Winners win...

Wow, it has been a crazy few days. First off, I gotta give special thanks to everyone who helped my remix of Lil Jon's "I Do" place in the top 20 of all contestants in the Loud Records Producer Remix Contest! There are too many 5G soldiers to name, but you guys rallied for 48 hours straight and it just goes to show that winners win...

WE DID.

So now that we're officially a top 20 finalist, the voting is of course over. The next step is for Lil Jon himself to pick his favorite remix, with the winner being announced on September 30th! I'll keep you up to speed.

The prizes include a featured spot in the music player on his Myspace page (which boasts close to 17 million views) and proper distribution. Not to mention all the fun that comes along with bragging rights! Haha... no, but on the real though, I love hip-hop and the spirit of competition from which the culture was born. So no matter what happens from here, I just want to say thank you so much for the love and support, and that I had an amazing time hitting these other remixers where it hurts. I hope you did too.

My homies the1shanti and "Big Lu" hard at work...

In other news, the ramp up to my album officially begins next week with the debut of my first video blog, the album release date announcement, as well as the unveiling of the first music video in support of Connect The Dots. which features my homie Reef The Lost Cauze.

Speaking of video blogs, my longtime pal the1shanti, "Big Lu" and I were up till the sun made its first appearance this morning editing the first one! It's a behind the scenes glimpse into the making of the music video, and I think you guys are really going to enjoy it when we unleash it via 2dopeboyz.com and more next week.

Official 5G engineer to the stars Dan "The Deacon" Maier has been hard at work in the lab with the1shanti mixing songs for his new band Bonita Applebum!

Bonita Applebum... you GOTTA put me on.

Bonita Applebum is the1shanti and the beautiful and talented Shefali Kumar, and their first single (mixed to perfection by my partner Dan "The Deacon" Maier for 5G Productions) can be previewed and purchased by clicking right HERE.

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To my grandpop... GET WELL SOON and I love you, thanks again to all of you for reading this and for all the dedication, and to the whole music industry: BUCKLE UP AND GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE.

One,
J.J.

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