www.soundclick.com/devoidoforbit
For the old album......
Devoid of Orbit is the name I've come up with to refer to my music, both "rapping" and "producing." Instead of sitting here and breaking down the meaning of that name, I'm going to take you through the rich and storied past of the man that at least half a dozen people know as Erik 'TaLi' RodrigueZ (IN THIRD PERSON!).
Although he was born in the hood (Hammond, Indiana), TaLi was raised in the extremely rugged and segregated streets of middle class Amherst, Ohio. It was here that his uncanny ability to relate to things that had absolutely nothing to do with his actual experiences flourished. In other words, the strikingly suburban sounds of NWA corrupted this young Puerto Rican/Irish/Polish boy. Then, at 15, TaLi and his mother moved down to Jonesboro, Georgia, a southern suburb of Atlanta. It was here where he began hanging around with ACTUAL black people. After graduating high school, TaLi hit a bit of a lull in his life. All of the hand-outs he had been given up to this point left TaLi without any real sense of accomplishment. Therefore, he took it upon himself to continue allowing his mother and grandparents to pay his way through college, make payments on his car, and pay a large majority of his bills. Around 21 or so years of age, TaLi realized he could actually write and recite his own rhymes rather than just sing along with everybody else's. Things have never quite been the same since. Around 23 or so years of age, TaLi's production sensei, Grendel, began teaching him the tricks of the trade. Things have never quite been the same since. Now that he's 26 years old and has received his Masters Degree in Sociology, TaLi truly believes that he's the shit. Luckily, his girlfriend of 7 and a half years puts him in his place on a daily basis.
Um, quick update, I'm moving to Syracuse, New York to get my PhD in sociology. So yeah, if anybody lives within a reasonable distance and wants to get together to like, buy me dinner or something, I'm always down for a good hand out.
(END THIRD PERSON!).
I'm working on a few new things right now. If you haven't gotten it already, Grendel and I put out an EP of music we made between 2002-2004. There are quite a few weirdos with copies of this loveliness roaming around last I checked lol. Anyways, if you want to hear that stuff, here it is... www.soundclick.com/devoidoforbit
that new track is NICE sonnnn!!! man i got hoards of decent beats that need lyrics. actually you have most of them but i may have a bunch that you dont. plus you like my older shit more than anyone else. spice it up and we will call it brand new. im not on AIM much, but if you decide to get on more i will make a point of it. holla dun
Let me start of by saying... me6.jpg is a really bad and goofball photo! LOL, but if it makes you happy, then i'm happy, too.
Anyway, moving swiftly on..... I basically have all of the same feelings you have, and it is fucking hard and torturous at the best of times, but then when you see something in every day life that you know you're missing in your own life, then it really stings when it slaps you dead in the face. Fuck it though, even though it hurts when it happens, deep down I know that the thing I have is 100 times better than what I'm seeing at that moment. (i hope I'm making sense, I'm trying to type while you're singing!). Why are we communicating via myspace? I don't fucking know. I don't fucking care. The point is I love you and I want to spend my life with YOU, so fuck the rest. You're like no one I've ever known, ever met or will ever know or meet. We are two of a kind, and a rare kind at that. Nothing else can even come close. All the bullshit we've been through, everything that's ever happened - none of it matters. We have come out the otherside and even though life sucks, life is also fucking great. Look how far we've come, look at everything we've overcome and look at us now. Unbelievable.
