SFS: The Pre-Album Mixtape + PNDF

"bear with me, i been on my grizzly....."

lol

I've decided i'm definitely going to make a pre-album mixtape for SFS...Dice suggested i call it "SFS: The Prelude", and I like that...but I want it to be as obvious as possible--because the album most likely will be for sale, but this pre-album mixtape will be free and promotional.
I gotta admit i got the idea from Nas' N*gger mixtape, and I think some people (including pre-August 2008 jeph) think that they can work on an album for forever, and then drop it and expect people to be as excited as I am.

Nope.

That type of thing doesn't work in these times anymore--not even for big name artists. You gotta have a TON of promotional material, so for me, this blog, the myspace, and the mixtape is nowhere even close to being enough. A painter once told me it takes people atleast 25 times hearing about a product through media before they actually feel safe buying it, and I believe it. Marketing is freaking hard...

So aside from that, another project I'm going to be putting together is gonna be a compilation of all my battles. Crazy right? Alot of yall didn't even know i battle like that, huh? Well, I GOES IN!!! Whether it's beats or rhymes--or both, I always strategized, emotion alone isn't reliable. So I might name this one J.E.P.H. - The Battle Mixtape. But people will enjoy this one, I plan on doing a little commentary too.


And it's been a while, so here's a new one


Purple Ninja DJ Fist! - Read Yo Mine ft Jeph

http://www.zshare.net/audio/18029390ae490e9f/

Rations of Collabo

You can barely see me @ 0:22, but i'm participating in this very weird and funny group beat-boxing cypher lol

...see? I can be a team player!!!

Contrary to my last entry, I have, on a few occasions, been able to successfully collaborate with other artists in a productive manner. In the past, I was discouraged from collaborating because of a few failed attempts with producing/co-producing beats, so when I met up with Rhetoric from Graffiti Vocab and was able to sit down and put together a beat successfully, I was so energized that I 'stole' the beat and immediately recorded an impromptu freestyle to it after he left.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/16693967715b3c94/

(sidenote: when i freestyle, i always mean improvision, what you're hearing is live, and i don't focus on punchlines, or even rhymes, first priority is rythym. It's a great process for innovating new styles, and it's the only time I would 'FORCE' the art)

So that was the first successful J.E.P.H. collaboration, the latest and greatest collaboration is with fellow Baltimore producer Nights, whom upgraded the hell out of one of my beats. Check out a preview:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/166943578d1b0e41/

And to make it even better, I just got off the phone with my brother and 'other half of Beat Genetikz' and we're now planning on incorporating his guitar skills in the beats. For those that don't know, he's plays electric guitar in the band FFHH, but has been an advanced guitar player for a while now. I actually have a specific track for the SFS album that I think would be greatly benefited with a guitar solo, and i'm excited to see how we can work that out.

Why not add icing to the cake? I met this dude at my part-time job who produces and I think we have some common ground as far as perspectives on music. I heard a couple tracks from him and i got a pretty good vibe off of that, so there's a possibility that we might collab in some form in the future.

Things are looking pretty good, me gwan keep yiu posted.