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Life Don't Rhyme
Personal Blog for Greg "Manchild" Owens.
-- Husband. Father of 6. Writer. Speaker. Moderate Rap Personality
After 14 years, We’ve decided to make this one available. Grab your piece of Deepspace5 history in this classic EP by the Pride. Soul Heir the Manchild (Glad I shortened that name), Sintax and High Tech the Recon put this thing together with help on production by Jendor the Praying Mantis. I personally got pretty nostalgic listening to these songs the past couple of days.
$5 for the Download, $10 for the CD (Includes Shipping).
Thanks to Jason “High Tech” High for digging out the old DAT tape and pulling this together with me. Thanks to Joe “Sintax” Brewer for having raps that hold up over time and probably having the best head of hair in DS5.
Thanks to Mikey Dooks at www.seraphimaesthetics.com for the Artwork and Layout. As always, he’s a lifesaver.
We hope you enjoy.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
Black Wednesday to Black Friday
Yes, we all know about Black Friday, But I wanted to get the jump on things this week.
From NOW until Midnight, Friday, 11/25, ALL Album Downloads at www.manchild.bandcamp.com and www.marsill.bandcamp.com are only $4 !
Blue Collar Session Download is $2
It’s your shot to fill up your Ipod with the illest catalogue and not break the bank.
Plus, you don’t have to wait in line at 3am.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg “Manchild” Owens
I just wanted to take a second to put a plug in for my man, Mike Tandiama and Seraphim Aesthetics. For the past couple of years, most visuals, album art website help has been handled by mike. Super professional, unbelievably quick turn-around and integrity coming out of his ears. If you need work done, he’s the guy.
http://www.facebook.com/Seraphim.aesthetics
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
Wow. This one was…It was heavensent. I don’t know how lucky a blogger can get. Get a napkin. You may have to wipe the cheese from your computer screen.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
Too Clever Church Signs
I almost wrecked the car when I saw this baby. Had to do a U-turn and snap the photo.
This is Wordplay at its finest.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg “Manchild” Owens
Anonymous asked: Did you guys ever have the chance to sign with a label like Def Jux or Rhymesayers? If so, why did you decide to pass on the deal?
Anonymous,
We did a one-off deal with ILL Boogie,which, at the time, was distributed through Caroline like Def Jux and Subverse were at the time. We also were talking with Bigg Jus about doing a deal with Subverse (his label) before he walked away from that situation. We ultimately decided to do our deal with Gotee because they caught the vision and had everything we were looking for. We didn’t necessarily want to send out a grip of packets and “get signed” just to be a B-level artist on a label we had no personal connection with.
The truth is, in full…a label is a label. Some better than others, of course. I have no complaints with who we rolled with.
Deepspace5 Recordings is still alive, though.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
Anonymous asked: Are you making any more records???
Anonymous,
Yes I am. Currently working on the next Mars ILL album, releasing in 2012. Other projects on my plate as well. Although my last official release was “You Don’t Know Jaq” (available at www.manchild.bandcamp.com) at the end of last year: You can look forward to 2012 being a MF Doom size year with regards to how much material I’ll be putting out there.
Peace and God Bless.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
Tomorrow marks the release of “Wed, White and Wu”: A free mixtape and unabashed Wu-Tang tribute by two of my good friends - Playdough and Heath McNease. This promo video should either make you laugh out loud or shake your head, muttering, “Something’s wrong with those guys.”
Regardless, I just thought you should know about it. Releases tomorrow.
New Segment — “Too Clever” Church signs. I haven’t quite decided how I want to do this feature on the blog. May be once a week or may be more often. If you notice a “Too Clever” church sign in your city, please feel free to snap a pic and email me at gregowens@comcast.net - If it’s in my wheelhouse, I’ll use it here for sure.
My question is, is there some sort of brain trust go-to slogan guru coming up with these things, or is it just decided that morning. The now infamous, “God Sends Knee Mails” is still one of my favorites, but this one will have to do for now.
Life Don’t Rhyme,
Greg Manchild Owens
