we killed them hard with the votes the first week.  intimidating them so much with our presence that i feel like the judges panned "when our i's meet," mp3 on purpose (it got A mention, "'When Our I's Meet' sounds almost Madlib-esque...and it was unique" ).  33jones didn't sleep though.

then in week two, pips made some noise (oh yah, pun intended) with his lucio battisti flip, "i can't feel no," mp3 getting both votes and the dude travis' top pick (even though, he couldn't spell his name).

Here is the originality factor kicking in. Pip [sic] freaked this in different tempo and style than the others did and it was kind of a breath of fresh air. I felt the urge to spit over this beat and I don't even rhyme. That to me is a sign of a good beat. Some tweaks to this and I can see someone spitting some macking game to the females on this beat. Also great use of a vocal sample from the song. Simple yet, very effective

but alas, no win.

finally in the third week... break out the champagne and dutches 'cuz we killed them in the votes, copped two out of three of the judges top picks, and somehow "all night long" mp3 won the motherfucker.  the dude travis was down again,

this sounded unique as they came. The string sample was amazing as was the way he tweaked the horn samples. I don't look at the popular vote until I have my top 10 finalized, so it was kind cool to see this running away with the public vote this week.

and andrew said

Quality work. Way to go.

judge max was the only one unconvinced, not even ranking ya boy in his top ten.  so it wasn't the landslide victory i wanted... no sweat, i'll take whatever i can get.  fact is, he's hers won.  it's a celebration bitches.

if you've been clueless as to what the fuck i've been rambling on about, and persisted reading this long, god bless you and why aren't you reading my facebook notes or myspace bulletins?  c'mon, you need to get your interweb-stalking-game up dunny.  what i've been refering to is the beat competition that's been going for the last three weeks over at ihookabeatup.  every week swanky mp3 bloggers (like scholar and dj nes) contribute tracks for beatjunkies like moi and marco to flip, and the best one (elected by panel and public votes) gets you the props, for the week.

i have an entry this week too.  vote for it.  it's "the truth," mp3 but they seem to be having streaming problems over at the site, as treebeats is working on moving the shit over to a dedicated server.  so we'll see how it does.  "the truth," mp3 might just end up as an album intro. nonetheless, vote for it.

no entry from the young hopper though.  he was busy working on the joe budden remix competition that fresh mentioned.  here's pips' remix to "dear diary." mp3 he sent me the sweet instrumental like a week before he did the remix.  i shoulda popped off on it then.  ah wells.  get those turntables!

as you've prolly noticed, we changed lanes from wordpress to blogdrive. jeah.

stay tuned.