J-Free (Beats)

That's what Asterisk called me. I didn't like it at first, this was...2 years ago...but now i'm starting to think it's kinda dope lol

So here's a collection of free beats that I'd like to go viral. Download them, rap over them, bootleg them if possible, just spread it around.

...Most of them didn't take long to make anyway.

"Slice'n'Dice" ft Barack Obama
http://www.zshare.net/audio/64554579dcb043a4/

"Hijack" ft Grandmaster Flash
http://www.zshare.net/audio/645548244a6f257b/

"Jokes" ft Dave Chappelle
http://www.zshare.net/audio/64554884a768a2eb/

"Twinkle Twinkle" ft Little Star
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6455492591adf946/

heh...

My, Peoples...

All of the people below I have personally reached out to, either in person, over the phone, or through the net to let them know that they've inspired me as a hip-hop fan and as an artist.

So I really encourage people to do the same for these artists that put out their music to the world for free, it's the least we can do to show some appreciation.

I'm not bootlegging--all of these artists put their projects out for free. Click on the pictures to download their album/mixtapes.


Dice - Delusionz Of Grandeur


j. lately - Straight Outta Somewhere


Blinks - How Was Therapy?



Black ELement - A Major Minority


Jelani - Wait, You Can Rap?!?


Gotdion's Mighty Morphin Mixtape Vol. 1


And there's plenty more artists that I would put up like Young Man Pit's "Essence Of Life", and Overflow's "The Renaissance", and Blue Scholars' - Bayani but they probably won't me permission to upload their music :(

The Middle

Download "The Middle" by Jeph
I dont know who produced it
but it was on the Pac Div mixtape
and yes, I looped it.

so...

I'm in the middle of alotta things...

that includes: a mixtape, an album, and the middle of my game.

Now when say i'm in the middle of my game...

...i don't mean that.

I'm basically saying I don't think i'm at the top of my game, but i damn sure didn't just start doing this. I'm not in my prime yet, and I haven't reached the height of my potential. I've been doing this for a lil over 5 years, and when people try to tell me I should be shooting for the top and sending out , I often disagree...and not just out of modesty.

It's all about timing.

So imagine me knocking on your door every day like "hey, check out my new painting!!!".lol...

If I'm only getting a little better every day, the opportunity for the first impression diminishes, and my work starts looking like spam mail.

And some people are gonna disagree with this and say "jeph, you gotta go out and grind everyday!!".

Yeah, ok, but it's not about how hard you work...it's about how smart you work. I respect other artists grinds, but if you say you write 3-16's everyday? ...

that sounds like certain work ethic yall might know too well


But some people are still good at it, irregardless, that just tells me that they could be doing way better if they put more time into it. It's amazing how you can gain perspective by waiting and practically letting the art create itself.

So after this self-assessment...I think i've proved that I am not procrastinating! lol

However

The man Dice brought up an important point: I still need to put up more music. And I agree cuz it has been a while. But I wanna keep some of this upcoming mixtape music fresh, So I can't put up the songs i wanna put up just yet...matterfact...i'm wasting time...

i'ma start recording right now

8/8/09 - re-upped the track with vocals turned up more

After The Beep

For anyone that might pass by this site, if you hear my stuff and wanna give anonymous feedback, be sure to block your number (i mean...if you want) and this number will go straight to my voicemail.

I'll also be giving people this number for drops etc

Messages are recorded and I may use em in a track. So hit me up!

(443) 579-JEPH

No Ideas Original

"There's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do but how it's done..."


and the music industry is not the best place to go if you're looking for that. Why? Well...it's an industry...

I grew up listening to the radio like anyone else, it was the source for all the new music. One of my favorite shows was DJ B who would actually scratch and mix new records instead of just shouting. He made it exciting and I still have tapes of his show and would still enjoy them today.

After graduating high school, around the time of Napster, I guess the music industry was slowly becoming asphyxiated because it seemed to give light on alot of shallow, incredibly basic music. I still remember my last day of radio...when they were breaking a new record on 92Q:

Chicken Noodle Soup - Webstar Feat. Yung B

I thought it was I was being Punk'd.

So I made a conscious decision to stop listening to the radio. But even now when I try to check on what's in the top 10, or what's hot, it always seems to sound familiar...either like the same hit from last summer, or something that I made and deleted because I was ashamed of it.

But I really wonder, do music fans ever feel like they're being ripped off when you hear the same song over and over? Let's check this out real quick...

This is 2005-2008:

Yeah...that's the music industry...

so if you think that was too analytical...well... I actually do that alot, and i have tons of other examples. But at the same time it motivates me to not make the same mistakes...

and it's not so much that they are mistakes, because all of those records did great, but the thing is, those records were NOT risky at all....because those music heads KNEW that song sold last summer, and it can sell again as long as people don't care about originality...

I'd rather take those risks with my music, and if people don't like it, it's cool, i still do it because I love it.

"Alien Blues" (Instrumental)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6173442287f3ca6e/

Gentle Giant + Jeph "I Lost My Head"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/617348452e850174/

bring it back, bring it bring it back, if you
seen my head rollin by you--bring it back to the/
rightful owner to everyone's bright idea
it always sounds familiar everytime i hear ya track/
that's the truth, you can't tell me that aint true
whatever they call new, i'm feelin the deja vu, on some.../
"i can't quite place this but i,
think i made this a couple years ago and then erased it"/
no offense--all you rappers no offense
for spittin them sick rhymes
i can trace the origins of.../
where you got the style
(the influenza)
don't make me map it out now you remember/
lemme stop, lemme lemme stop
hip hop: you my peoples
i don't mean no friendly fi-re/
but can we raise the bar a little higher?
higher? (higher?) higher?
hold it-- right there./

Attempts to be...(3)

(1)

Original Version


My Version


Respect goes out to 9th...it's not too hard to mimic, but i could not figure out the method to his madness.

(2)



Original


My Version


this one was a little easier. I made it very quickly. still, sample ends in a weird way, so i respect Alc's style

(3)


Original



Mine....

Click here to listen to Jeph - Attempts to be Kanye2.mp3

Alright...honestly now...i made that mimic version in 2004...cut me some slack lol

Once again, imitation = flattery + good practice.

balance that with No Ideas' Original and you're good.

but...sometimes, it can go terribly wrong

this is a beat i started to make, and then stopped in the middle, because it sounded like someone else's...

Click here to listen to problearipoff.mp3

let's see if anyone can figure out what this is a rip off of...

My Lost Tapes

[my old room/studio in bmore. 2003. 17 year old Jeph]

I just found alot of my old stuff, and wow...

turns out I lied on the 88.9 interview, because my first beats date back to 2002, not 2004

I sh!t you not, I even made my own breakdancing game.

"Dance Pheeva (2003)".exe
http://www.zshare.net/download/589508845656afaa/



Looking back, I'm realizing that even my old stuff was experimental and somewhat complex. Yes, the beats aren't compressed and don't have the greatest mixing of elements (alot of times missing bass lines), but they were never regular drum patterns or rhymes, it was my own brand of weird...here is one of my first recorded songs:

Jeph "MiniXL" (2004).mp3
http://www.zshare.net/audio/589509566cffcd92/

Anyone who's heard The Album (2007) might feel like they've heard that verse before, and I did that on purpose. If you couldn't tell yet, I reflect on the past very often. I think about how good something was, how stupid I was, how much I might miss it, and always how much I've grown. I've always believed in the importance of knowing your origins in order to progress in the present and future. The intro really said that more concisely, as my very first words were:

"...uh!...before you see where I'm goin....I want you to see where I came from..."

So I won't get overly reminiscent, but it's always good to take a quick walk down memory lane.