Another throwback from roughly a decade ago. Make You Feel was recorded sometime at the end of 2003 or the beginning of 2004, I think, but I really have no clue. I was really busy music-wise back then. So much so that I actual put out several other rap tracks with my friends, despite on being a rapper. I'm featured exclusively on this abstract instrumental made by Bennie Bluntz, and it was mixed (live) by Supa Dave, both of Steel City's Chosen, as it was known as back then. The sweet DJ scratches were added by (the late great) J-Bird after hearing this track and liking it, much to my surprise.
As alluded to above, this was mainly a peer pressure track for me, as I never cared much for rapping. (Still don't for the most part, but, like anybody, I can appreciate some swank wordplay. Including my own, when the mood strikes me.) Even so, this track only took four takes -- two mixing and two of me rapping -- for Make You Feel to be completed.(?) It took maybe a half-hour or so overall to mix & record, and it helped to push the growing hip hop party culture spilling out of Ben's 8th Street Ghetto Wizards Studio, as I like to call it.
A fun fact: I helped to spawn that rock'n musical spot by complete accident. One lazy day at the so called Eff-Kay Mansion -- located on Joplin and Beech in the East Side of Pueblo, CO -- I was showing my peeps a DRK diss track I had made on my BOSS 303 Dr. Sample, one of my first foray's into recording vocals, and Ben happened to be home from a failed football career in college and heard that diss track. It had to be one of the hardest hip hop track I ever recorded, with hard distorted vocals over an equally hard "kill 'em" boom-bap rhythm that was overall equally tricked out with effects from the sampler, which it was all recorded on. I'm pretty sure it was that day put Ben on a musical career he never expected to be on. But a musical path was always in his calling as his pops was one hell of a Tejano musician himself.
Anywho, enough ranting for now. But always remember that: I can make you feel bad/ I can make you feel good/ I can make you feel/ And that's about it.
