emcee hype

the zombie apocalypse is upon us!!

2009-10-21T15:16:00.000-04:00

the zombie apocalypse is upon us. i never thot i'd say that- and actually mean it!

everything was fine today. that's your first clue. that's how it always starts: the sun peeking warmly thru the crack in the curtains, the william tell overture playing lightly on some far-away whispy strings, and a slight upturn overtakes the corners of your lips. it's going to be a good day, like ice cube.

and you're driving. and you're listening to some tame-one bumping on your sounds-pretty-good-today factory car stereo. and the sun is now warming your crown from somewhere directly above your sunroof. and a musical project you've been working on is very near completion: your brand new mixtape. yes, a pretty damn good day.

so i stop at the supermarket (they have coffee and donuts and take debit cards) to use the in-store bank branch to activate my new debit card (i don't do credit). and on the way in i notice the hands-free hand-sanitizer dispenser. i partake of my anti-bacterial communion, because better safe than sorry, right?

this is where it all goes into slo-motion: i enter the supermarket thru the automatic doors and make an immediate right to approach the ATM... but i feel eyes on my back; that eerie sixth sense, when you just know someone is eyeing you... i insert my debit card and my head pans to the right: an adolescent boy's beady, blood-shot eyes meet mine. his eyes are full of hatred and hellfire, his face as flush as funeral-home-foundation. his white-knuckle grip on the cart belies his casual guise in the cart's toddler seat. i break stare to enter my password, then balance inquiry, then my eyes dart back to the waiting eyes of the inflicted child. the face-mask he's wearing is more reminiscent of jason or michael myers than the complacent masked pedestrians on the streets on tokyo. that's just ozone-holed-weather blues.

he's not a bubble boy, i say to myself, he's infected! the swine flu, the media calls it. the super bug! haven't you ever read stephen king's, the stand?! this is how it starts! i get my debit card back and hurry off in the direction of the coffee and donuts. but now i'm aware of each and every swarm of germs that makes its way onto my body. the door to the donut bin is open and i wonder, how many dirty, grimy, germy hands have been in that donut bin today? so i skip the donuts. i select a coffee cup from the middle of the stack. i do the same for the lid selection. i don't want anything that's been touched.

after i fill my coffee, as germ freely as possible, i do the lookaround. no zombie boy in sight. i make a b-line for the other end of the store, figure i'll make a left up ahead and go straight for the self-checkout. after passing about four aisles, i bang a sharp left, then i see him. it's zombie boy, his mother looking thru canned goods (stocking up for the zombie apocolypse, no doubt!), and he's staring me down; burning-red hatred toasts me to a dead-halt. i immediately u-turn, 180-it and split. i don't even want to encounter wafted air from the passing child (or the blood-thirsty monster that once was a child).

now, there are several ways to look at this h1n1 situation: there's the optimist: they wear masks and use the anti-bacterial handwash endlessly. they dress their kids in so much protective gear that they look like the late michael jackson's kids. there's the pessimist: these people believe that we're all going to get the swine flu, no matter what. then, there's the cynical optimist. this person believes that the swine flu is really just a scam. the flu is the flu, they say. nice try pharmaceutical companies, they sneer, but you're not getting my money! or you may be the cynical pessimist: this person also thinks that the swine flu is not the swine flu, but perhaps a way for the government to test new vaccines, or implant microchips, or spread a superbug that will cut down the world's population, semi-naturally.

and now, best case scenario: it really is the h1n1 strain of the flu. some people are going to get it. some have died and will die. and the world is short on vaccines; a vaccine that's relatively new and therefore, experimental. so if the superbug doesn't get us, the vaccine may... and isn't the vaccine procured from the actual virus, anyway!? so if the superbug continues to evolve, and many of us can't fight it... if zombie boy and countless others have already been infected... how long will it be until the zombie apocolypse?!?

as i prepare to face the rest of my day, i throw 800mg of vitamin c into my mouth and squirt another shot of anti-bacterial lotion onto my hands. i kind of wish woody harrelson was here. i could use a pot-smoking zombie killer to hang out with right about now.

(a good, fun zombie movie: 3.5 out of 4)

blogging your own hype...

2009-10-08T17:53:00.001-04:00

i'm planning on releasing the emcee hype mixtape in the next few weeks. the free download (courtesy of the commune) is called, "bootleg mixtape cdr blues." it will feature ten tracks (carved down from about twenty that were recorded) of new rhymes over a diverse canvas of rock and roll loops. look for clips and loops from blue oyster cult, they might be giants, moxy fruvous, duran duran, cake, and more...

i tried to let the rhymes be as eclectic as the beats... very free-wheeling and playful... and hopefully a sound that seamlessly melds freestyles, verses and even (reluctantly) a couple of hooks. along with abandoning the 'typical mixtape beats,' turntables were completely replaced by wailing guitar solos. that dirty looking man with the cardboard 'will dj for food' sign can blame his misfortune on riff-heavy tracks like, 'this ain't the hook.' (el-oh-el!)

speaking of blazing guitars, bootleg mixtape- will also feature an effect-drenched guitar outro by our own tom (from the commune). tom dalton records and produces his own accoustic rock/folk ("hey guys, instead of listening to folk-rock, let's listen to folk rock!") AND owns and operates fuzzhugger.com, a custom guitar pedal company and official sponsor of the commune (and the artists affiliated with said commune).

please download and enjoy: ....emcee hype: bootleg mixtape cdr blues....

AVAILABLE SOON!!!!

fire of unknown origin

2009-09-15T15:09:00.000-04:00

i've been working on a new mixtape for about a month now. i'm not going to give you a sob story about blood-sweat and tears tho. i'm not losing sleep over it. it's quite the contrary from an official release--something along the lines of the wine thieves' sex and company, during which i lost a couple years worth of sleep--because i'm just trying to have fun with it. it's only a mixtape! the rapper (in this case me) takes some tracks from some of his or her favorite artists and raps over them... that's what i'm doing, anyway. now, i wanted to push myself lyrically and artistically on this mixtape... and since the beats and production are someone else's, i decided to narrow the gauntlet a bit by not using any "rap beats," new or old. there will be a 'beat' or two in the mix, but mostly i pulled tracks from artists like blue oyster cult, moxy fruvous and they might be giants. yeah, surprise. so needless to say, this isn't the easiest rhyme-over material... and as with any project, there are days that i love some of the songs and days when i want to throw the entire mixtape into the wastebin tape-first. we'll see what happens..

they might be a bootleg mixtape cdr blues spot

2009-08-26T12:18:00.000-04:00

last week i started work on what will ultimately become an all-new hype mixtape. this is the first time i've rhymed on a mixtape, so i'm aiming to make it something special. to that end, i'm purposely steering away from pretty much anything you've ever heard on a mixtape. the most mainstream snippet so far is some old lenny kravitz. the most obscure, besides some old they might be giants, is a beat made from scraps of some old moxy fruvous, courtesy of vesuvius truth of the commune. i'm not going to go into much more detail of what all is going into this mixtape, other than that the vox will not be recorded at the commune but at wnbt radio. it's not a typical rap studio, by any means, but more of a production room where i can escape to courtesy of stretch and wnbt radio. i've got all i need within, or within general proximity, of said production room. i'm going to keep it simple; by-passing pro-tools for cooledit and substituting berhinger for mackie, and yahmaha for korg.
i'll keep the blog updated regarding progress. in the mean, party is hard at work making some new beats after selling a batch to an upstate rapper. some the new compositions he's working on will appear on an upcoming ep from the wine thieves (party & i). other new works from party, include something soulful in the city of brotherly love, but i'll let him fill you in on that.

if you haven't already, visit the commune @ fuzzhugger.com/thecommune for a free download of the latest ep from the wine thieves, sex & co. also available at the commune are free records from jersey bound trunk crew, the wine thieves, tom dalton, mike lengel, yours truly and more. drop a line. out for now.

hiding from the heat

2009-08-17T16:13:00.000-04:00

so time has snuck by again.. i haven't updated the blog in a long time. that's alright, right? i mean, it's just a blog. so what's been going on? me? well, i've spent a busy year or so working on the wine thieves' debut ep with party.picasso. it's now in this pre-autumn bake (105 degrees on the bank clock yesterday) that i find the time so reflect on the blogosphere the action of the day.
party and i finished sex and co., the wine thieves' ep. it's out of our means to tour immediately, so now each of us are busy at work with the projects in the 'other' folder. party's got an album of beats and scenic-musical scores coming out. he's also producing a few tracks for some new jeru rappers and philly songbirds. meanwhile, i'm reading and writing a lot these days. i've been sitting on a collection of beats for a while, and now may be the time to get on a few tracks. maybe a hype ep in the making? i'll say nothing in cement. but it has been a number of years since anything completely solo.

in the mean, be sure and check out the sites for updates and music:

myspace.com/emceehype
myspace.com/partypicasso
myspace.com/thewinethieves
myspace.com/jerseyboundtrunkcrew
fuzzhugger.com/thecommune

2009-08-14T15:29:00.000-04:00

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“the rightful king of tartarus”

emcee hype is a writer/rapper from northern pennsylvania. he’s also an avid reader, amateur filmmaker, slighty-seasoned actor and comic collector. hype is one-half of the hip hop duo, the wine thieves. production for the wine thieves is done by hype's frequent collaborator, super-producer, party.picasso.

emcee hype released his first pair of hip hop demos, known as ‘the tree of life demos,’ in 1999. in the early millennia, hype emceed on two full-length albums for the now-defunct rap crew watershipdown, co-formed the brix with party.picasso and released an ep called minding the fort, and appeared on a solo ep entitled, apathy.irony.agony.infinity (2005). hype has also recorded an album with emcee jabee (of OK city) and the world-famous dj vadim called, songs for debutantes. the mixtape was released by illroots.com.

hype is also a member of the MTVu woody-award nominated hip hop production team,
jersey bound trunk crew. JBTC's debut album, get down dirty disco, received praise from fans and critics alike. subsequently, the album landed the crew a spot as MTVu's artist of the week and saw their video in rotation on MTV's college station. in addition, JBTC earned guest spots on the EA games/MTV rock band tour. get down dirty disco is currently available for FREE download from The Commune. instrumentals from the album can be heard on the documentary film, hook up culture.

the video for “run.live.love,” (as seen on TV) was shot and edited by emcee hype and the jersey bound trunk crew production team, along with the tv spots and promo bumps. jersey bound trunk crew also produced several short comic films and non-sensical videos, including billy tony, sweatshop confessionals, blood brothers and the satirical short slasher-horror, andy. hype has subsequently produced a track/animation, called, i’ve been defeated (by myself). he is now working with party.p on a music video for the wine thieves, along with a new animation featuring an accompanying musical score by the wine thieves.

the long-awaited debut ep from the wine thieves (emcee hype & party.picasso), Sex & Co. is out now and available for FREE download from The Commune (fuzzhugger.com/thecommune). the seven track extended play features “powerlines,” “shitty fox” and “the official countdown.” for more information on emcee hype or the wine thieves visit one of the following websites:

myspace.com/emceehype
fuzzhugger.com/thecommune
myspace.com/thewinethieves
thewinethieves.blogspot.com
myspace.com/jerseyboundtrunkcrew
myspace.com/songsfordebutantes

ancient whatever babble

2009-05-14T22:47:00.000-04:00

2009-04-01T16:53:00.000-04:00

good times had by all at bennett studios. propers to gumshu for his mad patience and skill! party's beats were slamming thru the cost-more-than-my-life speakers in bennett's "big room." a good ep was bourne out of the smoke and fire. oh and gum, those machine elf bastards are wicked, eh?! new ep from the wine thieves arriving momentarily.

"hyperbole" from dictionary.com

2009-04-01T16:44:00.000-04:00

hy⋅per⋅bo⋅le

–noun Rhetoric.

1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”