another track from my "beat a day" series....sumthin thrown together for freestylin to, vocal sample from "The Sebutones - sebutonedef accapella"

Cityboy - Simple Song (mpc2000 21)

classic beat, 4-track, RadioShack microphone, moms basement, shitty quality = when all I cared about was making rap music all day...

Cityboy - Rappers Delight 2 (1998) remix

yeah that's right! Canadian Ninja... a beat made roughly back in 2003 when I was making 10 beats a day, I had lyrics for this but lost them after an HDD crash, I never rewrote any more... I still love this beat, I think its got a ninja type flare to it, lol



Cityboy - Canadian Ninja (part1)

a remix of a track from 2003 titled Beyond, using a 3rd Bass sample for the chorus features a simple beat with a looped piano sample and distorted lyrics.

Cityboy - Beyond (remix)

Here's a track I completely forgot about... hooked up with rapper Peoples back in 2004 he attended some of the "Freestyle Friday" sessions back in 2003/04/05. I created the beat after he had brought me some samples he wanted to use on CD, after a few hours and laying down some lyrics this is what we/he came up with. still love this track.

regrettably I lost contact with him in 2005-ish

Peoples - Mind's That Are Open (its That Simple)

Dj_Cityboy - Zone 6.03 was a beat I made back in 2004-ish, just found it on a CD today, I thought I lost it after an HDD crash years ago.. I like it I haven't heard it in years :)

Cityboy - Zone 6.03

I quick demo of an idea from a time and place, first time I heard the CCR track I knew I had to use it. smashing & boom-bashing with some beats to freestyle over.

Cityboy - Simple Song (mpc2000 7)

Cityboy & Johnny Quest - And I Love Her

just some random stuff thrown together on a Saturday afternoon, got inspired by the rakim line and went from there.. its just music y'all!

Cityboy - Fell Into The Groove Of The Wax

sick rugged beats combined with Lope4 lyrics and cuts by dj_cityboy recorded in 1999 at the "Lobster Trap" the beat was created by Witchdoc Jorun Bombay while Lope4 was in the studio with him at the time.

Color Chemist

Lope4 - Schizophrenic Emcee's

a small portion of a "Live beat & Freestyle" session called "Lung Cancer" we had in the studio one afternoon, Dj Swamp's Neverending break beats was the main catalyst for the beats along with other random records with stickers on them to create skiploops. Effects were able to be controlled by the both of us so as to add effects whenever we wanted. records and microphones recorded live 2001.

Five Fresh Freestyles

CixAM & dj_cityboy - Down By The River

some of the earliest recordings I have of myself, during some of my first pause-tape experiments in 1986, I used to use the pause-tape loops in order to create beats between my lyrics, from there I learned to use two boomboxes to record myself. amazing to hear myself at 12yrs old trying to mimic what I heard on the first rap tapes I owned or what I heard on the radio. I even find it cool that came up with the concept of a mock interview - between some of my verses you can hear how I used the pause button as a way to "punch-in" my vocals if I had messed up.. regrettably I don't have any of my "Jammin Jamie J" recordings but I am glad I kept some of this old stuff... Baby J & The Bullet Proof Posse - the name still sounds dope to me though... lol

** Apologies for using the word "faggot" I was 12yrs old and had no clue what I was talking about...honestly

Baby J & The Bullet Proof Posse - Rhymes And Pause - Tape Experiment 1986

Dj_cityboy aka Jamie Cole is a hiphop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, First exposed to hiphop culture in the early 80's when his babysitter took him painting Graffiti, a few years later in 1986 he got his first listen to hiphop through Local University Radio station CKDU listening to Dj Doc Fresh playing the like of Funky 4 plus One, GrandMasterFlash, LLCoolJ, Schooly D, and in 86 started writing his first rhymes, creating loops of music recorded from CKDU by whats known as "Tape Loops" (made from playing and recording the same beat over and over again via play pause rewind record), in 1989 he took a trip to the U.S and was exposed to graffiti again and became more intrigued also that same year saw his first concert, Public Enemy on their "Welcome to the Terrordome" tour.

1990 was the start of a new era now fully inspired by the full HipHop culture, purchased his first set of turntables and immediately began practicing, he began purchaing his vinyl record from "Soul2Soul" on GottigenSt, Weekends and countless nights were spent trying to mimics the scratches of Dj Jazzy Jeff, Dj Alladin and Mr Mixx during that time he also purchased his first mic, and began making mix tapes for friends and people at his school, 1992 he purchased his first drum machine, a Roland TR-505 and began to understand the means of programming beats that same year cityboy began writting graffiti under the moniker Cep20, by 1995 he had purchased a sampler, midi keyboard, 8 track sequencer and a 4-Track and began producing more and more music while djing and writing rhymes, that same year cityboy joined notorious Halifax graffiti crew " HRA - The Halifax Riters Association" known for bringing and leaving an indelible mark for Halifax graffiti artists. at this same time, began attending local hiphop shows at CafeOle, seeing locals Stinkin Rich, Sixtoo, Jorun and other early hiphop groups from the city.

Around the same time he attended his first "Rave" at a small venue in the city called The Kyber, it was his first exposure to seeing other DJ's, but in a different form, the mixes were long and not as choppy as hiphop, and they transitioned from one record to another very smoothly and seamlessly - again intrigued, he began buying house and jungle records as well as stocking his hiphop collection, during this time frame he continued to produce music, paint graffiti, spin records, on the weekends and local writers would gather in his mothers basement and rhyme and record hiphop, the mid 90's were a bit of a change where he spent more of his time playing more house and jungle records then making any hiphop, attending Raves every weekend meeting new people and experimenting.

By 97 he was playing at various venus under the name djcityboy, he has played a variety shows with multiple dj's from across the world, this also gave him the ability to demo some of his own music from time to time, he once brought his 4-Track to a gig so he could rhyme and used to freestyle over his drum and bass sets while djing, by the mid 2000's after the fall out of the Rave scene he stopped playing records for crowds and began producing and recording more hiphop and focused more of his attention on music and the Friday Freestyle Sessions which happened at his apartment in Woodside for a period of about a year and a half.

by the late 2000's he had recorded thousands of beats and still produced music daily, he continued to buy music equipment and records and worked on improving his recording techniques, he continues produce music, do graffiti, write rhymes and claims that break-dancing is "definitely out of the question" as he laughs.

dj_cityboy

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