Stillborn Identity/MC Homeless split cassette

It's about time I shamelessly promote myself. I(Stillborn Identity) did a hand numbered, limited run, split cassette with MC Homeless at the end of last year. Since the release, MC Homeless has "retired" but I still wanna keep this release in circulation because I think both sides are awesome. As far as I know this is the last release he did as "MC Homeless." I think there is a Brain Busters(MC Homeless and Joey Silva) release out there, and he started doing some non-hip hop project.

MC Homeless' side starts off with a track Imaginary Audience, a track by Brain Busters.

The second track is 66 featuring Me, Stillborn Identity. It's produced by C Money Burns. Homeless and I drive from Youngstown, OH to Austin, TX after he moved there and needed his car. I was super pumped to hang out in Austin, TX, but Homeless started a new job during the day and was gun-ho about hanging out with his at the time lady friend at night. So most of my time was spent trying to figure out how the bus line there worked only to instead walk 5 miles to a skate park, drinking Mad Dog20/20 by myself, and writing this track. Homeless had a half finished verse and polished it up in like 3 takes after I took over a half over to record my verse I had been working on all weekend. We're both kinda Vincent Gallo geeks and titling the track was never even a question after we put the quote from Buffalo 66 in there.

Breathe was originally released free online on his Wild At Heart ep produced by Johnny La Rock.

This fourth track on his side is almost to good to believe. MC Homeless toured with Illogic and Baker a year or two ago, and they had a day off in CT during their tour. During their day off they wrote and recorded this song with Ceschi.

My side starts off with Artist Wishlist produced by Pat Urn of 7718. I think I also wrote most of this song at Homeless' place in Texas. I didn't finish it until weeks later when I was in New Jersey "working" as a videographer on a freestyle motocross tour. That night one of the best FMX photographers (at least in my opinion), Chris Tedesco talked to me about what he had to do to "make it" in the industry. The only direct quote from that drunken hotel foyer conversation was, "just don't sell out, whatever that means to you." Ironically enough, I think that was my last weekend working on that tour.

Jack Wilson played me CREAM sometime in the beginning of the year when I was couch surfing in Baltimore and I was so pumped on his verse, and the beat by Visionary Brotherhood, that I demanded that he let me collab with him on it... and luckily he did.

I'm leading Me Down produced by Tybo Beats was the last track I wrote for the release. I thought it sounded like something HW would fit in with, so before I was finished with my second verse I sent him a text seeing if he was down, then emailed him a rough copy. Within hours(before I was finished with my second verse) he sent me his final version of the track.

Photo from left to right: Cathy Cathodic, HW, Stillborn Identity, Eric, Baker


Pitseleh's a Goner produced by JE Double F is my favorite track. I never knew that Pitseleh was Yiddish for "little one" but after I figured that out when I opened for Height with Friends at the 31st Street Pub it made the title even more fitting. Originally the titled was inspired by an Elliott Smith song. http://www.pghcitypaper.com/FFW/archives/2012/10/22/mp3-monday-stillborn-identity-pitselehs-a-goner

I wrote 1,000 Miles(produced by Zoen) away when I was living in Nevada and still in love with a girl in Pittsburgh. After I wrote this song and sent her the demo, I thought she would ask me to come back to her. But she didn't. She just said it was another really sad song I wrote, and asked what it was about.

Physical copies of the tape are available through this blog, Milled Pavement, Harford and Rekords, and whatever hard copies the artists have left.

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Yunker

This blog needs more skateboarding. Yunker is a Pittsburgh skate video coming out by Eric Calfo featuring everyone listed in the image above. I couldn't find a promo for it, but I saw a leak(I can't find it again, sorry) of "Danger" Dan Peindl's part, and it was awesome. So I know it's gonna be good. Until I can find a link of Yunker, check out Dangers most recent part in Fuck Yinz 2.

Raymond Strife - Self-Loathing Egomaniac

Raymond Strife is awesome. If you didn't already know, you're blowing it. He's got a new album coming out called I'm Sorry, but until it does get use to him stuff by checking out his 2010 release Self-Loathing Egomaniac. I'm gonna try and get an interview with him when his new album drops. He also has a demo between Self-Loathing Egomaniac and his upcoming release I'm Sorry, called Autumn Down Drunk Demo 2012, depending what tracks don't make the final cut I might put that on here too.

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B.Done X Space Ghost

The homie B.Done dropped Space Ghost. Free digital copies, and $5 hard copies with all kinds of little goodies. Manchild of Mars Ill is featured on this, that's pretty rad. I haven't heard anything from him in a while. It also features cats like Brandon Brains, Space Ghost, and Conphusion.

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ESH & ARC - Nightworks

Another free download from ESH the Monolith. ESH & ARC put out this ep, Nightworks. It features Romen Rok, Fran-P, and Ceschi. It's rad, download it and begin the brainwashing process.

I haven't even got a chance to watch this video yet, but judging by the thumbnail it looks awesome.

Little Eskimo Jesus - Could You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Little Eskimo Jesus is Ira Lee and Mattr. Ira makes heart breaking sad/awesome music. I haven't even listened to this but I know it's going to be good so I hooked all you loyal pawns up. Chances are I'm going to make mixtapes featuring songs off this album for girls I'm trying to hump. If it works, I owe Ira Lee and Mattr a beer next time they're in Pittsburgh.

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Brandon Brains - The End is Weird interview

     Brandon Brains of Nashville, TN is a modern day renaissance man. College student, fiance, use to be in the navy, ex bouncer, all while still being a prolific relatively new face in the "DIY hip hop community"(as lame and pretentious as using the word community sounds). In a little less than a week his new release 'The End is Weird' drops. Get familiar, get weird, get with it.

TheThrowAwayDays: Brandon Brains, are you still a bouncer at a strip club, what were the requirements to get this job? Did you have to arm wrestle a sexual offender while naked women were dancing without getting a boner?
Brandon Brains:  No, I quit that job to focus on school and music.  Most gig opportunities are on weekends and I worked EVERY weekend.  However, I got the job from a friend of a friend putting in a good word for me. I never arm wrestled anybody there and after a while of seeing it all the time, boners don't come to you at work.

T-TAD: What is the craziest thing you ever saw at your job?

BB: My first night on the job, there was a dude who got wasted, pulled out his dick and then passed out onto the floor.  We are pretty sure he thought he was in the bathroom, but you'd be surprised the amount of dudes that I had to throw out for whipping out there junk in hopes of getting laid during lapdances.

T-TAD: You ever think about having some of the girls strip to your songs? Or maybe even doing it yourself? It would probably get more publicity than this interview, HA!

BB: Funny enough, the friend who got me the job is the DJ there, so my stuff got played a lot.  It's a weird feeling watching a woman get naked to songs you wrote about strange times in your life.

T-TAD: Before you were a bouncer(and perhaps even before you were a rapper) you were in the service, what was that like and has it influenced your music at all?

BB: As much as I'd like to deny it, my time in the navy really did influence my music.  Maybe not so much the service itself, but my personal life during that time and the effect being in the navy had on that.

T-TAD: On your last release 'Ugly and Impatient" you had a feature by  a some what big name artist, but when I talked to you a while ago in Pittsburgh you said he wouldn't plug the collab, because "it was all about image." Do you care to elaborate on that?

BB:  I've never really understood the logic behind that.  It was a dick move on his part, but whatever, we live, learn, and die.  Why continue to care about what assholes won't do to help us?

T-TAD:Has that experience changed how you work and music and with who? I see you have a lot of collabs on your upcoming release 'The End is Weird'.

BB: 10 of the 13 tracks have features on this mix tape, so that last experience didn't shy me away from working with people.  If anything, it taught me to work more with friends who will support me, without being paid.  Maybe I'm biased because they're my friends, but some of the artists on here are people I'm a big fan of their music (even if we weren't friends).

T-TAD: You've been promoting this new release pretty hard, what are you plans for it? Are you going to tour it?

BB: Well, I won't be touring this mixtape super hard due to my schedule, but I will be doing some shows to support it.  Aside from that, the next project is in the works and that looks to be promising in the opportunities it could provide.  I'm just taking it one day at a time though and focusing on making a name off of 'The End Is Weird' for now.  Hell, the CD has been playing in my car nonstop since we finished it.  I can't wait to see what the fans think.

T-TAD: You did the Hollow Grammar tour with B. Done(of Virginia I think), how did you two meet?

BB:  He is originally from VA, but currently resides in North Carolina.  Funny enough, I was introduced to B.Done on Instagram about a year ago when I was working with Ced Hughes on getting beats together for 'Ugly & Impatient'.  Ced told me I needed to follow him because he was a fellow hip hop artist who was also into comics and action figures, like myself.  The rest is history.

 T-TAD: What are some good stories from the road you guys got?

BB: We fell asleep in the train station parking lot with my headlights on in New Jersey.  The cops came to the window thinking we'd died.  Aside from that, no crazy stories.  Just met a lot of interesting people and got a crash course in what to do and not do when on tour.

T-TAD: What are you plans after 'The End is Weird' both with rap and the rest of your life. Aren't you married and going to school too? You're like the renaissance man.

BB: I am getting married in the fall, but not married yet.  I am going to school for advertising, so that helps me more than it hurts me with my music.  As I mentioned earlier, I'm working on the next project, but it will have a different feel due to being a live band set up as opposed to the sampled beats I use now.  I can't wait to see what happens from here.

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