The Many Faces of Manny Faces

I have not done music, remixes, etc. in quite some time.
Instead, I have re-focused my energies on Birthplace Magazine, www.BirthplaceMag.com, what I hope will soon be known as THE online source of New York-area hip-hop news, views and all other things.
Check out the original ‘manny-festo’ by reading “Re-Birthplace: Documenting New York’s (Hopeful) Hip-Hop Resurgence”
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Man, I don’t really expect too many heads to be checking for me here (although I am surprised because I do get emails and feedback, so thank you all who do care..) I have been insanely busy in my ‘real-life’, job, school (yes, as I mentioned in a previous post I have gone back to [...]

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So, what happened was, Usher’s new song Love In This Club, was produced by Polow Da Don. But it turns out, Polow Da Don essentially made the track using preset loops in Apple’s GarageBand software, which comes free with a Mac computer [seen @ Miss Info]. Well, this interests me of course, and as usual, [...]

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Funny how things work.
February 3
I share a birthday with my Hunni. While this makes it unlikely I’ll ever get a surprise party, it does make for a fun time of year when we co-party, and occasionally, have a co-party. This was such a year. On the way home from BJs, I hear Funk Flex blasting [...]

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So I was e-leafing through the hip-hop related blogs in my RSS favorites when I came across a posting on RealTalkNY regarding an entry written by FoxSports columnist, Jason Whitlock, that appeared to blame ‘hip-hop’ with the shooting and subsequent death of the NFL’s Sean Taylor. The responses were, as expected on a blog [...]

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Everytime I secretly start thinking about giving all this up, I get something like this:
[From Damian via MySpace note]
Wow…
That’s all I can say right now, man. Your revisions and recreations of familiar songs are so refreshing to my ears. The ears of a hip hop fan that yearn to hear something new and exciting. You [...]

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As a comment on the KrucialKeys blog, after a number of their supporters took my not-really-trying to be a hater, as being a hater, Krucial took the high road, and clarified some things:
“In Reference to Manny Faces, Its All Good, Homie Stated his Oppinion everyone has a right to. He Took it personal, I [...]

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[I originally wrote this as a guest-blogger on HipHopRuckus.com] 
Last night, I heard a bit of a reggae remix of Alicia Keys’ No One, on Hot-97 in New York. Since unofficial remixes like my own seem to get played in nearly every city in the USA except here, I figured it was the real deal official [...]

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Occasionally, I see really interesting things, sometimes music-related things, and I am tempted to post them here. But than I say to myself, “no, this is not that kind of blog”. I mean let’s face it, among several blogs I read, there are several top items that are found on all of them, just in [...]

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Just some recent love:
IT’S YOUR S. AFRICAN BOY
Yo son…
Just got to tell you that I saw my message on your blog and I was shocked.
Just wana tell you that I am a big fan of what you do and you are extremely well known here
And I have to tell you that I played the Bartender [...]

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