We've been back from our travels to the US a good while now; but Andy and myself have decided to drop a little writeup blog to let you guys know what we were up to out there and how the project is coming along.
A couple sneaky pictures here and there too so peep game and enjoy!
AB0181Organising a trip like this is definitely a day job in itself. What started out as a joke whilst filming BCD2 in 2009 turned into a "can we actually do this?" brainstorm and ended with an actual real, physical trip across the Atlantic, going "what the frig are we getting ourselves into??".
It wasn't until we touched back down in Heathrow after a week away that it started to sink in. I've never travelled so much in such a short space of time and I think we defined hitting the ground running!
It was pretty surreal to be welcomed by a lot of people I've looked up to, listened to and geeked out to over the years but was only natural to geek down and get on with the job at hand. (Did manage to get pissy pissy quite a few nights, highlights include - 10 cent chicken wing night, linking up with Jaisu and seeing fatlip from Pharcyde spin runnin'). Sleep became a bonus and working out what time it became confusing as body clocks were left in Heathrow.
Can't really speak about who we filmed because I wana leave that for the trailer... but I think we got some great footage and hopefully this is going to be another volume of inspirational producer food for all y'all out thurr.
To break it down with some stats (...as) it looks a little something like this.
13,211 miles
140gb's of footage
x45 10c chicken wings
27.5 hours flying
6 planes
4 trains
1 rental car
Footage is ingested, converted and waiting to be edited. Summer is coming and so is BCD3!
peace
ab.
KosLike Andy said the whole trip was surreal; After much procrastination and back and forth's about plane journeys; connecting flights and actually pulling this off everything seemed a bit more real once we "George Bushed" the button on purchasing our outward bound flights.
We kicked off proceedings with a Nando's (as always) once Andy touched down in Birmingham; after which everything was just a whirlwind of "what the hell are we doing", "is this gonna work" and more "what the hell are we doing". This was my first time in these cities and it was just as Kela had hinted saying it'd be like walking onto a movie set, big cars, big roads, big freeways, (big servings heh!) I was gassed just being there!
It was crazy to be in the studio's of some people whose music/beats I've been a massive fan of; just being able to chop it up with them and ask geeky questions (just like I would any of my Den fam) and have just as enthusastic responses was crazy humbling.
If you caught some of the tweets flying around then you may have a clue as to where and who we visited; but to keep things fresh me and Andy have a self imposed gagging order on some Kanye "Dont tell anyone anything about what you're doing" steez.
We put the distance in and travelled across three different states and 2 coasts; we also had to cop a rental car and travel a 160+ mile round trip to get to the other side of the city to see one producer (shook driving the other side of the road hahaha) came back needing 2 weeks worth of sleep recovery and a sour after taste from data roaming charges but it was all worth it.
We've got gold here...oh yeah if you guys liked the progression between BCD 1 and BCD 2 then BCD 3 is a just as big (if not a quantum leap) in terms of what you're gonna get; coupled with what we got in Berlin earlier on in the year and what the remaining UK based footage we've gotta get I reckon we've got about 75% of Volume 3 captured (and backed up, and backed up and backed up some more).
Sounds sooo cliche; but I now understand why certain artists come out with the trademark sentence "Cant wait to share this with you".
Shout Outs!* Slop for holding us down executively producing the trip on some Suge Knight ish
* The homie greg for the hospitality in the West
* Homegirl Thea for the mini Brooklyn tour and Alphabet City; the amazing 10c wing spot
* What was possibly the wackest ever chinese take out we got in Jamaica Queens
* Fat lip for his DJ slot at the ill Dilla tribute we were at droppin runnin and spat his verse
* minus half a shout to lip for bumpin hi-tek's sungod in the same set #slippin heh!!
* A faded Killa priest at the same night who blessed the mic with random wu hooks
* Bumping into XXXXXXXXX out in the west coast after we had interviewed him in Brooklyn only a few days earlier
Great trip, even better footage captured...stay tuned!
