What's up world!! It's your man D Natural back again to with updates on this crazy adventure I call my life...
Things have been going really well. Can't complain to much. Tomorrow will mark my first week in the my new home which has been great. I just met one of my roommates and he seemed like a real cool guy. I ran into another one of my roommates last night, but I was kinda drunk and just was barely able to mumble my bad cuz I thought I had ran into him in the hallway. LOL But I got a real good vibe from him too. We all do our own thing and work so everybody's been getting along so far. I hope it stays that way. As you know with great opportunity comes great responsibility. I've been making some great connections with artist to submit my beats too. I am happy to say that one of those artist Puneet Prasad, has selected one of my beats called "Krazzy" for his next album!!! He requested more from me with a certain type of sound so I gotta get to work on those this weekend. On top of that I'm really really close to getting a track placed with Kokayi, a very talented producer/emcee out of the DC area as well. It's some uptempo rockish type stuff for him. I'm kinda fustrated with myself because the guitar I have is not the guitar I really wanna use for what I am doin but it'll have to work. I'm gonna record some live guitar riffs and lines to mix into the tracks that he likes. The problem is that I dont have a overdrive/distortion pedal that you need to get that rock/heavy metal tone. I used to have a whole set up of that stuff for my guitar but add to sell it. Now that's something I see I'm going have to add to my bag of tricks again. Now I do have access to a distortion type sound I can get off my console I use to record my songs but it sucks!! But you know, I have to work with what I got. Situations like this just force you to be more creative and to get the song to how is supposed to sound. I can get a used overdrive pedal but that wouldnt be until next week and Kokayi needs the final versions of beats by this weekend. So I'm gonna have to hustle to wrap it up and have them sent to him by noon tomorrow. I don't think they will turn out that bad. I'm gonna have to just make it work and I WILL! This is my dream and I can't blow my opportunity. In the music biz or any biz u have to do what u have to do to get ahead and be successful. If u have to walk 3 or 5 miles to get to a business meeting or get a tool u need for a project then that's what u have to do. I'm no stranger to doing things like that so I'm ready for the challenge!!! It's just part of the grind and I understand that....I just really want this collab with him to come out dope. I get a track with this renowned, respected, Grammy nominated artist and it can only lead to other doors being opened. It thrilled me when he said I have solid work and that he will be sitting with my tracks this weekend and make a decision then. So tonite as soon as I get off of work @5 Imma get back home and get to work. I have to be up early tommorrow for choir rehearsal so I use the wifi at the Mcdonalds by the church and e-mail him the final versions and hope he satisfied....I'll let you know what happens so wish me luck. Then I have to record the vox for my next single which will be called "Guestlist". It's a more upbeat party joint, something for the clubs!! Be on the lookout for that. Then I'll release a few more single then the whole album which I might do as a pay what u want project on my Band Camp website.
So that's about it for now. Prolly leaving some other good things out but don't worry, I'll let you know what's good when I know what's good myself! I'm barely keepin my head above water and makin a way when I can, like the Good Times theme song saids!!! This weekend should be as relaxing as is productive because its a 3 day weekend and although I have to work on my music business, I plan on getting rest and tending to my mind and body! It's is definitely easier to have peace and relaxtions when u no longer live with relatives that annoy the fcuk out of you!!!!!!! LOL Until the next, be safe, be happy, be active, be successful!!!
D Natural
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
New Music!!!!
In my Bone Crusher voice: ATTENCHUN!!!!! Peep just about 80 % of my NEW BEAT CD ----------> http://soundcloud.com/d-natural INTERESTED in a track let me know, serious inquiry only!!! Otherwise please enjoy this new music from and please dance!!!! Peace Let$ get it!!!!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
$ucce$$ feels so good!!!!!!
What's up folks. It's 1nce again your man D Natural back with another installment of da blog!! First of all I apologize for not blogging as often as I used to. I will start to do it more again as I tighten my schedule up because my life is getting to be very productive and very busy, which is a great thing!! Your man has been making moves!!! My faith, grind, hard work, and resilience is paying off. I have so much to update you guys on:
First, remember how I was in need of a new place to live bad? Well thanks to my grind, I have successfully found a room to rent that is very affordable and the owner of the house is a lovely woman. The house is right around the corner from where I grew up in Capitol Heights, MD. I am so excited. As I type this your man has the keys in his pocket and Im ready tp get the hell up from under my parents. I am going to rent a U-Haul truck on Friday, and should have about 90% of my stuff moved in 24 hours. I have already paid for the rest of this month, so u know I am ready to be outta my peeps joint!!! Ready to enjoy my new freedom!!! Of course I was looking to find own spot that %100 mines but I've decided to take baby steps and start out doing this. I see myself in 6 months to a year attempting the next step but for now I am happy with what I have. And more important Im finally from up under my parents and the rest of my family. Now I have to just deal with me and my business which will only increase grind, focus, and on the other hand lower my stress level....I love my room at this new spot and I have the biggest one in the house. The closet is big enough to build a small mic booth on one half of it, which I plan to do. Whew!!! That's one less thing I have to deal with now.
As for the music: Ive been making mad progress in getting my own material together as well as finding clientele to submit instrumentals to. As u can see from the previous post I made at the beginning of this month, I finally released my first single titled "Get Down" off of one of my upcoming solo releases, The Sigh of Relief EP!!! If you havent heard it yet, please feel free to check it out!! I am singin, rhyming and of course I produced the track! I have the link on the last post on here and also on my Facebook profile which you can get to from here as well...I have gotten positive feedback from folks who have heard it. It's been out for about 2 weeks now and last time I checked my Zshare account where I have it streaming on the net, it showed that I had gotten over 80 spins!!! So people have been definitely checkin it out. I am going to release the next single is a couple weeks or so. Right now I am focused on just getting beats to the people who I have come across by grinding and networking. One artist that is noteworthy of mentioning is fellow DC native, Emcee/Producer Kokayi, who might I add got nominated for a Grammy last year!!! :o) You know your boy it pretty excited, more like estatic, to have a opportunity to work with this cat. I've know about his music for awhile, first hearing him in high school on a record he recorded with his band Cosmic Dapp Theory that he was in then. He is really good at what he does!!! Check him out. He allowed me to e-mail him work for a record he is currently finishing. Lastnight I really believe I made the record he is gonna want!!! I'll soon post that beat on here for yall to hear too! So right now my focus is just making the tracks he needs and gathering all the beats I've already done in the past couple of months for my next beat CD which I have to send to a handful of artist on the come up like myself. All I gotta say is stay tuned!!!! I told you I wouldnt dissapoint! Please check out my Facebook page and send a request if you would like. Also follow your man on Twitter: ArtisticVisionz
I know I have more news to tell ya but that will do it for now. I'm gonna continue to grind and get mine out here. I hope yall are doing the same thing. Soon to come will be more music, of course, and pics and video of yours truly on the grind. It's been a hell of a journey these last couple of years but I'm startin to faintly see the light at the end of the road!!! Be on the look out for the next blog!!! Until this. Peace, love and ble$$ing$!!! over and out
D Natural
First, remember how I was in need of a new place to live bad? Well thanks to my grind, I have successfully found a room to rent that is very affordable and the owner of the house is a lovely woman. The house is right around the corner from where I grew up in Capitol Heights, MD. I am so excited. As I type this your man has the keys in his pocket and Im ready tp get the hell up from under my parents. I am going to rent a U-Haul truck on Friday, and should have about 90% of my stuff moved in 24 hours. I have already paid for the rest of this month, so u know I am ready to be outta my peeps joint!!! Ready to enjoy my new freedom!!! Of course I was looking to find own spot that %100 mines but I've decided to take baby steps and start out doing this. I see myself in 6 months to a year attempting the next step but for now I am happy with what I have. And more important Im finally from up under my parents and the rest of my family. Now I have to just deal with me and my business which will only increase grind, focus, and on the other hand lower my stress level....I love my room at this new spot and I have the biggest one in the house. The closet is big enough to build a small mic booth on one half of it, which I plan to do. Whew!!! That's one less thing I have to deal with now.
As for the music: Ive been making mad progress in getting my own material together as well as finding clientele to submit instrumentals to. As u can see from the previous post I made at the beginning of this month, I finally released my first single titled "Get Down" off of one of my upcoming solo releases, The Sigh of Relief EP!!! If you havent heard it yet, please feel free to check it out!! I am singin, rhyming and of course I produced the track! I have the link on the last post on here and also on my Facebook profile which you can get to from here as well...I have gotten positive feedback from folks who have heard it. It's been out for about 2 weeks now and last time I checked my Zshare account where I have it streaming on the net, it showed that I had gotten over 80 spins!!! So people have been definitely checkin it out. I am going to release the next single is a couple weeks or so. Right now I am focused on just getting beats to the people who I have come across by grinding and networking. One artist that is noteworthy of mentioning is fellow DC native, Emcee/Producer Kokayi, who might I add got nominated for a Grammy last year!!! :o) You know your boy it pretty excited, more like estatic, to have a opportunity to work with this cat. I've know about his music for awhile, first hearing him in high school on a record he recorded with his band Cosmic Dapp Theory that he was in then. He is really good at what he does!!! Check him out. He allowed me to e-mail him work for a record he is currently finishing. Lastnight I really believe I made the record he is gonna want!!! I'll soon post that beat on here for yall to hear too! So right now my focus is just making the tracks he needs and gathering all the beats I've already done in the past couple of months for my next beat CD which I have to send to a handful of artist on the come up like myself. All I gotta say is stay tuned!!!! I told you I wouldnt dissapoint! Please check out my Facebook page and send a request if you would like. Also follow your man on Twitter: ArtisticVisionz
I know I have more news to tell ya but that will do it for now. I'm gonna continue to grind and get mine out here. I hope yall are doing the same thing. Soon to come will be more music, of course, and pics and video of yours truly on the grind. It's been a hell of a journey these last couple of years but I'm startin to faintly see the light at the end of the road!!! Be on the look out for the next blog!!! Until this. Peace, love and ble$$ing$!!! over and out
D Natural
Saturday, May 8, 2010
zSHARE - Track 01.mp3
zSHARE - Track 01.mp3 What's up to all my blogging fam! As promised I have realeased my first joint for all my peoples to listen to. It's called Get Down of my solo project The Sigh of Relief EP featuring me D Natural. I also of course, produced the track. Holla
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