Track-by-Track#1: Cover /Amzing ft. Mouse & Supreme (Prod. KanYe West)

With Love, from mC
(Cover)

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Cover:
In my own mind I'm always on some artsy fartsy shit and I pick different symbols, colors, items, etc; to express my innermost thoughts/emotions. With the cover of this project I really wanted the giving motion to be understood ((c)title) and after a couple of maybe's, I found this image and thought it captured the feeling exactly. I loved the tape because before mp3's, iPods, CDs and CD players there was a Walkman..which played these awesome little tapes. And around this era was when I found myself starting to REALLY enjoy music. So in that way it symbolizes a start of things.
The color was originally minus the reddish-tint on the tape, but as time went on, the entire time frame during which I made these songs started to have a different personal meaning because of relationships with people changing and other happenings in my life.



The significance with red is that, I associate that time period with a major romance in my life, which ended. But even more-so a car accident, which I suffer these graphic flashbacks from, and in these flashbacks I just see red everywhere. So in what mimics a coping strategy, I released these 'old' songs..in order to 'release' my mindstate from those times and stresses.


Amzing ft. Mouse aka the Waldorf Poster Boy & Supreme

My verse on this song was meant to represent something of a come-up, but not in the traditional sense. Instead of coming into any type of fame or fortune, its really just coming into a favorable light period and as a person who hasn't always had the best self-esteem its a little triumphant, but without losing the feeling of past, more bleak realities.

"Dimes tend to get drunk and tell me they like my swag/
and if that was you, you'd probably say that trying to brag/
but me? ...that just balances out the bad, luck I had/
with scaliwags all in my past/ but i'm past all the bitterness"

To me lines like that illustrate, basically that I wasn't always the hot shit on the block, so from that... to this.
and then the line at the end:

"plus i'm, oh so, honest when revealing it/
(w)rappers just good at concealing it...amazing

is just supposed to be off of some 'I'm not a rapper... i'm a emcee/mC" type shit.

So I hope that gives everyone a little insight.
next: Track-by-Track #2 mC@work / MD

_mC

With Love...

via: www.mC-bsides.blogspot.com

#Random
But here's a little project I put together during my previous semester.
These tracks are a little rough/unmixed/incomplete
but they were all made in love.
Over the next 2 or so weeks i'll give some commentary on each of the tracks
Enjoy!
With Love... from mC (The Red Tape)






Dedicated to everyone who ever loved, music, another or life...


_mC

P.S. Somethings you never learn! ::smacks face::

Complicated like.

simply
shits complicated like a young man being left heartbroken
only to realize that he'd become just like those who he'd left the same way in the past
like.
expecting a straight answer but my mind works in circles so i can't really seem to give it to you like that
like.
All those things you never said while I cared to hear them, falling like rain upon my deaf ears...until they started to flood my thoughts
like.
keeping it to yourself, only to (we)blog and hope everyone finds out how you feel.
like.
How i'm intentionally not a good friend..cause they wasn't 'good' friends...but instead of making myself or things better, it only makes everything worse(r)
like.
How I need space..and someone offering a helping hand
like.
I wish I could disappear...and be everywhere
like.
life.




_mC

Enjoy the beat while it lasts,
I thought to myself as I watched the plunge.
My heart had bid its farewell to the rest of my being
choosing death over this life.
Using what strength I had left, he cut himself out.
my wounded sternum a diving board
the concrete beneath my feet an Olympic sized swimming pool.
stretched his arms out over his head readying diving position.
step.step.step.bounce.bounce.
splat.
a little writhing in pain,
but he had endured so much that this final bit was relief
goodbye.


_mC

PS.
IDon'tFeelSoGood:(

Kid Cudi (Light side)

...Kinda sorta expressed exactly the shit I be on.

Very few things phase me because I am | | | | |[{not}]| | | | | | on this planet.
Mentally I've come to exist on a plane that allows me to see all life as trivial and meaningless.
So to counteract this, I give my life meaning on a daily basis and strive to be strife free.



_mC

PS.
...but maybe I'm just pon de gangja
but since I'm not i'll just (p)resume that I be on that other sht.

The Lonely Stoner.

I often find myself, solo in the rafters, examining people, words, actions. Its almost surreal, watching the real world. So, like a TV show I watch the plots play out, the twists, the turns, people smiling for the camera only to reveal their ugly side when they think no one is looking...right.
Or maybe your the big brave hero, and nobody sees the chinks in your armour?
Either way..the majority of what I see I don't like...
So I just keep to myself, my lack of words is rarely nothing to say...
Encapsuled in my own.
Who am I to judge.
who are you...
....to free his mind at night.


_mC

Pretty Girl...

[via www.mC-bsides.blogspot.com]

...don't frown when you see me.

and of course that doesn't make any sense..but maybe those words might hold some relevance sooner or later.
This cut that i'm taking out of the vault pretty much came from my long nights waiting tables, my man YB knows EXACTLY what i'm talking about.
I tend to zone out and observe my surroundings (possibly due to my studies*) when i'm at work, because its almost weird, I think about how everyone who works here ended up here and things of that nature. Just on some "I'd hate to still be working this job if i was in my 30's " type of stuff.
So I took that basic feeling, and talked about it from a perspective of someone who's dropped out of college and is at said job, just feeling a little desperate. I feel like people can relate to something like that.
plus i mean niggas be rapping...all that
but anyways here it is:
complete with BSU theme'd Artwork;


http://usershare.net/3k1bd8w5e2tv


_mC

*Horticulture