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Monday, January 07, 2008

It's been a while since i've updated, cause i've been running my own site: www.a-slam.com ...plus keeping current the a-slam group on facebook: http://sfu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2377356677

Basically been working on the a-slam album.  Have the first song finished, called Vancity, it is linked below.  Our first show for this year will be Jan 18 at the Royal Unicorn (147 East Pender), where will be debuting a brand new track called Get Down.  Just check the flyer below.  We posted the vids from the a-slam interview on What's new in Vancouver, and the Josh show , the crowd that night could not have been better.  The event was put on by RJ1200am who has now picked up two a-slam tracks to put into rotation.  So please if you listen to RJ1200am email playmysong@rj1200.com.  RJ plays the newest in Bollywood hits along with local acts, and have a great morning show with Raakhi and Gopi.

January Shows:
Friday Jan 18, first  year anniversary of Words from da Underground.  Show Starts at 10pm and will feature A-slam along with XYL, Shalini, Chadio, Lithium and Bizoid.  We will be debuting a brand new track called Get Down. 
- the flyer: http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h178/halidina/wordz_a-slam_JAN_FLYER_copy.jpg

New Track:
Vancity (EV, Advo, Illest Traits, Jay Kin, Inez, and Dal) - a-slam music production
- this is another signature callabo track by a-slam.  The beat was produced by EV. 
- download (click here)
(right click and save link as)

Media:
The great people at RJ1200 have decided to pick up two a-slam tracks, Charcha and Play on Playa.  RJ plays lots of local desi music including new and old bollywood hits.  If that's what you're looking for definitely check them out.  Their station is on 1200 am and also streams from their website: http://rj1200.com/ .  If you do listen please email playmysong@rj1200.com and request a-slam, especially during the morning show with Raakhi and Gopi and The Drive Home Grind with my girl Angelina. 

New Vids:
RJ1200 1st anniversary (a-slam opening for JoSH) pt 1

RJ1200 1st anniversary (a-slam opening for JoSH) pt 1

the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlUn935y7Xs

RJ1200 1st anniversary (a-slam opening for JoSH) pt 2 + What's New in Vancouver Video

the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlUn935y7Xs

hope you liked the new track, see you on the 18th

Cheers
EV

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h178/halidina/wordz_a-slam_JAN_FLYER_copy.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h178/halidina/Vancouversign_mp3copy.jpg

 



Wednesday, April 04, 2007

April 4, 2007

We’ve been hella busy at a-slam and apologize for not keeping up with the news, so this one’s a little packed.  Thank you for all the text messages and phone calls.  For those that haven’t heard, some HHHUUGGEE NEEWWS, we won first place in the hip-hop / R & B category in the International Song writing Competition ( http://songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm ).  See the site for a full list of winners, Canada did really well, and we’re the only winners from BC!!  See below for the official winners email.  
So what we need from you now, is to please email The Beat 94.5 at heydj@thebeat.com , and request “For You – a-slam music productions”.  They have the song and know about us, now they just have to play it.  So please email the beat and get everyone you know to email them please.

Our next show will be April 25 at Aubar. Email halidina@sfu.ca if you would like tickets. They are only $5. 

In other news, we were just on global TV 6 o’clock and 11 o’clock news last Friday.  You can check out the interview on our homepage www.sf.ca/aslammp , or the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYS7b28lHF4 .  Thank you to Elaine Yong from Global BC for the interview.  

And we performed at the 604 comedy showcase last Sunday at caprice.  Again the video is on our site homepage.  The direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUhCiaok3s .  We were slightly worried that they wouldn’t be feeling the Punjabi-hip/hop fusion, BUT THEY LOVED IT.  Crowed cheered so loud it was unbelievable, and they even brought us back on stage.  Big thank you to LGP and 604 promotions for the opportunity.  

Our last thank you goes out to Paul from the Renfrew-Collingwood community newspaper for putting us on the front page.  You can pick-up a copy of the paper at Collingwood Neighborhood House, the Policing Centre, Winderemere Secondary or any other community / school buildings in the Collingwood-Renfrew Community. 

So again, please email The Beat 94.5 at heydj@thebeat.com , and request “For You – a-slam music productions.  

The official ISC winner email:

"As the Founder and Director of the International Songwriting Competition, it is my honor and pleasure to personally congratulate you and inform you that your song "For You" has won First Place in the R&B/Hip-Hop category in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). We are very proud of your accomplishment and thank you for entering your song into ISC this year.

ISC received almost 15,000 entries from 88 countries throughout the world, so this acknowledgement of your song by ISC and its judges is a noteworthy achievement of which you can be very proud.

Please go to http://www.songwritingcompetition.com to view the complete list of winners.
"

 

Thank you for your continual support

Cheers
EV

LGP AuBar April 25 flyer


Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Feburary 6 2007

Our track "For You" went to finals in the international songwriting competition!

http://www.sonicbids.com/voting/default.asp?poll_id=118

That is the link to vote.  If you could please vote for it, and pass it on, you can vote once per day per email.  So please vote with all your emails, everyday if you get a few moments.  

We are the only hip-hop / R&B finalists from Vancouver, so this is really important for us along with the entire hip-hop scene in Vancouver.  

The track is listed as:
For You Hussein Alidina ( "E.V."), Kenyan Lewis (B kay), Roberto Carlos (Illest Traits), Vic Nair (Advocate), Carrielynn Victor (Numinous), Justin Flett {EV & The A-Slam Fam} – Vancouver, BC, Canada

Your support is much appreciated

Cheers
EV

For You - a-slam fam

 


Monday, November 06, 2006

November 5, 2006

Posted a new single called For You (www.sfu.ca/aslammp > Downloads > For You).  If it's not playing right now  

For you was written for and is dedicated to our moms.  The track features EV, Lex, Bkay and Dal, along with Advicate from Lost Soul Recordz, and Inez & Numinous from Rapture Rising.  The track was produced by me (EV) and freerapbeats.com

With our increasing number of fans, and the support that this song has already received, we would like to include as many of you as possible in its next step.

We are currently putting together a slide show to go along with this track.  So if you really like

the song, and would like to be part of its growing success,  please send an email with one or

two (or more) pictures of you and your mom or family, or someone close, to halidina@sfu.ca

 You’ll know what we mean once you've heard the song J.  The first 100 or so pictures will then be edited together with the track into a quasi style video / slide show.    We thank you for your help in our first venture of this nature.

me and my moms:

 

The Lyrics

For You – a-slam fam

(EV, Illest Traits, Bkay, Advicate, Numinous, Inez & Dal)

 

Produced by EV & www.freerapbeats.com

 

March 2006 – Oct 28 2006

 

Bkay:

Come on, you know this one’s for you ma,

Ya, only one like you, you know?

 

Dal & Inez(Chorus) 

If I could stand tall for a moment

Not fall for a moment

I would make it to that moment for you

 

If I could inhale for a second

Exhale for a second,

I’d breathe that second for you. 

 

Maybe I should face every moment

And not chase every moment

Embrace more moments with [ch]you

 

But now I’m on the grind every second

Instead of lying every second

Gonna make it to the top for you

 

EV:

She’s unstoppable you got to know

She is my world, her sacrifice is unplotable

Like rock and roll, my soul was never locked

Behind doors; like a metronome goes

She keeps going and going again

 

She wants to be back at home, but not alone

Displaced in a world unknown,

No longer on her own, a son by her thrown

A queen qualified by life

More than my mom, she is my friend

 

Advicate:

Again and again

Ask how did it end?

Got me pacing back and forth thinking about excuses

How we gonna do this

Through the ups and downs

You and who went through it

Best believe when it comes to rap’en I’m immaculate

 

Damn right I’ll prove it

When it comes to mak’en moves

You’ll know who did it

That’s why Advo made it

Case the man was dedicated

Saw a vision when in meditation

No more aggravation

Moved you to the hills from your troubled situation

All for you

 

Pre-Chorus:

From the ups and downs

You always been around

With you by my side

No one could take me down x4

 

Chorus:

If I could stand tall for a moment

Not fall for a moment

I would make it to that moment for you

 

If I could inhale for a second

Exhale for a second,

I’d breathe that second for you. 

 

Maybe I should face every moment

And not chase every moment

Embrace more moments wit [ch]you

 

But now I’m on the grind every second

Instead of lying every second

Gonna make it to the top for you

 

Illest Traits (aka Lex):

Hey hey how you doing, good? Cause I’m ruined
Been proving I can hustle the hardest, and I’m doing
The best that I can, there is no rest for this man,

It’s checks I demand; yes yes that’s my plan


Hey mom ain’t long till I blow like napalm,
I paint psalms, ate songs and puked out hate bombs
Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine with time

But for now, please, respect my rhyme, holla

 

 

 

EV

Single mother, with no other

Me, my brother, so she wonders

Why did he turn out user

And I turned out like another?

 

There is no answer, I can give her

That will satisfy her sorrow

As a mother she is blinded by the love

For her two toddlers

 

She blames herself, I cannot help

I try to tell her ‘he has no honor’

Why do I bother? ‘Cause I love her

But I cannot trust her anymore

 

He makes me mad, she makes me sad

What of my dad, his mind is closed

So know I will not leave you on this road alone

 

Numinous:

I got that mamma, no um no stutter

She’s real, head to heals, like no other

Some say (some say) they see her in my face

And I see that, gotta heart to have

 

Cause momma gives all she’s got

Making sure her babies stay on top

Never locked us up in thoughts and views (no)

I got my own so I’m a do what I do (yea)

 

Chorus

If I could stand tall for a moment

Not fall for a moment

I would make it to that moment for you

 

If I could inhale for a second

Exhale for a second,

I’d breathe that second for you. 

 

Maybe I should face every moment

And not chase every moment

Embrace more moments with you

 

But now I’m on the grind every second

Instead of lying every second

Gonna make it to the top for you

 

Bkay:

For you everything I would do

Can’t understand the way you go through

Life we hafta do what we gotta do

But some how we hafta stop,

Think about you

 

How bout the nine months a carry me through

No me understand wad the things that you do

When I was sick you make things better

Because you are …. (you know it)

 

She’s unstoppable you got to know

She is my world, her sacrifice is unplotable

Like rock and roll, my soul was never locked

Behind doors; like a metronome goes

She keeps going and going again

 

She wants to be back at home, but not alone

Displaced in a world unknown,

No longer on her own, a son by her thrown

A queen qualified by life

More than my mom, she is my friend

 

Pre-chorus:

From the ups and downs

You always been around

With you by my side

No one could take me down

x4

 

Chorus w/ EV:

If I could stand tall for a moment

Not fall for a moment

I would make it to that moment for you

 

If I could inhale for a second

Exhale for a second,

I’d breathe that second for you. 

 

Maybe I should face every moment

And not chase every moment

(So I could) embrace more moments wit [ch]you

 

But now I’m on the grind every second

Instead of lying every second

Gonna make it to the top for you

(repeat)

 

Momma, this for you, you know?

Mothers around the world

Lonely single mothers

Blessed be always and forever more

 


Saturday, September 02, 2006

A-Slam (Lex, EV, Birinder, Skrollz, and dancers) will be performing at International National Gold Friday, this Friday (September 8th) at Atlantis night club (1320 Richards Street) along side the Razcalz own DJ Kemo.  The night is a collaboration between Gman & Risk with LGP.  Cover is $15, but we have tickets for $10.  If you want tickets, please email halidina@sfu.ca, as soon as possible, as tickets have almost sold out. 

 

As for our next show, we’ll be opening for Sweatshop Union, Friday September 22 at Simon Fraser University.  This is an all ages show, so for all those people who keep asking me when they can come see us perform. . . the time has come.  If you havn’t seen or heard of Sweatshop Union, I suggest checking them out.  Their latest single is called ‘Broken Record’ which was in rotation on the beat, and at Much Music.  For all the info on the show check out www.sfss.ca/events

 

There is new video, pictures, and remix’s on the a-slam site: www.sfu.ca/evmusic

 

We appreciate all the support

 

Cheers

“E.V.”

www.sfu.ca/evmusic – a-slam homepage
www.myspace.com/evmusic - ev myspace
www.myspace.com/illesttraits - Illest Traits myspace
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