Ohwww shit… It’s most definitely on now… B Dolan and Sage on some EPIC BEARD MEN SHIT. Watch this and share it with your crew or entourage and watch em bug out. It’s been totally optimised for your Panasonic VHS player too so you know it’s game tight. Reanimator did the beat, and I made the lil’ intro with the cuts. Aupheus filmed my mini-cameo! Fun stuff. ASSEMBLE YOUR CREW!!! And if you’re not on board, listen to the chorus. 2 Bad.
I didn’t have access to beats in 1989, so for this “Mother’s Day Rap” I used two tape decks to loop the open section of a De La Soul song. A segment of this old recording appears on my “Personal Journals” album and now that we’re celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of its release it’s as good time as any to release this old recording in its entirety. It’s not the best rap in the world but it was better than just signing my name on a Hallmark card.
I dedicate this to all the moms who let their kids play in the mud as well as the moms who make their kids clean up their act. My mom stayed supportive and let me explore my creativity, but she also pushed me to do good in school, work hard, and she didn’t put up with any BS.
Enjoy the free download and have a Happy Mother’s Day!
-Sage Francis
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“KING BEE”, the swag-heavy song featured on the HOUSE OF BEES Vol. 2 video trailer, was the intended first single for the album. However, the recent passing of rap legend Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys) stopped us all in our tracks and set a different tone among the hip-hop community. As a result, we’ve decided to put bravado aside for a minute and leak a song that’s fit to honor his passing and the moment.
“STILL HERE” is HOBV2’s album opener and acts as a mission statement of sorts. Here is what B. Dolan has to say about it :
“In 2010 my father was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of lung cancer and died within the span of 8 months. All of this happened at the same time SFR released ‘FALLEN HOUSE, SUNKEN CITY’, and I embarked on the most ambitious touring schedule of my career.
Needless to say, that year was devastating in every way. For the first time since age 12, I found myself questioning what I do and considered walking away from it. I’ve always taken pride in the ‘dues paid’ for my art, but in the face of a loss that great, everything can suddenly seem too awful, too futile, and too difficult to continue doing.
The beat used for “Still Here” was literally one of the most important parts of finally pulling myself out of that tailspin… Something about those bagpipes or whatever that sound is that Buddy sampled. I remember listening to it for the first time and feeling the hair on the back of my neck stand up. ‘They haven’t killed me yet.’ is the thought I immediately had when the beat dropped, and everything followed from there.”
Rest in Peace to MCA and all of our dearly departed. Through the impact they’ve had on our lives and the legacy they’ve given to the world, they’re Still Here.
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HEY YO! I’m playing at this on Tuesday 8th May. I turly can’t wait. MPCs and bloody hands. Sound good? Let’s get bloody.
XXX
HOUSE OF BEES VOL. II is finally here. Please Repost.
OH SHIT.
More to come…
Be afraid and excited.
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A wonderful mini-doc from Record Store Day 2012, on location at Banquet Records in Kingston! So amazing to see the power moves being made there each and every day, with some truly great people handling business full time. I was fortunate enough to spend a little over 5 years in their employ, and you can take it from me that they are TRULY deep in it and worth supporting. There are a lot of reasons that it’s continued to grow and flourish in a time where people would have you believe record shops are dying, and some of these are prominently displayed in this video.
Add the shop link to your favourites and peep game when you have the chance.
Much, much love to Banquet, always!
bpXXX
Here is my mini series of mini-mixes, up now for download/stream/all that good stuff, with info on what’s up when you head to the Soundcloud page. Each one is themed (a little loosely but themed nonetheless!), and there is a lot of edity production action happening in each. You’ll hear what’s up, there’s a lot going on…
Hope you like em- thanks for peeping, as always y’all.
bpX
Two minutes, fifty-eight seconds and well worth the time.
“I dissected all of Hitchcock’s Rear Window and stiched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie’s plot.”
Good goddamn… I’m so happy there are people out there doing stuff like this. Bless ya!
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This is an extended version of Curtis Plum’s “Vin Diesel” song. Additional verse by B. Dolan. Produced by Curtis Plum. STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS!
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Here’s a little something from the past I thought I’d share with you, which is a pretty cool thing from a good while back!
I was fortunate enough to visit New York City in February of 2005, with some close friends of mine in our ‘Wheels Instead Of Hooves’ collective. My friends James and Rich used to put nights on around London, and I was usually a resident in some capacity (straight up turntable sets really). There were some really sick guests at a lot of the shows too- it was a mad time, and definitely very different to the way things are now (technologically, stylistically, all that stuff). Just very different! It’s great though, I’m not on some living in the past nostalgia thing or anything like that- I don’t go for that. It was amazing, it happened then and led to what’s happening now, and that’s awesome. We have some amazing memories, and that’s the real bonus treasure from it all.
We hit up New York for some shows, taking our traveling circus out with us (a circus of about 6/7 people, so a kind of traveling carload I guess). We met up with Shadetek and some of the Warp Records folk, and had some incredible times out there with some truly great people. I did my bumbling Hugh Grant Englishman bit and managed to find my way around (the day I spent on a solo digging mission was the best- hanging out for 3 hours with a grizzled old record store clerk with like 7 Starbucks cups stacked up changed my life for REAL…), and New York residents were really friendly and approachable.
We managed to hook up a radio show visit too, with Tim Sweeney who is a very busy head from NYC and pals with the LCD Soundsystem lot. He ran this show called ‘Beats In Space’ which had some really dope guests on in the past, and I performed on one evening. It was pretty mental, in this little apartment block with a stand and a mixing desk, and your boy Tim runnning things from within. I set up, did a little set (which I had to edit cursewords out of on the fly, as there was a sign stating exactly what swears would get you kicked out- and I realised I had some pretty blue and salty records in there). It’s pretty loose, nothing too flashy like but it was great fun and I’m still proud of it! I just didn’t want it to disappear into digital obscurity, that’s all!
The journey there was hefty as well- lugging around a huge record crate through the subway… I’ll never forget that. I was envisioning some Warriors shit going down but it was actually incredibly tame. Thankfully.
He interviewed me at the end, so you can hear a fidgety and nervy younger me talking about all sorts too. Tim’s a nice guy, it was a funny little chat.
Thanks for peeping, eh- like I say, it’s loose and imperfect, but something cool from the past all the same.
Your pal,
Buddy
