Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Mysta & T-No Link Up For "Double Jeopardy" Mix CD
Cincinnati's Mysta, and T-No, join forces for a co-op mix cd, entitled, "Double Jeopardy".
This up coming Mix CD will not only feature good music, but as T-No puts it "strong ear candy, beyond songs. We plan on giving the CD as a whole, a very high replay value, somethin you will wanna hear over and over, and not just all music". The "Beat It Up(Remix)" and "Watch Yo Chick" will be featured along with other hot tracks on the CD... Recording is still in progress, but so far you can preview/download tracks below...
stay tuned... more to come!
Friday, April 16, 2010
T-No W/ Mysta, & Ran Clownin' In The Studio (2 Parts)
Wrappin Up A Studio Session with Mysta, & Ran, at Ran's (Quiet Noise Studios) I Was doin a feature verse for my homie C.Jay Dinero's "MPK3" Project, and mysta was doin his feature verse for a song on my "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD. I dont know what happened but we turned on the camera and the silly shit started flowin!
PART 1
PART 2
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Mysta & T-No Live Performance @ Cincinnati, Ohio
January 15th, 2010 @ Dirty Jack's in Cincinnati, OH... Mysta & T-No on stage together performing the collab remix "Beat It Up" and each doin a solo track! Dont know who was recordin us, but thanks for puttin it on youtube! Just dont overdo it wit the camera tiltin' next time, lol!
PART I - T-No's Set
PART II - Mysta's Set
PART I - T-No's Set
PART II - Mysta's Set
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Featured Artist: Mysta
One of the few local artists that I really fuck wit, is my homie Mysta
(Mysta "Call Me What The Fuck You Want")
and one thing i can say about him is, he's a real cool dude. Reminds me of myself a lotta times, but keep in mind he is his own individual and he has his own style. When i first heard him at a local showcase, i didnt know what to think, he can rap as fast as Twista! Some of the shit he says, I dont even catch it the first time it goes past! But I do listen, and he aint just rhymin, he's talkin about shit. Gettin a real point across.
Always a ladies' favorite, he hooked up wit another ladies' favorite (ME,lol) and remixed the Gucci Mane & Trey Songz track "Beat It Up", minus the Gucci! I dont need to say it's hot, just listen for yo self! But enough about the hot remix, check out his original track "We Gettin Money (feat. Lil 'Nati)" where my homie goes in on not just gettin money, but makin da money you get work to get more and build more, can all the grown folk say "YEAH" lol! Mysta may be another artist from The Nati u may or may not have heard of, but he's more than just "another artist".
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Official "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD Cover Artwork!
My 2nd Mix CD will be ready soon, just got a few finishing touches to add to it and i got some promo material to prepare before i start movin with it...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Exclusive Bonus Tracks
The "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD is almost finished, I just started settin the artwork for the CD Cover in motion. I have a lotta new tracks and some remixes recorded that wont be featured on the CD, but ain't no point in lettin' good shit go to waste,lol. Here's a few, just to feed you a lil bit before the Mix CD drops!
Monday, February 15, 2010
"MIKEY" The New Lame/Sucka Attack For 2010
"I'm tellin you now my first and last time if I find out you still talkin to my wife akron is real small and I will find you that's my word"...
this was the message received via myspace from this lame ass nigga you see in da photo above. Okay, Im not sure what the hell made this fool come at me like that, but whatever it was, he pretty lame for it! So a few months back this chick from Akron comes to see me, twice. She says she's divorced, okay, cool. Long story short, I aint been fuckin wit da chick since the fall, she old news. Why is this nigga sendin me this shit in February? And furthermore, if they ARE still married, he need to be gettin at her, not me! I aint got nothin to do wit yo wife or exwife sayin "fuck you"! Be a grown ass man and stop wit the sucka attacks! I either dont want yo girl, or I already had her! Lame ass shit at its finest, I wont go into details on how dickcrazy she was or how even more lame he been after i called his ass out, imma just leave it at this. So In Honor of this lame ass nigga here and his "sucka attack", Im gon start callin Lames, and they "sucka ass actions", "MIKEYS"! You can peep this nigga's myspace, CLICK HERE FOR BITCHASSNESS notice this nigga's profile song is "Miss Independent" lmao...
P.S. - Stop Internet Thuggery/Obsession/Stalking , please, it's NOT A GOOD LOOK!
and I re-quote myself "dont get mad cuz Ya Girl On Me!"
Friday, February 5, 2010
Featured Artist: Chrisillini
Forget what you think you know about Florida Rap Music. Miami Gardens, FL/South FL Artist, Chrisillini
is not your average Florida artist. This track "The Way She Is" puts me in the mind of when I was listenin' to Outkast, Field Mob, or even The Pharcyde, or Drake, before he blew up. I like when you can come hood and still be intelligent and conscience, AND carry a strong topic. It's Hip-Hop, and still has street appeal, over a mellow beat, with a mellow R&B hook, that really sums up the message. It's sorta like 2Pac's "Wonder Why They Call U B*tch", but with a more laid back feel to it. As much hood shit I talk in my own music, I really miss this kinda shit, If Florida was the 'Roc', he would play Kanye! Im sure this will have a lotta dudes ridin and thinkin of girls they came across, wit a headshake and a laugh of course! If you like the not-so-ordinary music, you need to peep this!
www.myspace.com/CHRISALLINI - music page
www.youtube.com/Liniapolis - video page channel
www.twitter.com/Liniapolis - tweet updates
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Download The Singles From "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD!
I Am Planning To Have The "MOMENT OF TRUTH" MIX CD On Sale By May 2010
If not, It will be sometime afterwards!
Im Currently Workin On Promo, Recording, & Artwork
October 2009 Youtube Vlog Update
Video Update On Behind "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD
(October 2009)
P.S. - I wanted to make sure I made myself clear, I say generic shit, and people take it personal...
My Baaaadddd!
T-No On Rap & Fashion
I felt like it was too much nonsense goin on with music and fashion as a combination from artists and listeners. A lotta things goin bad and goin too far. People are takin these trends too far, and I think somebody had to say somethin...
A Few Words Before The Show
T-No Outside before a show at Cincinnati's "Magic City Lounge (AKA Sneaky Pete's)" Addressing Why He Made "Countin Money" and why he does what he does, the way he does it...(May 2009)
T-No "Countin Money" Live Performance
T-No Debuts His Song "Countin Money" in Cincinnati, OH.. preparing for his "Moment Of Truth" Mix CD Campaign
From T-No's 2nd Upcoming Mix CD "Moment Of Truth"... Comin May 2010
From T-No's 2nd Upcoming Mix CD "Moment Of Truth"... Comin May 2010
T-No Performing "Ya Girl On Me" In Sandusky,OH
T-No In Sandusky, Ohio W/Cassidy (September 2008)
T-No Performs His Hit Single "Ya Girl On Me" at a Cassidy Show in Sandusky, OH. Filmed and Edited By Lawrence Wright.
T-No's "Ya Girl On Me" Finds A Home In Canada Mixtape Rotation
After Numerous Underground Mixtape Features Of Various Tracks, During The Summer Of 2009, T-No Kept At It With His Hit Single "Ya Girl On Me" landing a spot on Canadian Mixtape DJ P Exclusive's "Trap Distribution" Mix CD, available online at several mixtape download websites, listing in ranks with artists such as B.G., Gucci Mane, Lil Boosie, Chamillionaire, and more!
T-No Jan.2008 Interview For SayWhatNews.com
Cincinnati’s own Hip-Hop Rapper T-No is a very talented lyricist who can move more than your soul. This talented rapper can move your mind as well. SayWhatNews sat down with T-No to get to know the man behind the music. T-No provided an in-depth journey of his life and his music. We were able to meet the man behind the beats and learn who is really is.
SayWhatNews: Thanks for taking the time and speaking with SayWhatNews. First, tell us who is T-No?
T-No: Well, first off, thanks for giving me the chance. T-No is simply, a man about being true to himself and what he’s been around. T-No is from the struggle, mostly the Cincinnati struggle, even though it’s a struggle that’s worldwide. Everything that made him what he is came from Cincinnati, or keeps him coming back. T-No is that force you always run into, reminding you that there’s more and better things and people out there. To sum it up, I often think of myself as a man of the people. T-No is what I’ve learned, what I’ve been, what I’ve become, and what I’ve seen. I pull no punches and stay honest with myself, you can’t be honest with others if your not honest with yourself first. That’s a hard pill to swallow but I’ve taken it many times and I’m far from the last.
SayWhatNews: How did you choose the name T-No and what does it stand for?
T-No: It was back in 2000 I think. I was at home free-styling to myself, and I had already began using the name, using it as an abbreviation for “Trust No One”, but in my freestyle I said I was “Tha Nati’s Own”, and since then I stuck with it. To be honest, before that name, from 14 and up, I was goin by “Soulja Boy” (Laughs)… seriously! But “Tha Nati’s Own” simply states, I’m from Cincinnati, and that’s what made me. Though I don’t just keep my mind, surroundings, and fan-base limited to Cincinnati, I never forget where I came from…
SayWhatNews: Tell us about your experiences growing up in Over-the-Rhine, a community in Cincinnati, Ohio.
T-No: I did a lot of stupid stuff growin’ up, setting fires, breakin’ glass on the streets, getting in dice games and plenty of childhood fights. I was always into something. When I was younger we stayed in Winton Terrace; that was the roughest for me. I had fights everyday. As I got older I learned more and more bad habits. In OTR, I saw a guy get shot right in front of me. That’s a new feeling; it’s not like witnessing a fight; you seeing somebody else last moments; that could be you.
When I was 14 I had a gun put to my head, you think it’s a joke until you feel the cold touch of a pistol’s barrel; that’s hard to man up to once u realize it’s not a game. I didn’t break down or anything but I could tell you, I couldn’t move an inch, my mind and body froze. My only thought was, “It’s all over now”, until it turned into a beating; I got pistol-whipped. The gun wasn’t even loaded. It was a guy I had repeated altercations with; about him thinking I was somebody else.
I haven’t seen him since. As I got older I didn’t hang around as much on the streets. I’ve done things I won’t or can’t talk about. I’m not a thug, but I been out there and I ain’t no gangsta. I never tried to be. I’ve always been the loner type, but it’s crazy out here for everyone no matter how young or old you are. It’s an environment you gotta adapt and adjust to. It’s not something to be proud of out here but a lot of people are doing the only things they can do, and they still are barely getting by…
SayWhatNews: How hard was it to stay focused on your dream to become an entertainer while witnessing your father selling and using drugs?
T-No: I was too young for music at that time…music was far from me then. When the dream came my dad was already a new man. I didn’t really understand what was going on with him then, but I never had any hatred for my dad about the past. I learned pretty quick what going to jail was, I knew he did some things he shouldn’t have and had to own up to them. I just had to wait it out for him…You learn bad or good, from good and from bad.
I got 4 parents around me now and I love them all the same! They say a lot of us today are messed up cuz we don't have certain people in our lives, I can tell you, them being around helps, but it still don’t determine the situation. Anybody can end up any kind of way. Whatever you got in the way of yo’ dreams, you gotta fight to get through it and believe in it and ignore the negativity because you can’t beat it by going around it. But you also have to keep an open-mind and ear. Determination and Motivation got to be there.
SayWhatNews: Your father is now a Deacon at a church. What advice would you give someone who is suffering from drug addiction or who is witnessing a loved one suffering from drug addiction?
T-No: I’m often silent about them kind of things, it’s so common now, and sometimes you don’t want to sound like you preaching, but if somebody is messed up they might have to be told, sometimes by the ones that’s most important in they life… I can’t lie, when I was younger and just getting in high school, the past came back to haunt me in a different way. I got into a lot of things that I picked up because of my dad being into it, I won’t say them all but, I was that guy out there selling. I never was around cocaine other than when my dad began using it and selling weed but I picked up his selling habits. But it didn’t last long, people start watching you and checking you out, I was only a kid in high school and noticed it. I got spooked and left it alone after a couple days.
But sometimes, the only person that can make them change is themselves…You should always tell them how you feel; share your pain with them. Most of the time people are on drugs because they have their own pains to deal with. And drugs are addictive, rehab doesn’t work alone, and they have to really want to let it go. Whatever your addiction is, even if it’s not drugs, I can say put it in God’s hands, but you have to keep in mind these type of things aren’t solved overnight.
SayWhatNews: Wow, well put. Let’s talk about the music. Who were your musical influences growing up?
T-No: To be honest, what got me started on writing was Kriss Kross blowin’ up real big. I figured I could do it myself too…but my early years of rap music consisted of NWA and Run DMC. It was a mix then, as I got older it was Da Luniz, Lunasicc, Three-6-Mafia and a lot of underground artists. I never had a favorite artist. It would be certain songs that just made me like it, consistency aint something that grew with rap over the years.
SayWhatNews: At the age of 12 you wrote your first song. What did you rap about and how did that song give you your voice?
T-No: My first song, “This Ghetto”, this was about one year into me being in Over-The-Rhine…I was still developing myself as an artist. I took what I had seen on a regular basis, the things you usually see in the hood; how people can’t keep things together, the things we do just because were poor and used to having no money. I couldn’t really get the words together, but if I wrote that song over right now, I would probably have a lot more to say. It was the ghetto, you live in the ghetto, but it doesn’t automatically mean the ghetto lives in you. But also, it’s still YOUR life.
SayWhatNews: At the age of 21 you joined the United States Navy? Why did you join?
T-No: Most jobs in Cincinnati aren’t pretty promising if you want something above average out of life. Especially being a young black male with only a GED. After the riots came, our reputations just got worse, and I knew how they play us when it comes to jobs. Sometimes we do bring it on ourselves, but sometimes it’s there before we hit the door. I got tired of petty job after petty job, losing this one and quitting that one.
My step-dad made me leave after things got too slow for me. I stayed with my dad and his family for a couple weeks, and I got a call from my aunt about talking to a navy recruiter…I was always one to say “F*** the military” assuming too much when I didn't really know nothing. But I was in a corner, I was stuck, and I figured just going to talk to them wouldn’t hurt.
It ended up sounding like something that would help me for the future. And I ended up doing 4.5 years of it and got out on an honorable discharge. It isn’t for everybody though, you got to be humble and know how to deal with the BS and you got to be self disciplined. They say you learn discipline in the military. Naw, you got to already have it in you, they just bring it out! It can make you or break you. The one thing I learned about most in the Military was about me… I’m always thankful for that.
SayWhatNews: How did the Navy help nurture your passion for music?
T-No: I was always anti-social growing up, because I spent most of my time alone. Mom’s got to work; the babysitter’s show is on and everybody else is going out tonight, stuff like that… I got siblings and stepsiblings, but I was always by myself for the most part. That can be good and bad. When I joined the Navy, I got more used to being around people I didn’t know, so it helped me open up to people, it built my self confidence and that kind of showed me what everyone else had already seen in me; all these years as a person and as a recording artist. Now, it’s like I got people waiting on me to make it big more than I am! But it’s things like that which led me to calling my 2006 Mix CD “Man Of The People”, it wasn’t just about me, it was about everybody that believed in me and stood by me as a person, cause I’m always going to be me before I’m a rapper…on and off stage.
SayWhatNews: After returning home from the Navy your song “Thump Wit Mine” from your 2006 Mix CD “Man of the People” received local radio play. How amazing was that?
T-No: That was overwhelming. I was shocked with the idea. I was still serving in GA, and I sent a CD with a whole bio and everything to 101.1 The Wiz FM Radio…Big Greg called me up, asked me which track I wanted him to play…I called everybody up that I thought would be interested…the song wasn’t my best, but over the last 4 years it showed my growth extremely as a lyricist.
He played it sometime around 11:40pm, and my momma called me while it was on, I thought she was just listening to it at home, and then I heard Big Greg’s voice in the background… I got about 5 calls that night, and maybe 15 text messages… people on Myspace were requesting it, but it didn’t last long, I think they played it maybe two or three more weeks…somebody requested it by phone and they were actually told NO! Well, I never expected to blow up off of it, but I wanted to see how far I had really come with myself as an artist. After that I got more and more serious about doing it for real, and not just for fun anymore…
SayWhatNews: What inspires you?
T-No: Life inspires me. The people I’m around, the things I go through and do, what I see, how I feel, what I think… my personality brings a lot of these songs out of me…I’m a flirt, I love women, I’m goofy sometimes, I’m sarcastic sometimes, sometimes just get straight serious, sometimes I just want people to hear my thoughts and see what kind of man I am…get to know me, cause I’m not really talkative at first in person, I’m an observant kind of guy, I don’t get socially aggressive, that isn’t the approach you want to have out here, no matter what you doing.
A smart man sits back and watches before he makes his moves, a dummy jumps out there not knowing and gets his self done up, you know. Just being me is all I try to be…a lot of people worry about image; I say image is nothing, doing me is everything!
SayWhatNews: What sets T-No apart from all the other rappers?
T-No: T-No wants to bring that untouched feel back into rap. I want to make people think when they listen to my music, grasp onto what I’m saying and why I’m saying it. A lot of rappers just want a quick hit song, or they want to get a media alias for themselves. I just want ya’ll to listen to me as a person, laugh wit me, sit wit me, talk wit me, think back wit me, that’s the kind of music I want to give.
I put my personality into my music, that’s where my creativity and my topics come from. Music never gives you the whole person, no matter how you put it together. Media is bashing rap right now about all the bad in it, but what reporter or newspaper writer is out there listening to these dudes’ whole CD? NONE! They just grab a quick easy-to-see negative about it and roll with it all the way over they careers…some of these dudes aren’t the type of guys you think they are, or the type of guy the media make them out to be…I rap, yeah, but I’m human, I put my pants on the same way everybody else do…I’m not above you, I’m not bigger than anybody else, this is just one part of me, and if you aren’t trying to know it all, don’t worry about a portion of it!
SayWhatNews: Alright then. I feel that!!!!!!! Which Rapper would you love to battle in a free-style battle?
T-No: Myself, I never really been a good free-style, I got lucky a few times, but I can’t think that fast on the go,(LAUGHS) plus my brain is always working on too much, I always got something going on in the back of my mind!
SayWhatNews: Why did you leave the group Cash Connection to start a solo career?
T-No: Too much petty stuff really, from both ends. I don’t know how everybody looks at it because nobody else tried to tell me or ask me what the deal was…that’s part of why I left. People think one thing about what you do, and they get this little idea in their own head that it’s about something else other than what it’s really about. It wasn’t anything against nobody really, everything just fell off.
I went about it too fast, but in the end going’ solo would have still been my decision. It’s a detailed story that you might laugh at, or be confused about. It’s also some talk about it going on, but all I’m a say is, the person you are becomes irrelevant once people only think about the person they really think you are and never tell you because they stuck on their own thoughts. Like I said, it’ll confuse you. The only ones thinking about it now is the ones who aint doing’ nothing’…
SayWhatNews: T-No you were the opening act for the rap group Shop Boyz; how did that come to be? Tell us how surreal it was.
T-No: That was my last Cash Connection performance… that was probably the best performance we had, other than a song getting’ skipped by the DJ. I think around that time, people knew the name and heard more about us, it was a last minute thing that came up so nobody knew we were performing…but we still drew people to the stage once we came on… seeing’ everybody come together to enjoy each other’s time and not just down somebody entirely is the kind of thing I like seeing’.
When I hit that stage I want everybody to know I’m up there for them, not against them…I’m from the streets just like ya’ll, I want money just like ya’ll, I’m a be real no matter what, just like ya’ll… I honestly didn’t want to do it at first when I heard about it, but at the same time I did. It was a money matter for me, but it came out a win situation for everybody. A couple people said we had more people at the stage than the Shop Boyz, I don’t know. But it’s more shocking’ knowing’ that you in a group and people really know YOUR name, not just what group you in, when you go out and hit the clubs…Big Greg really started my name-spreading’ and I think that’s why some DJ’s know my name and not just who I was with…
SayWhatNews: Which Rapper or Singer would you love to collaborate with on a project?
T-No: I got a mix of artists I like right now .Some are past favorites, some new favorites…I don’t have a favorite artist but there are artist that have a majority of music I like from them. Project Pat, Ludacris, Plies, Field Mob, Akon, TI, David Banner, UGK (R.I.P. Pimp C), 8-Ball & MJG, B.G., Juvenile, Chamillionaire, I got a lot “right now” and “back then” artists that I would like to work with…but those are probably the biggest names that come up.
SayWhatNews: Your on a road trip and you can only bring 1 CD; which CD?
T-No: Hmmm, Field Mob’s “Ashy To Classy”, Young Jeezy’s “Thug Motivation 101”, or Ludacris’ “Word Of Mouf”, probably one of them.
SayWhatNews: Can you cook? If so, what’s your specialty dish?
T-No: Grilled cheese (LAUGHS) I’m still learning!
SayWhatNews: What’s in the future for T-No?
T-No: Don’t know, things go up and down with me usually…I got a show in Indianapolis that don’t got a date yet, I was supposed to do it December 6th, but we had some last minute complications come up, and right now I’m pretty messed up so I couldn’t get there on my own… but it’s still coming. I actually got people there waiting for me to come do my thing, and it’ll be my first time performing outside of Cincinnati.
I’m putting’ my Press Kit together…to send to some labels and maybe some publicists…I like doing’ the interview thing…I’m working’ on more tracks, trying to find some different producers, looking to network and see where I can find some real management, and promotion. Cincinnati is known for bad business cause everybody wants money, but they always want more money than you really need to be giving’ them…But that’s how the business is period. For any updates you can always check www.myspace.com/tno513 to see what’s up wit me. Ain’t no telling’, I’m just going to keep being myself and doing what it is that I do…I’m not in competition, not trying to beat nobody to anything or be on top of something…I just want to have fun with this music and express myself and put something in people’s ears that they been missing’ for a while….reality!
Actual Link: http://www.saywhatnews.com/tno.html
T-No Nov.2007 Online Interview For PassTheMic.com
Interview with T-NO
Interviewed by : Craig Harrison (C-Raig)
PTM: For starters tell the world who T-NO is, and where you rep.
T-NO: is just another person out here tryin' to survive and live life.T-No has been a lotta things in life,but the one thing that nobody has ever changed and can't change is, the fact that T-No is simply himself...at the end of the day, when u look in da mirror and u take all the jewelry off, the hat comes off, you are you, and nobody can change that, T-NO is short for Tha Nati's Own,me bein' from Cincinnati,but I really don't limit or stick myself to just one city anymore,I just never forget where I came from.I always tell people I'm not tryin to be the king of anything, the boss of anything, I'm just bein' myself. A lotta people in rap nowadays try to be somethin' or portray somethin' they ain't at all. I can only be myself and nothin' else. Call it what u want, but this is me bein' my usual true self. That's what "Doin' Me" was about...
PTM: How did you first get started in the rap game?
T-NO: been recrodin' music way before I got started in the business,but it was back in 2006 September...I was livin' in GA at the time,I had sent a CD in with some new songs on it to 101.1 WIZF Radio's station...and one day I got a call from Big Greg AKA Buckie Naked (the music director at the time). He asked me which track I wanted him to play.I was shocked, mad I couldn't listen to the radio myself, but I made a buncha calls after that spreadin the word.He played it so late a lotta people went to sleep before it came on but around 1130pm my mom called me, and sure enough I heard it in the background,at first I thought she was just playin it at home,til I heard Big Greg's voice over it...I got a lotta calls after I got off the phone wit my mom...a lotta people on myspace started requestin it, and tellin me they heard it a couple more times after that..it probably lasted two or three weeks. Everybody expected me to blow then, I didn't.
PTM: Tell us about your first rap song ever?
T-NO: Hahaha,my first song was recorded with two portable cd players usin a tape! I was 12 years old...the name of it was "This Ghetto",I had about 6 different versions of that song,LOL,that's what brought it all about, me just havin' fun bein able to put the words together like that. I had such a high voice back then,it was funny to hear after I got older.MY sisters had years of laughs at me for that song, cuz my dad had a copy that we ended up doin together when I got to 14...
PTM:Where are you in your journey as an independent recording artist?
T-NO:: I really wouldn't know.I just know I'm not signed yet. I'm startin to get shows,I'm workin on gettin radio play, I'm networkin'...I'm gettin a lotta love as if I'm already signed, myspace is goin crazy wit T-No Supporters.I am gettin friend requests in groups on the regular now and I dont even have to be logged on. People think I'm really signed sometimes too.I need a couple more songs to put my demo together and that might bring some more attention. A promoter in Washington told me to e-mail her some tracks so she could get them on radio, and that was just out of love! I finally hit the point where I don't have to make it in the game, but I'm not just gon sit back and bow out while the talent is there!
PTM: What other artist have you worked with in Cincinnati?
T-NO: I only been back in Tha Nati a lil over a year now, I spent most of that as a member of the group/network Cash Connection.But before I even left that, I never stopped writin' as a solo artist. I'm workin' wit this artist named Dramaqueen, and man, she can spit! She bringin' the gutta back in it! She ain't like them sassy female rappers, she bring the hood to you! That's why I wouldn't mind workin wit her on a couple of tracks! She like my music I like hers. Singer Ms RnB AKA Nia C, hooked me up on "Get U Right". I am pretty sure it'll be more with time but I ain't sure at the moment.If u not a hollywood act type of artist, and we got good chemistry together, we can work.I don't wanna work wit just anybody cuz they got a hit or they blowin up. No matter how confident or better I get, I can never say I'm da hottest or only hot one in Cincinnati. If Hi-Tek did say it ain't no talent in Cincinnati, he a damn lie, he ain't heard what I be hearin!
PTM: Are there T-NO haters out there? any rappers who diss you, if so how do you react to haters?
T-NO: I don't think I got no haters,I'm been too cool for that sh*t.I really don't worry bout it too much.He say she say drama is brand new to me,it just started comin'.I could be ignorant and respond, but it's a waste of time. Sh*t never dies out like that, and I wouldn't care who diss me how they diss me or why...I don't do diss music,if somebody take anything I say on a song as a diss,it's just in they head alone, or maybe they listening to he say she say.I'm a grown man, that's child's play really, and I quit playin tag a long time ago.If the issue that serious where it need to be addressed, I aint gon get on no song and start sayin a buncha sh*t. Im'a be a man about it, like I said, I aint no gangsta rapper, I aint out here tryin to be top goon on da block, all dat don't matter to me. Let me make my money, you make yours, and don't worry bout what's in my pockets or in my bank, ya dig!
PTM: What advice do you want to give to the up and coming new artist on Passthemic.com that are starting out?
T-NO: be self conscious about yo music, yo lyrics, yo whole profile.Stay focused, be yo self, stick to doin what's you. Don't try to compete,be honest wit yo self and if u really believe in what you got, don't worry bout somebody else's opinion, just do yo thang and take yo product out there.Network wherever whenever. U gotta put money into it, but you aint gotta go broke over it!
PTM: Shout outs?
T-NO: Shout out to Big Greg, DJ Skillz, Core DJ's, DJ OK Da Southern Menace (Lifestyles of da unsigned and dangerous comin soon), Beat Catererz (Rookies of The Year comin soon!), DJ Ghost, DJ City Sharp, Fleet DJ's, Dramaqueen, Noonie JR and SSC, Duval County, Camden County, Cincinnati, Detroit, Kentucky, Texas, My boy Merrill, Louisiana, My boy Corey, Cali, Washington, everywhere! All my peeps on myspace, the fans, the artists, the homies, the ladies, keep showin love cuz it's more on da way...oh, and to whoever read this interview! Check da myspace... www.myspace.com/tno513 and make sure u download the tracks!
Actual link: http://www.passthemic.com/asp/interviews/t-no.asp
Interviewed by : Craig Harrison (C-Raig)
PTM: For starters tell the world who T-NO is, and where you rep.
T-NO: is just another person out here tryin' to survive and live life.T-No has been a lotta things in life,but the one thing that nobody has ever changed and can't change is, the fact that T-No is simply himself...at the end of the day, when u look in da mirror and u take all the jewelry off, the hat comes off, you are you, and nobody can change that, T-NO is short for Tha Nati's Own,me bein' from Cincinnati,but I really don't limit or stick myself to just one city anymore,I just never forget where I came from.I always tell people I'm not tryin to be the king of anything, the boss of anything, I'm just bein' myself. A lotta people in rap nowadays try to be somethin' or portray somethin' they ain't at all. I can only be myself and nothin' else. Call it what u want, but this is me bein' my usual true self. That's what "Doin' Me" was about...
PTM: How did you first get started in the rap game?
T-NO: been recrodin' music way before I got started in the business,but it was back in 2006 September...I was livin' in GA at the time,I had sent a CD in with some new songs on it to 101.1 WIZF Radio's station...and one day I got a call from Big Greg AKA Buckie Naked (the music director at the time). He asked me which track I wanted him to play.I was shocked, mad I couldn't listen to the radio myself, but I made a buncha calls after that spreadin the word.He played it so late a lotta people went to sleep before it came on but around 1130pm my mom called me, and sure enough I heard it in the background,at first I thought she was just playin it at home,til I heard Big Greg's voice over it...I got a lotta calls after I got off the phone wit my mom...a lotta people on myspace started requestin it, and tellin me they heard it a couple more times after that..it probably lasted two or three weeks. Everybody expected me to blow then, I didn't.
PTM: Tell us about your first rap song ever?
T-NO: Hahaha,my first song was recorded with two portable cd players usin a tape! I was 12 years old...the name of it was "This Ghetto",I had about 6 different versions of that song,LOL,that's what brought it all about, me just havin' fun bein able to put the words together like that. I had such a high voice back then,it was funny to hear after I got older.MY sisters had years of laughs at me for that song, cuz my dad had a copy that we ended up doin together when I got to 14...
PTM:Where are you in your journey as an independent recording artist?
T-NO:: I really wouldn't know.I just know I'm not signed yet. I'm startin to get shows,I'm workin on gettin radio play, I'm networkin'...I'm gettin a lotta love as if I'm already signed, myspace is goin crazy wit T-No Supporters.I am gettin friend requests in groups on the regular now and I dont even have to be logged on. People think I'm really signed sometimes too.I need a couple more songs to put my demo together and that might bring some more attention. A promoter in Washington told me to e-mail her some tracks so she could get them on radio, and that was just out of love! I finally hit the point where I don't have to make it in the game, but I'm not just gon sit back and bow out while the talent is there!
PTM: What other artist have you worked with in Cincinnati?
T-NO: I only been back in Tha Nati a lil over a year now, I spent most of that as a member of the group/network Cash Connection.But before I even left that, I never stopped writin' as a solo artist. I'm workin' wit this artist named Dramaqueen, and man, she can spit! She bringin' the gutta back in it! She ain't like them sassy female rappers, she bring the hood to you! That's why I wouldn't mind workin wit her on a couple of tracks! She like my music I like hers. Singer Ms RnB AKA Nia C, hooked me up on "Get U Right". I am pretty sure it'll be more with time but I ain't sure at the moment.If u not a hollywood act type of artist, and we got good chemistry together, we can work.I don't wanna work wit just anybody cuz they got a hit or they blowin up. No matter how confident or better I get, I can never say I'm da hottest or only hot one in Cincinnati. If Hi-Tek did say it ain't no talent in Cincinnati, he a damn lie, he ain't heard what I be hearin!
PTM: Are there T-NO haters out there? any rappers who diss you, if so how do you react to haters?
T-NO: I don't think I got no haters,I'm been too cool for that sh*t.I really don't worry bout it too much.He say she say drama is brand new to me,it just started comin'.I could be ignorant and respond, but it's a waste of time. Sh*t never dies out like that, and I wouldn't care who diss me how they diss me or why...I don't do diss music,if somebody take anything I say on a song as a diss,it's just in they head alone, or maybe they listening to he say she say.I'm a grown man, that's child's play really, and I quit playin tag a long time ago.If the issue that serious where it need to be addressed, I aint gon get on no song and start sayin a buncha sh*t. Im'a be a man about it, like I said, I aint no gangsta rapper, I aint out here tryin to be top goon on da block, all dat don't matter to me. Let me make my money, you make yours, and don't worry bout what's in my pockets or in my bank, ya dig!
PTM: What advice do you want to give to the up and coming new artist on Passthemic.com that are starting out?
T-NO: be self conscious about yo music, yo lyrics, yo whole profile.Stay focused, be yo self, stick to doin what's you. Don't try to compete,be honest wit yo self and if u really believe in what you got, don't worry bout somebody else's opinion, just do yo thang and take yo product out there.Network wherever whenever. U gotta put money into it, but you aint gotta go broke over it!
PTM: Shout outs?
T-NO: Shout out to Big Greg, DJ Skillz, Core DJ's, DJ OK Da Southern Menace (Lifestyles of da unsigned and dangerous comin soon), Beat Catererz (Rookies of The Year comin soon!), DJ Ghost, DJ City Sharp, Fleet DJ's, Dramaqueen, Noonie JR and SSC, Duval County, Camden County, Cincinnati, Detroit, Kentucky, Texas, My boy Merrill, Louisiana, My boy Corey, Cali, Washington, everywhere! All my peeps on myspace, the fans, the artists, the homies, the ladies, keep showin love cuz it's more on da way...oh, and to whoever read this interview! Check da myspace... www.myspace.com/tno513 and make sure u download the tracks!
Actual link: http://www.passthemic.com/asp/interviews/t-no.asp
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