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Last Updated: 10/31/2009

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City: Silver Spring via Metro Detroit
State: Maryland
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/28/2004

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Category: Music
I have been talking about it for some time now, and the ...just visiting too EP has finally arrived!! Check what Phonte had to say about it....



Friends and Family,

We are proud to present the new EP of covers from our longtime friend, collaborator, and bandmate Zo!, "...just visiting too."

Tracklisting:
1. Perfect Angel feat. Yahzarah
2. Nights Over Egypt feat. Carlitta Durand
3. Crazy You feat. Sy Smith
4. Holding You, Loving You
5. My Flame feat. Phonte
6. Somethin Special feat. Yahzarah
7. The Highways of My Life (Pts. 1&2) feat. Darien Brockington

Working on this record has been a labor of love for everybody involved, and we hope it serves as a teaser for Zo's upcoming full-length "SunStorm," dropping next summer on FE Music.

Enclosed in the "...just visiting too" zip file is a digital pdf booklet complete with all the album credits, information on the album's vocalists and contributors, as well as information on the originals.

Enjoy the music, pass it around to a friend, and as always thank you for the support.

We hope this record makes your transition into the holiday season much easier. Thank you for listening.

Team FE marches on!

One Love,
'Te and Nic


CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE!

I really hope that you all enjoy this music in anticipation for SunStorm. I'll tell you what, I'm super excited right now... Thank you all for listening and supporting. Stay tuned for more very soon....


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Thursday, August 06, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71y2xJ9BEE

I woke up yesterday morning feeling very inspired and felt that it was necessary to share my love and appreciation for a crew that was a heavy influence on my music. These kats pretty much changed the way that I listened to and heard hip-hop as a whole... (to read the rest, click on YouTube link)

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Thursday, August 06, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Q2lhQPxdI

Some of y'all know, I like to zone out on the keys for hours at a time. This particular day I decided to run one of my favorite MJ joints dedicated to The Kaing himself... Enjoy.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 

Current mood:  productive
Y'all enjoy this one...

"PURPLE FLIP"

The Players are...
Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson- Drums, Samples
Nicolay- Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano
Zo!- Moog synth, additional rhodes
Phonte and Carlitta Durand- Vocals


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Friday, January 30, 2009 
Y'all check it out....  Big shout to Origix for the write-up!

"Overdue Process" in Real Detroit Weekly

I will post more when they become available.  Until  then, thank you all for your continued support!


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Friday, January 23, 2009 

Current mood:  inspired
Track #5
“Crossover” (ft. Miz Korona)

One day in June during my wonderful summer break away from teaching, I was on IM with Korona catching up with her, just in general.  I’ve known Korona for about 5 years now and we carry a special bond being as though we were born on the same day (September 11th) in the same year – so I always call her “Twin”, or just simply “Sis”…the girl is definitely like a sister to me.  On top of that, she is just a flat-out gifted, experienced, and hungry emcee that makes you feel her passion for the music she’s on.  

So during this particular IM conversation, we ended up going back and forth talking about the projects we were working on at the time.  She even sent me a couple joints to preview that were ridiculous…

The conversation started moving toward the progression of the Overdue Process album and how well things were moving…

Me: I’m finishing Asylum 7’s album.  We’ve got about 3 more joints left to do.

Korona: I love his shit, he’s dope.  …I’ve got to do a joint with him.


All while this IM conversation was going on, I started sending texts to A7.  The gears were turning at this point…


Me: Ayo man, I’m on AIM w/Korona…Said she’s feeling your material.

A7: Oh word?  I didn’t even know.  Tell her I appreciate that

Me: What’s up w/gettin her on a joint for the album?

A7: Hell yeah!

It was all too easy.  I guess it’s supposed to be when you have two excellent emcees that respect each other’s abilities.  

Musically, I wanted to create something a little bit darker and harder, but simplistic so that the music would be able to complement the emcees involved.  I wanted that joint to provoke a sparring match between 7 and Korona – not a “Battle” between them, but healthy competition equivalent to bringing your teammate up for a big game.  They did that…I figured that out on my 9th listen in a row after receiving the final vocals from them…
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 
Here isa list of different places to find the new album Overdue Process.  Iwill add to the list once more spots carry it...  Thank you forsupporting!!

Amazon.com

CCNow (receive an autographed poster through this link)

Dr. Wax (Chicago)

Dusty Groove (Chicago)

eMusic

iTunes

Moods Music (Atlanta)

Street Corner Music (Southfield, MI)

Tasteful Licks
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 

Current mood:  working
Track #4
“Mentality Maker”

If I remember correctly, this was the second or third song that we recorded for the album and uhh...there were no rewrites for this one…not that I’m aware of anyway…….

The original music for “Mentality Maker” was shopped to a couple people before A7.  As a matter of fact, it was a track that was supposed to be utilized on the now defunct Dreamwalk album.  I passed it to A7 because the joint reminded me of when we first started working together on the “Listen Up” joint and I wanted to see what he would come with on it.  

A7 actually used the original title I named the instrumental that I sent him (“Sunsurface”) in the first line of the song.

“Let’s take a trip up to the sun’s surface...”  

So that caught my attention from the jump.  

I decided to keep the original synth bassline that I laid on the song, while replaying the remaining key parts and especially the guitar parts.  Once the guitar was redone, everything else just fell into place.  
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music
Track 3 - "Overdue Process"

Alright, so the title track was the second-to-last song that we completed for the album. The funny thing about this one was that the music for it was just sitting for about 4 months before I went back through things and discovered it again.

I was searching through my sequences one day …actually looking for something completely unrelated to the album.

Skipping through, I heard some joints…but still couldn't find what I was looking for at the time.

Then I came to the sequence… *Cue music for "Overdue Process"*

The music really jumped out at me and in nodding to it…the music felt GOOD.

"OOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I FORGOT about THIS one!!!!!!!!"

I remembered it being something that I laid out one day in order to get one of my ideas out and recorded real quickly.

I hopped on the text and hit up A7 like, "I've got another one! Gonna track it and send it."

7 ended up turning yet another joint around in about 24 hours. I had the dry vocals in my possession the next DAY. At this point, 7 was so excited about finishing the album that he had turned into a writing madman…it was damn near hard to keep up with HIM. Passing him a joint pretty much went like this…

Zo: "Here you go…"

(25 minutes later)
A7: "Here YOU go…"



Zo: "Alright, Got another one!"

(all of 17 minutes passes)
A7: "Check your inbox"

Zo: "DAMN man!!"

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Saturday, January 03, 2009 

Current mood:  relaxed
Category: Music
These two joints were actually the very first ("Timeline") and the very last ("Intro") songs completed for the album. It was crazy because "Timeline" is something we talked about doing back in the summer of 2005. At that time, we had already completed the "Listen Up" joint (from when we first met up the year prior) and were discussing the possibilities of creating and releasing music for a 12". So I wanted to construct something with plenty of energy. Plus, it was a joint that as a fan of A7's I could say to myself, "This is a joint that I would want to hear him rhyme on." So after I gave him the beat, 7 held on to it for a minute…not because he was just sitting on it, but because he must have rewritten it about 25 times!

In true perfectionist form, he didn't like anything he did for it.

It was crazy for me because I'm like, "Just lay it!" …I hadn't even heard anything yet

…until July 2007 when he handed me a copy of a CD with "Timeline" written on it and said, "This is the 12" vinyl joint."

I was flying back into D.C. the same day, and threw the disc in…and what I heard was DOPE. He sounded like he was going for blood on the joint. It was a great foundation laid for the album…we had our first song.

…When I would talk to 7, he would still say, "Maaaaaan, I'm not feeling my energy on it."

"Nah man, it's dope! You came off!"

On to rewrite 26…lol

He rewrote the entire song again and it took on an autobiographical life of its own. Talk about personal…he was talking about stuff in the song that I had no idea about. What a helluva song and idea to begin an album with.

We made a list of DJ's that we wanted to work with for the album. It was just a matter of placing them on the correct songs. Roddy Rod is a kat that I met a couple months before I moved out here to the D.C. area. From day one, he took me in immediately. So I hit him up and asked him to do the cuts and he took care of um with no problem. He found the "In Detrooooooit" piece and scratched it in the hooks which fit the theme perfectly…

Fast forward to the tail end of production. A7 sent me a text asking about doing an intro. I honestly hadn't even thought about it because I thought that "Timeline" was a dope intro/song as it was. But when I went back home in September to take the photos for the album, we talked some more about it an agreed that an intro would fit as long as it was short and effective…

The music I used for the Intro was something that I have had in my head for more than a year now…This was the perfect time to utilize it. I wanted to 'connect' the two somehow, so I flipped the piano riff from "Timeline" and incorporated it into the Intro joint.

A7 turned that joint around in less than 24 hours…

…The Overdue Process album resulted.

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