Jump to content
JJFP reunite for 50 years of Hip Hop December 10 ×
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince Forum

Mike

Potnas
  • Posts

    1,956
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Mike

  1. that made me feel so good man hahaha. ive said it before, if you like it and know somebody that you think would like it just fill them in. that would help so much, i hate to be a stickler but im trying for it seriously this time around. thats so much for the feeback and i hope to hear more! perhaps a track by track review...? if you dare!

    hahah thanks!

  2. hey everybody! i have been really busy with my new job, and my new album, and my new girl (working on it), and my NEXT album!..... been hectic.

    but i am honored that i have been posted about, saved me some work brakes hahah. but yes, this is my new album. best to date. if you could download it, and enjoy it that would be great. rate it on datpiff as well. that would be amazing folks!

    and i got to return home...not new jersey.... i mean jjfp.com!

  3. Nice one Turn!!!

    Ok this might be kinda hard...

    um...2000ish...rap duos first album...underground classic...first verse

    "Give me the fortune, keep the fame," said my man Louis

    I agreed, know what he mean because we live the truest lie

    I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye

    He looked at me, he thought about it

    Was like, "I'm clueless, why?"

    The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible

    Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow

    And so tomorrow comin later than usual

    Waitin' on someone to pity us

    While we findin beauty in the hideous

    They say money's the root of all evil but I can't tell

    YouknowhatImean, pesos, francs, yens, cowrie shells, dollar bills

    Or is it the mindstate that's ill?

    Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build

    Over money and religion there's more blood to spill

    The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal

    What's the deal?

    A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke

    But my language universal they be recitin my quotes

    While R&B singers hit bad notes, we rock the boat

    of thought, that my man Louis' statements just provoked

    Caught up, in conversations of our personal worth

    Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth

    Survival tactics means, bustin gats to prove you hard

    Your firearms are too short to box with God

    Without faith, all of that is illusionary

    Raise my son, no vindication of manhood necessary

    BLACKSTAR - thieves in the night

    totally got that right away hahaha

    hip hop legend's newest cd. first verse on the song.

    Sent you a message, sent you an email

    Hasty decisions we may still prevail

    Both needed breaks, we both needed to bail

    Walking thru the corridors of my mind

    The hideaways and nooks, and things with good times

    Memories certainly yes they still bind

    Still a common man and yeah that's for sure

    Still a bankroll and yeah still couture

    But man this thing we had was much more

    Come back home, don't be out in the world

    It's a rat race and no place for a girl

    Amongst the scavengers, have found a pretty pearl

    It's for the faint of heart who never get enough

    Gotta get tough, buckle em up, we calling guts

    And we, and we and we ahhh

    i was going to do an aesop rock song but i figured nobody would know it. this one should be decently easy.

  4. Life's a Bitch - Nas

    we should add some general hints like

    -verse of the song

    -the "number" album from that artist

    -general year reference.

    (((this is the fourth verse from the song. from the second cd from the rappers albums. mid nineties)))

    Got stopped at the mall the other day

    Heard a call from the other way

    that I just came from, some nigga was sayin somethin

    talkin bout "Hey man, you remember me from school?" smoke some, naw not really

    but he kept smilin like a clown facial expression lookin silly

    And he kept askin me, what kind of car you drive, I know you paid

    I know y'all got buku of hoes from all them songs that y'all done made

    And I replied that I had been goin through tha same thing that he had

    True I got more fans than the average man but not enough loot to last me

    to the end of the week, I live by the beat like you live check to check

    If you don't move yo' feet then I don't eat, so we like neck to neck

    Yes we done come a long way like them Slim ass cigarettes

    from Virginia, this ain't gon stop so we just gonna continue

  5. HERE IS A BLOG I DID>>

    Music Buisness Panel 101

    written by mike petrow - 12/11/08

    So its 1:43 in the AM. this music buisness panel happened technically yesterday, it was at about 10. So, lemme explain.

    the 6th element (hip hop club at Hofstra) set up a panel of radio DJs to come and talk about the music buisness and answer questions. there was DJ GeeSpin and DJ Whutevva from 105.1, Cipha Sounds from Hot97 and, DJ Chuck Chillout from 98.7. There was also another guy who isnt on this poster and i dont remember his name. He worked with Michael Jackson and other awesome acts. If you are reading thing, i greatly apologize for not knowing your name.

    so this panel is going smooth, the first cool thing tha happens is Chuck Chillout asks how many hip hop artists there are in the audience and many people, including myself, raise their hand. I was in the front row, rocking a suite and tie. So when i raised my hand, my whiteness had to have stood out becuase Chuck pointed right at me and goes "you rap?" i reply, "yes" he says whats your rap name and i said "mike Petrow" then he goes "aw man. Mike Petrow, Mike Petrow, Mike Petrow, i like that, Mike Petrow." so right away im glowing at how cool that is.

    second cool thing. now we are back into questions and one girl asks a question about singing artists opposed to rappers. i belive it was GeeSpin, maybe Chuck who was responding but he asked her if she was a singer and she said yes. so he asks her to sing. she didnt seem to into it and then everybody started clapping and she was peer pressured into it. not bad at all, she sang come rain or shine, a traditional song i believe. which was ironic becuase i sampled Sinatras version of it.

    so after she sits down, whoever asked her to sing asked if there were any rappers in the room. i look around. not one hand. where were all the people who raised their hands before? wimps. so my hand shoots up and Chuck points at me once again, "give this kid a mic." and then i rock the first 8 lines from Taking Time. during it i hear honest chuckles from some lines and perhaps a "oohh" or two. but that cause be wishful thinking. so i finish and i get an applause and sit down. then Chuck looks at me gives me a thumbs up and says that took guts. pimp.

    Last cool thing was handing out my mixtapes. i gave one to GeeSpin, one to Chuck, who learned that Mike Petrow was my actual name and thought it was dope. then one to the 5th panel member who i cant remember his name (sorry again) and he asked me if my number was in the case. which i took for a good thing. then i gave it to some guy who had a card with def jam on it and apparently he runs a studio somewhere close..i think. but he asked if i was a producer and said that they needed producers. sick. i want to say that he said he was going to check mine out first but that could have been my imagination.

    so thats all the cool things. i mean these two girls who just got signed rapped.. they sucked in my mind. one was like a girl version of me, awkward and lanky. except she moved alot more, making it even weirder. and in the crowd was also producers who made g-unit and 50 cent beats and two reps from def jam.. i wonder if that is who i gave my cd to. anyway it was a very exciting evening. afterwards i went to a formal dance and after that i watched spaceballs. which then leads me to now.

    if there was one thing i learned at the panel was take any chance you get and go hard. everybody starts at the bottom and in order to get anywhere you gotta "eat **** and sleep it".

    knock on wood

    -mike petrow

  6. i havent heard the album yet but my friend had it in ihs car and some song was playing and i liked it alot. besides that, coldest winter is an incredible song to me. i listen to it in chunks. like on repeat 10 times each time i click it.

    but then again i can respect experimentation alot more, at first i was totally against kanyes new album but im starting to lean towards it.

  7. Kanye seems to be arrogant and foolish sometimes, but his music is awesome! Great production, good lyrics and average flow. I don't feel his new stuff (autotune crap), but College Dropout put conscious hip hop (Mos Def, Talib Kweli) into mainstream again, when commercial garbage like eminem, nelly and 50 cent was running this rap ****. Furthermore he put Chi-town back on the map (Twista, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest, Gemini) and they are definately Hip Hop capitol nowadays.

    i agree, i mean he has his connections with the lesser known hip hop artists. i was listening to college dropout the other day and i forgot that get em high had kweli AND common on it. crazy. if he got more of these conscious rap giants out there hip hop could change. if anyting he is the gateway for that.

×
×
  • Create New...