Right after deleting all of my music, I went to upload new tracks, and the server is down. :(

I took down "Wannabe" and "Distracted By Your Tears", and replaced them with "Grown Folk Music" and "Work It Out". This ends the first "set" of tracks I've done since getting Pro Tools, and I've decided to leave them alone. Yes, I could have better delivery on them, and yes they could probably be mixed better... but you have to step away sometimes, ya know?

So... next set will be a lot more recent stuff, as well as older tracks that I liked alot that I couldn't write to then. I don't know when I'll have time to write, though - I have a Engineering camp to teach next week, so I actually have to work. :) We'll see....

I had someone ask me yesterday what subgenre my music fits into. Were I a rapper/producer, I would say that I'm trying to create a new subgenre - "Grown Folk Music" - commerical beats over lyrics that have some sort of meat to them and appeal to a 28-and-over crowd. There we go... nice, pat answer.

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... until I realize that I'm not going to be a performer. It's not a question of desire, but of time. I only have time to work on being a producer/writer. Sooooo... I dunno. I'm still trying to answer that question. Any incredibly deep insight others would like to give would be great!

I've been hitting DFW HipHop.com's forums a lot recently, and I've found myself on the side of, well, the non-backpackers. This is kinda surreal, given the rants I went on for my kids, but when you end up arguing the importance of the West Coast and the South in hip-hop you end up in strange places, I guess.

What's surreal about this is that nothing about me, from a "rapper" standpoint, comes across as Southern. I don't speak with much of an accent, and very little dialect, and I'm not talking about the typical stuff (don't all Texas MC's talk about candy paint and grills?). Ultimately, does it work out being "genreless"?