Trialz & Tribulationz

So we're in the lab right now. We've been working on this one track off and on for months now and we're finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with it's level of completion. We all got real gigs ((Tshurhad= marketing/events dude * HaveMax= graphic designer * Chae= hair stylist)) so time spent on songs feel like dog years for us...it's a wild beast trying to sneak in weekend & after-work hours with families, financial needs & other grown-folk ish to worry about.

That Hot Kink Not Laboratory

That's why each song birthed from us feel like our babies. Each project pushes us further to create a better work of art- more concise and more polished. Our focus is to create a collection of pieces that somehow fit together- even tell a story, if you can make sense of the whole hodgepodge.

Being in a group like Kinky Notti ain't no punk. Art of course is highly preferential by nature. One has a way of guarding and offending one's personal tastes as sacred and highly valid. Therefore, the subtlest differences in flavors can send a group's project back to the drawing board in a moment's time.

Primping before the performance
New Years Eve 07 @ the Hyatt Regency

Just last weekend, Chae & HaveMax got into it real ugly...to the point of Have saying "get the fuck out of my house" and Chae saying "and I won't ever come back!" But days after that, everyone was back to chilling again like fam. That's the whole maddening side of being involved with such a dynamic trio. We're all extremely opinionated artists (not to mention the drama that comes when you add together two women with diva mentalities and random PMS-induced mood swings)...it's no wonder that trios rarely exist in the music biz with two chicks and one dude. Poor Tshurhad is always in the middle of the cat fights thinking "these bitches are crazy as hell!!"

**shots from the CRB Box Social ©2008 Joe M. Reyes**

We're all extremely passionate about the ideas, influences & talent we each bring to the table. When we disagree, one often feels obligated to bring one's case before the jury, thus testifying one's right for their idea to live on a track. As follows, the defense presents its argument until a final verdict is reached between all, otherwise all die of exhaustion during the process. It's like a war zone...we have to fight to the finish.

A trio equals instant democracy for any given situation, along with instinctual feelings of "this time it's me against the double-crossers". All experience being "the rejectee" where one either mediates a situation or is forced to reconcile ones differences with the others. However, the magic lives inside those auspicious moments when a concept can be shared equally amongst all. The result is nothing short of collaborative genius at its finest- a triumph over the human ego. The product is music. (( I, You, She, We = the next completed Kinky Notti single!!!))

So lets see...we got Nasty Nasty, Beneath the Deck, Respirator Thump, and Caught Up so far...with this new banger, that makes us one step closer to a complete Kinky Notti collection. WORD!

Kinky Notti NYE 2007

It's like magic when the group comes together

.....Peace to the Babies.....