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Monthly Archives: June 2009
DOPE ANIMATION
I love seeing artwork and animation that inspires me to challenge my own skills. Check out this video with Adidas, Dwight Howard and Charli Tuna from the Jurassic 5 (narrating).
CHAMP MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
Interview from April 09.
Billy Drease Williams
CHAMP MAGAZINE
The Boy Hollywood
CHAMP: What are you up to at the current moment?
Billy Drease Williams: At the current moment. I’m actually working a spot for my EP release party/performance and knocking some stuff down in the studio and trying to get my hands on everything. I’m working on the EP right now called Good Evening Billy. It has nine tracks. Kind of give people a preview leading to the album. The album will come out sometime this year; I’m not really giving a date on that just yet, but immediately this EP is on the forefront of what’s going on.
CHAMP: Now just to clarify, a lot of people may think you only do the production but do you actually spit as well?
Billy Drease Williams: For myself, I deal with 98% of the production. On this particular piece, there’s only one song that I didn’t produce. I’m always open to work with other cats and have them working on music on my projects, but I also do produce for other artists. Most recently I did two tracks for Stat Quo. He used to be signed on Shady/Aftermath and he’s probably the most notable but I produced for cats around the town. Whoever’s interested really.
CHAMP: Like you had mentioned earlier you were on Stat Quos Quo City project. You actually caught my attention on the Intermission joint, which is a very chill joint with some soul in it. How did you and Stat connect for that joint?
Billy Drease Williams: A good friend of mine used to do a lot of management and pr work for me out of New York City. Media Music was the name of the company and he’s good friends with Stat Quos manager. So it’s one of those connections, like I alwys send tracks to my man and if ever an artist or a project came about, he would just make sure he would push a couple of the tracks to see if anybody was interested. It was a natural fit because Stat Quos manager and Media Music have been working together for a long time. It was just perfect timing man. Stat Quo killed it. He’s always been on the look out and people been checking for him but unfortunately I don’t know what happened with his situation but he still got it and I like that cat a lot.
GOOD EVENING BILLY REMIXED
Whether professional or amateur, here is your chance to give a great album a GOOD OL’ Make Over! We’re encouraging producers and DJ’s to totally remix this body of work and give it a new and unique soundscape. Please be sure to email your remixed versions of any song or the entire album to tone@dtr45.com or edreys@dtr45.com. Select remixes will be compiled and digitally re-released under a new title, new graphics, credits etc.
GO CREATE!! and Thank you for your time and energy!
DOWNLOAD - Click the link to download (9) a cappella’s for the album “Good Evening Billy.”
UP NORTH TRIP
NXNE: North by North East Music and Film Festival…here we come!!
Around the “Hood” if you say that you are headed “Up North,” its not really a good thing. It means that you’ll be taking a trip… a trip without a book bag, luggage or a boarding pass. JAIL!!
But in the THIS case, it is of the most positive of circumstances that Billy Drease and the DOPE45′s will find ourselves performing Up North, in Toronto, Canada…legally!!
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