What's happenin' y'all. Things have been crazy in the land of Beatmart lately with me traveling and finishing up a hymns record that myself and Big E started almost a year ago. The record comes out in September, thus the reason for me being out in Portland and in LabWest. Sorry for not updating the blog page in the last couple of days. I'll stay on that and keep you guys updated as to what's going on out here. In the mean time, keep the questions/comments coming and please let us know your thoughts and suggestions about the upcoming Beat Summit in Miami, FL next summer. Don't forget to check out Beatmart.com's message board if you'd like to pick up the Best of the Submissions Vol. 2 record before the release date. Hope you guys enjoy the Bobby Bishop interview. Check out his website at bobbybishop.com. The picture is a screen shot of one of the files that we're working on for the record on Big E's 23" cinema display. B's up!

New Beatmart Recordings artist Pee Wee Callins participated in The Third Annual Youth Life Learning Center Golf Classic at the the Springhouse Golf Club in Nashville, Tenn. on May 13. Callins served as a celebrity golfer and later performed "Keep Hope Alive" - a song from his debut solo album, Street Soul, which released April 19 - at the dinner/awards ceremony that evening. The golf classic raised $92,000 for The Youth Life Learning Center, an after school program for children in the inner-city whose mission is to create a door of opportunity for children living in insecure environments, founded by retired Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green. The proceeds will aid in opening additional centers throughout the Nashville area. YLLC presently has two locations operating in East and West Nashville. On antoher note, thanks for the feedback from the last podcast. Keep it coming. Particularly about the Beat Summit. B's up!

Alright y'all. I've seemingly done it yet again. I've eclipsed my record again for my longest podcast! This one comes in at 40 minutes, so I hope I don't lose your attention. I recorded this on location at our Beatmart offices in Brentwood, TN with a special guest. The reason for the long length in casting this evening is because of the many announcements pertaining to the business of Beatmart and upcoming events. Stay tuned and let us know your thoughts on the various topics, so send in those questions, comments, and mp3's to wrgopodcast@gmail.com. We want to hear from you! As for the secret society member that's perturbed with me; I know I can be selfish in my dealings and I apologize. Charge it to my head and not my heart. The picture is of our special guest that you'll be hearing more from in the future. Hope you enjoy and B's up!

Today was a monumental day in Beatmart's short history. Today, thanks to our marketing guru Adrian Santos, we secured the Beatmart stage on the Shout Fest Tour starting in late August. We will have all of our entire roster on this tour. That includes Bobby, Pee Wee, DJ Morph, Fresh Digress, AND possibily Rob Hodge. Look for the tour coming to a city near you. We've also got some big tour plans in the works starting this September as well. Be on the lookout for that announcement here and on Beatmart.com. On that note, I just got finished looking at the beta version of the new website and it's coming along quite nicely. I hope you guys enjoy it and let me know what you think. The picture is of DJ Morphiziz doing his live set out on tour.

It's saturday and I finally got around to getting up another podcast. This one, however, is a long one so I hope I don't lose your attention. There's a lot of good content in today's show so I hope you enjoy it. Thanks goes out to all you guys who provided the great questions, both text and audio. As for the end Rob Hodge song; it's an exclusive song that will not be on his upcoming release, but I've always really liked the song so I wanted to share it with all of you. Congrats goes to my man Rob Hodge for being the latest official Beatmart soldier. Be ready for his record to drop on September 27th. It's going to be bananas! The picture is of my man Joe "Dashmandon" Dahlke from Cleveland, OH. It was a picture taken from his camera phone. The quality is not that great, but I told him I would post his picture. Send your HI-RES pictures to; wrgopodcast@gmail.com. Have a great weekend and B's up!

Sorry for not getting antoher audio podcast up. I've been swamped with meetings today, and I've got another one still to go. I'm finalizing the new merchandise look and feel at a late meeting this afternoon. I'll let you guys check it out when we have the actual layout look. The new merch will be on the new website. Hopefully, it will be up when the website launches on June 1st. That's the target date so be in prayer that everything goes smoothly and stays to date. As for the picture today; that was a "mandated" request by one of our secret society members. It was a picture taken at an NBA game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Portland Trailblazers. It's a little better than the one from yesterday where me and Joey look like freakin' pie-faces! B's up!

First of all, I'm just going to tell you up front that I'm putting myself AND one of my best friends Joey Elwood out there for you guys to take shots at. So with that said, you guys can't say anything that already hasn't been laughed about concerning this picture. This picture was taken in 1995 at our old studio when we were working on the Erace Project. Oh, those were the days! I can honestly say that Joey has gotten uglier and I've gotten MUCH prettier! I think the secret society would agree. :-) With that said, let the jokes begin! B's up!

In addition to continuously working on getting stuff together for this hymns record and trudging along with Fresh Digress, it looks as though I may be doing some cuts on the new George Huff record. He's the tall happy black guy singer on last years American Idol. He's doing a record on Word Records and they've contacted me about doing some songs for that record. . . we'll see how it goes. He's already got Rodney Jerkins on the record, so it's already got quite a line-up. I'm writing for it now, so hopefully we'll get the legistics worked out. Also, I had a lunch meeting with one of my best buddies of almost 15 years. His name is Mike McGlaflin. I've known Mike since my days when I was an artist on Atlantic Records when we both lived up in New York City. Once me, Joey, & Toby started Gotee, we hired Mike away from working at MTV to come to work for us at Gotee. He did and is now head of publishing for Gotee Music. He's a great guy and a great friend and has been around and in the music industry for many many years. Here's a picture of him today when we were at lunch. B's up!

This is not a podcast, but i wanted to throw this up here for you guys to enjoy. I was going through some of my old files and ran across this old song that I did with Pigeon John about 3 years ago. It never was placed on any record (for some reason), but I've always like the tune and the personality that Pigeon brings. I figured that since this is "behind the scenes," I may as well share it with you guys and get you to tell me what you think. I've always loved Pigeon and loved working with him. We've just never found the right situation for both of us to fall into place. Hope you enjoy this and hopefully, I'll be bringing you some more of this kind of thing soon. Let me know what you think at: wrgopodcast@gmail.com

Not a ton going on today and this past weekend. We've got some crucial business meetings coming up that could be highly beneficial for us as a label. So please be in prayer for things to go well. Thanks again for all your prayers and support. Be on the lookout for the Beatmart.com website to be up around the first week of June. Our target date has been set for June 1st, but you guys know well that we've been saying that kind of thing for the last month and a half. As one of my secret society members once told me so eloquently, "talk is cheap!" We'll see if it's actually up on the target date. B's up!

Hope everyone's having a great weekend. God bless you guys and a special shout out to the secret society. Keep your head up. We're going to square this thing away. The picture is of my boys from the northwest, the Destiny Lab Crew. Thanks for sending in the picture guys. Nice pose. B's up!

Alright y'all. Just wanted to drop you guys a line to say have a great weekend and thanks for all you guys' prayers of late. I had a meeting with Troy today at lunch time and I explained to him the scenario. He seemed to be as touched about the situation as I have been. I'll get another podcast up sometime early next week, but in the meantime I'll continue to update this weekend and keep posting up different pictures. Keep sending them in. I'm getting 'em and I'm going to exploit them! :-) This picture is close to my heart. It's a shot of LabWest out in Portland, OR. Eric and I basically designed it to be a replica if LabEast. Thus the name. B's up!

First off, let me start by saying a very heartfelt thank you for all the comments and prayers that you guys have been sending in. I'm hugely humbled and it never ceases to amaze me at how, and through whom, God speaks. Thank you so much for you guys' support out there. And a special thanks goes personally to Same Old Jake. You know what I'm talking about so thank you tons! Now, with that out of the way, we had our sales conference presentation where we presented the BOS vol. 2 to the national retailers. Troy made the presentation in a radio program format. Kind of like the old days where you could stand and watch the dee jays while they were on the air. It was done extremely well and with a ton of class (just like Troy always does it). The record was well received by the retailers and they seemed to really enjoy the song clips of the songs that were played. Now hopefully, the record will sell through and it will be well received by YOU the consumer. You guys help us out and tell your friends to go to the stores on June 14th and support the "B!" We need as much help as we can get to keep this ship afloat! You guys are the warriors in the trenches and I certainly recognize and acknowledge that . . . so thank you! Thanks goes to M-Lotto for sending in his picture! He certainly doesn't look like I had made him out to be in my mind. He's much better looking in the picture! I had made him out to be this Frankenstien on crack with a peg leg type look! :-) B's up!

Today was an administrative day in which myself and Adrian Santos (our marketing guy) had a meeting with Jeff Roberts about getting our artists on the Shout Fest tour. We'll see how that goes. I feel like the meeting went pretty well, but you never really know about these things until it gets down to brass tax. It would be a huge boost to the moral of the artists on Beatmart. This whole urban music thing is a hard sell in our market and it has to be coupled with a ton of "education" to the gate keepers. It's an arduous process, but in the end, it's worth it. You guys pray for the career advancement of Bobby, Pee Wee, and Morph. They need it . . . we all need it! What's up goes out to the secret society. I'm thinkin' about you! :-) The picture is of the guys in Fresh Digress which I mentioned in the cast. ALSO, send me some pics of you guys. I'm running out of pictures and I'm tired of seeing my old tired mug up there. Send them to: wrgopodcast@gmail.com

Okay I have to admit, I was going to do a podcast today because the questions, both text and audio, are really mounting up. However, the truth is I just didn't feel up to it. Things are a bit weird around here right now in the Beatmart world. I can't really explain why; it just is. I feel like Satan is trying to move in and take over. On a serious note, I covet you guys' prayers for the leadership of Beatmart, it's stability, and its future. The side note is, I'll have another podcast up maybe tomorrow or thursday, so be on the lookout. Today was a relatively bland workday. The major event of the day was a lunch meeting and I had to get instrumentals together of Pee Wee's and Bobby's record for television and film. We've had some requests so when that industry calls, you come running! I figured I had to post a picture, so I just threw up this one. I'm not that narcissustic, so forgive me. B's up!

It's Monday night and today was the first day back to work and getting back into the "swing" of things. I talked to KJ today and learned that he has just started his own podcast from the road. He usually keeps it very short, between 8-12 minutes long. It's cool and informative. I listened to them all today. You guys should include his show in your subscription. I think you'll really dig it. If you'd like to check it out, go to: http://kj52.libsyn.com or subscribe to the RSS at http://kj52.libsyn.com/rss. A special shout out goes to Rico from Fresh Digress. I've been told that he's addicted to the podcast, so I want to say hi and thanks for listening. Which reminds me, look out for the FD record, it's going to be different and HOT! We get started on that record in early June, so be praying that it goes smoothly. The picture is another shot, by request, of my studio LabEast. Holler!

It's Sunday and I'm back home recouperating from traveling back home . . . seems kinda pointless, right? Anyway, the trip was phenomenal and I can't wait to get back out there. Now, I just have to find a reason. Maybe it'll be the Jordan camp in august. At any rate, I'm back to the grind again. I've got to finish up a record in which I have to fly out to Portland, OR sometime around the end of the month, then I start on the Fresh Digress record. That one should be a pretty interesting and fun one. Those guys are clowns in the worst way. They remind me a bit of John Reuben only with good songs (mental note: Talk to John about not being so "artistic." He would sell more records!) FD's record will be great, trust me! I'm not quite sure about when the release will be because we haven't put it in the schedule yet, but I'll keep you guys updated with that info plus clips, pictures, and such. Look out for another "regular" podcast sometime this week where I answer questions and play some music and all. Lastly, thought you guys might like to see the picture of the Paris Hotel Eifel Tower where we stayed. We went to the top of that thing. It's bananas! I'll holler.

Thanks for all the questions and comments from the last podcast about Big E. He's going to love the comments when he gets a chance to see them. Last night we had a great dinner at a "high priced" Italian resturant called Al Dente' located between the Paris and Bally's hotels. We ate dinner with 2 hall of fame coaches, Billy Tubbs (formerly from University of Oklahoma) and coach Jim Boeheim from Syracuse University, and then the young and great head coach from Gonzaga University named Mark Few. They're all amazing guys, but I really hit it off with Mark. He's the son of a minister and is obviously heavily entrenched in basketball, which made us have a lot in common. He's also close in age to me and Big E, so we really hit it off. Attached is a picture of myself and Big E after our dinner. Again, thanks for the audio questions and comments . . . especially you Mr. Ky-ill. You're crazy!

Alright y'all . . . I'm coming at you from the 16th floor of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas overlooking the Las Vegas Blvd. facing the Bellagio Hotel (see the picture, it's from one of my views in my hotel room). Anyway, we're having a restful and fun time. Hope you guys get some insight as to who my buddy Big E is. You guys don't really understand how powerful in the sports world that this guy truly is. Every time I'm around him, this fact never ceases to amaze me. He's truly revered by some serious heavy hitters. AND on top of all of that, he's an extremely talented musician as well. It almost doesn't seem fair. You guys holler at me! wrgopodcast@gmail.com

It's tuesday night at around 7:00 pm and I'm currently at the public library waiting for my twins to get done with swim practice. This is where I usually go on tuesday or thursday when I take them to late practice. It's nice because I can work on my laptop and collect my thoughts in silence. Plus the best part is, there's no industry people or "artist types" that ever frequent the library. THAT's why I go! Anyway, I'm currently preparing to leave for a short vacation in which I desperately need to just get away from the "work rut." It'll be fun and relaxing for sure. I hope to bring you guys a special treat podcast from my vacation spot. If I can pull it off, it should be pretty fun. My day was filled with meetings and such. One of which I helped design some new Beatmart merchandise that includes; two shirts, a hat, and a sweatshirt. Be looking for those to be available at festivals and on-line. I also spoke to a "secret society" member today, and he gave me some info that was extremely useful, and even more, meant a lot to me. Thank you so much for that. You guys will benefit from this info in the near future. That's all for now. The picture is of one of my "axes" in the studio. B's up!

This is a special edition podcast that I hope you guys don't find too corny. A friend of mine wanted me to do this, and since it's "behind the scenes," I figured it would be a good idea. Anyway, this is pre-vacation podcast so I hope you enjoy it. It's literally something I threw together so please be easy. :-) Hope you cats have a good rest of the week, and I'll hopefully speak with you from vacation-land. The picture is of part of the inside of LabEast taken with my phone. I'll get some better pictures soon so you guys can see what it looks like. Sorry about the quality. B's up!

Today is Sunday and I'm just relaxing at home pretty much doing nothing. In actuality, I'm pretty bored which is something that I've needed for a while. So since nothing is on t.v., I decided to update the blog page. I'm actually sitting here listening to the Adam Curry podcast called "The Daily Source Code." It happens to be one of my favorites along with the "MacCast." Anyway as you can see, it's a "do nothing day." On a different note, the "secret society" needs to look for something in your mailbox this week. This is a small something from me because of what you mean to me. Hope you like it. Lastly, highly looking forward to my "mini-vacation" coming next week. I'll try and get you guys a podcast sometime next week while I'm gone . . . we'll see. The picture is of a shot of my studio in which you can see three of my six (yes 6!) computers. Talk to you guys next week. B's up!

Today was recouperation day from all of the admin stuff that had been going on with the Submissions record. Now, the only thing left is June 14th which is the street date of the record. Thanks for all the support and prayers. Don't forget Bobby's and Pee Wee's records are in stores now, so go check 'em out. The picture is of Pee Wee during part of a photo shoot. Until next time.