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Imperfekt

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Paul Wall - Oh Girl - Mobbed N Chopped

Sons Of The Dark Dawn
Rednaxela Music BMI 2023

“Big Hole”

Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Texas, New York, Philadelphia
A around the world theirs going to be a big nut bust
A purple nut all the purple pumpkin eaters is coming
To eat all you Mother Fuckers
The real monster no we not smoking no purple haze
 We’re eating your purple haze “Mother fuckers”
And were eating your cocaine rocks.
(I’m suspended in time)
Trapped between myself and something else
Trapped between my brain and my dreams 
Trapped between you and your love and your hate
Trapped between the things I want to be
Trying to climb out of this hole
Trying to climb out of this hole
Trying to climb out of this hole
Trying to climb out of this hole
(I’m suspended in time)
(I’m suspended in time)
Trying to climb out of this hole
With all my might I’m trying 
To climb out of this hole
With all my might I’m slipping, slipping down
Slipping deeper in this hole
I reach out and I see the sun
I see your hand
But I can’t get ahold of it

 I’m slipping deep and deeper into this hole
Deeper and deeper into this hole
(Richard Nixon 1964) 
Telling us Humansheep That The New World Order Is Coming.
Are common beliefs that have brought us together here
That are common interests and are common hopes
The interest that each of has to maintain our independence 
And the securities of our peoples
 And the hope that each of has to build a new world order
In which nations and people with different systems and different values
Can live together in peace respecting one another while disagreeing 

(I’m suspended in time)
(I’m suspended in time)

I’m slipping down inside this big oh hole
It’s sucking me down, it’s sucking me down, inside this big oh hole
It’s sucking me down, it’s sucking me down, inside this big oh hole
You guys don’t know what the hell you are doing
Freedom of speech man ha, ha yeah the constitution is awesome isn’t it?

BIG HOLE

This track marks the third official Mic Hand x Three’s Brand collaboration. During the year of 2013 Bill Thousand put in a lot of work and made a lot of noise. Though aside from being Facebook friends; we had never met and I wasn’t really up on his music until this year (2013). We finally met in person briefly and I caught his set at this year’s 319 Fest, which I also performed at. About a month later I was approached by my dude Slice about writing a verse for a (then) upcoming 319 Cypher Video. I accepted, and to my delight the rest of the emcees were some of CR’s best, including Bill Thousand. His verse is right after mine and we both hit that track hard! A couple days after the 319 Cypher Video release date Bill Thousand tagged me in a Twitter post and said he was in the studio working on a track for us. I was pleasantly surprised. Within a few days I received the track with a hook and his verse on it. As soon as I pressed play and the beat came in I was thinking: “YES! This beat is right up my alley; good choice.” I didn’t waste any time writing and recording my verse. It was done within the week of receiving the track. I sent it off to be mixed and the track was released on November 27th on a mixtape called “Raw & Uncut” that’s available on MafiaMixTapes.com. I decided to add it to this project for some extra promotion because it’s a banger. This collaboration was a bit different than most others that I do. I can be super meticulous when it comes to writing and I typically discuss concepts, ideas and direction with the other artists before-hand. It was refreshing to get this track already conceptualized and formatted without any input from me and my over-analytical mind. Before the track was mixed and released I received a message or two from a local producer by the name of Ghost. He had heard about the track and wanted to hear it but I didn’t get a chance to send it to him. It wasn’t until I saw a Facebook post the week it was released that I found out he made the beat…. 
*Note 
-find the 319 Cypher Video on YouTube to drop a comment and vote for your favorite verse. 
-find and download the Raw & Uncut Mixtape on MafiaMixtapes.com.

HANGOVERS & GREYGOOSE w/  Bill Thousand - beat by Ghost

This song was started during the first studio session I did with Fooch after we added him to the Mic Hand Crew. He made the trip from Mt. Pleasant, IA to CR in May of 2013 to vibe out in the studio and work on some music with me and Colorless for a few hours. We were playing some beats and eventually landed on this one that had recently been sent to me by dope producer in Cedar Rapids called Ghost. We kept going through some other beats but we made our way back to this one and started writing. Fooch is one of those guys that can write and record a verse in the studio in one sitting, and that’s exactly what he did. Since Fooch only had a few hours to chill and an hour and a half drive home; I put my verse on hold and we immediately recorded his when he was done writing. I finished writing and recorded my verse the next morning and sent a mix to Fooch. Colorless didn’t write a verse for a couple weeks, but he started and finished one just in time to perform it on June 19th at The Mill in Iowa City. Fooch hadn’t memorized his verse but Colorless and I were excited and knew his verse so well that we carried him through it. Colorless didn’t record his verse until November of 2013. It was also lost for a while; it was on the other side of the folded up piece of paper! (Refer to the description of “Never Lose Sight”) We didn’t put a hook on this because the beat is dope, but when we perform we adopt the beginning of Colorless’ verse and use it as a chant signifying the progression and spread of energy at a show. “It starts in the front and moves to the back”….

FRONT TO BACK Ft Fooch The Emcee & Colorless - beat by Ghost

A local Cedar Rapids producer by the name of JBIII made this beat. He’s been producing, rapping and recording here in CR just as long as I have, if not longer. He’s probably known best for being the man behind the boards for other local rappers: Notti Boy, Jose G, Bill Thousand and others, all whom represent his label; Three’s Brand. For years we moved around doing our own respective things, but we didn’t ever really meet and connect until the summer of 2011. Within the following months he sent me an email with five beats that he thought were the best fit for my style. I like when people send me beats they think I will like, it makes me feel like they are really paying attention. I listened to all the beats and was pleased with what he had chosen to send me. They were definitely my type of beats, a bit different than what I make, but in a refreshing and inspiring way. Colorless and I wrote a song called Local Legends featuring DJ Commando on the first beat in the list and released it on May 1st of 2013. It was the first official Mic Hand x Three’s Brand collaboration. I didn’t write this song for a few months after that; it’s actually one of the newest songs in this project. I like this track because it brought out a different side of me. I don’t usually write catchy hooks, and sometimes I don’t write hooks at all. For this track I did write a rather catchy hook and Sawicki put some distortion and effects on the vocals that really set it off. I really like how it turned out. This song is also really fun to perform; it comes off nice and easy for people to catch on and sing along to. And since it’s so new, I’ve only performed it about 4 times, which is cool. Compare that to “impcredible Part 1” which was probably performed close to fifty times before I finally recorded. I do a lot of shows, not so much recording. Again, I’m working on that…. 
*Note 
-There is a video on YouTube of me reciting the first verse of this right after I wrote it.

QUOTEWORTHY - beat by JBIII

This is pretty much the quickest song I have written and recorded in years. It’s nothing extra complex, just three 8 bar verses and a catchy little hook. I made the beat and wrote the song in one day and booked a studio session for the very next day with my buddy Austin Switalski at Elastik Labs in Cedar Rapids. It was kind of inspired by some of my friends. I would invite them to come with me to shows I was doing out of state and they would make up some excuse not to go. Then when I got back from my travels they would always say “I should have just went with you” because Cedar Rapids is pretty boring. The sample for this track is from a Partridge Family song called “Doesn’t Somebody Want to be Wanted” that I heard my Mom playing all the time when I was a kid. I stumbled onto it on a record I snagged at the Goodwill called “20 Power Hits Volume 2.” I don’t usually sample well known songs but since this one had a lasting impression on me since I was a kid; I decided I could make an exception. Plus, I knew my Mom would like it and I end dedicated the song to her in the beginning. The drums are from the sound library that came with Logic Pro 9. I sampled them into the MPC2000XL and kept the drum pattern simple. When I recorded the song I did a bit of what some might consider singing. This turned out to be a pretty cool song that a lot of people enjoy. I think that all the people around here in the Midwest can really relate to the storyline. I originally released it as a single on my Bandcamp, Reverbnation and Soundcloud pages page in February of 2012 and since then it has acquired almost 1,000 plays with very little promotion. I don’t perform this song as much as some people would prefer. I am primarily a rapper, and my rapper voice dominates on stage. It’s kind of hard for me to go from my rapper voice to my singing voice and back again. Usually by the end of the song I get it right, but by then it’s too late. I also have this issue when performing “Anti Couch Potato.” This is another thing I’m working on….

TORN LIKE YOU

02 Monster

05 Properly Blessed

The Blends

SUCKA PUNCH

From the "Copper Gone" album, available in all formats at Strange Famous Records: http://tinyurl.com/CopperGoneSFR 
Sage Francis tour dates: http://tinyurl.com/SageShows

The music is produced by Strange Famous label-mate, PROLYPHIC (horns by Joshua Trinidad.) Lyric video available here: http://youtu.be/-utMO586HCg
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"Vonnegut Busy" - Sage Francis [COPPER GONE]

This song is about religion. Listen close.  Verse 1 is about God.  Verse 2 is about Satan.  The title and hook were inspired by the fact that all the Greek gods have been shunned and are now referred to as mythology.  In reality, Christianity is modern mythology.  Believe it or not.

MODERN MYTH

Tripp Shelton - Unholy War - Amy Winehouse Rip

Hey guys! Let's hang out and talk about stuff, like getting old and getting drunk. I think that's what we're talking about here anyways?

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"Tell Them About the Frequencies (We've Found)" may be first in the track list, but it was the last of all of the songs on this album to be composed (2010). It was recorded immediately after its composition with a combination of equipment used on the earlier recordings (tracks 4, 6, 8) and the subsequent ones (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9). During mixing in 2013, it was found to possess adequate energy and overall quality so that it would not have to be re-recorded. It is also the most accurate indicator of how GotS's sound will evolve into their sophomore release... whenever that will be.

Tell Them About The Frequencies (We've Found)

Tripp Shelton - I Love Trash (prod. by Exo 152) from "Exo 152 Presents: Eastbound"

You're lying in the shallow gutter of love
You're demonstrating vital signs of being on
Rive and shake pop and groove treat you cruel
Can you feel the warmth trickle under you
Lying in the gutter of love

Flip the switch engage the rain showered from the long thin stage
Flounder wriggle squirm and twitch bite your bottom lip
You're on the brink

Identified as O.t.B self destructing naturally 
You're my pseudo-evergreen can I slip down in between
Horizontal make the shift taste the topping on the cake 
The only place that I feel free is down here come and join me
Lying in the gutter of love

Flip the switch engage the rain showered from the long thin stage
Flounder wriggle squirm and twitch bite your bottom lip
You're on the brink

I need to have a thing 
This could be my thing
Need something

You need to let it flow
Don't let it go to waste
Dive right in

You're lying in the shallow gutter of love
Submitted now you're waiting to be turned right on
Back up out now it's time to treat you cruel
Need to feel the warmth trickle under you
Lying in the gutter of love

Flip the switch engage the rain showered from the long thin stage
Flounder wriggle squirm and twitch bite your bottom lip
You're on the brink

On the Brink

That's the way luv goes prod by @g_luck and @_bdon #paulwallwednesday

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2006 sampler CD from Iowa indie hip-hop label Hip-Hop Illuminati. Featuring performances by Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Ahisma & No Relation, NUN the Wiser, Lyrical .45, Slo Mo, Frek, The Greenbriar Coalition, Blue Cloud, E-Knowledge, United Styles, Church of HEL, and Upsidedown Cracker & Cracka Don. 

23 NUN The Wiser "Black Sedans" (ft Ahimsa, Lyrical .45, Slo Mo)

PERFORMANCE BIO -Skate attire and blond locks flowing from beneath his hat, an unexpected look takes the stage with no introduction. Curious crowds assemble to see and hear if the "head nodding hype" is true. With an apparent confidence he begins pounding out a riveting live beat production on his MP2000XL. His fingers and hands moving fiercely, completing the most rugged baseline and eerie, urgent samples, he definitely has your attention now. His skillful mastery of the machine is smooth and seemingly effortless. Bouncing to his own beat production before you, he snatches the microphone from its impending stand, and in true artistic hip hop form, begins rhyming over the aforementioned head nodding beat. An extremely enthusiastic delivery with a rapid lyrical flow soon ensues. He's almost cocky but way too likeable, todays' kids would call it swagger. From the Twista-remininscent "impcredible" fast raps, to analogy filled cyborg references, to the grit and honesty in "Game of Life" he seems to leave no stone unturned in his lyrical prowess. Add just the right amount of quirky banter to leave you smiling, Imperfekt's live stage show is becoming something audiences are talking about for weeks after the show.

GENERAL INFO 
Rick Noggle aka imperfekt started off as a wandering mass of energy and talent before finding his true direction in Hip Hop. Since the genesis of his now ultimate passion, imperfekt has been submerged in every aspect of the culture. From writing raps and graffiti, breakdancing and producing beats, to creating albums, videos, clothing and more. In 2002 iMP founded Mic Hand Recordings, based out of his home town Cedar Rapids, IA and over the past 12 years iMP and company have been a major force in the Iowa Hip Hop scene. imperfekt has relentlessly traveled throughout the Midwest and beyond since 2006; peddling his albums at countless spot-dates and a handful of tours, as well as holding down the home turf with monthly showcases and the annual Super Fresh Culture Fest (founded in 2012).

DISCOGRAPHY 
-2002 - The Originals EP (under the name MC Squared) 
-2004 - Episode Strange 
-2006 - Rough Drafts EP 
-2008 - It Goes Like This 
-2009 - An Imperfekt EP 
-2010 - The Back Hand Mixtape - (Mic Hand Crew) 
-2011 - Tunes For Improvement 
-2014 - Beats & Raps

ACCOLADES 
-2003 -Featured in the fifth installment of the Graffiti Verite series by film director Bob Bryan. 
-2008 -Semi Finalist in the Independent Music World Series 
-2009 -Featured artist on Abovegroundmagazine.com 
-2009 -Grillz and Skillz Emcee Battle Runner Up 
-2011 -Featured on "The Best Love is Free" Compilation
-2011 -Def on Arrival Tour - National Tour 
-2012 -Founded an annual Festival called Super Fresh Culture Fest 
-2013 -Performed at 4 Festivals throughout the Spring and Summer
-2014 -BS Tour + A.T.O.M.S Tour
-2014 -Mentioned in Paste Magazine's "Top 12 Bands in Iowa to Listen to Now" list.