Records: The Poll for FREE CDs we have been offering 2 FREE (regularly) and 3 FREE from now until 2-16-08 will be closing soon. This poll is at www.mckomandoni.com and it will close at 2-25-08. The results will be announced on 2-26-08. The results may not decide the March 2008 S.O.A.z Flavor of the Month. If the results are too close to a tie, the S.O.A.z Flave in March of '08 will be decided by Common Ground Members at a meeting. If the results are good enough to define a public consensis and point out a public favorite, then the results will be the decider of the March '08 Flave.... So far after offering FREE CDs like we have been, we only got 5 votes, and one of the voters doesn't even want the FREE CDs, they voted annonomously.... Also, the "Golden Land" album release (download only online & also as a choice for the FREE CDs for voting poll) date has been pushed back. We are now looking at a release date of

Special Annoucement 2-6-08 (expires 2-16-08)

The 2 FREE CDs for your vote at the poll located in www.mckomadoni.com has been upgraded to 3 FREE CDs for your vote. As promoted in the sister blog, THA HOOD, here in THA HOOD/ Garageband BBS on REMOTE, we make it official... Just send your e-mail with your 3 choices off the list, and similar to the rules for the 2 FREE CDs, if the list isn't appealling enough, give us the name of any artist, we'll include the hottest CD we can get from that artist but instead of you getting one from the list with the artist you name, you get 2 from the list with the artist you name....Send your 3 CDs you want or an artist name & 2 picks from our list, along with a mailling address to send the CDs (scardy cats and girls we aint stalkers we are a low budget label called APG Forx Records we'll mail it to your Uncle's house if you're a scardy cat) and any way, your mailling address & your picks & the vote & 3 Free CDs will arrive na mean APG Forx pays the mail man f

The making of series 23rd edition:

"Damn Shame" is one of the songs in the Poll that awards voters 2 FREE CDs when they vote. This poll asks for your oppinion at www.mckomandoni.com about "I Am" and "Damn Shame". The way "Damn Shame" was made is very unorthadox. Omega Redd brought a disc over to APG Studios with intramentals. The instramental for "Damn Shame" came off that disc, this was brought by when he was there to record his lyrics for "Death Toll" in October of 2005. Shortly after that, he brought the same disc to Va'Les crib in S.W.P., they both wrote lyrics to the song and made a hook, this was planned to by a Common Ground Song. In November of 2005, Va'Les went over to APG Studios and Recorded his verse and from his verse came Kwin MD's verse which was inspired by Va'Les verse & Va'Les idea of the concept that Omega Redd & Va'Les were writing about at Va'Les crib... When Omega Redd came back to APG Studios it was

The Making of Series 22nd Edition:

"Bison" is a song produced by "Odd Couple" Productions. Sal Graci & Va'Les were good friends but when they collabed on making beats together they called themselves "Odd Couple" because they would argue (in a creative fun argue way) over how to make the beat all night long. The beat was made at Sal's mom's house in 2003. Omega Redd layed the first verse & the 3rd verse. Kwin, Sal & Va'Les made addlibs on the introductory part of the beginning of the song. Kwin MD and Va'Les were line for line on verse 2 but some where in there Omega Redd snuck in a few lines too...So credit Common Ground on verse 2. The song was recorded in Germantown on Walnut Lane with Kwin's Roland 880 EX and later mixed at APG Studios. The gun shot sound effect was sampled from Wu Tang's 2nd Album, "Wu Tang Forever", the reverse effect was added to make the shot sound as if the bullot came out but then got sucked back into the gun o

Special Announcement (Execlusive to Tha Hood/ Garageband BBS: On Remote)

From now until 2-2-08, when you referance: THA HOOD ON REMOTE to mckomandoni@yahoo.com with your vote at www.mckomandoni.com (which is free to vote) we'll add a 3rd FREE CD to the 2 free cds for your vote offer. The regular offer gives 2 free cds. With a referance of THA HOOD/Garageband BBS on Remote blog (this arena), we'll give you a 3rd FREE CD just for reading our blog here...

The Making Of Series 21st Edition:

"Shorty Let me Be Remix" will be the Making of 21st edition song. The original song by Dream aka Kameil Madison who's website is found on the S.O.A.z page at www.mckomandoni.com was track # 1 on the "Best of Urban Underground 2002" put out by Garageband Records. The Collector's item series 1st Edition here in THA HOOD/Garageband BBS on Remote explains the original more... The remix was done in 2003 by Kwin MD & Omega Redd. Omega Redd assisted in the Mix Down process and he was the MC on verse 3. Kwin MD did addlibs to add to the hook and other parts of the Remix. Together Kwin MD & Omega Redd looped a small part of the original beat from the introductory begining part of the song. That was added to the intro part of Kameil's 3rd verse from the original. The remix was recorded at APG Studios on the Roland 880 EX. The Remix is figured to be track #19 on the upcoming highly anticipated debute album by Common Ground called "Golden Land&qu

The Making of Series 20th Edition:

"Boilahmaker Sippah" is the song (that the album was titled after) that we will give the making of for the 20th Edition of the series. First the instramental: Kwin MD made the instramental out of samples he put together & looped... The Lyrics: Most pf these lyrics were originally used on the unreleased album "Double Up Double Down" and since this was around the time that it was determined that that album was not getting released, Kwin MD used much of the lyrics from various songs on that album and meshed them together for this song. The Samples: A great Book: Heart Of Darkness that Kwin Read in Atlanta, Ga while living there in 1998, was turned into a movie and Remixed the setting with similar plot & Charaters called "Apocolyps Now"... Kwin Sampled the movie when Kurts says "They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't in their fuckin' army any more..." in the begining of the song. The sample was slowed down a bit or

The Making of Series 19th Edition: "Judgement Night REMIX"

As written in THA HOOD/BBS Forums On REMOTE: "I am" & the original "Judgement Night" have common verses by Kwin MD (written in 1998 in Petersburg) The Atlanta, Ga & Petersburg, Va lyrics written by Kwin MD from 1998-1999 were the reason for his alias: The Dungeon Rapper...Locked up & Court ordered while writing those lyrics in Petersburg with Godfather Geek & in Atlanta with Little Dee.... In May of 1999, Kwin MD was Free & living in Philadelphia. By 2000, Kwin had moved back to Richmond, Va. The Summer of 1999 was when Kwin MD and Champain aka New Jack met & went to studios in Germantown (a part of Phila.pa) and West Philly. Kwin MD also recorded music that summer with Godfather Geek and L.E.P..... In 2002 Champain moved back to his hometown of Jacksonville, Floridia.... To give more about Atlanta, Kwin lived there from August of 1998 until May of 1999... Little Dee was from Tennessee and that was someone Kwin Rapped with in Atlanta who got

The Making of Series # 18 "Assassin's Rain"

Much like the 17th edition of the Making of Series "I Converse", "Assassin's Rain" was made at the end of the Prequal Era, and then remade in the Post-Prequal era. Click These Letters to learn about the prequal era..... When "Assassin's Rain" was originally made, it was the 2nd to last song made before the Prequal Era was ended...It was not released on "Step into my Office..." but it was the 2nd song Kwin Recorded after that album was released. So when the Prequal Era was over, it was remade. Shallow recorded, mixed, and produced this song and the original. The rain and the fade in (in the begining was his idea). He made the beat on the MPC 3000. Kwin wrote the first verse of this in Petersburg, Virginia in 1998 with GodFather Geek from East Hastings-Lake Edwards Virginia Beach, the Lost Elements. Geek also wrote the chorus/hook lyrics and told Kwin to record this song. Geek and Kwin did go to a studio called 3rd eye studio in Virginia B