the first music project i was involved with was a hip-hop group that a couple friends and i put together back in 91-95. we actually had some decent material, but since we were so young, we also had a bunch of unrealistic expectations about what the music was going to do for us (i.e. get us a record deal with Def Jam involving tons of money so we could tour the globe, be on Yo MTV RAPS and get tons of chicks). we had a lot of fun when we were just messing around before we got our hopes up too high (only to be smacked back into reality later on), but eventually we lost focus on the music and fun, and it all went down hill from there. my "rap name" was LEMONM (way before eminem) and matt's rap name was MAT THE W (or just 'W'... way before george W). my friend josh was the dude who had the most money at the time, so he was kind of our executive producer (aka, the dude that just hangs around to make your posse bigger and idea man).

here is one of our songs from back in the day. it was one of our last recordings.

josh and i were roommates for a while and were in a couple punk/indie bands afterwards, but W pretty much fell off the planet along with his stick-in-the-mud girlfriend who would always break up the party.

recently i've been talking to matt again after many moons, and he's gone from the skinny dude with dreads to the not as skinny dude with a shaven head, and i've gone from the skinny dude with too much hair, to the not as skinny dude with receding hair...and we decided to start a new project which is in the same genre as the group we were in together as kids...somewhat picking up where we left off.

last night matt came over and we put together a beat using a drum machine, mooge synth, egg shaker and wine bottle and recorded a rough version of our new song ("realistic") on pro-tools (it was fun dating ourselves going "do you realize we just did what took a bunch of expensive equipment back in the day, but all we used this time was a lap top!?!"). so far we have a corny faux-rasta chorus (much like the one in the mp3 i just posted above) and my verse where i use a bunch of metaphors and smilies, talking about nothing in particular. i was pretty proud of how it came out when i was done. once we finish i'll post a final mp3 here.