Artists On The Rise:JotsOne (April Edition)
Jotsone has been making the rounds in the Providence scene for a minute now. I had a chance to stop him and talk to him about life and the pursuit of whats dope. interested? good. click the read more link already!!
Jotsone - Hungry
HW: Let the world know what your name is and what you do.
Jotsone: my name is JotsOne, and i sleep, rapping in time between naps.
HW: What are your major influences.
Jotsone: major influences include the wu-tang, j dilla, the whole native tongues movement, mf doom, immortal technique, definitive jux, but also all of hip-hop in general, both good and shitty.
HW: When did you start rapping? what was your first reaction after making your first track?
Jotsone: i started rapping in high school on and off, but i got serious about it when i was about 17. when i finished my first track, i didnt really have much of a reaction, other than probably saying ‘wow, i’m a rapper now i guess.
HW: Interesting you just knew that this was it?
Jotsone: i just didn’t really even know what the hell i was doing at that point. i did it just to see if i could do it, and i liked doing it, so i made the decision to run with it a bit more.
HW: Ok, ok so tell me What was your first show experience?
Jotsone: I did a show called ’sounds of summer’ in my hometown, which was basically a huge end-of-summer bash thrown in my friend vito’s backyard. I hadn’t even considered shows at that point, but he asked me to do it and i was all over it. i had 19ninty7 come down and rock it with me, and i think it went pretty well - there was an enormous crowd there, and it definitely helped with exposure.
HW: ok what do you feel about the current state of Hip Hop?
Jotsone: while we’ve got a serious problem with the overall image of hip-hop being ruined by the awful mainstream acts calling themselves by that name, i think the actual state of hip-hop really isn’t as bad as it may seem. radio rap sucks, but as long as true hip-hop artists continue to focus on the creation of new and innovative music, our culture will be just fine.
HW: what do you think of the local music scene currently?
Jotsone: i think our scene -and by our scene i mean rhode island and southeastern massachusetts and the like - is going to start garnering a lot more attention nationally very, very soon. we’ve got so much talent brewing down here, it’s only a matter of time before we finally get the credit we deserve. being so close to boston and NY, it’s kind of a given that the new england scene would go under-appreciated, but since i’ve gotten involved in this whole thing i’ve seen a lot of cats make great strides in their music, so we won’t be under-appreciated for very much longer.
HW: ok, ok now what projects you got going on right now.
Jotsone: Currently I’m sort of hard at work on a new solo LP, currently untitled. I’m also working on another Biblical Proportions free mixtape that will probably be featured exclusively online (and if any of you artists out there are interested in throwing one of your tracks on it, email me at JotsOne@gmail.com or get at my myspace and we can talk). I’m also working with Kalamity on our group, The Indigo Kids, but that will probably be more of a late-summer-early-fall thing.
HW: Who are you listening to right now?
Jotsone: i’ve been on a de la soul kick for the past 3 months or so, but in between de la i’ve been bumping zion i and the grouch’s ‘heroes in the city of dope’ a lot. mobb deep’s ‘the infamous’ has been getting some spins lately too.
HW: When your not rapping what are you doing?
Jotsone: sleeping or ingesting mass quantities of alcohol. actually, i’ve made an effort to get serious about schoolwork lately, too, so i’ve been doing a lot of that.
HW: if you died tommorow what would you want people to say about you?
Jotsone: what a weird question. what would i want them to say? obviously i wouldn’t hate it if everyone said that i was the best person they had ever met and that life without me would be completely empty and hollow since they had experienced my amazingness and absolutely nothing could compare, but since that’s a bit unlikely, i’d like people to say whatever they actually thought about me - who gives a fuck, i’m dead, right.
HW:Any closing lines?
Jotsone: peace to everyone who has ever helped me in any way with this music shit, because i’d be absolutely nowhere without you. to all those who didn’t believe in me, thank you, too. if the presidential primaries are done by the time this comes out, either vote for obama or whoever isn’t hillary clinton. be on the lookout for the indigo kids, too!
HW: where can people find more jotsone music?
Jotsone: you can hop over to my personal myspace, which is www.myspace.com/jotsoneproductions, and you can peep the indigo kids at www.myspace.com/indigokidshiphop
Well if you liked the interview and your too lazy to check out the links we got some songs right here for ya!
The Indigo Kids - Superfriends
Tags: artists on the rise, jotsone
April 4th, 2008 at 9:27 am
i expected a lot better
April 4th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I stand behind my decision on this months entry.
do you feel like making your complaints known?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
for me…it was over after the cliched intro
April 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
plus i read the blog entries he posted on ur myspace….this kid has no clue–and gets no respect from me
April 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
i totally forgot hip-hop was all about being as pretentious as possible. forgive me, i guess
April 4th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
what do you mean he has no clue. and the intro is just that. (sarcasm) sorry I couldn’t live up to your expectations (/sarcasm)
April 5th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Is it pretense? or is it wisdom and experience putting you in your place, young padawan.
What YOU forgot is that Hip-Hop is not something you can just jump into and get props. Not from me anyway. Mr. HW here has presented you to the public as an “artist on the rise” You can believe that about yourself if you want to…but you aren’t ready.
Furthermore…you got a wack perspective kid.
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“i can’t really blame anyone who downloads music, because i do the same shit - but the only reason i do it is because i am fucking broke and can’t afford to buy the amount of music i can access for free on a daily basis.”
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Great excuse! Like my generation had it any easier?
Shiiiit, I guess we made it too damn ez for you new jacks to “be Hip Hop” -What do you know about being the only white boy at a hip hop show? Being mocked by everyone at highskool cuz your jeans are red instead of blue?
BTW: if You can’t come up with $15 to pay for an album– you aint going nowhere in this music biz. lmao.
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“If music goes extinct, only the artists are to blame, because we’re the ones trying to sell this shit. don’t complain about music not selling when you’re using the same played out sales techniques that are going down the toilet -”
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Sales techniques? Are fukn kidding me with this?!!
You’re stealing the music!
–That’s right, I said steal. not share, not download.
You’ve forced the focus OFF THE MUSIC!! That’s why artists have come up with other ways to make money like t-shirts and hats…
(and live shows too, but artists can’t be on the road 365 a year) Besides, by your logic, you’d probly steal the t-shirt too, if you thought you could get away with it.
People like YOU ARE THE PROBLEM with HIP HOP.
You rob an independent artist of his right to get compensated for his investment of time, skill and money!!
I’m done here.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
you kinda missed the parts where i said -
“i buy CDs from local artists i actually know because i know their struggle and i want to see them make it”
and
“i do make an effort to buy the CDs i download and like if i have the cashflow, because i do understand being a starving artist is a pretty sordid state of affairs. if i don’t buy the one i downloaded, then i sure as hell will make moves to get their next one”.
my comments were less about defending illegal downloading and more about the outdated techniques used to sell music (and i don’t mean wack marketing ploys by techniques, i mean the straight up ancient media of the compact disc - it’s old news). and not gonna lie, the talk HW and I had has propelled me to try and buy more music in the store as of late, because i realize that it is pretty hypocritical for me to claim that i love hip-hop music while not making a strong effort to support it. but i still stand by most of my comments, because that’s the world i was brought up in, a world that stands as a reality we have to face. you can complain about how things were better in ‘93 or ‘88, but it’s 2008 now and i’m just trying to roll with the punches. forgive me for having new ideas about selling music. if my perspective is wack, then whatever. i appreciate the ‘wisdom’ and all, and maybe this is just me being young, ignorant, and naive, but frankly, i think it’s people like you who think they shit gold and deduce that every person who doesn’t buy their music is some asshole trying to ruin hip-hop that are the ACTUAL problem with hip-hop. fuck it, don’t respect me - if my happiness lived and died on whether i got props from you, i’d be a sad little man right now, but i’m not, because i really don’t give a fuck. H.W asked if i would like to be featured on this site, and i said i sure as hell fucking would, because it’s obviously good exposure. i’m not proclaiming myself to be the next big L. jesus, i don’t even sell my music. i just do my thing, and i can’t change that - no, i WON’T change that to fit some fucking preset cookie-cutter mold of what supposedly is hip-hop. stop taking yourself so seriously and crack a joke once in a while, damn. and starting internet beef was kind of a bad look, too. but i’m over it. good lookin’ out on the feedback - i’ll try and use it to the best of my advantage.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
ya know what I forgot all about that blog post and I’m going to agree with pete on the music downloading thing.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
but on another note this article is about the music and not really his view point on selling. I will say that he doesn’t know money loss due to downloading but eventully he will learn about the business side. I still believe he was a good pick for an up and xoming artist from the scene.
like his views on selling product or not the dude can rap that’s all I’m saying.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am
“The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.” -William Blake
April 5th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
interesting quote, considering you’re the one who set everything off…i would never take you as a blake reader though
April 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Dead Man (1995) Jim Jarmusch…peep it.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
i definitely thought you meant the english poet, lol…oops. haven’t seen that movie, jarmusch is the shit though, ghost dog is probably my favorite movie of all time.
but if anyone is at all interested in my views on music downloading and the like, this article pretty much sums up everything i’m trying to say:
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/10/15/After-the-Radiohead-Revolution
April 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
A) The ARTIST chose to give out these tracks as promotion. Get ur facts straight.
Radiohead’s “groundbreaking” decision to let fans choose what price to pay for 160 Kbps MP3s of “In Rainbows” was just a promotional tactic to boost CD sales, according to the band’s management.
If we didn’t believe that when people hear the music they will want to buy the CD, then we wouldn’t do what we are doing,’ Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management told Music Week, the UK’s industry magazine.
Link to Idolatr item, via Warren Ellis. Meanwhile, over at Wired’s music blog, Eliot Van Buskirk is tracking down the sales numbers. Nothing definitive yet, but estimates are that the act pulled in $6-$10 million on initial sales.
The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead).
B) Here’s how you pirates are killing indie artists:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/CBC-Radio-3-Interviews/Buck-65-uncut-091407/
April 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
you’re still obviously missing my point - maybe i’m not being eloquent enough to get it across to you guys. let me make a few things abundantly clear:
i’ve never once ADVOCATED illegally downloading music; i have, however, defended the reasons people choose to do it. i’ve never said ‘hey, kids - fuck all your heroes, go take food off their table by downloading their tunes!’ - but i completely understand why they’d go and do it. if you don’t, you’re obviously fucking retarded. if a kid’s got 15 dollars and he has to choose between a bag of weed he really wants and an album he really wants, but then a magical voice whispers in his ear that he can just get the music for free and still buy his weed, what do you think he’s going to do? i completely understand that it’s wrong - and these discourses have led me to the conclusion that as a musician it’s incredibly hypocritical for me to continue to illegally download music while hoping to sell my product in the future, so i’m stopping - and that kid probably knows it’s wrong, too, but what the fuck does he care whether or not an artist he has never met, seen, and who probably gives not two shits about his personal interests gets his royalty checks at the end of the month? america is a selfish place, and illegally downloading music for the sole reason of being able to is the most american shit you can do. the desire for free shit is probably the only thing that universally unites the people of this country. you might as well go as far as to bitch at people who buy used CDs because they’re a few bucks cheaper, or to go back in time and yell at my ten-year-old self for making mixtapes off the radio because i wasn’t ’supporting the music’. shit is straight ass.
the point i have been trying to make here is that sitting here and bitching about piracy is NEVER, EVER going to make it go away. frankly, nothing will, and that’s the reality we have to face as artists. it seems to me that you’re basically saying that we deserve to make money because we make music for people to listen to, and that’s probably the most ignorant shit i’ve ever heard. if you’re making music to sell it, then don’t expect it to sell itself, because that’s never going to happen, no matter how dope you are. piracy is one of the tumultuous perils we have to deal with as artists, a peril that is pretty new, and it completely fucking sucks. budgets haven’t changed for independent musicians, prices for pressing albums or studio times or whatever haven’t changed, but what has changed is the fact that now half of the albums you’d sell ten years ago are just going to be taken for no compensation. and that really does completely blow.
this leads me to the reason i posted that radiohead article in the first place - with the amount of new ways people can find to steal your shit, we also have just as many ways to package and sell your music. radiohead found a way and it worked. the mars volta has been selling their tunes on USB drives, and the demand has been so high they’ve actually completely sold out. we’ve got itunes, amie.st, myspace, and other new ways to sell music and make a decent living, but so many people are stuck on the fact that heads are just going to steal their shit. take the time you wasted on pondering that and devote it to finding new methods to get your music out there, and i think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. so if that makes me clueless, obi-wan, then so be it - get at me in ten years when you’re selling insurance and you’ve got boxes of CDs you couldn’t push because you didn’t listen to what i had to say, and we’ll see how you feel then.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:18 am
The point is to educate “fans” that there are serious repercussions
to thinking/acting in the manner you so eloquently described. Too many people are still under the misconception that an artist’s money comes from getting signed to a label and they’re not hurting anyone but “the fat cats” by pirating.
Furthermore, this redickulous notion that you (and a lot of people have) that just because you got urself a lil fisher price microphone and a myspace– now you an “indie artist” ?!
You are a hobbyist.
I guess the blessing and the curse of this music
is that “anyone can do it” There are no standards to master. No practicing 6 hours a day just to learn the basics. No teachers to slap you on the wrist when your posture slips. No formal training or accreditation needed whatsoever for you to claim to be my peer.
Only the judgement of the crowd can separate us– so be it.
When the whole spotz blazin hot, that’s what i live for
Giving everything i’ve got–then i give more
Reach deep down-(gasp) Breath Out
when the tough get going –watch the weak leave town
Son ya moving too fast better slow ya roll
good things take time to grow.
Everybody and they gramma got a lil label
comon now..let’s stop with the fables–
Whatever happened to being a fan?
Loving Hip Hop music– I dont’ understand
What makes you think you can be me
Sneaky Pete over 10 years deep
I spent thousands of hours, dropped 3 albums
umpteen shows…now i’m here just to letchall know
If you want it come get it.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
being old doesn’t make you a better emcee than me.
how old was nas when he dropped illmatic? exactly. i’m not equating myself to the perfection that is that album, but i’m just saying - age doesn’t means shit. so fuck you if you don’t like me - i’m over it.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
The Wayne’s hotter than Tuscan
You gonna know me like Saskatchewan
Conquer like Ghengis Kahn
I rock off and on from Amazon to Babylon
I fight you in the octagon
It’s a penninsula, turned into a pentagon
Can’t stop rhyme marathons
You got on the mic for academic decathalons
Such a phenomenon
I pull down my pants, you see the crack of dawn.
Every image I construct is a paragon
Over last, juggle biggies full of silicon
Every sentence is a run-on
So lethal, illegal calls for the baton
After this track’s done and drawn
I clean up spaghetti sauce and gone in parmesean
April 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
im not as old as sneaky pete,im only 22 been making hip hop since my EARLY high school days SERIOUSLY(not just a 2000 style mc where they got a shure 58 and a myspace and think they’re in the game),i have a actual album out,that i indie distro’d where i could and hold myself together as a business as good as i can..and im not trying to knock anyone on here but i have to agree with pete when he calls out dude on putting himself out there about downloading music,that is exactly the attitude that got hip hop where it is today,”i dont have the money,so fuck paying for your hard earned work im going to take it” is what your saying for lack of better words,as a reader and a consumer i would NEVER buy any of your work with a attitude like that,why would i when you dont respect the art,sometimes you just have to say “i concur” and admit you said something stupid.i dont have tons of money but i like to support the mc’s that i enjoy,for instance you said your influenced by cats like MF DOOM and IMMORTAL TECHINQUE..do you think these dudes are so overly paid you can jack their music and their going to continue providing?HELL NO,the same dudes who are your inspiration your spitting on their art,these cats are indie to the fullest and depend on FANS to support what their doing,if everyone was like JOTSONE and just simply downloaded,they would be OUT OF BUSINESS,plain and simple.im no angel,i have downloaded a ton of music,but i also go out and get the hard copy to keep these guys doing what i love them for plain and simple.give respect where respect is due,bottom line.
April 6th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Well put Kozz. I really don’t mean to come off as grumpy old emcee
but this issue isnt’ going away anytime soon. Something had to be said.
I dont know what the hell John Wayne talkin about
but at least we got some fresh blood in this conversation…
April 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Lol.
I don’t take myself too seriously
April 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
for the record,im not trying to take a leak in someone’s kool-aid either,but the opinion he has runs wild thru hip hop nowadays and its sickening to see that the “norm” is when a record drops is to quickly open limewire and download it…fuck it,a little word karma will catch up to these mc’s who think stealing from fellow artists is ok..
April 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
this is like talking to a wall, seriously
April 6th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
can we atleast say that jots can rap?
April 6th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
25 comments later and you guys are tripping on something he said on my blog. no where in this interview does he shit on or promote downloading it was an outside source, and while I agree with both pete and kozz on the dling of music and the state of selling it as it is….this couldve been braught to his myspace page not thrown out there on this page.
like I said jotsone is new to the music business part of it and maybe his opinion will change, maybe not.
regardless it was never about that…it is however about his music if you dont like it then please state those reasons if your hating for other reasons please direct them towards his myspace page.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:24 am
uh, rrrrrright… Just like I’m gonna forget about R-Kelly peeing in that girl’s mouf or Michael’s nose falling off. Who you are is just as (if not more) important than what you can do. But ok… Jots can rap.
Lah-deeefrickn-dah
April 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am
i fail to see how thinking indie artists should try and find ways to discourage people from dowloading their tunes OTHER than bitching about it on the internet correlates in any way with pissing on a teenager’s face, but hey, thanks for the compliment pete
April 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am
WOW… RI at its best… Filled with haters… Ever wonder why dudes been grinding around here for up to ten years and haven’t got anywhere? HATERS!!! RI doesn’t support… they hate… someone catches some shine and the rest follow with the hate… I’m talking artists too.. Artists are there to support other artists… not to talk shit and play “who’s got the biggest pecker” You are trying to blow up in RI.. Enough said…
April 8th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
never lovin wackness
April 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I would NOT call what Sneaky Pete wrote hate. He expressed his opinion. He then backed up his opinion with info, facts and quotes. Hate is just saying “YO … He’s Wack. He’s Sucks. He’s Garbage.” Whether you agree or disagree with sneaky, I don’t think you can call what he has said here hate. I would call it debate.
When ever you put something (this article for example) in a pubic area you open it up to public scrutiny and debate. So Don’t get all emotional when the response you get back is not the one you were looking for.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
i have to agree with mortal,not at point did jot’s skills come into play at all,this is a forum,where the purpose of it is to discuss the topic at hand,and i wouldnt consider voicing your opinion “hating”…
April 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I didn’t come here to make Jots look stupid
he did that himself, so if ya image is ruined then..
take a lesson, Hip Hop is bout more than just music
but on the subject, I took no doz– just to get through it
If you see this a hate, then that’s how you choose it
but i come from a day when the fans was ruthless
and that’s what made me work harder to prove it
oNe
-Sneak
April 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
ps. check the Flyer for THE Big Show III …
JOTS is performing in a Showcase I PUT TOGETHER!!
so before you say anything–
know that.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
for the record, i’ve never said that pete or anyone here is hating on me, i just think they’re sort of completely missing my point. so let me clarify something for you fools -
i’m NOT saying illegal downloading is good for indie artists
i’m NOT saying you should do it
i’m NOT saying i don’t buy albums, because i do, frequently.
so fuck you if you continue to say i think anything that’s contrary to that, because if you do, you’re just doing it for shock value (i’m lookin at you, pete)
all i’m saying is that filesharing is a worldwide problem that’s probably never going to go away, because the allure is too great to people - so, as musicians, we should try and find new ways to sell albums - is that so terrible? like damn, i don’t see this being unreasonable at all, but i guess i’m wrong. this must be what galileo felt like
April 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
and for the record,
Hate is not the killer of Hip Hop in Rhode Island or anywhere else…
Apathy is.
Ninty7 was up for a whole month and no one said a goddam thing so at least now we got a dialogue going.
“You think we’re fighting, I say we’re finally talking! Ya know?!” -
Jerry (Muthafukn) Maguire
-you gotta add the muthafukn to be HipHOp right?
April 8th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
saying things like “no respect for him” and “I expected Better” isn’t hate? If you are so knowledgable on the subject why not lend a hand to the kid?!? There is constructive criticism and then there is putting someone down… Noone in RI has the right to talk big… Everyone is still in RI… Good look on the showcase though.. I got respect for anyone who gives another a shot.. I just think that the earlier comments came across wrong and started what seems to be an arguement. I’m not an artist but I’ve been involved in this scene for a long time now and RI is full of hate for anyone who desires to take their talents further than the Mass and Conn border… DOING SHOWS IN RI WILL GET YOU NOWHERE!!!! First lesson for artists from around here…. YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT OUT OF RI… Name one artist that blew up here and still reps the state!?! (possibly sage but even that is very limited) He had to leave to get a name… And he did it with amazing business sense… not whatever “Hip Hop” is supposed to be… It’s a business… anyone in it for just the art is a “hobbyist”.. Sorry to steal the term…
April 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Tell the dudes that have been grinding here for ten years or more that they are apathetic or that their local fans are… RI is a corporate state… Playing the game is the only way to survive… Look at local radio… It doesn’t matter how much fan support you have locally or how good your music is… It is who you know and how you present yourself… IMAGE is the only way to make progress in RI… Look at artists like Chachi, Jon Hope, and Ace Diamond… A story and a image goes a long way…
April 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
If you sayin that there is a difference between a local ’star’
and a national act…well duh!
Getting played on 90.3 is kool and all but you certainly aint gonna eat of it.
and if by IMAGE you mean BEING ABOUT SOMETHING ?!
…THAT WAS KINDA MY WHOLE POINT FROM THE JUMP
April 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
marketability… lots of dudes have crazy lyrical talent but it isn’t enough… Everybody should have a purpose or be about something but a concrete story and a strategic marketing plan is crutial… Your local image will get you infront of larger and broader audiences.. The cleaner the image and story, the more attractive you are to mainstream, especially in a city that cancels concerts over artist reputation.
All that aside…
Everyone in the industry around here needs to unite more and support eachother… Events like the one Pete is doing, Poly-Phonix, The old Tommy’s Lounge Showcase, Peace Fest especially, are exactly what needs to be happening more often. Attaching Hip Hop names to more causes and fund-raising ventures will clean the Hip Hop name in general and in turn open more doors in this area. Just my thoughts and observations…
April 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
i definitely agree with you truth. while you’ll probably never change my mind about things, pete, i think the way you went about attacking me for what i thought is kinda wack, whether you like it or not - if you really cared about hip-hop you’d use your infinite knowledge to school me in a good way, not shit on me because i got some props. but whatever, maybe that’s only what i see. i’ve never been one to get pissed if someone else gets props or love or whatever - if they’re dope, they deserve it, and if i don’t think they’re dope, then i give them respect for doing whatever they did to get there. can’t knock the hustle.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
What can i say…life is harsh and Sneaky Pete is life
At the end of the day, If you got your feelins hurt–good.
Get mad– get fanz so my opinion don’t matter.
Rekognize it’s just one perspective… happens to be a damn good one though. KaKaw!
I’m a do what I can to bring the people around me up
but I never promised no one I’d be nice.
Whatever it is you THINK i have…it aint nothing
So yeah, I got some war in me!
I’m definitely gone keep fightin for what I believe in.
oNe
April 9th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Sorry Pete but I never heard of you til about a month or two ago. No disrespect but just cause you say that you have been doing this a long time doesn’t mean you have made any more progress than anyone else around here. So, pulling anyone “up” seems kind of strange. What exactly do you believe in? You say that you have to be about something… What r u about? Who is SneakyPete?
April 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
hahaha!
Now you askin the right questions.
But this forum is intended to critique Jot’s artistry -not Sneaky’s.
You want to know who I am?
What I’m about?
What my message is?
…Buy the goddam album homie.
No more free lessons.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am
or you could just download it…
ROFL
April 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am
obviously a joke….you know nobody is sharing pete’s album anywhere on the internet
April 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
There’s a great new invention called google or goggle or sumthing?
You should check it out! lmao
April 10th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
well ya kinda suck kidd ur one of the reasons people look at rhode island and laugh
April 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
i find it funny that an artist with no music on his myspace page and the name of another established emcee is saying someone else sucks … damn
April 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Id respond to copy but I cant even judge him on his music.
i will say this, you got slap face.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
anyone who lets their girlfriend leave little lovenotes on their music myspace shouldn’t talk shit. do a track and then judge me.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
“gNnnaw son, minez has a Z at the end”
April 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
A lesson? lol Nice one Pete… A prime example of ego bigger than skills. I heard your music.. I was asking you what you think you are about?!? Get off your high horse man.. If you are on your business thing with this stuff and not a hobbyist as you call others.. What you have for credits? Spins? Units moved? ASCAP? Anything….
April 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Peter E. “Sneaky Pete” Kleinow (b. August 20, 1934, South Bend, Indiana - d. January 6, 2007, Petaluma, California) was an American country-rock musician, songwriter, and a motion picture special effects artist.
I did google and this is what I found… the real sneaky pete… lol
April 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am
yes I do know about Sneaky Pete Kleinow
not really in my genre so…what is your point exactly?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
ok smart as… google “sneaky pete rap”
that clear enough for ya?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:30 am
YAY it’s a new month…bye bye Jotsie!!
who you got for us HW?
I dare you venture outside the DELUSIONAL CAMP
May 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
i’ll make a bet pete won’t be happy with the new artist of the month if his name isn’t ’sneaky pete’
May 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
here’s my bet:
Jots ONe music aint gettin no spins newhere except his own myspace page
oh yeah…you def on the rise though
May 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
i make music in my time between classes and work
you do it for a job
and we rock the same shows and venues
and i’m not on the rise?
ask 97 who got 2mex to come here…you know, that 2mex show you BEGGED him to get on
faggot
May 1st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
HA HA HA Fuck Stinky No shine Pete