It’s 3 am and I just finished watching Heroes. Just as I was about to go to bed, I remembered that Dillagence dropped at Midnight! I’m never going to bed now!

Mick Boogie holds the crown for this year! If you don’t know about Dillagence, check the info below. click the image to download the tape!

For Immediate Release:

Busta Rhymes has teamed with Mick Boogie to release a new online mixtape entitled “Dillagence” that they hope will continue to showcase the talents of the late J-Dilla.

The new mixtape features exclusive songs produced by Dilla for Busta that have never seen the light of day. It also features Papoose, Cassidy, Talib Kweli, MOP, Rah Digga and more.

“When I called Busta with this idea, he was so excited,” said Mick Boogie. “One day I woke up and my in-box was flooded with songs and songs of crazy Busta/Dilla material. I’m honored to be a part of this project.”

“Dillagence” will be released exclusively on Tuesday, November 27 via mickboogie.com

“When Mick brought this concept to the table, I felt the timing was right. Dilla left so much incredible music behind with me personally,” says Busta Rhymes. “It’s almost like he knew I was a vessel for him, and would be able to continue to champion his movement.”

EDIT: Listened to the whole thing, really really solid. I can’t believe this is free! and Rah Digga killed her verse!

Of all the times I’ve sat in my studio to make beats recently, I’ve been feeling kind of conflicted. I sit there and look at my keyboard, my mpc, and my computer, and before I even start I wonder what kind of direction I want to move in (in general). DJing clubs over the past year has gotten me into feeling like I want to make some more fast paced stuff, and lately I’ve just been appreciating house and electronic driven music a lot more. Here are a couple of tracks I received lately that kind of sum up where I’m stuck at, production wise.

Right now I’m somewhere between the beat on this joint by Lil Kim (Chillin Tonight) (DIRTY)

Aaaand the club production on this one by Pitbull (Levantate (Get Up)) (DIRTY)

So yeah, kind of reflects how I feel on the weekends too. Before I go DJ I find myself saying “I just wanna hang out tonight instead of work” but then I realize that DJing isn’t work, and when I get the club going I feel like screaming “everybody get up!!!!”

Music is awesome.

Everything I’ve heard from his new album, Free At Last has been dope (especially the joint with Busta and Jadakiss). I’m gonna buy it tomorrow. Here’s a video for “It’s Over” which features one of the BEST flips of “The Masquerade Is Over” that I’ve ever heard (word to Jake One!)

I saw Freeway perform at Beat Society a few months back. Easily one of the best performances I’ve seen, he gave 100% all the way through!

I’m bored at work!

As previously mentioned, I’ll be starting at Mosquito soon. I was supposed to already be turning the platters there, but I was previously booked for the coming month on fridays. So, with that said, December 14th will be my first night at Mosquito. It should be fun, and I’ve been spending some time getting my reggaeton crates up as well as my uptempo dance stuff. Should be different, and not the same ‘ol two step!

Hope everyone had a good holiday (even though it’s not really a holiday I believe in). Okay, I guess I can somewhat get down with the holiday (these days it’s more about just spending time with family and friends anyway), I just wish it wasn’t romanticized the way it is here in the public school system. Somebody needs to teach the kids the truth!

Last night at Hi 5 was the truth. At first they had my room closed off for a private party. One of the high schools around here rented the room out for the night (big money!). So at first I was kind of stuck spinning somewhat of a Clear Channel’s Best Hits playlist, haha. Eventually around 12:30, they HAD to open the back room because the front was so packed and the line to get in was insane. By the time the room filled up it was around 12:45 or so. As a DJ, knowing you get to pack your entire night into an hour is like a license to go crazy! And the crowd was so responsive, jumpin to all my transitions. I love that place!

Over the next two weeks I’m taking some time off from my job. From working every day and DJing all my off days, I’m just kind of tired of the routine. This is kind of like my Christmas gift to myself. I’m making good use of my off time:

Tuesday: FREE Ghostface Show at the cradle
Wednesday: My first hockey game (go canes!)
Thursday: Going up to DC to support my boy, Nick The 1da, in a beat grinder battle.

I’m going to Toronto in about a week and half. I hope I don’t freeze to death. Even if I do, it’s gonna be fun to reconnect with friends I haven’t seen in a really LONG time. And I might be spinning out there one of the nights of my trip (details to come).

Bundle Up…

Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin pt. 4 — So many things to quote from this song but you really just need to hear the whole thing.. It’s from DJ Drama’s upcoming Gangsta Grillz album, which from all the joints I’ve heard thus far, is shaping up to be nice.

I started out starvin’ // Now they got me out here Brett Favre’in // tryin to see if I still got it, got it…

And with that said, new Forge & Amen coming soon…

Haven’t been updating much lately because I’ve been super busy (i mean, I DJed for about 12 hours yesterday, so yeah…)

Anyways, hard work pays off it seems. Proud to say that I’ve just been given a weekly at Mosquito, one of Raleigh’s premier spots!

VOTED BY METRO MAGAZINE AS THE TRIANGLE’S BEST DANCE CLUB IN 2007
mosquito: Redefining Nightlife in Raleigh

located in raleigh’s historic depot district, mosquito is a distinctive oasis for the triangle area’s trendy, local international crowd.

arriving at the club’s unmarked entrance on commerce place, you would not be immediately aware of the elegant ,well crafted, ultra-modern interior that awaits: imported italian glass tile mosaics adorn the walls and columns, underlit onyx illuminates the bars, white leather couches grace the sitting areas and black lacquered floors unite the space to create a rarefied cosmopolitan confine – a place that brings to mind some of the finest nightclubs in new york, milan or miami.

early in the evening, our talented djs infuse your night with mellifluent beats and soothing seductive rythms. as the night progresses, the energetic music mix climaxes into a full blown dance party.

make your way to the bar and you will find, behind it, the familiar faces of some of raleigh’s most experienced bartenders mixing their intoxicating infusions.

things are lookin up….