One of the 1st beats made and recorded for this project was "True Lies". It was basically the blueprint for what "Revisionist History" was originally going to be. (a classic break and some dope emcees) I had just gotten my feet planted in Indy, "Basement Sessions" was in the process of final mixes and while I was figuring out my next move, this project started building steam. I've told bits and pieces of this story in other postings, but the only thing that's important is that despite the long road this project's here.
Rakim... what can I say that you haven't heard from a million other people. He's simply one of the illest to ever touch the mic. That being said, there was no way I couldn't flip something from Rakim's catalog for this project.
(enter "True Lies")
"Microphone Fiend" is one of my favorite Rakim cuts and I wanted to capture the feel of some dope cats just droppin' some rap ish on the mic. Long story short, some how was able to connect with Wildchild. (probably through Myspace... yes this track has that much of a history) I let him listen to a handful of beats and this was the joint that he wanted to rock to. In many ways he came up with the concept of the track. Everything else was after the fact. I think I wrote my verse, then Verb from Dolla Bin dropped the hook and after about a year or more Fash-1 was able to drop his.
As time passed and the project was kind of put up on the shelf, I had a rough version of this track out there, but it was kind of left at that. Now here we are... FINALLY!!! This track is honestly one of the high points of the music I've worked on and really embodies what this project is all about.
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