The Carry-On Experience… it starts like one of them joints you ripped out of the shrink wrap and put in the CD player and just vibe out to. You had a bad day, work hours got cut, and your baby moms is telling you a thousand things a once… and you zone out… “against all odds, though life is hard… Carry-On.”
It’s good to be able to put any record in and play it from start finish, understanding that every song won’t get the initial seal of approval, but even the ones that didn’t hit you in the heart from the jump seem to grow on you. So we have the latest opus from Covina, California’s own, Jansport J.
Just when you thought hip hop got way too serious to have fun and enjoy, the energy of the record takes you back to when emcees brought out the beauty of life while speaking on serious issues. It contains emcees from all over the states creating a versatile sound to match the production that Jansport J puts down over the record. It would be wrong to compare this brother to other producers, but I will say that in the short time I’ve know this brother, he has proven that he has a very established sound (and unlike other) has the education behind what he does. Well-rounded in production Jansport J shines on joints like, “She’s Picture Perfect,” “Sheep,” and “Maximum. - my personal favorite would be ‘The Choice is Yours” I would definitely say that the Carry-On Experience is a definite must-have for all heads regardless of what coast you call home.
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Jansport J leaves this:
“In life, we’ve always been told that baggage is a bad thing. It holds you back in relationships and progression, or so we’ve been told. However, when you succeed in whatever you do at life, or “take flight”, it’s important to bring that baggage with you. That baggage made you who you are and prepared you for the successes to come…hence the concept of “the carry-on” baggage.
On this album, you’ll be hearing rappers from all over America rappin’ about their present situations and perspectives on life. Everything that the common man goes through is on this album.”
Please be sure to cop this joint and give this brother some feedback on this project. I’m sure it’s only the beginning of great things to come. Support good music and artists who are being productive! Hip hop is still breathing.
just take it for what it was… a preview. nothing more and nothing less. I was just learning how to make beats… so this was an attempt to sample the same record that I later found out Sabzi of Blue Scholars sampled once I met him and he played Loyalty at KTUH.
So there’s a lot of talk about the scene and what it is or means to be Hip Hop. Personally, and I’m sure many would agree, Hip Hop is a lifestyle and from that lifestyle we, (some of us) get to be able to translate that life into music. For other it’s poetry, graffiti, and even painting. I think that we get so caught up on being labeled that we forget the essence of it all is the actual lives the music comes from. And since I believe that, to know Hip Hop, there has to be some desire to learn its history and from that create its future.
So I’ve decided to at least be the educator on the inhabitants of this scene in Hawaii. Big ups to all of the local artists… support local art (…whatever it takes the form of). Peace. The first look into the Hip Hop scene HI calls home, is my homie Rhyme the Old. Of all the cats I’ve had the honor to know, this brother has the knowledge and the character to carry him.
Rhyme the Old Man…born Raymonte’ Leviticus Britt, in Brooklyn New York, waayyy back in 19?? (got to have some mystery), I was pretty much raised during the early stages of Hip Hop. I cut my teeth during those days but got really focused during the “golden age” of the culture during the 90-95 time-frame, the era of boom-bap. I had an older cousin who was considered the “Q” (like the character from the movie Juice) of East New York and I was his roadie. Since 1984, every block/basement party in the projects of Brooklyn, from 585 Blake Ave to 832 Ocean Ave over in Flatbush, you would find T-Rock and his little cousin “The Great Rockwell”. He would later change my name to Rhyme, which used to be spelled “Ryme” (RaYMontE). He said that “The Great Rockwell” carried a sound of expertise to it that was most definitely beyond my level of then wackness, and that there was room for only one person with the moniker “Rock” in their stage name, besides who was I to argue, as he put it “Ryme” was already built into the name my parents gave me, and here I am today.
what’s up family. HI, today was a good day for the art. a new outlook on everything has got me inspired to write. Positivity goes a long way… so in a few short hours… I’ve written (well…finished writing) a narrative song. It’s called, “Boy Meets Girl,” produced by Skavenger of Destruments. Their crew and Skav is out of Cali. Very talented brothers… and Skav is a super talented brother who’s own work speaks for itself, and has given me the opportunity to work with some great CA talent. He also dropped me a very nice canvas in which to paint the narrative of “Boy Meets Girl” on.
The story is not a foreign concept; a boy totally opposite from a girl by every aspect of his social “position” meets her in a place where their worlds cross and common ground is established. And the song hints at different aspects of what you could assume an official short story would cover. Nonetheless… they meet and find out they have this thing in common. And from this ‘thing’ they build the foundation of their friendship which turns into a love-courtship. So yes, it’s a love song, but not in the traditional sense of what most love songs in the Hip Hop genre entail. It’s a story with a concept that molds the story into a work of art. The dopest part of the whole thing… which may seem hard to recognize at first about the song is that I’m actually telling the story in 1st and 3rd person with some narration; 1st being the male, 3rd person being the female… and then the ‘almighty’ narrator. so I think it’s dope to actually pull the concept together in a rhyme over a beat… and once it’s done… it may or may not hit the myspace… I rescind the notion to never up new songs on myspace… they got me this far huh… lmao.
so I think it’s dope to actually pull the concept together in a rhyme over a beat… and once it’s done… it may or may not hit the myspace… I rescind the notion to never up new songs on myspace… 