This song was written by GABE ALBERRO @ about 4am in San Jose this past summer, recorded in Merced, CA two days later. "The track was amped, dug it immediately as I shuffled thru possible album cuts, a cd of instrums from Mass (EDDIE CORTEZ), thought it should B some story telling shit, and dark, just came 2 me that it should B about these cats that snap one day and take it out on their schools or jobs. There's a lot of social pressures in those types of environments; it's understandable, certainly, that one could fantasize about laying a mighty wrath down on the cattle, but that's as far as that should go, naturally; every once in a while tho, one of these dreamers snaps. This is about 3 different fictional instances in which that happened.'

Day of Reckoning by OBNOKSHUS (2010)

Given Up was originally recorded in LAS VEGAS as one of the last songs I did for UBNAWKSHIS project with DEADBEATZ in 2006; it was incomplete, but I liked it and I always wanted someone from BEATDOWN squad in  Northern CALIFORNIA to jump on it; Gave it to BRAIL and he totally hooked it up, not even having the data, just a copy on disk, loved the use of my vocal in his verse and then the mocking of it and then the ending, hot shit; now it's one of my kids' favorite songs; they insist on hearing it anytime we jump in the car...

Given Up (feat. J.BRAIL) (2006)

After much ado about a collabo between EARTHQUAKE INSTITUTE out of Van Nuys, CA and UBNAWKSHIS out of LAS VEGAS, NV... during the ENAMOROUS album's making, I traveled to LA and posted up in a Hollywood bungalow and joined the fellas from EARTHQUAKE @ their lab and layed the hook and verse to this (as a second verse); they went back in and layed their verses after I left; loved the way they worked, it was quick and painless; their studio is awesome too; then when Henry Stone decided he wanted this song, earthquake refused to give up the rights and Henry decided he wouldn't use it; At the time ,i was hot because I wanted the song to be released in at least some fashion; Now, in retro, I'm glad they didn't fold for him and still love the song, although it was lost in the shuffle. Written by ALBERRO, Spitball and Simon Sayz.

Outta Control (feat. EARTQUAKE INSTITUTE) (2007)

RECORDED IN THE WEE HOURS ONE MORNING IN A STUDIO DUBBED THE PROVING GROUNDZ IN STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA; AFTER A HEAVY NIGHT OF PARTYING AND SMOKING CRYSTAL METH IN 2000; DRIVING AROUND IN A WHITE BEAMER, TEARING UP SHIT WITH VARIOUS STOCKTONIAN CHARACTERS INCL. CHEKKGODD AND THE BONKERZ CLICK ALL NIGHT, WHILE WRITING TO A FAST PACED BEAT SOON TO BE ON ELS' NEW ALBUM, ENDED UP RUSHING BROTHER BEN THAT MORN, INSISTING ON RECORDING WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE THIS, WRITTEN BY GABE ALBERRO; EVEN INSISTED THAT CHEKKGODD DO BACKGROUND VOCALS, WHO NEVER RAPPED AND COULD BARELY EVEN SPEAK CORRECTLY (CALLED HIM MUMBLES, HE WAS ALWAYS HIGH ON THAT GAK)CAME OUT OF THE BOOTH AND GOT THE THUMBS UP FROM ELS AND HIS GIRL SITTING ON THE FUTON AND BRO BEN WAS LIKE 'WHAT IS THIS?'  I SHRUGGED AND MASHED IN BEamER 2 CONTINUE PARTYING; SONG LATER ENDED UP ON CLASSIC ALBUM 'ANTIKZ OF THE RAGGED' THE SAMPLE FROM THE ANSWERING MACHINE IS REAL FROM A CONVO BETWEEN ME AND A CHICK @ 16 OR 17...

I MAY B (2000)

The second song recorded in 99-2000 for album ANTIKZ of the RAGGED; It's abstarct and has several meanings per line; 'personal favorite of that entire era, proud to have been a part of that number' 

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