Hottest In The Hood Remix
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I Run The Show
As promised here's the first single from The Artful Dodger called "I Run the Show". Here's a little bit about how the song came together.
The Making of “I Run the Show”
Currently, Drega is working on his next project entitled “The Artful Dodger” which will combine east coast lyricism with Electro, House and Indie Rock Rhythms. The first single, “I Run the Show” which was produced by Drega is inspired by hip-house group LMFAO. Drega explains, “I was actually in Niagra with my girlfriend for our anniversary and we we’re at a club and we we’re about to leave and the deejay announced this group, neither of us heard of, was about to perform and me and my girl looked at each other like, ‘okay we’ll stay another five minutes’. What eventually happened was that LMFAO shut down the club.”
With an idea in hand, Drega created the production for the beat having been a beat maker for over 10 years he knew how to put together a musical backing that neatly combined house, electro and rap. “When I got home, I just went to my keyboard and made the general idea for the beat within about five minutes, it took some time to get the sequencing right, but once I had it I was just dancing crazy to it, the vibe was perfect,” explains Drega.
The lyrics for the song are meant to inspire fun as well as individuality. Drega raps, “No ceaser or waves or gel in my hair, cause your girl’s gonna mess it up when I get there”. “Even though I’m talking about my hair, it’s a metaphor for my obviously unique look in that I don’t look like a rapper, which is basically the concept of the whole album” says Drega.
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Kostal feat. Drega “Blame It (Remix)”
Check the "Bollywood remix" I did with Kostal out in Houston, Kaysha from Paris, Taz from Mumbai and Samy Elmousif from Montreal. It's getting a great response from the internetz.
Download Kostal feat. Drega Blame It Remix
DregaTV #10: Interview with Indian Rapper Ravi Ross
Here's an encounter I had at the grocery store with Indian rapper Ravi Ross. I was honestly a little scared approaching him, but did ask him about his latest album Deeper Than Roti, and his beef with UK-Desi rapper 50 Rupee. Peep it.
Download Bilz & Kashif x Drega x Nivla “He’s Nothing But a Loser”
The wait is over. You can download the track I did with The Bilz, Kashif and Nivla right over here.
Also if you are wondering who the hell are the Bilz, Kashif or Nivla and why Drega's doing a track with them, here's a youtube history lesson.
You may recognize someone famous in this video.
DregaTV #9: Introducing New Rapper “Lil Dreezy”
Drega chops it up with the big homie Dj Andre 905 before their radio interview at Boom Bap Radio.
The Bilz feat. Kashif, Nivla & Drega “He’s Nothing But a Loser” Drops May 8th
You can download this from my twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/dregac on May 8th!!
Royalty Radio Freestyle Session
Peep the freestyle session we had at Royalty Radio featuring Drega, Sese, Mason Payne, Izm, and Bollywood Booz. Shout out to Sese for the footage.
DregaTV #8: Famous Gives HIs Thoughts on Drega “the Rapper”
The Kid Famous drops his 2 cents on what he thinks of Drega as a rapper. Surprisingly, he's pretty honest.
DregaTV #7: The Kid Famous Talks About Rick Ross + Rappers Who Lie
The big homie Famous came through for a radio interview on Royalty Radio which you can listen to over here. Here's some of the footage where he talks about Rick Ross being a corrections officer and rappers in general who lie. I'm glad he's speaking out against lying ass rappers because for (1) Famous is one of the most honest rappers I've ever seen (2) dumb rappers need teaching.
Dj Andre 905 “I Am Giant” Mixtape
My favorite deejay, Mr. Andre 905 and co-host of Royalty Radio (Toronto's only spot for real Cancun) has released his first mixtape called Andre The Giant: I Am Giant. Since your still new to supporting the home team, you can get the download link for free after the jump. As an added caveat it is hosted by yours truly and features everyone that matters from the Toronto scene (tracklist inside).
Download Dj Andre 905 "I Am Giant" Mixtape
Rappers That Influenced Me
1. Biggie I can still remember the first time I saw the "Juicy" video and I was blown away. He is the main reason I became an artist and Big's music still influences me heavily today.
2. Jay-Z How can you not have Hov on your list? This guy is the absolute greatest guy living period. Half a billionaire, married to Beyonce, plus made classics such as Reasonable Doubt, Volume 2, and Blueprint and has countless hit guest appearances. If there wasn't Jay-Z, there wouldn't be Drega.
3. Noreaga Ohhh the rap geeks are going to hate me for this one. But Nore's influence on me is untold. From the classic The War Report to N.O.R.E to all those smashes he had with the Neptuenes, Nore made it okay to be the entertaining asshole. People think my name came from Noreaga which I do give some credit to homie. But it really came from when I was 11 years old doing tagging and my tag name would be Dre.G.A., the "G" stood for my last name and the "A" for my first name.
4. Method Man People forget how ill Meth was. I still can recite everyword in Tical, I could probably perform anything from "Sub-Crazy" to "Mr.Sandman" lol. Meth was influential on myself in terms of spitting some deep stuff with a melodic flow.
5. Nas When It Was Written came out it was a complete shift in the way music was made. Everything prior to that sounded like "Illmatic" with the boom bap sound, The Trackmasters and Nas totally changed how hip hop records sounded with this one. "Take It In Blood" is still the greatest song in rap history, next to "Juicy".
6. Ma$e Ma$e is probably the most influential rapper of the last decade. Every rapper got their slow flow right after M-A-Dollar-Sign-E cemented Bad Boy's dynasty.
7. Raekwon & Ghostface I'm a give it to these two for their work on Only Built For Cuban Linx. That album is the perfect album that any rapper, including myself, should strive to use as a blueprint.
Drega “Spaceships & Ferraris” Mixtape
If you haven't checked out "Spaceships & Ferraris" yet, you can grab it from below. I want to thank everyone for downloading it and all the positive feedback I've heard about it. It really means alot when something you've taken your whole life to develop is appreciated. Keep in mind this is just a mixtape and I promise you I have some great material on the way. Remember art first.
Download Drega Spaceships & Ferraris Mixtape
I’m Going to Part My Hair
Having had a low ceaser or even baldie for damn near 8 years, I started growing my hair for the last 35 days (to be exact) for no reason in particular. Maybe I'm just bored but maybe I'm just changing. The last two years running my own business, I've been having a whole lot of fun in terms of living. I've always been into fashion but more into that sexy swag. Right now I don't really care about attracting females, I just want to have fun with my appearance and hopefully piss of a few people ("hey you can't wear that!"). I'm not saying I'm going to go all Taz Arnold on yall, but brown guys in Toronto need to change up their style.
Today I happened to walk into International Clothiers and was like "damn this is where all these Trini guys get their gear from?". I was in the club last week, I think it was Embassy (formally System Sound Bar ahem) and I was surrounded by International Clothier cornballs. I'm not saying International Clothiers is wack, I'm just saying everything from the old Indian guy trying to tell me about the latest style to the short Trini guys rocking baggy dress pants is wack. I'm thinking Soca Elvis may having something to do with this. I kid.
But let me get back to talking about hairstyles for the urban gentlemen. There's pretty much only three: the ceaser, the baldie, the fade and if your nappy enough you can do the twists, but that looks suspect. Some people get like two hair cuts when they get the ceaser and fade, but that's another story. Also the bro-hawk had a run in early 2008 and there are some people trying to pull of various versions of it, but I honestly think that hairstyle looks awful. There's no symmetry. So what's the next hairstyle that only the true urban gentlemen is going to have the balls to pull off?
The Part. I saw a picture of my pops with a part recently and was like "that's the next shit". Think about it, the part has been around for forever and no one in hip hop has attempted it. Why? Because it is the most generic hair style -every middle age white guy has it. And I Drega will make it that next fly shit. Stay tuned.
DregaTV #6: Drega Respects Dj Grouch
Drega kicks it with veteran Toronto crowd controller, Dj Grouch before his radio interview on Royalty Radio. Peep the full interview @ royaltyradio.blogspot.com
DregaTV #3: Royalty Riffin’
Drega goes on a tirade against his co-hosts and guests. With special appearances by Cali Snipes, Dj Andre 905, E. Williams, Rich Kidd, and Dubbs from Overproof Radio.
DregaTV #5: Ballin’ Ain’t My Hobby
Drega takes on his homie Tes in a game off one on one and finds out he should stick to rap.
This Is Why We Hot -The Bilz Ft. Kashif,Nivla,Drega,&Kateyez
Link It. http://www.thebilz.com/ This Is Why We Hot - The Bilz Ft. Kashif, Nivla, Drega, & Kateyez.