(Above: The making of the I LIKE IT video. Here we’re preparing for the double image shot where I rap to my former self as my more famous and popular self…HA!!)
PEOPLE!!!
Click on over to BET.Com
The “I Like it Video” is now playing
WATCH here
you may have to wait for the movie snippets before it plays the video.
PLEASE spread the word. We need your help and your push!
Remember all those steep hills I had to climb while in San Fran, well if those weren’t enough, there is still more climbing to do. We’re making our way up the rap charts. Last week we were at position 23. Thanks to everyones support, we’re breaking into the top of the chart. So continue the kind and gracious work of helping a brother out. Much appreciated and I will make sure I rep to the fullest to show and prove with each opportunity.
(RapAttackLives. com Issue&035; 320-March 17, 2008)
LW TW ARTIST TITLE LABEL
1 LYRICS BORN Hot 2 Deff Epitaph
2 AAROPHAT Caramel Ill Sevenz Music Group/Rawkus
3 MR OZWALD The Best Crown Digital
4 BISC 1 Turbulence Embedded
5 S.O.U.L. PURPOSE Way That We Live Devoon Edutainment
6 TALIB KWELI Hostile Gospel Blacksmith
7 TOUCH & NATO F/ WORDSWORTH Something Real Up In Arms Recordings
8 JEAN GRAE & 9TH WONDER Love Thirst Blacksmith
9 PRIESTHOOD The Way U Luv Me Priesthood Music
10 EDREYS D.U.I. DTR/DeepThinka
11 DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN Workin’ It Def Jux
12 KIDZ IN THE HALL Drivin Down The Block ML/Duck Down
13 ARASH Rise SoFull Ent.
14 ATMOSPHERE Shoulda Known Rhymesayers
15 BIZZY BONE F/ DMX A Song For You After Platinum
16 BLAHZAY BLAHZAY Don’t Trip 25/8 Ent.
17 DJ VADIM Talk To Me BBE
18 THAD REID They Don’t Like Me FTP Records
19 2ND STRING Take It Back The Rec League
20 DIZZEE RASCAL Where Da G’s? Def Jux
21 TORAE Somethin’ To See Internal Affairs / Soulspasm
22 SAINT F/ DUMI RIGHT About Time Pro Se/Domination Rec
23 RAKIM It’s Nothing Koch
24 SHEEK LOUCH Good Love Koch
25 DOUBLE F Weed Greed & Chases At High Speed Double F Music
26 KEELAY & ZAIRE Cali 2 NY OM Recordings
27 9TH WONDER & BUCKSHOT Things Done Changed Koch
28 PHIL ANASTASIA Aqui Mando Yo Suga Shack
29 JIM JONES Love Me No More Koch
30 KEL SPENCER The Definition Got Music?
Products will soon be pumping out of our online store as well as some “classic” listening materials, both current and past including solo and collaborative projects. Get prepared to meet Edreys aka Billy Drease Williams, like you’ve never seen him before, as we peel back the many layers of this talented individual in all of his “Royal Dopeness.”
Not only will you be able to purchase limited edition prints, limited signed vinyl records, and custom tees created by the artist himself, but you will also be able to enjoy FREE exclusive music downloads.
Stay Tuned…
Thank you for your support
- The Dope45s
DTR, MediaMusicGroup, StayFly, SoapboxCreative and The Dope45′s are proud to announce that this weeks issue of Billboard Magazine features Edreys in the NOW HEAR THIS section. Visit your nearest Borders or Barnes & Nobles to pick up your copy this weekend. It is dated for March 22 which is a Saturday, but we’re not sure whether it hits the stands earlier around Thursday or Friday.
I guess this picture isn’t the most gangster, hardcore or iced-out as you are used to seeing, but guess what…I’m NOT any of those things anyways. So get used to seeing authenticity and hearing what’s really real!!
The picture actually looks like I’m the founder of the latest YouTube or Myspace phenomenon…and hey, “That’s cool with me…I’ll take that!”
Thanks to my team and all the people that support and believe in me! I won’t let you down. Especially much love and thanks to Lex for dealing with the dude!
peace
Legendary sound pioneers – LOOSE ENDS
Another gem from back when.
My friend Dre took me back with this one. Back when music served a purpose and contributed to the development and well-being of society. Music that you could live by and couldn’t live without. Nutritional notes and healthy harmonies of optimism. Good music is as essential as a daily vitamin, and similar to how calcium builds bones, music can build characters and champions. Quoted from “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” the movie, “Every hero needs theme music.”
So find some good theme music and do something great today for yourself, for someone else or both and “Don’t waste your life away.”
peace
(above: view from hotel window)
Well, back to some images that I took while in San Fran.
Each day, I would just get out and hit the streets and seek anything musically or artistically interesting. I didn’t do any shopping. I think it’s very silly to travel to a place, any place, and be impulsed to buy something because in your mind you think you are getting something extra-special and new because you aren’t shopping in your hometown. FOOL! You know that most likely, the same jeans you buy from the Gap in San Fran, are the same ones you’ll find on sale weeks later when you get back home and go shopping. So, no shopping!!
Since I was roaming alone, well, if you want to get technical, my phone was on roam too…but, since I was solo, I had to make my travels cool and interesting, so I was doing this thing called PIC and GO! There is a “pick and go” term and actual play that is used in basketball, but PIC and GO was something a little different. I love taking pictures, and getting a good composition in the view finder (frame), but to have some fun, I would just pull out the camera, while walking, never losing a step, stick out my arm, point the camera in the general direction of my subject and then “CLICK.” PIC and GO!
(above: a pair of Fuzzy Feet I met on the bus)
(above: random police on motorcycles, like some old Bruce Lee flick)
(above: random people exiting bus)
They have a bus transportation in San Fran called the MUNI..and of course in typical out of towner fashion, I asked the ticket counter agent..”Can I catch the MUNNY (money) to the Haight/Ashbury area?”
“Sure idiot! You can catch the MUNI (Mm-You-Knee)…Now GIVE ME YOUR MONEY!!!”
THIS ONES FOR YOU MOMMY!!! Love you.
Classic! Whatever happened to classic music? Whatever happened to the music that takes you back to a particular place and time, normally a good time, preferably a great time? The kind of music that you could dance around the house to with your mom and not feel embarassed one bit. The cleaning your house and doing chores on Saturday music.
I’ve just been informed that they dont make those anymore. How unfortunate for the youth today, that will probably only have a Mary J. Blige album to look back upon, or a John Legend, or maybe a Kanye, or maybe an Edreys..ha!
Back in the days, 80′s and 90′s, there were tons of musicians crafting memorable gems for us to go back and unearth one day. Well, today is that day, thanks to DreHow at Media Music Group, he’s got me started on this thing where I HAVE to post my classic, most inspirational music here.
Classic 1…
Group: LOOSE ENDS
Time: 1990
Place: Roller rink with my mom and her sisters..GETTIN IT IN on the floor…
Lyric:
You’ve got to tell yourself
Try and you will progress
There’s more to life than you know
Don’t give up the fight
Take one day at a time
You just got to have hope
VIDEO : Dont Be A Fool!
OR You can check out “Slow Down”
Each day I’m closer to accomplishing my goals, one of which is to tour Europe and saturate the overseas market. Thanks to everyone for their support.
Here’s my first interview abroad.
INTERVIEW
shout out to Mel.C.
Learn more about Edreys, and as always…Pass it…cause it’s CLASSIC!
Check it out!
INTERVIEW
While in San Francisco, California, I was very surprised to discover that the weather wasn’t that much different from home. It was windy and cold, of course minus the snow, which is getting very annoying here in Buffalo I might add.
I have lots of pics to share, but these two pictures are a part of my “Ever List.”
1) The THICKEST orange peel EVER!
*I have average man nails, but I needed to use my swiss army to get the peel started. I had to work for that California citrus but it was worth it.
2) The STEEPEST street EVER!
*The hills are vicious in San Fran, they really, REALLY gave me a workout. I’m talking about BLOCKS and BLOCKS of hills. I walked so many uphill blocks once, that I nearly walked out of my socks. I got to my destination and my calf-high sports socks were like “footies” and scrunching into my shoes by the heels..lol.
*Some of the things you don’t see on these hills:
The Elderly. Parents with strollers. Rollerbladers. Skateboarders….for good reason I suppose.
More impressive designs…and one sure way to trip at the end of the conveyor because you are looking up.
The good thing is, about 10 feet away from the end of the conveyor is an automated voice, repeating…”conveyor is about to end..conveyor is about to end…
So, if you catch a bad tumble, trip over your luggage and your draws and socks fall from your carry-on, because you were magnetized by the lights….”Your Bad!!!”
And Oh Yeah…here is the REMIX for the all the “steppers” in the “CHI”…
A shiny new dance floor…no need to thank me!!
