Lyrics Born returned to the studio in between performances at the summer's big music festivals and touring with Southern funk band Galactic. The album he produced is called Everywhere At Once and it will be his first release on ANTI- instead of his own independent label, Quannum Projects. The album features appearances from Chali 2na and RJD2 and will be available on March 18th, 2008.Japanese...
Lyrics Born, Berkeley-bred MC, has a new single that he's pretty excited about. The track is called "I Like It, I Love It" and it premiered on the Bay Area's LIVE 105FM on Sunday night and you can listen to it online today. It won't take long to build hype around this super catchy tune and it won't be long until it's released digitally, February 19th. Best of all, there are 17 more great tra...
Hell yeeeah, y'all!The "AS U WERE" campaign begins.... I'm on it, peoples. My new single,"Funky Hit Records". This ain't for the radio, this ain't for the clubs,this ain't for the label, this is for y'all.Wanted to do a little something capturing a period of 80's rap that hasn'tbeen touched yet. That early Juice Crew/Marley Marl era. THAT shit was ART.Complete w/a Trackademicks drum track, a vi...
Yes indeed, L-Beezies!!!Back again, it's the fourth installment of the hit Lyrics Born mixtape franchise, The Lyrics Born Variety Show Season Pho (4), brough to you by Mobile Home Recordings in partnership with VTech.Featuring exclusive tracks you won't hear anywhere else, superstar guests, remixes, mash-ups and more, Season Pho is guaranteed to fill you up and titillate your musical taste...
Oh my GOD! "Funky Hit Records" has been blowin' UP!!! Last week the video for "Funky Hit Records" was featured on YouTube and we've had nearly 200,000 views in less than a week. On top of that people have been downloading the mp3 like crazy. We've even heard that Triple J Radio in Australia has been spinnin' the track. The feedback has been huge -- all of y'all have been feelin' this song...
San Francisco Bay Area rapper Lyrics born is seemingly ??Everywhere At Once?? with his Anti- debut from the acclaimed MC which will be preceded by extensive Fall tour plans (below).He began his hip hop career while at college at UC Davis, where he was a DJ at the college station KDVS. He is a founding member of the seminal independent record label Quannum Projects. Born came up with fellow Bay ...
Damn, this was really tough. I was not expecting the turnout we got on this one. This is by far the most entries of any remix contest we've ever run, and the content and quality was surprisingly......Dope! Believe me; I'm not trying to shit on anybody who is into my music to the point where they would take time out of their lives to put their personal stamp on a tune or two. Furthermore, ...
"Whispers" -an unexpectedly somber track from the man who brought us such bumpin' slices of funky pie as "Callin' Out" and Everywhere's first single "I Like It, I Love It"- is a slow, stripped-to-the-bass Isaak Hayes-style track. "Whispers" was written by LB inspired by hearing the news of the passing of his longtime friend Benjamin "Mack B. Dog" Davis. I wasn't familiar with B. Dog other than ...
Yes, peoples! That is "I Like It I Love It" in "Friday the 13th". I've been getting hit up about this like crazy, the movie must be #1! This feels like the most exposure the song has gotten since "Everywhere At Once" came out last year. Thanks for all the support, L-Beezies. Do your boy a solid & call/email your local radio station & request it. I think we may have a runaway hit here!...
In more Quannum Projects-related news, another of the cliques co-founders Lyrics Born just dropped a new Raphael LaMotta-directed video for his newest single “Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart.”The tune features guest-vocals from LB's former Latyrx partner Lateef the Truthspeaker and finds LB and co-producer Jake One delving into the sounds of ‘80s Electro, Synthpop and Midwestern and Bay Area Synt