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Buss Nuff ShotS by: Juskwam, Coco Dank, Bazooka Joe, & Prospek
from the album "Cold Skool" available here:
http://thegpc.bandcamp.com/album/the-bush-league
Shot by: Elespee, Jacksom Power
edited by: Coco Dank & Elespee
Going Gone by: Elespee & Prospek
so me and prospek got together and made a video....
from the Polyphonic Congress available here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-polyphonic-congress/id610688115
shot by: Prospek
edited by: Elespee
6.22.2013
6.18.2013
NOW AVAILABLE...
Slang Parade Music & GPNYC proudly present Cold Skool - The Bush League, a mixtape/compilation album featuring an all star lineup of underground MC's from all across the US. Production duties are handled primarily by Prospek & Bazooka Joe with contributions from Jacksom Power, Coco Dank and guitarist Marc Lawrence.
The project started in August 2012 during a weekend recording session at Inner Recess Studios in New Orleans, setup by local super producer Prospek. Hoping to capitalize on the nationwide contacts he'd made over the years, he arranged a full weekend of shows & recording sessions and invited a handful of his favorites to come down for a taste of the big easy. These artists included Bazooka Joe & Uppanotch from NY, Whygee out of Denver, Juskwam from Texas & L'Daialogue and his crew out of Memphis. New Orleans' talent was well represented with Lyrikill, Elespee, Slangston Hughes, Caliobzvr, Yuri Jones, D.O.N., Caligula Krycek & Impulss, who's earlier work with Bazooka Joe, "Bronx, New Orleans", helped make a lot of these connections possible. After the 5 day marathon session, Joe took the files back to NY and recruited some other artists who didn't make the trip to contribute, including S.Habib of Newark & a guest verse from Queens' MC junclassic.
The Bush League is just a small sample of the enormous amount of talent on the newly formed GPNYC label; an incredible collective of artists, graphic designers, singers, musicians, producers, Dj's, and MC's who all have respectable individual success but have come together for a greater good. The Bush League represents the loose talent in the world, who might play dirty if necessary, but always play with an edge and the unorthodox passion that is their hallmark. This album goes out to all the gray area artists who might not want to fit within the structure of the industry, but will find a way to get heard... even if takes an elbow on the low…
For More Info Visit:
www.gpnyc.com
www.slangparademusic.com
credits
released 18 June 2013
All Tracks Produced by Bazooka Joe &/or Prospek except 'Roll Ova You' produced by Jacksom Power.
Guitar on "Rock Stars" by Marc Lawrence, Bass & Drums by Prospek
Mixed By Bazooka Joe & Prospek
Mastered By Prospek @ Inner Recess Studios
5.07.2013
3.11.2013
2.16.2013
1.24.2013
Only the truly fortunate get to watch their dreams go up in smoke. In a blaze of glory for the world to witness.
The rest of us will see them die in our sleep. Little by little. Night after night. We may not even realize they have left us, until they are completely gone; our lives reduced to animated shells.
But Woe unto those who would see their wildest dreams to fruition. They must bear the weight of false belief. Of thinking life to be only a thing of joy. That life is good. It is not. Life simply is. And that is good. There is a subtle difference.
1.22.2013
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12.07.2012
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10.26.2012
Clusterfunk Collective™: Elespee & Prospek: Nola Noir [Album]
Clusterfunk Collective™: Elespee & Prospek: Nola Noir [Album]: Elespee and Prospek conceive a clever concept album that sounds like the diurnal course of the Crescent City. Check for standouts Hard T...
10.17.2012
8.08.2012
6.14.2012
we're all over this...
Underground mixtape DJ-turned-producer Bazooka Joe delivers his first
official, self-produced LP featuring 10 tracks of raw street music
reminiscent of the hip-hop sound from the golden era. The Slang Parade
boasts an impressive track list packed with up and coming talent along
side legendary veteran MC's like Craig G, Dres, Sadat X, Jarobi, El Da
Sensei and more, all backed by Joe's unique style of boom-bap
production. The album falls in line with his previous critically
acclaimed projects, the mixtape/remix project Pressure Busts Pipes and
the Bronx/New Orleans collaboration album - with NOLA'S own MC lmpulss.
Backed by Mindbenda Recordings Founder and Super-Producer, X-Ray (Monsta
Island, Darc Mind, MF Doom), The Slang Parade is sure to make some
noise in 2012 and cement the foundation for Joe's guaranteed future
producing quality Hip Hop albums and tracks.
5.31.2012
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4.27.2012
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12.06.2011
Elespee and Prospek, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music (Guerilla Publishing Company) :: OffBeat :: New Orleans and Louisiana Music, Food, and Art News
Elespee and Prospek, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music (Guerilla Publishing Company) :: OffBeat :: New Orleans and Louisiana Music, Food, and Art News
Elespee and Prospek
Quantumetaphysicadillac Music
(Guerilla Publishing Company)
Like OutKast’s flagship Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and Isaac Hayes’ soul odyssey “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” before it, Elespee and Prospek’s Quantumetaphysicadillac Music pushes musical boundaries and puts the urban landscape in perspective.
“Morality’s a luxury / Survival is a must,” Elespee raps over a woozy, nostalgic jazz-funk groove in the opening verse of “Milk & Honey,” a song that sizes up Social Darwinism and the state of the recording industry. The following number, “Michelle and Oprah,” offers a more graphic—though no less thought provoking—depiction: “Bitches ain’t shit except Michelle and Oprah / Niggas ain’t shit until you see them on a poster.”
Prospek, undeniably New Orleans’ most innovative beatmaker, brings out the best and sometimes the beast in his longtime partner. The streetwise, spaced-out sonics of “NOLAterrestrials,” rev up Elespee’s intergalactic Caddy as he cruises around the cosmos and the Crescent City. Midway, as Elespee and fellow N.O. emcee City Sparks trade metaphors, the soulful ride of “Manifest, Progress, Expand,” recalls College Dropout-era Kanye. Later, a gritty, driving funk track paves the way through the potent Jon Mercure-assisted “Music for All Occasions.”
With few hooks, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music delivers a heady, hypnotic dose of raw hip-hop that is as aurally intoxicating as it is mind opening. Elespee’s lyrical analogy from the hard-hitting rhyme fest “Golden Era” sums it up: “Welcome back to that feeling you got from Midnight Marauders / Blowing smoke at your ceiling in your room, dorm, or apartment when hip-hop was appealing / The essence of where it started ‘fore we all started dealing.”
Unlike its predecessors, this set will probably never surface on the mainstream radar. Be that as it may, Elespee and Prospek’s combustible chemistry is a force to be reckoned with on the underground scene.
<a href="http://thegpc.bandcamp.com/album/quantumetaphysicadillac-music">Quantumetaphysicadillac Music by elespee & prospek</a>
this friday...
Art, Elespee, Featured, Happening, Info, Music, New Orleans
Andy Dahl art exhibit FNM fresh sushi Friday Night Mash holiday party Inner Recess live performance painting The L Train
Friday Night Mash – 12.9.11
The move this Friday night is next installment of Friday Night Mash @ Inner Recess Studios. Start your holiday season off right and come kick it with us; see a live performance by ELESPEE with an exhibit featuring painter ANDY DAHL.
Friday Night Mash – a monthly gathering for artists and art-lovers, at Inner Recess Studios. Our mission is to unite and promote local and international artists in all mediums through a collaborative potluck rooted in tradition of socializing and networking.
11.23.2011
11.22.2011
just checking in...
(from 7/16/11)
i'm thirty now; but that doesn't weigh on me quite the way i thought it would. less writing, more doing has become the new theme of my life. i no longer find myself with the time or inclination to reflect. or plan for that matter. i've gone with it. i'm hurling through infinite space on a giant rock at thousands of mile per hour, with nothing but my own ignorance to hold me in my shoes. and now i can feel it. the uncertainty. the fear. the exhilaration. its the ride of a lifetime. time has begun to move faster though. of that i am certain. and i am still haunted by jeff telling me how quickly it all goes by. its all relative, and i've known sleep was the cousin of death for sometime. i do not fear it, but i still don't take naps either. i dreamed long enough. making those dreams manifest is far more entertaining. i want to remember now. now i feel like the sun itself. now i nourish and strengthen, destroy and create. but now is also a butterfly on the fingertips. it is there only a moment, and is easily unnoticed.
i'm thirty now; but that doesn't weigh on me quite the way i thought it would. less writing, more doing has become the new theme of my life. i no longer find myself with the time or inclination to reflect. or plan for that matter. i've gone with it. i'm hurling through infinite space on a giant rock at thousands of mile per hour, with nothing but my own ignorance to hold me in my shoes. and now i can feel it. the uncertainty. the fear. the exhilaration. its the ride of a lifetime. time has begun to move faster though. of that i am certain. and i am still haunted by jeff telling me how quickly it all goes by. its all relative, and i've known sleep was the cousin of death for sometime. i do not fear it, but i still don't take naps either. i dreamed long enough. making those dreams manifest is far more entertaining. i want to remember now. now i feel like the sun itself. now i nourish and strengthen, destroy and create. but now is also a butterfly on the fingertips. it is there only a moment, and is easily unnoticed.
11.19.2011
11.15.2011
11.14.2011
- Join S. Habib and Elespee as they lift off on the mind-bending journey that is "11ven". The new project from Guerilla Publishing Company, Slavemarket Radiyo and Bartleby Records.
The album features guest appearances by Lyrikill, Suave, Calygula, D.O.N. and Juskwam. Production work is handled by GPC's Prospek and Dubla with contributions by starklove and legendary DJ E.F. Cuttin.
In Numerology, there are such things as Master Numbers that are noted, and these are the numbers 11 and 22. Essentially, the number 11 is a 2, but it is considered a higher vibration of the number 2.The 11 is also known as the psychics number, it's the most intuitive of all numbers and it represents illumination and deep insight. The 11 is also very sensitive, charismatic and inspirational.
The date of 11-11-11 is one of the most powerful shifts in human awareness that we will experience in our lifetime. It is a rare opportunity to release lifetimes of karmic scripting and ancestral entrapment. Entrapment in the sense of the conscious and unconscious habit patterns which have us wondering why we can’t seem to actualize the life we really want to have, and know is possible. 11-11-11 is the cosmic birth date of humanities prayer for liberation from the rote, mundane, and monotonous.
The idealist, in speaking of events, sees them as spirits. He does not deny the sensuous fact: by no means; but he will not see that alone. He does not deny the presence of this table, this chair, and the walls of this room, but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry, as the other end, each being a sequel or completion of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him. This manner of looking at things, transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness. Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps the most logical expounder of materialism, was constrained to say, "Though we should soar into the heavens, though we should sink into the abyss, we never go out of ourselves; it is always our own thought that we perceive." What more could an idealist say?
“Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad, Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar”
There is one Creator of all Creation. All is a blessing of the One Creator. This realization comes through Guru's Grace. - released 11 November 2011
9.09.2011
DJ Afrika Bambaataa (Zulu Nation, KLB):: Halloween Weekend Special::
| Time | Thursday, October 27 at 9:00pm - October 28 at 3:00am |
|---|---|
| Location | Howlin' Wolf 907 S. Peters New Orleans, LA |
| Created By | |
| More Info | Poor Boy Productions & Inner Recess are proud to present: The Amen-Ra of Universal Hip Hop Culture and father of the Electro-Funk Sounds ... ::DJ Afrika Bambaataa (Zulu Nation, KLB, New York):: Afrika Bambaataa is one of the three main originators of break-beat deejaying, and is respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and "Godfather" of Hip Hop Culture as well as The Father of The Electro Funk Sound. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Zulu Nation, he is responsible for spreading rap and hip-hop culture throughout the world. At a time when DJs-Hip Hop or otherwise-were recognized for the distinctive records they played, Bam was called the "Master of Records," and was acclaimed for the wide variety of music and break records he presented to the Hip-Hop crowd! This one is gonna be one for the books. We are giving you the perfect start for your Halloween weekend. Come rock with us! 18+ & Start time is 9:00 PM Tickets through Ticketweb: $15 before Sept. 9th | $20 after Sept. 9th Buy your tickets online here: http://tinyurl.com/3lumfw2 Very Special Guest: DJ Quickie Mart (LA) NOLA ARTISTS: HOST: Lyrikill Elespee - GPC Dubla - Inner Recess DJ Yamin - Poor Boy Suave & the Blackstar Bangas - BFAM Love2Funk - Poor Boy http://www.zulunation.com/ http://poorboypros.com/ http://innerrecess.com/ |
8.20.2011
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5.17.2011
NEW SINGLE: Blessing Prod. by Prospek & E.F. Cuttin
track name:
Blessing
artist:
Heata Best, Jon Mercure, Elespee, & E.D.Nix
produced by:
Prospek, E.F. Cutin
available now @
http://thegpc.bandcamp.com/track/blessing?permalink
5.11.2011
5.10.2011
5.09.2011
the road to jazz fest...
i'd rather be lucky than good; blessed than lucky. fortunately, i seem to be all three. last year i enjoyed jazz fest as a spectator. i watched juvenile on stage, and tried to imagine what it felt like to be in front of that many people. this year, i got to find out.saturday i found myself behind the scenes at the Acura stage, pacing back and forth getting my 8-mile on. i barely noticed as jimmy Buffett passed me by to join the legendary Allen Toussaint on stage for a song. i was focused. and i would be next.
i'm still not sure how it happened. until the very moment i heard the opening chords of "hercules", i was afraid that it wouldn't. i thought someone would change their mind, come to their senses. i mean really. Mr. Toussaint. i'm your next guest after jimmy Buffett? i thought someone had to have been tripping, and for once it wasn't me.
even the rehearsals had been surreal. watching the man at work. the way he spoke softly, but with authority. no need to be loud or unkind. his way was just the right way. nobody argued.
the man thanked me! thanked me? for my verse? are you serious? you wrote "here come the girls", "mother in law", and damn near every other new orleans classic. how can you thank me for my time?
nonetheless, i'm there saturday afternoon, pacing back and forth, still getting my 8-mile on. and i hear the line start....."all you fear....is fear itself...." and i think to myself, "true". the breakdown starts, and i'm on stage. this is really happening......
"catch him chopping down mountains
with the edge of his hand
wrestle lighting and thunder
put'e, both in a can
here in the city down under
where its get what you can
however you live fam
what ever your plan
where they colder than a freezer
he stay cool as a fan
dead hand deadpan
smell like san fran
drop jewels nonstop
that they cant understand
most high wont land
most lie post spam
boast why? i am
bird, magic in they prime
jordan, the mailman
james, paul, or kobe
obi wan, annakan
star war 20 bar vet
never ran
yet ready to march
when his people take a stand
i am the wage workers back
the field hand's tan
marie leveaux's hustle
candle burning voodoo man
seven and a crescent
uptown to the twin span
the herculean being
making concrete sand
plus he manipulate matter
stretch time rubber band
naw, he ain't heavy
i think he my brother man
world on my shoulders
say it ain't none other than.....
i cant describe how it felt to make a few thousand people say "hoooo". i lack the vocabulary. all i know is that it needs to happen again, and sooner than later. there's nothing to fear, save fear itself, just do it, yadda yadda yadda. my advice to any one just starting out, wondering what it's like, to work with a man who has written more songs than you can name, to suddenly find yourself in front of a crowd too big for you to count.
from my perch on the mountaintop, i was able to see it all, every road that i had walked to end up there. every show with 10 or 20 people in the crowd; that i didn't get paid for. the times when they cut my set short, or put me on first before the crowd had gotten there, or last after it had already left, or the crowd just never came at all. and every time, regardless of circumstance, i have given my all. in six years i've never turned down a gig, and i am glad. each one was a step to reach this height. and while here; i have also been able to see how for i have to go.
the road goes on without end, right into the sunset.
4.17.2011
4.15.2011
March 7th, New Orleans, LA.
Once each year thousands of tourist pour in to New Orleans by whatever means available to them, to witness or take part in Mardi Gras. If you check history deep enough, you'll find it was born out of a religious cause, but all that has been forgotten now, because Mardi Gras is a time of reckless abandonment, of merriment.
Into that abandonment slips one S. Habib, still dusting airplane peanuts off his jacket and looking for a light, and elespee eloheem, long time resident and fixture of the crawfish circuit. Together, they figure they can handle whatever this crazy town throws at them.
Vieux Carre. Sleepy by day, psychedelic by night. Some call it the birthplace of the blues, soul, and jazz, being nurtured on a street they call Bourbon, like one of the many drinks that can be had there if your pocket is filled with the right kind of coin. But these guys have a different kind of music in mind.
Produced (by NOLA underground hip hop producer of the year award winner Prospek, and Inner Recess's own Dubla) and recorded in the seven days surrounding Mardi Gras 2011, Se7en is a smooth cruise around the crooked streets of the Crescent City.
4.11.2011
4.09.2011
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