Two Florida rap veterans, Protoman (DMG, Rawkus 50, FW4S) and Bleubird (Endemik, Grimm Image Records) finally trade verses on a track entitled “Guns Don’t Kill People (Florida Does)”. This funk inspired breakbeat produced by Dantanna also features a fury of cuts by DJ Rob Riggs (Scratch Academy). The Florida themed record is an ode to the randomness and dysfunctional hidden culture of “The Gunshine State”. Thanks to Jennifer Watson for this track.

Uncle Traveling bird #Thr3333333 from bird on Vimeo.

I recently returned to Montreal to record a new EP with Scott Da Ros+Sibitt, still working on a name for this project.
Enjoy some Heliodrome, cats, and spring snow! Soon you’re going to notice some changes around here, and the site might even be down for a few days but NOT TO WORRY!! things are happening, wheels are turning, flowers are blossoming, Mayim Bialik is returning my phone calls, and i am becoming a “freeebird.”

uncle traveling bird #2 from bird on Vimeo.

uncle traveling bird from bird on Vimeo.

see you soon
bird!

MARATHON OF DOPE TV: EPISODE 10: PRINZENALLEE “STAYING UNDRESSED” from marathon of dope on Vimeo.

thank you speed dial 7 and marathon of dope

hope y’alls enjoy
bird!

At some point around 2004 I was on tour in europe, I had a few days off in between shows which I used to travel back to Stockholm to see about a girl. She was the assistant to the promoter who organized a show for me the previous year. (One of the best shows I have ever played, it was Sole and I on the rooftop of the contemporary art museum at the center of the city, it was the night Ronald Reagan died, and our crowd was to march on the fascists the next day) So maybe it was just the magic of the night, but I felt a connection. We kept in touch and I arranged to come visit, I knew nobody else in Stockholm so upon arrival I checked into a hostel.
You and I noticed each other in the lobby, a slight nod of kinship , both of us Americans, dreadlocks, obviously rolling solo. You overheard me talking to the girl on the phone, joking about going clubbing. We were only making plans to meet at a bar for a drink. When i hung up you approached me and asked if i was going clubbing, I simply replied no and walked away. ( mind on the girl mind on the girl) You seemed a bit disappointed… The “date” was a flop, we had a few drinks, I was smitten, she went home.
I moped back to the hostel where I saw you again in the lobby, we sat next to each other for quite a while checking our emails or somberly surfing the web. I was in such a shit mood, I went outside to smoke a joint by myself then went up to my room and crashed. When I awoke in the morning I realized we were sleeping in the same room, we exchanged a brief “good morning” before we both went on our way. Not until a few days later when I was sitting on a train staring blankly out the window did I realize who you were! It was obvious from the jump that we would have gotten along, if I wasn’t so busy chasing skirt I could have made a friend. I can’t help but think that you might have even come along for a few shows.
I think about it every now and then and kick myself in the ass. Now when your name pops up I tend to pay attention. I’m happy you are back in the game and doing it your way. You could have conformed and made things a lot easier for yourself but you persisted on your path, I both admire and respect that. I place this experience on the shelf next to other missed opportunities in my life, like the lunch I should have taken with Slip-N-Slide records. Me+you+Trickdaddy could have been eating scrimps in South Beach right this moment, instead I’m in freezing Berlin grinding it out on my umpteenth unpublicized tour, scrambling to catch cheap flights and dragging my busted merch case around like a bum leg…and I couldn’t be happier.

this could have been us!

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in my constant effort to bathe you in FRESH-FREE-RAPS, i recently rapped over my good friend cars and trains’ instrumental track- “the leaves”

it’s a song i did about 2 years ago for a project that never came out…
or maybe it did and nobody told me? either way…this version over “the leaves” is great!

and just for kicks he also made an alternate alternate version
“the leaves-bleubird-jay z’s death of autotune has autotune on it”

his amazing album “the roots the leaves” can be gotten while the gottens good over here

and the poetically named remix album can be downloaded for free all up in this shit

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and then there’s this video i came across

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