Man, who would have thought that on the biggest tour in years (Rock the Bells) that Strong Arm Steady would be on the main stage with Talib Kweli every night performing our single “One Step” on the same stage as Pharohe Monch, Nas, Cypress Hill and the Wu-Tang? But we’re right here, dipped daily in the finest threads, smoking the purple doofy dope and giving bars to more than 25,000 to 50,000 true hip-hop heads who live and die for that real hardcore, yeah we like it raw shit.
We were welcomed with open arms and I’m thankful for that. The whole tour, my man DJ Chaps (Kweli's DJ) was telling us that Denver had the dopest venue, The Red Rock. And whoa, he wasn’t bullshitting. It’s an outdoor venue in the middle of the Colorado Rocky Mountains in like a canyon of Red Rocks holding like 25,000 people, from everybody from Peter Tosh to Nirvana to now Talib Kweli and the Strong Arm Steady!
Yeah Dat! Klak Klak!
On another note, what’s up with "Superman that Hoe"? Shout out to that nigga Souljah Boy for that. I don’t understand anything else he’s saying in that song but I must agree, “Superman that Hoe”! And buy Strong Arm Steady’s Deep Hearted, in stores now and Talib Kweli’s Eardrum, also in stores now.
We’re on our way to Santa Cruz. We just finished performing at the Rock the Bells Tour in L.A. in front of 50,000 diehard hip-hop fans from every generation. Big shout out to our brother Talib Kweli. He got the SAS on the biggest hip-hop tour since Anger Management (shout out to X to tha Z). We got a single out together, “One Step” and that’s banging everywhere. Real shit is played. We also have the video for that.
Now check this out. Kweli brings the SAS out in the middle of his set to do three songs, including the “One Step” joint. In front of thousands!
The tour has all legends rocking, from Wu, Nas, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, EPMD and new legends such as Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Pharoahe Monch and many more. And I can’t even think of the amount of tickets that have been sold state to state. The thing I love about it is that if you think about it, none of these artists have songs added to your local station or are on 106 and Park, nor do they have the No. 1 rintone. Yet they are all able to sell out festival-type arenas and parks without a hitch. And what that says to me is that in this age of microwave, ringtone rap, the real hip-hop has that staying power no matter what. We will never die! A glimmer of hope for true loves of the life…Check for Talib Kweli and SAS along with the rest of the Rock the Bells Tour artists coming to a city near you.
And speaking of ringtones, text 66555 and type sas7 and get that Strong Arm Steady feat. Talib Kweli – “One Step” for your cell phone. And remember, Deep Hearted is in stores August 28 and Talib Kweli’s Eardrum is in stores August 21. It’s Blacksmith all day!
Strong Arm Steady’s new album Deep Hearted is in stores August 28 on Nature Sounds
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8/8/2007:
Written by Krondon
Well, it’s Tuesday, excuse me, Wednesday morning around 3:45 am and I’m in the studio with Phil the Agony, Mitchy Slick, the homie Killa Tay and a few other homies from the gang. We just finished recording, not the mixing and mastering, but the recording of our first major label debut Arms and Hammers, due for release in early ’08 on Blacksmith/Warner Brothers (shameless plug). It has been a long time coming for us here at SAS. We’ve been at it as solo artists for a while and as a collective for five years now. The homie Kweli has always been close with Phil da Agony since his days at Rawkus (shout out to Black Shawn). And from a close distance, Kweli kept his eye on what we were doing as a gang on the streets and in the suites and he saw us fit to go alongside him and Jean Grae to rep this Blacksmith Movement.
This has been a year in the making. Phase 1 is now complete. That’s Phase 1 of 3. Two more phases to go and then the masterpiece is complete and music will never be the same again.
I’m trying to get one of the homies to go to the store for more backwoods and Vitamin Water. Yes, people, Vitamin Water. It’s the drink of the future (until SAS Water).
You know what never amazes me is how the rap game is oblivious to Industry Rule #4080 (A Tribe Called Quest). But the Steady stay ready. We won’t let ‘em 4080 us and I think the worst thing companies are doing to most of these rap niggas is telling them their shit is hot and that a career is going to be made off cotton candy and the cabbage patch. It’s the record label’s fault. We need more Blacksmith, Nature Sounsd, Loud SRC, GOOD Music, Aftermath, Rocafella, G-Unit and not many more to name. They put artistry before industry. I can’t forget Ruthless, Death Row and Rawkus that set the foundation for what we know as no-holds-barred, dope shit. And out of all of those I named, SAS has deals with two of them, Blacksmith and Nature Sounds.
Deep Hearted is coming on Nature Sounds in ’07 and Arms and Hammers is coming on Blacksmith/Warmer Brothers in ’08, so get ya bars…
Oh, shit, the sun is coming up. I have to crash. The homie SkinHead Rob and Travis (Expensive Taste, Famous Stars and Straps) are opening up a store in LA on 3rd and Crescent Heights called Fast Life. They are having a party for the grand opening, so I have got to be fresh. Until the next entry…oh, and keep this between me and you.
Strong Arm Steady’s new album Deep Hearted is in stores August 28 on Nature Sounds
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7/20/2007:
Written by Krondon
What’s cracking, world? Today it’s my birthday for the 26th time in my life (yeah, I just turned 26 on you niggaz) and it feels good. I feel blessed to do what I do and make a living at is as well as have people around me that I love and appreciate. On another note, I can’t figure what the hell to do, given the fact that I don’t drink much anymore due to one too many liquor overdoses of Henny and Patron. And to say I’m going to smoke a whole lot of backwoods wouldn’t be a big deal ‘cause I do that every day, birthday or not.
I think I will hit the gym, read and then record (my normal routine anyway), but today I will do it with a different approach. I think I will be more aggressive today than usual. After all, it’s my birthday. I think this will be the day I use this new klacker I got. No, no, not on anyone. Just in the backyard or at the range. It’s always a good release to let a couple of rounds off for no reason at no set target. My uncle always told me to ‘stay prayed up and strapped up in case God doesn’t hear you.’ And I live by that!
My little girl Heaven Patricia Jeimi Jones is a princess and anybody that really knows me will know I’m only motivated by her. She is my REASON. She wants to take me to see Transformers and I think that’s dope since she is so young and can’t pay for it herself but insists that we go see that ‘cause she knows it was one of my favorites growing up, so Transformers it is!
(writing break to go see Transformers)
The movie was fresh. Yeah, I said ‘fresh.’ It makes me feel like a kid again when we use words like ‘fresh,’ ‘fly,’ and ‘stoopid’ or on the West we say ‘hard,’ (pause) but you know what I mean. Optimus Prime, that’s all I got to say, homie.
After the flick, I came home and some of my close friends are there waiting with tequila, kush and ice cream cake and yes, I got FADED (another old school word). And I had a ball bumping that Deep Hearted album until I passed out in a chair and went to sleep and at nine in the morning all I had was sneakers on my feet! Just kidding. I had a good 26th birthday thanks to my Lord, my family and my friends, but that’s just between me and you!
Strong Arm Steady’s new album Deep Hearted is in stores August 28 on Nature Sounds
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7/10/2007:
Written by Krondon
Live from the slums of South Central and Midcity, it’s finally alive, y’all – the realness in West Coast rap music, hip-hop on a gangsta level…Strong Arm Steady. Krondon is my name, Steady is the gang, Phil the Agony, Mitchy Slick and too many other niggas to name is the same.
We (myself, Phil and Mitch) all have been doing our own rap thing for about 10 years now, but we all came together in ’02 due to a void in the West Coast for some real West Coast hip-hop on a gangsta level that the world can appreciate and we can be proud of. The glory days of Death Row have come and gone and we still don’t have any labels on the West made by the people for the people (except for Angeles Records and Thizz Entertainment in the Bay). So me and my niggas took the responsibility of bringing some culture and character back to the West through our music and movement Strong Arm Steady. We’ve done 50 mixtapes, five world tours, BET, MTV, endless features, ghostwriting, beef with washed-up rappers, two record deals (Nature Sounds/EMI and Blacksmith/Warner Brothers). We have a whole coast behind us from Diego to the Bay. All we have to do is release that shit the world’s been waiting for. First there was Ruthless Records, then Death Row and now Aftermath, but you must know about Strong Arm Steady! We’re the new niggas on the block and we were inspired by the best.
For those that know, love. For those that don’t know, get your bars up. We are the West, the first and best to break through in the rap game via the mixtape scene out here in the West. Big shout out to all the other West Coast DJs and artists that do tapes out here. Y’all know what it is. Everybody else, get your bars up. My man Seven3Zero (730 for you slow quick thinkers) hit me on the phone this weekend and we chopped it up about the rights and wrongs with this thing called hip-hop/rap music/whatever you want to call it. I was telling him how if a cat things a label is going to be concerned about their career, then you had better find a new career. UPS is hiring! If you can’t be productive with what you have and make more, then what you have will be taken away.
We were also talking about how the digital world of hip-hop has become just as important as the physical world of this rapidly-declining biz. I remember growing up and saving my pennies to buy that new Dr. Dre or EPMD CD. Now I log on daily here to see what’s new. Thanks to HipHopGame, I’m up on things early. Really, don’t be surprised if five years from now they stop making CDs and all that will be left is mixtapes because they will still make CD-Rs. That will be a trip. When the game changes, real champs change the plays.
As I’m typing this, I’m looking off my balcony, bumming a backwood full of the Cali-only kush and I see a pretty lady standing in front of my house. She is scoping the house for sale next door. I wonder if she will come in and have a smoke. She is a thick white girl. Nice body, but not as “thick” as I like ‘em. But she’ll do! Stay tuned for the verdict on this brezzee. Ag, get the binoculars! It’s Disturbia over here.
I gotta bungee but the book is now open, so continue to support SAS and HHG. And keep this between me and you. Stop snitching.
Dizzil – Steady!
Deep Hearted in stores September ’07 on Nature Sounds
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