I'm Back

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.

http://www.reverbnation.com/djwrightful/song/16828310-neva-forgotten-jarvis-x-jae-h

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.

http://www.reverbnation.com/djwrightful/song/16848215-go-gorilla-k-da-ft-jarvis--sanzio

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.

http://www.aftonshows.com/OfficiallyWellConnected

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.

Talk to everyone next week.

Album Release Party

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.