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Be Real (Ruby)

from Self Entitled by Hyphen-One

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Volatile was one of the first producers I ever worked with. In 1998 I was playing basketball at Seton Hall Prep when my brother bought me my first set of turntables. At that time my boy Erik Von Hoffman (R.I.P.) was an emcee that I went there with. He was already doing mad shows and getting love all over the place, so I became his DJ. Erik's emcee name was "Haze." About a year later I transferred out of that high school and started switching my focus from basketball onto making my own art and music. Haze hit me up talking about, "Yo (Hyph), Volatile is gonna be the reason that we make it in music son. His beats are off the hook foreal yo."

So it was about a month later that I connected with Volatile for the first time in the summer of 2002. This is the first beat that we were actually going to collaborate on, because at that time Volatile was emceeing hard as hell. But I ended up just buying the beat from him almost a year later and making these verses that you hear. I laid down the verses in 2003 at The Stiz. At the time I knew that the hook would be exactly what you hear in the track now, but at the time I did not have a girl to sing it for me. It wasn't until four years later, in 2006, that I connected with Ruby at The Steele Factory and finished the track. Actually B Easy came out to brooklyn that day to sit in and add his creative input on the studio session. This is just raw, real-life, underground Hip-Hop to the fullest.

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from Self Entitled, released August 1, 2006
Hyphen-One - Vocals
Ruby - Vocals
The Steele Factory - Mixing/Editing
Turtletone Studio - Mastering
Volatile - Production

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