Fk the PO-lees
Let me back up to Monday, as tonight is now Tuesday night.
Monday, Day 7 in London town. Sarah arrived in the afternoon to sing on Edro's album. That girl has a voice like a fallen angel. There is a yearning passion in her voice and when you hear it, you'll know you've just heard something incredibly special and rare. She sang on 2 of Edro's songs, and i think we have two more songs in the running for singles. It only dawned on me today that, Edro is American, coming out on a British hip hop label, in the UK. Having a girl with a distinct british accent singing on his songs is probably a very good thing, coupling that with the fact that she might very well have the most distinct and mezmerizing new voice in the last several years, and i think we have a winning combination.
Anyway, long story short, Sarah sang on two songs, they are amazing. OK, so we all left the studio (me, Edro, Sarah, and Brent) at 3am. Edro drove. We were trying to get Sarah back to her hotel room, and nobody really knew where it was, though we had a general idea. So, we get incorrect directions from an old man in another car that makes us turn the other direction. So after a half mile we realize nope, this isnt right, we were going the right way before. UTURN. then out of nowhere, 2 cop cars and a full on police van run up on us. 6 cops box us in and pull us over. Edro (the only black person in the car) is driving, and of course they ask him to get out. I'm just sitting there waiting for the night sticks to come out (british police dont carry guns). Fortunately Edro made it out unscathed, but i swear the police kept us there for over an hour. We were driving a car owner by the owner of the record label, and apparently somebody had gotten a speeding ticket in that car in early august, (none of us), so they decided to pull us over and harrass us for it. Now, all things considered, it was a fairly unevetful stop, other than the fact that they had Edro out of the car forever, questioning him, then me. Then they followed us back to where we are staying, and two of the POlees took Sarah back to her hotel room, but another 2 followed us back to the homestead and we had to wake up the owner of the car for more harrassment. You know, times like that make you wonder why on earth the police done have anything better to do than harrass normal people, but then there we were. You know, I've been in similar situations many times, and I'd just like to say that if the police ever wonder why people hate them its because they stereotypically have a very bad habit of treating common, normal, law obiding citizens like common criminals. And then of course theres the time my SUV got stolen and you'd have thought when they caught the guy that i was the criminal and not him. No joke, it was surreal. So, its not like the public in general hate police, without them we'd really be screwed, but i think its fair to say that while they often have a very difficult job that i'd never personally want to do, I think police in general have a hard time treating the normal traffic stops any differently than if they are pulling over a notorious drug dealer, thereby making the common man feel like we're being treated like hardened criminals, thereby writing blogs with the title "Fk the PO-lees". Just making an observation.
Anyway, I digress. Today, day 8. a very good day. Couldnt sleep after 5-0 ran up on us, so i think maybe i got 2 hours of sleep, and another 2 hours just laying there going "god why cant i sleep". So i got to bed at 4:30am,l and was back in the studio at 9:15am. ugh. and its now 2:15am and i'm packing it in. holy crap. Had a great lunch today followed by a great session. Edro spit some straight fire on the microphone tonight, and my boy Swell laced us with a super hot track. check out Swell's "other" profession at www.BeatTalk.com
So, i also decided to have a bottel of wine tonight,m yes the whole damn bottle, of a 2001 Cabernet. I am absolutely determined to sleep tonight, regardless of how much i need to drink to guarantee that. You know, when you've slept less than 2 hours a day for several days in a row, desparation measures are in order. Red wine, though i love it, makes me very tired. Time to pack it in. I'm not driving, and i really hope the police leave us alone tonight. Losing over an hour of sleep for that nonsense last night really hurt.
- Ken
Monday, Day 7 in London town. Sarah arrived in the afternoon to sing on Edro's album. That girl has a voice like a fallen angel. There is a yearning passion in her voice and when you hear it, you'll know you've just heard something incredibly special and rare. She sang on 2 of Edro's songs, and i think we have two more songs in the running for singles. It only dawned on me today that, Edro is American, coming out on a British hip hop label, in the UK. Having a girl with a distinct british accent singing on his songs is probably a very good thing, coupling that with the fact that she might very well have the most distinct and mezmerizing new voice in the last several years, and i think we have a winning combination.
Anyway, long story short, Sarah sang on two songs, they are amazing. OK, so we all left the studio (me, Edro, Sarah, and Brent) at 3am. Edro drove. We were trying to get Sarah back to her hotel room, and nobody really knew where it was, though we had a general idea. So, we get incorrect directions from an old man in another car that makes us turn the other direction. So after a half mile we realize nope, this isnt right, we were going the right way before. UTURN. then out of nowhere, 2 cop cars and a full on police van run up on us. 6 cops box us in and pull us over. Edro (the only black person in the car) is driving, and of course they ask him to get out. I'm just sitting there waiting for the night sticks to come out (british police dont carry guns). Fortunately Edro made it out unscathed, but i swear the police kept us there for over an hour. We were driving a car owner by the owner of the record label, and apparently somebody had gotten a speeding ticket in that car in early august, (none of us), so they decided to pull us over and harrass us for it. Now, all things considered, it was a fairly unevetful stop, other than the fact that they had Edro out of the car forever, questioning him, then me. Then they followed us back to where we are staying, and two of the POlees took Sarah back to her hotel room, but another 2 followed us back to the homestead and we had to wake up the owner of the car for more harrassment. You know, times like that make you wonder why on earth the police done have anything better to do than harrass normal people, but then there we were. You know, I've been in similar situations many times, and I'd just like to say that if the police ever wonder why people hate them its because they stereotypically have a very bad habit of treating common, normal, law obiding citizens like common criminals. And then of course theres the time my SUV got stolen and you'd have thought when they caught the guy that i was the criminal and not him. No joke, it was surreal. So, its not like the public in general hate police, without them we'd really be screwed, but i think its fair to say that while they often have a very difficult job that i'd never personally want to do, I think police in general have a hard time treating the normal traffic stops any differently than if they are pulling over a notorious drug dealer, thereby making the common man feel like we're being treated like hardened criminals, thereby writing blogs with the title "Fk the PO-lees". Just making an observation.
Anyway, I digress. Today, day 8. a very good day. Couldnt sleep after 5-0 ran up on us, so i think maybe i got 2 hours of sleep, and another 2 hours just laying there going "god why cant i sleep". So i got to bed at 4:30am,l and was back in the studio at 9:15am. ugh. and its now 2:15am and i'm packing it in. holy crap. Had a great lunch today followed by a great session. Edro spit some straight fire on the microphone tonight, and my boy Swell laced us with a super hot track. check out Swell's "other" profession at www.BeatTalk.com
So, i also decided to have a bottel of wine tonight,m yes the whole damn bottle, of a 2001 Cabernet. I am absolutely determined to sleep tonight, regardless of how much i need to drink to guarantee that. You know, when you've slept less than 2 hours a day for several days in a row, desparation measures are in order. Red wine, though i love it, makes me very tired. Time to pack it in. I'm not driving, and i really hope the police leave us alone tonight. Losing over an hour of sleep for that nonsense last night really hurt.
- Ken
posted by Protools Mixing at 1:22 PM
2 Comments:
Lucky for you the 5-0 didn't pull you over while drinking that full bottle of wine... probably would have been stopped for an additional hour, without sleep.
Why do you think this "Sarah" character is such a good person to have on the songs? Only because of the distinct british accent? (and the assumed phenomenal voice). And also I wanted to ask... Is the British music scene really popular over there? Cause reading music business books it seems like there is a lot of action over there. I'm curious why it doesn't really integrate at all with out hollywood music scene.
Anywho, i gotta get back to MY work! I set a deadline for this song, and damnit i'm going to meet it!
-Tom Wells
heyyy ken You have to sleep, you never gonna make it.ok take care and just one kestion this singer have makes an album ????
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