Working with a few new artists

YESSSSS finally got the oppurtunity to work with some awesome talent from my hometown, Boston. I found to dope rappers, one called Sev-One who's signed to G.E.M.S worldwide and Supastar L.T. who are both incredibly talented artists. I recently dropped a mixtape with Sev (which you can download here: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/i6htq5) called "The Bootleg" and I'm about to release L.T.'s mixtape "The People's Focus." Both mixtapes feature records I've produced and have features from artists like Jadakiss, Junior Reid, Rick Ross, Cassidy and Freeway. So Get Familiar with them cuz they are making some noise!

I'm also working with my boy Jalen Rose (Former NBA player turned ESPN correspondent) who has an artist he's working with named Kristen..She's an R&B singer that I just finished writing and producing 2 records for. She has an amazing voice, look for her coming soon.

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KLTV: The Wire Season 5 Premiere Party

Tonight was the official NY red carpet celebration for the last & final season of HBO's The Wire. As a host on KarmaloopTV, I interviewed all the entire cast from the show on the red carpet. Everyone was super cool even Marlo. When I asked Chris Partlow who plays Gbenga Akinnagbe on The Wire if people mistake him for his character and try to test his gangster, he revealed to me he was a D-1 wrestler... so then "I said what would you do to someone if they did test you," and he proceeded to put me in a chicken wing hold that I could not get out of!!! Also shout out to Red Cafe & Fabolous who I linked up with at the studio after The Wire event. They were recording to a beat I produced and then Fabolous (who I now look at very differently) hipped me to this disgusting website - www.2cups1girl.com once u see the video you'll know why. Btw - Do not eat anything while watching this video!

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Finally The Video For "Down In The Dirty"

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Monster Jam 2007

Tonight was a dream come true, Akon brought me up on stage of JAM'N 94.5's Monster Jam concert & introduced as his co-writer & producer of his "Sorry, Blame It On Me" record right before he performed the record in front of 20,000 people in my hometown of Boston at the TD Banknorth Garden, it was amazing considering how the Red Sox just won the world series, the Partriots are 8-0 smashing teams left and right, Boston's got talent on many levels and I'm proud to represent Boston all over the world!

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Down In The Dirty... Behind The Scenes

Ludacris recently teamed up with Bun B. and Rick Ross for his new single "Down In The Dirty" from the Disturbing Tha Peace compilation, which I produced. The crazy thing about the record is that it was originally a record that I put together from vocals sent to me by Luda and Ross's A&R's. I had been telling me to send me acapellas for a mixtape that I was working on. I already had the beat and when I heard both of their vocals I was suprised that both of them were talking about how they were getting money down south. I grabbed this E-40 "White Girl" record and made a hook with some of the lyrics from Bun B's verses on that record and called up Bun and asked him to do a lay a verse on the record, the concept being the 3 of the top rappers from 3 of the hottest southern cities. Bun sent the record back in 1 hour. That's how "Down In The Dirty" was created.

What's even crazier is that I was going to put it on a mixtape, but decided not to because I'm working on an album and thought it would be perfect for the album. I held on to it for a while but Chaka Zulu, Luda's manager hit me up one day and asked if they could use my record as a single for the new DTP compilation "Strength In Numbers," which I said yes to. We had to change the hook due to sample clearance issues, but the record is still dope!

This past weekend we shot the video which was shot by Dr. Teeth and Chaka Zulu, the concept was based off of how Craig Mack's "Flavor In Ya Ear" video was shot. Check out some behind the scenes video and photos from the shoot below.

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My Acting Debut, Akon's Sorry Video

Akon's Sorry, Blame It On Me Video premiered this week on Yahoo Music, MTV's TRL and BET's 106 & Park. Directed by Chris Robinson, starring me! Don't forget August 28th, Konvicted, The Deluxe Edition featuring the single "Sorry, Blame It On Me," Check it out the below:

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Video Shoot 4 Akon "Sorry, Blame It On Me"

Two weeks ago I got the word from Akon that he was going to shoot a video for his new single "I'm Sorry," which I produced and helped write. He had already contacted Chris Robinson to direct, who's also a good friend of mine, we'd recently worked together for the Boost Mobile Rockcorps Concert in LA this past spring. They both decided that since the first verse was a very personal verse that was dedicated to my family, that I should play the lead actor in the video. Chris actually asked me to worked with him on the treatment for my scenes, we came up with a few dope ideas to really drive the emotional message of the song home.

So here we are today at the video shoot of a song which I produced and co-wrote... it's the most amazing feeling to 1st hear your song being sung by a super-star singer/producer/writer in the studio, then to turn on the radio and hear that same song being played over and over, listeners calling up to request it and then you walk on to the set of a video shoot and see the visuals being scripted out. Dude, it's unreal!

I invited the Lion, Ben Lyons out for a cameo in the video, but he wouldn't follow my directions to just linger directly behind me in the airport scene of the video, so maybe you're see him, maybe you won't. Be sure to catch the behind the scenes exclusive of the video shoot on E! The Daily 10, featuring me, Akon & Ben Lyons. Here are a few pictures to show you what the shoot looked like. Some video coming soon, stay tuned, Get Familiar!

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Akon "Sorry, Blame It On Me"

This is a dream come true right here, one of the toughest things in the music business is getting the right people to believe in your vision as a songwriter and producer... But Akon believed in me to deliver... he and I collaborated producing & writing the soon to be smash apology song to his friends, family & fans that recently went to radio... "Sorry, Blame It On Me"

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