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What’s good world! It’s your favorite music producer D-Natural back for more updates and insights!






First, I hope everyone enjoyed my latest poem that I posted on here a few days ago. I had that laying around in one of my books and I had forgotten I wrote it (which happens quite often). One of the best feelings an artist can get, is when they find something of theirs that they forgot they created, read or hear it again and surprise themselves. That’s what happened with my latest poem. As soon as I found it, I did a little editing and just had to share it with you all. Sometimes I get so caught up in the music and that part of me, I forget about the writer side of me and all the works I’ve created. This blog is dedicated to the poetry/writing as well as music. So I’m going to continue to give it to you all. If you guys would like to comment with a topic that you want me to write about, I accept the challenge! As I had intended to do at the beginning of the year, I still plan on releasing my first spoken word poetry album. Just haven’t decided when. I’ll keep you posted though.



As for my music business, I am happy to say things are steadily picking up and opportunities are coming in to spread my work literally all over the world! Looks like Artistic Visionz Productions is going worldwide!! I’ve been giving the opportunity to remix a song for promotional use, for a group out of Canada. I reveal more details to that when I’m about ready to release it. I’ve also come across a dope lyricist out of the UK, who can hold his own on the mic. I’ve long had the desire now to work with an artist out of Europe and now I have my chance. This week I am going to get started on working on the type of beats he request from me, so we will see how that goes. I have sold my first batch of soul music in a long time to a client I have in Texas. I’m still excited and happy that I accomplished that. I still plan on submitting more material for their album so I’ll let you know what I manage to cook up for them and I’ll even share some of that with you here! Also a short mix which includes the song called Krazzy I produced by dj Pun and crew was just released. If you click on my Facebook profile to the right, you will see the ReverbNation link my page that you can click on and hear this. I also will be sharing with you the full song and other great songs by dj Pun and his collective GRIL!!! Google them!!



Aside from creating, my skills on the business side of things are sharpening by the minute!! I mentioned here before that I manage myself and that I’m learning as I go along. I do my research, find out what needs to be done, and I just go for it!! Even though this has been a lot of hard work and can get very crazy, I am delighted at the opportunities I have afforded myself. A good friend of mine and a hell of a producer, Jared Fite aka Thunderbird Juicebox (Google him now!), recently told me in a conversation that it seems as though I have an online presence. This really excited me, because even though I know I’ve been doing the little things to get attention online, you really can’t measure your impact on your audience until you get confirmation like I did from Jared and others that I’m definitely being noticed!! I’m only getting started with my campaign, so plan on seeing a lot more of me around the net!! I still have a lot more to learn but when you’re in the middle and business is coming at you, if you want it bad enough, you’ll figure what you have to do to secure that business and grow your brand!!



I’ll post another blog later on this week, but for now here’s a little insight as to what’s happening now. Stay tuned for more music, poetry and the crazy adventures of

D-Natural!! Keep the faith and keep chasing your dreams! Peace

Did I mention Im also a poet > New Poem: Untitled

My thoughts are in the wind



Time is what I see in the distance


Marinating in crown royal


Paradise IM YOUR HIGHNESS


Laud my excellence


But glorify life


Existence in I


You


Us


Them


Comtemplating


Rhythms like a jazz soloist


Drunk


Madness


My flew across my room like a silver


Bullet piercing space


Magnify who I am


I am don’t know


Everything


About


Society graces thee


Head bloody but unbowed


Divine Shepard


I’m raising wolves to hunt


At dawn


Searching for a being that loves


Sky tears


Technology conscious


Streaming


Internet


Brain


Cells


Stimulated


Deliberated


I love whom I not


Typing out Of control


On my keyboard


Pouring out passion


Drippings like the ocean water of the gods


Oh my god


Oh my me


Who I am


Successful birthright


May my obitiuary read


Ghost fairy tales


Opera like


Mafia style


Flipping verbs


Are you hearing me


I am heard


And you will hear


In a galaxy café near


You my symphony


Creating harmony with your soul


Not beggin you


But tempting you to madness


Chaos can be beautiful


Cuz beautiful is crazy


Bliss


Kiss my sons and daughters


And tell then their father


Was a pharaoh


Knight of the universe


Triumphant with my lord


Excited and disturbed


But groovy


Swinging from star to start burning my hand


On the atmospheric particles


Molecules of yesterday


Fading


Fascinating I


You


You


You will hear


I am heard


I am me


I am victorious

So much to do, so little time….

What’s up good people! It’s your man D Natural back with updates on this rollercoaster I’m on called life.




As you already know, your man is still grinding, getting it in, and chasing the dream!! I can say that more doors are opening for me and business is steadily coming in. However while all this is good, it can be a bit frustrating when you can’t devote as much of your time as you would like to getting business handled. It’s seems as though I want to constantly kick myself sometimes because even though I know it’s necessary to work my 9 to 5 day job to keep the bills paid, when you see even greater potential from your doing what you love, it makes you want to scream!!! What’s even crazier is when you realize the success that your business ventures can bring you has the potential of yielding more profits than you would ever receive on that 9 to 5 job. So I’m like damn I wish I can just leave this day job behind and do my music full time. The goal is to do exactly this sooner or later, but I can’t now. When you get home, open the mail, and see all these bills and debts you need to pay staring you in the face, you know you have to keep those other sources of income open just a wee bit longer. You have some businessman out there that would tell you to take the risk or “burn the ship” as my friend would say. Some would tell you to take the risk, concentrate and devote time to making your passion your profit. They would say have no fear, don’t worry about when the money is going to come in or whatever bad may happen and to just have faith. Now while I agree with this, I also agree that bills have to be paid. You can’t ignore the bills because what you owe will just get worse and put you more behind which will affect how you are doing you business in the future. These types of things put me in the bitter mood I am in right now as I type this. I’m sitting here at work, at my desk, around people that can get on my nerves, that are annoying, but I do what I have to do and I really don’t let them affect me. What does get me is when I see reactions from people to my music, my poetry, my songs, getting over 4500 plays of my current single “Get Down” in only 2 and a half months and I want to keep delivering these things but I am restricted as to when I can. When I look back over the last couple of months and see my progress as a musician, producer, businessman, I’m impressed with myself but at the same time I’m mad because I know I could have done even more to get even greater results. Believe me if I had some decent amount of loot saved up, I would just quit this day job because I’m confident enough I can make it into the industry in a certain amount of time. My current situation however, is not going to allow this. So how do I manage to get these kinds of results? I would say good time management, being able to do ALL you can when you can do it and just hustling like an immigrant. When I get little breaks at work, I’m on my BlackBerry networking, making moves, and so forth, and making calls. Even though I know they are watching our computer activity at work, I still take the risk and get my business handled online. I know its wrong and that I can get in trouble but I really haven’t yet. Plus I’m a valued employee where I am now as evident of a recent raise I got with a letter from the CEO saying that he is wholeheartedly satisfied with my work. While all this is great, and I’m happy with the progress I am making on the job, still burning in the back of my skull everyday is “ Dan, you are too talented, you are too gifted, you are too intelligent, you are too tough and humble not be more successful than you are…” I know you have to be patient and do what you have to do to maintain but it’s still very very frustrating. It’s like having all the ingredients to make a fantastic meal but no kitchen to prepare it in or no time to even cook the meal if you had the kitchen. However, you know that if people ate what you cooked and loved it, at the end of the day you will feel far more satisfied. Then you would be trying to feed the world. Well I’m trying to feed the world but then again I have to keep myself fed as well… It is what is it is.



$tay tuned more new music being release over the next few days. I also will be collaborating with my friend/producer Skyboy to work on a remix and some other material today and tomorrow. Then I have to work to continue to create some more material and to select the tracks that I am going to use for this upcoming beat battle for Beats4Cancer.com Also I am getting some stuff together for an artist and record label out of Baltimore. I’m debating whether or not to purchase this equipment to upgrade my home studio just a little bit, but what the hell you got to invest for success so I think I might go head and do it! What else…Be on the lookout for my second single “Guestlist”!! It’s long overdue I know, but it will be worth the wait, trust me!! I’m also going to try to get a music video done for that as well. As always I’ll keep ya posted. Shoutout to everyone that has been checking my blog out. I know there have been people viewing because the number plays for my music widget on here have been steadily rising!! Please comment on anything and everything!! Ask me anything!!



Until the next time, keep the faith, live your life to the fullest and don’t sweat the small stuff! One Love.



D Natural

What's good y'all! Just a quick post on some things I would like to share...

Check out my new TwitVid

Here some pics from my studio session last saturday with Norman Weeks! Google, Youtube, Facebook this guy immediately for some good music! Also I will keep updated on his album when it drops that I'm featured on! Stay tuned for some other goodies real soon! Peace..

Of course, I'm still on my grind to $hine!!!!!!

What's up world!!!! It's yours truly, D Natural, back with more words and sounds!

I hope everyone reading this is blessed and happy, first of all! I'm blessed and happy myself, just taking things one day at a time!! My grind has not slowed down one bit, and more opportunities are coming to me all the time. Just like I've always done since I've started this blog, you know your man is gonna give yall the low down on his grind. Peep this....

I remember when I purchased my 1st Blackberry back in March of this year. The purpose for me doing this, was to have a phone that was gonna help me with my business. When you start out on your grind, no one knows your name, what youre about, what you do, etc. You are just a nobody, and the world doesn't know you exist. Then when you make a mission statement to yourself like I did and say, everyone will know my name, respect my God given talents, my grind, my business and work toward that, it's cool to see how many people began to look for you, keep up with you, and that love listening to what you do. My Blackberry went from not ringing or alerting me much about incoming messages in March to blowing up all the time and days. Now I'm always either getting an alert from Twitter, Facebook, phoneline, Google, ReverbNation, Soundcloud etc., from many different people!! I must say I am liking the respect and attention I've been getting! It let's me know that people are starting to tune into the music and words of D Natural of Artistic Visionz Productions. Everyday is forward progress and for some reason if not moving forward in any direction, by the end of the day I make it small goal to do or initiate something that will keep me moving forward. Every like action produces like results!

Since I've last blogged, I've completed all my past missions and now have a new set of projects I'm working: I received a request to do my very first remix of a song for a company on Twitter. I've decided to try to partner up with another producer, my friend and business associate, Skyboy of Blue Funk Entertainment, for this one. I hope we can work and get this completed. I've also recieved a request to do a drop for a radio station! For those that don't know, a drop is basically saying a few words endorsing the radio station and telling the listeners to stay tuned! I've also just recorded a small promotional video for Beats4Cancer.com!! They are an organization with a mission to raise awareness for a healthier life using music/beats!!! I'm all about giving and helping charities so this was a no brainer to partner with them. They are going to be have their first beat battle on August 14, 2010 and I plan to be there competing along other producers. I'm going to try my very best to get video footage while I'm there and share that with you here!! For now, please check the website: Beats4Cancer.com and see what they are about. Also here is the link for the promotional video I did for them - - >

BEATS4CANCER.COM PROMO VIDEO

As you can see below this blog post I have placed 3 brand new beats to share with you all courtesty of SoundCloud.com! I hope you enjoy them!! Comment and give your opinions on everything!! I want to be the people's producer so I need to hear what you guys want to hear from me and I'm gonna delivered the best art possible!

On another note, as for my day jpb, your man as of yesterday got a little raised!! It aint much but every little bit helps and really I'm just glad I made through my first year there and that its a sign they wanna keep me around, because they have been letting people go!! LOL

I'm proud of myself for being able to run my music business as well as hold down the 9 - 5 to keep my bills paid and this new roof over my head. It's been a battle and a grind but I'm hanging in there and getting stuff DONE!!!!

Until the next time, as always, keep the faith, keep chasing your dreams and I'll see you at the top!! Let's all $hine!!!! Peace

D Natural

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Happy 4th of July Weekend USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's up world!!!!!! It's your man D Natural back with yet another blog about this crazy adventure called my life!

And you know of course, your man I been very very busy on the business tip. I got a fresh new set of updates to let yall in on!!!! First I'm getting ready to drop my next single called "Guestlist" this weekend!!! It's either gonna be the 3rd, 4th, or 5th of July!!! If you heard my first single, "Get Down", my intention with that, was to showcase my skills as not only a producer, but one who can emcee and sing as well. With "Guestlist" it's a lil different in the sense that I designed it for the party scene, the dancehalls, the clubs.....It's an uptempo track with a beat that is sure to get you dancing, even if you're the type like me, who prefers not to dance all the time. It's definitely a head nodder!! Lyrically I paint a picture of how D Natural gets down in the clubs. So I just hope yall enjoy it!!!! It really believe this one is gonna be kinda of a hit!!! I just get that vibe from it, we'll see!!

Aside from my solo project, more opportunities for producing other artist are coming my way!!! This feels great!!! I got my work cut out for me!! I've been impressing my client in Texas with my batch of soul music I have been sending his way!! He's picked 2 beats so far that hes gonna buy and I'm in the process of cooking up more. Also I have to get a batch of some epic, space age sounding music for my fam at 88.1FM (MD/DC station, USA) who along with some other company is sponsoring a compilation album that will feature nothing but artist from my home area of Maryland, DC, Virginia, USA. To be on a project like this will be really exciting for me, cuz it exposes me to more of my hometown!

Also I've been talking with a few radio stations about doing work for them as well getting my songs on the air!!! Your boy has been making all types of moves!! When you are the Producer, Artist, and your own Manager, it kinda can drive ya nuts because ther is so much to keep up with!! I'm just blessed that I have a variety of work to do and complete!!! This means I gotta be doing something right if I'm opening up all these doors for myself!!! All I can say right now, is that is feels good!!! Gotta alot work to do though. I'm glad the CEO here at my day job, decided to give us the Monday off after the 4th of July!! I really need this 3 day weekend to finish current music already in place and to create more of whats needed for my connection!!!

I'm also going to be contacting a season music promoter this weekend, who has worked for over a dozen major record labels that I know you guys are familiar with like Def Jam, Universal, Alantic, Sony etc. about taking the promotion of my music to the next level!!! He already said I my material sounds good so, Imma give him a call this weekend and talk some business. You know I'll keep ya updated on the all this progress I'm making!!

That's about it for now. Until my next blog, yall be cool, keep the faith, keep chasing YOUR dreams and don't stop cuz I won't stop!!!! Peace and Ble$$ings!!!!!!!!

D Natural