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T da B

 

 

 

 

Putting work in.

Ready.

I do it. (I'm in the blue helmet)

 

I was a little hungry

Finally, acceptence. With the new year rolling in, plans to release our single was going as smooth as ever. I made a beat on FL 7 and wrote the hook and my first two verses. Jersey Boii wrote his two and we managed to save up the money required. It was Christmas break from school and we had planned to record the song then, but do to finances, we would have to wait another two weeks after we got back to school. Well I went online and found a place titled: Studio at the Farm. Their services being offered were fair and you could hear the love for the music in their voices, so we went with them. They are located in Mesa, Arizona and I would have to say it was one of the best times I've ever had in a studio. After the release of my mixtape The Other Side, we went into the studio to create what would be known as the "best so far." Boy were people stunned!! Shocked, flabbergasted, however you want to say it, that was everyone at Florence. People who would swear on their own life that we sucked, FINALLY started showing us respect. We would walk around the school and hear it playing off of fellow student's ipods. I would have random people write me on facebook and say it was a dope song. When I first released it, I sent it via email to everyone. Man that took SOO long haha. Well I actually had a friend named Jessica Rivera who sent it to IDK how many people, and didn't even have me ask her to do it. She is still my number one fan lol (other than my fiance). I can't tell you how good it felt to see that respect that we worked so hard for. It only took us about a year and three months to get it. I continue to show people City Lights and I've only recieved a few bad responses for it. We performed City Lights for the school, for a graduation and more times to come. It was released as a single, but it is actually going onto my up and coming demo titled "Against All Odds."

City Lights - T da B ft. Jersey Boii

Yung Stunnas would see an end, but with an end, comes a new beginning. Jersey Boii and I still work closely together, but we had decided it'd be easier to pursue music solo rather than as a group. He bought a new mic, and a new pop filter. We had gotten some soundproofing and upgraded the recording. I started work on my mixtape "The Other Side" and Jerz started work on his: "The Invention." I began production on it in August of 2010 and had it released January of 2011. It contained 17 songs. At this time we were a little more than a year into this music. People's opinions were quickly shifting and we started seeing a fan basis that we hadn't seen before. We had gotten some more shows, done some more stuff, visited some new places in Arizona and had our heads in the sky. Jerz had a fallout and nearly quit rap all together. About half way into his mixtape, he just stopped. Didn't record a track in I don't know HOW long. It took some time but I got him going again and about that time is when we decided to record our single together. Below I'll place a song each from our mixtape. If you heard the song in the last blog, listen now for the quality difference. It's still not radio quality, but it improved. That is what made us most happy.

Roger That - Jersey Boii (The Invention Mixtape)

November 2009 was when I started something I never thought I'd find so much love for. My friend Leonard Muccio (Jersey Boii Get Em) came to me while I was in the weight room and asked if I wanted to start rapping. "Rapping.." I thought, "I'll look like a wanna-be Eminem." Boy did I ever.... but I said "Yes." He had the names and everything picked out. He had the group name, Yung Stunnas. He had his name, Jersey Boii Get Em (better known as Jersey Boii). I had nothing but a silly dream. I actually thought it was a joke when he first asked, just something to pass the time. So did EVERYONE at our school lol. Well we pushed through it. I actually got my name (T da B) off of a joke more than anything. I didn't really have a rap name, just Theo (my first name is Theodore) and one of my friends Isiah would say "It's the beast!!!" So I just put two and two together (Theo... the Beast). Well "The" sounds lame in Hip Hop, so I used Ebonics and turned it to "Da" and shortened it to T da B. We made one mixtape together (On Tha Rise) and each of us made one solo (Mine was titled "The Other Side," his was titled "The Invention."). NO BODY took us serious. We would spit lines at lunch, rap battles, sharing some flows, but more people laughed than anything. It took the release of a diss song to an ex rap group called "Young Mafia" to make anyone take us serious. Now the quality wasn't that good AT ALL. We recorded the song (and the whole first mixtape) in my closet using pantyhose as a pop filter and an old stage mic strapped to a broom handle  (talk about ghetto). Well you have to start somewhere right? I'll post the link to the song on youtube in case you're interested in hearing it: ( YS All Day (Young Mafia Diss)  ). Well now you see that the production wasn't good at all, but it was a start. We officially released the mixtape in August of 2010, which helped to get us our first official show at the DV8 Night Club in Tucson, AZ.