Date: 2/4/08
Posted By: Budz

And it's a solid month late...

Greetings once again from your friendly neighberhood activist, yours truely, the B-U-D-Z. I know around here we have a tradition of not making post for a really long time, then promising everything will be more common place when we do, then not doing it; hopefully I won't be doing that again. And by that I mean hopefully I can keep this a bit more updated than I used to, one of my many resolutions for this year.

So lets get into some news shall we? Obviously I am a bit behind schedule with my mixtape. My original plans were to kind of just shoot the sucker out in a month or two using some lyrics I had written but never found a song for, recycling some lyrics from songs that ended up on the cutting room floor, etc. What I found out though once I got going was that working with high quality beats I was turning up the heat myself. Suddenly using old lyrics seemed unworthy and I began to write an entire album from scratch. The process has churned out some of the best tracks I have ever made, and has really inspired me to do the best possible job on this still ultimately free album. The downside though is this means taking more time on it.

This was all made even harder when my laptop, which is essentially my studio, crashed in early December. First I attempted to convert my PC into the new studio with no luck, I eventually had to break down and by a new hard drive, which took a while to arrive due to the holidays, and then re-install all the software (Including about 6 years of windows updates) onto the damn machine which added even more time. It now appears to be running well, and I will be doing my first recording on the new hard-drive (which is slightly faster) in the coming week.

I have a couple of tracks with fellow underground Wisconsin artist, and old friend, Mo Foley in the works right now, as well as two tracks with Big C, a track for DJ Electro's mixtape "Bumpin 10 feet under" and a verse on a super collab for the same project. (My buddy Special Agent C and I will also be helping with the CD art/package, which will be very pimp when it is all said and done)

Oh and if you haven't already, go check out the first single for the Eve of a Revolution Mixtape, "Raise Your Fist In The Air" on the Dark Ninjas myspace page!

 

Peace out,
-Budz'

Date: 7/29/07
Posted By: Budz

It wouldn't be Dark Ninjas.com if the updates didn't come almost monthly now would it. We've had some site issues lately so the site was down for a bit then unable to be updated for a bit longer, but by the time you're reading this everything is good to go again.

In site news I added the Bio for Odic Khan, check that out here. Kid I've known for a while now and we did a track together called Bushism. Think you can guess the subject matter. You'll find that track as well as many others featuring a whole shit ton of talented mother fuckers on the "Dark Ninjas Project" album.

 

I also updated 5:am's bio to include todays major news announcement; an exclusive online track from me and 5:am called Wannabe!

www.Myspace.com/DarkNinjas
www.Myspace.com/5am203

Make sure you check out that carpet bombing of wackness.

The other big news item this week is the announcement of my solo project. Now I've been advertising on the left side of the site here for a while about the "And a Revolution Occurs" album, but what I've never said before is that AaRO is acctually just volume 2 in a 3 album struggle for freedom!

Thats right, the first volume, "Eve of a Revolution" should be available by the end of the summer absolutely free! Thats right, I said free. EoaR, unlike AaRO will be a mixtape of some of the hottest mainstream beats, a few old school beats, and a few beats taken from some of the undergrounds hottest producers. The plan is to release this album before the Dark Ninjas Project, then comes the verbal assault that is "And a Revolution Occurs." The third volume is to be named at a later date and time.

 

Peace out,
-Budz'

Date: 4/08/07
Posted By: Budz

So it has been way too long since an update of any significant meaning. I wish DN could be my only responsibility in life, but sadly it is far from true and we often fall a bit behind in keeping you guys "in the know" around here. With that in mind, here is the best I can do to update you on whats new. (That kind of rhymed)

Still trying to put together the finshing touches on the "wannabe" track, basically just need 5:am's verse, again, to make it 100%. If things don't get done in the next week I'll probably just release a more ghetto quality, but still overflowing with freshness version of our "carpet bombing of whackness" sometime soon.

An old acquiantance of ours has come back around, this time instead of rapping he's producing, and I'm hopefull that a couple of his tracks combined with me and a few other artist vocals may prove to be the final chapter in the production of "The Dark Ninjas Project."

On that note, me and Big C are hoping to collab a few more times in the final half of this process. We already have two tracks planned, one a very offensive (the way I like it) take on the bible's use throughout history, and the other a track we are possibliy doing for a friend of mine's indie movie "Take a Shot" called "Light up the Room." The song should appear on the album either way, but we will keep you informed if it becomes part of the movie.

On the note of movies, I will be partaking in a contest called 48 hr film the weekend of the 20th in Madison, Wisconsin. I am looking for any artist that may be intersted in having their music in the film. We are looking for all types, but the music MUST belong entirely to you and you will have to sign a release form giving us permission to use it. Time is essential, so if you are intersted, hit me up at Budz@darkninjas.com or drop me a line on myspace at www.Myspace.com/DarkNinjas.

Peace out,
-Budz'

Date: 1/06/07
Posted By: Budz

Yo, what up fools? Budz here, been on a bit of a hiatus the last month or so, which is really just a fancy way to say been to busy to do shit. Got a few new banging beats done, going to be matching them up with artist I think can do the best, most dope, job on them, and hopefully be cutting a few new tracks soon.

Thought I'd start off by telling all of you to check out this amazing documentary I was privy to watching the other day. It's called Why We Fight, and it examines the imperiallistic mind-set of America in about the most balanced way anyone can tell us how fucked up we all are. The web page is http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight, so go check it out then tell a friend.

You may, or may not, notice a few small changes with the whole Dark Ninjas thing too. Original plans to release both a Budz' McGee solo album and the Dark Ninjas album may be a bit too much to accomplish in my already hectic schedule. So what you may see is an album that makes a bit more sense to the casual observer. So don't be surprised if you see "Budz' McGee presents Dark Ninjas - Dark Ninjas Project" come album time. There'll be a couple of solo tracks mixed in with all the collabs. Either way, it'll come hard.

Lastly, be on the look out soon for a brand new track that may only be online, I haven't yet decided. A little thing I did with 5:am called "Wannabe" aimed at a few too many individuals to call it a battle track, so we'll just call it a "carpet bombing of whackness".

Peace out,
-Budz'