Ain't Budgin'

Words from Fite

     "Yo, What Up Reverbers?  Dis yuh boi Fite, D Fi Entertainment!!!  Takin' some time to give a little bit about myself.  Nah I ain't gon get on muh "Soap Box" shit, but I'm gon talk a lil bit bout how I got started doin' whut I do. 

     On the real, I used to make up songs when I was little and could have swore at what time a song I had made up was on the radio, but maybe I was just trippin', I dunno.  Then as the years progressed I started hoopin' and gettin' active in sports.  Anybody, that know about sports there's a thing called "Roll Call".  After our High School Basketball games, shouts to Forney High, we would sometimes do "Roll Call" on the bus back from the game.  At that time, I would act up and go off on a "freestyle", it felt "natural" and so, when graduated from High School, I became a little more serious about it (rappin').

     After graduation, I attended Texas State University, where there were always "freestyle ciphers" and "battles" goin on.  I battled in a few, but really felt more at home in "Da Cipher".  To me, that was really where I went from Rapper to Emcee.  So then, Sophomore year I moved dorms and began recording on a free software program called "GoldWav".  I loved that program and it was super simple, but it took care of my "Jonez" to be on da mic.  Then a couple partners of mine from my Freshman year dorm, Falls Hall, stayed at my new dorm, Bexar Hall.  Rene and Craig, had this suped up super computer at the time that had "mucho memory".  So I got Craig to let me download GoldWav on it and so the recording saga begins. 

     Inside their room, we(myself and others) would freestyle over the latest and classic instrumentals.  We put out a dorm-wide mixtape called "Bexar Hall 320".  When I tell you dat shit went fed, dat shit went FED!!!  We had the whole Bexar Hall on buzz and people on campus would be actually listenin' to it when you walk through "The Quad".  Dat shit was a trip.  So that just added to my "Jonez" even more. 

    After the first one dropped, I was looking to do another one.  At about this time, I met muh brothas -- Ray C and Young Mischiff.  Mischiff had mad beatbox skills and is still sick to this day wit it.  He would beatbox over the "web microphone" Craig had and we would just "Go OFF!!!" We still kept the formula from the first Bexar Hall, but addin' dat Beat Box was way different than what anybody had ever did around our area, College and Locally.  So we dropped that joint "Bexar Hall 320 Allstars", I think it was like 1 month after the initial mixtape.  That shit went fed, on this joint we had football players, band drummers, which were all students at the school on this joint and for the time, EVERYBODY was GOIN HARD!!!  That shit right there was real and it don't get no more REALER!!!!

     So as Sophomore year passes 2003, through meetin' Mischiff and Ray-C, I met Scully.  After that, we all 4 began to hang out and keep in touch musically.  Ray and Mischiff then wanted to put out a mixtape to float down I-35.  They told me about it and without delay I was down.  We recorded a 14 track mixtape in one night at a studio in Austin, Tx.  That by the way was my first time ever in anything that looked like a real studio.  So you know I was excited than a muh.  Dis joint named, "Street Credibility", had artist from all over Texas on it.  Emcees like Phranchyze, V-Nice, and Zeale32 were on this joint before they even had a name for themselves.   So that shit was "Epic".  We put that joint down, got it circulatin' and the buzz came in.  

     After that in 2004, linked up with Ray and Mischiff in their group called, "Quickwidit".  Then us four Me, Ray, Scully and Mischiff would do shows and freestyle outside parties, clubs, it really didn't matter then, We was Hungry!!! and wanted everybody to know that we up in this bitch and "We Ain't Budgin'"  Got more buzz, as a group through performances and radio visits and made a hard push for the majors.  They wasn't talkin' the right lingo, so we passed on offers.  We knew we was better than what they was tryna give us. That was about 2006-2007.

     In 2008, I began to venture towards making more solo tracks.  Me doing that would lead to droppin' the Hard 2 QWit mixtape.  It featured tracks from Myself and Scully along with features from Ray and Mischiff.  Then in the last part of 2008 in December, I released "Guadalupe Fiasco" no it's not taking shots at Lupe.  I wanted to put something out that would tell muhfuh's to "Get Real".  Because at the time and still to this day, I think Hip Hop has hit a slump and I wanted to single-handedly wake muhfuhs up.  Guadalupe Fiasco dropped like a breath of Fresh Air, I think the joints on that let folks know, Fite still doin' his thing and "Ain't Budgin'" 

     So now, in 2009 I'm ready to drop my first Solo Album called "Bossin'" and there's plenty of meaning behind that.  But I got some ill-ass features on this joint, some throwed ass beats and I'm ready to put it out there for the people."

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