New Music --- 'All The Dough' by NoTiQ feat. B.Ware & Zewdy (Produced by Siiren), 12/24/2015

It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m sitting here watching a documentary about FreakNik.  …Yeah, I know; be like that sometimes.  Blame this hot weather and these thunderstorms rolling through the Southeast; also blame DJ Kizzy Rock, I follow him on Facebook, peeped game straight from his page.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Left to Right: B.Ware, Zewdy, and NoTiQ

Speaking of Atlanta tho, I mentioned to ya’ll a few times here and there that my younger sib Siiren was around the A-Town working out some things on the beats and production side of the game.  She put me on to some up-and-coming area talent:  rappers NoTiQ & B.Ware and the Ethiopian songstress Zewdy Awalom (and all her beautiful hair).

Welp, good news!  The bringing together of those four musical elements has yielded fruit in the form of a new single by NoTiQ.  The cut, entitled ‘All the Dough’, was recently debuted on Ridin’ Dirty Radio and features B.Ware & Zewdy with Siiren on the instrumental.  Peep peep:

The Experienced Listener--- "What I've Learned About Beatmaking"

I am in awe of my baby sister.  Keep your ears out for her; she goes by Siiren and she’s no joke.  She recently sent me just a rough cut of a beat she did for a track featuring Atlanta MCs Notiq and B.Ware and vocalist Zewdy (and all of her gorgeous hair).  In short, I couldn’t be more proud; Siiren’s a beast.  We’ve kinda had this ongoing beat battle in the house for years, and she’s definitely winning right now...

So yeah--- in my spare time, I’m a beatmaker myself; I got my first drum machine from my cousin Andre Ellis around 1998, got into Fruity Loops a few years down the road. I don’t have a knack for it the way my sister does (she was already a dope instrumentalist before she ever touched a beat program), but I can put it down in my own experimental, trial-and-error way.