Don Hill’s “Get Ya Buzz Up” Showcase 7/28
This was my first show since Michael Jackson passed, so I felt like in tribute to the greatest showman of all time I had to put on an incredible show last night. Check out an as yet unreleased joint from Off The Wall E009 “Life Like This” below also. Thanks to MADonly.com
Don’t Stop (Official Video Trailer)
The video drops on August 5th 2009!!! Here’s the official trailer for the video, Directed by Joe Puma. Can’t give everything away just yet though. We’re less than 2 full weeks away from Off The Wall dropping by the way!!!
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Don’t Stop Video is Finished Shooting (Directed by Puma)
So a lot of you are starting to get familiar with my director Puma, who shot my Flight School video and has also shot videos for Juelz Santana & EPMD. We just wrapped shooting yesterday for the video to the first single off of my Off The Wall EOO9 project “Don’t Stop”
The inspiration for the video was the original “Dont Stop Til You Get Enough” video but of course we had to add our own twists and elements in to the 1979 concept. We did stay true to a lot of the original, so you’ll see the bowtie and suit jacket, but we cant give away everything just yet lol.
(From the original 1979 “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” video)
Hit the jump for a couple behind the scenes shots and screens but just know that this shit is gonna look a million times more retarded when you see the whole thing. Shouts to Milani Rose for coming through on the last day of shooting and helping us take things to a whole other level
I Fucks Wit This Video…Big Sean Directed by Hype Williams
Reminds me of “Good Life” and the Cudi video…came out really ill, seems like BAPE may have sponsored. Hype kills it with the Green Camo screen…wait for it…wait for it…
must have watched this about 10 times today on my own set…
ESSO on “The Morning After” with Angela Yee (Gimme A Break Week 1)
Gotta thank “The Morning After” team Angela, Wonder and Moti for extending an invitation for me to come up to SHADE45 every wednesday for the next 3 months to talk about what I have going on. Here’s the footage from the first week of the show.,.This was when I debuted “Don’t Stop” on SHADE45 last wednesday (July 15th) best moment was when Los from Baltimore called in… “you original than a motherfucker” hahaha that was classic
ESSO – Girlfriend (Off The Wall E009)
We’re less than 3 weeks away from the official release of Off The Wall (August 10th)!!! this is one of my favorite songs from the project and probably the one that bothered me the most to listen to after Mike passed because of how much I love the original and how crazy it was for me to hear our voices together on the record… Based on a true story, the names have been withheld to protect the innocent (and the guilty haha)
Memories of the BYOB BBQ…
The Wings were OD good!
Shouts to everyone I ran into out there, way too many to name, but eventually I’ll try and name them all. And of course shouts to the man of the evening Dallas Penn, king of the Internets. Did Dallas come up with the word internets?
Why Despicable E?
I aint gonna lie, I check comments on blogs sometimes, and more often than not, I feel like the motives behind certain things that I may do get misunderstood. I even saw something said about this track that said that this isnt a race to be the first person to record over this track…
Nah you’re right, it’s not about that at all, but I’ve had a lot of things goin on around me recently that have kinda made me feel like I’m the bad guy no matter how good my intentions may be. So when I heard the track that Pharrell did for the soundtrack to the movie, it kinda perfectly matched how I was feeling at the time.
From the impending controversy with my Off The Wall project to the fact that I’m not trying to follow the mold of a “traditional” New York artist, to the fact that tryin to be successful takes me away from my family all the time…all of these things were on my mind, and I tried to put that all together in a way that was pretty easily digestible but still has some gems in there for those of you who like your verses to have some shit tucked away like easter eggs.
Do I apologize for it? NOPE. Do I give a fuck if it’s misunderstood? NOPE. Despicable Me. Fuck it.
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Raekwon rocks the Cranberry/White Y&I Tee!!!
Just happened to get the heads up about this last night from the homies at Subconcious Threads. They told me that Raekwon The Chef one of the original 9 members of Wu-Tang is a big fan of the Y&I tee that I designed with them, and asked for the shirt in each color. Peep him rockin the Cranberry in this Youtube video where he talks about Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTek50TELk
Hit the jump for some more screenshots:
Pharrell feat. ESSO – Despicable E
ESSO – Despicable E: LINK: http://usershare.net/8iyydyil7mq3
(Hit the jump for the lyrics) (more…)
ESSO Live July 28th w/Sha Stimuli at the “Get Your Buzz Up Showcase)
Come thru to Don Hill’s Tuesday July 28th to check out ESSO & Sha Stimuli tearing down the stage as feature performers at the Get Your Buzz up Showcase. Please see the flyer for more details or contact J Hatch for industry/press guestlist.
This is also going to be the first show that I perform songs from Off The Wall so you dont want to miss it!!!
A few flicks from the “MidiMonsters” show on Mon 6/29
Shouts to my producer Rena1ssance and his co-host on the show Music Mystro. And shouts to the photographer as well these photos came out ILLY.
Midi Monsters comes on DTFradio.com Monday nights from Midnight to 2am
ESSO nominated for an Underground Music Award
Shouts to Jesse Jess and the rest of the Urban Threshold Staff for nominating me for “Underground’s #1 Contender” at the 2009 Underground Music Awards. Some of you may remember I won back in 07 for “Mixtape of the Year” with the ESSOcentric project. Let’s see what happens this time around!!!
You can peep all the nominees here: http://www.urbanbuzzfactor.com/ and voting starts on July 6th
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