j.troup
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What's good FP...just wanted to share some things with y'all.
I'm up in NYC right now, producing and running some studio sessions for this girl named Bridget. My man D (who used to work for Def Jam for a few years) flew her and her BF out here from Seattle, and is putting them up in a hotel for a few weeks to bang out a demo for her, in an effort to try and get her signed.
He booked a few hours at Quad Studio's. For those that don't know, that's the studio where 2Pac got shot at the first time. It was and eerie feeling walking down that hallway to the elevator, thinking that at one point, Pac was laying on this floor bleeding. Anyway, I get upstairs and say wassup to the artist. I'd talked on the phone to her but never met her. She's a really cute chick, with a really great voice. The first song we were doing was to one of my beats...
So I walked up in the spot, met the artist, engineer (who engineer's for Nas' manager), etc, and a DJ who used to be Lyfe Jenning's world tour manager back during his first album. So I start chopping it up with her and gave her my card, while the engineer is doing sound checks.
Then in walks this girl Tiffany, with 2 or 3 other chicks...all FINE as hell. I start talking to Tiffany about what she does, and come to find out, she's a writer for Bad Boy, and Conrad is her manager. She tells me that she just landed a few joints on the new Danity Kane project. I told her I thought that project was wrapping up, and she said the project is cutting records until LATE DECEMBER, so I should still keep writing joints.
So by this time, it's about 9pm (we started at 8), and we start the session. There are about 10 EXTRA people in this little ass room (we had to book the D room, cuz the A room was blocked off for someone more "important"...lol), and new people coming and going all the time.
So I'm trying to produce this song that I've never heard before. It's hard, because I'm trying to get ideas for background vocals, etc, etc, when I've never heard the track. Not only that, I'm NERVOUS as hell, cuz there are all these people in there, and when there are people around, I get self conscious as hell. That was the real difficult part. Not only having to produce a song that I've never heard before, but doing it IN FRONT of like 30 people I've never seen...and some pretty important people at that.
So then about 9:30 or so, in walks Suga J and his entourage. If anyone remember's Mase's group Harlem World, Suga was in that group. Right now he's pretty well connected, and has started his own production company, and has a few artists. He walks in, diamonds all up in the chain and the watch. And not to be a groupie or anything, but them sh!ts is WAY MORE IMPRESSIVE in person. I'm looking at that chain and that watch like DAMN!!! lol...
(Suga J, Larry the Engineer, Bridget the artist, Me the producer, and this dude Mack)
So me and Suga J kick it for a minute. I've talked to him on the phone before. I asked him if he got some of the beats i sent, and he's like yeah, he fvcks with some of them. So I told him to get at me if he needs anything, he was like cool.
So the beat is banging in speakers, we're recording, and people are feeling the music. Then maybe around 10:30 or so, everybody starts leaving the studio. I feel this rush of calm come over me, cuz now I can WORK. So when everyone leaves, then I can really get down to business.
At this point, my nerves are settled somewhat, and I'm doing my thing.
Then, in walks another dude and his entourage. It's MIKE LIGHTY, the president of Violator Management (Busta, Missy, Ja Rule, etc, etc)...Chris Lighty's brother. They ask Bridget to sing a hook real quick. So we stop what we're doing, and she spends the next hour learning that hook and singing it. And I spend time just talking to other people who were there.
I ain't talk to Chris Lighty, cuz he was being kinda quiet, and I was trying to produce the session. I wanted to talk to him and hit him off with a CD of some beats, cuz I need management, but i ain't wanna play the groupie role. So I let it pass.
Funny thing is, as I'm talking, this one dude is like DON'T YOU HAVE A YOUTUBE VIDEO??? I started laughing and said yeah. Apparently some of the people in the room know me from being on PMP, and my youtube videos. That was funny.
Anyway, the session raps up, and I walk out in the lobby and take a few pictures with the PLAQUES!!!! lol
(me and Bobby's "Don't Be Cruel" platinum Plaque)
(the rest of the wall of fame)
Overall, it was a very positive experience. I was nervous as hell, cuz I'm trying to produce a song that I've never heard before, in front of all these people that I've never seen before. I couldn't come up with any good background harmonies, because I'd never heard the song before. So it coulda gone better in that respect. But on the other hand, I was recording right in the middle of Time Square. Look out the window of the studio, and saw all the bright lights.
Man...if this is what I went thru, I can't IMAGINE what the big boys go thru. I envy them, but I don't envy them!!!
Tonight, we're up in a studio called Legends (i think). I'll take more pics and stuff. Hopefully tonight goes ALOT better than last night did.
I'll keep y'all posted.
I'm up in NYC right now, producing and running some studio sessions for this girl named Bridget. My man D (who used to work for Def Jam for a few years) flew her and her BF out here from Seattle, and is putting them up in a hotel for a few weeks to bang out a demo for her, in an effort to try and get her signed.
He booked a few hours at Quad Studio's. For those that don't know, that's the studio where 2Pac got shot at the first time. It was and eerie feeling walking down that hallway to the elevator, thinking that at one point, Pac was laying on this floor bleeding. Anyway, I get upstairs and say wassup to the artist. I'd talked on the phone to her but never met her. She's a really cute chick, with a really great voice. The first song we were doing was to one of my beats...
So I walked up in the spot, met the artist, engineer (who engineer's for Nas' manager), etc, and a DJ who used to be Lyfe Jenning's world tour manager back during his first album. So I start chopping it up with her and gave her my card, while the engineer is doing sound checks.
Then in walks this girl Tiffany, with 2 or 3 other chicks...all FINE as hell. I start talking to Tiffany about what she does, and come to find out, she's a writer for Bad Boy, and Conrad is her manager. She tells me that she just landed a few joints on the new Danity Kane project. I told her I thought that project was wrapping up, and she said the project is cutting records until LATE DECEMBER, so I should still keep writing joints.
So by this time, it's about 9pm (we started at 8), and we start the session. There are about 10 EXTRA people in this little ass room (we had to book the D room, cuz the A room was blocked off for someone more "important"...lol), and new people coming and going all the time.
So I'm trying to produce this song that I've never heard before. It's hard, because I'm trying to get ideas for background vocals, etc, etc, when I've never heard the track. Not only that, I'm NERVOUS as hell, cuz there are all these people in there, and when there are people around, I get self conscious as hell. That was the real difficult part. Not only having to produce a song that I've never heard before, but doing it IN FRONT of like 30 people I've never seen...and some pretty important people at that.
So then about 9:30 or so, in walks Suga J and his entourage. If anyone remember's Mase's group Harlem World, Suga was in that group. Right now he's pretty well connected, and has started his own production company, and has a few artists. He walks in, diamonds all up in the chain and the watch. And not to be a groupie or anything, but them sh!ts is WAY MORE IMPRESSIVE in person. I'm looking at that chain and that watch like DAMN!!! lol...
(Suga J, Larry the Engineer, Bridget the artist, Me the producer, and this dude Mack)
So me and Suga J kick it for a minute. I've talked to him on the phone before. I asked him if he got some of the beats i sent, and he's like yeah, he fvcks with some of them. So I told him to get at me if he needs anything, he was like cool.
So the beat is banging in speakers, we're recording, and people are feeling the music. Then maybe around 10:30 or so, everybody starts leaving the studio. I feel this rush of calm come over me, cuz now I can WORK. So when everyone leaves, then I can really get down to business.
At this point, my nerves are settled somewhat, and I'm doing my thing.
Then, in walks another dude and his entourage. It's MIKE LIGHTY, the president of Violator Management (Busta, Missy, Ja Rule, etc, etc)...Chris Lighty's brother. They ask Bridget to sing a hook real quick. So we stop what we're doing, and she spends the next hour learning that hook and singing it. And I spend time just talking to other people who were there.
I ain't talk to Chris Lighty, cuz he was being kinda quiet, and I was trying to produce the session. I wanted to talk to him and hit him off with a CD of some beats, cuz I need management, but i ain't wanna play the groupie role. So I let it pass.
Funny thing is, as I'm talking, this one dude is like DON'T YOU HAVE A YOUTUBE VIDEO??? I started laughing and said yeah. Apparently some of the people in the room know me from being on PMP, and my youtube videos. That was funny.
Anyway, the session raps up, and I walk out in the lobby and take a few pictures with the PLAQUES!!!! lol
(me and Bobby's "Don't Be Cruel" platinum Plaque)
(the rest of the wall of fame)
Overall, it was a very positive experience. I was nervous as hell, cuz I'm trying to produce a song that I've never heard before, in front of all these people that I've never seen before. I couldn't come up with any good background harmonies, because I'd never heard the song before. So it coulda gone better in that respect. But on the other hand, I was recording right in the middle of Time Square. Look out the window of the studio, and saw all the bright lights.
Man...if this is what I went thru, I can't IMAGINE what the big boys go thru. I envy them, but I don't envy them!!!
Tonight, we're up in a studio called Legends (i think). I'll take more pics and stuff. Hopefully tonight goes ALOT better than last night did.
I'll keep y'all posted.
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? She must be as tall as grass!