A month or two ago Colston hit me up and asked me to make something with some heavy 808s.  I wouldn't say that my forte is making your typical club oriented banger that people typically associate with 808s, but lately I've really enjoyed the challenge of producing something outside of my comfort zone.  I think it is a great exercise and often it rewards me with something unique and unexpected.  There is a phenomena that often occurs when I'm producing that I call a perfect accident - the term is kinda self explanatory, but to clarify it happens when you accidentally/unintentionally hit a key, trigger a loop, etc. and it meshes perfectly with the rest of the track.  Usually it is something you would have never tried otherwise.  I imagine that this happens in all types of art, not just music.  It can be easy to trick yourself into taking credit for this after the fact, but the truth is it was just a perfect accident.  This track has a few so I'll take partial credit and give the rest to some other unknown power.  Hope you enjoy.

12 808s In 828

This is another Ball Gap Road beat.  I was looking at the dates that some of these beats were created and I noticed that I made this track on the same day I made the beat for "The Crusher" off of Backroads & Bonfires.  Kinda cool fact.  I've had to accept the fact that the creative process is an ebb and a flow.  Some days (even weeks or months sometimes) can pass without any creative output, and its easy to get upset and frustrated when this is happening.  However, I notice that this is always balanced out by days where I compose 2 or 3 monster beats or finish lyrics to a few songs in a matter of hours.  It can be hard to accept during the down times, but it certainly feels great during a productive day.  Anyways, I guess this particular day was a pretty productive one.  Hope y'all enjoy.

14 The Clouds Part

This is something a little different than the rest of this project so far.  This was the first song I ever composed for the piano.  I had to choose an instrument to study while I was getting my degree in Music Technology and I chose the piano.  Because of that I composed a fair amount of non hip-hop instrumental music while I was in college.  During one year I composed a 7 minute long piece for the classical piano that took me the entire year to finish.  After that I gained a new respect for composers such as Beethoven and Mozart who have written symphonies that last for hours.  Unfortunately, I don't think I kept a written record of it so there are only bits and pieces left in my memory.  This particular piece was inspired by two incredible women - one is my mom, and the other is now my wife so thankfully they are both still in my life.  This is dedicated to them.  Hope you enjoy.

27 Marie-Luise

It's late.  I'm tired.  Here's a beat.  Only three days left in May and I've got some gems in store.  Peace,
CrazyHorse 

28 Fools Gold

It's the last Thursday of the month, so that means the last Throwback Thursday.  I've had a great time with these and I had a really hard time deciding which track to use today because I've got so many from years past that really deserve to be resurrected.  I may even decide to continue the Throwback Thursday theme once this project has finished and drop one of my old school beats every once in awhile.  I had so few samples and sounds when I started making beats that I really had to rely on my own creativity to find the sounds I was looking for and doing so really helped hone my craft.  I remember getting frustrated that I couldn't find the specific guitar sound I wanted on this track so I finally just picked up my guitar and figured I'd give it a try myself.  I'm not a great guitar player, but in this instance what I played happened to work perfectly and I even got a cool little intro clip out of it when it was all said and done.  Anyways, hope y'all enjoy and thank you again to everyone who is following and supporting this project, it really means a lot to me.  

29 Smooth

This is a beat I thought I completely lost.  Technology is a beautiful thing when it comes to making music, but every once in awhile it can really screw you over in the form of a hard drive dying or something equally lame.  If you are in the large majority of people who own computers chances are you don't back up your files even though you know you should.  I'm in that group and this file along with quite a few others I thought I had lost for good.  You go through a gamut of emotions when you lose something irreplaceable from anger, to loss, to acceptance, and everything in between.  And while I value the lessons I learned from something like this, last night I was also very happy to find them.  I'm pretty sure there are over 100.  Over half of them are probably worthless, but the five or ten gems that are within are more than worth it.  Here's to finding shit you thought you lost.  Hope you enjoy, 
CrazyHorse

30 Chill Funk

Well it's the last day of May which means this will be the last installment to this project.  I've had a really great time with this and have gotten a lot of feedback and love from a lot of you all.  Thank you for that.  This project evolved into something I would have never imagined and in many ways has become something greater than the sum of its parts.  This may be the end of this particular project, but there will be more.  This particular beat has a very special place in my heart and I was very reluctant to release it.  The more I thought about it though I decided that it was really important to me to end this project with something I loved.  While almost all of the tracks I've released this month will be available for purchase/lease, this one probably will not.  It's too important to me.  Not really sure what it is about it, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  Please stay tuned because I do still plan on doing an MC contest soon and that will add a whole new dimension to this project.  Thank you again for all the love, the criticism, and the continued support.  See you soon,
CrazyHorse 

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