Last year, after my trip to HongKong -- we launched Tippin' The Scales at 32nd Street! This CD was our first release in 2007. The CD was featured on RX93.1 a month prior to that thru Rico Robles' show and H-Town's 103.5 Max FM program as well! This launching featured performances by God's Will and Hoots, Blue Battallion, LDP, Nimbusnine, Hotnixx, Team Firm, Ron Thug, People's Future and more! There were freestyles happening outside the venue and people politicking. SPECKS came through as well to supply some merchandise! Thank you to all our fans, peers and colleagues who came through to support then. Shoutouts to Butchoy, Madshock, The Beatmathics, Paolo from PULP, Ambito & the rest of his FOF Records Team, Krazykyle, Talek and his team, Kate Oliva, Torre Lorenzo people, Otto Retardo, Cardinal Tank and his team, AMPON, Audible, A.N.E. & Marcus P, Aero and his 3rd World Team and the rest!
God's Will, Hotnixx, B-Roc & A.N.E - Utak, Lapis at Papel (Bagong Tasa Remix) (Produced by Lowkey); this song's instrumental was first used by Madd Poets on the Rekognize Album -- guess what? I have the entire CD's instrumentals. Hehehe!
The CD features tracks "Tilt Your Cap", "Masama Mabuti", "Utak, Lapis at Papel (Bagong Tasa Remix)", "Caught Up (Soulfiesta Remix)", "Watch What You Say", "I Am The Greatest",, "Aking Himig", "Whoa (PINAS Remix)" and the WAVE 89.1 single "If You Were My Baby Girl" by Marquiss, Hotnixx and Nimbusnine produced by Chrizo and a whole lot more! The CD also featured Aero, Blue Batt, LDP, Justin Timberlake, Nathan J, Kim Fabros, Marcus P, Black, Kenjohns, Knowa Lazarus, Peoples Future, A.N.E and Urban Outlaws.
Marquiss, Hotnixx & Nimbusnine -If You Were My Baby Girl (Produced by Chrizo); If you don't have a copy yet, get one at O.F.C. Galleria or hit up our merchandise hotline!
The idea for the title of the CD came from a story from Hotnixx one time we were at Andrew E's house. Andrew then uttered something in the line of "I think Turbulence is too serious with their music." -- this made look at things and although we like thought provoking music, I wanted to display our talents in a manner that some would understand. We're not dumbing it down, we're just Tippin' The Scales a bit, yeah dig? Which explains the last song, these are our peoples and we know what having fun is, hehehe look around when you're around us. Sonically, this album could be the most commerical, if could understand it better using that word. But it has it's moments of brilliance via Marquiss, PHD, GDub, Nimbus, People's Future -- all in all, a cd you won't skip a song when you bump it!
PHD - Aking Himig (Produced by B-Roc); this beat and song was actually made 2 years prior to even the idea of Tippin' The Scales, which shows you that we work on timeless classics all the time, AMP baby!
It was also our first time to come work with graphic artist AJ Salazar, who has done work for the clothing line Analog Soul. Yes some of his designs you're actually wearing already. Hehehe. I wanted an artwork with no picture from any of the artists involved. It was the first time we're working on just an graphic artwork for a cover. Consequently, Kanye put out "Graduation" and AJ being a Kanye fan and I instructed him "parang yun album ni Kanye, but not exactly like that" --- the ressemblance shows. Wouldn't change it if I could.
There were 2 characters created while doing the cover. Me and AJ gave these characters names, Tip and Pin respectively. We haven't really exposed the full potential of these characters. Maybe use them again in future products, projects!
We were supposed to do a video for If You Were My Baby girl via Jerome of WAVE's promotion company during the latter part of the summer but due to the Jaipur incident with Jerome, we never got to jumpstart it. Shoutouts to the DJ's of WAVE for playing it all the time!
Did you know? Turbulence has a knack for creating classic CD covers via errors, some mistakes and some we really put in there to have fans scratching their heads. Hehehe. Every CD of ours have a certain defect on the cover. Tippin' The Scales CD track listing is missing one number. Hehehe. Check em out. And also, we were kinda tired of fixing the sequence of songs, so I decided to just drop it in there alphabetically. Hehehe, when did you ever play a cd with that sequence. I wanted to show how fine tuned we are of our music that we are confident enough to sequence it like that. Thanks for reading and if you don't have a copy of this CD, hope you cop one or at least enjoyed the story behind the release.
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ALL THE TIPPERS!
Oh yeah if anyone out there wants a copy of this mixtape then meet me up and purchase a copy of LDP's album and I'll give you my saved up mixtape for free ;) get at me at my blog! LDPeace!!!
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