It takes a lot to get me to go out these days. First of all, I am old. Secondly, it’s friggin cold out! So my days of pounding the pavement have been put on hold lately. But when I heard Termanology was throwing a lil shindig in honor of his latest opus “If Heaven Was a Mile Away” I knew it would be worthwhile to go – and I was right.

I support Term any chance I can, not just because he is Puerto Rican (which is my reason for supporting J. Lo) but because he has a sick flow. So, I knew combining his flow over J. Dilla’s beats would equal musical magic.Therefore, I thought I’d take the time out to go support the event and get a listen to the whole mixtape. The album is amazing. And the party @ Sutra wasn’t too shabby either.

Statik Selektah was on the ones and two’s, previewing Term’s mixtape and then doing a hot old school set. A couple of industry folk came through to show love including Just Blaze, Lil Fame of M.O.P., Skyzoo and DJ Eclipse to name a few.

Oh, did I mention it was open bar?

I caught up with Term to ask him how the idea for the J. Dilla Tribute came about and he had this to say:

I always like J. Dilla a lot; I have been heavily influenced by his beats. But it came about almost on accident. Statik sold me his computer and he left all these J. Dilla beats on there. I was on tour at the time and I had nothing better to do but write, so I was like I am going to go through all these beats and find me some hot tracks write to them. There were like 400 beats on there! So I was bugging out, like which ones do I pick? I picked the ones I liked the best and put them on a cd and just wrote to them the whole time I was on tour. When we got back I went to the studio, locked myself in and layed it down in 72 hours. It was crazy.

Well, thank goodness for happy accidents. If you haven’t heard the mixtape you can grab it at www.termanologymusic.com.

Fave song: “Circulate (100 bars)”
Fave beat: “Only One Can Win”

Check out what else Term had to say regarding being Latino in this industry here on blogamole.com.

Photo by A. Garcia