After posting the stream for this track a few days ago in the Julian Gilbert post I thought it would be cool to give this song away. So I spoke to House of Blow today and we decided to give this away for free to pop off St. Patty’s for the Sprang weather. We always felt like this was the party jam. When the weather is nice and you start to get the feeling it’s here to stay, partying is in order. And partying is always the jump off x10 when you feel that nice weather vibe being tossed around. Halogen Glow was never available for FREE download before and this is a perfect opp to snach it up, add it to your iPods, blogs, playlists, DJ sets, and jam it at your Houseparties and BBQ buggaloo’s.

download Halogen Glow (produced by House of Blow) here
http://fairtilizer.com/track/halogenglow

or click the little arrow pointing down on right hand side of the player below…

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!!

***********************UPDATE: we (myself and my team of extremely talented individuals) have more free downloads, merchandise, news and other cool shit in the pipeline to be released in the near future. It’s all very exciting.

coming up:

Yak Ballz x Weathermen x The Pressure T-Shirt coming very soon!!!!

also a new track The Compass produced by Chapter 7 to be released in EARLY April!!!!!!

DONT SLEEP

Photo by Julian Gilbert

Julian Gilbert is my Cardboard Connect and a brilliant photographer. He does not use digital anything and he will shit on your digital camera bc the viewfinder is in his mind. I’m a huge fan of his and If you don’t see his hustle…you do now. This photo was taken during the recording session at EL-P’s for the song Halogen Glow.

visit http://juliangilbert.blogspot.com

be sure and tell’em Yak Ballz sent’chaa

DJ’S, INTRODUCING THE NEW YAK BALLZ x WEATHERMEN SLIPMAT

GET YOURS HERE AT SHOPSHOGUN.COM

Finally got around to going to the MoMa and seeing the esteemed Tim Burton exhibit. Good thing I bought tickets last week as this thing has got to be the most popular exhibit the museum has ever seen and was sold out by the time I walked out a little after 1:00 pm. Even before I knew who Tim Burton was I knew his movies. They are dark, twisted, but comedic and humorous films who’s images seem to stick with you long after they are over. To name a few; Peewee’s Big Adventure and Beetlejuice among others. Both are classics of course and two of my favorite childhood movies. My father and I used to regurgitate Beetlejuice lines to each other from that very impressionable time in my childhood. “Hey there goes Elvis, YO KING!” is one that still resonates to this day.

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it’s the 11 year anniversary of Big L’s death. Put It On was an anthem for Hip-Hop heads in the 90’s especially in New York. One of my favorite lines of all time came from this song; “you can’t kill me I was born dead.” I still say it sometimes as a quick response when it’s relevant to the convo and wonder if people know the reference. I feel like everyone jumped on his dick when he dropped Ebonics and although it’s a classic, it not what I remember him by. I remember Children Of The Corn demos on the Stretch and Bobbito show, his first album Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, DITC gems, and of course his classic freestyles on the show. If you’ve been around and in the know since then, you know that same radio show gave birth my career years later. It’s something I’m extremely proud of because I know theres a bunch of rappers from NY who never got the chance. Big-L was one of many giants from that era who solidified themselves as NY Hip Hop legend status, even before he died.

listen to this if you’ve never heard it before…. I remember hearing this live when it was on the air, in fact I might even have it recorded on a tape under my bed. This is when Big-L and Jay-Z used to run together and peep how L as so ill compared to Jay. They were peers of course and excellent rappers, and Jay still killed it, but he had no work for L.

listening to it as I type this and God damn I miss this time in rap so much, fuckkkk. truly one of the greats.

Design: William Paybarah
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BLIND FAITH (ADEPT REMIX)



Download this track for FREE here http://fairtilizer.com/track/blindfaithremix


OFFICIAL VIDEO


Video Editing: Damien Neva
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!

more from the night in the FLICKR set HERE

Yesterday, Dark Void came out for XBOX & PS3. From what I understand, it is one of the most anticipated games of 2010. RACER did a remix of the original music from the game and samples a clip of my voice. It’s pretty rad. I uploaded it to Fairtilizer and you can download it for FREE…HERE

ALSO, PEEP THE NEW AND IMPROVED PRO FAIRTILIZER PLAYER!

stay tuned for pictures from my west coast excursion coming tomorrow*