OG Geno..... Am I a rap artist,,, songwriter,,, producer,, promoter,,, public relations person or a A&R person???
I can be any one, or all of 'em,, all rolled up into one little black man.. because I'm already doing all of these jobs for myself now...
I don't wanna be a "STAR"... I'd rather be a business man and a "STAR RECRUITER"... "FOR REAL".....
Every one of us knows that if we go out and kill somebody, that the cops and a lot of other people are gonna be in our lifes and trying to send us to prison for a very long time. RIGHT? So why is it that so many people are STILL going around killing people over stupid, dumb and bullshit reasons?????? I look at it like this here,,, Why should I kill somebody just because they called me a punk, or ugly, or looked at me for more than 6 seconds, or stepped on my shoe, or because of what hood or crew he or she hangs with, or the biggest one of all, and I have plenty others, as I'm sure you have some too by now, but my biggest one is,,,,,,, "WHY IN THE HELL DO PEOPLE STILL SHOOT INTO A CROWD OF OTHER PEOPLE HOPING TO HIT ONE PERSON" ???????? What they end up doing is hitting 8 people, and none of those people where the person they were wanting to hit....... If you tell me that's "GANGSTA", I'ma tell you that's "STUPID" !!!!!!!!!! I've been around for 40 years now, and that adds up to a lot of days, which means I've seen & heard a lot of different stuff, and NEVER have I heard of a dude killing somebody and then living life like it's all good, cause in reality, IT AIN'T ALL GOOD.... Your life will never be the same. There will be no more hanging out like everything is fine, because in the back of your mind you know that them boys can come chasing you at any given time on any giving day, including today and right now. BOOM GAME OVER.............................. Every war that has ever been fought has been fought because of two people that could not, did not, and would not agree to what the other one wanted to do, and so they wagged a war against each other, and in the process they both get a lot of other people killed, and SOMETIMES they themselves are STILL alive. But it was "THEIR" fight, "THEIR" war, but "WE DIE" and "THEY SURVIVE"..... So what I'm saying is basically every war that ever started is started by 2 people, and if only 1 of those people would just shut up, and stop trying to impose their will on the next person,,, we wouldn't have any wars at all... Really, it's a waste of life to just live a life looking to kill somebody and waiting to be killed yourself... So all this tuff talk and mean muggin shit is stupid as hell.. Especially when the other person has NOT done and is NOT trying to do anything harmful to you.... That shit is stupid!!!!! Killing somebody should be the last thing a person does, because once you kill someone, you're life is going to change too. It ain't just that person is gone, and now I can relax.... Get that dumb ass thought out yo head.... It's, I kill someone, and then them people are gonna be trying to lock my ass up for a long ass time..... especially when I didn't have to kill this person because that person was not bringing any hositle or aggressive moves towards my physical being.... And what trips me out even more is that this continues to go on day after day all around the world.... Somebody is killing somebody else over a dumb bullshit ass reason and then their going to prison for a long ass time.... What's the benefit of that???? 2 more lifes wasted all because 1 person "OVER RE ACTED".... If a person is not trying to kill you, you shouldn't be trying to kill that person,,, And I ain't saying nothing that ain't already known by every person that reads this and every person that doesn't read this.. We've seen the news, heard the stories, watched the movies, and have probably even personally felt the effects of doing something considered illegal and have the police pick you up, take you to jail, send you to the county jail, and then later sending you to prison... I have personally been able to avoid doing any time in any correctional facility, and it's only because I"ve learned that everything ain't worth doing, and so I don't involve myself in certain situations... And the main way I can avoid an argument with a person is to not come at that person in an aggresive manner, and if that person ain't coming at me in an agreesive manner than I have no problem with that person....., "WE CAN BOTH ENJOY THE SURROUNDINGS".... STOP TRIPPIN !!!!!!... THAT SHIT CRAZY!!!!!! OG Geno...... YEA, I SAID IT !!!!!!!!
AM I A LITTLE ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES??
You bet your two butt cheeks I am, but at the same time, I'm one of the most honest, dependable, friendly, open minded & non-selfish humans you'll ever come across in your life.
In the words of Eric B. & Rakim, "I Ain't No Joke".
I find my characteristics to be extremly useful in today's world. I'm sure some people will hear my music & "ASSUME" that I'm a negative person, But if those same people would spend some time talking with me, I'm sure they'll see that their "ASSUMPTIONS" of me are all wrong.
Do I get a kick out of proving people wrong?
You bet your two butt cheeks I do.
I know I use a lot of strong language in some of my songs, But as a songwriter I feel it helps add to the authenticity & integrity of the song.
Do you think the characters in movies like Scarface & Hustle & Flow would have had the same powerful impact on screen if they all talked like Ernie & Burt from Sesame Street?
Of course not. So when you hear me using strong lanugage in a song, it's not for shock value, it's for pure, true expression of the statement I'm trying to make.
I accept the fact that some record labels may be turned off by my lyrical content, and I'm cool with that, Because I understand it completly, & I guess that's one of the reasons that I'm doing things on my own, Because I know it's just a song of expression & that a lot of people will like it & accept it for what it is. "A SONG".
I feel that a label & an artist have to match each other 100%, & if the match is not there, then the two should never become one. I really don't make beats and songs for the money anyway.
I do it solely for the love of the music, & I'll do it for free ( like I've been doing for over 20 years LOL)
So, Am I A Little Rough Around The Edges?
You bet your two butt cheeks I am, But at the same time, I'm one of the most honest, dependable, friendly, open minded & non-selfish humans you'll ever come across in your life....
The Chi-Lites (timeless songs & a lotta hits).. The Funk Brothers (the Motown sound- research this band & you might learn something you didn't already know).. Curtis Mayfield (Superfly soundtrack).. Marvin Gaye (Inner City Blues).. Smokey Robinson (good writing & smooth singing).. Frank Sinatra (My Way, my favorite song from him).. Russel Simmons (strickly business).. OG Ice T (6 in the morning & a lotta other ones).. NWA (straight outta Compton & a lotta other ones).. Ice Cube (good writing, good mic skills & good business man).. Schooly D. ( cheba cheba & a lotta other ones).. T-La Rock (it's yours).. Kool Moe Dee (I go to work & a lotta other ones, good writing & mic skills, the boy can FLOW).. Kurtis Blow ( the breaks & a few other ones).. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (the message & a few other ones).. Africa Bambaataa (looking for the perfect beat & a few other ones).. Big Daddy Kane (cool, smooth & can rock the mic).. Run DMC (hard times & a lotta other ones).. LL Cool J (radio,, the boy can flow & handle his business).. Eric B. & Rakim (microphone fiend, i ain't no joke & a lotta other ones).. Spice 1 (eastbay gangsta, money gone & a lotta other ones).. Dr. Dre (them beats).. Timberland (them beats).. Master P. (no limit/beats by the pound).. Diddy (bad boy).. Geto Boys (rap a lot) and everybody else that can express themselves with words, harmony and musical instruments...
Irving "OG Geno" Jones, was born the youngest of 6 children on 6/15/1969 in the city of Chicago to Ruby Lee Jones & Creadel "Red" Jones, the original bass singer of the Chi-Lites, (born 9/26/1940- died 8/25/1994- R.I.P. Dad). His first place of residence was the Robert Taylor Homes housing projects (4525 building) on the city's southside. There is where he spent the first 9 years of his life, learning to play the games that the projects play. From there he lived in a few other southside neighborhoods- 57th & Calumet- 56 & Throop and the Ida B. Wells projects. He attended Coleman Elementary, Carter Elementary & Dunbar High School, where he dropped out in the 9th grade. Geno's mother moved to the northside of Flint, Michigan in 1985. After living in Chicago for another year, Geno's brother & sister bought him a bus ticket to move to Flint with his mother in 1986, which is where he still lives today. Geno found Flint to be much different from Chicago, but as any true hustler, he learned to live there, and gain a few friends along the way. Geno was no stranger to gang life. While living in the Robert Taylor homes at age 7 or 8, he and 2 friends of his started a small gang that they named the Black Dragons. When he moved from the projects in 1978 he brung the gang's name with him & got a few other young boys in his new neighborhood to join up with him. A couple of years later he was associating with the Black Disciples & the Gangster Disciples & would later gone on to form his own street family, called the Guntown Gangster Organization in 1988. Geno is no longer gangbangin. Geno says that spending the first half of his life in Chicago & the later years in Flint, has showed him that every city has ghettos and somebody that's starting trouble. This is where he got most of the content for the songs that he creates. Geno always had a love for music. He became hooked to hiphop after hearing Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang in 1980. At age 11 he learned all the words, and would spit it word for word, while his friends would say, how you remember all of that? His reply would always be "I don't know". By age 13, he was writing to other artists songs, changing the words, but keeping the flow and music of some of the top artist at that time. He did'nt know at the time, that would be the start of his G. Style Records. Thru out the 80's & 90's, Geno kept writing & flowin', then in 1998 he bought his first (well, actually 2nd, but that's another story) keyboard for $312 (the amount of his rent that month) and started writing songs to the beats in the keyboard, as well as songs to the beats he was creating. He would record his songs on a tape deck in his apartment's living room. He had a couple of homeboys (Mizzike & D. Rick) that use to stop by & flow to some of his beats. The 3 of them would also get on some songs together. After months of freestylin' over so many beats, Geno saw they he & his homeboys had it, & that he could make beats that other rappers could feel & want to flow on. This was the 2nd stage of G. Style Records. In 2001, Geno moved from his apartment & bought a house, & this is where the studio really came to be. He bought another keyboard, a 24 channel mixer, a digital recorder & a cd recorder. Thru much trial & error, he taught himself how to write songs, make beats, arrange the songs, perform the vocals on the songs & record the songs. (That's determenation for you) He would pass the cd's off to some homeboys, to see what they thought, and they were all diggin' it. Some of them would even remember the words to his songs & flow to it while it was playing, letting him know that his music could catch a person's attention. In 2005, Geno decided to go worldwide with his G. Style Records & posted his music on different websites like soundclick.com, myspace.com, Independent Artist Company.com & a few others. The response from all has been extremly well, once again showing the OG Geno that there is a place for his G. Style Records, & now he's commited to staying in the studio, making beats, writing songs, and flowin' on the mic the G. style way...
A POEM I WROTE ABOUT GANGBANGING....
Bangin is a thing a lot of brothers do,
They do it for the red,
They do it for the blue,
They do it for the six,
They do it for the five,
They do it till the day they're no longer alive,
You see a brother like me,
Man I've been bangin for years,
Thru the good,
Thru the bad,
Thru the laughter,
And definitly thru the tears,
But now comes the time that I make a decision,
Will I continue on my gang bang mission?
I'm 50% out, But I'm 50% in,
And it seems like my homies are my only friends,
So do I leave?
Or do I stay?
Until the day I get blowed away?
If I leave my homies, then I'm not real,
But if I stay with my homies, I might get killed,
It's a tough decision I have to make,
Tryna decide which route I should take,
I wanna stay in, because of the love I have,
I wanna get out, because I might get stabbed,
I wanna stay in, cause I'm real as hell,
I wanna get out, before I rot in jail,
I wanna stay in till the day I die,
I wanna get out, and give a new life a try,
See, some of y'all feel me,
But some of y'all don't,
A few of y'all will,
But most of y'all won't,
The life that I have is definitly changing,
All because a brother started gangbangin......
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This is a poem I wrote about 15 years ago, when I was tryna find myself in this dark world, and now that I have found my inner peace, I solemly swear to never bring harm to another person because of a gang's name.
My heart is NOW free from ALL hatred, and I'm still not a punk.
I'M A MAN....
READ IT & UNDERSTAND IT...
And to all of my brothers and sisters that's still caught up in the cycle of hate,,,,
Free your mind and the rest will follow...
1 LOVE & RESPECT IS ALL I KNOW NOW...
OG Geno,,,
Here Till I'm Gone.....
CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE I FOUND ABOUT THE CHI-LITES AND MY FATHER CREADEL "RED" JONES....
The rest of the story
Posted May 31, 2009 by evandad
Categories: May 2009
Tags: 1971, Chi-Lites
Much of what I know about about soul music comes from listening first to AM radio in the early ’70s, then FM radio for the rest of the decade. However, mine tends to be a wide but shallow pool at times.
I plead guilty as charged when it comes to the Chi-Lites. I long knew them only for their smooth, gentle love songs, the radio hits — “Have You Seen Her” from 1971 and “Oh Girl” from 1972.
A short while back, I heard “(For God’s Sake) Give More Power To The People,” a powerfully funky protest song featuring Creadel “Red” Jones’ bass voice. A bass? With the Chi-Lites? Head asplode. It’s from 1971, done along the lines of the stuff done by the Temptations at the time, and oh, how I dug the Temptations.
So I started digging — and digging for — the Chi-Lites, who came out of Chicago and worked together for a decade before hitting it big in the early ’70s. I recently found tonight’s record for a dollar. It’s a delightful mix of those smooth, sweet sounds and the funkier stuff.
As the liner notes on the Brunswick Records album jacket say: “Eugene Record, Marshall Thompson, Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester and Creadel ‘Red’ Jones are the four stars of this amazing quartet.” Record sings lead, Thompson and Lester complement him and Jones’ bass anchors it all.
In the late ’50s, Record and Lester started out with another singer, Clarence Johnson, in a group called the Chanteurs. Thompson and Jones were a group called the Desideros. About 1960, they joined forces and became the Hi-Lites. In 1964, they became Marshall and the Chi-Lites, the latter reflecting their Chicago roots. Not long after, Johnson left the group, and they went simply as the Chi-Lites. It wasn’t until they signed with Brunswick Records in 1968 that they started to make it nationally. Their peak years were 1969 to 1973.
Thompson and Lester continue to perform as the Chi-Lites along with Frank Reed, who joined them as lead singer almost 20 years ago, after Record left the group. Record and Jones have since died.
different shit same hole. goin thru tha daily bullshit life throws my way. i was on da computer yesterday n i peeped tha tracks u got n they fire especially that song "red son"
iTS aLRiTe.. TaKe uR TiMe ReCoRDiN/PRoDuCiN NeW SoNGS.. GReaT SuBSTaNCe TaKeS a LoNGeR TiMe To PRoDuCe.. QuaLiTY THaT MaTTeRS THaN QuaNTiTY.. TRUE?? :)
I'm so glad for u, with me things are more or less jajja problems are always over there and we just have to solve it lol but I trust in God the only one who can help me xD
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A POEM I WROTE ABOUT GANGBANGING....
Bangin is a thing a lot of brothers do,
They do it for the red,
They do it for the blue,
They do it for the six,
They do it for the five,
They do it till the day they're no longer alive,
You see a brother like me,
Man I've been bangin for years,
Thru the good,
Thru the bad,
Thru the laughter,
And definitly thru the tears,
But now comes the time that I make a decision,
Will I continue on my gang bang mission?
I'm 50% out, But I'm 50% in,
And it seems like my homies are my only friends,
So do I leave?
Or do I stay?
Until the day I get blowed away?
If I leave my homies, then I'm not real,
But if I stay with my homies, I might get killed,
It's a tough decision I have to make,
Tryna decide which route I should take,
I wanna stay in, because of the love I have,
I wanna get out, because I might get stabbed,
I wanna stay in, cause I'm real as hell,
I wanna get out, before I rot in jail,
I wanna stay in till the day I die,
I wanna get out, and give a new life a try,
See, some of y'all feel me,
But some of y'all don't,
A few of y'all will,
But most of y'all won't,
The life that I have is definitly changing,
All because a brother started gangbangin......
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This is a poem I wrote about 15 years ago, when I was tryna find myself in this dark world, and now that I have found my inner peace, I solemly swear to never bring harm to another person because of a gang's name.
My heart is NOW free from ALL hatred, and I'm still not a punk.
I'M A MAN....
READ IT & UNDERSTAND IT...
And to all of my brothers and sisters that's still caught up in the cycle of hate,,,,
Free your mind and the rest will follow...
1 LOVE & RESPECT IS ALL I KNOW NOW...
OG Geno,,,
Here Till I'm Gone.....
CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE I FOUND ABOUT THE CHI-LITES AND MY FATHER CREADEL "RED" JONES....
The rest of the story
Posted May 31, 2009 by evandad
Categories: May 2009
Tags: 1971, Chi-Lites
Much of what I know about about soul music comes from listening first to AM radio in the early ’70s, then FM radio for the rest of the decade. However, mine tends to be a wide but shallow pool at times.
I plead guilty as charged when it comes to the Chi-Lites. I long knew them only for their smooth, gentle love songs, the radio hits — “Have You Seen Her” from 1971 and “Oh Girl” from 1972.
A short while back, I heard “(For God’s Sake) Give More Power To The People,” a powerfully funky protest song featuring Creadel “Red” Jones’ bass voice. A bass? With the Chi-Lites? Head asplode. It’s from 1971, done along the lines of the stuff done by the Temptations at the time, and oh, how I dug the Temptations.
So I started digging — and digging for — the Chi-Lites, who came out of Chicago and worked together for a decade before hitting it big in the early ’70s. I recently found tonight’s record for a dollar. It’s a delightful mix of those smooth, sweet sounds and the funkier stuff.
As the liner notes on the Brunswick Records album jacket say: “Eugene Record, Marshall Thompson, Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester and Creadel ‘Red’ Jones are the four stars of this amazing quartet.” Record sings lead, Thompson and Lester complement him and Jones’ bass anchors it all.
In the late ’50s, Record and Lester started out with another singer, Clarence Johnson, in a group called the Chanteurs. Thompson and Jones were a group called the Desideros. About 1960, they joined forces and became the Hi-Lites. In 1964, they became Marshall and the Chi-Lites, the latter reflecting their Chicago roots. Not long after, Johnson left the group, and they went simply as the Chi-Lites. It wasn’t until they signed with Brunswick Records in 1968 that they started to make it nationally. Their peak years were 1969 to 1973.
Thompson and Lester continue to perform as the Chi-Lites along with Frank Reed, who joined them as lead singer almost 20 years ago, after Record left the group. Record and Jones have since died.
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