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4/7/2006 J-Zone & Celph Titled - Boss Hog Barbarians What up HipHopGamers? I'm J-Zone aka Captain Back$lap, Kenny Hoggin$, Chief Chinchilla, The Tom Jones of Rap, The 2006 Bobby Brown, Mr. Don't Holla, etc. Some of y'all might know about this Bo$$ Hog Barbarian$ CD I just dropped with my dog Celph Titled, or maybe you don't...fuck it, you know now. Before we break it down, let's look at the cover. For anybody that knows my previous covers for my solo albums, I always go over the top. My theory is this...I'm on the shelf with 1,000,000,000 fucking albums. How can I stand out? Especially when I'm next to Jay-Z on the shelf with no video, haha. I always had my me or my grandmother doing some wild shit on my covers, and it always caught people's attention. So me and Celph stuck to the script. We just took some crazy pic in his backyard. I had the rabbit/rat/chinchilla mink on, he had his Cuban cigar and artillery, we had our dime store bling, some sizzurp, and we put a weird assortment of CD long-boxes (remember those?!) on the fence behind us. Everything from Terminator X, to TLC to Willie D! Then my art designer Heineken Jones changed the background and put the Norwegian Parliament on there as the "Hog Cabin". Straight OD'in! Hoggin'!! Let's get to the sounds... Hog Hop - Fans of me and Celph are gonna bug out when they pop in the CD and hear this beat. Celph produced this. It's some straight Bay area, pimped out, funk shit. No samples. Crazy. Even though we known for boom bap, dirty hiphop shit, we're both huge fans of that old Too$hort, E-40, C-Bo shit. Celph has tons of beats like that, so we said lets rock on that and fuck people's heads up. It was just gonna be an intro, but we felt it woul be dope to rap on some atypical shit like that, so we both put some verses on it. It's like 2 minutes of shit talkin before we rap, just like Too $hort's Get In Where You Fit In intro song. 2 East Coast dudes influenced by old school west coast shit is the main theme of this album. Givva Hog a Bone - I did this beat. I wanted to stick to the funk vibe here, but give it a grimy NY feel too. Kinda like how EPMD's beats were. The crazy bassline, the vocorders, the rock guitars and sound f/x. Remimds me of some old EPMD/ Hit Squad busy shit. We just drop a crazy verse each and be out, no real hook. Bitch, That Ain't Luv! - This is probably the most sexist, silly record of 2006. It's all in fun though. It's about girls that can't cook, haha. Honestly, I meet so many drama queen, crazy, fucked up girls, I just need a girl that won't drive me crazy, I don't care if she can't cook, haha. But we did this outta fun, to be ignorant and stupid. Take it lightly. I did the beat, it's like some Cameo/Slave disco funk shit. Very early 90's west coast influenced. But it still has the J-Zone trademark sound. Had my man Dick $tallion do his Pharell falsetto on the hook. That boy can sing his ass off. Like a Snoop, Nate Dogg and Kurupt straight clownin ass party record. Cocksucka - Just a slow, funky, Asian flavored beat I did. Me and Celph just lashing out at our critics and talkin shit. It's only 2 minutes. On some Gangstarr "Step In The Arena" shit. I love short songs. Makes you rewind em more. You Got Mail - Another pimped out Celph beat. The arrangement on here is amazing. The way he layered the sounds and put this together...I was blown away. No samples either. Celph underrates himself as a producer. He only did 4 beats on this album, but he's so damn versatile. We both kick some classic shit talkin verses on here, but his first verse stole the show. Maybe my favorite verse on the album. And the hook on here?! Whew!!! Straight 1993 Bay Area shit. Hog Luv - We were workin on our parodies CD (it was given away free if you purchased the CD through hiphopsite.com), The Hogs Sing The Hits. We wanted to parody "Around The Way Girl" by LL Cool J, but we didn't have the instrumental. So we just wrote the rhymes to an early 80's sounding, pimped out, synth heavy, almost pop sounding beat I had made. It came out dope, so we said 'fuck the original beat, we can just do a new song/parody'. I love that beat, cause at the time I never did anything like that, using 80's sounds. It was one of my first beats like that. I have terrible luck with women, I always get girls that are drama, get in trouble, are all fucked up in the head...I never had a girlfriend for longer than like a month, haha. It's so sad that it's actually funny. So we express our love/hate for these screwed up women (obviously some of the stories are exagerrated). We know they're bad for us, but they've become familiar and we always wind up dealing with them. One day I will find a good woman! 113 Precinct (Skit) - An (exaggerated) example of a phone convo with one of these "troubled" girls, haha. Big up to my neighbor Keecha (the girl on the phone), she has the perfect voice for voiceovers and she has been on most of my records. Rev. Getright - That's one of Celph's nicknames. I just happened to make a beat that sounded like some church shit, with the organs and shit. I told him 'you gotta build on that character on this beat, it's some church music beat'. Celph is also a HUGE fan of Dipset and their beats. My beats don't sound nothin like theirs, but to reward him for doin that concept, I added those crazy 1/32 note hi hats like Dipset use sometimes, Celph was buggin! Celph rocked this joint solo, and he KILLED it! His 3rd verse in double time blew me away when I heard it. I had NO idea he could rap double time. And when it was wrapped up, I just happened to come across some magic. I was drivin back to NY from Atlanta and stopped at a gas station in the middle of West Virginia, some small ass redneck town. The cashier gave me a CD-R of some reverend from the South doing sermons. I popped in the CD in the car and the soundbites were fuckin PRICELESS!! When I got home, before I even unpacked my bags, I put that shit in the CD-J and capped off the song. The way this song came to fruition is classic. Bo$$ Hog Malt Liquor - Me and Celph are both big fans of the old St. Ides Malt Liquor commercials, so we decided to pay homage and do one. King Tee even gave me his blessing, haha. When I was 13 or 14, I would tune in to the radio every weekend, fiendin to hear the new St. Ides Commercial. I made an old school beat and even added background noise to make it sound like it's on the radio. I just wanted to pay homage. And just like the old ones had Mixmaster Spade (RIP) singin on the hooks, I had Dick $tallion sing falsetto on ours. Dog Show Pageant - My solo track. I originally did the beat, but I felt that since I produced Celph's solo tracks, he should produce mine. So Celph remixed it and this is another Celph funk banger. It came out better than the original that I did, he even speeded it up. It almost didn't make the album cause his computer crashed during mixdown and he had to do the whole shit over. It's just me shit talkin, but the entire rhyme uses the theme of dogs. I think it's one of my more clever rhymes. I found the soundbites on some old public access show and I did the cuts. $teady $mobbin - The first single, I produced it. Just us doin some shit talkin. One of my favorite beats. Typically crazy, but still pimpish. The Weight Debate - Celph loves real thick girls, so we decided to do a funny concept. Here, my girl is puttin on weight and gettin too big for me and I'm not attracted no more. I'm complaining about her in my verse, then Celph walks in and gets turned on by how big she got. Then he tries to scoop her with me sittin right there! The ending is a surprise, buy the album (meaning y'all can download it anywhere, haha). I produced this and I love the beat, but it's not really a beat that catches you right away. It's funky and pimpish, but weird. Fits well on the album, but not the type of beat you can just put on and rap to, Celph Destruction - It's rare that I make a simple, freestyle ready banger beat that is suited to just straight spit on. So when Celph asked me for one (his verse for this was already written to a DJ Premier beat), I said 'I just gotta make one of those by accident, give me some time'. I made this beat and I played it at Beat Society in NYC in 2004. People went crazy. That NEVER happens with my beats. They usually gotta grow on you. And that was the only beat I played that night that got that response, so I sent it to Celph and it worked. His verse uses the same syllable pattern for the whole song and he DESTROYS the shit. The rhyme is amazing. My favorite part is when the beat totally changes during the rhyme, and comes back and he's still rockin! This was the b-side to "$teady $mobbin". Hell No, Ho! - We wanted to get one outside beat for the album. Everybody was submitting shit that didn't fit. When Da Beatminerz offered to submit a beat, I had a good feeling. The beat is totally different from the vibe of the album but it works...which is what we were aiming for. The loop sounds like they're sayin' "Hell No, Ho!", so we decided to rap about all the misconceptions people have about us. Side note: there was a fake J-Zone MySpace page up when I wrote this, so I dissed it. For the record, I have my official page up now...www.myspace.com/jzoneoldmaid Big up to Mr.Walt and Evil Dee (Da Beatminerz). They cool as hell and straight legends. J-Zone Hoggamix - I wanted to pay tribute to the old 2 Live Crew records that had the Mega Mixxes on em. Just DJ tracks, beats and sctarches. Most golden era rap albums had em. Plus, I had em on my first 2 albums ("Calamine Lotion" Pts 1 & 2) and people kept askin me to bring it back. So I just made 2 crazy ass beats and was cuttin up different quotes from me and Celph. I love this shit. Bo$$ Hogging - The first song we did for the album, that's why it sounds more "traditional", haha. We hadn't started hoggin real hard yet. Probably the most prototypical "J-Zone beat" on here, cause I made the beat in 2003. I still like it though, cause the bass is hittin hard as it does the whole CD. Bring back subs and 808's man!!! We just hoggin our arteries (talkin shit) on the rhymes. $noutro - The outro. Another Celph pimp beat. Hope y'all get a chance to hear us hoggin our arteries. Keep an open mind if you're fans of us, we tried some different shit. The album is funky, rude, bass heavy and loud. You need a sense of humor, good speakers and about $13, haha. Or you just download it. Whatever, enjoy it! By J-Zone

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