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“Blue Mondays”, as explained by Quelle

1 ‘Special Ingredient’
“its simple. i consider myself one of those special ingredients that make hiphop so special.”

3 ‘Deal Wit It’ feat Denmark
“one of my favorite songs of all times with one of my favorite emcees. this was the fist official crown nation song as far as im conserned. it of course is saying deal with the shit you got coming to you. on some no fly zone shit. but its also saying deal with the fact that we got that shit and these other niggas just dont.”

4 ‘The Jones Brothers’ feat Blaqk Mythe
“me and blaqk mythe started making music together back in 97/98. we dont work together often but he’s easily one of my favorite cats to work with. it was originally recorded over a beat by this cool ass dj named doc link. then i remixed it so it would fit in better with the album. me and blaqk just like talking shit. so thats what the song embodies.”

5 ‘Dick Ridah’ feat Denmark
“magnetic gave me a beat cd with this track on it a while back and it was like a year later when we finally made ‘dick ridah’. i was listening to a shit load of redman at the time, hence the chorus. if you don’t know the reference go listen to every redman album and find it. it’s more exciting when you hear it that way”

6 ‘Blue Mondays’
“this song is about the things people feel blue over. the story behind it is more yellow. or orange. some random cat gave me this remix cd where this guy did remixes of popular songs at the time. then like a good ways into the cd this beat comes on and i’m like “wow”. so i write the song not knowing who made the beat and of course not giving a fuck. maybe like two years later im at my guy daves apartment playing some shit he hadnt heard yet and blue mondays comes on and hes like “hey this beat sounds familiar” turns out his roomate, justin, made the beat that i got randomly a couple years back. so it made the album.”

7 ‘Need You’
“a song about a girl i wanted but couldnt have. simple as that. in all honesty i was just playing the herb. even someone as cool as me can fall victim to sucka shit from time to time. so i wrote a song about her. thats what writers do. the only thing i cant write well are two sentence descriptions of my songs.”

8 ‘Put It Down’ feat Galaxy
“meet these cats through Team Swass named 5ill and galaxy who were in this group automation alley. me a galaxy did a song called put it down over one of galaxys beats. this is accually the remix. its just a song about how we do what we do best. pretty to the point.”

9 ‘Running The Show’ feat Loose Cannon
“first of all, loose is one of the reasons i started making beats in the first place. plus he has this way of riding the drum patterns that i haven’t heard to many people do the same way. this is also the first song i recorded specifically for this cd. in my moms basement. two grown ass niggas. a few shout outs and a couple verses later we had a song.”

10 ‘Vegetables’
“this song works both ways. if you cant handle your liquor dont try to buy the bar out and shit like like. nothing funnier than watching a flossy ass nigga getting carried out of a bar by two equally deckd out cats and a chick wearing pumps and a mini skirt. but i’ve been there before myself. in the worse way. so i’m kinda getting on my own head too. i love alchohol so much though.”

11 ‘Yessyallin’
“i have no fuckin idea whos beat this is. and this song has not real goals in life. but it’s like one of my favorite songs. so “the kid stays in the picture” as they say.”

13 ‘Someday’ (aka ‘Take It From Me’) feat 87
“i originally wrote the first verse over a beat loose cannon did using that pink floyd machine song. i probably used it on a few other joints before it found its home on someday. then eighty came through with the chorus and a verse. then niggas was getting all moved and shit. which is a good thing. im just weird about emotional folks. its song about life. the things that change, the things that stay the same, hope, desperation. all that shit that makes people go crazy in the head.”

14 ‘Peace’ feat Big Tone
“i made ‘peace’ out of thin air. its just my way of saying goodbye. its was my live show closer for a while and still makes surprise apperances at the end of some crown nation shows. denmark was working at bd’s mongolian bbq at the time. thats where the ‘bds chop it up and grill it in your face line’ came from. and of course big tone is that guy.”

15 ‘Keep My Name Out Ya Mouf’
the name of the song says enough i guess. the story goes like this. this legend in my eyes named swing low the bro gave me a sack of mini disks jam packed with old detroit shit. i mean like old shit from cats like big fuzz and baatin and shit. this beat was in there and i kinda used it without permission. i couldnt resist. the shit is so classic. thanks swing.

16 ‘Song 16 (Therapy)’

“my little brother mosel was really into david axelrod for a minute so he had a lot of his shit downloaded. i heard this shit a decided it would be a challege to write to. and who am i to walk away from a challenge. thats my therapy. my way of clearing my head. writing. ahhhhh…”

Thanks to Quelle For Providing Insight Into The Album! Big Up!

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