Jetty Rae’s Trip to ATL

September 26th 2011, marked #TeamJetty’s first recording session with Arex Productions. Big Shout out to Sean and Shin of Arex and to JR. We linked up with Chew and Serge and went straight to their home studio for some pre production and song writing.

This is Jetty playing one of her songs for Arex and just sharing her vibe. For such a small girl she has a huge voice and I quote JR “You are the reason why im in music”.

So Arex produced a couple of joints for Jetty and then paired her up with some song writers. This is Thomas, amazing dude, super cool guy to work with, he actually Gotta Jetty on the late night tip after she had already written two songs and was super cool.

Sharing some thoughts and opinions about the record he cut with thomas with Sean and Serge.

Day three we made it up to Mt. Paran and got in the BIG!! Studio. This is the actual SSL board that use to be in the HIT Factory in NY, mad producers and aritsts have made hits right infront of this station.

Look at this crazy patch bay, can anyone tell me what the heezy is going on here? looks like an old school phone operators station hahahaha,

Serge and Jetty going over a few pointers and general pre recording discussions.

Jetty Choppin it up with Thomas the writer and a guitarist they brought in to lay down some melodies for her. I think that’s Kent?

The drum room

Jetty laying down her guitar part

Finally Shin and Jetty laying down vocals for a Track that Cassius wrote for her. Song is a so fire, You may hear this one on the radio very soon

This is what Jetty’s recording sessions use to look like….

This is what they look like now…. #TeamJetty LOL

Jetty and Shin having a listening session to her recordings

Couple of extra opinions is always a good thing to have.

Cassius and Sean taking a listen to the record her wrote for Jetty

Me pretending to be hard at work.

Yeah I always stay connected!

Finally we ended that weekend with J Kim’s first “official” performance at the Nest. I put it in qutoes b/c that event was so unorganized and the system was just average. But we are working on some new material with some SICK producers, and now have KTL nightlife on board helping with promotions. Also shout out to Tony for coming in as the business manager. Official team has now been set

Cheers to chasing your dreams, when most people question your work ethic, credibility, and ability. Cheers to not letting the pressures of the world dictate how you will live out the one life/chance that God has given you on this Earth. Cheers to Chew and Serge, Sean and Shin of A-Rex, Kent, Thomas, and everyone else that was a part of her first experience in ATL. Let’s Get it!

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POEM: What if Tomorrow Never Came?

If you knew that the clock was ticking would you have a mission?

What would you do in that position?

Would you resolve a conflict that needs fixing?

And take the time out to truly focus and listen

Would you express urgency? Or show courtesy

Problems that were minor suddenly become emergencies

Hesitations that were made become certainties

Losing all value in materials and currency

Currently the future doesn’t hold the same worth

Because right now might be the conclusion of your birth

Is it still about money power and being respected

Or going back to fix the things that you had neglected

Making sure that when your done those you love will be protected

And try your best to bring back those who were rejected

What do you put on top of your priorities?

Is the western white life still your goal, or are you ready to die a minority?

Have you thought of where you’d be in, in the life after?

All of a sudden the words of your pastor

Come inside your head you remember all the chapters

Im not talking about religious jargon like the rapture

I hope you see that hugging your grandmother today really does matter.

I hope you see that if you love a girl you need to grab her

I hope you see that your neighbor being skinny is not right while you get fatter

I hope you see that Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad, all know God and spoke about love and that’s what really matters.

Anniversarie’s Birthday’s and BBQ’s

First and foremost congrats to my folks for their 30th anniversary! Man 30 years of dedication and love for another is something rare and definetly worth celebrating in this day and age. My parents have been through a lot as has many other immigrant couples, with having to learn english, leaving everything behind, being foreigners, to working 14 hour shifts just to feed their children.
But a side not about my parents, my mom’s family actually came from Korea to Queens, New York, and my dad’s family moved to Atlanta, Ga which means, they did not come over to America married, they actually met each other while being 10 states apart, and u have to imagine this is in the early early 80′s before internet, gmail, twitter, facebook, or even cell phones. A pastor told my dad about a pretty girl that lived in NY and they did…… Hand written letters! Sent pics of themselves and went on like 5 dates, and a few months later decided to get married. ABC’s = American Bred Couple! Congrats mom and dad.

Of course I always gotta give a shout out to the OG’s of the Eun Clan.

Yes we celebrated over steaks and wine at Ruth’s Chris

Always Robert Mondavi with the Eun’s

Cheers to 30 years of love and dedication.

Transition from 30 years to 5 years, Happy birthday to my God Daughter London Aliyah Kim. Turned 5

CUTEST thing I have ever received in the mail, A thank you card from London for her bicycle that I got for her for her birthday.

And you know there is always good food on Tek Blog

Using our brand new smoker/grill

Steaks on the Grill

Salty Seaweeds infamous Ribs, In they go

And out they come

A lil Ethiopian Joint that my friend took me too, Super authentic and it was pretty good. It reminded me of Indian style type dining, the flavors were different, but the style was very similar.

Random pic but there is Donut Joint new GT and it has the craziest Donuts ever.

So i finally decided to paint my room and this is the chaos that is my room as I started to paint

I know my blog is starting to go into this randomness as it usually does, but this is the line outside of best buy in Kennesaw at 8:00am for the crazy sale on the HP tablets.

I was number 76 out of 200 (inventory of tablets) but the line by 10:00am when the door actually opened up had to have been around 400 – 500 people.

Last bit of randomness, We saw these porch chairs on sale at Target and decided to buy 2 of them assuming they were gonna fit in my trunk…… well

They didn’t hahaha. I went home going like 10 mph down Abernathy.

CHEERS and Again big ups to my parents for really being the foundation of our family and such a strong example of what a loving and dedicated couple can accomplish together not only for their family but the whole city of ATL. Sure they had their ups and downs but one thing I can honestly admit to you is their character and strong value, I HAVE NEVER not once ever seen them fight infront of me in my entire life. Sure I have seem them angry, sad, and upset, but never have I ever seen the fight with one another. AMAZING.

Love You Guys,

AP’s going away dinner and Cali part 546463!

This post is dedicated to my homie AP who has been gone for about a month now, but again I have been way backed up on my blog so half this blog is dedicated to him and the other half to my 2000th visit to California.

AP has been in the ATL for 3 years and lil bit and he came in as a young teenager who was about to enroll into his freshmen year of college. Came to ATL straight from Hawaii and he did his thing he graduated and is now entering into grad school. I remember when he first came I had to teach him how to use a credit card, how to do things at the post office and just lil things like that, but when he left he left as a man, Good times brother. Good times! Learned alot from him especially when we got into our 5 hour theological debates and didnt end until 3am when we both had class or work the next day…. really helped shape my foundation.

Our server was like our biggest fan, he kept bringing out bottle after bottle, I think like 8 total throughout the night. Mad love.

This girl is so weird…. I dont understand her… LOL

My favorite lil sister pairing.

Group Pic

The next day my family decided  to take AP out for dinner, and my lil Bro David just got back from 16 days in mexico, look at this tan comparision.

My lil brother, and my other lil brother from another mother.

haha pic with the Rents.

Omg I hope my boiz don’t kill me… You see the girls? And how there hiding there faces, its b/c they said they had no make up on, but really I think they didnt want to be seen giving these guys face massageeeeee HAHAHAA

After saying good bye to AP I headed to LA for like the 4th time this year!

My first Meal right off the Plane in LA

Next day we headed out to the golf course but we picked up some kim bahp and massubis’ on the way.

Funny pic on the way to the course, Tow truck towing a Tow Truck.

hahaha Since i wasn’t golfing and just being a driver I decided to tag everyone while they were giving mother nature a present.

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Room 316!

Part of the reason why I flew out to LA was to attend Joon Hyung’s wedding, Congrats!You already know, I got that VIP seating son…

A lil sunny so we had our asian umbrella’s up haha.

First out door wedding, kinda hot but was mad nice.

I just thought this picture was funny… lol

I never eat carrots but this junk was so good I tore it up.

Look at my plate vs David Na’s plate LOL fool was hungry.

Best breakfast sandwhich of my life, forgot what the spot was called but it was mad good.

This is Franchise trying to break into David’s apartment complexes AC unit in their digital Golf room haha.

David asked for a cup of ice and they gave it to him a Tinkerbell kids cup LOL!!

So instagram pics.

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I know this blog was kinda random and all over the place, but Im sifting through crazy amount of pictures from like the past month. But good news is I should be busting out the blogs on a more consistent basis.

TEK-316-RuR

Rize Up Band Summer Tour Conclusion

I honestly have NO idea how long its been since I have updated my Blog. Yes mostly it’s been out of laziness but also, my whole life seems like it has changed. All my old roomates have moved out and back to their perspective homes (miss those guys) Rabbit is still chillin and Sam has moved in. Summer is finally over and my last semester at Columbia Theological Seminary is under way. Rize UP Studios is up and running, and Jetty Rae will be coming to ATL September 26th to begin recording her new material (super Geeked about this). J Burna is about to shoot his first music video, so with all this going on the Blog ha taken a back seat, but now that im situated and back on a schedule I will be back on my WordPress.

First let me go back almost over a month with the back end of the Rize UP Tour ending.

So towards the end of our summer tour we finally had our first Sick victims, Abe and DJ caught some funky stomach virus and was puking and sweating and just dying on us so we did what any loving crew would do…. We quarantined them! Straight up locked abe up in a room upstairs and outcasted DJ to the couch… Nah but we did go out and get the medicine gatorade and some Jook bahp! This is what they had to eat for 2 days.

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While the rest of the band and I get on our iron chef tip and cooked us up a nice home meal while on the road.

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HAHA look at abe he is so miserable, this one family hooked us up with mad donuts and pigs in a blanket and Abe couldn’t eat any of it…

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While the sick kids stayed home me JR, Edmond (die hard Dallas fan) and Eun Soo decided that we were going to utilize our day off and go visit JERRY WORLD!! The new Dallas Cowboys stadium is INSANE!

its like pajamas on him.

Seriously theses two guys are the most comfortable heterosexual males I have ever met….

The jumbotron is seriously NO JOKE, I mean its to the point where you wouldnt even watch the game that going on down on the field…. i dont get it

160ft x 72x, 100 million LED’s

Stadium is 661,000 sq ft, 100,000 seating and has 3200 sony flat screens and 1600 toilets…. WTHEEZY!!!!

Ok so maybe umm… hmm…..

Got to hit up the Cowboys locker room and saw my boi Miles austins locker

Had to show some ATL love to our old Def player Keith Brooking

Yeah ummm… hmmm….

Yeah so wut we’re bench warmers atleast we on the team!

Gettin the play call form upstairs, we were technically not allowed to touch the equipment but oh well.

We even had time for a post game conference.

So you know that rumor that everything is bigger in Texas… well its true, even the portions of food you get is ridiculous.

Ok this shhh right here… this right here, is the biggest dam biscuit i have ever seen in my life. I mean its to the point where you shouldn’t even call it a biscuit its a LOAF of BREAD!

I know you can’t tell how big it is so here it is next to a syrup dispenser.

Or better yet Eun Soo’s new pillow

And we all know how big JR’s face is…. look at that thing!

Random pic of the jankiest vending machine ever….-_-

Oh yeah they gave us hotel room 316!

Last stop on tour, Houston.

We got to work with this Korean/Latino church which was crazy to see first off but even more than that it was amazing to be with the young people and hear there stories and help lead workshops for their praise team. One night we had Latinos, whites, black, vietnamese, Korean, and Phillipino youth groups come out and packed the house. It was a great way to end our tour.

Im back on my blog tip so keep checking back in weekly.

Cheers to the scorching summer and music being the waves to life, that sways us back and forth from every emotion, to every motivation. Deuces

Rize Up Band Summer Tour

So the first leg of the Rize Up Tour I got to join in on was in NC. The band had been doing a couple of joints while i was out of the town but finally I got to hop on the tour with the of a Retreat in NC.

Time to pack it up

 

This is me running the sound board.

Check out the Sketchy hallway to my hotel room….

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The best fast food NC has to offer. The only spot where you can get a Entree (burger or chicken sandwhich, two sides (fries, onion rings, hush puppies, chicken nuggets, CORN DOG, or quesadilla, and a drink for 3.99…. WOW

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After a quick stint in NC we headed to NOVA DC.

Of course we had to do the tourist thing and hit up the monuments.

Here is Edmond planking a Chain haha. So sexy.

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And Edmond planking the cross walk…-_-

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JR trying to plank some weird sign pole thing…

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Rize Up Band performing live for DC… or just Edmund the groupie. D.J. looks pretty sexy too.

 

 

He is a lil too excited to be taken this pic

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The original picture

 

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My incredible instagram skills (follow me at TEKx316)

 

So after we did our thing in DC it was time to head back to ATL. 14 hours and 665.6 miles later we got into ATL at about 3am. Hustle hustle hard

 

After a short 3 day break it was time to hit the road again, but this time I came prepared to keep myself awake on the road.

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Eunsoo sprawled out in the back of JR’s Honda Hybrid, even though he didn’t drive not ONE HOUR!

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When we got to Texas this is how it welcomed us… SMH

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The first official joint our Dallas homies took us to was a place called Rudy’s.

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Their beef brisket was ALL THE WAY OFFICIAL. creamed corn sausage links, pickled peppers, everything was fire, except their “sweet tea” it was weak sauce.

The Band doing their sound check

 

 

The second official TX spot we went to was a joint called Babe’s Chicken house… oh my soul this joint was way too delicious. U see that mound of fried chicken? oh yeah the sides are unlimited… creamed corn, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits and gravy….

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This time i had the right mind to keep it somewhat healthy and i ordered the grilled chicken. I just couldn’t do it anymore… but i was super jealous,

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So after eating like this for a month I have had to find creative ways to keep my diet and fitness intact… somewhat, so me and sam, the only other member who cares about his LIFE, we have been running and wherever we stay at we go look for playgrounds so we can get our ghetto work outs in, mostly pull ups, chin ups, dips, push ups etc….

Someone help me with my LEGS…. -_-

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Thats a good looking band right there

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What does Rize UP Band do on their down time… same thing all other Azn’s do  FACEBOOK. So become a fan of Rize Up Band on FB. Find us like us and follow us!

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Big Big shout outs to the Greensboro, Raleigh, NC crews. NOVA, DC, Centerville family, Especially to Jason Chung we appreciate all the love and hospitality.

TEK-316-RuR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bermuda here come da Eun’s!

 

So I guess it was that time of year again, where my parents want to take a family trip. At first they wanted to hit up Alaska and then go on a 5 to 7 day cruise, which initially sounded dope, but I dont know about at 10 day vacation and being stuck on a boat for 5 days, with Giant Icebergs everwhere, Did they not see TITANIC?!?

So we decided to hit up Bermuda instead, its only a 2 1/2 hour flight, and some random facts, the population is 60,000 total! 22 sq miles TOTAL! and the average house in bermuda will run you 1.5 million…. DOLLARS! 60% black, 30% white and 10% others.

Sitting in the big blue leather chairs with lil bro. We were all sad Andy couldnt come with us.

Yes they are matching… fob style

dreading the take off b.c i hate flying and I can’t sleep on planes! I once took a 14 hour flight to Korea and only slept one hour…

My window view

and then my view when we got to BERMUDA!!!

Top floor pimping

Cheers to making it to Bermuda!

Family shot

My pool/ocean view from my room

Oh yeah, we did it, we put on the robes… lol

U like that no look shot? haha

I think he thinks he owns Bermuda….

Instagram shot of David

I tried to make a corona commerical out of my dad.

Jet Ski time! The waters were so rocky i was gettin air every 20 seconds. Atleast 3 ft jumpers. My mom was yelling and screaming the whole time while trying to hold on to my skinny pops

Couple of beach shots, the waters was CRYSTAL blue and green with crazy marine life, you could swim up to a rock and see 100′s of fish easy

How did they produce 2 6 footers…

On a Ferry to downtown Hamilton

These houses run you 1.5 million MINIMUM!!! and some of them are the sizes of like a big 4 room apartment.

Free Mason Building

LOBSTER TIME!

Yeah he was excited haha

After a fat lobster meal like that, i had to top it off with a nice stogie.

So after doing all boiz stuff, like jet skiing, snorkling, etc.. we decided to give my mom her day, and of course she wanted to walk around and do site seeing and visit museums…-_-

So me and david made the best of it by riding CANNONS! hahaha

Then we hit up Crystal Cave, which started off looking like it was gonna be really dope but the whole tunnel was like 50 ft tops! and they make the tour longer by drawing it out with the tour guide just talkin alot, but I got some pretty sweet shots.

that rock is 20 ft deep. and the water was crystal clear.

 

We hit up Hamilton again and if you ever go to bermuda you have to go on a Wed, b/c they close off the streets, and they got live music, parade, and mad vendors out with all sorts of food. It was pretty tight and they go till like 11 at night.

yeah thats right my dads wearing matching hat and jacket just like his Jr does!

Streets was packed!

Cheers to an awesome family vacation.

 

Cheers to God creating us as creatures of Community who were not born as eggs and left to fend for ourselves, but we come from birth of a womans womb, and we are to be cared for and nurtured into adulthood, but when our parents do the best they can do to raise us, it is our turn to return the favor and take care of them. Maybe not in the same manner physically and financially, but the very least emotionally, to let them know that they are loved, appreciate, and respected for all that they have done for us. I might not be able to buy my dad a car he can’t buy for himself, but sometimes the deeper matters of the heart mean more to us than material goods. I know this when i see my mother smile and my dad laugh. Thanks be to God.