3rd times a charm

Sup cyber peeps....... all 2 of you lol

Well firstly the news all artist like to hear...we are number one on urban radio with mr mista for the 2nd consecutive week. It's awesome to celebrate those small milestones which help in the bigger picture. So often you get caught up trying to win the elections and miss out on realising your being given the chance to say something and people actually listen (excuse my obama moment) thats the cool part. Now i've got that out the way shout out to vodafone whom we're number one for sales this week on, their've put us as the feature "artist" of the week so chur chur.

I want to send a big and sincere shout out to my MTC fam who are seriously carving it up on itunes & c4, Smash proof were added to edge which i dont need to tell you is huge for a crew of rappers you feel me. I like MTC's hustle, not neccesarily all their music but dam the cross over i've seen and watching the reaction of that trend demographic who shall remain nameless so the racism card and sexism card don't get played lol is massive. Alot people don't realise the behind the scenes which go in to creating momentum & went a play works to perfection there's no better feeling than busking in a well delivered and thought out strategy. Unfortuantely if you want to stay at the top of the game busking doesn't really last more than a night....ok maybe a weekend in the case of the nesians lol. Shout out to Kirk & Juse, i'm watching and taking notes brothers.

Ok humour me as i'm on a feel good pat aotearoa hip hop on the back moment. After all the bulls*** the movement (i call it a movement because theres a cause) has been through in the last 4-5 years i'm proud to say we're sitting on possibly the next wave of hip hop attacks. I mean if we as a community keep spreading our wings like Savage, Scribe, Sid, Nesians, P money etc and expanding our territories it would not be an exaggeration to say we are NZ biggest musical export in years to come.

Speaking of local music check out a remix me, Junz, Old one done with Vince Harder for his debut single strobe lights. I'm still trying to get tech savy so you'll need to click on the link below and it'll take you to you tube :)

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTs47z1U6Q

We had an awesome weekend down in the bay Hawks that is.....shout out to Levi the baller who looked after us like kings (obviously saw the potential hahaha). Also went to Tainui country and performed at tribal vibes which felt like a brown peoples big day out....and what a big day it was. Nothing but love in the sun, meke tunes and good company catching up with all the crews. Speaking of which if you ever play ardijah in b'ball be aware they tape the game for analysis and a few laughs afterwards which is all good unless your me and unco to the days hahaha.

P.S if your wondering what the photo up top is, i'm writing on my cousins computer and as is custom i needed a pic for this update and well these are the photos i found so Natty and Age if your reading this then I'm dead :)

Til next time......how much.......2 much

Sab out

andre "3 stakes" 3000 fashion line in jepody of huge loses

Anyone who knows me is well aware andre 3000 is my all time favourite bestest MC. So goes without saying I like his style speaking of which Andre has his fingers in many pies including a cartoon series, acting, art but the most recent has been his fashion label "Benjamin Bixby Line".

Shortly after Andre's label was nominated for the GQ magazines best new menswear designer he was hit by news of a huge loss in sales. So much so that his line has been halved in price and looks now in a rather dangerous position of being another victim of the dreaded "recession". Bitter sweet, he's recognised as having an amazing fashion label and no bodies buying it. Come on people i know the cost of his gears more than 2 weeks rent but dam yet another rapper entreprenur hits a speed bump.

If you had a fashion label what would you call it?

On that note if you go to http://www.nesian-mystik.com/ you can check out our exclusive tee's lol i know it's late for xmas but there's always b'days and waitangi days a good gift giving day so I heard from a pakeha friend :)

The raptor hits a quarter century

Kudos to the b'day boy PNC.....the bro hosted his buddies for a house party which was dope catching up and hanging with the usual suspects i.e: dirty squad, nesians etc. My only complaint don't let PNC dj your party if you like listening to whole songs rather than when he gets bored half way through a track and cuts it off to look for his next track that tickles his fancy.

I got mad time for PNC, firstly he reps Palmerston north city and for those that don't know (you better ask somebody) i'm a palmy born boy. Secondly if that wasn't enough we hold it down for the half kast samoans, he loves melodic grove based music which is nothing short of being a long lost nesian brother. Lastly he's a top bloke who's a dope rapper and his brownie points went through the roof for me when i found out he was another huge Outkast fan like me & DJ notiq.

Fun was had by all.....thank you to the birthday boy hosting us and singing all awa's b.v's to "It's on"....hahaha... make sure you get ready to check out his new album spicyly (don't know if that's even a word) titled "Bazooka kid". Coincidently the next Nesian single RSVP will feature the birthday boy himself going 16 bars with your local neighbour fresh boyz....so keep an eye out we'll be shooting the clip shortly.

Big day out Freshboyz style

Round 2.....fight

Back so soon you say.....well wanted to keep you in the loop with where you can catch us at big day out. This year we're doing alot of promotional comps and interviews but to catch up with us for the general public your best bet is the signing tent....we'll be there from 2-2.30pm.

The real deal u need to check is our live band. Alot of people try hype the whole live band thing when they transition from the dj but most i can safely say are no roots. Ok were not the roots either since we've only been praticing 6 weeks but i tell ya we have some of the best muso's involved. I know i've heard people claim good muso's and still sound their uncles rsa band but these guys are awesome at what they do and are really an extension of the nesian family both musically and even more so in their humour which is probably the numba 1 requirement in our crew.

Enough about how "super nice" our band is the proof is in the koko i mean pudding. You can check us out on the green stage from 4-445pm. Actually your in for a bit of treat as Ladi 6 is on just before us.

Other than Lupe i'm not sure who else i want to see. Horsemen are on late which should be good. P Moneys flying the hip hop flag in the boiler room which raises the point, has hip hop done that well that we're all infilitrating different stages other than the local stage they always had us on or are we that slack that we don't have our own stage and we're just shared out because there's not enough of us doing things (your guess is as good as mine).

I had the honour of checking out lupe last time and dudes live performance is dope, in fact i remember me and Mareko having a bit of disagreement about who was the biggest breakthrough artist out of lupe and lil wayne......well i guess i was wrong based on what waynes acheived but don't tell rex that because i'll just denie it lol. My only gripe bout Lupe's set was that it was created to appeal to non hip hop fans which it accomplished but those of his core fans there was no mains only entrees with all his best songs ( in my humble opinion) being overlooked for his crossover stuff.

Well til next time.....for all those wondering where notiq's best of 2008 is at it will be hitting your screens shortly.....no pressure....which leads me to my thought of the day, i'm still trying to figure if it's cool in a blog to text spell words or just straight keep it the grammar official like awa's motueka jacket (inside joke sory).


Who you looking forward to checking out at this years big day out?

It's official cuz

So it's my first blogpost ooowwwweeeeee put it in the air....lol

but seriously what do you say in these, especially the first one.......

How bout i start with selling you...... that this is the be all and end all of internet, that the world has now officially evolved hahaha.

Everyone knows i'll be updating you with the inside word on the nesians, since this is my blog spare me a moment to pedal a bit of propaganda......the nesians this week got our 9th top 10 single with mr mista entering the top 10 at 7#. Also that makes the 3rd track off our amazingly criticial acclaimed by our parents latest album elevator musiq possibly unbiasly the most successful local record of the year......now thats a big claim i hear you saying.....then i'll put it this way name another record with just 2 top 20's.....as i said this is our blog so a bit of king kong chest beating is allowed.....heck it may be the last time anything happens i could quote to you so yes were celebrating. Now that I've got that out of my system back to reality.

Big shot out to Motueka our 1st gig of the new year, people were awesome hosts and treated us like fam so big ups much appreciated. Had a real good time with our friends ardijah, Motueka hospitality was beautiful and the brothers had a mean time out with the locals.

Since my blogs missed 08 allow me a bit buffer time to reflect in my next blog....hearing what songs i've loved would be i'm sure life changing for you all but on the next blog i'm a let dj notiq a man who listened to a hell of a lot more tunes in 08 then me hit you with his picks.

I can't wait to fill you in on all the local music popping off as well coz i'm a have my finger on the pulse u best believe.....signing out Sab