My friend and yours, Miss Mary Turner has asked me to ask YOU for help in deciding what song to sing at her Pop Idol-styled audition this weekend.
The audition is for “a pop project”. Mary has to sing a song acapella.
Tag line, says Mary: “Cool, Sassy, Poppy”.
“It can’t be Girls Aloud or anything, singing a capella so need a song with a melody, not one where when production and harmonies are taken away it’s dull, could be a fast tune slowed down ie ‘Hey Ya’ Outkast. Preferably a fairly familiar tune yet original ie Leonard Cohen ‘Bird on the Wire’ [sic] and needs to have some range but not too much as with nerves don’t want to be fretting about high notes. Audition on Sat so got to be easy to learn if i don’t already know it. Thinking there must be some good forgotten Britpop tunes, not ‘Something Chnaged’ as already sung that.” Read more…
Due to popular demand (whoo! I get to say “due to popular demand!”) I have made the acapellas for the Thieving mixtape available to download.
A few are missing as I haven’t got the files anymore. So! The Thieving Acapellas tracklisting:
1. Thieving
2. Click Clack Blam ft. Pixel
3. Thanks For All The AIDS ft. The Women
4. BOOM! (Smash Stuff) ft Why Lout?
5. Werewolves!
6. Back In The Day (Remix) ft. Jack Nimble, Narstie, Marvin & Shizzio
7. The Music Of The Spheres ft. Mary Turner
8. Dear Baby (Cut You In The Face)
9. Oobie Doo ft. Mary Turner & Marvin
10. Jesus!
11. Gitmo ft. Narstie
12. Giro
13. Riot Going On ft Dego Brown
14. Now Then
15. Tomorrow ft Madison
16. Oh! (What A Glorious Thing) ft Bashy
17. To The Tongue Tied ft Mary Turner
17 Potential Bootleg Smashes! Whoee! Yours for £4.50. Awesome.
OK! Don Studios IV is set up, the internet is working, and THIEVING IS OUT NOW ON CD, MP3 and T Shirt!
Preorderers will (mostly, stupid Canadian post) know this already. They all agree it is great! How great? Just listen to this song called GIRO!
Ace huh? Yes indeed. Zef and I are making a video for that. ANYWAY! Thieving has 21 songs on it, and they’re all GRAYTE. Either brand new, or new versions of older songs, the tracklisting goes a little suttink like this:
1. Thieving
2. Click Clack Blam ft. Pixel
3. Thanks For All The AIDS ft. The Women
4. BOOM! (Remix) ft. Lethal Bizzle & Narstie
5. Werewolves!
6. Back In The Day (Remix) ft. Jack Nimble, Narstie, Marvin & Shizzio
7. The Music Of The Spheres ft. Mary Turner
8. Can’t Go To Sleep
9. Dear Baby (Cut You In The Face)
10. Oobie Doo ft. Mary Turner & Marvin
11. Unlearning
12. Jesus!
13. Gitmo ft. Narstie
14. Giro
15. Riot Going On ft Dego Brown
16. Now Then
17. Tomorrow ft Madison
18. The Tree
19. Oh! (What A Glorious Thing) ft Bashy
20. To The Tongue Tied ft Mary Turner
21. Y R U So Layzee
Laffs! Sobs! Special guest stars aplenty! Yes indeed. You can get it on luxury 4 page booklet full colour doolah CD for £5 plus postage, or on CD Quality 320kbps MP3 for £4.75, no postage.
MP3 bundle comes with printable artwork and a bonus track called MOVING! Whoo!
You can a T shirt for £15 plus postage. OR a CD and a T shirt for £17 plus postage (wow, DISCOUNT!) or an MP3 and T shirt for £16.50 plus postage (EVEN MORE WOW DISCOUNT!)
We take all major credit and debit cards, via Paypal which does not require a Paypal account and we ship WORLDWIDE! (Even Canada, although their postal system is a little slow)
The mother of 50 Cent’s angelic little cherub, AKA male child, has LOST her GREEDY battle to STEAL all of his MONEY ($$$$$$). She just gets A BIT. Relatively.
The woman, one Shaniqua Tomkins recently decided that getting $20,000 a month “child support” was inadequate, so she took him to court demanding $50,000. Prolly cos she heard about that Vitamin water payout. Or that song where he said “have a baby by me baby/ be a millionaire / I write the check before the baby comes/ who the fuck cares?”
The courts said he had to pay her $25,000 while the trial did its thing. Crazy!
Anyway. The greedy broad FAILED to extort 50 C for 50 gs, and a ruling was handed down saying her payments were to be CUT to $6,700 a month! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN! She is pissed you know. Things is, that is a lot of money, especially in America, which is practically a third world country these days.
I mean. That’s like, almost as much as a doctor gets.
“My client and I are very happy with the ruling,” said 50’s lawyer, Brett Kimmel, who is going to having a LOT of rappers calling him this week, I bet you 50 gs.
BAD NEWS for you and I!
From my CD pressing people:
“We are looking to ship on Tuesday for a Thursday delivery, there were some printing hold ups but we are now sorted. I hope that this is ok with you.”
Waste! I’m a try hurry them up. Or get a car on Tuesday and go pick them up myself or something.
Hey! Mary Turner, who is featured quite a bit on Thieving, is previewing a couple of her-featuring tracks over on her MySpace. Check them out.
When you’ve done that, watch this highly entertaining interview with my man of the moment, Rick Ross. Weed smokers! Check his tips for evading airport security and them fuckin’ beagles!
Hello, for some reason a few of you have been ordering AIDS T shirts lately. Tragically, we sold out. Sorry. I could make up some more if enough of you want them. If you do, mail me or leave a message or something.
It is mad foggy and cold today, we went out to look at houses. Still nothing. We have to move out in two weeks. Argh! I have seen more houses this time than any other, and still no dice. Whither the dice?
Jeres wrote something quite cute about his self-absorbed internet addiction. I like the bit about the photo of him as a wee Cornman eating a pasty.
This is a good recipe for sea bass. I tried it last night. I also watched Ghosts Of Cite Soleil - if you haven’t, you need to see that shit. Kind of real life City Of God. In Haiti. Seriously brilliant, moving, distressing, and hardcore. Cheers Colin for that. Dunno about Wyclef Jean’s bits in it. Wyclef loves Wyclef. “People in Haiti study me like Americans study Biggie,” he said recently. Maybe so. People in Maryland do me similar. Word up Maryland!
Big Pun is so my favourite dead emcee, and if he was alive, and still as good as he was when he was alive, he’d be my favourite live emcee. He was so nice on the mic! He was as nice on the mic as he was heavy on the ground. Rah. You know, he was only a year older than me when he died. That’s not old!
Damn. I am glad Narstie is going gym, I’d hate to lose another talented big brother.
Thieving is done, then. The art, the stuff. All off to printland. PHEW! Next project for me is to make a video for Tomorrow, this nice ass song I did with Madison and Jeres about when we (Akira The Don & The Women, which was me and Jeres and Mary) went on tour. (In retrospect it would have made more sense to have Mary sing on this one. Never mind though. Madison did a lovely croaky whisper thing, which Mary wouldn’t have done. Mary would have done a lovely breathy thing. Maybe we’ll do a remix. Anyway.) I have a bunch of footage from the tour I can use. Actually, that isn’t the next project. I gotta do this Bang song with Temposhark for XLR8R magazine, and a song for Mothboy’s record, and your avatars. Hip-hop don’t stop!
Akira The Don Thieving Ts are now available in womens, which are fitted, and kids sizes, for a limited time. Kids sizes are “small:7-8, medium: 9-11, large: 12-13 and the xl are a bit smaller than adult small” according to my T Shirt man.
These go off to the printers tomorrow, and will be with you, with the CD at some point during the week beginning February 11th, depending on post speeds.
T shirt and CD discount combo, still £16.
MENS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN!
Mary and Jeres were up here earlier working on new versions of Oobie Doo and AIDS, and two brand new songs for Thieving. They all sound AWESOME!
Cool, huh? He also spent many hours reading this blog and watching videos about L Ron and stuff, so good for him. Welcome Mark! This is the best thing you have ever done!
Apart from all those fine records.
Anyway. Zef has made a nice new top bar for the site, which you can see above. Well done Zef. I have been making a new song based on an old Therapy? song (their question mark, not mine), and not drawing your pictures (that is next on my list, don’t worry!).
Did anyone see that Jamie Oliver thing about chickens? The life of a chicken seems to be a lot like ours, right down to the freakish, prematurely maturing oversized spawn. Have you seen kids these days? Have you seen Americans? 16 year olds over there look fucking 30! I’m moving out to the countryside and rearing pigs as soon as I can. Word to Alex James.
By the way - Weezy’s having some troubles right now, and people are talking smack…. but one listen to dude’s verse on this should shut most folks up. It is a joy to hear.
By the way 2: Here’s a great interview with Kool Keith. The end bit about rappers in witness protection is classic.
Sometimes I kinda wish I had DJ Khaled following me around shouting. Sometimes I think that might suck a bit. HAHA!
Anyway. Last night was ace. Big up The Crimea, Katy Karr, everyone who came down (word up Mary’s parents!), and my awesome band, especially James, as it was his first gig (and first time on a stage in three years). I had a wicked time. Especially ace was our cover of Fairytale Of New York, and doing Loop A Loop with The Crimea, that sounded ace.
I have decided - I definitely need a bassist and a drummer. Any ideas?
Anyway. In other news, speedy people can download a free copy of Little Man’s new mixtape here - it’s out on CD in January. Cop preview tracks here. If you ain’t aware, we recorded most of this mixtape here at Don Studios. And it is Great. So there.
My friend and yours, Miss Mary Turner has asked me to ask YOU for help in deciding what song to sing at her Pop Idol-styled audition this weekend.
