While we’re waiting on release of Dan Johns‘ Hype Machine EP, he was kind enough to preview a new track, through twitter, entitled “12.14.08″ with Akshun.
This is a very rough draft of Akshun and myself doing a dry run at recording on the spot, in preparation for our planned weekend EP in late Jan/early February. [...]

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Dan Johns hit me up with the new jam from, The Returners as they release a remix of their “Do You” hit featuring the homey Dan Johns, Don Cerino and CP along with the original version’s guests, El Da Sensei, Skyzoo and King Magnetic.

The Returners - “Do You” remix (feat. El Da Sensei, Dan Johns, Skyzoo, Don Cerino, King Magnetic & CP)

You can also check the original here:
The Returners - “Do You” (feat. Skyzoo, El Da Sensei & King Magnetic)

The Returners Myspace

Dan Johns over at Magnum Opus, continues his “Danthology” series with a track from the vault featuring Supastition, called “Hip-Hop Vet” remix.

After a busy weekend, I’m just getting this “Danthology” entry posted, which was in doubt due to a studio session with Akshun, family business, and spending QT. Anyway, here you go!

This is the remix to “Hip Hop Vet” (i’ll post the original later in the week), which some people will still say is my best song ever. This song was the first time that my homie ill Natured-now-known-as Johnny Drama hit me with a beat. Being the first song to get recognition outside of my home state of South Carolina, it opened new doors and presented me with new opportunities.

Supastition (Kam Moye) and I have been friends for a long time now, and up until this song was recorded, we’d only shared the stage at shows we’d done together, or doing random freestyling (ah the old days). He liked “Hip Hop Vet” so much that he suggested that we do a remix together. So I hit up Nate, he got with DJ Prince Ice to do some new scratches, and Supa came to Flo-City to Record. We layed the song down at Six+1 Studios, and the highlight of the day (other than the actual music) was the trip to McDonalds where Amen told us how he really felt about some of internet’s most popular emcees. lololol. That’s all I’m gonna say about that.

This was recorded way back in 2004, which is crazy in itself to me. Time flies, and since then it seems like Supa and I have done a lot of collaborations on projects released by either him or me. Whattup Kam!?! Comments and/or feedback is welcome.

Also!!! Be sure to cop the Official release of Leave Of Absence straight from Kam.

Dan Johns - “Hip-Hop Vet” remix (feat. Supastition)

Previously: Alone & Dan Johns - “The Message”

For as long as I can remember, whenever the conversation turns to my career as a musician, there has always been someone ready to say “don’t forget the little people when you make it.” You know the routine, when you make it, you’re expected to put your ‘peoples’ on.

In some ways, I’ve always wondered who exactly should be considered your ‘peoples’ in this sense. It’s a no-brainer that there are some individuals that are irreplaceable when it comes to the roles that they’ve played in your life. Then there are those who have been directly involved in your music career. This is where it gets sticky.

When I started my company, the first business partner that I had was a childhood friend that I had known for over 10 years. In hindsight, we had not been very close during high school (I was 20 when I started Mag-O), but we had never had any fall out. In the beginning, we hit the ground running, trying to reach out to everyone and anyone that would listen. As time passed (maybe like a year), we had some issues that made it impossible to continue to do business. I’ll also admit that in some ways, his involvement in the early years helped me get on my feet, and i kept pushing from there. But, after what happened, if i ‘blew up’ tomorrow, I couldn’t with a clear conscience ‘put him on’ in any way. – [ SOURCE ]

I’m ’bout to get racial here and I don’t care. I don’t see this type of mentality in any other race but our own. And it’s saddening.