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New Single

Aye Y'all, I just released the single off my new tape go check it out and tell me what you think.  Share it around if you like it, I'm hoping for 2,000 views before I drop the tape.  

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The New Orleans Hornets may not be the most popular team in the NBA, but their starting point guard Greivis Vasquez is having a pretty good season.  I was lucky enough to meet him this past week when he came into our studio.  

A few weeks ago I got an email from the emcee of a radio talk show asking me to book a session to record a radio commercial.  I later found out that it would be Greivis Vasquez on the mic.  He showed up an hour late, like any professional star is expected to do, but he did not do it on purpose.  Vasquez explained that he had gotten a flat tire.  He went on to tell me that instead of fixing it (which is what I had assumed took so much time) he just left his car there and hired a private car service to come pick him up.  It's so crazy to think about how some people just have the money to not give a shit about a flat tire.  Regardless, he recorded a few different takes of this commercial in spanish, and while we were mixing down his recording we began talking about tickets and he said if we wanted he would hook us up with some.  True to his word, the very next day we got seats for The Hornets Vs. The Nets.  Even though New Orleans lost it was still a pretty exciting game and it was a pretty cool experience.  We had sick seats of course:I'm hoping to start booking more voice over work for vital sounds, maybe Drew Brees will come in and then we'll be talking about some real tickets! That's all for now y'all, peace. 

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Chipotle Raps

I said...

I'm goin to Chipotle

Holy

Chips and guacamole

Hope chicken is ya forte 

Cause Imma need more weight

Than you ever put in a burrito 

After the meat it ain't finito 

Add that rice and them beans doe

Chipotle feign yo

...Yeah so anyway, I went to Chipotle yesterday and before ordering I look the guy dead in the face and say "You tryina let me rap for my meal" and he is like "what?" and I'm like .. Let me spit something for you and if you like it I get a free meal." The guy agrees but on the condition that the entire Chipotle staff can come from the back and watch me.  I of course agree and once they all came out I did my bit, even got a little round of applause, and of course free Chipotle.  As if this wasn't an awesome enough evening for me already, one of the chicks that worked at Chipotle came up to me after and was like "My boyfriend owns a recording studio and is starting up a label, I think you should call him." She gave me his card and told me to tell him the circumstances under which her and I had met.  It was a pretty crazy series of events to say the least, and the Chipotle was awesome.  

In other news, I've begun my job as President of Vital Sounds Recording.  So far it is actually a lot of work, I'm hoping that once I have my feet under me it will become easier but I guess we'll see.  It seems that this company is kind of unorganized and could use some more gears grinding.  The guy in charge of the studio (Jay) always wants to get things done but he never seems to have the exact means by which to do it.  Hopefully I can get used to the way this business model works and make my own little adjustments.  All in all I expect this to be an extremely productive semester.  I'm going to try to start posting on this blog a reasonable one time a week.  That's a significant improvement from last semester but still not so unbelievable daunting for me.  That's all for now y'all, peace and love and all that,

Austin

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I got a job...

So I know I haven't posted on here in a while and my bad about that but I've been super busy and it's just hard to post sometimes.  I'm probably going to start posting a little less anyways cause I don't see myself getting less busy any time soon.

Anyways I got a job.  And it's a really good job.  I didn't want to write about it before I got it because I was nervous I would jinx it but now I got it so it's all good.  Basically I got a job on the board of directors (as the COO) of a company called Vital Sounds.  Vital sounds is a recording company on Loyola University New Orleans campus.  We run the studios and such.  It's a complete company run by students and we have supervisors (who we met with today) but it's completely our company, and we make actual money recording both students and local musicians.  My job as COO is to handle marketing and advertising.  I also help with the other members of the board in making decisions like salary changes and new equipment.  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I pick which sound engineers work with which artists.  So that means that If I have someone who really loves hip-hop and rap I can put them with artists that they'll like as opposed to artists that will put them to sleep.  The best part is that when the sound engineer likes the music more he will put more effort into it and it will come out better.  

Today we had a meeting and we discussed a lot of stuff.  There is a website change coming, which I get to be in charge of.  I'm excited for that.  Also we met with our two supervisors.  Both of them are professors here, one is named Jay Crutti and the other is named Elliot.  I don't know Elliot's last name but he's the cooler one.  They're both cool but John Snyder, the head of the music industries department, basically shouted out Elliot at forum the other day for being a badass DJ or something so my vote goes to him.  Anyways it was pretty sick cause I got to meet these guys, and being a member of the Vital Sounds board shows that I at least kind of know what I'm doing.  I think I'm going to start to stand out more infront of my music professors and I'm very excited for that.  I think I have a lot to offer and pretty soon some people who can pull some strings are going to start realizing it.  Anyways, that's all for now y'all.  Peace!

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Feels Like Happy Feet

A couple of nights ago I met up with my friend Matt who is a senior at Loyola.  We know each other from Independent Lake Camp where we both went as campers and now as staff members.  A few of our long time counselor friends are doing a road trip across America and they decided to come visit us.  We went out to this bar and saw a band called the Brass-A-Holics.  They were fucking epic.  I honestly felt like I was that little penguin in the movie Happy Feet who just can't stop dancing.  It was an absolutely awesome show.  In other news, someone from a different music industries class asked me to possibly be the artist in their project.  I don't know if it's going to happen yet but that'd be pretty sick.  That's gonna be it for now, not cause I'm out of stuff to say but cause I'm really hungry and can't concentrate anymore until I eat. Peace y'all

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"If there is ANYTHING else in this world that you can do and still be happy, do it."

Bold words from a professor on the first day of class, but I couldn't agree more.  I spent a lot of time toying with the idea of being a musician before I made the commitment to study music in school.  I realize that there are other things I could be successful at but that doesn't matter to me.  I'm doing music because I love it and it makes me happy.  If I only have one life then I'm going to do more than just get by, I'm going to live.  Just a few months before I left for school I told my dad that I'd rather fail as a musician than succeed as anything else, and I truly meant that.  I still mean that.  

Today in my music industries class we were told about a project that will be assigned in the near future.  In this assignment, we will be put in teams of six.  Each of the six people have completely different jobs.  As a group it is our job to record a 4 song EP of some artist we find, we need to create videos and merchandise and advertise the EP.  Although it isn't one of the six jobs, I want to be the recording artist.  The professors said that someone in the group could be the recording artist BUT they still have to do the job they're assigned.  I emailed the professor and asked him if it would be possible to do a sort of Roots esq. thing with a full band.  My roommate Cyrus plays trumpet and he and I have been talking about getting a group together so I already have some band members in mind.  If I get the opportunity to make this EP the way I want it I truly believe it will be amazing, but I understand that it is going to be extremely hard and WAY harder than it was to record Color Spectrum.  Needless to say I'm pretty excited.  That's all for now, peace y'all.

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Bacon Cheese Burger And A Milkshake From The Dude In The Saints Hat

If it starts with a blunt cruise it should end with a bacon cheese burger.  Last night we went out driving and ended up a little too hungry to go back to campus.  We rolled up to the Camellia Grill on South Carrollton Ave and had the perfect meal.  Most places would be closed, empty, or a drive through at 1 o'clock in the morning, but the Camellia Grill stays open till 2 on saturdays and it was absolutely packed.  We went in as a party of five and had to wait a few minutes because almost every seat in the place was taken.  But as soon as we were seated our waiter Dennis served us swiftly.  This guy was the smoothest waiter I've ever had, he moved with the grace of a dancer and we had our food in less than fifteen minutes.  For myself, I got a bacon cheese burger, regular fries, and a vanilla milkshake.  It was pretty fucking dank.   

After we ate I tried and failed to buy Dennis' hat off him.  He was nice enough to give me the names of some places I could get one though, although admittedly I was a bit too trashed to remember the names of these places.  It's all good though cause I'm absolutely going to be back there in a drunken haze some time soon.  That's all for now, peace y'all.

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The Hurricane Honestly Was a Good Thing...

While I know there was a shit ton of damage from the storm and that people were hurt.  The storm wasn't all that bad.  In the dorms we lost power for nearly 40 hours and we were locked in the building for more than that.  Despite the horrible stench from all of our body heat and no AC, I came to appreciate our time stuck inside.  At first I was majorly bummed that I was to spend my birthday locked in a sweatbox, but by the time we reached our final hours of our imprisonment I realized that I had come very close to people by being stuck with them.  I think that in the two days or so we were in here time passed in a totally different way.  I feel significantly closer with my roommates, my hall mates, and several other people from the school.  

As far as my birthday goes,it was crazy.  There are many things which occurred within the confines of these halls over the day August 29, many of which I feel would be better unpublished.  But my hall mates through me an awesome party and we packed a couple hundred people in the hall with some bumping speakers (a fucking huge guitar amp) and they made me a sign: 

The sign is now hanging on my door and I think it's pretty dope.  Now I basically have free time until Wednesday when my classes start again.  That's all for now, peace y'all

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Beale Street In Memphis

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First Day Evacuation..

So it's literally the first day of classes, I wake up at 10 so I can get to my business class by 10:30 and I have a text from my school.  It says that all afternoon classes are cancelled AND there are no classes on Tuesday or Wednesday due to the storm.  I have one class to attend all week until Friday when classes resume.  As of now Loyola isn't evacuating us but we can leave if we want and a decent amount of people are.  As of now I'm chilling because it isn't supposed to be that bad.  If the forecast gets worse or they start evacuating downtown New Orleans I'm gonna have to fly to Philly.  The crazy thing to me is that it's my birthday on Wednesday.  So at first I thought I'd be spending my birthday with a bunch of strangers and now it looks like I'm going to have one of three things: A half empty school, a hotel room in some random place (if I can't fly to Philly), or my friends and family.  I'm kinda hoping to have a hurricane party at school though.  I guess we'll find out soon enough.  That's all I really had to say, peace y'all.

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Classes Start Tomorrow

I'm pretty excited.  I honestly feel like college is weird until classes start.  Even though I am going to have a shit ton of work and junk like that I think it is almost "too good to be true" to just have all the benefits of college with no work involved.  My schedule is totally free on Tuesdays and Thursdays but unfortunately that means I have a bunch of classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  My schedule is as follows: Intro to business 10:30-11:20, Political Satire 12:30-1:20, Critical Reading / Writing 1:30-2:20, Intro To Music Industry Studies 230-320, Intro To World Religions 3:30-4:20, and finally Music Industry Forum 5-6.  I only have music Industry Forum on Mondays so my schedule will be a little more light on the other two days I have class.  I haven't found out what my work study is yet but I'm hoping to either work in one of the recording studios on campus or to work in the office of the dean of the music college.  Either job would be pretty awesome.  There is some talk of a potential evacuation from New Orleans but it hasn't even started raining here yet so I'm honestly not worried at all.  My RA says that probably the worst thing that could happen is they tell us to stay in our dorms for a day (and I wouldn't mind the sleep).  If we did evacuate however (and if I made it back home) I would most likely be home for my birthday (August 29) which would be totally awesome.  As of now college has been chill and fun, by the end of the week I think I'll be much more at home.  Peace y'all.  

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Life Sinks In Too Slowly For Me

I don't even know if that makes sense, but what I'm trying to say is that I wish you could just snap your fingers and be 'in the swing of things'.  I'm sure college is going to be awesome, and the people here seem cool, but it just doesn't feel like home right now.  I don't know how else to explain it.  I'm still having an awesome time though.  Today I met the dean of the music school and I also met my academic advisor.  My academic advisor is this music professor named professor Hinderlie.  He's a pretty cool dude and he is helping me find a work study job.  I think I'm going to end up working in one of the recording studios on campus, I'm not really sure what my job would be yet but no matter what that would be pretty cool.  One of my roommates (Cyrus) is a jazz performance major who plays trumpet and today he and I started talking about getting together some type of jazz-hip-hop ensemble possibly next semester.  I think it would be really sick, and honestly I'm doing anything I can to connect with other musicians, perform, and get my name out there.  In other news, my dad and sister (who drove me down here and helped me move in yesterday) left today.  I wasn't upset when we were saying our goodbyes or anything, but as I walked away from them I kind of realized that I had just lived the end of my childhood.  It's not as if that specific moment marks the initiation of myself into adulthood but I feel like it is a huge symbolic point in my life.  I don't know though, maybe I'm thinking about it too much.  I'm just as immature as I was a week ago.  I guess that's all for now, peace y'all.

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And So It Begins

I woke up this morning at 5AM and got in the car for a 16 hour drive to memphis.  A minor stop off in my journey to New Orleans.  My dad, along with myself and my sister, have made the trek to the famous city to see Graceland.  But tomorrow it is on to college, which is the point of this post so I'll get to that part.  I'm going into my freshman year at Loyola University New Orleans as a music industry studies major, I've been given a large merit based scholarship to attend this university, and I'm studying to be a rapper.  I honestly think that this sounds like a joke.  A nice white Jewish boy from Lower Merion, a prominently white suburb of Philadelphia, on a 'rap scholarship' to Loyola New Orleans.  In all seriousness, I'm going to New Orleans in pursuit of a dream and I am going to work as hard as I can to make it happen.  To help me gain a following I am going to be blogging and such on my website AustinRapbaum.com.  As of now the website is not up but it should be getting launched within the week.  I hope that people will spread my message and help my voice be heard, along with that I hope that anyone who hears my story will find it intriguing and be interested in what I'm trying to do.  That's all for now y'all.  Peace

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And So It Begins

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lonerwithaboner:

“I’ll have the priest at your church like, ‘God damn, son.’”

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Just about one year ago

My grandfather got hospitalized.  It was a huge surprise because he was insanely healthy.  He went to the gym for a couple of hours each day, ate like a fucking professional athlete, and had never in his life had a single medical complication.  To make a long story short they said he needed to get his gallbladder removed and upon doing that they found a shit ton of cancer, and my healthy, amazing, wonderful grandfather was gone before the summer was over.  I was just informed that my grandmother (other side of the family) who has Alzheimer's, has been hospitalized because she fell a few times yesterday.  They're not really sure why she fell but they're keeping her for observation.  I'm already losing her at a slow and painful pace, to a point where she doesn't even know who I am or where she is half the time.  And now something else could be wrong with her.  This is supposed to be an awesome time of the year, finals week then WE OUT.  But now two years in a row this time of the year has brought with it sadness.  I don't think this is fair at all.

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Hello

My name is Austin, how can I help you today? FUCK YOU!