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Get Your Music Review Here On Thought Remixer

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on March 24, 2009
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As an artist myself, I know how hard it is to get that much needed publicity. So, I’m aiming to help out my fellow artists. As I’m promoting myself (which includes my business, my blog, and so on), I will be posting a mixture of my stuff, major labels, indie labels… and maybe even your stuff.  I’m getting those invites… ya know, going places. I would like to take you with me.

I can’t promise I’ll convert 2 million people, but I can at least give you an honest review, which you can use in your blog posts.

Of course, since now I’m asking for music, it can easily turn into a spam problem. I should know. On myspace, I get musicians that wants me to listen to them… every… single… day. It’s almost a problem. So, I’m going to lay down a few rules. Follow the rules, and I won’t have to press delete. So, you’re ready?

  1. Use the dropbox, which can be found in one of the sidebars. Or use this link.
  2. Send me an e-mail by click on the Contact link on the top and filling out the information. Upload your music to drop.io and send me a link. If you want to use another upload service, it’s fine, but if I have to fight the service, I will not download it. (Thus the reason I suggest you use what I use)
  3. Make sure you have a web site or some page that people can go to… in public. How am I suppose to promote you if you don’t have a place to go to?
  4. I am not radio, so radio edits are not needed. However, it’s best if you send me your best work first. I wanted to be floored during the first few minutes.
  5. I can’t promise that I will reply to all messages, but I can at least acknowledge that I got your material. If I like what I hear, I may request more from you. Otherwise, take the first e-mail as an acknowledgement and not as a “thanks by no thanks” e-mail.
  6. Send your tracks only once. If you need acknowledgement that I receive your tracks and have not heard back, just send me an e-mail (via contact).
  7. Lastly, sending repeats and harassing me, or making threating comments will not only make you foolish, but will blacklist you. Definately, not a good look. So, play nice.
  8. I can withdraw this offer at anytime, especially if you don’t play nice. So don’t spoil it.
  9. It should go without saying, but you should own the music copyrights. If it’s your own remixes, it should be the remixer sending it or someone else on his behave with his acknowledgement. If you are a label submitting on the artist behave, please say so.

So, what am I looking for?

  • Hip-Hop (Especially if you are a thought provoker)
  • R&B
  • Dancehall/Reagge
  • Poetry
  • Combo of such…
  • … or anything black related (Let’s see if I get Grime or Jazz. I hope I do.)

What I will not look at:

RAP - As in heartless, let me get money, mindless nig*** talk punk sh*t!

Or country… unless you’re really good at converting me.

(So, that should eliminate about 80% of you)

If you are pick to be review, I will contact you and let you know. Also, please let me know if you don’t mind me sharing your music with the visitors (chances are, you don’t, but I just want to make sure).

So… let’s see how this goes.

Exclusive MIMS Interview: March 23, 2008 + Preview

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on March 20, 2009
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Basically, I want to promote this interview as much as possible before actually releasing it. But some people think I didn’t actually did the interview. So, I decided to throw up a preview of said interview. So what exactly can you expect Mims to talk about? Here are the details:

  • His reasons why “This Is Why I’m Hot” was one of the hottest tracks of 2007.
  • Why he’s not a “ringtone rapper” and how he can’t be a one-hit wonder.
  • He’s declaring an open challenge to other artists (and you) about his music.
  • Why he called his album “Guilt”.
  • His feelings about Barack Obama and how Barack Obama inspired him.
  • His current plans and things most of his fans didn’t know about him (nor Wikipedia).
  • Social Media & why all artists should “get lost” if they don’t take it seriously.
  • And who exactly ARE you talking to on his MySpace, Twitter and Facebook profiles.
  • Plus: Why does he feel connected with me? (You got to read the post and hear what he did)

The following clip is just a close to 2 minute preview just to tease you. Yes, feel free to get pissed at when I cut it off.

Thought Remixer To Interview MIMS… Eventually (Updated)

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on March 2, 2009
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I’m personally proud to announce that I will be having a series of exclusive interviews. My first (of hopefully many) will be with Shawn Mims (known as MIMS), founder and leading artist of American King Music who’s hit “This Is Why I’m Hot” gave birth to his first album “Music Is My Savior”. Of course, this song was both his gift as well as his curse. Trying to prove that he’s not a “one-hit wonder”, he’s bouncing back with his second album, which was supposed to be called “I Am Hip-Hop’s Savior” and to be release in December is now named “Guilt” and will be release in April. Why the name change? Will he be able to drop the “one-hit wonder” and “ringtone rapper” off his resume? Can he be taken serious as an emcee?

Well, I will be asking the hard-hitting questions about his music, his life after his first album and how his second album will define the American King Music movement (yes, I know. I’m trying to sound dramatic here). This should be an interesting interview, nevertheless. The interview will be recorded and edited for time.

However, I know that you probably got some questions for him as well. So, this is your chance to put into the pool some if your questions. Because of the limited interview time, I can only pick about so many. However, if you ask a good question that I haven’t thought of, I’ll ask it in the interview AND credit you as well. (meaning links to your site when interview is posted up) To partake in this discussion, just leave your questions in the comment section below.

Also, spread the word around if you can. Tell a Friend to Tell a Friend (as My DJ partner would say).

Closing Time for Questions: Tuesday @ 10 AM. Interview will be hours after that.

Update (3/4/09 8:27 PM): Tuesday, the day of the interview had a lot of problems. Most phone problems where Mims’ people basically gave up. I received another e-mail apologizing for the difficulties and will try again Thursday. So, I will be interview Mims… eventually.

Update (3/14/09): The Interview took placed on Thursday, 3/5/09. I’m currently waiting for my friend to “normalize the volume” of the interview.

Station Identification (Or Why The Slow Down In Posts)

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Nukirk
on February 27, 2009
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What’s up, y’all?

First off, allow me to apologize for my close to inactive month in February. Including this post, I only did a total of 6. I was busy trying to take care of personal matters as well as professional. I didn’t planned out my thoughts probably, which caused me to post lack of quality posts.

My first misfire was treating a Obama/Bush Family Link as current news. SOHH, which inspired the post, isn’t a place where you want to get the latest political news, which is something I do cover from time-to-time… just not all the time. Usually when I do cover things, it’s after a lot of thought.

The second misfire was the Chris Brown/Rihanna post. Usually, I don’t write gossip-generating posts (at least not to my present knowledge). I talk cold, hard facts. However, the idea of “Thought Remixer” is basically to take a stand and attempt to argue a point, even if it means playing “the bad guy”. I had a nice concept in my head (playing PR for Chris Brown) which was poorly executed with sloppy research. My post rubbed some people the wrong way and they countered it to the point that I lost interested in the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation. While I’m sure I can’t promise I won’t do that again, I apologize if I sounded like I’m covering for Chris Brown, which I’m clearly not. As of today, I refused to comment further on this story until after all the smoke is cleared. I have a lot more the say about this issue, but feared that it will get lost if I say something at the present moment.

Anyway, with that being said, I want to announce a few things.

  1. I’ve been approached to bring exclusive interviews to Thought Remixer. I’m still crossing some t’s and dotting some i’s, but I promise you this: Things will get interesting. Keep in mind that the interviews will be done my way. So, expect dramatics.
  2. There will actually be NEW music coming to the blog. Since I cover black music and music in general, I’m not pigeon-holed to hip-hop. I got hookups. :)
  3. I’m redesigning this site with my own two hands. I’m not as inspired to post with this layout (even thought I finally fixed it), but more importantly, I’m a designer. I should have this site to reflect my own style, not just the header. This redesign should be finish any day now.
  4. Finally, because some people asked for it, I’m launching a business/getting money advice blog. I will be launching a new blog in the next few days. I already have a bit of content from rejected (but really good) articles I’ve done for other sites that will premiere on the new freelancer site. Expect a lot of “cross posts”.

Lastly, I promise to learn from the lessons of past. Yes, this is still a personal blog, but it’s really a personal “brand”. Y’all expect better from Nukirk and you will get better. Well, I will get better and you will enjoy it. Well, I’ll get… no… that don’t sound right. Dammit, you know what I mean!

Thanks for your time!

Management
(Yeah, yeah, it’s just me.)\

P.S. – So why not Black History Posts? If you don’t know me, I covered my reasons on this last year. I’m sorry in advanced for the grammar errors you’ll see there.

Free Obama Twitter Background

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Nukirk
on December 24, 2008
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Close Up of Background Some people know this, and others may not, but I am a web and graphic designer. I’m thankful to have been blogging, via good and bad times, for almost a year. I’m also thankful that we elected someone of historical propositions. So, I decided to give away one of my backgrounds. I’ve been trying to “complete it” for a while now, but it seems to be complete enough.

At one point, this was a test image for me to use on Twitter, but now it sits on my hard drive. But I wonder… wouldn’t it be great to see what another person do with it? So, I attached a “remix” license to it. That means you are free to modified it without my permission. However, I only ask that you don’t sell it and you give credit to me.

So, how can you get this background? Simple.

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