Music Video: Notes to Self - All of the Above [BBRC]

More quality product from Notes to Self with this new video for "All of the Above." Excellent production (as per usual) from Book and Bronze, dope verses all around - all around great hip hop track and tribute to rap music. The video is...well, it kind of makes you not want to fuck with these guys. Seriously, not sure what the message here is, but here's one interpretation: dope, raw, rugged rap group surviving in the cold, harsh wasteland that is the Music Industry + Hip Hop Scene in general. New NTS project, Used to be Dark (Recoil) coming at the end of the month!



Feeling like Frontiersman, we grew our beards and arrived in Mactier at 7:30pm. Cold as f*ck. 4 hour drive North. Pitch black outside. Cabin smelled like pine and rosé. Dropped our bags, chose our beds, Bronze took the air mattress. Half hour till the NBA Dunk-Off. Donk was geeked. Flat screen, satellite, middle-of-nowhere. Heats on. Lee is lit. Drunk off Timbits. Blake Griffin jumps over a car. Here to shoot a music video.

Eric suggested we charge the equipment. Didn't knock on wood. Inexcusable in a cabin. Power went out. Cold as f*ck. Pitch black inside. Cabin smelled like weed and sulfur. Dropped our plans, went to bed, Bronze froze on the air mattress. 5 hours till daylight. Rosh is lit. Left-over Timbits for breakfast. Last night Blake Griffin jumped over a car. Here to shoot a music video, with Ben to direct. A take on raps pioneers, we planned to wear fur.

The events that followed were captured on camera; 'All of the Above' took place. This is a true story. *No animals were harmed in the making of this video.

- Notes to Self

Artist: Notes to Self
Song: All of the Above [BBRC]
Produced by Bronze One (of Notes to Self) for Course of Study & Book (of Beatface) for Jigsaaw
*AKA BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve
Raps by Roshin, Swamp Donkey & Bronze One (all of NTS)
Cuts by DJ Dopey (of NTS)

Directed & Edited by Benjamin Young Hart for greenwoodyard.com
Concept by Benjamin & Matthew 
Cinematography shot by Eric Boucher
Assistant to the Director: Lee Gaul
Online by JR for Motioneer.ca

Drawing by Adrian Forrow (adrianforrow.com)
Graphics & Treatment by Course of Study Creative & Peekay Art Dept.

From the forthcoming Notes to Self project "Used to be Dark [RECOIL]"

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Teaser Video: Notes to Self - All of the Above

Big tings coming soon from Notes To Self (NTS):


Notes to Self starts the new year off right with a teaser for their brand new video "All of the Above [BBRC]," which drops next week.  Notes to Self member and former world DMC Champion DJ Dopey provides the live juggle.  The "All of the Above [BBRC]" OFFICIAL VIDEO will mark the third visual from Notes' upcoming project "Used to be Dark [Recoil]" which will be released at the end of the month.

Notes to Self - All of the Above [BBRC]

Notes to Self coming through with another banger...if the forthcoming Used to be Dark [Recoil] album keeps the bar as high as the tracks they've been putting out lately, then there is definitely ample reason to get hyped about the project. Take in the hip-hoppery:

All of the Above [BBRC] by NotestoSelf

Artist: Notes to Self 
Song: All of the Above [BBRC] 
Produced by Bronze One (of Notes to Self) & Book (of Beatface) 
AKA BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve 
From the forthcoming Notes to Self project "Used to be Dark [RECOIL]" 
Illustration by Elicser (elicser.com) 
Design by COS & PK 
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Music Video: Notes to Self - Nobody feat. Evidence

Very creative idea and excellent editing job for the new Notes to Self video for "Nobody" featuring Evidence.  Sick track, nostalgic video. Nnnnnnnnnnnnotes to self!





Notes to Self returns with the second video from their upcoming project "Used to Dark [RECOIL]."  Notes and Ev hopped in the DeLorean and made a video with all their favourite rappers. You have to see it to believe it.

 --  Remember back back in the day when you had that 1 Homie who would video tape & record every rap video on TV, or every rap show on the radio? Fast forward 15 years, the Homie has a box of 30 or so VHS cassette tapes sittin dusty in a drawer with things like "Rap City", "Summer Jam", "The Box", "In Da Round" scrolled on the side of'em in some youthful hand styles fit for a wall or 2 - and you're like, I need to watch these, takes you back, rappin along with every word like it was yesterday. But you ain't mad raps evolved, cus you fuck with the new shit, cus back then "this was the new shit". You were at home thinking, "How can I rap like that?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzlThqNOe1Y&list=HL1322103569&feature=mh_lolz

 Artist: Notes to Self
Song: Nobody with Evidence
Produced by Bronze One (of Notes to Self) for Course of Study & Bookworm (of Beatface)
*AKA BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve

Directed by JR of Motioneer & Matthew Bronson
*[ MOTIONEER & NOTES TO SELF ]*
Edit by MOTIONEER
VFX by The Farm Team [Kyle Sim, Mike MacInnis, JR]
From the forthcoming Notes to Self project "Used to be Dark [RECOIL]".
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Track Remix: Notes to Self - Nobody [RECOIL Remix] feat. Evidence

Toronto rap group Notes to Self continue their weekly offering approaching the release of their new free album "Used to be Dark [Recoil]," dropping this December.  "Nobody" was the song that initially brought Notes to Self together with the Dilated Peoples camp for the first time. Its since been updated in preparation for the "Nobody" Official Video dropping next week. 

Soundcloud (Download Available) :

http://soundcloud.com/notestoself/nobody-recoil-remix-with

  Nobody [RECOIL Remix] with Evidence by NotestoSelf

Notes to Self x 59Fifty (Commercial - Part 2)

Check out this jokes new commercial for the NTS 59Fifty hats...let's hope these fellas don't get sued...
Cop yours today at a New Era store near you!

New Music Video: Notes to Self - Today (I Wanna)

New true-school hip hop dopeness from Notes to Self! Banging beat, lovely vocals by Lee Gaul, and dope verses from all MCs:


When the stars align and creativity is at its height, magic happens - believe it or not, it can also be predetermined.


Ever just borrow a camera and shoot a video for a joint that wasn't finished yet, solely off the goosebumps that those very first 16 bars gave you? And before that 16 is even written, that 16 is inspired by a beat that is made in 10 minutes while en route to the session waiting for that 16? Flipped in mere minutes from the energy a soulful voice a friend introduces to you only hours before? That same voice winding up on the hook because it was destined to, because you couldn't get that soulful voice out of your head? A feeling from a beat so powerful, that the same Dude that writes the first 16 to that beat, is also incredibly compelled to write a hook too, on the spot? Who's then convinced, that this is "thee" tune and writes his own 16, forcing the other to? Plays it for the only remaining Homie, who then loses his shit so much that he turns on the Organ, unintentionally finishing the joint together? Has that ever happened to you?

Well, it happened to us, Today.

Artist: Notes to Self

Song: Today [I Wanna] with Lee Gaul

Produced by Bronze One (of Notes to Self) for Course of Study & Bookworm (of Beatface)

AKA BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve

Additional Vocals by Lee Gaul

Directed by Matthew Bronson

Edited by Gerrit Van Dyke

Shot by JR at Motioneer.ca

Additional Shots by James Donald

From the forthcoming Notes to Self project "Used to be Dark [RECOIL]".

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Teaser Video: Notes to Self - Today

Check out these sweet cuts/production by DJ Dopey (2002 and 2003 World DMC Champion) of Notes to Self for a track that will be dropping very shortly, Today:

New Track: Notes to Self feat. Fashawn - Mr. Polite

Mr. Polite, the new track by Notes to Self, features an incredibly catchy hook and dope verse by west-coast rapper Fashawn, infectious co-production by Bronze One (of NTS) for Course of Study & Bookworm (of Beatface) for Jigsaaw (AKA BOOK & BRONZE for Heart on Sleeve). Great song all around. If this single is any indication of the type of music that will be forthcoming from Notes, then headz better get ready! Link below for stream + download:

Mr. Polite with Fashawn by NotestoSelf
"Notes to Self connects with Fashawn for their new song together, "Mr. Polite". Notes recorded with Fash in Toronto earlier this year, courtesy of their mutual Homie, Evidence. The song that emerged shows a different side of Notes to Self, a departure for both themselves & Fashawn - Girl at home vs. Girls on the road. A classic topic."

Music Video: Notes to Self (NTS) - "Throw Your (Hands Up)"

If you haven't seen this video/heard this song from Notes to Self yet, kindly remove your head from under that rock and show some love to one of the illest hip hop groups out of Canada right now (that means "like" the video, comment on it, and spread it like rumours). Cool vid concept, dope production, and some ridiculous double time flows courtesy of Ragin Roshin: