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Artist: knowjuander
Album: A Kid Love, beta | Download
Info: Project was completely produced by knowjuander for Genius Kid LLC. Album features “Memories,” a song originally recorded by Raymond Scott, and a vocal feature by Jarell Perry on “Determination.”
The spirit of the record is carried on the thought that when we were all kids, we truly experienced unadulterated love. The feelings we possessed as children were the most authentic. So the title implies that the work in full is the most authentic expression of (love) for, in this case, undoubtedly, hip hop that could be shown. The usage of “beta” as a suffix on this project has more than the mere meaning that this project is in a user-tested phase. Loosely, though, there is the desire for those who pick up this project to try it out, try to understand not only the material, but the artist also. Moreover, to try to give the same energy to their crafts, whether it musical or not.
Personal highlights of the record are “This Long Keep On” and “Determination,” as well as the powerful brag-swag track, “Drummer… A Little Bit.”
From the production angle I would definitely highlight “A Little Bit… More,” as it may have been the most difficult of the samples to chop that were used to create the soundtrack of this lyrical outing.
Personally, I feel that I shine on “Painting a Still,” which is my favorite of all the songs, “Determination,” being second. Combined, this project is more than six months of production and a season or so of actual writing and crafting songs in various settings and sittings.

Note: This is not a review. This is my “shameless plug-outlook” on where this album came from.

peep out the latest joint from Ortega Cartel feat The Jonesz. Sixteen Pad Films credited for the production of this video. These cats are one of my few favorite film crews. Check out the jawn called “This if For My Boys.” This just goes to show that hip hop has no language barriers.

Check out The Jonesz here
Check out Ortega Cartel here
and Sixteen Pads Films here

I just felt like you guys needed another way to get to know me. So I’m doing this little project. Peep the video. I plan on covering other beat makers in the future. Maybe this will be a big ordeal at some juncture. Either way….

AFSB Season 1, Episode 1 from know:juander on Vimeo.

The Ecstatic – New record from Mos Def, and highly anticipated release!!! Drop date is supposed to be 9 June… we shall see. I don’t care if it doesn’t come out to August… this is definitely worth the wait, so practice patience… maybe this will help you hold your water ’til then…

Glad to see Mighty Mos on his ‘g.’ This record should be exciting with everything going on in the world… peep the video above. Album cover below.

NOTE:
• This is going to be a very dope record… I’m too excited. I’m buying this ish when it drops.

SHOUTS:
• Mos Def it’s good to know you’re still making music, people get wrapped up into the fact that you’re an equally great actor… let em hate…

I’m trying to get above ‘it.’ Pain, poverty, tears, and the blues. I can’t let them to me what they did to my mom’s street. She used to think it was beautiful, and then with a few years of destructive politics, the powers that be destroyed the true essence and the hue of our neighborhoods. Now we’re left with a generation of lost souls in the bodies of kids who don’t know what to be.

I wonder how cool the kid is who stays in my room at the house I used to live in on East 22nd Street in Little Rock. Part of me wishes we could session on life or beats or just skate or something… maybe part of my spirit that existed in that dwelling is still there, even after is burned down and was re-built.

Maybe that’s what needs to happen to this so-called ‘great’ organization we call America. Sometimes the only way to truly rebuild something to standard is to completely tear it down and assess where we faulted the foundation. I don’t want to get into a political scene though. This girl who skates and paints on the side of the off-ramps and the belly of freeway passages is going to read this and appreciate me being conservative. lol.

I don’t know where that came from, but I always wanted to run into a super cool chick that does really understand ‘love’ whether it’s between a person and a person, or a person and a medium. I’ve dated several women, claiming to have understood… my love for H.E.R. Then we talk about ’stuff’ and she reveals that she knows nothing and cares little, and though I want to blame her I can’t because she wants to be number one… in the same way she can’t blame H.E.R. because she just wants to live. And I say it’s better to live… than to fall in ‘like.’

I’m hungry. I think I’m going to go grab some food. The only problem with ‘thinking’ is my brain always goes into the most drastic process of thinking that sometimes it’s better to just jump into the traffic of life… and hope I don’t get hit by a car… speaking of cars… I just thought of myself walking along the road to get some breakfast… and a car on the roadside… explodes. Everything slows down and we realize that the everyday aesthetic of living in a third world country has now come to our front door. I don’t know how people would deal with knowing that ‘that’ sense of security (America) has been shattered… but we somehow are able to deal with school shooting and rape. Maybe because it’s not loud, do we just turn the deaf ear.

I don’t know what I’m thinking, but I’m definitely at the point where I want to share my unadulterated thoughts with you all… in song and in blog. lol. That was deep. lol. I also wanted to take the time to say thanks for the positive feedback from the last song I posted…. I wonder what would happen if you visited my page right now… hmmmm.

since-really yours,

know:juander
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