Month: October 2025

Life is full of hardship. We lose people, things don’t go our way. It can be very rough to put a smile on your face sometimes. The thing to remember is that no one said life would be easy. It’s a trial for something greater I believe in the afterlife. Dolores Cannon used to say in her books that life is a test and this realm we call Earth is a “school” of sorts. We are here to learn unconditional love and the power of forgiveness.

Even when you feel slighted by someone, you have to learn to forgive them and don’t hold grudges or hate in your heart for people. My mother-in-law Geraldine once told me that “To forgive is divine”. She is absolutely right about that and I believe she’s graduated on to the next existence because she was definitely loving and forgiving in her lifetime. That is my goal as well and I am constantly working on it.

My step-daughter is going through an issue where her dad is passing away very soon. I feel sympathy for her, and I wish her mom and I could be there for her just to provide emotional support. It’s really crazy how life changes so drastically all of a sudden. We grow older and our parents pass away and leave us on this Earth with whatever instruction they instilled in us when we were younger. I’m not looking forward to the day my mom passes on. It’s going to be rough, because we communicate almost daily and she’s a major part of my life.

I have my paranoid ideations about my mom sometimes, but I still love her as a person. I like her personality and we get along well. Life is definitely not a joke, but you can’t take it too seriously. So many things are going to befall you in this lifetime, the most important thing is how you handle them. You have to be mature and take things head on. Never be afraid, and always stand tall when the dust settles. Whoever might be reading this, I wish you the best in your life journey and hope you find the resolve to be the best, most loving, forgiving, and righteous person you can be. God bless you.

-Saraph

So I’ve had my SP 404 mk2 for a while now, and its a great little device. I haven’t been brining it to work with me this summer, because its too hot in the car to leave it in there, and I don’t want to bring it into the office because I can’t keep an eye on it the entire time. Not saying that anyone at my job is a thief, but you never know. People “get got” like that all the time. I think I’ll bring it with me and lock it in my desk drawer since I have a key for it now.

I am considering selling it though, because AKAI released some plugins that make the use of the 404 mk2 with my MPC Key 61 obsolete. You can do stutters, brakes, lofi, and a bunch of other stuff with this plugin called Fly Tape II. Maybe I’ll take the 404 to work with me this week and see if I fall in love with it again. If I do, I’ll keep it. If I don’t, Guitar Center here we come to get ripped off on the price you’ll give for equipment, KEKW.

I have some debts to repay, so I could use the money towards that and feel better about things in that regard. I don’t like “owing”, so I gotta get that knocked out somehow. I was thinking about picking up a second job, but its hard to find a part time job on the weekends. I’ve tried applying at gas stations, 711s, and smoke shops before but I never hear back from them. I don’t know if its because I’m big and black, or if they feel I’m overqualified when I give them my resume, but it sucks. My wife tells me I can be very intimidating to people at times, but I’m a super mellow dude.

When I’m walking down the street and a white chick is coming the other way, she’s probably intimidated, but she don’t know I’m probably singing Hulk Hogan’s theme song “Real American” to myself as we walk by each other KEKW. That or thinking about getting home, vaping some herb and making music or playing Battlefield 6. Anyway I’m going to enjoy this Sunday off and get some good R & R in. Have a good start to your week and don’t sweat the small stuff. L8r!

-Saraph

So I started a beat yesterday and it’s turning out real nice! I like how it’s developing a lot and I’m looking forward to mastering it and making it sound the best it can. I used stems to pull the instruments and bass away from the drums and vocals, and it turned out really well on standalone MPC. The standalone MPC has a weaker stems algorithm than the Desktop MPC 3.0 software does, but it came through this time, so I’m happy with it.

I want to write some rhymes to go along with this beat, and I have to push myself to get it done. I feel good this Sunday AM, so I think I can do it today. I’m going to vape some herb, take a CBD gummy, and put pen to pad. I always have good ideas in my head for some cool rhymes, but I am not in a position to write them down at times. Hopefully today I can tap into the Akashic records and I can pull down some dope ideas. I’m wearing my pyramid on my head this early AM so I can prepare my brain to work at it’s optimal ability.

Tomorrow I have to go back to work and I just really wish I didn’t have to spend my best hours in the day working for a corporation. I know I don’t HAVE to do it, but the alternative is really no choice at all. You have to get up and go to work to make money to pay your bills. It’s a part of life in this society, and if you don’t get with it you’ll be left behind. Sure, you can become an entrepreneur, but everybody doesn’t have the startup capital to do something like that. Many entrepreneurs started their business from capital they earned at a well paying 9 to 5 job. They didn’t spend a lot and were able to save money. They lived frugally and eventually they had enough money saved to fund a business venture.

I love music, and I sometimes wonder why GOD didn’t allow me to get involved with it at an earlier age. Who knows what would have happened, but perhaps it would have been very bad for my life. I trust that GOD has my best interest at heart, and that me discovering DJing and beat-making in 2015 and 2018 was probably for the best. The music industry is a grimy place and there’s a lot of wolves, snakes, and spiders in that space. I would like for my music, right now, to gain a bit of traction and garner me some followers, but I need to advertise more, stream, and stuff like that to get people onboard.

I just got approved for another year contract at my IT job. That’s cool to know I’ll have a job in this climate for now, but I would really like to be able to work from home. I was much happier when I was doing that and it was nice to be able to work on my MPC on my lunch break in a comfortable setting, or go to the grocery store and grab some food for lunch while it’s not that busy/crazy in there. I keep applying for work from home jobs, but none of those have come to fruition. If I could get that type of job, we could look to move to a much cheaper area and I could stay home with my wife and we’d be fine. Hopefully, GOD will see my want in this and make it happen.

Take care of yourself reader, enjoy your Monday, and don’t let life stress you out. Til next time!

So the MPC Live 3 dropped today and it looks pretty cool. I almost bought one, but the universe let me know that wasn’t a wise decision, so I cancelled the order and kept my money. With the MPC 3.6 update, you get a lot of cool new features on the “regular” MPC models, so I think I’ll rock my MPC Key 61 a while longer. My Key 61 is pretty nice as it is, and the main differences with the new MPC Live 3 that would matter to me is an 8 core processor and 8GB of RAM, which enables them to offer the “Pro” version of the stems algorithm in standalone mode. That’s cool, but I can get the same thing by hooking my current MPC up to my computer and using it that way.

Anyway, the Live 3 looks dope. If I had disposable income like that I probably would be waiting for mine to arrive right now, but I don’t, so I’m just going to keep it pushing. Hopefully one day I’ll get to a point where I can drop $1.7k on a whim, but right now I’m not in that space. I bet if I could maintain the current wages I earn but in a different, less expensive state than CA, I could do that sort of stuff for myself and my wife. We want to get to Connecticut, which I’m not sure if its a lesser cost of living, but I don’t hear people complaining about that place like they do Cali, so there must be something better there.

I’m going to work on a new beat over the weekend, and i intend to rhyme over it. We’ll see how all that goes. I should call my buddy Aaron and go over the lyrics I write to see if he has any input on them, since he’s a pretty good rapper himself. Anyhow, I just wanted to chime in and add a blog entry on the site here. I’ll post more coming up in the near future. L8r.

-Saraph