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What’s happening people?
I trust all’s well with everyone. Life here has been hectic to say the least. My Daughter, Marley Marl, has grown so much since I last posted, and we’re now attending regular swimming lessons which are keeping our weekends busy. My day job has been flat-out too, with mad amounts of overtime, and I’ve had a few DJ gigs lately, so finding anytime to draw, or even blog, has been hard work.Fortunately, this weekend I finally managed to find a few spare hours to dedicate to some more drawing. With both Marley and my Wife, Corrie, enjoying an afternoon nap, I sharpened my pencils and flexed this Big L (RIP) sketch.Check it out below and let me know what you reckon.Cheers,
Mark 563
I finally got around to uploading my Mix-Tape from a few years back.
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It's a collection of Mid 90s Remixes, B-Sides and Promo only tracks all mixed together that was distributed through Boombox Distribution and received pretty decent reviews in Hip Hop Connection Magazine and Blues & Soul Magazine.
Here's the review it got in Undercover Magazine:
What's real? I'll tell you what's real. This mix CD is real. You know the shit is real, you can't front, kid. Composed entirely of unadulterated, purest mid-90s lost classics, rare joint, remixes and underexposed b-sides, this mix is ineluctably destined to be one of your stalwart favourites, should you ever be so lucky to get hold of one. Percee P dropping a verse for the intro is real. Brand Nubian providing a drop at Dedbeat before that is even realer. Large Professor is definitely real, and so are Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and OC. Once you're at a level of realness as uncontestably real as that, it's only things like the Pharoahe Monch verse from Bring It On or Show and AG on the Next Level remix from Premier that can possibly make things any realer. Though admittedly a forgotten Raekwon, Nas and Havoc cipher or some rare BIG action could real things up even further, and Common Sense with his Ice Cube diss could hardly make things much faker. Once you're talking about a level of reality as undeniably real as this, you will of course be a connoisseur of realness au fait with the finest in real: Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Alkaholiks, Redman, Craig Mack and Kool G Rap. Possessing such refined taste, you have probably languished for many years, thinking that a mix of such post-platonic realness could never be attained or manifest as other than a fantasy in our flawed world. But you have been misled. Realer than granite, death, or the love you have for your mother, this CD is so real that it will probabky remain playable when the planet eventually falls into the sun.
Anyways, check it out for free here:
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What’s going on everyone?
As promised, I managed to squeeze a couple of hours of drawing in over the weekend while Corrie was out and Marley slept. I threw on Dave Chappelle’s Block Party DVD and got to work on this Busta Rhymes portrait.
Check it out below (click image to see larger version) and let me know what you think.
All the best,
Mark 563
What’s happening, people?
It’s been a while since the last update – I’ve been away travelling with my Wife and Daughter – we caught up with our friends and Family back in the UK and hit New York for a spot of shopping on the way back.
As a result, I’ve not had much of a chance to put pencil to paper, but I intend on trying to steal a couple of hours over the weekend to flex a new sketch.
In the mean time I’ll hit you up with this commissioned sketch I had been working on for the past few months. Basically, UK Hip Hop Legend / Veteran, Insane Macbeth hit me up a while back asking for a sketch. He sent me some images to work from and some guidelines to follow and I got down to work.
During our UK stay, I took the finished sketch to Brixton and caught up with the man himself and had a yarn about the good old days of UK rap. Biggups Insane Macbeth, it was an absolute pleasure both working with and socializing with you – and thanks for the records.
Check the sketch below, and peep Insane Macbeth’s Myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/officialinsanemacbeth
All the best,
Mark 563
Once again, this weekend Corrie and Marley were out with the girls giving me some free time to do some more drawing.
I’ve had this image waiting to go for a while, so was happy to finally get around to sketching this illustration of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Gza / Genius. I put The Show & Rhyme & Reason on the DVD player for some inspiration and flexed this picture.
Click to see the full size images and let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Mark 563
