Loosinourselves - NU Version!

Check out the new version of "Loosinourselves", I have just remixed it, this song was originally recorded for "Jah Souldierz" album "Multivision Time" (2007), now I got some new vibes there. It will be released on my EP this summer, watch out for the updates.



yeah, from Russia with loooooooooove !!! :)

LADYS! IF YOU HAD ENOUGH OF THEM CHEAP LINES, ALL THOSE GUYS SHOUTING OUT WHEN YOU WALK BY

LADYS! IF YOU HAD ENOUGH OF THEM CHEAP LINES, ALL THOSE GUYS SHOUTING OUT WHEN YOU WALK BY
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Music

Ok, so I thought I'd post this to spread the word, coz it's important to hear A MAN'S POINT OF VIEW! this is from MC Sparda: http://www.myspace.com/itssparda

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sparda mc NW TAKINGS BOOKINGS - DWNLOAD NO NOOKIE
Date: 30 Apr 2008, 09:02


Ladys YOU HAD ENOUGH OF THEM CHEAP LINES, ALL THOSE GUYS SHOUTING OUT WHEN YOU WALK BY. TALKING TO U BCOZ THEY THINK DAT UR EASY, TELL THEM GO TALK TO THE NEXT FLUZI.

Hey How you doing im sparda mc i have just released my ladies anthem called No Nookie On ITUNES. BASICALLY its about them guys who talk to you with the maximum disrespect and only want you for one thing. and what im basically saying is dont have a single bit of their crap. if your a queen u deserve to be treated with one. so now that its out buy the single its on my page to listen to it and put it on ur ipod. thank you sparda mc

HELP ME MAKE IT INTO THE NATIONAL CHART BUY BUYING NO NOOKIE PLEASEEEEE

YES THE NO NOOKIE SINGLE IS NOW OUT AVAILBLE ON ITUNES BUY IT, ITS ONLY 79P IN THE US 99C-

Support the movement join the street team

hey im also lookin back up singer for my band


P.S. from Jahna: yeah, I totally agree with the above and the lyrics in the song, so guys, go and check this out too, ladys getting too much bad attitude these days, we want R.E.S.P.E.C.T.!!!

NEW VIDEO BY DUB AKA (BUMBLE BEE STUDIOS) ON MY SONG "PLEASE FORGIVE DEM LORD"

Multivision Music Studio presents: "Please Forgive Dem Lord", written, recorded and produced by Jahna Sebastian aka Missie J ("Jah Souldierz"). The film by Bumble Bee Studios, produced by Dub AKA (Derek Wright) 2008




I wrote "Please Forgive Dem Lord" after my bass-guitarist of my band "Jah Souldierz" (which I formed in Russia in 2005) was beaten up by fascist skinheads on his way to Bob Marley Festival in Moscow, where we were scheduled to perform. He was injured badly and was taken straight to the hospital, but we still performed without him with our guitarist taking the bass. All of those criminals were set free, most of them never found. It happened to him because the skinheads in Russia think that playing reggae, hiphop, soul, jazz or any kind of "black music" is wrong and they particularly attack not only people of different race and skin colour in Russia, but also musicians who play "foreign" music. There is a street war going in Russia at the moment with fascist and antifascist movement fighting against each other. But there are deeper roots hidden behind the real situation and why fascism raised it's head in Russia, the country which defeated Hitler in 1945, and I believe that when there will be no more prejudice in the world, there'll be no more wars, but also we need to find peace in our own hearts.

http://www.myspace.com/jahnaanduskurah
http://www.myspace.com/djdubaka
http://www.jahsoldiers.ru

girls strippin down promotion - where is R.E.S.P.E.C.T.?

While I am watching most of the music videos created these days, I think to myself: "why and who needs this promotion of women as strippers and prostitutes and why do girls don’t respect themselves enought to get involved in that?" Sometimes, you look at a picture and see a girl in bikini or almost nude and your might think that she’s a model or something and than you find out that she is an "upcoming singer". Then you happen to meet these type of dudes who are telling you: "all that sells in the music business now is sex, that’s the way to success, doesn’t matter if you can actually sing!" Then I remember the words of one guy who’s married to a very beautiful model-like lady with very very long and perfect shape legs (all men just get crazy looking at her) when he said that when you see all that every day showing off, at first you get used to it, than you stop noticing and even get tired and then it’s not that attractive to you anymore, if there’s nothing behind it, i e soul beauty.

Some artists strip down when they don’t need to, because they are blessed with some talent and people will still go and buy their cd’s or concert tickets if they don’t do that. Come on, guys, it should be all about music? then in many commercial hiphop videos (I’m talking about MTV, but that’s what the kids are gettin their hands on) you see naked or almost naked girls surrounding one not always cute dude, shakin their naked booties into the cameras and doin whateva ... I mean, it’s great if you can shake your booty and it’s beautiful if you are actually dancing and doing it well especially to certain types of music, and I do shake my booty in the clubs (dancing!), but there is a difference between a dance and a strip tease or porno. A whole bunch of artists singin and rappin about girls who are strippers and prostitutes as if it’s a normal job for a woman after hundred years of women’s struggle to be accepted equal to men in their rights such as getting education, persue a career in anything just like any man would, voting etc. Why? then when I saw Kanye West video for "Flashin Lights", I was shocked by this strange conception of this weird girl taking her clothes of and then murdering a guy in the car, this is not healthy, I mean we have that in life, just watch any Russian TV channel news programe (if you speak Russian) and you will see this violance as an everyday life. Lack of love, violance and then somebody’s still asking why there are guns and knives in the hands of kids in the streets these days? If the kids see all these strippers and most successful artists rappin about women as "b$tches and hoes" and relationships built on money, HOW KIDS ARE GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT LOVE? And if you are actually singin about love, you don’t need to do it while undressing yourself, there other creative ways of expressing an idea of L.O.V.E. whatever it is, strippin down or prostitution, it’s just about business based on men’s weekness when lookin at a naked girl. And at the same time these type of men (not all men) who are actually talking about cash-relationships are the greediest ones. I have been told so many times "you should go and do what everybody does now, sex sells!" Well, I think, sex sells for a short period of time and LOVE sells FOREVER. I have never seen Lauryn Hill do dirty things, but her album "Miseducation ..." is a classic and I have never seen it on the shelves in charity shops for 50p like some other "successful at a time" artists’ cd’s, because most people would keep it in their collection. Real music stays forever. Bob Marley’s music is known at least a little bit to almost everyone in the world, unless you have lived in a fishtank for your whole life.

Sex is good and important, but not when it sells. Sex is a form of showing love to somebody, getting to know that person you like. Even if you have sex on a first date (don’t get me wrong, but anything can happen), if a girl agreed to it becuase she liked the guy that much, she’s not a prostitute or a whore. When you actually do it because of your feelings, that’s natural and we’re all human. But if you do it with intention to squeeze a bit of cash out of it, that’s a different story. Ok, there have always been people doing this and prostitution is one of the most ancient proffessions, but it should not be raised to a normal way of life. It should stay where it is in it’s own place not promoted by "every day new pop idols" to the new generation.
But after all, today, when women are absolutely equal to men in most parts of the world by law, girls forget about it and misuse their beauty for temporary satisfaction of men’s ego. When you can go, get a Degree, choose any proffession and persue a career, and yes, make your own money by working hard and achieving your dreams. And when you get older you would not be ashamed to look into your kids’ eyes and tell them what you’ve been doing. But who needs this promotion of women acting like stupid sex machines designed to work until you’re broke? All I’m asking is for a little R.E.S.P.E.C.T.!

The weather's gone crazy in London

I woke up today, looked outside my bedroom window and couldn't believe my eyes: SNOW everywhere! In April! In England! and yesterday it was like +16 C! I have never seen such a huge temprature shift in my life! I am from Moscow where we have four seasons with -25 C in winter and + 30 in summer, but when the weather changes within two days, it can't be explained, especially in the country of a mild climate. By evening it melted away though. This is scary... Winter in Moscow in 2005/2006 was the coldest in the past 30 years with -40 C throughout all February, it was like walking on Mars, seriously, once you come out on the street in one minute your hair got covered with ice. Winter 2006/2007 was the warmest ever in Moscow when there was only one month of winter and through all other time it was above 0 C and polluted air gets stuck in your lungs toxicating your body even more severely ... After that you start believing a bit in various theories like "the end of the world in 2012" and stuff like that. I wrote a song recently called "So here comes the light now", so watch out, it has links with what I'm walking about here.

RUSSIAN CONNECT PARTY AT LOOM BAR VIDEO

JAHNA SEBASTIAN AT THE FIRST RUSSIN HIPHOP PARTY IN UK on 25th March 2007, THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN HIPHOP IN UK HAS BEGUN!

Russian Connect : Jahna Sebastian live on first Russian hiphop party in UK

RUSSIAN CONNECT : FIRST RUSSIAN HIPHOP PARTY IN UK !!!
I’M GONNA BE THERE AND HOPE TO SEE YA ALL AT CLUB LOOM IN LONDON ON 25TH MARCH :



ADDRESS: CLUB LOOM, 5 CLIPSTON STREET,
FITZROVIA,
LONDON,
W1W 6BB
TUBE: GREAT PORTLAND STREET

FROM 8PM TILL 2AM
ADMISSION: GIRLS FREE B4 11PM
GUYS £3 ALL NIGHT

OFFICIAL BRIT AWARDS AFTER PARTY AT CHINWHITE

OFFICIAL BRIT AWARDS AFTER PARTY AT CHINWHITE, 20.02.2008

SOME PICS

Jahna Sebastian


Jahna Sebastian and Lili


Jahna Sebastian

Ok, so after a long time I got my hands back on working on Den Bro's tracks, as he finally hit my studio in North London. Den Bro is a rapper from Estonia and he is currently recording his mixtape. I just was happy to be able to sit there and record, mix and do my sound engineering magic again after the more than two months break, working on another artist's track is looking at music from a different prospective. Yeah, the track is with conscious lyrics and I might do a couple of lines there too, so new collab is coming up

anyway, I was running around all day like crazy and it was good to kind of relax in the studio and I feel like I'm born again ...

BOB MARLEY'S EARTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREATEST ARTIST (IN MY PERSONAL OPINION) OF ALL TIMES - BOB MARLEY. HIS SONGS HAVE MADE ME LOOK ON VARIOUS THING IN MY LIFE DIFFERENTLY AND HIS MUSIC IS TIMELESS AND PRICELESS! BOB MARLEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 63 TODAY, HE WILL ALWAYS STAY WITH US!

ONE LOVE

MusicTank conference : Deal or no Deal?

On 5thFebruary2008 I have attended one of the Music Tank conferences in MCPS-PRS Alliance with panel comprises: Mike Smith (MD, Columbia Records), Antony Bebawi (Director, Legal&Business Affairs, EMI Publishing UK), Adrian Bullock (Independant Royalty Consultant, Bullocks Limited), Chris Morrison (MD, CMO Management Ltd), David Stopps (Artist Manager, FML Music) and Keith Harris (Chairman MusicTank)

This day proved to be one of those days, which I call "free stuff days", I got discounts all the way through since the morning and that was pretty inspiring ;-) So the same thing happened when I came to MCPS-PRS Alliance and I was running late and I managed to get in for free, I guess mostly because it was a lucky day.
Everybofy knows that the music business is changing rapidly, unless you have been living in a tank since 2000 ;), mainly because of digital downloads that have made music almost free and therefore, some people are talking about the upcoming "death of the record industry". So I think that in many ways an opposite to this thing has been proven this night: it's not dying, It's just trying to find new ways of existance and furthermore - even more through digital formats, just like in that song last year: "hip-hop is not dead, it just immigrated"... On the other hand some of the most important things have been noted: music industry is going to function more because of live performances and merchandise + other sides of business where an artist could be involved, especially throgh signing a 360 degree deal with a record-company. Before you used to release a record and go on tour to support the sales, now - you would release a single and album to promote your future tour and through performing live you will actually earn a living. At this point, I realised two things: 1) I have been writing about it in my Master's Degree written work almost two years ago at Russian Academy of Music 2) this business model sounds really familiar - oh, yes of course, this looks just like music business in Russia! What was the main difference between the music industry worldwide, in US and UK, has faded away because of technology and the same thing as in Russia - bootlegers. OK, let's hope than that the way that worldwide music business will not take the worst example of Russian business in a similar situation, what I had run away from and escaped to UK hoping for the best and that is:
1) because people don't buy records, and you have to rely on live performances, it actually doesn' improve the quality, but worsens it, because the managers striving for getting as many gigs as possible for there artists in order to make more money go for pre-recorded playback instead of actually singing live. In Russia some of the artists do 60 gigs a month and in reality it is almost impossible to do even for the best singer in the world. So they just don't bother, they just put on a CD with playback - less work for the sound engineer too ... That also led to actually disappearance of real artists from the major scene and instead more of those people being brought into business just "to pose" who don't have anything to do with music at all, because lack of talent makes them easier to be controlled. A real singer wouldn't agree to everything and what's more wouldn't want to perform miming! And that's what they do on "Star Factory" - Russian equivalent of XFactor or American Idol - they just mime instead of singing!
2) The artists in Russia don't have any power. They don't even make money that much and people think that they are rich, but it's not true. Some of the most popular "artists" there get paid something like $100 - $200 and the rest goes to their executive producer, that's like the same money you can make performing in a general night club venue without depending on any body and doing your thing really live! But because there is no talent in those people, they put up with it because they know - they can easily be replaced if they complain and nobody would notice. They are not allowed in most cases even to write there own songs. They have no choice. They are nobody.
3) The venture capital that is represented by the money of oligarhs and those rich people in Russia. That actually led to this progression: big money -----> pay for the music -----> monopoly on the market, influence on the media like radio, TV etc. -----> if you can get one of the big guys to invest in you a certain fee you are half way through. On the other hand it just left everybody outside the boat, it mean independant artists have no way, just "NO WAY" of getting through to the major audience. Because the TV and radio belongs to certain people there. But not Internet ;-)

well, let's hope that this decadance will never happen in US, UK and in other countries, my hopes could be based on the following: 1) people here are much more musically educated than in Russia, I am talking about general public
2) as has been said tonight that "Music is more popular these days than ever. You see people walking down the street with iPods, listening to it all the time." "You can also see, that general audience is looking broader, not concentrating only on the major acts, but on smaller artists and that shows that people have broader tastes." It is good that people from record-companies actually see that and talk and care about the "consumer" so much. That means they respect people's freedom of choice and probably, this would be an example of better development into something positive of the same business model.

Peace

Jahna Sebastian live on London Peace Concert, Trafalgar Square

Jahna Sebastian live on London Peace Concert, Trafalgar Square, September 2007
"Please Forgive Dem Lord" by Jahna Sebastian (Jah Souldierz album)

"The Price of the Beauty"

For all the ladies who respect themselves and the beauty, that God gave them and guys to understand that women need more respect! ;-)

"The Price of the Beauty" :

Multivision Music Studio. All rights reserved. (c) 2007

?!MONEY IN THE BANK?! C.R.E.A.M. OR NOT?

People get obsessed too much by money. Some of them set their life goals around getting money, no matter wich way. They would steal or kill for money, they think money will give them more freedom, but they don't realize - they become the slaves for money. But when you die, you wouldn't even take your body away from earth. Money was created by human and can be both evil and good, in general - it's in the middle. Money can give security in a way, can pay for expensive operation or medical treatment required to save someone' life, for food for those who are hungry, for a place to live in not to stay in the street or in the jungle. Money can also make people go crazy about them and do stupid things. Money can bring security to some, but the others would become even more volnurable - mentally - being scared to loose this money one day. But if you loose it, what would you do? You'll start again and just know, there is always a way, as long as you are alive. Money can do a lot. But can't do one thing - it can't control you if you don't let it conquere you and make you sell your soul for it.

It is good to earn good money for the work you do. To be successful in what you do - is great. It is good to be appriciated and be able to support yourself and your family. But it's got another side of the medal.

Some people think: "cash rules everything around me". Not everything. Cash can't rule the circumstances and what is meant to be will be. If somebody is supposed to live or die, it will happen either way no matter what money involved. Cash can't rule God's plan. And there is always a human factor. It is more important to be true to yourself and to the others; to respect and keep real friendship; to keep promises you make or not make any pomises if you can't keep them; not to betray the ones you say you love; to take responsibility. Cash can't buy or fix mistakes in that. If you sell your soul once, no cash will buy it back. No matter, how much money you have - it is nothing to compare to eternity.

to be continued ...

MY STUPID SWEET SIXTEEN

I just found these pix of my "sweet sixteenth" birthday party back in 2002 in Moscow, and that's like just a small and the most innocent part ...

http://tynoe-ha3bahue.narod.ru/photopage2/pages/HyMepo_15_jpg.htm

.....blah .....

(Jahna and classmates: 2002)