HEY YALL!!

Happy Holiday's everyone..
well while most people in the music business "phone it in" after thanksgiving,
we work until December 22-23 every year..
(usually in a set of non stop daily writing sessions)

this month we are in the studio with The Clutch working on music for a few artists including Jaheim & a new artist The Clutch & Divine Mill have named Chris Lawrence

See the posts below this to check some flix of the sessions..
the songs we finished up are AMAZING....

2009 is gonna be an even bigger year than 2008 for us..

Balewa (The Clutch) & Precise

Precise & Jaheim..

we came up with Jaheim, we met way back (around a decade ago) when he was still working on demos for his first album, and we were just starting to produce & write..

he would come all the way out to Brooklyn to hang out..with a half broken radio playing "really rough mixes" of his demos

It was easy to see at that time that he was an extreme talent..
it's so nice to see him enjoy his success

BILLBOARD YEAR END CHART NEWS!!!!

BILLBOARD Magazine
dropped it's year end chart for 2008 and


DIVINE MILL
is
the #3
ADULT R&B IMPRINT FOR 2008!!

ALSO
JAHEIM IS THE #1 HOT ADULT R&B ARTIST
NOEL GOURDIN CAME IN AT#6


AND
ON THE HOT ADULT R&B SONGS CHART
JAHEIM'S "NEVER" IS THE #1 SONG OF 2008
&
NOEL GOURDIN'S "THE RIVER" IS #7!!!


and we have WAAAAAAAYYYYY more planned for 2009!!!

WRITING SESSION - THE CLUTCH DAY 2

Another day writing with Balewa Muhammed & Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, of the Clutch
Today we are joined by Eritza Laues, two AMAZING records were finished today..

One For Jaheim and one for Divine Mill & The Clutch's new artist Chris Lawrence

Balewa (The Clutch) getting ready to lay down one of the songs

Zeke (The Clutch) & Precise (Lady & A Tramp) at the board..

90% of the time Balewa's demos (the Clutch),
sound better than the finished song cut on the artist..

Eritza Laues turning the tables on the paparazzi!! (me)

Zeke & Balewa (The Clutch) writing with Eritza Laues & Precise..

Precise writing analog..(pen & paper) and Eritza writing digital..typing on her phone...LOL

Pulse music's own JK adding sweet soul guitars to the songs!!

Divine Mill & The Clutch's new artist Chris Lawrence..watch for him..

Meilman (Pulse NY), Tramp (lady & A Tramp) & Ray Angry

IN THE STUDIO - THE CLUTCH DAY 1

Back in the studio today writing with Balewa Muhammad & Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis,
of the Clutch..while we were setting up guess who rings on the I-chat..
none other than the always entertaining and extremely talented Eritza Laues..

we tell her we're working today and she needs to come on down...
in an hour or so she was in the house and ready to work..

Precise & Eritza got to work writing with Divine Mill & The Clutch's
new artist Chris Lawrence

Kaygee & Ray Angry cooking up a treat!!

Miss Eritza Laues

IN THE STUDIO - NAUGHTY BY NATURE!!

So we are back in the studio working on Tracks and hooks for Naughty By Nature
hanging out and vibing on some ideas was Harlem's own F-Mos ,
Queens own Sonny Black, Precise & songwriter Davila

As usual we had a lot of fun and a lot of great ideas and songs came out of the collaboration

Precise & Davila

Precise & Alexis (Makaveli Branded)

F-Mos & Kaygee goin' over ideas

We grabbed Marissa out of Cliff's room to do the vocal for one of the hooks...CRAZY!!

F-Mos, Sonny Black, Davila & Kaygee

PRECISE IN THE STUDIO WITH CANDACE JONES

A lil preview of PRECISE's New single

"Gordon Gartrelle"
feat. Candace Jones




As usual we had a ball working at SMT with Donna & Brian and Ms. Jones is always a character we LOVE CANDACE!!!

IN THE STUDIO - Da BEATMINERZ

Typical Day in the studio working on Naughty By Nature's album
Evil Dee & Mr. Walt came through to play joints

I always try to get Mr Walt to get excited about new advancements in music tech..but Walt is a SP1200 & Mpc 3000 guy (and obviously it works like a charm for him)




TRAMP

FIX YA FACE HAS A NEW LOOK!!!

MY
BEAUTY & WELLNESS BLOG-A-ZINE
FIX YA FACE


has a great new look and a great new interview with the CEO of Juice Beauty
KAREN BENHKE

click the above pic to come by and check it out

PRECISE

R.I.P - SHAKIR STEWART

R.I.P
SHAKIR STEWART

So I was on twitter, just Tweetin' away
and i got a Tweet about MY DUDE Shakir Stewart having passed..

Shakir was in my opinion one of the only REAL publishing guys in the biz..the first day I met him..he darted away from me (after our meeting) into the street to run after a car service (that had a well known R&B star in it) ..in order to place a record...(and the record got placed because he put the song in the artist's hand)

for years he was always a good friend and one of MY go-to's for ideas and advice,
he always had a sense of what was next, and what was best for his acts...

He will be sorely missed..

Shakir was recently promoted to Executive Vice President of Def Jam Records

He died of an apparent suicide today. Details are sketchy, but WVEE DJ Greg Street, is currently dedicating his evening show to my Friend Shakir.

Shakir was a graduate of Morehouse College, & has been the go-to-guy for finding talent since his days at LaFace Records & L.A. Reids Hitco Publishing company from 2000 to 2004, when he brought R&B siren Ciara to the company. He also played an integral role in bringing Beyonce to the firm.

The urban music industry is shocked by the news and my sincere condolences go out to His family

THE SESSION 10/29

Ok so every few months this year marketing maven Monee Perry
(along with her Wai big media team)
put together this Networking event.. It's called "The Session"
it is essentially a Music industry night that loosely focuses on publishing.. songwriters, lawyers, managers, producers and Label Exec's are in attendance (Sal What's up)

This month it was being held at Pulse NYC (our recording home) for the 2nd time

as usual some talented people came through and connected...we were so busy talking that we didn't take many pictures but here's a few of the ones we did manage to take..

Tramp, Ray, Ms. Monee & Kaygee

Precise & Sakiya Sandifer

Some party goers

Sakiya, Precise, A. Giles, Kim & Tramp

Tramp & Kim Jackson

Artist/songwriters/Sisters Kristen & Shaina

Professional Hustler Curtis Richardson

DA BEATMINERZ!!

Right before tonight event "the Session" started, we got a visit from the
legendary Evil D & Mr. Walt aka Da Beatminerz

They Dropped by to Play some beats for Naughty for the new Album
Da Beatminerz are part of our brooklyn family,

Vinny, Kaygee, Beekay, & Evil Dee

Mr. Walt...

we have known E & Walt since the early 90's and feel they are still some of the best producers making music today...

this is a lil video of us messing with Walt about being old school...

PULSE MUSIC NYC PARTY TIME!!!

So, as the Cosmopolitan Cool Kids that we are...we were working up at the studio and came out to see our friend Leon (the actor) who also uses the studio as a home base for his ventures and his Band Leon & The Peoples..

he was setting up a impromptu surprise party for his beautiful girlfriend Ebony

Ebony (right) and friends

The Homie Royce the 5'9"

Kaygee Kicking it with Wesley Snipes..oh...didn't i say that Nino Brown was in the house??

Ebony's Birthday cake..

Kaygee happy that they finally served the Jamaican jerk chicken and peas & rice
(we were working all day, and didn't stop to eat)

Leon making a speech

and then doing his best "David Ruffin"

Ironically, David Ruffin's son David Jr..was doing his best Leon..

The lounge at the studio filled with beautiful people and great Conversations..
(oh yeah...let's Do it Wesley!!...reach out)