Gifts... Gifts.. Gifts...

Gifts are everywhere... 

Some, Born with gifts...

Be thankful for your gift...

No matter what it is...

Just be happy!!! lol

Speaking of gifts.. 

Watch as Tone utilizes one of his gifts..haha

.....

This is probably live updates at its best right now... He just spit this like an hour ago haha...
My gift from me to you... PEACE *DeadOn*

-D.WIlkes

Happy/Merry Christmas...

What a wonderful feeeeeling hahah.. i guess...
But yea had to post on the holiday...
With the band as we speak, makin beats n shit...
It never stops... Happy Holidays*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

P.S. You should MOST Definitely watch out for an artist that goes by the name "SAUNTIAGO" real talk... 2009 is coming..

Wus Good...?

Here's a cypher from a minute ago... Niggas was hype lol
shits all out of order haha...
Let's see....

"Good things Come to those who wait" *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Cudi goes in...

Wish i coulda heard the beat.. haha but yea.. he actually freestyled.. That's what's up... Kilt the jamaican accent .....Ohio BABY! lol

PROTOOLS*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Funny Shit...

lol.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

That One Type type...

Shoulda posted this a minute ago.. but yea, Moxy New CD release this friday... Not sure if its gonna be on the net or not.... i'm thinkin it will be tho... 

Holla at me Mox!... 1

*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Money Goes Around...

"Money, Money Goes Around... " I love that hook...
Its the truth tho... Get how you want it.. right?

New video... check it out..
Shouts to FrankRamz... Showin mad love.. (medusaville.blogspot.com) Check...
I gotta add a blogroll or somethin... Ima do it when i'm done with this...

But, Winter break comin up...
YCM is gonna OD the entire time...

Believe it.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Real Wierd right now....

Yea.. Shits crazy right now.
In a wierd way.
Series of events Don't happen for nothin.
Some sort of sign.
Maybe.
Hopefully.
lol
Peace nigga.

*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

"Fox News is Racist!"

Disgusting Sauntiago verse.... 

How can you not feel this?.... All real shit... 

Listen "FUCKA!"

"Dawg, You Not productive, 

You a waste of flesh.

We young Rookies,

But We outplay The vets." 

*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Look...

Heres another freestyle slash "clown" session lol... 

Remember the runnin-man dance??... i hope so... had to kill it lol.  

I think this is one of Tone's best freestyles.. he just keeps getting better...

WHERE YOU AT GRENADE?!? hahah

You a fool L.B... haha

Shouts to Bliss Skate Co...

Check it out. Peace. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Give him another Beer...

This shit cracks me up every time i watch it.. Ak, you a fool for this.lol *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Good Morning...

I Almost forgot...
Check out My nigga Kandid's Newest Mixtape (below)...1.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Download Mixtape | Provided by DatPiff.com

My Bad...

Yea, Yea, Yea,.... So the update.Um
"YCM has ADD".. thats it..
SikeNA.. shits been cool.. Had a Sauntiago visit (video comin soon)... It was my First Time meeting the guy.. Gotta Say "Look OUT for this dude!!". real talk. he's a beast.."Keep 2-5 Krons"...

My cousin L.B came to visit from ATL.. you wild cuz haha. Shouts to B.S.C. (video comin soon)
What else??

hm, I see good things for YCM and DeadOn Productions... We just gotta stay focused lookin boy... Self-doubt is a Biatch...Forreal

"Benz paid fo', friends they roll...
Private jets down to Turks and Caicos"

-Jay Z "What More Can I Say"

Yea nigga lol...
...
I'm up super late watchin videos from worldstarhiphop and i ran into this freestyle from mickey factz... I think it was DEECE...he went for a minute but.. some of it was shakey.. check it out.



Ion kno...Um. stay tuned i guess. Peace *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

The Conclusion...

Yea, i definitely haven't been on my blogger shit... School been kickin my ass forreal.. 

But,  YCM finally came up with a good name for the first mixtape.. "Monkey See Monkey Do"... Should be some hot fire on there... No exact release date yet... might be sooner than expected... 

I Posted two new videos.. one is another tone freestyle, and the other is like a promo video i put together... Let me know what you think about it... Peace.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Election Day...

I been slackin on my blogger game BUT.. whatever. im back...
We Had a crazy Halloween weekend up at OU.. shit was wild.. Got some footage of course lol. Will be posted soon..
But yea its election day.. the day everyone has been waiting for... Im anxious to see the outcome..
I found an article about todays election.. check it.

(from allhiphop.com)

Minister Farrakhan recently spoke and offered recommendation on what to do IF Barack Obama should actually win this thing called an election. I know some of you won't read it and some of you will. I believe this was definitely geared towards Black people, but I personally think it can apply to anybody overjoyed at an Obama win. He basically says stay sober and don't party like its 1999, because there are still a lot of people that don't want this to happen. And they are often violent and racist people - not all, but some. Anyway, here it is:"Here's my counsel to you.
If brother (Barack Obama) wins, there will be more joy in the hearts of so many. More than we have ever experienced probably in our lives. People my age and older who have lived 75, 80, 85, 90 years will not mind dying because they will say in death, I saw what I never thought I would see in my lifetime.But then others are going to go out in the street and celebrate with wild joy and revelry as though it was the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series, but that's not wise. That's not wise because your joy is somebody else's sadness and in your moment of revelry, there are those who will be so angry they can't get to him (Barack Obama) but they can get to you. And if you're out late at night just walking the street happy and drunk, you smoked a few of those funny cigarettes, you're just so happy and overjoyed.Then someone rolls up on you, they don't tell you who they are but they're undercover and you're in a spot where they can just take your life. Don't think that some are not willing to do that with what we've heard coming from talk radio about people really hateful and would kill him (Barack Obama), but if they can't get to him and you are out drunk and partying 2, 3 o'clock in the morning when you should have been home.
How many Black people may die on that night across this nation. And just suppose the election is stolen. In your frustration, are you going to go out now and set fires and loot and act crazy. Not only is the S.W.A.T. Team ready and the National Guard but the Federal troops are already "posse comitatus" which forbids the Federal troops fr interfering in domestic affairs that's already put to the side now. If you act the fool you will be slaughtered.So my counsel to you would be if he wins, rejoice intelligently. Don't overdo it. The Quran says it like this, 'when Allah's help and victory comes and you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies celebrate the praise of Thy Lord and ask His protection.' Well I'm not now talking about a victory in terms of men and women coming to the ranks of Islam in companies. I'm talking about a victory that we never expected but now we're full of expectancy of because we've heard the polls. If you win, celebrate the praise of God who brought us fr a mighty long way and made us in a time like this to ascend to the highest post in one of the greatest countries in the history of the world.Don't act foolishly because Obama's rise is the rise of all of us who would be risen by his rise. Who would be inspired by his rise. These young children that are here who probably want an NBA contract or an NFL contract and want to be singers & comedians. Now they say well the sky is the limit. I can be what I want to be. Well, that's a key that can't ever go back in the box again."

True shit of course... Im out. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Oh yea...

I found an old video from like a month ago... threw some shit on it and posted it. lol.. 

We got like a collection of videos so far.. its crazy... and new ones are bein made at the same time..

Watch the progress... *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Can you really Freestyle?

Freestyle rap
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Freestyle rap is an improvisational form of rapping, performed with few or no previously composed lyrics, which is said to reflect a direct mapping of the mental state and performing situation of the artist. It is non-scripted, non-rehearsed, uncut, and the rawest form of hip-hop. Artists will often refer to places and objects in their immediate setting. Freestyle rapping forces an individual to think on the spot, describe their surroundings, and, to a certain degree, rap uncensored from what is inside. It is similar in this sense to improvisational music or acting and draws comparisons to improvisational jazz in particular.

I think freestyle rap is sometimes taken for granted... People should understand what freestyling actually is (see above) ..and you will notice that most rappers dont actually freestyle when asked to. All the youtube videos i labeled"freestyle", are ACTUAL freestyles...

It takes skill to come up with ideas quickly that make sense together... It's nothin to remember a few written lyrics then recite them to a beat and call it a "freestyle"... that's weak...

Usually you can tell if the emcee is actually freestyling by the way they deliver and the content of the rhymes... In real freestyles you will usually have short pauses or mess-ups and the content will usually be many different topics....

"Call it a Lyrical Brainstorm" or "Blogging to a beat"

In my opinion, real artists should be able to freestyle... (ex. Charles Hamilton, Tone, Grenade, Q-tip, Akil Dasan, Scriyl ect.).. thats just a few i can think of right off the top... I'm sure theres way more... BUT

Props goes to all the emcees that can freestyle... Ya'll deserve more recognition. PEACE.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Dumb it Down...

Aight i think we've found the instrumental of the month... "Dumb it Down" by lupe. I love that beat.. Lupe ripped it of course, only dumb niggas would say he didn't haha.. 

Last night was fun... we didnt even go out but still managed to have a good time. kicked a few freestyles, watched some preseason basketball. I'm mad my dude Derek Rose got injured... i think he'll bounce back tho... movin on...

Right now we in the process of movin to a new spot to get the studio poppin... cant wait for that.. stay tuned.

Heres a fresh video from last night.. enjoy. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

"My bars are catchin FIRE!"

-Tone

Boredom Brings Production..

Last night Gabe and I was on some bored shit, so we started goin through instrumentals... and ran into this style P one. CRACK is what we call it haha I think we gonna do more with this beat....

Of course gabe had to spit over it..  this nigga got bars for days.. PLEASE no swagger jackery.. Thanks.

I recorded it.. duh. YCM keepin it movin....

What else... 

Not shit. Peace. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Progress...

Aight the myspace is finally up.. Myspace.com/ycmdeadon.. we still got work to do on it.. Stay posted. *DeadOn*

-D. Wilkes

lol...

Jam Session..

I love just chillin wit my team.. playin our own beats and just freestylin. Shits fun.

Grenade hasn't been around much cuz of school and work, which is shitty... 

Shouts to AK steel (Myspace.com/akstizz) for droppin the beat on the Tone freestyle I put on The playlist... Shits tight.

Heres the newest youtube video.. Its like 7 minutes... I'm starting to get my video editing skills on point. The Mac is where its at.. lol. Thats all i got tho. Peace *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

And We Live in Ohio...

Are u serious?!... Come on now... Forreal? *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Egos were tested... Kinda.

Tonight was the scribblejam Prelim MC battle.. Tone signed up on some spurr of the moment ish. He went against some older cat.. He was more of a comedian like moxy said.. Shouts to Moxy for winnin that shit...Represent... this nigga was actin a ass.. lol But yea.. Tone lost. dude won the crowd( the judges) with his "funny" punchlines.. and sayin Shit that wasnt really true... I felt like it wasnt really a battle showcasin true mc talent.. if the crowd liked you, you won.. But yea.. thas how battlin is most of the time.. and it be Sooo shitty to lose on some bs... I think Tone would get dude if he had another chance.. Its whatever tho.. YCM still here.

We still on our grind.. trynna make hits..

You good bro... *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Entertainment..

It tuesday night..  Me n rezai chillin trynna get some music done, as far as beats or whatever haha but yea mike dropped a few joints.. 

I managed to record some stuff wit my laptop.. Siiiiiii. lol check it out. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

  

Whats new?!!

Nothin Forreal haha.. We had a session tonight, without rezai (sucks right?).. He was busy doin schoolwork or whatever... Its pretty hard to be a musician (or do music) and go to school at the same time..You gotta balance it all out... We spend hours out of the day and sometimes full days doing strictly MUSIC, its crazy.
We'll manage tho..

oh yea.. It's my birthday NIGGA. im 20. Sweet. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes.. put somethin in the air..

YCM is still workin.. creatin.. makin. CRACK..
We gotta put some songs up.. yea thats comin.... Keep your eyes open. Minds too. Peace.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Finally...

What we've all been waiting for lol.. the video of YCM's first live show is finally up... Recorded by none other than D.Wilkes... haha sorry for the unsteadiness, I was rockin wit the music. BUT check us out..

We had some Tech difficulties towards the end but we managed to "Work it out, How we usually do."...

Feedback is good.. eh?.. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Kimbo Got Sliced!

So Tonight at tone's crib we watched the Kimbo fight.. (this nigga)... The fight lasted about 30 seconds and kimbo was DONE!.. He got knocked out on some retarded shit.. I think he got outsmarted.. Kimbo was trynna got straight at dude and dude was backin up like "woah".. he waited for the perfect opening and he took it... Kimbo was stunned after the first blow.. Then dude just Tee'd off lol... The fight was kinda dissapointing.. No worries tho Kimbo.. "The after-party is still goin down!"lol lookin ass nigga.....

The music factory is still up n runnin.. .*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Freestyle Session..!

One of many freestyle sessions.... check.... Shouts to D.Woods and Snax...*DeadOn*

Process...Process... Process.

All this uploadin stuff takes For.. Ev.. Err lol.. reminds me of the sandlot. But im in the process of uploadin hella shit, My pc might break down... hopefully it dont. But as far as YCM, we been workin, recordin, and livin life. Yes, we have lives besides music... BUT music takes the majority of it. F everything else. MUSIC IS LIFE lol.. I threw a new beat up, compliments of Mr.Rezai. Called it "Quick" because of how quick we made it.. When me n Rezai collab on a beat it always comes out sooo different than any other beat.. I think its dope tho.

So whats next? Possibly a YCM performance at mine and G-Rou's b-day party. Oh, and Ms.Doyle. haha forgot its her party too.. Look out for that.Lets see...

Um, "Go and get endorsed, Hit the Golf Course...." lol

The artwork above was done by Snackboi.. He's nice wit the art. check him out http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7157637.. Fix yo URL NIGGA lol. Im out!. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

YCM...

Why see HIM?
When you can see US.
In God we trust.
Any compettition..
We will crush.
So...
Hop on our bus..
Or get left in our gust.
Like a pile of Dust.TRUST.*DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

The First Show...

Tonight was our first show.. it was at the 787 factory in convington KY.. I think we did aight for a 1st show.. We can only get better right? but uh, Shouts to Moxy for hookin us up wit that. check him out Myspace.com/moxy. Yes.

I got mass footage and pics from the show i need to post.. that should be comin soon... so.. yea.. back to the music. peace *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

This nigga...

I'm sure most of yall have seen the r.kelly interview on BET.. saddenning right?.. I stumbled upon this video that was worth sharing.. this is how the interview shoulda went lol..*DeadOn*


-D.Wilkes

Its Been Awhile...

Its been awhile since i wrote somethin.. but everythings been comin together SLOWLY.. made some phone calls.... shouts to Sauntiago. Mike told me about the call..

But, Protools is in the making..

Im short on words right now maybe my brain is movin too fast i dont kno.. Jus stay glued. peace "DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

more youtube videos comin soon.. freestyles,sessions.. everything.

Just Another Day... What can i Say?

ok...Niggas was on they A-game today.. gotta give props.. this shit dont stop.. we workin NONSTOP!.. lol let me stop. damn.. Sike na but yea.. we had another session tonight.. Mike is what you call a Musician.. this nigga kno how to play like every instrument.... And he can sing! damn.. I hate braggin about our shit but you gotta give props where need be..Feel me?.. haha.. Overall, tonight was a productive night.. Hooks,Verses.. all that.. Tone and Rousseau make a sick combo... and you might even get a verse from me every now n then lol. i Dont really be on my rap shit.. BUT my niggas DO!...

I got hella songs stuck in my head right now thanks to Rezai...

"People dont understand how i like to think....."

We keepin it movin... More youtube vieos comin soon. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

Hate vs. Opinion..

HATE–verb (used with object) 1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.
–verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.
–noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility

Aight.. So today i was watchin tv and that "Hi hater" video came on.. and i told one a my close friends that shit was weak.. So she preceded to call me a hater haha i wasnt trynna hate tho it was jus my opinion. I've never been one to hate or whatever... When people state they negative opinion towards somethin it comes off as hate these days.. is it jus an opposing position or could it be hatin' in disguise?lol.. Some people say jealousy has to come wit the negative opinion.. iono.. But say for instance a nigga walk up to you a say yo shoes aint fresh and u kno in the back of yo head yo shits fresh.. yu gon call this nigga a hater for statin his opinion...People gon be scared to say how they feel in fear of bein called a hater.. Cuz you kno NOONE wants to be considered a hater... smh

I think all this "Hi hater" shit needs to stop.. I seen they got t-shirts now. haha.. but yea the term hater has been thrown around entirely too loosely.. jus cuz a nigga dont agree wit yu dont mean they hatin.. when its all said and done JUS DO YOU. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

These dudes got the right idea...

Tone Freestyle.. "Urban but Suburban"

Heres the freestyle from last night.. straight from the top.. listen. *DeadOn*

-D.Wilkes

"Im thinkin DAMN" lol

Session...

Tonight we had a lil session at my bros crib... when i say session i mean brainstorming, freestylin', beatmakin... etc.... But yea mike dropped some new hotshit.. I think he puttin em on his myspace later.. iono tho.. check n see..... myspace.com/deadlustband.. case u forgot..

Tone was freestylin for a minute tonight.. this nigga come up wit hotshit like its nothin.... it make me think rappers these days try too hard.. or maybe Tony is jus talented? ya'll can be the judge LATER haha actually we did record part of his freestyle. I think im gonna throw it on youtube.... and post it later.. but for now.. be afraid..lol sike na but.. BE ON THE LOOKOUT! *DeadOn*

- D.Wilkes

Skyline ass niggas...

Its Just The Beginning.....

So today Tone hit me up like "yo you should set us up a blog"... so i did.. Ha, Im D. Wilkes by the way(myspace.com/deewilkes).. Tone is my big bro...i do all the internet shit.. We also got MikeRezai.. check him out (myspace.com/deadlustband).. he drops beats.. then we got Tone AKA "Edward scissors" of course,He's an up and coming emcee.. you most definately will be hearing more from him... and last we got GabeRousseau (roo-so) aka "the Grenade", another flame emcee.. niggas been sleepin.. time to wake up hahah....its more people to come but now you kno the main people.. so Lets keep it movin'....

Deadonproductions/YCM (Young. Creative. Minds/Monkeys) is a forming group of artists and producers from Cincinnati,Ohio. We plan on creating music and eventually branchin' off to other things in the industry. We'll see how everything goes..We been usin' laptops and fruity loops these past few days.. just to get some rough draft shit down before we get the real studio poppin... So be on the lookout. Peace.*DeadOn*

- D.Wilkes

oh yea, the myspace will be up soon.. so look out for that too.