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Here's a video good ol' Pat Renton posted on that godforsaken myspace dealy. This song will be on my record "Involvement" along with a bunch of other songs...enjoy!

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April 28th Show in Montclair

I know what you are thinking, Holy Shit. And yes. Holy Shit.

Division East Skate Shopper founder and Division East Records CEO "Diamond" Dave Dowd aka Nards are the Sween. Big Ups Dave!



"Diamond" Dave Dowd taking time off to work with the children.

Next week, come check out one the greatest shows of the year so far. I mean, Large Professor? Get the fuck out of here. It's an honor and a half for us to be on this show, Large Pro is by and large a huge influence on everything I've done musically. I want to see as many of ya'll out as possible to hold this one down.

Plus, look at the rest of the acts, Pumpkinhead, Scienz of Life, Silent Knight, Cymar? This one is gonna be off the chain. I don't know why they have me and GDP on the flyer like some kind of tag team, like we were working on an album called WhiteStar or something. But we're working on getting that fixed. In the mean time just get suped on this show and start spreading the word.

Also, this thursday, if you're around, is that Shane Gooding benefit show I spoke of a few posts down. Come to New Brunswick and get drunk with me for a good cause. I'll have some copies of my new CD with me for sale too, so take the oppurtunity to cop one.

Peace!

"Namedroppers" is here!!!

My first single off my Division East Records debut "Involvement" is now up on my Myspace page for your ears benefit- www.myspace.com/g6d6p6 . Have a listen and get ready for what will be the best thing you've ever heard since the last DE Records release and will continue to be the best thing you've ever heard until the next one (I think G. Wallace is up next??)

Also go to every single show Shape posted under me. They'll fucking rule.

Here's a cool picture you guys might like. We were both sober in this one.



<3GDP

Also, almost forget, here are some cool youtube videos our friend Patrick Renton made for us...

Bully Mouth



Tame One Live



My man Pryme Prolifik



Tame One's Division East Mic Check

Whats up kids, just keeping ya'll posted on the digs for the next couple of weeks. Last night we played a fun show at Galapagos that none of you went to, so lets work on that. I want to see you all coming out to every show, we are fun people and will show you a good time if you let us.

One week from today on Thursday April 12th, I (shape that is) will be rocking at a Benefit Concert for Shane Gooding. Shane is a dope musician originally from South Jersey but living out in California now who is battling cancer, the proceeds for the show are gonna go to help out in paying for his treatment. Its only five dollars to get in and is gonna be awesome so please make it out to this one. Division East friends The Man From Somehwere Else, Silent Knight and Cymarshall Law are playing plus The Shank Bone Mystic Project who are a great live band and The Grass is Greener whom I've never heard of before. Don't sleep.

Also, we got some more fun shows coming up, our boy Nabil from Underground EXP is throwing a Large Proffesor tribut show that GDP and I will be rocking at, with fun friend, underground champion Pumpkinhead and more, thats April 19 at Galapagos art space in Brooklyn. Then we got a show in Montclair on April 28th we are working on...artists TBA.

So come to one or all of these events and have good times with good friends.

<3
Shape.

Stuff

Fun show this Friday. Good looks to the staff of 35 Plum aka Hidden Cities.

This week Shape, Pryme Prolifik & Joe Frazier, Outacity, TMFSE, and myself (GDP) will be performing at Galapagos Art Space in (galapagaosartspace.com) at 10pm, $5, and located at
70 N 6th Street in Crooklyn, NY. Sweet.

Shape and I will also be there with Lrg Professor, Pumpkinhead, Cymarshall Law, and many many more this April 19th celebrating one year anniversary.

Show listings can be found all over the place but I know for sure they are at my myspace-
www.myspace.com/g6d6p6

Go buy Shape's "Raised Near The Power Lines" right now it's fucking awesome. It will be all over your favorite magazines, websites, and whatnot in a mere matter of weeks.

I also just finished up my record "Involvement"...there is still mixing and some scratching yet to be done but more information on that will come soon. Really soon. So start getting siked now.


<3always,
GDP

Raised Near the Powerlines

Shape's Raised Near the Powerlines is available to purchase now at Division East in Montclair, NJ or online at www.divisioneast.com. Read about it:

SHAPE's mind-bogglingly talented, at times goose-bump-inducing, debut album "Raised Near the Power Lines," is a completely self-produced album and speaks worlds of this young artists potential to transfix his listener and transform many aspects of the current state of hip-hop. Recalling and inspired by the likes of Nas, Rakim, Public Enemy, Rick Rubin, The Bomb Squad, The Dust Brothers, George Martin and RZA, track by undeniably ridiculous track, "Raised Near the Powerlines" plays like an "everyone else can eat a d*ck" schooling on what great hip-hop and producing could sound like, not so much in it's attitude but rather in the skill level on display.

Album opener, "Introduction to Powerlines" is one of the handful of beautiful instrumentals which loops and leads into the slow jam "Darkside of the Sillohuete," greatly and instantly displaying SHAPE's writing and rhyming abilities. The song also features a sick sample of Val Kilmer in "Masked and Anonymous" who asks and explains the question "why is man here?" - pretty amazing. Track 3's "Every Step Forward (Two Steps Back)" is an apocolyptic dedication to Jam Master Jay, "Stereo Gun Unplugged" is the jumpoff first single from the record (video coming soon), a hilarious and ripping track which ends w/ some classic Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes. "Rock Like This," featuring Atbash Cipher, is what happens when whatever's on tv creeps into your dream and shakes you awake, and is another crazy display of Shape's rhyming abilities (also hugely single worthy). "Empeecee2k" is ill, Track 11's Early Mourning (interlude)'s sample is trivia worthy, Track 12 features fellow Ax-Thrower Tame One, a dizzying onslaught of some of the best rhyming over a laid back three minute beat and leads into jumpoff number two Wu-Tang-style Gary Oldman and features Jersey's talented underground up and coming MCs of the scene including Bullymouth, C-Minus, GDP, Atbash Cipher, and DefDom. Take a sneak peek at NJ's underground, these MCs can constantly be seen rockin various small clubs around Jersey and Brooklyn (most recently, especially Shape, w/ the likes of Pumpkinhead, C-Rayz Walz, Juggaknots, Mr. Len, and more). GDP's Del-tha-funky-Homosapian inspired mind fuckery takeover on OMG (I'm Going Crazy) drops "oh shits" on faces, Super Heroes feat. Bill Hicks is a serious / not-too-serious look at today's on-going world issues and Fox News, which flips out in the end like Shape got lost in this shit, a major stand-out / hidden gem on the record. Track 17, The 7th Hour, is evil, depressing, and heavy, its instrumental couterpart is spaced the fuck out, frightening, and meditative, and prepares us for the album's closing track "Heart Beats" where SHAPE provides a grooving sound of a heart beating (you can hear it) using live drums and sax, growing faster to catch up w/ Shape's flow about life, love, loss, death, and blessings.

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Tame One 'The Grudge'

It's amazing, with very little press and promotion, the word of mouth on Tame's CD is spreading like a wild fire. Tame was even contacted recently by a dude in Denmark who'd heard the CD and wanted to review it over there. Just goes to show how much love hip hop gets overseas. Here's a few snippets from that review (translated from dutch or whatever they speak in Denmark):

"We are getting some straight hip-hop here - beats and funny one liners - delivered with an elastical flow and constantly refering to the hiphop-history. "

"Quite often it’s the wrong people which run away with the recognition. 99.9% of the population probably can't care less about this album. But for the last 0.1% a great experience is in the waiting."

True that. Similar praise is showing up on hip hop message boards all over the internet. You definetely should hit up the webstore at divisioneast.com and order this. And I'm not just saying that cause I produced a bunch of the tracks. No one is fucking with Tame lyrically.