Showing posts with label Do It A Documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Do It A Documentary. Show all posts
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Salt Lake Cit Weekly Music Picks May 1-7 | Live: The Swell Season, Do It!, Northern State, Elbow, Harptallica By Jamie Gadette Posted 05/01/2008 DO IT! A DOCUMENTARY Anyone out there recognize Quanstar? The Compton-born emcee dedicated his life to hip-hop—that, and raising his son as a single dad—but he’s still hardly a household name. Sadly, his story is all too familiar: promising artist works overtime to “make it,” only to realize the secret to success is a trick question. In Do It! A Documentary, Quanstar offers viewers a nice reality check without veering into doomsday territory. Nitty-gritty footage follows the artist recording in a basement practice space and cramped studio, on tour, in hotel rooms with family and friends. The film itself could benefit from some serious editing, but the shaky camera work and muffled testimonies are endearing—especially to other artists trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. Uprok, 342 S. State, 8 p.m. Info: 363-1523 http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=a030787e-14d1-13a2-9feb90884cc385aa AVAILABLE NOW!!!!
5 ALBUMS, 6 NATIONAL TOURS, ENTREPENEUR, SINGLE FATHER, 2 JOBS, SPONSORS CANCELLED, HOUSE FORECLOSED...
...HAVE YOU EVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BAD THAT YOU WOULD DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN?
Do It!: A Documentary Deluxe Set $10 DVD/CD Format
let me tell you a story bout a chick named Jane, pussy good enough to drive a nigga insane, to get what she want she quick to play with your mind, think she love and she dun left your ass behind, until she met Troy that was as trife as she, bad boy from Decatur made her wife to be, big ballin ass nigga even bigger with the trigger, always brought her somethin pretty when he hit her, bruises embellished her hour glass figure beat her brown eyes black, say the wrong word and this nigga was on the attack, but she don't what to do and she has nowhere to go, and she's in love with the dick and he got all the dough, he don't love them other bitches that nigga love you, why they suckin on his dick he be thinkin of you, you ain't innocent yourself love don't even pretend, cause little does he know you you dun fucked all of his friends.
chorus: i got a story to tell and i swear that it's true, might be different names cause it's probably about you, the things that people do for the lack of self esteem, thought you were a Goddess but you act like a queen.
let me tell you a story about this nigga named Bly, til he got hold of a gun always acted real shy, then he start fuckin with big cats, them niggas with big gats, beatin niggas brains in fuckin all the hoodrats, hair cornrolled pants saggin dressed to impressed, thuglife stamped on the dead of his chest, tellin you this nigga was infamously known walkin around the fuckin city of the B's and C's, graduated street life university, majored in pharmaceuticals, though criminal justice was more suitable, you know the bullshit, cock shit shoot shit, lose clips til one of them niggas will get hit, hustle and bustle shuckin and jive, parents disowned you won't even say you alive, could have used their support though started catchin strife, resident of the pen servin 25 to life.
chorus: i got a story to tell and i swear that it's true, might be different name cause it's probably about you, the things that people do for the lack of self esteem, thought you were a God but you act like a king.
it's kind of funny how fake shit disguises as true, everybody's feelin real not really havin a clue, no matter what you do love of man love of cheddar, lack of love of self thinkin that it makes you better, used to go through the same things spriit had to gain things, mine love of pussy women were my play things, another week another chick thought it made me a man, sounds a little sick but i knew that can, didn't really have a plan fuck a girl get money, then send her on her way cryin feelin like a dummy, then somethin switched in me might say my thinkin changed, cause i still fuck a lot but i'm passed playin games, so you see i kinda understand why Jane goes through it, Bly pulls a trigger understand why he do it, those that relate to the words that i speak, put to the mirror to your let you see who you be.
chorus: i got a story to tell and i swear that it's true, might be different name cause it's probably about you, the things that people do for the lack of self esteem, thought you were a God but you act like a king, i got a story to tell and i swear that it's true, might be different names cause it's probably about you, the things that people do for the lack of self esteem, thought you were a Goddess but you act like a queen.
AVAILABLE NOW!!!!
5 ALBUMS, 6 NATIONAL TOURS, ENTREPENEUR, SINGLE FATHER, 2 JOBS, SPONSORS CANCELLED, HOUSE FORECLOSED...
...HAVE YOU EVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BAD THAT YOU WOULD DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN?
Do It!: A Documentary Deluxe Set $10 DVD/CD Format
Marcella Ortega Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: Culture Original Article Found Here From Daily Lobo
For Janale Harris, the music business is not all fun and games.
“You turn on MTV, you turn on BET and you see all these shows,” he said. “It’s no disrespect to any of these shows, because there’s a market for it, and that’s what happens. But you have a whole generation of aspiring artists that come up and think that that’s the business, and it’s not the business. The business is sometimes you got to sleep two hours a day. Sometimes, you’re going to sleep on somebody’s floor. Sometimes, you’re going to wake up, and you’re going to hustle.”
Harris, who’s known as the hip-hop artist Quanstar, will release “Do It!: A Documentary” on Friday. The film will be played at The Stove on Saturday as part of the Hip-Hop Film Festival presented by New Mexico Hip-Hop Congress.
The documentary follows Harris for six months. Throughout the film, he works two jobs, records the soundtrack to the documentary and goes on his annual “Bring Your ‘A’ Game Tour.”
“It’s really like an honest-to-God look at my life,” he said. “It deals a lot with me having two jobs. It talks about me being a father. There is a huge segment on me and my son, and it happens around his birthday, and my family flies out. We interview my mother, my sister and my son’s mother. It has us going on tour.”
Harris said the documentary doesn’t just capture the good part of the six months.
“There’s no glamour to it,” he said. “There are things that go wrong. My house got foreclosed during this movie. So, this is the real deal.”
Harris said he had to learn different approaches to making money in the music business.
“I’ve been in the game professionally since 2001,” he said. “But all my life, people at school or something like that. I’d walk around with, like, $50 and battle somebody for 50. That’s how I’d pay rent a long time ago.”
Harris said making a documentary along with an album gives the audience a visual effect.
“They get to see even more in-depth what we talk about our experience is,” he said. “It gives them a more personal effect of who Quanstar is. Quanstar is a real dude. Quanstar is a person that wakes up and has to go through the things that everyone else does and sometimes doesn’t get as much out of it as someone might in their everyday job. But I get up. I work. I come home just like everybody else.”
Harris he would like to make more documentaries like “Do It!”
“We live in a multimedia society, and I think it’s a natural progression for all media to go towards mixed media,” he said. “Pretty much every album that I drop from now on will be paired with a documentary.”
