So we knocked out the recording of "Ronas and Henny Speakin" last night. The recording definitely turned out better and the song should be released next Tuesday as long as the mix and paperwork go smooth. The track is a real club banga and should get a good buzz goin.
I also talked business with a show promoter and we have a few artists includin myself that will be performing at BB KINGS in Nashville on August 3rd. I will ddfinitely be performing Ronas and Henny Speakin and another track or two. So everyone mark it on ur calendars and come out to show some love. I will have more details next week on both the show and the track release.
Also subscribe, follow, like all of the pages to show some love and keep up to date on all the things goin on wit myself (DJ Wrightful) and Officially Well Connected.
Tonight was a great night in the studio. First and foremost we had a representative from every group in Officially Well Connected. We had myself, Definition, and Jarvis from Wrightful Productions. We had Mac Millionaire from Soul Star, Slim from ATM, X from Street Life, and we had Beezy BOS! and K-DA from Game Tyme Officialz. We had a good writing session and we also discussed some promotional moves in the future.
As far as the promotional moves go we are planning to start doing a #MusicMonday session each Monday. This will be a networking, songwriting, beat making, or listening session depending on where each one takes us. I encourage all artists to come out each week starting Monday July 15th at 6pm. We will be hosting it at Wrightful Productions Studio and the face book page will be below this paragraph. To make this worth the time for artists, producers, managers, beat makers, and musicians we will be filming throughout the session and placing a promo video out each following week. I hope this takes off and we have to move it to a larger venue soon. I feel really positive about the idea and where it can go. Also I will be posting some pictures of the studio below the link for the facebook page.
Also I have a single that I will be dropping next Tuesday if everything goes as planned this week. Its called " Rona's and Henny Speakin". Its a club anthem so get ready to turn up wit me on this one. I have the artwork already finished but I need to re-record the song. I will be doing that tomorrow evening and mixing it throughout the week. Here is the artwork for it.
I hope to be on more often I just have to get in the habit of doing it. So tomorrow I will post some behind the scenes footage of me recording " Rona's and Henny Speakin" to give me an opportunity to get some more blogging under the belt. 'Til then yall take it easy and remember to like the pages follow and subscribe to show some love.
Man its been a minute. Since I last got on here we haven't had too many blockbuster events. That being said I am going to promote a few artists that are on the team and a few that we have worked with over the past few weeks.
I did start my internship at Clear Channel in Nashville since I last blogged. It is going good and I really enjoy working for bot 101.1 The Beat and 107.5 The River. I have helped with everything from CMA fest to Dave Chappelle. It is really an honor and privilege to get to intern there. I get to do some pretty cool stuff. Everyone should come out and check us out whenever possible. Also listen in to the stations to show some love.
I am going to try to get more involved with the blogging and do shorter blogs everyday. I will start tomorrow and try to continue a good consistent pace. I will also try to upload more videos and pics of me putting in work in the studio. So that everyone can see what it is that I do on a daily basis. Trust me some days it is a complete week worth of work to most people.
Also I want to get something off my chest. I pissed off another club/venue. I guess we are now banned from The Rutledge in Nashville. I could care less but, this is BS because I did nothing incorrect. If they want to tell me some stuff at last minute about charging me extra because we cancelled within 14 days I have no business with them. If they would have told me that from the beginning or put in a contract then I would have no problem with it. I understood that I was going to lose my deposit because that was made clear, but when you don't have a contract or don't discuss things before hand it isn't good business to try to bring them up at last minute. So to the owner or manager of The Rutledge in Nashville (whom ever was the one who made the decision) we don't want to be in your establishment anyways. I will also encourage other artists to avoid your venue as well. This isn't the first instance I have heard about with bad business from your venue. As hip hop, rap, and r&b artists, promoters, and managers we are used to having to adapt to the BS that clubs and venues try to impose on us, and as always we will find a way to prevail with or without your help or cooperation. Im not going to say fully how I feel because I am trying to keep my remarks somewhat PG. That's all I have on that one.
K-DA did a performance at F-5 in Antioch. There were some difficulties with the DJ so he had to do a song acapella. Myself and Definition got some pretty good footage so check out the performance below.
We also filmed our first wedding. It was a bit of a challenge. We got poured on by a huge thunderstorm as soon as the ceremony started but we managed to do pretty well in my opinion. The video isn't public so I cant put a link up for everyone to view it.
Definition also shot a few music videos one of them was Allergic to Money by Saxston ft. 615 Juggernaut. The link to the video is below.
He also shot video for Mac Milly the song is called Winning. This is off of Mac Milly's mixtape Call It What U Want. You can check out all of his music at http://www.reverbnation.com/millionaire615 below is the link to the music video.
What's up everybody! I've been away for a while again. I have been extremely busy working on some projects and getting things together. Since I last blogged we have performed a few times at some nice venues. On April 24th we performed at The End in Nashville. We don't have any footage of that show up yet but it should be coming soon. Beezy BOS! and K-DA did a performance later that week at Island Breeze Café in Nashville. Here is a little bit of footage of Beezy's performance of the song Feelin Like A Million.
On May 5th we performed at an artist showcase at The Hard Rock Cafe Nashville that was hosted by King Ryan Events. It was a great opportunity because there was a few judges that actually hold some credibility. Here is our footage from that event.
On the music video side Definition shot part of the Neva Forgotten video that I blogged about last time and just needs a few more shots from X to complete that video. He also shot and edited a video for High Rolla called "Coulda Had It Made" ft. D-Real. Its a killer video with an awesome story line so check it out at the link below.
On top of performances we have been in the studio cooking up some great new tracks and instrumentals that will be dropping soon. We have material coming from K-DA, Beezy BOS!, Skip, X, Sanzio, Sir Preame, Definition, Mac Millionaire, Deuce, myself and a few more artists that have been in the studio grindin it out. Go follow all of these artists on twitter.
@DJWRIGHTFUL
@The_Definition1
@Lil_Beezy_BOS
@Skip4Real_ATM
@Millz615
@deuceburn1
@SirPreameLSMG
@RaphaelSanzio1
@GTOKDA
Speaking of the studio. We moved things around and redesigned some stuff. It now has a more open and spacious feel. It also just looks better. Here is a pic of hot it currently looks.
Also probably some of the biggest news is that I got an internship for my summer quarter with Clear Channel Radio in Nashville. They have the only major Hip-Hop and R&B station in the Nashville area. They also have a few other stations that are in the building so I will be working with all of them. I am the most excited about working with 101.1 The Beat Jamz because of the hip-hop aspect. I will start sometime in June and be working with them throughout the summer.
This is just a quick rundown of the major things going on. If I had time to break it down this blog would be pages long. Long story short; we got big things happening and plenty of big things to come as well. Yall stay tuned to the blog, and if you're an artist that wants featured on here shoot me an email to djwrightful@hotmail.com
Ok so I know it’s been a while since I posted my last blog. A lot has
happened since then. It’s been very eventful and stressful but at the same time
productive. I will start by saying that unless artists retweet/post/share my
blogs and show some support I won’t be doing the reviews of their tracks. I
will be recapping my week and posting new material when I get it. Definition
and I have come up with an idea to post some behind the scenes footage and at
least an instrumental each week. I will also attempt to post a new track each
week as well. Now to what's been going on.
We had an amazing album release party and released the new album from
Officially Well Connected titled Winners Circle. The party was crazy
and everyone had a great time, at least until the next morning when we had to
clean up. The album can be found for download on iTunes and here is the link. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/winners-circle/id597642197
Also we have completed a few new music videos. First we finished Royal
Flush by Beezy BOS! and you can view that here.
We also finished a video for X called Burn 1 and here is the link
for that.
We also had a show at The Rutledge downtown Nashville on March 3rd. It was a great show with an amazing turn out. Here are a few links to videos from the show.
Both of these videos were filmed, edited, and directed by Definition. We
have also started filming for a few other videos for K-DA, High Rolla, and done
a DVD of the Compete for Cash showcase for Jay Man. We have an
upcoming video shoot for a song by Jarvis, X, and Jae-H for the song Neva
Forgotten off of the Winners Circle album. Here is a link to that
song for you to check out.
A few of us have made trips to other cities to promote the music as well.
Definition, Jarvis, Beezy BOS!, and I went to Indianapolis during the Sweet 16
and got an amazing welcome and response from the city. Shout out to DJ Tec for
showing love up there. For the Final Four in Atlanta it was K-DA, X,
Definition, Jarvis, and I promoting the music and chilling in the city. We had
a few complications with the hotel reservations, so it didn't go quite as
smooth as Indianapolis. Long story short do not book through hotels.com. We
still had a great experience after that though.
We also released a new track not on the album by K-DA ft. Jarvis and Sanzio
called Go Gorilla. The song is available for FREE DOWNLOAD at the link
below.
We also have a few shows coming up in the future. We have our closest on at The End in Nashville on April 24th. If you would like to come out and show some support here is the link for the tickets.
We also have some stuff planned that isn't set in stone yet as well. We have a show in late May and a show in late June as well.
I have also done a few projects for school, finished a quarter, and started a new quarter of school. I had an amazing class discussion in Media Business and Law about copyrights and royalties and how they relate to getting paid as an artist. We also discussed how this relates and trickles down to all of the other people in the industry getting paid. It really boiled down to people not willing to pay for music and illegally downloading it. I wish everybody would respect and appreciate artists and pay for the songs they are listening to. Not paying artists for the songs is like if you were to go do your job and not get paid for it. Just something to think about, because I put in about 100 hours a week working on music and doing other work in the music industry.
This week started off rough. I started the week off sick. That’s never a
good start, but on Thursday, Jarvo, a good friend and artist on the label got
in to town for some events. I didn't really accomplish much on Friday or
Saturday because of the way I felt. Sunday I had to get caught up on some
assignments. I wrote out an interview that I have coming up, I updated my cover
letter, and I did some more finishing touches to the radio edit of Only 4
2Nite. Yesterday I ran through the company budget, planned for this weekend's
album release party, made a soundscape for a video game idea using only an
acoustic guitar, wrote a hook to an upcoming single, and started prepping for
some upcoming trips out of town. Looking forward to this album release party
this weekend, and I will try and have some pictures to post up next week. Oh
yeah ladies Happy Valentine’s Day!
This week I didn’t have enough time to research a good underground track to
listen to and review. This is partly because the internet seems to be acting up
and running extremely slow. Also a message to underground artists if you would
like a song reviewed and featured on here please email me the song and let me
know that you want it featured on the blog.
The industry song I am reviewing is Suit and Tie by Justin
Timberlake ft. Jay-Z. I like the song overall. I figured I would write about
this since it is buzzing this week with the Grammy Awards Performance, the new
video, and all of the other buzz. I really didn't like the intro to the song
but once it gets started I mess with it. It’s definitely on some grown people
stuff. It’s always good to hear music that has a little more meaning behind it
than most of the hip-hop out at the moment. It kind of makes me want to rock
the suit and tie at the album release party this weekend. It’s definitely an up
tempo feel good kind of song that captures a movie scene type of environment
when you hear it. Jay-Z adds the perfect element of diversity to it as well. He
brings his smooth flow and on point lyrics right where they belong on this
song. I love how it slows down to half speed when his verse comes on. I think it’s
a good collaboration for both artists and that it's good for the industry in
general. I feel like we need more rapper singer collaborations like back in the
day. I just think that the tracks have a better feel to them. It conveys soul
and meaning when you hear that combination. Other than the intro I like the
song, so to Justin and Jay keep doing your thing because you're killing it with
this one.
