Rule one about rap club: Never argue about rap.

It's a huge waste of time.

Instead of arguing, complaining, etc about rap, write your own shit.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

That is it.

~sean upps.

hotness....computer love

Ruf Jones shows you how to make computer love

* not love to the computer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-URfv6ug08

Make your album easy to find.

Finally. (c/o juicy J on M.E.M.P.H.I.S.)

After 4 weeks of searching, I finally found Foreign Exchanges' "Leave it All Behind". Cotdamn that is a great album.

Alas, the day after I got it...i found out that Q-Tip has an album out. And I didn't fucking know about it. Thanks a lot, Arista.

Niche marketing is cool. Find a group of people that likes your shit, and pump it to that market and that market only. Boom.

The problem with that is what if someone outside the market is looking for the type of music you make. They'd have no means of finding it, and will roam the earth until they die looking for your music.

So with this, I come up with the Detroit Cydi Marketing Plan. I approve this message.

Task number one: Make our music easily accessible to the people that really really want it. There should be no reason on the planet earth that I can't find my favorite cd's or not know hat Q-Tip has an album out.

Task number two: Be brave and venture outside of the niche. You never know. Good music is good music and it will stick no matter what.

Task number three: Make it stand out from other bullshit. Think of something very creative and push it that way. Chea.

~ uppercut

Studio Food

"let's go to the Coney."

We say this so much in the studio that it should be the name of our album. mwahahahaha.

As tasty as studio food is this shit takes a toll on health. In efforts to not look like Timbaland in the Jay-Z documentary [re: drinking a gallon of milk] I wanted to address a subject that many rappers might be considering...

studio food.

Well, I have no idea how to solve it. My best guess? Eat before you get there, and keep snacks there for energy. chea!

- uppercut.

Dynamic Elements and Hip Hop.

Quick thought. This is in response to a note one of the greatest emcees on the planet wrote:

Music is simply the arrangement and manipulation of energy reproduced audibly. Whatever that means to the individual is correct.

Hip Hop, as a whole, is a static genre. We throw on a beat, let it loop, and rap over it. While that works, it's like saying visual art should only be in two dimensions.

I notice in other genres that the music is more dynamic. Calling it as I see it. Colonel Uppercut just got back from this salsa concert. The energy of the songs never stayed the same. It was rising or falling or the music was changing...hype as hell even though I don't know spanish...lol

If talking about an album, a good analogy would be an amusement park. Every individual song is a ride. Some of them are like the Pirate Ship... easy and mild, others are the Millenium Force with buildups, dips, loops, intros and other complicated shiiet. Shout out to Cedar Point.

It's up to us to make Hip Hop more dynamic...to play around with energy and such.

~ The Uppercutamos.

Too much fun...

Creative process.

I'd tell you how CYDI makes songs, but really I don't know how. Somehow, magically, a beat comes on and somehow, magically, a song gets made. But the most important part of it is...

we enjoy it.

Supremely enjoy it. Between youtube videos, freestyle sessions, and shooting imaginary guns at each other when we walk in the door, our creative process involves a lot of fun activity.

My question, rappers....why so serious? Are you enjoying what you are doing? I hear a lot of rappers likea and...it's all "im on the GRIND," and "i GOTTA get this money". I mean, that's cool, but if you're rapping only for money then people will be able to tell.

Problem is...that takes the fun out of it. It becomes mechanical. I, Sean Uppercut am a fun loving person. DETROIT CYDI is a fun loving group. That is a very contagious thing...and people are drawn to this music.

Yes, make money with the music. But also enjoy it. Chea!

~ juan uppercut.

Clappin They Hands - CYDI VIDEO

What a perfect week to have this up...the week in which the whole world is united. Somewhat mwahahaha.

Without further talk. DETROIT CYDI FT ERIK L - CLAPPIN THEY HANDS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiCb-xlfzRU

CYDI REACTIONS TO THE OBAMA WIN!!!!

Unadulterated, pure winning from your people here at CYDI.

Reactions to the election. By Doc Illy:

Doc Illy has witnessed a first. McCain is about to beam back up to the mothership.

Doc Illy thinks we should all take up a collection and get Obama an IronMan suit. U laughing, but he is out there extra vulnerable lol

Doc Illy thinks that Obama should just ride around inside Optimus Prime's chest, all day.

Doc Illy thinks Obama should terraform an asteroid and just regulate from space....like Magneto.

Doc Illy hopes that Obama has Bruce Leroy's skills in relation to his interaction with projectiles.

Doc Illy knows that Obama just smoked five packs of Kools.

Doc Illy knows that Jesse Jackson still wants those nuts.

Doc Illy likes how Obama turns states blue....just like a pregnancy test.

Doc Illy is sure that the founders of the Ku Klux Klan are performing "Psycho Crushers" in their graves.

Doc Illy is sure that the Obamas will challenge and defeat the world's terrorist organizations in several high stakes games of Spades.

Doc Illy knows that Obama will be placing uncomfortable plastic on all Oval Office furniture.

Doc Illy hopes Obama's first act as President is to halt the release of "The Soloist"

and many more....

Vote. Or get battle rapped to death.

Senor Uppercut wants to write something witty or funny or inspirational about the vote.

Nope.

All I want to say is let me find out you didn't vote. Here's what will happen:

I'm gonna battle rap you till you die.

That's right. Detroit CYDI will come to your house, car, or job at McDonalds and battle rap you till you collapse and die. This will be the most potent of battle raps. Think "canibus when he first started beast from the east so ill i got AIDS scared to catch me" type shit.

Doc, Ruf, and Sean will take 8 hour shifts spitting some of the most potent flames, and they'll all be about you. Yeah buddy. We will hurt your feelings. 24 hours of continuous rapping, until you collapse or explode; whichever's cooler to watch. Chea

***note...if you voted for McCain, we'll just break your legs and sick hungry alligators on you.***

CYDI PARTY

WHAT: CYDI party. It's goin down, whoadie.

WHEN: All the damn time. What's your life like. You be on the grind? You be hustlin? Well you hustlin BACKWARDS MF****KA. Ain't NOBODY ballin like us. LOOK AT ALL THIS CASH,,,, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OUR TRENDSETTING. You know what our job is? It's to sit back and watch stacks rain down. What's the CYDI forecast?

A HUNNIT PERCENT CHANCE OF GETTIN MONEY!!!!

HOW CAN I BE DOWN: Thousands of butt nekkied skrippas swinging from chandeliers. Fountains of whatever champagne you want. Ay girl come here....you want whatever you like. WE GOTS THAT. See a hundred girls, get a THOUSAND hugs...lol (c/o pharell)
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Okay, so that was the Late 90's Cash Money version of it. CYDI is actually a music (hip hop/flamenco/gregorian chant) group out consisting of 2 super emcees and one ultra producer.

Rufio Jones, Doc Illingsworth, and Sean Uppercut.

Our goal is to 1) bring great people together 2) make great people greater 3) and enjoy the music that comes out of the deal. Yes we make battle raps. Yes we make rappity raps. Yes, we make blingin raps. Yes we make early 90's west coast drive-by music. Yes we make concious wheat-grass eating raps.

.....but it's not about genres or subdivisions. It's about making the dopest Hip Hop your ears have evar heard. That shit that makes your face scrinch up and you be like "uggh" and you argue about that it at the barber shop like "who your favorite rap group? G-Unit or Detroit CYDI"

lol..im mad i actually had to ask it like that

intros tomorrow.