Dutchmassive

"Butterflies" - Produced by: Dela  [00:00 - 01:47]
"She's Ansi" -  Produced by Dutchyyy [01:48 - 08:32]
Year created: 2006
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Recorded by: Dutchmassive @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Mixed & Mastered by: Dutchyyy @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Album: "Crush Your System"
Track: 19
Released: Nov 28, 2007
Label:  Rawkus Records 
Original Dutchmassive Logo By: Open Mic
Re-Designed Logo by: Barry & Dutch
"Crush Your System" was created 2001-2007 & has had songs added to the bandcamp version 2008-Present.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/crush-your-system-rawkus-version-bonus-tracks

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Lyrics:

[Intro]

Peace to Dela....
From Florida to France...
Not only are we key members of the Juicy Jazz Foundation
But we're also hopeless Romantics....

[Verse 1]

"I think i found her / I smile every second i'm around her / and she don't stop, she got energy for hours / I think that bracelet she's wearing carries powers / cus i'm zoning from our very 1st encounter / and I ain't met a girl that's got me feeling this way / not since I had crash back in 5th grade / It's like a sick day, i'm spinning like i'm tipsy / but i'm so sober, head over heals in dismay / may-day I just giggled, this is risky /I don't care, I'm so cool, she can diss me / It doesn't matter cus she's still chilling with me /  Lil Dutchy so inspired this is Lifting / I'm motivated and my life is steady shifting / A new horizon, Butterflies are a gift and / I accept most humbly with quickness"

[Chorus]

"So I just wanna thank you for the Butterflies my love / I take em as a gift from above / and you put this good feeling in my tummy / so even if you not feeling me, you can't take these Butterflies from me / Just wanna thank you for the Butterflies my love / I take you as a gift from above / cus you put this good feeling in my tummy / so even if your the same, you can't take these Butterflies from me "

[Verse 2]

"Funny when you think about the situation, fresh out of a serious relationship / stuck inside with no electric on / few drinks and the rain won't quit / and I can sing about how my started to quick, missed a beat,  blaza blah on some overbearing tip / but I won't (but you did) it's to late (this is it) i'm a firm believer strictly on telling how it is........"

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Backstory:

The Lyrics are the true backstory.  Written shortly after I met [redacted] in 2006.  The Second verse was intentionally cut short but was not supposed to end there.  The original concept was to Document the stages of falling in love as they happen.  The pre-dating phase,  and then whatever happens from there I was going to write about as it happened.   However,  about a year later,  I got word that Rawkus Records wanted to released my Sophomore album but they needed it almost right away.   So I quickly scrambled, sequenced and polished what I could and turned in the album "Crush Your System" as is, unfinished.  Originally intended to be a double disk album,  One Disk Rhymes (Crush Your System)  and the other disk Instrumentals (Music2SleepTo...)  Since Butterflies was so short and endedabruptly,  I decided to Fuse one the instrumentals i produced into the story.  A precursor to the track that followed it.  A Deep House track I made. which must of confused people at the time it was released that A Instrumental Deep House track was on HipHop album with all rhymes haha.   My ex fiance'  is the one who put me onto deep house, which played a major role in my life and how I would hear / feel  / sequence music moving forward.  

I never got to finish writing the original concept and documenting the full stages of the relationship,  But she was really dope,  I loved her alot.  We danced very often.  She was beautiful, intelligent,  inspiring, soulful and driven,  but also super jealous, insecure & more focused on status & perceived value, A weird mixture of Badu & The Kardashians...    I was  an Artist, in my mid 20's,  off my 2nd album, floating through life, not  as as traditionally responsible  and didn't had the same  Life goals or values.   It didn't end well,  starving artist isn't everyone's cup of tea.  It was a dope Arc of my life,  she would probably disagree haha.


Parted ways, and moved onto the next ark.  Entered my first real depressive phase, but ended up being a very progressive phase.  Fall to Rise and all that jazzz.  The Yawn of the Gemini  / Blue Screen of Deaf. / Romanticizing Arc. Until lil Dutchy met his next love & future/last heartt break...... The AnonyMs. Arc (aka The Chill Gawd, Chill / The Uproot Arc)

To be continued.

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Crush Your System

"Butterflies" - Produced by Dela / "She's Ansi" - Produced by Dutchyyy

"Ghibli"
Year created: 2006
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Dutchyyy
Recorded by: Dutchmassive @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Mixed & Mastered by: Dutchyyy @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Album: "Crush Your System"
Track: 4
Released: Nov 28, 2007
Label:  Rawkus Records 
Original Dutchmassive Logo By: Open Mic
Re-Designed Logo by: Barry & Dutch
"Crush Your System" was created 2001-2007 & has had songs added to the bandcamp version 2008-Present.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/crush-your-system-rawkus-version-bonus-tracks

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Lyrics:

[Verse 1]

"We gotta make a change,  in our life this year (Nah) / Two thousand what?,  won't say the year / That's for Q-tip, This for Extra P / This for everytime someone thinks of quoting me / They notice me,  I Notice them, I wanna reach out, thanks, give peace to them / That's peace to me, when the song's in tune / We all have parts which one are you? / I'd like to think, that i'm the drums / The Heart that beats, when you need one / When you need one, You need one!, I'm telling you fam yo you need one / Set a goal, Remind your soul, Planet an Idea and watch it grow / Let's take it slow, Let's making happen / This your (Audible Laughter) Why you laughing? / Just think, Try and imagine / If we dreamed less and took more action / Let's redefine passion, redefine sleep and my name is Dutchmassive / and my name is Dutchmassive, and my name is Dutchmassive...."

[Verse 2]

::::Repeat verse 1 slowed down in half to make sure the message sinks in::::

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Backstory:

I created this beat  early 2006 on FL Studio (Fruity Loops version 3) shortly after selling my mpc2000.  In the living room of my Condo in Tampa Bay that  I shared with my friend and fellow Emcee "Will Widdoss".   To this day,  I've only rhymed over a few beats that I myself produced.  At this time (2006) I was only known as a Rapper, even though I had been producing as long as i've been rapping (1995).  I just released my first official instrumental project titled "The DrumLove EP" which was available on nearly every major hiphop blog at the time.  It was pretty short, around 20 minutes long and unfortunately  was riddled with an overload of drops that make me cringe haha but back then,  Instrumental HipHop (what has since been dubbed as Lofi-HipHop) was not very normalized or accepted and leaving your beats open would usually result in rappers taking it an invite to just record songs over your beats without asking,  so the drops were necessary. 

Since my name was finally out there as A Producer as well as an emcee,  I wanted to have at least one or two songs on my upcoming album that I Produced.   So I opened up the sliding patio door,  Blasted the beat on repeated and paced back and forth on the grass writing a song about gratitude and harmony.   Came inside,  Recorded My Vocals, Processed, mixed and decided,  this message was too important to be one short verse,  So I created my own version of the encore, while also introducing people to my default zone,  super slowed and mellowed.   allowing anyone listening to be able to fully digest my words.

and thus was born "Ghibli" A name I chose as the intent was the blow new winds of change through the industry and create some possible ripples,  Kinda like how watching any Studio Ghibli movie usually leaves a lasting impression that fosters compassion and empathy in it's viewers.

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"Ghibli" - Produced by Dutchyyy

"Know you well"

Freestyle / DailyRambles by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: edac
Artwork by: Cade Williams (edac)
Album: The Reluctant Clap: DailyRambles Season 4 (Unreleased) 
Year created: 2018

----Links to Edac/Cade music & art----
https://edacsound.bandcamp.com/
https://okaywonderful.creator-spring.com/
https://soundcloud.com/cade-williams
https://soundcloud.com/cade-williams-793721410
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Backstory:

***Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! ***
Anything titled "DailyRambles" is 100% off the dome, improv freestyles / jibberish.  Just needed to make that clear from the jump.  =)

With that disclaimer out of the way now,  I'll give you a brief (really long) history / context into the Reluctant Clap / DailyRambles Freestyle series before I get into the backstory surrounding this particular ramble.

My Last official album as the emcee "Dutchmassive" was "Crush Your System" which was released via Rawkus Records in 2007.  That's a really long time ago, but it wasn't the last album I recorded as Dutchmassive.

From 2008-2011 I recorded my Opus,  my next Dutchmassive album titled "Romanticizing".  It was amazing. The album I was most proud of,  The dopest beats, my best rhymes...  It was what I had been building up to all my life.  (for context, Samiyam produced 5 tracks on it) It wasn't finished but it was very close to being finished.  If you've been following my Catalog drops on my "Dutchyyy" artist page and reading the backstories,  you might remember the backstory behind my 2012 released instrumental album titled "Blue Screen of Deaf".  If not, TDLR: On Xmas night 2011, My Laptop that held all the beats I made from 2008-2011 and my next Dutchmassive album met the dreaded Blue Screen of death fate.  I Lost everything.  Years of work.  It broke me.  I ended up paying a lot of money for a hard drive recovery service and when I got it back,  It was just a bunch of random folders all titled "AVBDK28374" and every file in those folders was named similarly.   It recovered all the media files,  but nothing had a name.  Any Project files, Vsts, settings, mixdowns, were all gone.   Just random files.  So I did manage to recover all the beats produced by other people that I recorded to, but I'm not the type of person or artist that is willing to revisit already finished music and try to replicate it.  I could never match the same first take energy I put into that album. So I took it as a sign, I mourned the album, and 2 months Later I got distracted moving to Los Angeles to start a life with my now EX GF.  (who happens to be the subject of this freestyle, but we will get to that) 

Years go by, and I record some guest features, and verses once in a while,  but had zero plans to ever record another album as "Dutchmassive".   

Fast Forward to 2015,  After Los Angeles, After living upstate NY and releasing "Chill Gawd, Chill" and creating the "Uproot" & most of "Traversal".  I ended up back where I started.  Quite Literally,  the very same couch I was sleeping on at one of my best friends' apartments before I left for Los Angeles.   I had wiped, and reset all progress and was back where I started.  You know what extreme turmoil brings?  Frustration, passion, anger, hope... The Full spectrum.    You know what's a good release to put all those emotions into?    A new album sharing your thoughts.    So I began collecting new beats from all my favorite producers,  new beats = new energy.  So I got beat packs from Rnd1, Weirddough, Dibiase, etc...   and I bought a Tascam DR-05 field recorder.   Up until this point,  my usual method of writing lyrics was never actually writing lyrics,  I would freestyle into a tape recorder, or voice memos on the phone while I was out and about (remember I don't like sitting still when I write)  but this was the first time in History,  I was able to Play the beat in headphones, while mobile and record over the beat.   Prior to this, I would have to hold a speaker up in one hand,  and record into the phone with the other.   Not ideal.  Needless to say, the Tascam was a game changer for me.

What Started out as intent, to get beats that may inspire me to write, turned into something completely different and here is how Daily Rambles was born.

A Producer sends me a zip of beats.  I don't listen to any of them.  I load them all up on the tascam,  and blindly Freestyle over whatever plays, whether I like the beat or not.   If I can tell the beat isn't my style or won't match my voice,  I'll end up being silly and try out weird voices.  If the beat moves me,  I'll just try and sketch out a cadence, but this is all done blindly and in real time.  

This quickly got out of hand,  I got super addicted to recording these jibberish freestyles, and started doing this daily.  I can't tell you the amount of freedom that comes to recording things you never intend to publicly share.   The fun you have, and the ability to be honest and vulnerable and super introspect is pretty magical.    So I kept doing it,  just to stay sharp, and maintain my love for rhyming and having fun.   But I had zero intentions of any of these being heard by another soul haha.   

From 2015-2021 I recorded 5 seasons of Daily Rambles.  Some are straight incoherent jibberish and jokes and others I catch pockets of extreme lucidity to where It sounds like I wrote the song.  During this period of time, I began having health issues that I didn't understand,  this was documented in real time, the confusion and sadness and hope,  as the seasons progressed,  my health got way more severe,  Then 2020 happened,  and going outside became a risk.  With my health in the worst condition, the Loss of my Career teaching at the hospital, the loss of health insurance and a deadly virus that made going to the hospital, the most unsafe place on the planet for someone with no immune system to go to, I began accepting Mortality as a realistic near future.  I Shifted all my priorities into securing my legacy and began creating the "Dutchyyy VS the Algorithms" master vault cloud drive, where I uploaded most of my released discography and unreleased discography in fear that I wasn't going to be around long enough to share all my unreleased music with the world.  I shifted how I approached music in general and began streaming, and recording every single session from start to finish,  and experimenting and pushing the limits of live improv to extreme levels.  Immense flow state...  i.e. #EvolvingPortals 

I came to terms with the situation and finally managed to drop all pride, and decided to start making these freestyles public.   Something I was too prideful to do, out of fear people wouldn't understand they were freestyles and just thought they were new written songs.     

But If my time is limited,  who cares...  I'd rather leave behind my vulnerable  introspective, goofy ramble freestyles, then they be locked away on my hard drive.  In the year 2021,  My health reached absolute critical levels,  I tried my hardest to fight it and push creating publicly even further and started live streaming the freestyles as well.  Until I could no longer do it,  Couldn't even, and still can't sit up in a chair without my knees holding my body up, which is why my live streams stopped last year and I left all communities and exiled myself into extreme isolation.   The Very last freestyle I recorded was done Live on IG, on my birthday last year.  
I ended up releasing it on Catalog.   A 15 minute Freestyle originally titled EULOGY, you now know as "The long cold hot take" 

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-long-cold-hot-take-f-dutchmassive-

From Season 5 of "The Reluctant Clap / Daily Rambles series.  

I didn't really intend to go this in depth or be this open and transparent about my situation,  but I guess my pride of people thinking these freestyles are actual serious written songs embarrases me more than people understanding how severe my health has been / is..  But I hope it provided proper context around the series, and honestly.    If I was no longer on this earth,  It may sound crazy,  but I think I'd rather people deep dive into all 5 seasons of Daily Rambles over my actual written albums or instrumental albums and the reason is,  no one was ever supposed to hear any of this stuff.   So it's like Chronological Journal of sorts and gives a lot of insight into who I am when you make it past all the jibberish hahah.

Enough Disclaimer, Daily Rambles backstory and onto the backstory or context for "Know you well"

So hopefully by now you know,  Any track you hear that's a daily ramble,  It's not planned,  up until the moment I press record, I have not heard the beat yet.   So ultimately the beat commands me on what direction I go.    This was recorded October of 2018,   I just flew home from working at the hospital in Brooklyn.   While I was at my hotel,  my EX hit me up to let me know she was in NY.   For context,  We dated on and off 2009-2014 and it was super toxic,  but I'm not built for holding hatred or resentment so we on and off remained somewhat friends.  When she hit me up in NY, my health was really bad to the point I couldn't even stand up at the hospital,  I would sit on the ground with my knees to my chest (like L from deathnote) which is exactly how I'm sitting and writing this backstory out.   She would always try to creep back in and say stuff beyond friends,  but she was literally in NY with another guy haha,  So I didn't sweat it at the time, but it obviously impacted me to the point where, when I got home.  I drove my TAO TAO scooter to the Park, next to the ocean and began recording daily rambles,  lots of them,  when this beat came on...   All I heard was "I love you" from the start.   and welp,  my mind did all the rest hahah..     No pre-emptive thoughts,  didn't even think about her since we talked that night in NY,  but the beat commanded it,  So i ran with it.  and if it hasn't sunk in by now,  there's a part in the song, where I say "awww Stepped in ant pile,  Story of my life"  As I said that,  I literally stepped in a huge Fire ant mound, which is why you notice my mind got a bit off topic and quickly ended the Freestyle because they were biting my legs up pretty bad.    But it's just documenting thoughts and events in real time.  
and thus "Know you well" was born.
  I really hope this backstory wasn't super depressing haha.  I know my health is serious and it's a super heavy topic and I don't like burdening anyone outside of the small circle that knows what's going on with me.  The last thing I want when people think of me, is to think about my bad health, or have sympathy or pity or feel bad. I hope my lighthearted attitude and glass half full mentality and my productivity will overshadow any of the health stuff.   It was just too deeply rooted into this backstory for me to avoid. Like the blockchain, I'm basically default set to full transparency.     

Keep reading all these backstories, and eventually even you may "Know me well" ;)

Thank you for taking time to read the backstory and for listening.

If you want access to all 5 seasons of Daily Rambles,  no need to collect anything,  just reach out and ask.

P.S.  I know Jibberish is spelled Gibberish but I'm the world shaper here and this world doesn't follow grammar guidelines haha.


PeacePeace.

- Dutch

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"Know you well" (Freestyle/DailyRambles) - Produced by edac

"Far Away" 

Year created: 2006
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Rik Marvel
Recorded by: Dutchmassive @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Mixed & Mastered by: Dutchyyy @ The Bed Room (Tampa, FL)
Album: "Crush Your System"
Released: Nov 28, 2007
Label:  Rawkus Records 
Original Dutchmassive Logo By: Open Mic
Re-Designed Logo by: Barry & Dutch
"Crush Your System" was created 2001-2007 & has had songs added to the bandcamp version 2008-Present.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/crush-your-system-rawkus-version-bonus-tracks

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Lyrics:

[Verse 1]

"I think about a vacation like everyday, stay up breaking dawn just to hide from them florida rays  / dazed and these cycles just retract like a boomerang / same struggle daily, wanna trade with a buddhist brain / lately so buddha on the brain, I'm a useless frame / every sight and sound enhanced only I lose my aim / spittin' ain't the same when the comfort replaces pain / my phantom friends, only come around when it doesn't rain / i'm sayin' like, once upon a dream I ran away / woke up hours later with a vision and different name / progression is serious, I focus on object, I don't get sidetracked, I'm always delirious / immune to the bullsh*t,  i'm not fast & furious / I don't understand what the big hurry is / ya'll better slow down, the Chorus is Brand-Nu-be un-do the green light thinking and just blink kid"

(Chorus)

"What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think /
What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think / What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think....Just think,  Just think"

(Bridge 1)

"Sometimes I gotta, go for walks at night / Just when the weather's right, you know?  sometimes I gotta get away"

(Verse 2)

"Ayo I sit upon a patio, practice acts and art / I write rhymes, get high & Rip my lungs apart / I sleep all day, and come out when it's dark / from um, dusk till dawn, we let the (inhale) spark / when we tell tales, they come from the heart / I'm thinking power moves as soon as the sun departs / I'm talking above fiction and what you hear when listen, you listen. ::faintly whispers:: (are you listening) / Fool I am ambition / an inspiration system / I create music and solid material from my vision / under the moonlight / i'm just trying to get my mood right / I'm crazy when it's light, can't stand the afternoon life / Mr. Mellow / You sleep because I said so / morning time is coming soon, but please don't steal my M.O. / cus that's N.O. / times two moving dead slow / i'm mad chill but the vibe is electro / Relax-a-a-a-tion / don't rush Dutch cus he's Pa-a -a-tient / cus at midnight / my mind is mid-flight / under the stars, i'm just trying to get my ish right,  yea i'm just trying to get my ish right"

(Bride 2)

"and sometimes i like to,  I like to just go to the park, ya-know early morning, get lifted and think about what I can do to progress"

(Chorus)

"What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think /
What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think / What if you could just... just blink yourself away, and Just think....Just think,  Just think"

"Get your soul back" Repeat

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Backstory:

Far Away was my mode ode to Escapism & Progression.  Growing up as a teenager,  Pete Rock's "Escapism" was the song from the album that resonated the most.  From the production to the lyrics,  it was a mode that always stuck with me.  A vivid Daydreamer born into sub optimal conditions found a way to tune out the harsh reality he was dealt and aspire for greater things.  I don't mean greater as in quantity or material, rather purpose thru creating tiny ripples, trying to reach hearts and minds, and do my best to make sure my heart and mind remain open to receive even during the most hectic of times.  To be unswayed by the noise or shiny things, to remind my soul this isn't our first time experiencing this world and not to let its harsh conditions harden you and extinguish your light.  If you're a head,  Hopefully you caught the reference and Nod to The Roots - "Proceed" as it was a song that helped shape me as a teenager and helped me become a better man.  I often added classic hip-hop references / Nods into my songs as a way of saying thank you for raising me right and a sign of respect and acknowledgement to the inspirations that helped shape me.  

This song was written in different time periods.  The 2nd verse was actually written in 2001,  on the balcony of my first Studio apartment and it was written and recorded to a different beat (produced by my man "Main")  I think that version only exists somewhere on a blank cassette,  maybe one day i'll find it and upload it, I honestly forgot it existed until I began writing this backstory.  I said it before, but it's pretty amazing how music can transport you back to the moments when you were first creating it, but I'm contradicting my own lyrics and getting distracted and sidetracked haha.  

The 1st verse was written in 2006, on the balcony / porch of a condo I was renting w/ my friend and one of my favorite emcees, Will Widdoss.  I say it was written on the porch,  but that means I was probably pacing back & forth in the parking lot as sitting still was never really my strong suit especially when it came to writing songs but I know it began on the porch and most likely ended there.  

As for context around the verse.  I was two years out from releasing my Debut album "Junk Planet".  An album I sunk years into my life creating and even though it was in every major store world wide and had a good amount of hype and dope reviews.  3 months after it dropped the Label filed for bankruptcy and never paid any of the Artists on the Label.  Long story short,  reality smacked me in the face and Dutchy had to re-enter the workforce haha.  I couldn't handle going back into corporate work structures at the time,  So I started doing landscaping with a few friends,  A job I knew most people would look down on, but one that had zero form of corruption attached to it and my soul needed a break from sales jobs, mortgages,  call centers or anything that involved pushing products on people.  The shift humbled me and gave me full workday's to listen to beats and brainstorm, all while working closely with mother nature and making lawns and gardens look pretty.  This probably seems like a weird pivot in topics,  but choosing to do landscaping over returning to the corporate world at the time was a very pivotal life choice that gave me so much time to think, be introspective and plan things out.  It did wonders for my creativity and working in that florida summer heat definitely helped me sleep at night.  Something I've never been able to do since I was an infant, and still to this day,  no matter how many times I try to reverse my schedule,  It immediately flips back to Nocturnal mode, because that's when my mind is hyper creative and active.  So much so that I spent 2009-2019 traveling state to state, teaching nurses and physicians how to chart electronically and in those 10 years,  I only worked the day shift,  maybe 3 weeks total in a decade.  The rest of the time, my shift was always between 5pm-8am =) 

I think my love for the night has less to do with sunlight and more to do with the tranquility & the stillness,  like having the world all to yourself.  Not sure if that makes sense.    

When it comes to the topic of inhaling plantlife. Tree's have always calmed my over active mind and allowed me to focus on things, the problem is and always has been.  I gain all these enhanced senses, but I lose my ability to communicate.  It's a hard trade off sometimes, but something I've been super self aware of my whole life.  I know a lot of people can relate, but it was something that was weighing on me at the time, so it ended up manifesting in the song.   
I love this song with all my heart. No real concept, No Ego, just real time self reflection and hope for a brighter future. I've overcome so much in life since this was released, but I never lost my love for progressive escapism after the sun sets =)  

If you haven't caught on by now,  that line about never getting distracted no longer applies to my core personality haha.  I'm the ultimate real time pivot side tracked champion these days, It's nice to tho to listen back and remember a time when I was able to hyper focus 

This wasn't my typical backstory huh?  Like Freestyling time travel a bit.



thank you for taking time to read the backstory and thank you for listening. 

- Dutch

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"Far Away" - Produced by Rik Marvel

"Soul Searchin" 

Year created: 2001
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive & Pack Fm
Produced by: J. Rawls (Lone Catalysts)
Recorded by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Mixed & Mastered by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Album: "Junk Planet" (Released July 13, 2004) CD & 2xLP (double vinyl)
Label:  Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution  
Original Concept Drawing by FILTER - Recreated by Skawty Shaw and SlopFunkDust
Graphic design and layout by Open Mic

"Junk Planet" was created 1997-2002, Released world wide 2004.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002

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Lyrics:

[Verse 1 - Dutchmassive]

"I'm not an emcee, I'm just a fan who likes to interact / great emcees are just a thing of the past / cats is either too simple or too abstract / not enough emotion / too many battle raps / besides when we do compete heads get waxed / laughed at, i'm glad ya'll didn't release that / don't be mad at me, i'm just trying to maintain / too critical? i've got a right to complain / cus nowadays hip-hop is no longer a movement / it's popular trend, and everybody's doing it / but nobody cares about music / cats is type stupid / they always got excuses / I'm short fused and my last nerve has been gone / i've been bitter and shows it my songs / most labels they just wanna sell records / most distributors have the wackest selling methods / if you make music from heart it gets rejected / but if you fit the industry standards you make a hit / this topics overdone but I ain't done complaining yet / I hope to reach somebodies mind before my verse ends / probably not / i'll probably end up fading away, unremembered like the rest of hip-hop"

(Chorus / Scratches)
{"Keep your eyes focused, you can't touch this or poke this"}
{"About a million brothers trying to be MC's in this world"}
{"Sell out's got no worth, I think they better go soul search"}

[Verse 2 - PackFM]
"My first memories of hip hop was pure and I felt it / Now those glory days are long gone like the Celtics / Wax coming out should be collected and melted / It's like a porno flick cause everybody's got a 12" / It's impossible to sell shit, The game is saturated / with cats who made it / And had their reputations fabricated / The school of hard knocks, here's my diploma: graduated / Paid my dues, here's my receipt, peep where the funds were allocated / Too many times it's been stated that to make it you gotta sell out / The window of opportunity opened, most ni**a's fell out / And landed in a pile of hypocrites / that swore that once they got put on that they would start kickin' some different shit / but what they never realized, Is once they sign the contract in triplicates / the carbon copy was a creative death certificate /
The point you're missing is / the roll you playing is significant /
A label can't put bullshit out if you refuse to give it in / Complain about the music / but never really do shit / You're part of the problem if you have no solution / Cats ain't foolin no one with their weak contribution /
You can only blame yourself, we don't need no excuses"

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Backstory: 

I don't know what to say haha.  I listen back to this song created when I was barely 20 years old and I was already so jaded and fed up with the drastic shift in the music industry and if I could time travel back and explain to young Dutch, be grateful for the state of music right now,  cus it's only down hill from here....   I don't think it would have made a difference honestly.  I was always super passionate about what I love, and I always felt it was important to balance being responsible with your platform,  inspire, motivate but also call out the B.S. and help keep the checks and balances.  I don't think my personality has changed that much from 2 decades ago,  which is why it's hard for me to try and make time to sit and write and record a new Dutchmassive album.  There's so much crazy ish happening in the world right now,  but I would end up writing a double disk album all about the algorithms and how they fundamentally altered how humans interact and engage with one another and I don't think anyone cares to hear all that, so for now, I'll just stick to making instrumental music and freestyling introspective gibberish for fun into my tascam  haha.

Honestly,  I can't recall a huge backstory for this track.  shout to my man PackFM for honoring the album with one of my favorite verses and shout to J. Rawls for letting me pick this beat to rock on.  I do remember asking for something that sounded similar to the track he did for Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) "Brown Skin Lady" or The Lone Catalysts self titled song "Lone Catalysts" but I ended up choosing this beat cus it made me think of listening to Jazz at the Pyramids of Giza, and I was really in my Egyptian bag in my late teens and early 20's so much so that I had a Stone Replica King Tut Tomb coffee table haha.    

I'm always hesitant to upload these back catalog songs that were created 2 to 3 decades ago,  because I know hardly anyone probably reads the back stories, and most just press play and assume it's new music but I'm a sucker for documenting history and leaving legacy on the digital library so I'll curb my pride and just keep em coming, new or old. =)

Thank you for taking time to read the backstory and for listening. 

- Dutch

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Junk Planet

"Soul Searchin" (f/ PackFM) - Produced by J. Rawls

"Classic" 

Year created: 2001
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Celph Titled
Recorded by: Dan Smith @ Bay Sound (Tampa, Florida)
Mixed & Mastered by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Album: "Junk Planet" (Released July 13, 2004) CD & 2xLP (double vinyl)
Label:  Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution  
Original Concept Drawing by FILTER - Recreated by Skawty Shaw and SlopFunkDust
Graphic design and layout by Open Mic

"Junk Planet" was created 1997-2002, Released world wide 2004.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002

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Lyrics:

(Verse1)
"Ayo remember the days that you could say what you want / you  could smile, act a fool, talk about who you robbed / you could talk about women in a positive way / have fun with your album, talk about your bad days / you could be hardcore without murder and guns / or you could shoot a million people and you'd still catch love / it was all about expression and the cause and effect / battling was just for fun, I used to love to catch wreck / every group was flat broke, but they videos was dope / recording everyone so I could watch when i'm old /  I used to leave my books at home and bring my radio to school / we'd have ciphers after class and outside the lunch room / love was in the air, it wasn't bout who's the best / I never forget, walking through the negative stress, i'll never forget"

(Chorus)
"Whatever happened to the ways of mankind (Remember) / classic material is so hard to come by / I know that hip-hop's going through some hard times / but through the drama, I'll be rhyming from dark to light sky" (Repeat x2)

(Bridge / Scratches)
"Back in the day when I was a teenage / I let my tape rock till my tape pop / in my younger years, we used to rhyme out loud, that we create, cus that's our mission"

(Verse 2)

"Ayo ima be triumphant, I'll pass all this dumb ish / independent or mainstream, I rise about kids, I love this / nothing can make me stop / I be the king emcee, so i'm bound to be on top / I'll rock any show on celph titled production / any vinyl I release, Kramtronix the one cuttin / back spin to the past / I want to speak to the masses / the way things are going, yo hip-hop won't last / and conditions still critical / times is pitiful, I wanna change the world but i'm just an individual / (Just Me & My Walkman) I journey on to A land of dope emcee's where we live like gawds / A shining star, dreams of succeeding in life / I'm seeing the light / no wonder I can't sleep at night / my thoughts take flight "

(Chorus)
"Whatever happened to the ways of mankind (Remember) / classic material is so hard to come by / I know that hip-hop's going through some hard times / but through the drama, I'll be rhyming from dark to light sky" (Repeat x2)

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Backstory:

"Classic" was one of the last songs written & recorded for "Junk Planet". I began the album during the very cusp of the "Golden Era" of hip-hop in 1997 when the jiggy / masiofo / casio keyboard era started to dominate radio & television. Little did I know this was not going to be just a phase and would ultimately change the course of rap / hip-hop and music in general as this was also the same time Clearview (now iheartradio) would take over all major urban fm radio stations and pivot to only playing a select amount of the most popular / commercial songs on repeat every hour.  This was also around the time Record labels learned that fans were more than o.k. consuming watered down, generic keyboard production and paying for sample clearance wasn't necessary to sell hit records.  Anyone that grew up as an active fan of hip-hop from the early 90's to around 97/98 knows that we were spoiled with an abundance of unique and diverse forms of hip-hop,  stuff you couldn't even imagine being played on MTV or BET these days. It was truly an overwhelming amount of classic music that painted abstract pictures, transported you and captivated your heart & soul.   

I'm sure every generation thinks the music they grew up with is "their" golden era and created memories and have nostalgia attached to those songs,  I wasn't an "old head" when this shift occurred so we can't use nostalgia as an excuse.  You just kinda had to be there to understand. Going from the wild west of musicians creating the type of music they want to hear, no matter how silly, aggressive or experimental and it would get played on The Box, Rapcity and Yo! MTV Raps.  It began with flexing unrealistic ways of life and making it seem very obtainable.  Mob lifestyle & flexing material possessions became the standard.  "Fake it, till you make it" At this time,  Artists were not making the type of money from music they were acting like they had.  This would change over the decades and slowly seep into society, making the majority of the population hyper focused on wasting money on excessive name brands, jewelry, vehicles they probably never would have cared about or thought twice about if not having those things programmed and shoved in your face 24/7.   

I need to make it clear,  while radio & mainstream tv were playing the pop-ish, watered down, party records.  The underground was in full steam.  The dope music didn't stop being created,  it just no longer had the mainstream stage any longer, but if you were a head, you had nearly an unlimited supply of styles of sincere music to listen to.   All this excessive, over the top unrealistic music dominating the airways would be fuel for the underground and even spawned a semi-mainstream arc of "Conscious-HipHop"  I could go on and on about the history above and underground from the late 90's all the way to 2022 as I've been a head my whole life and I always payed attention and sought out dope music while also being an artist through-out all the waves and changes but when "Classic" was created.  It honestly wasn't even that bad in hindsight haha,  If we only knew then, how far down the corporate., cookie-cutter rabbit hole  music would continue for the rest of time.  There was always classic music being created from 97 to present,  this song was just my dedication to a time when it had the same mainstream platform as we hear the "top 10" in now. 

I will continue to create and collect dope music til my very last breath.  You will never have to worry about me burning out, losing interest or moving on from genuine music.  


Thank you for taking time to read the backstory, and thank you for listening.

Sincerely, 

Dutch

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"Classic" - Produced by Celph Titled

"Just Me & My Walkman" 

Year created: 1998
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Deeskee
Recorded by: Dan Smith @ Bay Sound (Tampa, Florida)
Mixed & Mastered by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Album: "Junk Planet" (Released July 13, 2004) CD & 2xLP (double vinyl)
Label:  Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution  
Original Concept Drawing by FILTER - Recreated by Skawty Shaw and SlopFunkDust
Graphic design and layout by Open Mic

"Junk Planet" was created 1997-2002, Released world wide 2004.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002

------------------------
Lyrics:

(Verse1)
"Yo a lot of credit due to sidekick / my get me through the day kid / my wake in the morning with a smile on my face thing / My energy, my mellow out in stressful times of need / my drug to block me out from the world when i feel / my man who keeps me new to all the music that I hear / the one who's always close to my pockets and  my ears, / my man throughout the years, always been my best friend / and introduce to ya'll my one and only walkman!"

(Bridge)
"Yo did he say walkman?  yo i know this cat ain't dedicating a song to walkman. What's this, some Me, Myself & My Microphone type ish?!"

(Verse 2)

"Yo, ya'll don't understand, damn, my headset is my man / first to play me Kris when he dissed MC Shan / Been there for Dividends (The World is Very different now) to Passing me By / Still bumping De La, Del, and what's left of Tribe / My god! the mixtapes that i've gone through / and the shoes i've worn out walking down waters avenue / my lunch money would go towards batteries / they was from the Dollar Store but that ain't matter to me / Sadly in the same predicament / I'm addicted to listening / Hoping that my kids will see the visions, that I had as child playing tag in the courtyard /  dreams to proceed and overcome all the odds / The Gawd & his headset, Never will my ears rest / I stay zoning out listening to Common Sense / The best of all friends from beginning to the end / throughout all the problems it's just me and walkman"

(Chorus)
"It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna hear the classics, I don't wanna hear that loud mouth ish / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When i'm stressed and I need to get away, I have nothing to say / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna just chill and sitback, relax and ill! It's Just Me & My Walkman, my Walkman,  my Walkman"

(Verse 3)

"Now i've grown a little older / released Vinyl, got exposure / sold my memories on tape, to reach to lower side of what ya'll music / but it's polluted / I never buy hip hop anymore cus it's foolish / No excused\s, I need new Cassettes / hense you make better songs, then I might represent / my walkman would hate me if I played some wack ish / so please do me a favor and make more classics! / I push pause and wonder / What if he was gone, cus he died of hunger / Live in the past though, Never regretting / Trade all my tapes for Cd's, Forget it / never feed him wack tapes cus that would be a no no / Always rocking classics, never play a demo / to the dopest friend to ever touch this land / come on, give a hand to my mother-ucking Walkman! (The Best friend in the world, the best friend in the world, the world)

(Chorus)
"It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna hear the classics, I don't wanna hear that loud mouth ish / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When i'm stressed and I need to get away, I have nothing to say / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna just chill and sitback, relax and ill! It's Just Me & My Walkman, my Walkman,  my Walkman, my Walkman, my waaaalkmaaaan"
------------------------

Backstory:

"Just Me & My Walkman" was the 2nd song I wrote and recorded for my Debut solo album "Junk Planet" in 1998.  At the time, I was also an emcee in the Tampa Bay native underground hip hop group "Equilibrium" (Celph Titled, Majik Most, Dutchmassive & DJ Kramtronix)  We had been recording our full length album "Tropic States" (which still remains unreleased) since 1996,  Celph moved to NYC to work at Buds Distribution & helped formed Demigodz & joined Army Of The Pharaohs.  We had just released our 1st 12" vinyl as Equilibrium "Fahrenheit 813" B/W "Critical Conditions" (feat. Vex of The Boogiemonsters) & "Windows 98" and getting ready to release our 2nd 12" "Do that" B/W "Hold Something".   

With Celph in NYC taking on more projects and responsibilities and Majik Most no longer in the group for a short period of time, I was getting antsy waiting to unleash all this creative energy I had pent up as a Teenager.  Celph Introduced me to the producer Deeskee, who he met while working on Braille's first album Lifefirst: Half The Battle.  Which was half produced by Celph & half produced by Deeskee.  I fell in Love with Deeskee's Production on Braille's album so we linked over the phone and he sent me a demo of his upcoming instrumental album "In Loving Memory Of..."   which still remains one of my favorite and most influential albums of my life.  Deeskee was very good at creating music that fit the vision of the emcee he was working with.  He wouldn't allow me to choose any existing beats and wanted the challenge of creating new and very specific beats designed around my voice and the concepts I wanted to execute.   He Produced 5 tracks on "Junk Planet" 
"Bus Stop Building Block" which was the very first song I recorded as a solo artist.
"Just Me & My Walkman" which was the 2nd track I recorded for this album.
"My own sh*t"
"Pipe Dreams" & "Take A Break" (interlude)

I wanted the first single on vinyl to be "Just Me & My Walkman" b/w "My Own Sh*t" & "Bus Stop Building Block" but the Label wanted to release the more "Battle Rap" Aggressive tracks as the singles that had Alot of at the time "Famous" features.  A Decision I'm sad about to this day.  The Label told me,  we could release the tracks I want as the 3rd single but 3 months after the album was released.  The Label "Freshchest" filed for bankruptcy not only killing any chances of a 3rd single but also sealing the fate of no artists on the label getting paid.   The album was created from 1997-2002,  This was prior to home studio's being the norm so the amount of my I invested into studio time,  flights, and just years of expression never saw a single penny of return. This dismantled me hard at the time. I was riding this high with my CD being in every store worldwide and the vinyl being in all the record shops across the globe.  Write ups in the Source, XXL, Blaze, URB etc..   I really thought my life was going to change and my family would stop saying I'm wasting my time putting so much effort into music. This gave them and everyone else who doubted me the ammo they needed to rub in "I told you so" which hurt more than not getting paid.  "Junk Planet" took 2 years to be released after I finished recording it, So by the time it was released to the world, it was old to me and I was well into into recording my sophomore album "Crush Your System" with Production from Samiyam, 14KT, Illmind, Dela, SlopFunkDust, etc which would eventually be released in 2007 on Rawkus Records and meet pretty much the exact fate,  Almost to a T,  where the Labeled filed for bankruptcy 3 months after release and for those who aren't familiar with how Major / Independent releases went at the time.  You didn't get your first payment until after 3 months.   

As for the backstory around the song,  I think the song speaks for itself.  I've been very reluctant to mint music on my Dutchmassive Artist Profile since the music is nearly 3 decades old and pretty dated.  Also, I don't think "web3" is very familiar with History as an artist and how long I've been creating as Dutchmassive and as Dutchyyy.  I know not everyone takes time to read these long backstories and I only have 2 official albums as Dutchmassive, that were pretty momental releases for their time so I've been holding off because I don't want people to think I'm insane when I set the auction prices for songs from the releases.  I've come to terms with that now though.  It doesn't matter when or if these tracks get collected.  It's just important to me, they are on chain and my history and story is solidified.  

I chose to lead with "Just Me & My Walkman" because I think it's Audible Proof and provenance that not Only am I one of the OG artists that helped pave the way for underground / independent hip hop but I am also one of the OG Collectors and I haven't slowed down on creating or collecting ever.   Music truly is the healer,  it is the utility.  Music saved my life as a teenager and it's never let me down spiritually or emotionally.  I haven't Recorded a new album as Dutchmassive in well over a decade, but I never stopped rhyming, I just pivoted to recording daily Freestyles to stay sharp and have fun in private.  In a world where everyone has a soap box and we spend all day and night reading each other's thoughts. The Magic of words and expressing thoughts kinda lost its special place in my heart.  There's more to expand on that but I'll save that for another backstory.

*Collector will receive a sealed copy of "Junk Planet" on CD & and a sealed copy of "Junk Planet" on Double Vinyl.

*Collector will also receive a 1TB Samsung SSD filled with my nearly my full released & unreleased Discography as Dutchmassive / Dutchyyy 

Thank you for taking time to read the backstory, and thank you for listening.

Sincerely, 

Dutch

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"Just Me & My Walkman" - Produced by Deeskee

Written & Performed by: 
Dutchmassive (aka Dutchyyy) 
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy

Produced / Composed by: 
Sweatson Klank (fka Take) 
https://beta.catalog.works/sweatsonklank
https://www.friendsoffriendsmusic.com/sweatson-klank

From:  "Earthtones & Concrete" - Take (aka Sweatson Klank) Debut Full length album, released August 2007 on CD & 2xLP via Inner Current Recordings.

Backstory:  The year was 2006,  Myspace top 5 was a very relevant flex and easy identifier for like minded musicians to connect.  2 years had passed since I released my debut solo album as an emcee  "Junk Planet".  Released world wide July 13, 2004 on CD / 2xLP.  
For context, I began writing and recording for Junk Planet late 1997 while also recording an album with my group at the time "Equilibrium" (Celph Titled, Majik Most & Myself) and finished recording the the last song for Junk Planet in 2002.  Time moved slower for music back then. There was no "keeping up with daily content".  You had the freedom to live and experience life and use that experience for inspiration to craft well thought out albums.
   
   I was taking my time recording my sophomore album "Crush Your System" An album I began writing & recording for in 2003, which would later be released on Rawkus Records as part of worlds first digital only campaign "The Rawkus 50" but i'm getting sidetracked.
 
Taking my time, building an arsenal up of production from my favorite producers at the time:  Samiyam, 14KT, Take, Dakim, !llmind, Dela, SlopFunkDust, Mo0, etc... All friends I made through the power of Myspace.   I had just released my first official instrumental project titled "The Drumlove EP" as well as the mixtape "Project: REACH" when Take (Sweaton Klank) sent me the perfect beat.  He was able to match my voice and style so well,  but instead of me using the beat on my upcoming album he wanted me to be the only emcee to feature on his debut full length.  The pressure of knowing I would be the only person rapping on this album made me take writing this song very serious.  I didn't want to just do some typical braggadocios battle rap since I knew the album was going to more like a movie score in a sense rather than just a collection of random beats.   At the time,  I was dating a girl who was very inspirational and had me exploring things outside of my normal wheelhouse.  She had perfect recall when it came to dreaming and was able to lucid dream with ease. So the months leading up to writing "Dream Suite" I had been using a dream journal every morning and studying Astral Projection and Lucid dreaming in general.  Something I've only ever been able to achieve a few times in my lifetime and once I realized I was in control,  I would immediately wake up haha.  So I decided to make Lucid dreaming the subject matter for the song I was going to write.  Nearly everything I wrote about was true to form and directly inspired by the research I had been doing.  I did take one creative liberty and changed "Greek Dream Temples" to the inaccurate "Egyptian Dream Temples" but that's because I was obsessed with the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt since I was a child and thought Egyptian sounded "cooler" than saying "Greek".  Plus I needed a word with multiple syllables haha.  I recorded, mixed and mastered my vocals and sent them off to Take (Sweatson Klank) - The beat I wrote to was just a rough sketch, so when he sent me the final version with all the change up's and the outro that transports you to a different world.  I don't know what else to say.  This became one of my favorite tracks of all time, and I couldn't believe I was lucky enough to be apart of it.   

Years later,  long after "Crush Your System" was released on Rawkus,  I released an updated version on bandcamp with added songs (since my 3rd solo album as Dutchmassive titled "Romanticizing" was lost on Xmas 2011 to corrupt hard drive resulting in the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death")  After losing all of my beats from 2008-2011 and the album I spent years writing and recording.   I just took a few extra songs I featured on, added them to Crush Your System and decided to hang up the mic and focus primarily on Production moving forward.   I know, I know, what a sad ending haha,  but truth is,  I'm an emcee at heart, so I never stopped rhyming.  I just stopped writing and recording albums.  Instead,  I began recording freestyles daily for fun.  What started out on voice memos,  graduated to a Tascam DR-05 in 2015.  The creative fulfillment that came with recording freestyles for fun without the pressure of them ever being heard was the ultimate therapy and would get me thru the toughest of days while also having fun keeping the spirit of the emcee alive 2015-present and thus was born DailyRambles aka "The Reluctant Clap"   

This Catalog Record is a 50/50 split with @sweatsonklank 
I wanted my Genesis drop as "Dutchmassive" to feature another Catalog Artist and it just worked out that one of my favorite songs I've recorded to date was produced by a producer who also an artist on Catalog Works =)

*****Winner of this auction will receive A copy of "Earthtones & Concrete" on CD (Digipack) & 2xLP (Vinyl) from our personal collections*****

*****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography over 110gb *****

and

*****Winner of the auction will get a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive that not only holds everything on the cloud drive,  but all the Portals unreleased in super long raw form directly from their master folders strait from the SP404SX and All the long videos and twitch streams that are too large to upload anywhere*****

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"Dream Suite" - Prod. by Sweatson Klank

^ Super Emcee on Hiatus.

    (Discography: 1996-????)

                         aka.
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy