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I first spoke with Prince Paul in September 2012 for an interview that covered pretty much his whole career. The interview got a great response when it went up online, particularly the questions about the Gravediggaz. Since then I wanted to reconnect with him to discuss the first Gravediggaz record in more detail. It is a stone cold classic in my opinion and I had a lot of questions for him.
I finally got the opportunity to speak with Paul again last week and I focussed the entire hour long interview on the creation of Niggamortis/6 Feet Deep. Paul was in an especially talkative mood so the interview is really in depth. We breakdown the album track-by-track as well as discussing the problems he had trying to get a deal for the group, getting the record out and much more.
I feel this is the definitive interview when it comes to 6 Feet Deep, I don't think Paul has ever spoken in as much detail about the making of this album. So sit back, take some time and enjoy the read... Like I said, it's very long!
The interview is up on hiphopsite.com as well as Wu-International.com but I thought I'd post it here too for you guys...
Interview conducted by Pattch82 (email@example.com)
Interview Date: July 18th 2013
PATTCH82: Wassup Paul, how are you…?
PRINCE PAUL: Yeah I'm good, just getting my day started. How you doing…?
P82: Yeah I'm good. I wanted to focus the interview on the making of the first Gravediggaz record if that's cool with you…? It's a personal classic of mine and I got a lot of questions! Haha…
PAUL: OK yeah, no problem.
P82: We kinda touched on this the last time we spoke… you mentioned that you gathered RZA, Poetic and Frukwan together at your house to discuss the possibility of forming a group. What was that meeting like with the four of you all together for the first time…?
PAUL: I think it was really just guys trying to get to know each other because they knew of each other but they didn't know each other. And at the same time they didn't really know what each others skill level was. So it was a meeting to more or less get them to understand why I'd picked each one of them and what I thought they possessed that I thought would be cool collectively as a group. So it was a lot of playing music and guys giving each other respect for the work they had done. I think once they realised that I didn't pick any slouches, you know each of them had something to offer, then it just made it a little more relaxed and like ok let's come up with some ideas and ok, ok you are nice… I see why Paul called you here. It was cool after that and then we came up with the first song, The House That Hatred Built, and that was the first thing that we did just all sitting down together after coming up with the concept of what the group was… the Gravediggaz.
P82: Was the track recorded during that first meeting too…?
PAUL: Yeah if I remember correctly. In the midst of bringing them all together and us sitting and talking and we were like ok the name of the group is Gravediggaz. I thought ok I think I have a beat for that. I had so much music and a lot of the music I was making back then was really dark. I think I was going through some type of weird depression or something so it kinda worked out that the name of the group was Gravediggaz and I had a whole bunch of music that was dark and it was just a track that fit the vibe at the time. The guys came up with stuff and we recorded it. Once everybody heard how they sounded together on one track that made them even more excited to want to work together.
P82: The demo tape that you recorded, was that done around the same time…?
PAUL: Yeah the demo tape followed right after. Once we had the first initial meeting it was just a matter of getting everybody's schedule together and figuring out when we all can meet up next. At the first meeting I played music and they liked it, so I gave them some songs, 2 Cups Of Blood was one of the beats which I thought was just a throwaway track but I remember RZA was like YOOOOOO that's crazy let's use that! I'm thinking he's crazy, you wanna use that?! It's not even done! So I gave them the beats, put them all on cassette. They took it home, listened to it, and the cool thing is they talked amongst each other without me having to be there, because introducing them is one thing but then for Poetic to reach out and discuss ideas with the others like on this song I'm thinking about doing this or let's do that… So by the time that they did come back to my house to record we had a good grasp of what needed to be done.
P82: You had to shop the demo for quite a while before you finally found a label that was interested…
PAUL: Yeah nobody wanted to mess with us you know. One reason why I put that group together was I felt I was being disrespected in the music industry in the terms of just probably record execs. It's funny at one point you're in the limelight and people are like he's the greatest thing ever and then a year later it's like awww he's wack, De La Soul have fallen off, because back then De La Soul Is Dead was considered a failure. Now it's like wow it's a great record but back then it was like woah they fell off. And then dealing with Russell and them, we had the Dew Doo Man label that we were talking about and then didn't happen and it was just horrible. Going through all that and then shopping the demo and I'm thinking it's the greatest thing ever, I'm putting three guys together who are having hard times so they're feeling what I'm feeling so I'm thinking this is a combined energy that we're putting on this demo and we're doing everything with passion and people are going to love it. And then they go ohhh Gravediggaz… it's a gimmick… I don't know… its kinda wack. I remember I had a friend she worked at Jive and she brought it there and one of the guys, I'm not gonna mention his name… I do remember his name because it kinda bothered me… but she brought it into the A&R meeting and he was like ohh man these guys are old, they're played out, nobody wants to hear them again. And this is pre-Wu-Tang so I guess that shows the power of having Wu-Tang behind the situation too. And it really bothered me and it literally sat for a year, I went to all the labels, anybody that I knew, that I had connects with… Tommy Boy, Def Jam, Jive, every label we could think of and they turned it down. It kinda hurt man, something I worked really hard at, I mean HARD.
P82: I heard that you had a meeting with Eazy-E too about possibly putting the record out on Ruthless…?
PAUL: Oh yeah you know it's funny out of all of the meetings, initially he was one person that was interested in putting out the project. I flew out to California because I had a connect out there and I knew Eazy from before because we had toured with N.W.A. on a few dates when I was with Stetsasonic. He's a real nice guy, it's funny I'm thinking N.W.A. is all street and gangsta, but he was a real nice dude man. I remember going to L.A., going to Ruthless Records and I remember he had the demo in his hand and he's like yo Gravediggaz… I really like this, I wanna sign y'all. I'm like REALLY?? Wow! One, I'm a big N.W.A. fan to begin with, people don't realise how huge of a fan I was so this was kinda going full circle for me. So I'm like wow he get's it, after all this rejection, Eazy gets it. So I'm like yeah let's do this deal, and I remember Jerry Heller was there at the time making an offer. First of all I gotta thank Eazy, god rest his soul, for giving me a copy of the N.W.A. VHS tape that I wanted so bad and it wasn't in stores at the time hahaha, so I had to get that! So then I talked to Jerry Heller, he was ok but was very disinterested you know, he doesn't care about the music, he's just the business dude. But that contract, I don't remember the details but I do remember it was probably one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life… it was almost like, it was better off not putting out the record at all hahaha. I'm not saying it was this bad, but it was like yo you wanna put out a record? Pay me and we'll put out the record haha. It made sense why a lot of the people at the time had beef with Jerry Heller because it was that bad. It was like… what? Are you kidding me? It was horrible. So I still had a little faith and I was like yo I'm gonna wait out for a better situation.
P82: How much time had passed between recording the demo and the actual album…?
PAUL: Over a year, because it took us a year to get the deal. It was almost a year to the day when John Baker from Gee Street called and said hey I like this demo and I wanna sign you guys. And the deal was actually half way decent. So we started the demo in '91 and the actual album came out in '94 so there you go haha. Right after we signed the deal it probably took us about six months to record it.
P82: On to the album itself… it opens with a short intro Just When You Thought It Was Over and then goes straight into Constant Elevation, an absolute killer opening track!
PAUL: Oh yeah, my whole thing when putting an album together, and I still feel this way, is I like having an introduction to what the album is about. This is when people used to listen to albums; I don't think people really listen to entire albums as much any more, they kinda skip each track. I tried to set up the mood and I wanted to let people know what they were getting in to before the whole album started. And then Constant Elevation, even before we recorded the album I knew I wanted to make that the opener, even before the vocals got on I already had an idea what the intro music should sound like.
P82: How did you manage to get them to spit in those crazy styles, especially Poetic and RZA…? Were you pushing them or were they experimenting themselves…?
PAUL: Well it all started with Poetic. Constant Elevation was I think the first song that we recorded collectively after we had gotten the deal, the first track done in a real studio rather than recording at my home. I remember Poetic started rhyming, RZA didn't get there yet. There was me, Poetic and Frukwan, RZA was late getting to the studio. I asked Poetic to start it off and he just came with some regular… you know, not regular… but you could tell he hadn't been in a studio in a while. And I'm like come on man, come on this ain't you, you're nice man, don't front man; you're nice so let's show it. Then after a few more tries he came out with the BEEEEEWARE!! Haha. And he kicks the whole rhyme like that, real crazy. Now that's what I'm talking about, that's what I'm looking for. That kinda set the precedent on the album of what his style would be. Frukwan had to follow that right after, and he didn't want to be outshined so he had to make sure that he got in where he fit in and then by the time RZA got to the studio I played him what we had done and his eyes lit up like YOOO!! That's crazy! I wanted him to do just his regular style that he was doing at the time but he was like nah nah I gotta change it up, gotta change it, listen I've been working on this style of voice. And that's when he came with the style of voice we have on the album. We did two versions; we did one like how I wanted it to be done which is on my Hip-Hop Gold Dust album which I personally liked better and then the style that he did that ended up on the album.
P82: I was going to mention the alternate version on your Gold Dust compilation. So is that the version that you actually wanted on the album…?
PAUL: Yeah that's the one where I was like yo that's what I like. People don't understand that Gravediggaz was like a reinvention for everybody, Frukwan didn't wanna come out like Frukwan, Poetic didn't wanna sound like Poetic. Prince Rakeem didn't wanna come out like Prince Rakeem and I'll remind you when we were there putting the group together he didn't even have the name The RZA then. He made up the name at my house, because we were all thinking of names, ok I'm the Undertaker you know, The Gatekeeper, Grym Reaper. He said I'm the Resurrector but I spell it RZA-rector, you can just call me RZA for RZA-rector. So we're like ok that's cool, that's different. So that's a little known fact, he made up that name at my house.
P82: Then we come to Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide…
PAUL: Yeah RZA came in and I remember at the same time he was recording with Wu-Tang. He heard the beat and wanted to use it, originally that wasn't the beat I wanted to use because I had another idea but it worked out. He came up with the hook; he was like yo I've been having this idea in my mind – nowhere to run to baby nowhere to hide. OK let's do that, we recorded it and everybody laid the vocals down, RZA did a rough take and right at the point where he messed up at I put the little daaa daa da da (sings the kung fu riff from the beginning of Protect Ya Neck) to cover up the space where he messed up, because Protect Ya Neck had just came out. He was like yo I'm coming back to redo my vocals, when he came back he heard what I had done with it; I think Method Man was with him too. He was like YOOO! That's crazy! I was like yeah I didn't have time for you to come back and fix it; I just wanted to get on to the next song. He was like yo that's crazy; I love how you came up with that idea. So it was a mistake that I covered up. I liked his delivery; it's just that he kinda forgot what he was going to say at the time so I covered it up.
P82: Defective Trip (Trippin') is next. Who usually came up with the subject matter for each track…? Was it them hearing the beat or did you have a certain topic in mind for each track…?
PAUL: It was both. With some of them the guys would hear it and be like ok I'm thinking this, like RZA with Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide. With Defective Trip I had that idea; I was like man let's talk about trippin', drugs. And I thought the beat kinda fit the vibe of trippin' you know, kinda spacey a little bit, still funky. I gave them the concept and they just ran with it. That was the cool thing about working with them, we were all able to talk to each other and express an idea without feeling nervous you know, everybody was open so if it was a stupid idea they'd tell you it was stupid… but respectfully, haha. So I came with the concept, they wrote to it and I just added all the stuff around it.
P82: The next track is 2 Cups Of Blood which was originally on the demo tape. Did you re-record that track for the album or did you use the demo recording…?
PAUL: No. A lot of stuff that you hear on the demo tape is actually on the album. So yeah, 2 Cups Of Blood was recorded at my house, it was recorded on an 8-track cassette Tascam, I had an SM58 microphone, everything that you hear on that record is low budget and we just mixed it at a decent studio to make it sound good. But yeah that was recorded at the house; Poetic and RZA were going back and forth. I know Frukwan kinda felt left out, I don't think he was there at the time they recorded the rhymes. I was like yo it sounds good as it is man, I don't wanna change it. Not every song has to be predictable with all the same people all the time. It's one of my favourite songs, the beat was a mistake but it worked out and I gotta thank RZA for that because he heard something that I didn't hear.
P82: Blood Brothers is a track that Frukwan produced…
PAUL: Yeah Blood Brothers, the original track was on a demo that he had. When I put the group together I listened to it a lot and I liked the beat so much that when we started making the album I tried to get everybody involved so I was like yo let's use that beat that you had. I think Poetic came with the hook and expressed it to RZA and Frukwan and they just wrote to it and that's more or less how that one came about. We had to recreate the beat because there was a lot of samples so a lot of it we replayed but we tried to make it sound a lot like a sample.
P82: Next is the short interlude 360 Questions with a little dig at Tommy Boy Records…
PAUL: Haha yeah, I just wanted to be silly. Ahh man I'm trying to remember everyone who is on there, I remember there was a bunch of people at the studio; we were at a studio in downtown Manhattan called GLC Studios. We just had a whole bunch of people there and we were like yo let's just have them ask questions… I think Vernon Reid was there, just random people you know. And then yeah at the end… who killed Tommy's Boy… I wasn't expecting that one, haha. We were all ex-Tommy Boy artists at the time and everybody had bad stories about how they got dropped, except for me of course, I wasn't dropped I just kinda moved on. So I was like, cool… and when we were sequencing the album I thought Suicide would be really good after that.
P82: 1-800 Suicide has such a laid back beat but the lyrics are so crazy that it creates a strange vibe. The lyrics seem even more unhinged because they're spitting over such a calm, melodic beat…
PAUL: Well I remember playing that beat for them and I really liked that beat, I made a few beats during that time that I was like yo I really like this one I gotta record it. I think I may have come up with the concept of suicide because I sampled the KRS-One thing in between, and they were like yo this is crazy! We recorded the vocals exactly how you hear, Frukwan came on first and I remember the guys were like yo he nailed it, he nailed the concept, he nailed the vibe, and that was his first take that you hear on the record. Then Poetic was like yo watch what I got, I'm gonna go a little different on it and he did the whole sing-songy part and I was like what?! That's so nuts! Because the rhyme was crazy, the rhyme style was crazy. And then RZA kinda just reeled it on home, just going in with his Prince Rakeem style, but hardcore, hard. That was his first take.
P82: There was also the RZA remix of 1-800 Suicide that was on one of the singles. Poetic's verse especially on the remix is crazy…
PAUL: They had asked me to remix it and I told RZA yo man I can't really think of anything for it, why don't you remix it. He said ok, and then he came up with the idea. Poetic was always the type of dude that was very competitive and I used to always put him a RZA against each other a lot. I used to always tell Poetic like yo I think he's nicer than you… and then I'd go to RZA and go yo man I think Poetic can kill you man hahaha. It always brought the best out of Poetic and with that rhyme he wasn't taking no shorts man, he killed it. It's a very underrated rhyme, people talk about great verses and to me that's one of them.
P82: Pass The Shovel was next but that track only appeared on certain versions of the album. Was it left off the American release due to sample clearance issues…?
PAUL: Nah I just really didn't want it on the record you know. That was put on by the recommendation of the label; they wanted another track to put on the UK release. I said ok but to me it didn't really fit the theme of how the album went. It was originally a demo that we recorded at the house and then we re-recorded the vocals. I actually like the original demo over the re-recorded one, but that was more to please the label. At the time I felt the beat really didn't fit where we were going.
P82: Diary Of A Madman is probably one of your best known songs. Can you tell me how the situation with the production credits happened…? Because you actually produced the track right…?
PAUL: Yeah I mean what got it twisted… I'll explain how it happened… RZA came in with this sample and we were like yo that's crazy let's use that. RZA was like I don't know, it's not mine, I didn't loop this up my man RNS who lives around my way did it. I was like yo, ask him if we can use it. RZA said man we gonna have to give him credit, we gonna have to break him off a little bit and give him some credit. I said yo whatever it takes to get the loop. So when we looped it, we didn't even get the real loop, we just took it off the cassette. I said yo ask him what the sample is. He was like… he got it from a car commercial. I said what?! Get outta here! RNS wouldn't disclose what the sample was at the time. So I looped it up and added a beat and stuff to it. I took it, programmed the beat, recorded all the vocals, arranged all the vocals and that's when I met Shabazz The Disciple and Killah Priest, they came down to the studio. Shabazz heard the beat, just the beat and the loop and he wanted to rhyme on it and he killed it! He was the first one rhyming on that song and the guys didn't know how to follow it because it was too crazy. There was no concept to the song, just his rhyme. So I had to sit down and figure out how I could make this cohesive because there's no hook, there's no concept. So I came up with the courtroom thing and then I wrote out that part. When all the rhymes were on I put the courtroom part on and I never told them what I was going to do. I played it for all of them and they were like yo, how did you come up with that idea, that's crazy! How did you link all that together! It was just an idea I came up with. I took it, recorded the vocals, mixed it and at the end of the day I didn't care about credit, I just worried about the record getting out. Technically RNS was never there, we used his sample and it was through RZA because it was RZA's connect so then RZA got credit but the person who actually put the whole song together was me, haha. So I never got the proper credit but I didn't care. If it's gonna take RNS to get credit for this so we can use the sample, because it was dope and I had no idea what it was, RZA had no idea what it was, so RNS was the only person that had a link to that sample. Now I know what it is but back then I didn't know what it was. It all worked out. So when I see people like oh RNS and RZA killed the track... I'm like what?! Even the production sounds like me, you can tell. RZA and RNS ain't gonna come up with the whole courtroom scene, it's not their style. But it all worked out in the end, haha.
P82: Mommy, What's A Gravedigga is quite a short track. A longer version appeared on the B-Side of one of the singles. Is there any reason you put the short version on the album…?
PAUL: I just wanted to keep it short and sweet, which was my thought process back then. It was a short, cool sample. The first time I remember hearing that sample was when Pos had it for a De La remix; I was like yo that's dope! People didn't really know the remix that well so I was like yo, I'm gonna reuse that. So I got my man Scotty Harding, who was my engineer for the album, play the bass over it and I'm gonna flip it the way I want to flip it. We made it really, really short and I like what they did to it. I added people's vocals, the girl's vocals at the beginning. People used to record stuff and send vocals in on cassette so I could sample it and put it on the album at random places, it worked out.
P82: Bang Ya Head is a real hardcore track… the beat is crazy energetic. What was the thought process behind that one…?
PAUL: That was a beat that I had that I originally recorded as a demo for the Cold Crush Four believe it or not haha. They never put it out and never used it and I still liked the beat so I played it for RZA and Poetic and they liked it. RZA had just been recording Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' with Wu-Tang and he came back and he's like yo for some reason U-God kept on saying "run in to the wall, bang ya head" so we should call this Bang Ya Head, it has that kinda vibe to it. RZA said it was stuck in his head to use that with this beat. I said yeah whatever you wanna come up with I'm just glad you wanna use it. RZA set it off, he came up with the hook, and he showed the guys how he heard the track.
P82: Here Come The Gravediggaz was produced by Mr. Sime…
PAUL: Oh yeah Sime, that was Poetic's homeboy at the time. Poetic and his brother were doing The Brothers Grym when we reconnected. Sime was their producer, and he produced their demo. It was amazing; I thought he was an unknown amazing producer. Since Frukwan had a beat on the album, and RZA was participating and I wanted everybody to be involved, Mr. Sime came up with that beat and he played it for me. I was like yo, it's only fair to have y'all do a track on the album, put that one on there. So that one was all conducted by Poetic, him and Mr. Sime got together, came with the beat, took the hook, told the other guys what it was and I just mixed it.
P82: Then we move on to Graveyard Chamber. Another crazy energetic track and a classic early RZA beat…
PAUL: Oh yeah RZA killed it!
P82: How much guidance were you giving to RZA back then with regards to production techniques, etc…?
PAUL: It was nice because he really respected a whole lot of what I did. It was really during the days of We Love You Rakeem. We were recording a lot of demos back then and unbeknown to me he was kinda learning a lot of stuff, programming stuff, he'd watch a lot, he'd ask questions. It wasn't until years later when we started going to the studio, recording this album, that's when he started developing his own style and his own stuff. I remember he was heavy in to using the EPS, the Ensoniq EPS and then the ASR came out, the ASR-10. I remember that's when he brought it to the studio and recorded the Graveyard Chamber beat. The thing is, I was so in to technology back then, like up and coming technology… but what was cool about him is he just did his stuff unorthodox, he just put stuff in off-beat, put in snares manually you know haha, and it kinda made me go back on what I was doing. Technically what he was doing was off, but it felt right and sounded right. That's how it was when he came with Graveyard Chamber. It was a late night in the studio and I was like yo we need another beat. RZA said he would come up with something and in pure RZA style he made some stuff on the spot. He was like ok I got this sound, I got this idea… and I just watched him on the Ensoniq. It was real late because we had the graveyard session; it was like 12 at midnight till 8 in the morning. He came up, all the guys came through, he created the beat and I remember it got to a point where I was like yo man I'm sleepy I gotta go home haha. I came back the next day and it was done, I was like what?!! I think I was there for a couple of the rhymes, like when Dreddy Kruger got on, he killed it. I think I watched Poetic, and I remember RZA wrote his rhyme while we were out on the road.
P82: I read that you sat in on some of the early Wu-Tang recording sessions…? What was that like…?
PAUL: Well I'm used to going to studio sessions and there's usually a lot of people in there, everybody vibing off, somebody is writing here, people doing stuff, people talking… but they were just so focussed on getting it done, it was a bunch of dudes in the studio and the energy to me was like having a football team. And in the middle of it all was the coach – The RZA. The beautiful thing was that they had so much respect for the RZA, every word that he said, the cats really respected and looked up to him and to me it was really impressive because RZA had a lot of respect for me. So what was even more impressive at the time… as they looked up to him, he was coming to me and asking me yo what do you think Paul? And I was like Wow! It was a nice thing to come in to a lot of those sessions and get respect for being I guess what was called an OG at the time. Just the vibe of those sessions though, cats were hungry man they were really ready to get it done and they were really excited, excited for each other and to me I was impressed. It was good times back then man, even though I was going through a little depression it was nice to see guys together and wanting to succeed. This was before all of the money and the fame and everything kicked in. They were really in to getting that album done.
P82: Back to the Gravediggaz album, can you tell me about Death Trap…
PAUL: Yeah, I like 7 Minutes Of Funk and nobody ever used the version with the bongos in it, everybody always used the 12 inch version. I remember Bambaataa used to rock it all the time so I was like yo I wanna do a version of that song. I played it for them and they thought ok it's something kinda new on the album because everything had been going one way, so yeah let's use this one. I went and asked Masta Ace to do the intro which I thought would be kinda ironic because he had just done the SlaughtaHouse album and he kinda mimicked all of that. He was in our studio at the time; we were all at Firehouse Studio so it was kinda easy to get him on the intro. I think Poetic came up with the concept of what they should talk about on that track.
P82: Then we come to 6 Feet Deep which is another track produced by The RZA. I read that the basis of the beat was some live instrumentation that RZA sampled…
PAUL: Yeah, one day we were in GLC Studios and I think it was before the engineer got in, he came in late and they had a live room with different instruments like drums, guitars, tambourines, pianos and stuff. So here is all of us waiting for the engineer to come in and we're like yo let's see if we can get somebody to run the DAT tape and we just started playing the instruments. I think I was on the drums, RZA was on the piano, Frukwan was on the guitar if I remember correctly and Poetic… I think he had a tambourine or something haha. So all these guys who can't play anything, and we're just kinda vibing and laughing and joking and recording stuff. It was all on one DAT tape, and once in a while we'd get in to a groove and we'd come up with something that I thought was pretty slick. RZA took the DAT tape and I was like yo man I want a copy of that… I never got a copy of it. So he took bits and pieces of what we recorded and he sampled it on his ASR and added a baseline and a beat. I was like yo that's crazy, that's the session we did! I want a copy! I still never got a copy, haha. So he took the stuff that we played and sampled it and made that song.
P82: The last track is Rest In Peace (Outro) which is another dark beat…
PAUL: Yeah in putting the album together we had the intro so I wanted to put an outro on there too, kinda summing up what we did. I think it was just me, Frukwan and Poetic, RZA was coming late to the studio. So I was like yo this needs some type of ending and the guys were thinking about it, I guess I didn't explain it properly. So then RZA came in, I was like yo this is what I'm trying to do, just sum it up you know, to end the record. I let him hear the beat and the first take he nailed it, he knew exactly what I wanted, he got it. And then everybody else just followed his lead, that's why he's the one main vocal right to the end and everybody else was just kinda vibing off what he was saying and I just produced around it.
P82: When I spoke to you last time you mentioned that you put the album together almost like a jigsaw puzzle, as in all of the MC's weren't always there at the same time. Did that make it even more of a challenge for you to make the album sound as cohesive as it does…?
PAUL: Of course and to me I like challenges like that. I like sitting and putting things together. It's hard but there's a feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day because nobody knows better. Like on Diary Of A Madman, nobody knows that song was all over the place, there was no type concept to that song. But to make a concept to it and to put it together in that way and to grow and they don't know any different. To me it was lifting my ego too you know what I'm saying? At the time I thought I was kinda wack, people weren't feeling me so I'm gonna have to show them how nice I am, let me really showcase some production skills. If it didn't get respect from the people that listened to the album, which when the album came out it wasn't a big record, but to the guys I worked with like Poetic, Frukwan and RZA they knew all the work I put in to the album so to get their respect, to me it was important.
P82: Did you do much touring in support of the album…?
PAUL: Yeah, yeah we toured. We toured over in Europe, we did a tour of Japan and we toured the States with Wu-Tang when Wu-Tang first came out. We did a lot of press. The thing is it was just at the time when Craig Mack and Biggie Smalls came in. So we were doing one thing but that other type of sound started popping. So when people looked at us like Gravediggaz? Ahh man this is a gimmick! We kinda got swept under the rug even though Diary Of A Madman for I think like a couple of days in New York City was the number one requested single. And it had no hook! So that was pretty cool but for the most part people thought it was a gimmick which kinda hurt my feelings because I worked hard on that album. I really worked hard on that album. I think if it came out like two years earlier it would have been a big record. If it came out at the time that I put the group together, if it came out during that time I think the album would have been way bigger.
P82: So what are your overall thoughts on the album now…?
PAUL: I'm still satisfied with this record; it's probably my favourite record that I've done and I don't like too many records that I produced. I think the records I've done are ok, but that one I listen to and I enjoy it from front to back. When I listen to the album it's a little different for me because I hear all of the production and all the hard work. I'm sure it would be ok if I came to the studio, did the rhymes and then I'm gone… but I pieced a lot of that together so when I listen to it I'm usually like wow I can't believe I did that and the equipment I did it on. Now everything is done via computer. I did everything on DAS-950's, I had a sequencing program called Master Tracks and I used the SP-12, did things by writing stuff down on paper and numbers. There were no screens to look at and move things so it was hard. So when I listen to it I appreciate a lot of the hard work. When I listen to it I miss Poetic because throughout the whole project me and him were probably the closest, he was a Long Island dude, we talked all the time. It was nice at the end of the day for guys like Poetic and Frukwan, them especially, to be able to buy cars, take care of their families. So for me to help provide that, to me that was a better feeling.
P82: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me, I've taken up a bit more of your time that I probably should have…
PAUL: I didn't even look at the time man, haha. I appreciate it man. Take care.
I hope you enjoyed the read... I had an absolute blast doing this interview. Paul is the coolest, most humble guy ever!!
New interview I conducted with PRINCE PAUL...
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 12:14 AM
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 01:24 AM
Great interview man!
Posted 22 July 2013 - 02:43 AM
Yeah, this interview is awesome. It's always cool to really get the story behind some of my favorite records. Thanks for sharing man!
Posted 22 July 2013 - 02:59 AM
[Insert .gif of Orson Welles clapping.]
Great job!!
Great job!!
Posted 22 July 2013 - 01:42 PM
Thanks for the props guys! Really had a blast doing this interview... Paul is cool as hell and a total legend!!
And yeah, I always make a point of my interviews being in depth and asking the questions the real fans want answering, instead of some of these interviews you see when you can tell the interviewer hasnt got a clue what he/she is talking about.
And yeah, I always make a point of my interviews being in depth and asking the questions the real fans want answering, instead of some of these interviews you see when you can tell the interviewer hasnt got a clue what he/she is talking about.
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 05:50 PM
awesome stuff! Definitely managed to get a for-the-true-fans amount of detail out of him like you wanted, kudos. I love Pass the Shovel, though I guess I see what he means about the beat seemingly not fitting in with the rest of the album. always wondered why it was left off the domestic.
Honestly I'd love one of these for every one of his albums. Next time get that skinny on Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)!
Honestly I'd love one of these for every one of his albums. Next time get that skinny on Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)!
Posted 24 July 2013 - 02:07 AM
Word Patch, that was a great interview. Would be an honour to someone like that. Paul is definitely one of the best that ever did it and with a great sense of humour! All them projects, Stet way back then De La, Gravediggaz, Handsome Boy Modelling School and one of my personal all-time favourites, Price Among Thieves. Somehow though the album he did with his son P For Real last year, Negroes On Ice, slid underneath the radar.
Posted 24 July 2013 - 05:42 AM
Awesome interview, thanks for sharing
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ETA: My nephew did this as well, but when he turned 8 months he just stopped and started sleeping through the night. It literally happened overnight.
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My lo used to wake only once at night. Once I returned to work I felt like I missed out on so much time with her. I was so happy when she started waking often during the night because I got to nurse her lots. I think it's pretty normal for them to wake more. He probably misses you and your soft breast
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Happy treated crappy, all over a ball
I guess I'm still in shock over this whole Happy Youngster/ Chris Coghlan thing.
The media made Happy out to be some kind of extortionist and I know it's not like that at all.
Some of the hate comments he received were so bad it has me questioning my own ballhawking adventures.
Reading those hate comments could give someone the impression that if you're over the age of twelve you have no business with a glove at a baseball game.
Happy has since removed a lot of the threatening comments.
I can't speak for you but I don't know too many twelve year olds that can catch one of those BP homers. I took one of those baseballs square in the foot the other day and it still hurts.
Imagine if only kids brought gloves to games and tried to catch those missles, the end results could be scary—–>
The last Rockies game I was at I saw Robert deflect a BP baseball that was headed right into the middle of a group of teenage girls. These girls had no idea it was coming and Robert's quick thinking prevented an injury or worse I'm sure.
Happy all I can tell you as soon as Coghlan walked up to me and said "Are you gonna give me my ball?"
With that attitude brotha I'd have said "F'ck No" broke the hell out, went home, destroyed that baseball on video and then posted it to my blog.
Happy was disrespected, lied to and treated like sheet. In the end it didn't really matter what Happy asked for in trade for the home run ball. All the Marlins had to do was say no.
I didn't like the Marlins accusing Happy of swapping baseballs either. That wasn't a good way to begin the swap. I am curious as to the outcome of all this because it is likely sometime in my life I may be in a similar situation.
Personally, I would have asked for the bat Coghlan used to hit the home run autographed and a photo of the exchange.
But now that I know what kind of guy/player Coghlan is…If I ever catch one of his home runs, I'll save myself a HUGE headache and throw the f'king thing back.
Here is what I have learned so far:
Ranter's tips just in case you ever catch a home run ball that a player would like back.
1. Give it back or be reasonable with your requests (I still think Happy was reasonable).
2. Get everything in writing and on video 🙂 . Sometimes they'll tell you one thing and then later either deny it or say something different.
3. As soon as deal/exchange starts to flake or they change their tune on you,….just walk. You have lost nothing at that point.
4. Cover your Hass, have witnesses. Realize if it goes sour, the media will spin this against you. Be prepared to fire back with your proof. If possible keep the whole thing as low key as possible.
5. People who don't know you with nothing better to do will suddenly take time out of their day to pass some of their miserable existance onto you.
Remember,…In a player/fan situation the Associated Press may not be your friend.
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Hey Rockpile,
I am glad he documented everything well and had it on tape as to what he asked for. I think the Marlins came out looking bad based on what I read.
You know, one time I heard Charlie Steiner say that "anyone over the age of…I forget what age he used..but he said that was not a player looks ridiculous with a glove. I was like"what is up with that Charlie? " I am sure a lot of people did not liked his comment.
Hey D, Emily's story made it into the Chicago Tribune, and ESPN🙂
It is lousy that people are treating Happy this way. This issue with Coghlan – nobody knows what he was told before he came out to get the ball – so I'm willing to give him a pass on his attitude – after all, the kid just hit his first home run and he wanted to ball! What a great moment it had to be for him. Happy doesn't, but there are people out there who do take advantage of players and hold balls "hostage" until they get what they want. Maybe there does need to be some middle ground. Certain balls mean a lot to a player and to the history of the game – and maybe fans need to give them up without expecting something back. Put yourself in the players' shoes – who does a "first home run ball" mean the most to? The player who hit it or the fan who caught it? And why should the player or his team have to "pay" to get it back? Something that needs to be thought about – how do we balance a fans desire to catch as many balls as they can and a players/teams desire (and maybe right) to have the baseballs that help record special accomplishments. The middle ground needs to be found. If I were Coghlan's mom – I would have hoped that a fan of the GAME would have given it back, no questions asked. But then again, that's what moms do!
EMMA-I can't imagine being at a game without my glove. I figure the Marlins look like chumps over this whole deal everywhere except Florida. Florida's media totally spun this against Happy.
DAN-I read it, that's awesome. Way to go national brotha!
JULIA-Really good points you've brought up there. Nobody knows exactly what they'll do until they are in that situation…D
Hey D,
Wow! What a way to treat a fan. I think Happy should have kept the ball. After reading some of the comments about what other teams gave up to their fans to get milestone balls back it seems that the Marlins are a bunch of cheap&ss jerks!
As for the media, well they're a bunch of slugs who will twist a story to make it more sensational regardless of the damage it does.
you people are losers, anyone over the age of 12 with a glove at a game is a loser
Cool, very cool guy, "thaalderman" is. ***….. D – I believe that Happy DELETING his blog is crazy. It's not chill to say a ton of the crap that people are sayin' over there. Not chill at all. September's just a summer away baby!
– Donnie
R-LUV- I saw your comment on Happy's blog before he deleted it, that was cool.
DONNIE-I didn't know Happy deleted his blog until I read your comment. WOW.
ALDERMAN-Go Away, You've got no beef with me and I've got no beef with you. You don't know me and I know you're from Chicago and your IP address is: 18.104.22.168. Feel like leaving anymore anoymous comments? :)…D
Ranter, I just read here about Happy's blog going 'goodbye' and think that's insane! I hope all's well with him, and thanks for putting your two cents in on this. It's terrible how he's been portrayed by the media.
Love your rants, dude!
Hey D,
Yeah, I had to go over to his blog and lend my support. I can't believe how he's being portrayed. I know whenever he's been over here he's always been really nice and seeing how he gives a lot of the balls he catches away to the kids makes him a good guy in my book.
And as for Thaalderman, why are we losers because we are still able to get childlike excitement out something like catching a ball from one of the boys. Seems he's a bigger loser for being so jaded that he can't. If being able to enjoy little things like that makes me a loser I'm OK with that, at least I'm not a stupidsh!t like him.
Happy is Back!! Just saw that the Coghlan post and a couple of new ones are up. I have caught a few balls that were wanted back by the player or team and never had issues with something like this. More bizarre was when I caught Dave Winfields 450th and he came and asked what I wanted for the ball that was in his locker. WhATTTT?? I still had the ball in my glove. It seems a clubhouse attendant was sent out to try to find the person that caught the ball and when he couldn't find me he just took another game ball and stuck it in his locker. Thankfully the usher , my friend and myself let Winfield know that I still had the ball!
Either way, these days with the money that players make and the assinine amounts of money we all pay to go to the games why the hell shouldnt you ask for a couple of bats!!
You were right on with the no gloves if you are over 12 thing. It would get ugly with a lot of people getting nailed by balls. On the other hand many of the adults that bring gloves should just leave them at home since they don't know how to catch a ball with them!!
Either way my glove goes to every game I go to whether it's a MLB game or a minor league game!!
Baseballs 4 MADD (Catching baseballs for charity this year)
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[Out]Field of Dreams
Yanks Hammer Halladay at Home
I know it's cliche, but it's true: you see something new every day. After discovering who was pitching for the Phillies, I never thought the game would have the results it did. Did I ever think the Yankees would beat up on Roy Halladay – the man who was perfect just a short while ago? I love my Yankees and have faith in them, but I never thought they would get to Halladay the way they did. I'm so proud of them. To my surprise, the Yankees won 8-3.
Pitching Analysis: Our ace CC Sabathia knew who his opponent was, and made sure to come out of the gates strong. CC was superb, C "Cy" like, in the first three innings of the game, striking out 6 in that span. In the 4th, he ran into a little trouble, and surrendered 3 runs. But it's not like he was stinky and unraveled. I have to say, that Phillies rally was very cheap: a single off CC's hand, a grounder out of CC's reach, and a hit batsman to load the bases with none out. Then two singles, and an RBI groundout. That's some pretty intense offense, lol.
Great job, Hefty-Lefty!
CC went 7 innings, allowed just those 3 runs on 5 hits, and struckout 7. The bullpen was solid as well. David Robertson pitched a 1-2-3 inning, as well as Chan Ho-not-outta-the-Park. I was hoping I'd see Mitre in this game, but all of a sudden he's randomly on the DL. He has an oblique strain. Oblique….mmm.
Offensive Analysis: I never in a million years expected the Yankee offense to explode against Halladay. In the first inning, they went down quickly, and I was like, "Oh jeez…here we go." But in the 2nd, everything changed.
Nick Swisher started the rally with an innocent 1-out single. Jorge Posada then singled, and I began to think "rally," although I really didn't want to. I didn't want to jinx it. It was Brettiboo Gardner's turn to bat. Oh my God. I love that man. He hit a ball into the gap in right-center, and it went all the way to the wall! Victorino bobbled it, but even if he didn't I knew where Gardner's destination was. Gardner made it to 3rd base, for a 2-RUN TRIPLE!!! That must have killed Halladay. It gave the Yankees an early 2-0 lead.
Speed is sexy😉
I thought the 2nd inning was fun, but the 3rd was pretty thrilling in itself. My cutie-Curtis Granderson has quielty been playing very well lately. But last night, he was loud. In the 3rd, Granderson hit a line-drive, 2nd deck solo home run – the 1st homer Halladay allowed to a lefty all year. Congrats Grandy! 3-0 Yankees lead.
The GrandyMan can😉
Robinson Cano then crushed a ball for a double. NickySwish-Swishalicious came up to the plate next. He is 5th in the voting for AL outfielder for the All-Star Game. I've done my duty and voted. Hopefully, other fans will as well. I think Nick earned himself plenty of votes with 1 swing last night. Swish hit a MONSTER 2-RUN HOMER into the RIGHT FIELD BLEACHERS! 5-0 Yankees!
Swishalicious definition, makes them girls go crazy….
The Yankees added 3 more to cushion the lead. Mark Teixeira hit a solo homer in the 5th – he wrapped it right around the foul pole. My darling Francisco Cervelli broke the game open with a clutch, bases loaded 2-run single in the 7th, making it 8-3. And that's how it ended.
What a way to start this World Series rematch! Better than the first game of the World Series last year – that's for sure. The Yankees dominated in this game. The heroes for the victory are CC Sabatha, for getting a win against a team that's not the Orioles – and a pretty decent team in the Phillies. The other heroes are our stellar outfielders: Brett Gardner, Curtis Granderson, and Nick Swisher. All three of you are perfect Yankees. Perfect.
You are an outfield of dreams ♥
I just want to add before I forget – I have a celebrity lookalike. Like Jane did over at Confessions of a SheFan, this celebrity lookalike involves Ramiro Pena. Let me know what you think:
Dev Patel, aka Jamal! Ramiro!
Well, Jane's might be better :)
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Excellent lookalike, Virginia. I like it! And I loved last night's game, naturally!
I was surprised Girardi let CC pitch the 7th, but I'm glad he did. Great game. And Great lookalike for Pena lol, I liked Slumdog Millionaire😄
I love your look-a-likes.
I was happily pleased that the Dodgers got to the great Albert Pujols the entire series. That is a feat.
I love bumps in the outfield! That is a great picture of your outfielders!
What a great pitching matchup that was of CC and Holladay. Doc had trouble in the first just like Dodger pitchers.
Tonight I leave to Boston! I am so excited!
Roy Halladay really must not have enjoyed his visit back to the AL East. That game proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the A L East had his number and he might have had a interesting year in Toronto if he had stayed with the Jays.
But it was also a nice bit of revenge and a genuine confidence builder for the Yankees to trump him with such force and power.
Always love to see the RED pinstripes lose.
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i LOVE Dev patel!!! Such a cutie. And wow they really do look alike when you put them next to each other.
That is so unlike Doc but the Yanks pulled through. That's amazing🙂
I love the hip bump it's adorable although some people don't like it because that might cause some freak injuries


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Philadelphia Phillies (13-13) at Washington Nationals (16-12)
Starting Pitchers:
PHI: Cliff Lee
TEX: Stephen Strasburg
Time: 7:05, Citizens Bank Park
Weather: Partly sunny, 66
Media: Twitter and Facebook
A Note for Tonight:
Friday's opener with the Nationals is the first game the Phillies have played since Tuesday, and their altered rotation has created what shapes up on paper to be a terrific pitcher's duel. Cliff Lee will take the mound for the Phillies, coming off a less than stellar start against the Diamondbacks in which he allowed five runs (three earned) on eight hits in six innings. Lee has pitched well against the Nationals in his career, going 6-4 in 11 starts with a 2.87 ERA, and he averages a strikeout per inning against Washington.
Lee's counterpart will be power right-hander Stephen Strasburg, who has scuffled at times this year but is coming off a seven inning shutout performance against San Diego in which he punched out 11 batters. Strasburg has had some success against the Phillies, pitching to a 2.65 ERA in six career starts against them. Against current Phillies players, however, he has yielded only two homers and five RBI in 53 at bats.
Revere CF/ Rollins SS/ Utley 2B/ Howard 1B/ Byrd RF/ Brown LF/ Ruiz C/ Asche 3B/ Lee P
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I think Marlon might be on a hot streak. With a little help from our friend Jason. Nice 2 out rally
What the Phils don't play in a week and no one is watching tonight. The Flyers aren't even playing
I'm still not sold on Marlon Byrd, but I'm glad he jacked that three run bomb!!
I like him Hogey, always have, and thought it was a great pickup.
PS. Could you change your name? , my phone always wants to auto correct it to "honey" and I don't go that way. (Not that tthere's anything wrong with that)
Lol now that was funny, honey's role… Hmmm idk if that rolls off the tongue quite as well
@Hogey, maybe not. But who else was there?? Huge upgrade over Delmon.
Nats players took so many pitches in the 1st. Phils- revere and JRoll 1st pitch Rollins- not so much. But what at bat by CHASE! And RyHo comes through.
Mikey, fyi, that's way off base. Rollins has swung at the first pitch far less than the average player for most of his career:
MLB average: 27.8% of first pitches are swung at
Rollins since 2006: 18.2%
Rollins this year: 15.9%
Oh yeah, I have been wondering all season- what does the "CB" on the Phillies uniform mean?
In DC and I finally get to watch a game live.
CB is in honor of Claire Betz, an owner nobody ever heard of before the patch. She died in the offseason. I guess they were desperate to come up with something to put on a patch.
That's the first time I've ever seen a bench-clearing chat.
Disagree with this move and don't care about "righty lefty" . If this thing goes extras, they'll pay for burning Gwynn like that in a close game.
The OVER MANAGER strikes again!!!
Who didn't see this coming
Ditch the slider Diekman, just give him the gas.
Wow!!! Not only may we lose. But no W for Cliff, No L for Stras and that idiot Span may get the last laugh. Have to win this game!!
And thanks Tracey for the CB note. Appreciate it buddy.
Well that advice didn't work.
need to win games like this if you want to contend.
Maybe they don't want to.
It's all over
Still no outs?
See Ruben instead of a bunch of old guys who you are over paying for past performance.
you pay a couple of young hungry guys.
I wish the Phillies would publically state a loss number that would mean Ruben is fired.
So I would have something to root for and some excitement with this brutal roster.
the 3rd highest paid n baseball mind you.
You really can't blame this on the "old" guys Lee pitched well both Utley Howard Byrd all scored, yes Adams was a mess by diekman was worse
I question the diekman should have been Bastardo this game is done the Nats pen is money
For those of you that have the luxury of getting the home broadcast, you have no idea what a horses ass the Nats play by play man is.
I don't think any other cities fans would put up with this crap.
They fired Dibble because he told the truth.
But remember this is a city where every year they think the Skins are great.
Ovechkin is 875th in the NHL in plus minus and they think hes great.
They are the dumbest fans in all of the country.
I get the package and I like watching all the different broadcasts.
This guy for the Nats is the worst.
F.P. seems to play into the stupidity too
If you live in northern Virginia you have to listen to these National broadcasters too.
They are the worst in the entire sport.
Every play is a great one. Every player is a hall of famer.
the Senators have very real problems.
But this division is so bad I guess they win it my osmosis.
If braves hadn't had all the injuries they would have won it.
It wont be the Phillies. Of that I am sure lol
Yup Bob carpenter is a schmuck and FP sux
That made me sick watching Byrd look foolish and Brown has no idea where is swing Is….they should have ph for him oh wait we have nobody to do that
Well if you live in ny you get the updates on your phone or tv so be thankful you get to see the game…
I pay for the baseball package.
To enjoy this great team LOL
I am a seam head though and I will watch a west coast game after this.
For me the package is great for more than just the Phillies.
Will the Nats go to a lefty?
Why ?
Its Howard
It's nice to see Werth playing for the Phils again.
Guess they didn't have to.
Yet another bullpen implosion.
First and second no one out.
Senators have them just where they want them.
Middle of the line up coming up
Bastardo should have been last inning
Brown Really Looks terrible. His OPS is now 30 Pointe below cosy asche's. Amazing.
Not sure where last year's Dom Brown hibernated to this year. Sigh.
Yeah, doesn't look good lately
I agree that other east coast cities fans wouldn't put up with it Andrew. DC fans just have no clue.
This team missing a young piece that is exciting and you think will go after it every at bat. Brown is not it he needs to call Joyner to fix his swing
Ruiz Asche Nix/Galvis then the top let's all bow our heads and pray…
God I hate Ray Knight
Yeah Jeff, it's comforting to know we have Galvis and Nix on the bench.
Ruiz the best player on this team the last 8 years.
Bar none.
And Id rather have Werth and his contract over every single one of Rubens big deals.
Bob Carpenter doesn't even remotely understand the sport at all.
Its like hes never seen a game
Why didn't he slide???
Galvis hitting .033
Someone give him some magic pills
What a bad play for ruiz
He might hurt himself lolol
Cant fault Ruiz though hes entitled. Wish he had been up with runners on first and second no outs instead of Howard.
This is just a butally poor team that is poorly constructed.
I mean all I have to say is this one is on the lack of options we have after Lee. RAJ has killed this team. He did absolutely nothing to fix the pen….forget the big contracts, if we are in it to win it with this core he need to add solid bullpen arms not pray people come back from injury or the young guys mature over night
With their thirdbase situation, they basically have a lineup with two pitchers batting.
Be honest with you Howard got fooled on a good piece of pitching by Mr 4-eyes. Brown should not be hitting 6 Ruiz should
I know it may be early but let's bring up Franco, although Asche played well tonight off a very good pitcher
Well, this is why I wanted to trade Brown and Asche to the Dodgers for Matt Kemp BEFORE the season. started. Now, the Dodgers wouldn't trade us even up for their 3rd string catcher in single A.
I used to just worry about being stuck with our old guys. Now I fear we're stuck with the young ones, too.
The Nats may have a better team than the Phillies this year but their logo sucks.
Somehow, knowing that makes me feel marginally better.
I hope that Adams can put some sort of string together so that they can unload him for a bag of balls at the trade deadline. Oh and its still not too early to fire Bob McClure, even Dubee had some success with this staff. It looks to me that there is constant regression with this pen.
Why oh why do I have to listen to the Nats broadcast crew. Absolutely horrific…always spouting batting average, eras, numbers, numbers, numbers. Over and over same data and the Phillies field is a band box and they hit alot of homers there etc. etc. Of course they forget they also are playing there. THEY REALLY SUCK.


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Thus Endeth The Streak…
He gave up two home runs and a total of four runs, and four walks over 5 1/3 innings…
…and got the win. Unfortunately, it was Scott Kazmir of the Los Angeles Angels and not Javier Vazquez of the New York Yankees. Javy had worse line (5 hits, 5 runs and 3 walks in 3 2/3 innings). This isn't exactly what GM Brian Cashman was looking for when he traded for Vazquez in the off-season. Perhaps the Yankees should have stayed with a 'been there, done that' approach and left Vazquez in Atlanta. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know who'll get the biggest boos when the team returns to Yankee Stadium. Javy is now 1-3 for the season, with an ERA of 9.00, after today's 8-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
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The loss also ended the Yankees streak of series wins to start the season. Tied with the 1926 Yankees for the best start to the season with series wins, the 2010 missed a chance to take the record for themselves. The Angels took two of three, also winning Friday night's game. The only Yankees win was Saturday's 7-1 win behind a terrific performance by Andy Pettitte.
If Vazquez has competition for boos at home, it will come from reliever Damaso Marte. The game was still close (5-4) with Marte on the mound today. With Yankee killer Kendry Morales at the plate, manager Joe Girardi thought about lifting Marte. He left the dugout but changed his mind on the way to the mound and turned around. Morales subsequently pounded a three-run homer to give the Angels their margin of victory.
If I can take away any positives from today's game, it was that Angels DH Hideki Matsui did not collect his 1,000th career hit against his former team.
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I am sure that somewhere far, far away, someone is enjoying the Yankees loss on her birthday…
Happy Birthday to my friend, Julia! By the way, how did the Celtics and Red Sox do for you today? 😉 Sports aside, I hope it was a great day for you!
I felt Friday night's collision at home between Mark Teixeira and Angels catcher Bobby Wilson was clean albeit quite unfortunate. It left Wilson with an ankle injury and a concussion. Baseball can be a violent game and Teixeira was focused on scoring. I know that there is probably no one who feels worse about what happened than Teixeira. Well, perhaps Wilson himself. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery by Bobby Wilson!
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Monday the Yankees will head to Washington to meet with President Obama at the White House. Then, it's off to Baltimore for a three-game set in Oriole Park at Camden Yards. At 12-6, the Yankees are in second place, 1 ½ games behind the Tampa Bay Rays….but 4 ½ games ahead of the fourth place Boston Red Sox.
The NFL Draft has finally concluded. I am not a fan of the new format (Round 1 Thursday night; Rounds 2-3 Friday night; and Rounds 4-7 Saturday). I definitely prefer the previous Saturday-Sunday format much better.
As a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, I was a bit underwhelmed with this year's draft. With the 30th pick in the first round, I thought the Vikings were in great shape to draft Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen, but they opted to trade down with the Detroit Lions. With the pick, the Lions were able to grab RB Jahvid Best who will definitely help improve Detroit's running game. In Detroit's slot (second pick of the second round), the Vikings again passed on Clausen and went with Virginia cornerback Chris Cook. Later in the second round, the Vikings traded up with the Houston Texans and drafted Stanford RB Toby Gerhart. I can't dispute the Vikings needed secondary help, and after losing RB Chester Taylor through free agency to the Chicago Bears, the Vikings needed a backup for Adrian Peterson. But…
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The only consolation I can offer about Vazquez – and it's not much, admittedly – is that CC started his first season with a 1-3 record too. Maybe he'll improve like CC did?????
Thank you for the birthday wishes! And while the pomegranate martinis were delicious I did not find myself in need of any "buckets!"😉 Yes – the Red Sox & Celtics had a tough Sunday. I fully did not expect the C's to win – that the Heat would lose both games at home was unthinkable – but the Red Sox lose was unacceptable. What the bullpen and hitters have against Tim Wakefield is beyond me. But my day was not a total lose – because the Yankee lose!! I didn't see the collision between Tex & Wilson – I know there was some question as to whether Wilson was on homeplate or not – I just hope he will be okay. Concussions can be scary things.


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Still Life with Fish and Shrimp, 1864
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Spell of the Still Life
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2013
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Speaker: Staff Educator
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Ball Four Turns Forty event
The "Ball Four Turns Forty" event sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary at Burbank library was so much fun. The event went from 11: AM to 5:P.M. By the time we broke for lunch at 12:30 I knew I made the right decision to go to this event and skip the Dodger game.
Here is the panel of Jean Hastings Ardell, David Kipen, Ron Shelton, David Davis and Jim Bouton.
Wish I had taken my copy of Bull Durham so Ron Shelton could have signed it.
Here are panel taking questions from attendees. Unfortunately the time was alredy 12:30 so the guy in the yellow shirt was the last one asking question. The lady in the green shirt is my friend Jeanine
I went to lunch with Roberto of VinScullyismyhomeboy.com and with friend Jeanine. Time flew by that we were late coming back but we found single seats in the end.
All copies of "Bal Four The final Pitch" were sold out by the time we came back from lunch so Roberto and I were glad that we bought our copy before we left for lunch. Jeanine had brought her old copy but she bought another book about the minor league by Jim Bouton. While Jim was signing the book I was checking his Yankee ring. He wrote in my book "For Emma- "Smoke them inside" Jim Bouton.
The documentary "the Seattle Pilots: Short Flight into History was great that alot of us bought the dvd. I knew very little about the Seattle Pilots. I found documentary facinating..
After the documentary, the second panel discussion consisted of Jim Bouton, Tommy Davis, Greg Goossen, Charles Kapner who loaned his Seattle PIlot memorabilia for the exhibit, Steve Cox and Brad Powers who were presenting the documentary.
Jim said that he has only read 20 books in his life! I think it was David Davis, the moderator that said "I think the Burbank librarian just fainted!"
Here is Greg Goossen. He is a local boy from Sherman Oaks, Ca.
Here is a Greg Goosssen and Tommy Davis when they played for the Seattle Pilots.
The Seattle Pilots schedule from 1969. They only lasted one season as they became the Milwaukeee Brewers the following year.
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What a fantastic event, Emma! Lots of baseball history in that room!
The Valley certainly contributed to great pool of talent in the Majors, including Goossen, Robin Yount, Bret Saberhagen, Rick Auerbach – to name a few. To witness it was amazing – to remember it is a keepsake that shines forever.
Emma: Haha cute shirt in these pics Emma. Good you were able to get your books..AND autographs!
Wow. Look at you getting your pic taken with yet another baseball celebrity. Bouton is such an interesting guy.
Hi Emma!
First of all, sorry I didn't post this earlier, but thx for the pics from the tour! That was a fun day! And sorry for bugging you last Friday on the phone; I thought you were at the game! Oh well, I'll catch up with ya later…
I learn so much when I read your blog, stuff that I would otherwise be way to ignorant about. Once more you rub shoulders with some special characters from baseball
Looks like you had a great time. I'm SO envious. I knew a number of players on the Pilots – Chico Salmon, Tommy Harper, Jose Vidal, and a few others – and followed them their first year. Emma, if you are able, get yourself a copy of "I Managed Good But They Played Bad" by Jim Bouton – a really good book.
Cheers and have a great week🙂
haha I don't know what happened to my response here. I really thought I made one before I left for the game on Sunday. Perhaps I put it in the wrong post?
It was a fantastic event! I love it! I'll keep an eye open for any more Baseball Reliquary events. I might join their club.
I love that shirt. I should also take a pic of the back of the shirt. It says "Scully" and below it where the number usually go, there is a mike!
Jane, Jim Bauton sure is interesting. I told him "I am so excited to be here"
I am so sorry that I missed you. After I called you back, I did not look at my phone. I can't hear it with all the noise and I had forgotten to take it off vibrate. Usually I just put it in my purse and forget about it. I was at the game Friday. It was Saturday that I skipped to go the event at the Burbank library.
WOW! You knew some of the Pilot players! Wow! You would have loved this event! I told a friend Friday night and she decided to go. She had a wonderful time. She loves going to minor league games so she bought Jim Bouton book about the minor league. I'll try to get that book that you are telling me about. Thanks! I would have never known about it if you did not tell me.
Thank you! It makes me feel good that someone can learn just a little something from my humble blog.
I have more photos about that event but I only put a few. I saw that a picture of me when Jim Bouton was signing my book made it to the Daily News!
Funny. I always thought the Seattle Pilots were about piloting planes, not boats. Whoops! Nice pics and story from the event. Thanks for sharing!
funny you should say that. Gregg Goossen was sharing a story that he was at a bar and a woman asked wat he did. He said "I Play for the Seattle Pilots." The woman said "Who?" Then he said "I fly planes for TWA. Let me buy you a beer…"
You know, I did not know before that Lou Pinella played for the Seattle Pilots and that he got traded tro KC only to become a Rookie of the year that year (1969) for the Royals.
Did oyu know Rays Hitting Coache's father Ron Shelton actually played on the same minor league team as Mr Ron "BullDurham/Tin Cup" Shelton. Just anoither fun fact from my private files.
Seriously, sounded like a great time to ponder and remember with some old players and even a pretty outspoken political leader. Wish I was there!
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It was an amazing event! My friend Jeanine was talking about the following day telling me 'Emma, I had so much fun at the event!" She could not put down the book about the minor league that she picked up there. She wants to lend it to me to read in the off-season and I bring it back in the Spring.
What a coincidence RR! You sure have quite a stack of private files.! I know you would have had a great time there. I stayed till the whole thing was over and that including just chatting at the end when the event concluded.


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I am using a nipple shield to breastfeed my 10 week old baby. I had a rough start to breastfeeding due to the pain. I dreaded feeding times, and she was nursing every hour. It was so painful I was crying at feeding times and was so sore I couldn't interact normally with my husband or 4 year old between feedings - I had to be careful not let them touch the front of me! I started with the nipple shield in the hospital due to inverted nipples but got off of it by one week old and by 4 weeks old I was in a terrible situation where I couldn't even wear the softest shirt or stand facing forward in the shower. I've been advised by a lactation consultant and my ob/gyn to use the shield as long as I need to or even for the whole breastfeeding time if I need to. It doesn't seem to be reducing my milk supply in the least. My baby has gained 6 lbs in these 10 weeks, nearly doubling her birth weight of 6 lbs. 8 oz. I'm also pumping 1 oz. per day to build up supply for the rare times away from her. So I seem to have plenty and when she nurses with the shield that nipple seems to usually be full of mild when she pulls away. I'm telling you these things because the main drawback I've heard about the shield is that it can reduce supply - so that doesn't seem to be happening with me. My breastfeeding experience is wonderful now. I love feeding times and she is a happy baby! And my family is happier now too, I also need to consider my older child. During the rough times my parents were keeping her some because I didn't want her to see me in that pain. Now she loves watching the baby breastfeed and I love having her be a part of it. FYI - my older daughter is adopted so this is my first time breastfeeding. I want to just continue using the shields. I hear people talking about getting off the shields though, so I wanted to get some more input about it. As long as the supply doesn't seem to be affected, is it ok for me to just happily continue using the shield?? I want to keep using it, but would like to know if there is some reason I shouldn't. Thanks!


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Slim Ankle Jean
Style: 570105268
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Gold and silver metallic stitching adds just a thread of shimmer to front pockets and back embroidery on these clean, lean jeans.
- Our universal fit. Eased through the hip and thigh, sits just below the waist.
- Slim ankle.
- Front zip; signature shank closure. Logo plaque on back pocket. Soft goldtone hardware. Rhinestone details.
- "Feel beautiful" message inside the waistband.
- 65% cotton, 34% polyester, 1% spandex. Hand wash. Imported.
- Inseams: regular 30", short 27.5", long 32".
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