BETTY POPPED HER CHERRY!!!

BETTY JUST GOT HER CHERRY POPPED!!!!!!! 

Thats right folks, the first night of "THE BETTY WHITE TOUR" popped off without a hitch. From soundcheck to the last round of beers, the evening was filled with a NIGHT OF FIRSTS among a potent line up of 3 of OTTAWAs finest local HIP HOP acts.

Although you wouldn't know it from their set (check back, video comming soon), FINE YOUNG GENTLEMEN were proud I'm sure of their POP to start off the evening. CORMZ AND NEVER ENDER pounded their hearts through the mics with DJ DMASS holdin em down on the ONEs and TWOs.

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA stepped up next with just that, BLUNT FORCE. From the ROBOT vs. SCIENTIST, to the veins viciously protruding from NICK TESSLAs neck as he chanted "ITS BLUNT MOTHA FUKKA" to BORIS THE BAD CITIZEN tossing out handfulls of BLUNT WRAPS (one of witch I am currently, thoroughly enjoying). Their stage show was just that, a very well performed show in itself. 

As far as us, H to the BIZZY. What can I say.... I guess I can start with the lil cherry pop of our own, in that tonight was the first HOMEBASED set accompanied by a live musician. With KANEs deep rooted bangers shakin the stage and BERCs crazy SLAP FUNK style abusing his BASS strings, BETA VEL (f.k.a. Dynamo Non Profet) and I threw out a set of mostly UPCOMING TRACKS from our yet to be named SOPHMORE RELEASE. Finishing off the set was our newest FRESH OFF THE PAD track we literally wrote 2 days a go, "Oo a oH". Hopefully you'll hear it soon, however if patience is not one of your virtues you can always peep HOMEBASED live at any of the 4 remaining dates on the BETTY WHITE TOUR. 
      
After all was said and done, DJ DMASS kept the floor movin with his eclectic selection of old and new hip hop classics. Much love to my man TEDDY KGB and the family at ODD ANGLE MUSIC for putting on another HIP HOP outlet for deserving LOCAL ARTISTS.

BIGGS AND UPPS AGAIN to everyone who came out and everyone involved, including BIG BEN THE SOUND ENGE managing our levels.  

 W/ LOVE N RESPECT FROM THE HB FAM,

- textstyle

THE BETTY WHITE COLD FASHIONED TOUR

BLAOW!

What up! It's been awhile since I took the time out to update this bloggity blog. Here it is. We have been crazy busy with our respective lives as everyday folk BUT we have not forgotten our after 8 personalities. Allow me to bring you up to date should you be interested of course. Those of you who aren't, peace and respects for at least giving us the web hit(s). Back to business, we're getting ready to embark on a busy few weeks. We've found ourselves in a 3 week grind with 5 shows in between. Pretty randomly actually. Betty White reached out to us and gave us news she'd checked out our music and digged it. Crazy, I know. So she sponsored our venture and gave us a killer reason to ride her recent (new-found) fame. Shouts to Betty on that tip. We're pretty stoked to get back to performing again in and outside of town. This coming Thursday June 17 (http://www.facebook.com/textstyle?ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=125924084109258&ref=ts) we've got a cool little twist on our set we're ready to unveil. Check it for yourselves, no spoilers here. Then we're off to the big city of broken dreams. Toronto. June 24 we will be performing at the 5 Dollar Rap Night, pretty self explanatory title. Shouts to Wordburglar and the rest of the crew over there, see y'all in a few weeks. After that, its back home for what is set to be a BANGER! Kapacity's Canada Day Stamina event (http://www.facebook.com/textstyle?ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=131187483564975&ref=ts). We're opening for one of our early favorites and inspirations in rap, DL Incognito. Very hyped, and it's freakin' Canada Day! This train keeps rolling when our good friends TWIN PEAKS, otherwise known as Ghettosocks and Muneshine make a stop in Ottawa on July 2 at Babylon for a leg of their very own tour, Perfect Strangers (http://www.facebook.com/textstyle?ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=127963843892031&ref=ts). If that wasn't enough, cause it's really never enough, we're hitting the road some short hours later to Montreal. We're proud to be involved the Step Your Life Game Up Saturdays series put on by the homie Loe Pesci. We will definitely have our lives stepped up by then, at least for the day. All in all, that sums up the impromptu mini tour that Betty so graciously stamped her approval on. Here's the dates and info.

JUNE 17 | CAFE DEKCUF, OTT

JUNE 24 | RANCHO RELAXO, TOR

JUNE 30 | RITUAL NIGHTCLUB, OTT *

JULY 2 | BABYLON, OTT

JULY 3 | TROIS MINOT, MTL

*We have advanced tickets for this show at $10 a pop. We are giving a free cd with each purchase, those of you who have one, you will now have two. support is everything.

We would like to thank everyone involved in making this possible. Teddy KGB, BFT, FYG, Dmass, Mavericks staff, Wordburglar, More or Les, Hand Solo Records, Rancho Relaxo, TWM, Mike, Graeme, Kapacity, Ghettosocks, Muneshine, Jesse, Frame, Adam, Babylon staff, Loey, Os, KOTD, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and most importantly...Betty. Stay golden, girl.

Easy,

Beta

-HBUSY

New thousand ten

Update time!

It's been a rather busy month I must say for all of us, and by us, I mean homebased and the Ottawa rap scene in general. Lots happening, lots of new year buzz in the air, lots of talk of big things to come blah blah blah. This year more than ever has already promised some high end releases by some of my favourite local artists including Flight Distance (myspace.com/flightdistance), Stopwatch Gang (myspace.com/stopwatchgang), Jesse Dangerously (myspace.com/jessedangerously) and more! But one in particular has me all gassed up.. Kool Krys' album "Perfume". If you have ever had the chance to meet Kool Krys in person, you instantly recognize her attention to you as an individual and more importantly, a fan. She is a great friend of ours and equally a great inspiration to the level of drive and attention needed to shine through the foggy abyss. I (dynamo NP), am honoured to be featured on Krys' album on a song called "I'll be around" (koolkrys.bandcamp.com) and I am stoked to be part of a record that also features the likes of Ghettosocks, Jesse Dangerously, Eternia and the man behind the boards Bigg Bix!

Now, to hop off of Krys' dick (figure of speech, of course) for a minute, the reason I am plugging this is to help her promote her album release party slated for Saturday, February 20, 2010. This event is taking place at Babylon Nightclub, 317 Bank St. The homie Ghettosocks, will be in attendance and sure to break the roof off as per usual, as well Dee Jay Frame will be manning the wheels o' steel. I STRONGLY recommend you check this out and support someone so passionate about what they do. She will love you forever, trust me!

Okay, Homebased time. We've been steady building the new record up, writing, writing and more writing. Kane has been beat banging, beat banging, sleeping and beat banging. Now, believe me when I tell you this...dude, this record is going to be RIDICULOUS. We're about half way through it now, and we've blown ourselves away with the overall look/feel of it so far. I know a lot of people will say their shit's the best and you haven't heard nothing yet and bladda bladda, but for really real, you haven't heard Homebased like this before. Kane's beats are just...are just...what we need. I don't know how he does it to be honest. Anyway, before this drags on any longer than it should, look out for us, look out for the dudes I mentioned above, look out for Krys' new record.

March 10-14 we will be performing at this years Canadian Music Week. Happy upcoming birthday to the big homie Newsince, Frame, Ath and anyone else celebrating. More to come.

-Busy