Long Days...

In the beginning stages of a musical project it can be stressful as Hell farreal..lol.

Right now myself and my peeps at Higher Level Entertainment (HLE) are basicly structuring everything out as far as a direction, theme and tone for "Undergraduate". I want it to have consistent lyrical strength across the board along wit some diverse sounds to show that versatility as an Emcee.

I also wanna throw some storytelling in there. My homeboi keeps beggin me to put the story about "Puerto Rican Bobby" on there too lol but ionno bout that farreal...

Earlier today I got up wit Free and listened to some of his production...he had some HOT stuff so I copped like 3 of the joints for the project.
Imma be putting out some of the early freestyles I did, ("Dear Winter", "The Ruler's Back", and "Say You Will") soon just to keep the flow steady...

Anyways that's basicly the new news....still grindin...

Seeing the Lesson in Progression...

I'm Out

Ben_Starr

What it is??: The Introduction

Its crazy how it happens ya know. One day you can be totally into one thing only to realize that you're totally into something else the next. It can really be like that farreal. I'm not one of the people condemning HipHop right now but i can honestly say I'm a lil disappointed with it the majority of the time. It's not so much singling out particular rappers but listening to the music as a whole its kinda redundant, and it almost gets boring sometimes man lol. Personally I'm from the south...South Carolina....843...Lowcountry kid...All day errday, and i just realize that I'm going to use my poetic/lyrical gifts to create the type of music i fell in love with about 15 years ago.



Realistically I understand we are never goin back to Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic, Ready to Die, The Chronic, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, etc. Those are classics. Realistically we can't try to be Bun B, 3000, Jigga, Scarface, Pac, Big , Nas, T.I., Luda, Ye or none of them guys cause that's gonna show a lack of creativity on our part. All we can do is approach the music the same way they did and with at least an equal or greater amount of determination to create a catalogue of music that's gonna have longevity.



And oh yea I think $$$$ fucked HipHop, RAW. But that's just what it is.



I just take it on myself to create my own brand off music, my style, my craft and my thoughts.



Peace to my people....my bro doin 10...luv ya boi. My mom, all my sisters and bros/// Pineville///Berkeley County..the place that raised me///My Upsilon Entertainment fam///Dnyce//Slick Rick///D-Mac////Higher Level Ent///Troy, Sergio///My closest chicas Sheena, Lex, Barney, Niecey, Britt, Tierra and Jazzzy///my bois Traxxx on Deck, Free and Max Berry...talented ass producers///Young Righchus, Jaylin and Jus Nice...talented Emcees from the 843...////



Welcome to Undergraduate Studies...My life in rhyme...No where to go but up... "Undergraduate" Mixtape coming soon...



I'm out



Ben_Starr