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In my whole weekend predicament - I experienced an addition of fulfillment of completing mastering Ondagrnd's forth-coming album - "Life in Retrospect".
The official tracklist:
01. Wasup world [ft. Les-ego]
02. Them days**
03. Calm before the storm
04. Interrogation [exhibit#1] (skit)
05. Operation Mastered High [with Damola]++
06. i. The Interrogation [exhibit#2] (skit)
ii. The Interrogation
07. Brand New
08. How you doing
09. Girl please [ft. JJ]
10. Featuring Mr. FreeFlow+++
11. He say she say (move) [ft. Ras]
12. i. Vinnie's back (skit)
ii. Vinnie's back
13. Unf@ckwitable [ft. POET tha Sonnet]
14. Its a RAP (outro)
[**produced by Ootz]
[++ both prduced by Sam Simose - (#05) featured in Hype mag mixtape]
I dont know if yo'll notice the way this tracklist is set up, but if you pay attention or know OG (Ondagrnd) personally, yo'll know that he's about story telling with conceptual albums...this album takes off from the Plot thickens which also was conceptually built from an cypher MC point of view (I stand to be corrected by the artist), but Life in Retrospect is more on performances and a closer look into the personal life of the artist, hence the album title. I am humbled and pleased to have worked with the artist for over 8 months on this here and on his behalf, will like to emphasize for you to buy it, I believe it will be yo money's worth as I think if you play all trax sequentially, you'll be inter-active with the plot. Here are bits and pieces of OG's life On this blog, Load the show and myspace account.
Batsile ONDAGROUND Ramasodi
Raised in the calm but grimy hood of Atteridgeville in the 80’s, Batsile at an early age realized that Hip-hop is the best genre of music to express himself. It was only in ’97 though that he started penning his own lyrics and hitting the ciphers. He was in a clique called Tombstone Engravers(T.S.E) which was heavily influenced by the Military sounding, boom bap group Wu- Tang Clang as well as the Boot camp clique.
T.S.E soon broke cause of growth and they all went their separate ways.
During his Drama studies at T.U.T something said to him, “why not do your rap thing again” and after a tour to Grahamstown, he did exactly that. Influenced by Hymphatic Thabs’s style he started a chain of tracks with a story line, of which he perfomed at the legendary SICK POETRY SESSIONS. From there offers started coming in.
He performed as an M.C and opening act for groups such as NEW AKADEMICS, WONDERBOOM, SKWATTA KAMP and PROVERB at the Castle world wind tour in 2005. He has taken part in a lot of shows hosted in PTA hosted by roach inc. and was able to be a hit at the M.T.N hype tour at the State Theatre. He’s also taken part at the BACK TO THE CITY show hosted every year by Unlearn Agency and the Ritual store every year on the 27th of April.
He’s now working on a Stage show that will change the way hip hop artists perform on stage and working on his third installment called LIFE IN RETROSPECT with one of the dopest producers in the country right now,Trompie of SIAMESE PRODUCTIONS. It’s expected out end July.
2 comments:
No doubt.. Big up
Thanx bra...but most thanx from the artist behalf!
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