Today, the good folks at Allhiphop.com premiered the music video for my 2nd single, Splitting Image. The song was produced by Symbolyc One (S1) of Strange Fruit Project and also features the lovely Dutch singer, Neenah on the hook (although she isn’t featured in the video). The video was directed by Matt Koza of HOJ Media and also co-stars, Sudan Green (the son of famed spoken word poet Ursula Rucker) who plays the younger version of me in the video. I gave Matt Koza the original idea for the video treatment and he added his own ideas to make it work as well. This is my favorite video to date and Matt Koza is a phenomenal director. I wanted it to document my real life story of becoming a father at 16 and show the pressure I was facing at the time. I couldn’t even take care of myself when I brought my first daughter into the world. It’s a way of showing younger people that your life isn’t over when you make a bad decision but it means you’ve got to work twice as hard at your dreams. Hopefully someone will feel inspired by it. Thanks to everyone was involved in the making of this video.

*Edit: We tried to post this embedded link from AllHipHop but it wasn’t working so we uploaded it to our Reform School Music page on Youtube.com.

I finally received the confirmation and details for the SXSW performance. This will be my first year attending the music festival so I’m hoping that it’s worthwhile. There’s so many other shows going on that night in Austin but I plan on doing my thing regardless. I will be performing on Thursday, March 18 at The Independent. The lineup and performance times are listed on the flyer above.

URB.com just premiered the official video for Forever Fresh, directed by Charles Barcelona. The video is a documentary-style video that includes behind the scenes and tour footage from past videos, shows, interviews, and more. The song was produced by Marco Polo and will be the b-side to the official 2nd single, Splitting Image. This video is more of a dedication to all of those Supastition fans who supported my older music. Shout out to my homie and tour DJ, DJ Forge, for finally making his debut in one of my videos. Enjoy!!!

I was recently invited by King Tech personally to appear on the new Wake Up Show anthem. After my appearance on the Wake Up Show, King Tech, a west coast veteran, has been a huge supporter of my music. It’s an honor for me because being on the show was one of my dreams as a youngster. Only respected lyricists ever made it on the show in my opinion. Well what do you know… years later, I am featured on the actual show anthem alongside some of hip hop’s most respected cats. My music and talent may not be recognized at home but it’s damn sure solidified elsewhere!!!

The lineup consists of Kam Moye, The Rza (of Wu-Tang Clan), Ras Kass, B Real (of Cypress Hill), Crooked I, Tech N9ne, Tajai (of Souls Of Mischief), Locksmith, and DJ Revolution. The track was produced by King Tech.

As some of you may remember, I did a 6-song album breakdown/interview a few months ago with Reyn from Potholesinmyblog (click to preview). Well, This time I had a chance to do a full album breakdown (song by song) for Splitting Image with my homie L-Rox (of Red Secta Mastering) who did the mastering for my album. Being that he had to spend countless hours mastering it and he was one of the first people to hear the album in its entirety, who better to discuss this with. This will give you a better idea of what I had in mind when writing and recording this album. Since the interview was rather long, I’m going to post this as a 2-part series. Enjoy!

link swiped from: http://www.redsecta.com/KamMoye.html

This year (2009) was one of the best years I’ve had so far for mixing and mastering projects and I’m not talking money wise. I have to make that clear because these days people are primarily money driven; what I mean is that this year, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a lot of talented individuals and it’s made the work I do highly enjoyable. It’s great to be able to work on projects that are genuinely Hip Hop and on many levels, Kam Moye’s new album “Splitting Image” is important for a genre that is too cluttered with “noise” these days, because this album does what I remember my favorite Hip Hop albums used to do: connect with you. (more…)

Due to circumstances beyond my control, the Birmingham, UK show has been canceled. My apologies to all of those who planned on attending the event. I’m disappointed as well but the show will possibly be rescheduled for a later date.

Just heard a new joint from homeboy and my tour DJ, DJ Forge. He produced this collabo with Fluent & Royce the 5′9″. Good to hear him on the beats again although I think this is an older beat. It’s never a bad thing to have Royce the 5′9″ on your track record. Give it a listen. Check out Forge’s blog as well… and encourage him to start making beats again!