THIS SITE IS DOPE

Our new site is up. Check it out and let us know what you think. www.mixtapemechanic.com
Also, add www.myspace.com/dewmusicgroup as your friend. Dew Music Group is our new Record Label and don't forget to add me www.myspace.com/tonycee

ITS GOING DOWN AT THIS YEARS S.E.A AWARDS

Dj Rapid Ric has been nominated for a few awards so we are taking the trip up to Tennessee this weekend.


Here are some of the awards he has been nominated for.

BEST MIX-TAPE (DUO/TEAM)
BEST CHOPPED & SCREWED MIX (RAPID RIC & CHARLIE BOY - VERSATILE CHILD
RAPID RIC & DJ BULL - B4 DA RELAYS 2K6), which would have been done by Dj Bull.
BULL - TEXAS RELAYS 2K6
BEST SKILLS ON A MIX-TAPE
BEST INTRO ON A MIX-TAPE

Good Luck to Ric!


Here is more info for those who are interested in going.


www.southernentawards.com/index.html

SEA WEEKEND EVENT INFORMATION THURSDAY-JANUARY 25TH, 2007 SEA/ALMOST FAMOUS SHOWCASE (FULL) & ALL STAR DJ RECORD POOL HOSTED BY GRAND HUSTLE BEAT MAKER KHAO LOCATION: Grand Casino Convention Center

TIME: 6PM-10PM

NOTE: Khao will be looking for artist for his label
Intaprize / GTT Entertainment

OFFICIAL 4TH ANNUAL SEA KICK OFF PARTY

THE ROYAL AFFAIR SPONSORED BY ROYAL BLUNTS LOCATION: PLATINUM ROSE (SEA NOMINATED - ADULT CLUB OF THE YEAR) 4226 3rd St. Memphis, TN 38109 TIME: 10PM-UNTIL COST: DISCOUNT FOR SEA GUESTS FRIDAY-JANUARY 26TH, 2007 S.E.A. INDUSTRY INSIGHT CONFERENCE DAY 1 LOCATION: Grand Casino Convention Center COST: FREE How To Get A Record or Production Deal (12pm-1:45pm)

Panelists:

Bob Celestine, Esq
Wendy Day, Rap Coalition
Tangee aka Ms Blessed
Nam Moses, Consultant, Ultra Publishing
Tonya Butler, Esq

Making An Impact: Building A Tremendous Buzz (2pm-3:45pm)

Panelists:

Ray Hamilton, Legion Of Doom Djs
Matt Verden, Dir of Marketing, Grand Hustle
Mike Clarke, VP, Swisha House
Nick Love, VP Marketing, CTE
Rovella Williams, Almost Famous, Verses Ent. Group
Lil Weavah, Recording Artist
Amir, Southeast Rep, Interscope

Topic: The Digital Frontier (4pm-6pm)

Panelists:

Leon Bailey, Word Of South.com
John Lobro, Radio Hip Hop.com
Feygens Saint-Joy, Hip Hop Friends
M Town Luv, MemphisRap.com

DEVIN STEEL PRESENTS THE WELCOME TO MEMPHIS PARTY

LOCATION: CLUB PREMIER

(SEA NOMINATED - NIGHT CLUB OF THE YEAR)

5020 AMERICAN WAY MEMPHIS, TN 38115

TIME: 10PM-UNTIL

COST: DISCOUNT FOR NOMINEES B4 12AM

SATURDAY-JANUARY 27TH, 2007 NOTE: NO PRODUCT WILL BE ALLOWED INTO THE CONVENTION CENTER S.E.A. INDUSTRY INSIGHT CONFERENCE DAY 2 LOCATION: Grand Casino Convention Center COST: FREE Indie Labels: Put Out Your Own CD/Starting A Label (12pm-1:45pm)

Panelist:

Kinky B, CTE (Jeezy, Slick Pulla)
Michael 5000 Watts, CEO, Swisha House
Wes Phillips, Select-O-Hits
Killer Mike, Recording Artist
Khao, Grand Hustle, Intaprize, GTT
Wendy Day, Label Consultant (Cash Money, Webbie, David Banner)
Rock, Rock Bottom Records (Tango & Cash, Big Herk)
Janie Jennings, Label Consultant

The Mixtape Game (2pm-3:45pm)

Panelists:

Dj Chuck T, Noize Mob Djs
Robert Celestine, Esq
Dj Freddy Hydro, Pres, Ripp Squad Djs, Power 99
Dj Chief Rocka, Core Djs
Mike Clark, VP, Swisha House
julia Beverly, Publisher, Ozone Magazine
George Lopez, T-Town Music, DSR, Universal
Dj Wally Sparks, Music Editor, Ozone Magazine
Fredrick Moore, The Screw Shop (Memphis)

Radio: How To Get Your Record Played On The Radio (4pm-5:45pm)

Panelists:

B. Paiz, PD, WIBB
Lester Pace, Setting The Pace Promotions
Dj Lil Larry, K97, Aphilliates
Kasper, Hittmenn DJs
Devin Steel, PD, K97
Michael London
Big V, Power 106

Serato Scratch Workshop (6pm-7:30pm)

Join the folks from Serato Scratch Live for a live demonstration
And workshop of tricks you can do. You will have the opportunity to purchase Serato Scratch Live also!

SWISHA HOUSE MEET & GREET This is your opportunity to meet several of the artists from
Swisha House. Artists will be available for photos, interviews
and more. There will also be product available from Swisha House!

LOCATION: GRAND CASINO CONVENTION CENTER TIME: 7:30PM-10PM COST: FREE

LIL LARRY, CGI ENT, THE APHILLIATES & WARNER BROS PRESENTS THE TRAPPERS BALL: SEA EDITION LOCATION: PLUSH NIGHTCLUB (SEA NOMINATED - NIGHT CLUB OF THE YEAR)

380 BEALE ST - MEMPHIS, TN 38103

TIME: 10PM-3AM

SUNDAY-JANUARY 28TH, 2007 HANG EM’ HIGH PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS 4TH ANNUAL SOUTHERN ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS

LOCATION: GRAND CASINO RESORT EVENT CENTER

13615 Old Hwy 61 N

TUNICA, MS 38664

**SHUTTLES PROVIDED TO AWARDS FROM SEA HOST HOTEL**

TIME: 12PM-5PM

MUST BE 21 OR OLDER TO ATTEND

OFFICIAL SEA AFTER PARTY

LOCATION: TBA

TIME: 10PM-UNTIL

COVER: DISCOUNT FOR NOMINEES

JUST SOME PICTURES

This is my boy Matt Sonzala is the coolest shirt. ODB RIP



A3 tha Tanka. One of my favorite MC's and one of my good friends.

It snowed in Austin Texas yesterday. I heard a news report that said it's never snowed in Austin before.

Gerald G trying to drive on the icy Texas roads.




Everyone please come out to this event. It's Free!!! More details at www.houstonsoreal.blogspot.com

PULLIN UP VIDEO

http://mixtapemechanic.com/videos/pullin_up.mov

DJ Rapid Ric, “The Mixtape Mechanic”, and Top Dollar Clothing, originators of the famous “Whut It Dew” shirts, have done it again with their fourth installment of the Whut It Dew mixtape series. Referred to as “Texas’ finest mixtape DJ” by Chamillionaire, Rapid Ric brings the heat yet again with his latest project that features never before heard music from the top artists in the southern region. Whut It Dew 4 is available in stores and online now.

Whut It Dew 4, which features new and exclusive music from The Whut It Dew Family, UGK, Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Trae, DSR, Chingo Bling, and more, is packaged as a 3 disc set that includes a chopped-n-slowed version and a DVD with the Rapid Ric, Chalie Boy, and Magno music video for the “Pullin’ Up” single.

DJ Rapid Ric states, ”Fans can expect nothing but the finest material in southern hip-hop on Whut It Dew 4. The bonus DVD contains our Whut It Dew family music video for “Pullin Up”, which features Chalie Boy and Magno. We shot this entire video on 35mm here in Austin, TX, and it’s the first major hip-hop video filmed in Central Texas.”

Rapid Ric is one of the fastest rising DJs in the South, and it’s mostly because of the skill he brings to his art form. In the past year alone, he has been the tour DJ for Bun B, Chamillionaire, Devin The Dude, and Slim Thug. At only 24 years old, he is already considered Texas' finest mixtape DJ and a young rising entrepreneur. Rapid Ric mans the pipeline of the Lone Star State's top talent, furthering the self-made legacy of the Screwed Up Clicks DJ Screw, Swisha House's Michael Watts, and O.G. Ron C. Rapid Ric has solidified his niche as a trendsetter and tastemaker by progressing the Texas regional street sound to the rest of the world.

A regular mixer on Emmis-Communications owned Austin's KDHT "Hot 93.3”, Rapid Ric continues to debut Texas street hits on his weekly show, “Mixtape FM” that airs on Saturday nights. One of few DJs focused on actual mixing, Rapid Ric has garnered praise from The Source, XXL, Scratch, Ozone, Down, MTV, The New York Times, and The Austin Chronicle.

“He’s a phenomenal DJ, one of my personal favorites. His song selection, remixes, cuts and scratches are off the hook.” - Paul Wall

For more information: MixtapeMechanic.com • MySpace.com/RapidRic • TopDollarClothing.com

A LIL UPDATE

Mannnnn it's been a minute. I've been working underground on WHUT IT DEW 4 with Rapid Ric. Ric's has been on tour all over the world with Cham and while he's been gone me and Axsel have been holding it down doing all the promotion work. We got it done and you will see WHUT IT DEW 4 in stores very soon. My friends from around the world hit us up on myspace if you need some in your stores.

We got wholesale prices for all the stores.

Mr. Blakes "Woodgrain Collection" coming March 2007
Meezy and Geezy coming 2007
Geezy's Mr. 512 coming 2007
Whut It Dew the album coming 2007

Chamillionaire and Rapid Ric on tour in the UK.

Michael Watts as the "Thinker"

Young Redd

Swisha House

My girl Katy and my man Archie Lee

Gerald Geezy

PICTURES FROM SCION CAR SHOW AND TRAE IN SAN ANTONIO

Man I didn't have to much fun at this show. There was just so much red tape!!! I was on assignment for Urban South and Ozone Magazine. I was there to cover the Mike Jones, Slim Thug and Trae show, but I said fuck it and left after I met with Trae. I really feel the Dude and I was thinking to myself this is good enough for me. I know I didn't do the best job covering the event but oh well. Trae is cool and here are some pictures.


Whut It Dew bitchessssssss













The next Big Thang Gerald Geezy

The Whut It Dew Crew

The new hip-hop radio station in San Antonio Power 106.7

Da Vill a rapper from Chicago Illinois

The man of the hour, tower of power Trae, the Truth
after I took this picture I got ran off by security even though I was supposed to be covering the event. I just never got my media credentials and that made my job 10 times harder. I was having to talk my way into every door.

GET YOUR CD COVERS, TRAY CARDS AND FLYERS PRINTED WITH ME.

I got the hook up. Been looking for a hook up like this for a while. So if your a concert promoter, Dj making mixtapes, artist getting ready to drop an album, or someone who has lots of clients that hire you to do their cd cover or flyer artwork. hint hint. Holla at me.

5 Thousand CD Covers- $175
5 Thousand Flyers, front and back- $175
5 Thousand Tray Cards, perforated- $300

SHIPPING IS INCLUDED IN ALL THE PRICES!!!

I WILL SHIP ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD.

3 to 5 day turn around on shipping.

email me at
tony-c@w4wmusic.com
or
www.myspace.com/tonycee

TONY AYALA JR.

I always have found the Tony Ayala story very compelling. Here is an article I found a few years back. It kind of reminds me of the SPM tale, because here you have two very successful Hispanics who both get locked up. It doesn't have anything to do with rap, but it is still good none the less.


Fighting back

From prison to the ring, Ayala resurrects career

Posted: Monday August 23, 1999 07:42 PM

The 36-year-old Tony Ayala Jr. was released from New Jersey's Bayside State Prison in April.

By Nick Charles,

SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Ayala Jr. chalks up mile after mile during early morning workouts. In this particular case, he makes his way into a local stadium and up a row of steps.

Once a prodigious young knockout artist, Ayala is now a 36-year-old man attempting a boxing comeback. That comeback begins Friday night when Ayala (22-0, 19 KOs), gets in the ring against 21-year-old Manuel Esparza (19-4-1, 5 KOs) in a 10-round middleweight bout before a hometown San Antonio crowd of less than 10,000 and a pay-per-view television audience.

As he heads toward a new future in the ring, he is struggling to leave his violent, criminal past behind.

"I did 16 years in prison for a horrible crime that I committed that I was guilty of," Ayala said.

16 years ago, Ayala was a 20-year-old junior middleweight who hit like a hurricane, blasting away every one of the 22 opponents he faced. The consensus was, he was unstoppable.

But underneath the gleam there was gloom. Ayayla says he was a basket case. Insecure and terrified of failure.

"What I remember is one long daze," he says. "I was always abusing heroin and alcohol and all sorts of drugs. And I really can't with a clear mind tell you what it was like."

Much of Ayala's past though is documented on a rap sheet.

In 1978, at age 15, he viciously assaulted a woman in the bathroom of this San Antonio movie theater He was given 10 years probation after his victim agreed to a reported $40,000 civil settlement.

Ayala fights daily to break out of the shadows of his past.
Then in August of 1982 when he was 19 and still on probation in Texas, Ayala was found drunk in a stranger's home carrying the identification of the woman who lived there. Ayala avoided prosecution when his handlers got him into a rehab program for substance abuse. But Ayala continued to get high.

Then he put a gun in his mouth.

"I had just bought a house," Ayala recalls. "I was alone, I was drunk, my wife and I had separated and I just wanted out of this miserable life," he said explaining why he wanted to end his life.

Although Ayala and his wife Lisa reunited, he continued to unravel.

On New Year's night 1983, he slipped out of their home in a New Jersey complex and broke into an apartment downstairs. Wielding a knife, Ayala threatened to kill the two women living there. He then bound and blindfolded one of them, raped and sodomized her and left her tied to her bed. Police arrested Ayala outside the apartment that cold winter night, shoeless, shirtless, and alone.

Ayala makes no excuses for his actions.

"I did what I did and it was a horrible crime. And I paid a price for it."

Convicted of aggravated sexual assault and other charges, Ayala began serving a 35-year sentence in 1983 and that is where he says his story nearly ended.

"I was really at the end of my rope. I couldn't visualize doing 15 years in that situation. And I called my dad and I basically asked him if it would be OK for me to take my own life."

The answer Tony Ayala, Sr.'s gave was not the one his son expected to hear.

Time with a prison psychologist shed light on Ayala's deep-seeded rage.
"I told him, 'If you do that, I want you to understand that I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm not gong to sit here because, if you feel guilty for what happened, maybe perhaps I'm guilty too. Maybe I was not the best parent around. Maybe I had something to do with this. So if you took that route, I would take it myself.'"

"That was something I couldn't accept," Ayala, Jr. said. "I couldn't accept. To me I was left with no choice but to deal with my demons and deal with what I had become. So that's what I did."

Ayala's breakthrough came just a few weeks later when he met Dr. Brian Raditz, a New Jersey state prison psychologist, who had been a fan of the young boxer. In sessions with Dr. Raditz, Ayala uncovered the roots of his criminal rage.

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"Obviously I had some serious issues," Ayala said. "Some serious problems that I never dealt with. And it stemmed from some expriences I dealt with when I was very young."

Ayala is asked to be specific.

"I was sexually abused as a kid," he says.

In Dr. Raditz's mind, that single admission seemed to jump-start Ayala on the road to recovery.

"Once he was able to get it out, it was like a sponge after that," Raditz said. "You couldn't give him enough information. And just constantly more questions. More questions trying to understand himself, his behaviors and the types of hurts that he went through and how to fix them and how to address it."

While Ayala won't reveal who sexually abused him, he learned to heal himself while he remained behind bars. Finally this past April, he was released from New Jersey's Bayside State Prison. With his wife at his side, after 16 years of hard time, Tony Ayala was a free man.

Wife Lisa says prison life has left its mark on her husband.

This photo of Ayala was taken after he was arrested for raping and sodomizing a neighbor.
"Do I think he will ever do something like he did? Never," she answers. "He will never, ever go back to prison again. This was a very, very hard lesson for him. And he'll never go back to prison. So that's not something I need to worry about."

Ayala says the crime and the time is something he will never forget.

"I live with the regret of what I did," he said. "That got me 16 years in prison. The regrets I live with at this stage of life. The regrets that I will take with me to my grave are that I hurt some innocent people."

"His psychic demons confronted, his crime acknowledged, Ayala is now back where it all began. A free man who has returned to this same San Antonio gym where he learned to box. He asks no forgiveness in the ring, just a chance to discover what 16 years of rusting away behind bars has left him with physically.

"There were some unanswered questions," he says adding, "the 'what ifs' haunt me. And I've got to ride this pony out. I've just got to ride it out. I've got to know where I was. I've got to know who I was. I've got to know where I stand."






Ayala won't be alone. His prison therapist Dr. Raditz is now managing his ring career and his father, who trained him before prison, is back in his corner.

"I've been clean and sober now for 16 going on 17 years," Ayala said. "I'm living my life very little different now than when I was in prison other than the obvious that I'm free to do whatever I want. Right now my change happened in my heart. It happened in my soul."

Tony Ayala Jr. has spent nearly half his life behind bars. Now as he attempts to claim the fame and fortune he threw away, the ongoing challenge will be to confine his violence to the boxing ring.

FREE MIKE JONES, SLIM THUG AND TRAE SHOW THIS SATURDAY!!!!

This shit is free and if your going to be in San Antonio area you have to come. It's a free car show plus this concert. The only catch is that you have to RSVP. Just click the link and enter your info and your done.

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RAPID RIC AND THE WHUT IT DEW FAMILY'S NEW CD "ALL FLOWS FROM THE GARAGE"

First 10 CD's come exclusively AUTOGRAPHED by Dj Rapid Ric.