01/22/07 - Mixtape Monday: DJ Clue & Amerie

J-Banks · 01-22-2007, 10:02 AM

Artist: Amerie

Representing: D.C.

Mixtape: Because I Love It: Volume 1

411: The mixtape game got shaken up last week with all the drama surrounding DJ Drama and DJ Cannon. Everyone's a little nervous out there. Some DJs are falling back, some are regrouping, and everybody knows them boys are watching. Fortunately, with any hard times that may or may not be looming, music will get us through. This week, it's an R&B singer, not an MC, who's laying down the game for a mixtape.

Amerie's official album is titled Because I Love It and will be out this spring. But her first single, "Take Control," and its B-side, "That's What You Are," are also on the mixtape. The singer says she spent a good amount of time sitting at her kitchen table writing lyrics for this joint. "I had just written my album then sat down for the mixtape, so it was like I had written two albums," she said.

Amerie teamed up with DJ Clue for her first mixtape and says she had been thinking about working with DJ Drama for the next one. "I was in creative rush and I didn't want to stop writing," Amerie said. "There were so many songs on the radio that I liked, I was like, 'It would be cool to flip some of this stuff just for fun.' We got on a roll and did 10 of them."

Joints To Check For:

"Weekend Girl." "We were thinking about just replaying the sample [of the SOS Band's 'Weekend Girl'], but we used the track Cam'ron had already used [for his track 'Weekend Love'] with the sample in it already," Amerie said. "The song is basically taking the original song and flipping it. It's knowing I'm busy. I didn't write the song from the perspective of being an entertainer; I did it from the perspective of an average person who works 9 to 5. We all can relate to that. When you're in those situations, a lot of the extracurricular activities you want to do have to be done on the weekend, because you're trying to work overtime, save up for something or whatever. Then everything you do is on the weekend. But when you're in a relationship, sometimes that's not enough time. It's not that I don't wanna be with you, but I have stuff to do right now."

"Money in the Bank." "I like [Lil Scrappy's] 'Money in the Bank' a lot," Amerie said. "At first I had to think about what to write about because I don't like writing about materialistic things. I wanted to keep the hook, so I was like, 'How am I gonna keep the hook and sing about money in the bank?' I tried to make it a song about numbers. Even though it was talking about the material things a little bit, it wasn't really about the material things. It was about the wordplay. 'I push the 745, then I got the LI, graduated 750, then I got the Michigan blue.' "

"Blow." "Rick Ross' 'Blow' beat is hard. I love that track," Amerie said. "There's eight bars in every verse. In every bar, I wanted to start out with the number. The first bar was one, then two, and so on. So I had to think of a creative way of starting out the bar with that number and making it fit into a sentence. Like, 'One day, I had a dream to make it to the top/ Too many times people wanted me to stop.' All the way down to eight. The second verse, I counted back from eight and made it make sense in a sentence. It was lyrical gymnastics. The countdown is there, and it's my story of how I was trying to make it in the industry."

Don't Sleep: Other Notable ********** This Week
DJ EV - Bitch I'm From Cleveland
DJ Mickey Knox - From the Hoods to the Suburbs Part 3
DJ Rhumble - The Top 25 "Real" Hip Hop Joints for 2006
Garcia Family - Been To Humble
Industry Co-Sign 3: The Difference
Shogun - Blend Man Returns

'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
Chamillionaire (featuring Kelis) - "Not a Criminal"
Ciara (featuring R. Kelly) - "Promise" remix
Mya (featuring Lil Wayne) - "Lock You Down"
Fabolous (featuring Lil Wayne) - "Diamonds on My Damn Chain"
source- mtv

leb · 01-22-2007, 10:10 AM

propz .. sounds aight lol ill gib it a listen

Tha Truth · 01-22-2007, 02:06 PM

Drewshady17 · 01-24-2007, 07:14 PM

Clue's new album is trash and this new mixtape is gonna be too.Chamillionaire's Not A Criminal is bubblin under the radar but that shit is gonna bubble to mainstream cause that joint is fire.March 27 go get The Ultimate Victory cause it will be a classic.

01-22-2007, 10:02 AM	#1
J-Banks Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Providence, RI Posts: 21,015 Repped: 5,294 Repped 53,425 Times in 7,839 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Neg Reps: 53 Neg Repped at 93 Times in 86 Posts	01/22/07 - Mixtape Monday: DJ Clue & Amerie 01/22/07 - Mixtape Monday: DJ Clue & Amerie Artist: Amerie Representing: D.C. Mixtape: Because I Love It: Volume 1 411: The mixtape game got shaken up last week with all the drama surrounding DJ Drama and DJ Cannon. Everyone's a little nervous out there. Some DJs are falling back, some are regrouping, and everybody knows them boys are watching. Fortunately, with any hard times that may or may not be looming, music will get us through. This week, it's an R&B singer, not an MC, who's laying down the game for a mixtape. Amerie's official album is titled Because I Love It and will be out this spring. But her first single, "Take Control," and its B-side, "That's What You Are," are also on the mixtape. The singer says she spent a good amount of time sitting at her kitchen table writing lyrics for this joint. "I had just written my album then sat down for the mixtape, so it was like I had written two albums," she said. Amerie teamed up with DJ Clue for her first mixtape and says she had been thinking about working with DJ Drama for the next one. "I was in creative rush and I didn't want to stop writing," Amerie said. "There were so many songs on the radio that I liked, I was like, 'It would be cool to flip some of this stuff just for fun.' We got on a roll and did 10 of them." Joints To Check For: "Weekend Girl." "We were thinking about just replaying the sample [of the SOS Band's 'Weekend Girl'], but we used the track Cam'ron had already used [for his track 'Weekend Love'] with the sample in it already," Amerie said. "The song is basically taking the original song and flipping it. It's knowing I'm busy. I didn't write the song from the perspective of being an entertainer; I did it from the perspective of an average person who works 9 to 5. We all can relate to that. When you're in those situations, a lot of the extracurricular activities you want to do have to be done on the weekend, because you're trying to work overtime, save up for something or whatever. Then everything you do is on the weekend. But when you're in a relationship, sometimes that's not enough time. It's not that I don't wanna be with you, but I have stuff to do right now." "Money in the Bank." "I like [Lil Scrappy's] 'Money in the Bank' a lot," Amerie said. "At first I had to think about what to write about because I don't like writing about materialistic things. I wanted to keep the hook, so I was like, 'How am I gonna keep the hook and sing about money in the bank?' I tried to make it a song about numbers. Even though it was talking about the material things a little bit, it wasn't really about the material things. It was about the wordplay. 'I push the 745, then I got the LI, graduated 750, then I got the Michigan blue.' " "Blow." "Rick Ross' 'Blow' beat is hard. I love that track," Amerie said. "There's eight bars in every verse. In every bar, I wanted to start out with the number. The first bar was one, then two, and so on. So I had to think of a creative way of starting out the bar with that number and making it fit into a sentence. Like, 'One day, I had a dream to make it to the top/ Too many times people wanted me to stop.' All the way down to eight. The second verse, I counted back from eight and made it make sense in a sentence. It was lyrical gymnastics. The countdown is there, and it's my story of how I was trying to make it in the industry." Don't Sleep: Other Notable ********** This Week DJ EV - Bitch I'm From Cleveland DJ Mickey Knox - From the Hoods to the Suburbs Part 3 DJ Rhumble - The Top 25 "Real" Hip Hop Joints for 2006 Garcia Family - Been To Humble Industry Co-Sign 3: The Difference Shogun - Blend Man Returns 'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar Chamillionaire (featuring Kelis) - "Not a Criminal" Ciara (featuring R. Kelly) - "Promise" remix Mya (featuring Lil Wayne) - "Lock You Down" Fabolous (featuring Lil Wayne) - "Diamonds on My Damn Chain" source- mtv __________________ JBanksblog.com - check it out __________________

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01-22-2007, 10:10 AM	#2
leb Veteran Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 15,231 Repped: 6,936 Repped 165 Times in 29 Posts Neg Reps: 1 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	propz .. sounds aight lol ill gib it a listen

01-24-2007, 07:14 PM	#4
Drewshady17 Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 2,001 Repped: 295 Repped 347 Times in 71 Posts Neg Reps: 4 Neg Repped at 16 Times in 12 Posts	Clue's new album is trash and this new mixtape is gonna be too.Chamillionaire's Not A Criminal is bubblin under the radar but that shit is gonna bubble to mainstream cause that joint is fire.March 27 go get The Ultimate Victory cause it will be a classic.