Had a great evening out at the Shea’s Buffalo Theater with my ”Hot Date,” Super Woman Wife. The award for Best Solo Music Act of WNY is more Alexa’s award than it is mine. Thank you for your support honey!!!
THANK YOU to everyone who has come out to a show, sang a song, popped a cd in your car, bought merchandise, read the blog posts and highly recommended me to the greater public. Two of the Best Awards that Buffalo has to offer, in the same year. Thank you Buffalo Spree and Artvoice.
Thank you to Brandon and Press@ Record Theatre for the opportunity to rock LIVE on their historic grounds. Thank you to ALL that attended and help make it a wonderful time. SPECIAL special SHOUTS to DJ Tiger of WBNY 91.3fm for holding me down and Ed and DJ LoPro for going above and beyond helping me out in the crunch. Carma, Peelahr, thanks a bunch. Peace!
Artist: Hannibal
Video Director: Kevin (What’s Good) Lopez.
My homeboys put it DOWN on this video. Good work fellas! Peep my man Ivan’s cameo in this joint, doing what he does best…”acting”…because I KNOW my man can’t really play the drums better than me….LOL…luv ya Hermano!!
I had the pleasure of watching this video unfold as it was in the making. Incredibly impressed with the final product. Check it out!
Finally!!! Another artist that can intelligent emcee, perform and is actually saying something. KEEP GOIN’!
BONUS FOOTAGE: Behind the Scenes
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.
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.”
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!!
The album GOOD EVENING BILLY can now be downloaded from iTunes. Thank you so much for your support. Start learning the words TODAY as we’ll be throwing down and having another show in June, so LETS HAVE A BALL!!!! Peace.
GET on iTUNES!
One of favorite movies of all time, House Party. However, I wish they had never considered trying to make it into a saga. It’s unbelievable how terrible the movies were that followed the original. I was inspired to make a full-length video for the OHNO song since the commercial for the GOOD EVENING BILLY Release Party was such a success. REAL videos for songs off of the album are currently in the works, but until they are complete, chew on this and enjoy the throwback.
In classic DVD movie menu style, I provided an alternative ending to the video as well.
Today is my Birthday, born precisely at 3:15 pm on this day. I’m in the LAUGHING mood!!! Enjoy…
Cheers to all Taureans!!
Video brought to your attention by DJ LoPRo whom was hipped by Clark Dever. So a pair of props to them respectively.
I had the opportunity to act in this movie short, but I was too busy to take on the responsibility as it was being filmed the weeks leading up to my CD Release. Click to Buy. I wanted to be involved in some way with the project, so Richie and myself went to work in the studio to lend to the backdrop of the movie.
The Motive: 2009 movie directed and produced by Jaehong Park. Music produced, arranged and performed by Billy and Richie. (Billy Drease and Richie English).
