OK party people, I hate to say it but Canhead is closed! Don’t worry, it’s just temporary. I’m all packed and getting ready to hit the highway. To all my EBay customers, no you didn’t get jacked online. I will ship any orders that are outstanding as soon as I get in LA. If your nice you might get some freebies for waiting. I am behind on tons of reviews, so when I do log back on, I’ll have a bunch of goodies for you all.

But you know I can’t leave you empty handed. Here’s a little sumthin’ sumthin’ for ya! I was going to post this a while ago but didn’t. I think Blogger was down or something, then I forgot about it. Anyway, here it is, another edition of The Cyber Mix Tape Show!

To download the show, click the explict content sticker. -60 Minute mix set-YouSendIt link-54 MB

Mix Set features songs by MadVillian, The Game, Casual, Mos Def, RA The Rugged Man, Mike Jones, Jay-Z, Zion-I, Will I.Am, RJD2, Nas, Dialated Peoples, Q.Rock639’s Cyberblendz and more!!!

See you on the other side!

“My mike sounds nice, check one..”

“The Interpreter” starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, opened in theaters last Friday. I was supposed to go to the premier but thanks to my hectic life, I missed it. I was pretty upset about it, as I want to see this movie. I plan on checking it out soon and writing a review on it. Until then, here are a few goodies provided by Kate at Special Ops Media.

Movie Synopsis:
Silvia Broome (Kidman) is an African-born UN interpreter who inadvertently overhears a death threat against an African head of state scheduled to address the United Nation’s General Assembly. Realizing she’s become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot…if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Tobin Keller (Penn), the federal agent charged with protecting the interpreter, who nonetheless suspects she may not be telling the whole truth. In the right hallway, at the right time, all it takes is a whisper to tip the balance of power.

Sounds good don’t it! I’ll fill you in soon, I promise I won’t spoil the ending like I did for my friends with “Million Dollar Baby“(I finally saw that one, thanks for the super size cup of depression Clint!!) Anyway, here are some more links for you…enjoy!
“Sean, do you mind wearing a wig like in Carlito’s Way?”

The Interpreter Website

Official Trailer
WMP-
http://www.universalpictures.com/asx/interpreter/the_interpreter_tsr1_300k_wmv.asx
QT-
http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/media/the_interpreter_tsr1_300k.mov

Clip: Keller and Silvia meet at the United Nations
WMP
http://www.universalpictures.com/asx/interpreter/interp_tvclip_1_300k_wmv.asx
QT
http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/videos/epk/interp_tvclip_1_300k.mov

Clip: Silvia and Keller talk in the General Assembly
QT
http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/videos/epk/interp_tvclip_3_300k.mov
WMP
http://www.universalpictures.com/asx/interpreter/interp_tvclip_3_300k_wmv.asx

Clip: The General Assembly goes to recess
QT
http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/videos/epk/interp_tvclip_featun_1_300k.mov
WMP
http://www.universalpictures.com/asx/interpreter/interp_tvclip_featun_1_300k_wmv.asx

Interpreter “A Look Inside” Featurette http://www.universalpictures.com/asx/interpreter/interpreter_look_inside_300k_wmv.asx
QT
http://www.theinterpretermovie.com/videos/lookinside/interpreter_look_inside_300k.mov
Sean: “Don’t call me Spicoli! I hate it when people do that!”

Triva-

Nicole Kidman is afraid of butterflies. Sean Penn used to smoke 4 packs a day and scared the shit outta photographers everywhere!

but I got MAD LINKS!! (go ahead and laugh…it’s ok to be corney sometimes yaoming!?!)

It’s Like That video-Mariah Carey

Charlene video -Anthony Hamilton-still diggin this song.

“Welcome To Paramount” MP3-Manic Hispanic-NEW!

“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” video-The White Stripes (”and now that were thru…I just don’t know what to doooooooooo……..my theme song!)

99 Problems video-Jay-Z (My other theme song!)

“Brown Sugar” -Faith Evans & Mos Def / “Love Of My Life” Erykah Badu & Common videos

“On & On” video Erykah Badu

“Son Of A Bush” video-Pubc Enemy!

“Its So Hard” Big Punisher-We love you Pun! We’ll never forget!

“All I Can Say” Mary J Blige (The Force is strong within you Mary Skywalker!)

“Grits” RZA

“Nothin” N.O.R.E.

Here’s something I missed out on last week. Blog Critics forwarded the email to all their members. It was planned so quickly that I couldn’t make it down. (side note to EO: a Mariah Carey interview at BC would be nice)

MARIAH CAREY TO CELEBRATETHE RELEASE OF “THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI”AND HER ALL-TIME CAREER-HIGH FIRST WEEK SALES

The new album debuted at number #1 on Billboard, setting a personal record worthy of a party. The guest list included all the industry movers and shakers and was at Cipriani in Manhattan. If I had more notice I would have been in there, blowing kisses to Mimi!

I’ll see you the next time Mimi, next time………

NFL.com

I’m getting all misty over here as this looks to be my last weekend in New York. The thought of leaving the state that has been my home off and on (there it is baby paw) for over 12 years is sending me down memory lane. It’s been a hell of a run for this country boy from Tennessee and it’s a shame to see it end. From the day I moved to Brooklyn with my uncle and them, I felt as if I had found a second home. Don’t get it twisted, I will always be from Tennessee, but New York really got to me. The intense heat of the summers in Bed-Stuy, catching’ wreck with some writers from Queens, throwing up “Rock639” on anything I could, going to Yankee Stadium, The West Indian Day Parade, the Puerto Rican Day Parade, discovering New Jersey on the Path train, and struggling in the music business.

I held several music related jobs while I roamed through New York. I have worked as an assistant engineer, engineer, producer, A&R, manager (lol) and general office assistant. My first “job” was working as a intern at Firehouse Studio when it was still in BK. This is where I got real experience with hip-hop production. I learned the basics of being a studio grunt (when to take the trash out of the studio rooms, how to charge meals to the record companies, and which rappers preferred Dutch Masters to Phillies, etc, etc) and met a lot of good people along the way.

Guru once came though, looking a little stressed, with his little boy with him. I was there early, getting ready for the next session, and he rang the bell. I buzzed him in and met him at the top of the stairs. Mind you, I was a studio scrub, cleaning the 48 track board with Q-Tips and aligning tape machines all day. This was Guru from Gangstarr. This was also back when I would still get star struck. When Guru stepped in, so did my nervous stutter. Anyway, dude came in and asked if he could kick it for a minute because he was out shopping with his son and people were mobbin’ him on the street. This was around 1993 so it made sense. He waited for Yoram (sp?) to come in and we played Tonka trucks his son. When I saw him about two years later at some club in the city, he remembered me and we kicked it for a minute. That was peace.

He said you turn it on Q..YOU!!!

Then there was the time I met Das EFX, back when they were liggitty large. I forget dude’s name but as they were starting their session, homie walks up to me and says, “Yo, you can turn on the light in the vocal booth?” I said sure, it works fine, just pull the string. He looks at me like I’m an alien and repeats himself. I look back at him like he is biggity buggin out and repeat myself. He gets pissed and yells “NAW NIGGA! I SAID YOU CAN TURN ON THE LIGHT IN THE VOCAL BOOTH FOR ME? I’M SHORT YO!” I realized that my country ass had misunderstood him and seemed like I was trying to be a dick. I pulled the string as his crew laughed at my ass. He did later apologize for blowing up on me and I apologized for being a nerd from Tennessee.(What’s the short guy from Das EFX’s name again?Bootz? Peace kid!)

Then there was the time I met a few brothers from the Wu. They were working on “Protect Your Neck” at the time, but I had heard about them even before that. I used to run with these kids from Staten Island who had told me all about these cats from Stapleton. My man Brian(Ibrahim) was Muslim so he would build with me, teaching me a few things about Islam. So when I heard these cats were coming in, I made sure I was there.

RZA was mad cool, working on the beat with the engineer, joking and talking me, the lowly intern, like I was somebody. He says, “Yo, let’s go to the store real quick.” So we jetted and got a Dutch. As we walked back to Firehouse, he started to unwrap the Dutch and asked me what my religion was. My answer to that always gets attention as it did with him. He started to talking to me about Islam, lessons, and our history. I eat this type of sh!t up anyway, so we chilled outside the studio for a minute or two, just building. That was peace. Later I would get to talk to Ghostface and he broke down the whole reason he wore the mask. I knew that day that these cats would be large. When I went back home to TN a few months after that, I was banging “36 Chambers”, telling everyone I knew that they had better watch out for these dudes from Shaolin.

Too many stories start to come to mind. The close calls coming home from Pink Houses, getting my car smashed at 33rd Street in front of Toys R US, dates in Prospect Park, dates in Central Park, lost in The Bronx, wired in Washington Heights, spinnig in Limelight, Club Speed, Vanity Bar (1 week after getting kicked out for blazin’) running the downstairs red room in Cheetah for 1 year straight with Frank D, running the hip-hop projects at Quantum Studios in Jersey City for 2 years straight solo, linking up with Jose Nunez at Quantum waaaay before any house music jumped off, shopping my crews demo to every label in New York, getting dissed by every label in New York, jumping ship to Soundtracks, meeting every singer/songwriter/rapper/producer/owner/poser in the business there, getting fired for theft shortly after(I had no part in that little heist and if I did, I would have something to show for it which I don’t…but you know the rules…no dime dropping!) finally making records with some really good people, watching said records sell wood and crew get split by pettiness and egos, watching the same scene repeatedly with the same results, the deals that actually made money, the people that surprised me by being true friends,ex girlfriends and all the love that was lost, the bad relationships, late night creeps, the arrests and court cases, the 3 week homeless while working thing, witnessing the single most incredible thing in my life, my son’s birth in a little clinic deep in Brooklyn, leaving NYC after 9/11. All of these memories and experience, both good and bad, are New York to me. I’ll miss it.

I should finish packing and stop talking and crying a river over here. It’s not like I won’t be back in town in about 8 months anyway (surprise!)

With that said, I dedicate the following joints to New York!

Escape From New York theme song

LL Cool J Going Back To Cali video

I’ll post a complete New York/LA Song list soon…..