As a big fan of the show I made sure to tune in via online from beginning to end. There was so MANY people tuning in online from around the world the massive traffic crashed the wkcr.org server. Luckily I logged on early and didn’t have any problems. The show even went an extra hour till 6am. As Stretch And Bob celebrated 20 years, the Squeeze Radio show hosted by Sucio Smash which took over in the early 2000′s in the same time slot was cancelled the week before. As the Squeeze Radio show works on finding a new platform, Suce has already kept it moving by partnering with Vibe.com to create weekly column on their online Blog.

Here’s a lil footage from the evenings festivities. Shouts to DJ Stretch Armstrong, Bobbito, Lord Sear, Large Pro, Sucio Smash, Dante Ross, DJ A-Trak, DJ Eclipse, and everybody who was up at the station or tuned in.

I came up with the idea for the Spirit Of Jax around the beginning of 2009. I wanted to do a record to pay homage to Jax, but at the same time didn’t want it to be a sad record. I wanted it to be a track that celebrated the man on the mic as the phenomenal emcee he was. The first verse consists of some of my favorite Jax lines from various songs with cuts mixed in from DJ Dainja. The second verse was written more so in documentary style to tell the story of Jax and Binkis Recs from my point of view.

2 years later, there’s still a LOT of music from Jax the people haven’t heard that will hopefully one day be shared. There’s two more records at least with me and Jax together and who knows how many unreleased Binkis tracks as well as solo joints. Jax was a true work-a-holic. And that’s why today we celebrate the Pace Of The Dedicated.

R.I.P. J.F.K. – Jax Forever King

Shouts to Justin Ivey at Kevin Nottingham for premiering this track.

DOWNLOAD: Señor Kaos – Spirit Of Jax. Produced By Illastrate | Cuts By DJ Dainja

Señor Kaos – The Kaos Effect LP Coming Soon.

November 4th, 2010 marks the 2 year anniversary of the one of the most shocking events in my life… It was the night before, when Binkis Recs (Jax, Flux, Killa Kalm) were performing at Lenny’s Bar in ATL, catching wreck on stage like they normally do. During the set Jax collapsed on stage and would never wake up.

He was pronounced dead shortly after at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA. On this same day we would find out that Barack Obama would become the first African-American president. While everyone was partying it up because of this news, I found myself not wanting to leave my home, or even my bed for that matter.

A few days later it finally hit me. Jax was one of the funniest, happiest cats I ever got a chance to meet. I’m sure he frown upon the thought of me being depressed and un-happy. It was at that moment, that I began to pay homage to Jax. I started these posts on my Blog known as “Remembering Jax” as a way for myself as well as others to be reminded about the funny and super talented Emcee Jax is.

I stopped the posts at 32 (Jax was 32 years old when he passed) and I wanted to save RJ33 for a special day… which would be TODAY! The Atlanta Hip Hop community has officially dubbed November 4th JAX DAY!

Today instead of mourning, we celebrate the life of one of the craziest, funniest, rhyme writting, beat making, I Love Hip Hop people that I’ve ever met… and he goes by the name of JAX!!!

During this day Justin over at Kevin Nottingham.com is dedicating todays posts on the site to Jax. He will be posting old videos, show footage, radio show footage, interviews, personal stories from the people who knew him best, as well as showing the exclusive Jax Documentary which many have NEVER seen.

If your own Twitter. Were asking everybody who know Jax or his music to share your favorite stories, songs, verses, moments, and Hash tag #JAXDAY

So during the 2010 A3C Hip Hop Festival in ATL, you may have saw me tweeting about a record I was working on with Homeboy Sandman and Buff 1 that was produced by D.R.U.G.S.! Well… here it is. But before you just go downloading, let me let ya’ll know how this came about…

So during the 2009 A3C Festival, AJ, Jay Force and crew began working on the 10 Year Anniversary of the Beats and Lyrics Radio Show (Hosted By Jay Force). AJ decided to open his home studio during A3C weekend to a select few emcees they wanted to be involved with the project. Luckily I was chosen as part of that pack along with J-Live, El Da Sensei, 4-Ize, Fresh Daily, etc. They had producers submit tracks, emcees would come thru, write joints on the spot and BOOM! I ended up in the lab with Fresh Daily at 5am (Pause) on the last night of the festival and we recorded what would later become “You Couldn’t Relate” originally dubbed “Long Ass Intro” produced by Illastate. What does that have to do with this song Kaos? Well I’m glad you asked, keep reading…

This time around, AJ, Jay Force, J Haze, Izreal, got Unique Squared involved and were able to set up a RV at the front of the festival entrance with a FULL recording studio on it. Once again they invited select emcees to come thru and be apart of the recording which would later end up on the “Beats And Lyrics To Go” Mixtape project.

During the weekend I bumped into the homie Buff 1 from Michigan, who’ve I’ve bumped into several times over the last few years and multiple cities. I’ve always respected dude as an emcee, enjoyed his music, and said one day we have to work on something together. When I saw him at the fest, I said “YO, they got this RV set up, plenty of beats, we need to record a joint before the end of the weekend.” Buff said cool, let’s do it. So we went by the RV, and listened to some beats outside. The demo was set up, to where you could listen to beats from a laptop but you couldn’t see who the producer was of the beat. So you just had to pick what you liked, versus picking something for the name. Which worked out GREAT for me. So I went thru maybe 20 beats, and ended up stuck on this one. I let Buff check it out, and he was like cool. So that was that, we agreed to meet back at the RV at 11pm to record the joint.

… a couple hours go by, I get a call from either J Haze or AJ (I forget). The caller says “YO, Homeboy Sandman just got the RV to listen to beats, and he REALLY wants that beat that you and Buff 1 picked.” So I said no problem, Boy Sand is fam, we’ve worked together on joints before it’s no biggy” and made my way back over to the RV to finalize details.

As I walk up an excited Sand is like “That Machines joint is CRAZY!!!!” I said “oh is that was the sample is saying?” Sand is like “Yeah, Machine, Machine, Machineeeeeee!” LOL

By now it’s about 10pm and we have to record this song at 11pm. Because of the amount of emcees trying to record songs, artists were only given roughly 30 mins to record the track from start to finish. I texted Buff, and told him Sandman was going to be an addition to the record. Me and Sand went to the car, played the beat CD and wrote our verses there. 10:58pm comes and we walk back over to the RV Studio.

It took us a lil over a half an hour to knock this song out. By 11:45 PM the record is complete.

After I received the beat I was made aware that D.R.U.G.S. was the producer of the track. Which was crazy, because just a week prior Drugs hit me on Facebook, with the idea that we had to work on something together, and I felt the same way.

Homeboy Sandman really took the concept to the next level. As Emcees we move as maschines thru the so called music industry machine MASHing up anything in our path, and exposing the real music and knowledge to the people!

And that… is how this song came about. OH so a few more things. Jay Force premiered this record on the Beats and Lyrics radio show (WRFG 89.3) last weekend to a GREAT response. Up until that point, I had never heard the finished version. (J Haze was NOT trying to let me hear this joint LOL). This past Tuesday night AJ leaked the record on the net. The original title as he sent out was “MASCHINES” as in Mash and Machines combined. As how 3 emcees came thru and MASHED the track. But I think a LOT of people just thought he splled it wrong and corrected it to Machines! So don’t be surprised if you see it spelled both ways.

With all that said… here’s some new music to listen too. Let me know what you all think???

DOWNLOAD: Señor Kaos, Homeboy Sandman, and Buff 1 – MASCHINES – Produced By D.R.U.G.S. <-- THIS IS THE OFFICIAL VERSION!

BIG SHOUTS to Kevin Nottingham who blasted off on this record first. Also shouts to Nah Right, 2 Dope Boyz, and every other Blog that has been supporting this joint. Thank You!

Shouts to DJ Jaycee who not only came thru to catch the show, but convinced Dj Flash and LB to rock a few extra joints for ATL at the end of their set.

Here’s a shot of Jaycee and Big Pooh.

I stuck around until the end of the night, and tried to catch a group shot with the whole gang. There’s no telling when ALL of us will be in the same room, at the same time again. It took a while to round everybody up, and unfortunately a few heads bounced a lil early. L-R: Eljay, Shay, DJ Jaycee, Me, Flux, DJ Dug Boogie, DJ Grandman, Big Pooh, Big Dho, Killa Kalm, DJ Mafioso (Missing: 4-Ize, El Da Sensei, Dillon, Rock Most, Phonte).

Here’s some footage of LB taking the stage. The set the night off with “The Listening” transiting into “For You” and finally into “Curtain Call” before the videos end.

Recently in ATL at 529 I surprised the crowd by jumping up on stage while Producer Illastrate manned the Beat Machine. What commenced is me performing songs from my new album entitled “The Kaos Effect” for the FIRST time ever. Normally I would be accompanied by Dj Grandman. This time it was just me on the rhymes, while Illa played all the beats Live.

Just wanted to test out the songs, and get some crowd feedback. It went over pretty well, and I’m excited to perform these songs more, as I gear up to release my new album soon. The first song performed is called “The Understanding,” while the second one is called “It’s Like That” and features fellow ATL emcee Ekundayo.

Let me know what you think of the new songs?

CHI TOWN TO ATL IT GOES DOWN!!!

Spotted at Fake Shore Drive.

Also in round 1 was Stahhr who got BUSY as well, and mentioned all the necessary images. “The inside is all pink” had the crowd going stoopid! HA.

J.Period will taking his Live Mixtape concept international on Sept 26th as he and Black Thought invade Toronto for the Manifesto Music Festival.

Keep doing ya thing J.Period. Salute from the The Kaos Effect.

DRIFTEE!!!!!