Posts Tagged ‘d-pryde’

Back from vacay… and I’m sorry!

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Yea yea yea, it’s been awhile since I blogged up in here; something I was constantly reminded about the past few weeks from everyone with the random texts and e-mails.. “UPDATE YOUR SITE ALREADY!!!” “YOU SAID YOU’D UPDATE IT YESTERDAY” etc.

My bad. I have no excuse.

So I’ll leave it at that haha

But back to the music tip… I’ve done a few gigs the past couple of weeks, most notably “Bringing It Back” and “Fresh Kicks.” “Bringing It Back” at Cusina Lounge was a special one to me, in the sense that it was my first time performing at Bathurst & Wilson, a predominantly Filipino community of Toronto that I often neglect since I am from the East (Scartown stand up!)… But yea, it was all love, my peoples came down, and I know my brother/roommate UGN Son was definitely happy with the turnout that night. “Fresh Kicks” was dope also since, I dunno how, but, I managed to perform with a sore throat and I killed it. To my fellow artists out there, you know those nights where you’re just on stage and hitting every cue, feeling cocky as fuck because you’ve never heard yourself sound better? Yup, that was it at “Fresh Kicks.” Big ups to MPz (Vinsane & Brandnew) for putting me on that night and big ups to Famous, KDB, Krhyme Syndicate, A-Status, and all the other artists in the house that night.

As far as my album… As I mentioned above, I’ve had a sore throat that just won’t go away. I can’t record in this state so the album has been pushed back. But my loss is your gain since I’ve been taking this opportunity to just keep writing and writing.. meaning, the album keeps getting new tracks and tracks.

I also spent the past month on vacation in Las Vegas!!! I left my heart there (Tim and Jervy knows where!!!) and I’m just in love with the West Coast now. The palm trees, the cloudless skies, the friendly people, the atmosphere. Damn, it’s enough to make me go back on the reg… Actually, hell yea, I’m going back in November. Maybe I can win back all the money I lost from playing craps and roulette.

Regarding the updates of this website… I know I said I’d be updating with a feature every Sunday, but I’ve found that there’s so much prep work I have to do with my album that I can’t find the time to go interview the people I wanted, write the music reviews, etc. So as of now, all Sunday features will be postponed until my album is released. Sorry, but that’s how it goes.

Anyway, here’s the flyers to the two shows I didn’t get to put up:

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Also, here’s a pic of me with UGN Son and D-Pryde on TV after I performed at the Mabuhay festival:

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Anyway, I’ll be updating more regularly, but not the Sunday features… just me writing the realest shit I ever wrote!

PEACE

Roadtrip styles…

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Soo… it’s Friday July 17 and I’m just chillin at home before I hit up the Axis Of Evil show at Opera House tonight. I gotta send a shoutout to F.E.L.N from my Project Bounce days… and the rest of the PB crew: Bootleg, Gee Baby, Lannie, Profit, Maj, Joanna, Farrah, etc. If y’all reading this, get at me! I barely have anyone’s contact!!!

Anyway! Last week me and the homie Kev had a lil’ roadtrip and crossed the border. We took a couple vids and sent some random shoutouts to Marc Tang since he wasn’t with us this time (HOUSTON STREET!). Peep the footage:

Overall it was a crazy trip… picked up crazy gear, had good eats, and grabbed some patron:

tooooo many patrons!

tooooo many patrons!


Anyway again! Just some random stuff I wanna promote:

I’LL BE PERFORMING @ THE MABUHAY FESTIVAL TOMORROW FROM 12:40-12:55 WITH THE HOMIE D-PRYDE SO REACH

AAAAND

Big ups to my bro and roommate UGN Son for becoming the new co-host at TR!P radio… I’ll just cut and paste his facebook message here and y’all should check out the show on Wednesday nights y’heaaaarrd?

“Stay connected by taking dropping by at www.tripmedia.ca website for updates for upcoming topics, news, events and MUSIC from local and up an coming FILIPINO- CANADIAN Artists in the GTA , Canada and overseas..

For my pinoys and pinays in the GTA, this is your chance to be heard, your music aired on the radio–

We will be sending out updates on new Filipino artists in the scene, new music for your ears to savour, where to find the hottest urban pinoy/pinay gear, facts and figures about our community– and everything Filipino (all will be in tagalog for your listening and learning pleasure)–

TR!P can be heard on the radio dial 1610 am, chanell 951 on rogers cable,
www.tripmedia.ca; www.sanlorenzo.ca every wednesday NIGHTS!

Questions or Ideas please send it to trip1610@yahoo.ca or use the facebook group under topics or discussions of simply write in our wall!

Maraming SALAMAT and ABANGAN!

Radio hosts:
Ian Nillas
Jason Bagni”

FenaxiZ & The Jump Off 1 on Minerva TV

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Just another quick update!

Along with the rest of the artists from the first Jump Off, I was shown on FTV (Channel 606 on Rogers) as they featured highlights from the event and interviewed my main man UGN Son. Here’s the footage:

And I’m still working on getting footage from two weeks ago when FTV interviewed me, AJM, and D-Pryde.  But for now, just enjoy what’s up there!

ONE,

FenaxiZ

Recaps: Jump Off II & Rock The Bells

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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photo courtesy of Phlip Pinas

I just wanna congratulate UGN Son, AJM, and the staff at M-Studio for pulling off a crazy smooth show last Saturday. From the logistics, rehearsals, soundchecks, performances, etc. EVERYTHING was crisp.

The night started out with Vibrasonic Sessions, a live hip-hop band who set things off properly. Aside from the crazy instrumentation, there were b-boys, beatboxers, english AND tagalog MCs and impromptu freestyling sessions. TRULY, HIP-HOP WAS IN THE BUILDING THAT NIGHT AND IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE FILIPINO. Big ups to Pinoyz At Work, Natural Noyze/Karisma, D-Pryde, S Dot, and the list goes on and on and on and on. Give y’allselves a pat on the back ’cause history was made that night.

And here’s a lil’ pre-show footage outside M-Studio:

The show went laaaate into the night (what you expect with 25 artists!??!) and I gotta send out an apology to some of my ppls who didn’t know it would be that long. Next show though, I got y’all, believe it.

With that said, I was dead tiiiiiiiiiiiired the next day for Rock The Bells. We got there around 2pm, had some eats on a patio grill by Molson Amphitheater, and went in around the time Slum Village was leaving the stage. M.O.P came and managed to wake me up with “4 Alarm Blaze,” “Downtown Swingas,” “How About Some Hardcore?,” and “Ante Up.” After their set I went to buy a t-shirt and holy shit I got robbed. Not literally, of course, but… they were selling Slaughterhouse t-shirts for $40!!! I ended up getting one, but still. Argh.

So ya, SLAUGHTERHOUSE was next (click for bigger pic):

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L-R: Budden, Crooked, Ortiz, Royce

Not much else to say except they KILLED it.

After, Tech N9ne graced the stage and was met with mixed reactions. K’Naan and his band were next and actually got love from the Screwface hometown. Reflection Eternal did pretty good though I’ve seen Talib do better. RZA came in and went through all his different eras from the Gravediggaz right up to Bobby Digital. After Prince Rakeem was EPMD as they ran through some classics. Big Boi followed and was a highlight of the night as he went through most of the Outkast catalog. Mos Def came through with an alright set, which was redeemed by a Black Star reunion as they went through “Definition,” “RE:Definition,” and “Respiration.” Finally, Nas and Damien Marley finished off the night with seperate solo sets until joining together to preview some tracks off their upcoming “Distant Relatives” album and end it off with “Road To Zion” of course. Between sets, KRS-ONE and Supernatural held it down on the freestyle tip with Pete Rock on the wax.

All in all a great day to celebrate hip-hop and I was just happy to get home and SLEEP that night.

I’ll end off the post with a pic from the BBQ on Sat:

Alcohol does = poison

Alcohol does = poison

PEACE,

FENAXIZ

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on TV

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Over the weekend, I was on FTV (Channel 606 on Rogers) with the homies AJM and D-Pryde.

I’m working on getting the footage to throw up on YouTube but for now here’s a sneak peak of us on set:

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on FTV

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on FTV

We then grabbed some eats at a trippy kebab house which looked like a wedding hall:

AJM, FenaxiZ, & D-Pryde getting their grub on

AJM, FenaxiZ, & D-Pryde getting their grub on

We were each seperately interviewed, but all three of us were there for the main purpose of promoting our show on July 4th. Peace to Gino and Anne for being cool hosts and I hope to be on the show again!

Oh ya, one last thing. R.I.P Michael Jackson. Here’s me and UGN at M-Studio’s Michael Jackson tribute night just chilling at the bar:

FenaxiZ & UGN

FenaxiZ & UGN