http://www.tai-yama.com/blog Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:59:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en    The 1 or 8 Faction is a record label and company based in Singapore and Japan that I've started up. We do audio production for all genres, make beats for our own music, and have a roster of rappers and hiphop/ house DJ's. We're currently setting up our site so ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/12/the-1-or-8-faction-coming-soon/ Asian Hip Hop Festival Date: October 11 Time: 12pm to 12am Venue: Impact Arena (Bangkok, Thailand) ==================== Watsuppppppp I'm off to Thailand next week for the Asian Hip-Hop Festival 2008! I just got a call from my man Flick in Thailand, and he hooked me up for this show. It's a bit late to put our name up ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/10/ill-be-performing-at-the-asian-hip-hop-festival-bangkok/ Shout outs to; CJ, Sky-FU, King, Everyone who was there.  http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/09/shinjuku-again/  Tokyo 2004-05!  I'm Starting to upload old videos I found on my hard drive of me doing my thing :    We used to sell CD's in Shinjuku, right in front of the Alta TV screen. I took headphones, 20 of my home pressed CD's, and me and my crew Sky-Fu used to ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/09/videos-of-some-old-shows-shinjuku-06/    Watsup everybody!  It's been a while and then some..  I been busy going to the Olympics, and making beats, and writing my rhymes of course. I been doing quite alot of crate digging recently. It's where you find small sound samples/ snippets from vinyls, and rearrange, loop, re-record them to make a new song. Anyways, If ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/09/diggin-for-samples-making-beats/     Watsup people, hows everything? I decided to make a group on facebook for people to find my music more conveniently. If your on facebook, then take a look and join! The group makes it easier for me to keep in touch with all the people interested in my music, ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/07/my-facebook-group/ This was a party at MartiniFirm on mohammed sultand road, the shit was funny! It was a small spot, so I took my kicks off, jumped onto the bar top and busted my rhymes. Im screaming "Get ur hands in the airrr~!" and everyone else is thinking, damn his socks ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/07/photos-from-past-shows-martini-firm-07/ I liked this performance, all the local mc's from Singapore came down to check me out, I ran around the club and even got my DJ to forget his decks, pick up the mic and rap the choruses with me! Shout out to my man DjNeboet! Also I got a ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/07/photos-from-past-shows-butter-factory-08/ This was fun as hell aswell, I reunited with my group Sky-Fu in Tokyo after doing my solo thing for a while. It definitely makes a difference when you rock the crowd with your loyal crew. They backed me up in my verses, I hype em up on their raps. ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/07/photos-from-past-shows-shibuya-vuenos-07/   This was dope! I got so used to the older hip-hop crowd just standing there and watching you perform, that I forgot that the young ass crowd (15-18yrs) get crazy up in the party! Big up everyone who was at the event! I got so hyped I tried to bust ... http://www.tai-yama.com/blog/2008/07/photos-from-past-show-ngeeannpolytechnic/