mo ig'nance...

i don't know about y'all but i think i need a change of pace from my ey'now and then trips to Magic City Mondays.

Bitch Slap Mondays at 24K is that NEW shit shawty.

don't believe me?

check the clip for yourselves...

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

what better way to spend my Monday nights than watchin some bitches slap the absolute shit out of each other?

it gets no better...

yeah i know, i'm going str8 to hell for this one...

but i'm not the only one, y'all are coming with me as well...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKKxPtP6XiO

okay, after a second viewing (i'm just sayin'), i have a couple questions.

all sorts of fuckery to choose from but what the fuck was up with the "host" massaging one of the ahem, judges shoulders during the battle? (PAUSE!!!)

and then the split screen action at around the 2:30 mark...

and then another thing i'm tired of in general which this video brought attention to, is everyone introducing themselves as "ya boy..."

uh, do i know u?

right...

thanks...

dayummm Stacey!!!

okay Ray, u said u were waiting on me to post some ass on my page so what better way to kick off the festivities than with my future wife Stacey Dash on the cover of the latest King Magazine???

i remember seeing her in the movie "Enemy Territory" with Ray Parker Jr and if the steel trap memory serves me correctly that had to be around late '87, the same time i was introduced to "Hollywood Shuffle", right before "Eddie Murphy: RAW". the movie was TERREEEBLAY! i mean, a movie about vampires in the projects with Ray Parker Jr in the lead role, surely they weren't expecting any Oscars, lol...

but anyway, the only memorable thing about that movie was Stacey and even though she was only 20 at the time i saw the potential. i have a knack for this sorta thing lol...

man did she EVER live up to the potential!! what other reason would i have for sitting through "Moving"? or better yet "Clueless"?

and let's not even mention the Playboy spread. whaddaya mean you didn't see it???

i got u shawty...



and my personal uh, fave...



and she's 42.

yessurrr, u think i'm NOT gonna buy more than 1 copy of King this month???

edit: seems the good ol' folk at photobucket felt like the Playboy pics violated their decency standards so they came and took the pics down. i got a trick comin' fa dey azz though...

Kick Rocks...

my latest work. it's a departure from Eargasms, and another example of my versatility but i'm still keeping my natural DJ sensibilities intact. i was never the type of DJ to just let a record play because that would pretty much classify me as a jukebox, and i think that there are enough of those at your local Waffle House. this is pretty much just me having fun with a few of my favorite rock joints from over the years, mainly the classics but a couple recent joints are in there as well as my interpretation of a couple things that diehard hiphop heads should instantly recognize.

whether this becomes a regular series or not will depend on how many of you respond to it with honest feedback after listening so lemme know what's really good...

Jaycee Sez Kick Rocks!!

One 4 Your Archives: Timeless Material: Michael Jackson, The Soulful Years

THIS mixtape right here was a project that i sat with for quite a few months before deciding to go ahead and put it out in January '06. i thought of the idea to do an Michael mix right when his trial was going on in the summer of '05. not that i necessarily needed anyone's approval but i kinda ran the idea by Drama, Jeanise, and the rest of my Aphilliates crew and my dude Applejac first and they all gave me the same response which was "nigga go for it!"

i coulda slapped a buncha cuts from "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" on it and called it a day, which is precisely what a lot of other DJ's decided to do to immediately capitalize off the media circus that swirled around this musical ICON, but i dared to be different, which has always been a creed that i subscribe to. not on some outlaw type shit mind you, but mainly on some DJ shit in general. i mean, who wants to sound like every other DJ in the city that doesn't respect the craft enough to actually put in the blood and sweat and PRACTICE in to be GREAT at it? certainly not this brotha here, but that's a whole nother post shawty...

anyway...

i had ambitious plans (there i go using that word again) of doing a double CD of all Michael joints and my first working title was gonna be "From Black To White". get it???

if not, it's pretty much self-explanatory, given the various shades of color that his skin has been at different times throughout his career but then i decided against that because i respect this man's music so much that it might've been taken the wrong way. also, i felt like even though the whole world absolutely CHERISHES his music (anyone who tells you differently is a fucking LIAR), 3 hours plus might've just been a TAD too much to digest in one sitting.

so what i did was scour the earth for every Michael/The Jacksons/Jackson 5 album that i didn't already have in my collection. no expense was spared and my girl at the time used to always look at me crazy for coming outta Earwax with stacks of dusty ass wax. she got over it though...

everyone knows "ABC" and "I Want You Back" as those are the obligatory "real old" Michael Jackson cuts that i've heard DJ's (including myself at times) spin at damn near every party i've been to for the last decade, and even WAY longer before that. my ambition (there i go again) with this mixtape was to give light to other joints that people either didn't know or just plain forgot about.

after it was done i sent out copies to Jazzy Jeff and Clark Kent and they both told me that i KILLED it. to have LEGENDARY DJ's like them say that about my mix meant the world because they are 2 of the DJ's that i most admire in this biz. personally, i think i did a pretty good job on it. the perfectionist in me wants to go back and revisit it without all the echoing "Jaycee" drops on it (it was my first big mixtape and i didn't want anyone to bite it so i put my name everywhere possible, forgive me lol.)

some people hail it as a classic, some even refer to it as the "illest Michael Jackson mixtape EVAR!" (stuntinonprose.blogspot.com, THANKS!!)

whatever your personal opinion of it is, i know it made sort of an impact amongst the people here in the streets of Atlanta who enjoy this sorta thing because a group of people that i used to associate with had the gumption to do a MJ themed party a few months right after this joint came out, even using the SAME picture from my CD cover as the basis for the flyer but not asking me to spin at the party on some straight bitch ass shit. (side note: not like i'm the authority on all things Michael but how y'all gonna do a MJ themed party but only play 1 hour of Michael shit? it's funny how a party like that had never been thought of to do in Atlanta until AFTER i did the mixtape. as Busta famously said on the Scenario remix "i see my influence still shinin'')

i also know for a fact that it made an impact around different parts of the world because no matter where i go, whether in the States or abroad people who are in the know about these type of things ALWAYS ask me about it and how can they get a hold of it.

although it's one long mp3 right now, here u go. until i dig up the actual cd this'll have to tide y'all over til then. you can thank me now or thank me later...

Michael Jackson: The Soulful Years

One 4 Your Archives: Jaycee "Old To Tha New: Puma All Star Weekend '06 Mixtape" (original version)"

damn, ya boy is on some kind of a roll posting mixes today so here's another one that i came across while digging thru some old records at the crib.

of course i have a story...

3 weeks before All Star Weekend '06 (Houston) and i got asked by Sue Cocca at Puma to do a mixtape to celebrate the re-release of the Puma "Clyde" sneaker that was popular back in the day. i say "cool" since i'd never really had a mixtape out during one of these popular sporting weekends (super bowl, pro bowl, etc...) to be able to give to people. the prerequisite for doing the mix was that i had to feature joints on it that were hot in the era that Walt Frazier played (the 70's) and then since Ludacris was featured in a new Puma campaign around the sneaker, feature joints from the current era of hip-hop hence the title "Old To Tha New". a new DTP album had just come out in November '05 and there were four songs on it that the label heads were trying to get people familiar with which were Shawnna's "Gettin' Some Head", Playaz Circle's "U Can Believe It feat. Ludacris, Shareefa's "I'll Be Around" and a joint by Norfclk that i can't recall the name of to save my life.

now, i could've decided to take the easy way out and be like "aight i'm gonna do 15 minutes of classics and then slap the DTP shit on there" and voila, you have an instant mixtape. but nah, since it was my first "industry" joint i wanted to be ambitious, thinking "yeah i'll do a full blown 80 minutes of mixing and go beyond the call of duty by including songs on it that were poppin in other parts of the country". after all, the whole country was gonna descend on Houston in a couple weeks and 9 times outta 10 at a event like All Star Weekend, if someone hands you a mixtape you at least wanna see some joints on it that you're familiar with right? otherwise it might as well have a pile of shit attached to it, lol...

so i went to Patchwerk Studios and knocked the mix out really quick. drops by Walt Frazier and Ludacris were gonna be added in post-production but even without drops on it i was happy as hell with it and i was like "YEAH, i'm finally gonna have a joint that people are gonna look at and bump during the weekend and then i'm gonna be a big DJ star afterwards!!!" 

yes i'm laughing too...

things didn't quite pan out the way i intended. i turned this joint in for approval at DTP and a couple folks were quite upset, none of whom were Chris Bridges. apparently, even though i had the 4 joints that were label priorities on the mix, i was told that there wasn't "enough DTP stuff on the mix and too much other bullshit was included" so i had to go back and do it over. 

think i was happy about that?

of course i wasn't but i did it over anyway. Walt Frazier never did his drops and the drops that Ludacris did sounded very uninspired, as if he'd rather have been doing something other than drops over the phone for a mixtape so that isn't the version that i'm featuring here. no talking, just mixing. as i was listening to this while cleaning up around the crib i remember my drunken blunted mindstate while in the studio doing it and it was clear that i was really having fun. sounds like it too, enjoy listening...

Puma All-Star Weekend '06 Mixtape OG Version

One 4 Your Archives: "Ludacris: Hits & Otha Shit!" (may '02)

while digging up records to use for Eargasms 4, i came across a few old mixtapes of mine from a few years back. this one has sort of a story behind it, so grab a chair and enjoy...

may '02. i had just learned that Ludacris had been selected to be one of the opening acts on Eminem's Anger Management Tour which was to begin in Buffalo on my birthday (July 18th, 2002)

being the forward thinker that i'm capable of being i asked myself the question "hmmm, what would be a great opportunity to create some buzz around yourself as the DJ for one of the most popular artists in hip-hop?"

myself said, "yo, you should do a mixtape centered around Ludacris' hit records PLUS all his hot guest appearances from other folks records that he's been on at the time. if you feature a couple brand new records from the upcoming Disturbing Tha Peace "Golden Grain" album that isn't scheduled to come out until September '02 and just do your normal thug thizzle on the tables, there's no way that folks outside of Atlanta won't know who the hell Jaycee is and that should help establish you as THAT NEXT NIGGA on the wheels".

Atlanta pretty much already knew of me due to my having pretty much the dopest radio mixshow for a few years on v103, plus there wasn't a club in the city that i HADN'T torn down so the world was about to be my oyster...

sounds good in theory right?

well here's where i began learning that being blessed with way above average skills on the tables really doesn't mean shit if you don't have the right people in your corner to help you navigate through the politics and BULLSHIT of this industry...

my roadblock: Paul Rosenberg (Eminem's manager/guy in charge of what could and could not be sold on Eminem's tour).

when the tour began i was told that i couldn't sell my cd during the tour because Green Lantern (Em's DJ at the time) was the only DJ allowed to sell mixtapes on this 3 month run. trust and believe i tried every imaginable way to sling this mix during the tour but having tour security threaten to confiscate my shit at every other venue just became too much of a headache so i began giving them away. i figured you can't beat getting a FREE mixtape, especially if it's actually good so i gave away HUNDREDS of these joints in every city. artwork was never done for it which is a whole nother story in itself that isn't too flattering towards the people involved but i'ma save that one for my book, lol...

at any rate, here's the tracklisting for it. 

DJ Jaycee presents Ludacris: Hits & Otha Shit! (done in May 2002)

1. Intro/Phat Rabbit

2. What's Your Fantasy

3. Imagination (remix)  Tamia

4. What Means The World To You  Cam'Ron feat. UGK, Ludacris, Trina

5. Roll Out

6. Get It Right  Dutch & Spade feat. Ludacris

7. Go To Sleep

8. Stick Em' Up

9. Welcome To Atlanta

10. One Minute Man

11. Souther Hospitality

12. Jaycee Scratch Break

13. Get The Hell On With That  Fat Joe feat. Ludacris

14. Area Codes

15. Ho

16. Fatty Girl  Ludacris, Keith Murray, LL Cool J

17. U Don't Have To Call (remix)   Usher feat. Ludacris

18. Peaches & Cream (remix)  112 feat. Ludacris

19. Saturdays

20. Break Somethin'  Disturbing Tha Peace (Ludacris, I-20, Shawna, Tity Boi)

21. Dis Bitch Dat Ho  Project Pat feat. Ludacris

22. She Said

23. Catch Up

24. Bia Bia

25. Coming To America

26. That's How I Get Down   Ginuwine feat. Ludacris

27. Why Don't We Fall In Love   Amerie feat. Ludacris

Ludacris: Hits & Otha Shit!

one final humorous note. if you ever wondered why i never say anything on any of my mixes now, THIS mixtape is the reason. i understand the whole logic of shameless self promo and shouting folk out but that was something i was never comfortable with because i think my "mixtape DJ" voice is kinda corny lol...

oh yeah, leave comments you heathens. that was another reason i started this blogspot shit...