My Thanksgiving Post: News and more!

Hello all readers and followers!! Im sorry about the lack of diverse hip hop posts of late due to me working on a EP in the studio. I also havent updated the Tapes From Tha Reaper podcast in a bit with a new mixtape since one of my decks went out on me. I will however be uploading a Thanksgiving mix I did last year onto the podcast!!

Go here to Subscribe and download: http://www.tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/

More forthcoming news on the EP, and more blog postings coming very soon!!

Shouts to Cleveland Love and the Mixtape Reaper's Crew!!!

Sencha Masta-Sucka Rappers

I just finished my second track off my upcoming "Autumn Equinox" EP that will be available for FREE for all of you following me on this blog!

When this EP is finished, I will be contacting alot of jazzy hip hop blogs, and having this posted for all of you to download aswell.

I have 3 more tracks to go, and I will be heading back in the studio to do some more sampling, and getting those beats to sound tight via the FPC (FL Studio 8). Doing vocals is a bitch, becuase you have to edit every fucking vocal take you do! Im talking: Compression, mixing the sound levels to the beat, noise gates (to eliminate any background sounds), EQ, and normalising.... Takes a long time. And the worst thing is when you keep screwing up on the mic and having to go back and re-record over, and over, and over again!!!

Listen to Sencha Masta's "Sucka Rappers" Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23gkPIAzYO4

In The Studio: Preperation

Im heading back in the studio to write more rhymes and to do some vocal takes on a previous track I was working on.

I also will be recording the chorus to a track I just started called "My Soul" which will be an ode to all of you who feel that today's music has lost its soul. The vibe of the song will be similar to output by Mos Def and A Tribe Called Quest. I will upload some audio of the instrumental very shortly.

Watch this blog!

In The Studio: Mixing down and adding vocals

Ok, now Im mixing tracks down. I have 2 tracks finished music wise.. They just need vocals added to them. I usually type lyrics in silence on my ipod Touch on my way to work, or during down time wherever I am at. Then I will usually jump in my studio add do practice takes of the vocals to see where the lyrics land on the beat. Here is an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dc-OOMJmgQ

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In The Studio: Sencha Masta

Hello, I have been working on various beats for this upcoming free ep I am working on. You can listen to clips of them, along with a finished track here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-NAz6MPhiM