Malcolm Keith Beckner

02Jun09

 

Malcolm Keith Beckner
 
 
Anna (Beckner) Mayhew…I have been looking for you forever. You are impossible to find. I saw where you were looking for your dad. So I created a page (on a magazine I own) that would show up on Google just in case if you decide to look for him again.
 
Please contact me. I’d love to catch up.
 
An old friend for Univ. of Arkansas
 

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Malcolm Keith Beckner

29May09

Malcolm Keith Beckner

Anna Beckner go to this website please…

http://sites.google.com/site/downtownmusicobserver/malcolm-keith-beckner

Thanks,

Paul Udouj


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Dead One…the next lady Gaga?

06May09

Dead One…the next Lady Gaga?

Article by: T. Rose Jennings

(Dead One shows his poker face)

I must admit it took me a minute but now I’m digging the new re-mix from Donald “XL” Robertson and Dead One called “Throw Ya Hands Up“. It has a nice club beat and it keeps me on my toes. I must also admit I was happy to see the DEAD ONE mocking a genre that has gotten a little weird lately.

I spoke with Dead One via phone and got these thoughts from him, “I think the two songs that did it for me where Poker Face by Lady Gaga and Stanky Legg Dance. The radio played them over and over. I mean the Beatles must be angry to think their records could be shattered by a song called Stanky Legg. Don’t get me wrong I think Lady Gaga is hot and she can sing but she was going for the easy win with that song. So I sat down and wrote the weirdest lyrics I could think of for my dance song. When I picked up my pen I thought ‘this is awful…I got to lay this track down asap’. I thought back to Dave Chappell saying that his skits that became the most popular were the ones he was most afraid to put out. I think “Throw Ya Hands Up” fits that catagory for me. Plus who wants a southern badass like me writing dance songs? Well you got one anyway so taste the fist if you got a problem with it.”

It’s good to have the Dead One back and stirring things up. I just wonder if he’ll get an eye patch like Lady Gaga? Probably not.


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Dead One don’t dance!

22Apr09

Dead One don’t dance!

by Tigger Dre - RZN NEWS Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The release of Dead One’s hot new single “Throw Ya Hands Up (Re-mix)” has the street talking about the new force in rap music. Where did he come from? What’s he represent?…are just a few questions they have been asking. So I sat down with the man himself and asked him to give us some straight answer to some street questions.

Tigger: So where are you from?

DO: I was born and raised down south but it seems I’ve died about in every state.

Tigger: Died?

DO: Yea, I’m the Dead One. I shouldn’t be here right now. I’ve seen my career die so many times I stop counting. But I’m tough and keep bouncing back. I thank God for that. I’ve also met my end in a few places…I choked to death in Mexico…swamped by a freak wave in Orange County…fell two stories from a tower in Arkansas…about killed the bucket in Oklahoma and even Vegas. If I was cat I’d be dead. Haha.

Tigger: So where did you get your style?

DO: My lyrics are aways smartass. I think a song should always be crafty. I just can’t be serious for too long. I’d say that early Ice-T and Ice Cube were the mentors for my flow. Both of those guys could kill it anytime they wanted too. I respect that skill.

Tigger: Who are some of your current favorite rappers?

DO: So many to name. I mean Snoop & Jay-Z are still kings of the game. But I’d like to see some of the greats like Dub-C come back and crossover.

Tigger: How long you been in the rap game?

DO: Let’s just say I was up on stage right before they start shooting up Vesuvius.

Tigger: (Edito’s Note) Vesuvius was a popular rap club in West Hollywood in the 1990’s but was shut down after several men came in and shot multiple patrons with machineguns.

Tigger: How do you think the game has changed in your years in it?

DO: It used to be if that you weren’t on MTV then you did not exist. Now the internet is the hotspot and anyone with skill can make a name for themselves.

Tigger: What’s the biggest piece of advice you got for up and comers?

DO: Keep rapping. Burn a CD of beats and keep them in your pocket. If you are at a house party or anywhere that people are gathered…drop rhymes. Don’t quit. Keep the faith.

Tigger: So with the succes of your new dance song “Throw Ya Hangs Up (Re-mix)”, I got to ask…can you dance?

DO: Hell ya I can dance! But these days the clubs are so small it seems you are packed in on the dance floor so tight that you are dancing with everyone at one time. That can get a little odd and usually you get drinks spilled all over you. So it’s not that I can’t dance but girls out there…I don’t dance.


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