YachtLife, 

Making a music video is a lot like sex. There’s a bunch of ways to make do it, and some people are just better at it than others.

There’s the “bring her back home and rail her all night long style,” where you figuratively rape the viewer’s eyes with epic shot after epic shot. Then add explosions and special effects and gratuitous violence for fun. And helicopters while you’re at it.

Then there’s the “traditional missionary” approach. I guess this one could summarize the more generic videos we’re used to seeing, especially with rap. Rapper in front of a mansion. In front of some flashy cars. Throwing some money at some video honeys. But for all the sex and near-nudity, just like doing it missionary, it gets old and no one really gets off on it (unless you’re Rick Santorum, then it’s all you know).

And then there’s a bunch of other approaches, but trying to cover them all would be an exercise in futility. Mainly because I think everyone has their own unique style, kinda like everyone has a way that they like to fuck. And even then, how we do things can change over time or daily nightly (again, unless you’re Rick Santorum).

So what am I going to share with you? I’m going to tell you how making D. Tucker’s first video (Love It Hate It) was like an awkward time in bed with that hot red head from work you’ve imagined nailing in the backroom dozens of times, but never actually thought you’d get a chance. You see, I had shot a few music videos before, but until then none of them had been for real hip hop songs. Add to that that I was in an awkward stage in my life, and you have the recipe for an interesting love affair.

Tucker first approached me to shoot his video after meeting him on a shoot he did. I was shooting BTS footage.  I had a lot on my plate, and I was also going through one of my lowest points in passion for film within the past 4 years (with the last one having been freshmen year, because well, I think that one’s self explanatory). So I went into it wanting to shoot the video, but hesitant and nervous and not really sure what I was doing. Sounds a lot like your first time huh? So there I am, coming up with the first few shots, trying to sound sure of myself, like I know exactly what I’m doing. I didn’t. I did a little, but knowing how to properly expose and compose a shot can only take you so far.

So there I am, just trying to really get a feel for the song and the video and our vision for it. After the first few shots, some random lens flares (I fucking love lens flares, ok?) gave me a couple shots I really liked and I started getting more comfortable. I realized I didn’t need everything planned out if I just went with my gut feeling. All I had to do, I realized, was stay true to the feel (vibe, emotions, whatever you wanna call it) of the song. Stay true to the music and to the message. Here’s a confession. We basically came up with all the shots for “Love it, Hate it” that same day. On the spot.

So, it was kind of like that first time with that girl you liked. You kinda knew the basics of what you were doing, but you didn’t really know what you were doing. You didn’t know what would turn her on. But after the initial awkward moments, you started getting a feeling for it. You can tell what she likes by the way she bites her lower lip. Or by the way she digs her nails into your back. And when you really start getting the hang of it, by the way she yells “Oh my God! Don’t stop! Don’t ever stop! If you stop I will murder you right here and now!” (Although if she yells that she may be crazy).

And there you have it. Now the next video won’t be like that coming-of-age story. Because I’ve already shot a D. Tucker video. So I know how to approach it. But I also know how to make it better than last time. Like everything in life, you learn from the first time and build on it. The music has gotten better, and so have my abilities as a cinematographer. So keep a look out, because it’s only getting better from here on out.

Discarding pre-production, production and posting production, the core of a making a good music video is to enjoy yourself, explore the vibe of the song in order to portray, be persistent and cherish your outcome.

Females (and serious inquiries) can find me on Twitter @ernieprieto

Photo By Ernesto Prieto

YachtLife,

Go skate day is not too far away. Closer to that day (June 21st) we’ll be releasing a music video for the track, Security Cop Talk, from my Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 2 mixtape.

I invited my director of photography for the videos, Ernesto Prieto to guest-post on Monday, May 14th, 2012, about the process of creating a great music video. Ernesto is also the director of photography of my Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 1 single’s music video, Love It Hate It; watch it here now if you missed it: Love It Hate It Music Video

While on the topic of music videos, through-out the summer, in addition to the Security Cop Talk Video, I’ll be releasing more videos for tracks from my SGIOV2′s (Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 2) mixtape. Videos will be released on my YouTube channel, go and subscribe now: youtube.com/242dt

Until next time,

D. Tucker | YachtLife

Like Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 1, SGIOV2′s content was built using two themes, ambition and love. My recent articles were designed to drill into your mind desire / inspiration for good ethics and excellence. Despite the not so beautiful and beautiful distractions life unwraps for us, it is our portfolio and the love for our work that should remain the most important; at this stage of our lives. Balance is needed to operate the lifestyle we live. I fucked up before letting a past relationship upset the shit out of me, for a short period of time until I used the borderline bitchassness to fuel my craft’s development’s ethics. 

Real talk though, you should put your effort to bettering your work. Take my word for it, good and bad girls will come at the point when you decide to make your work priority and create better material. Thanks to the experience this is available to help you filter. We say bad-azz-lady because most “good girls” want to be bad. We must live with this and sometime it’s hard to filter the good-bad-girls from the bad-bad girls. The good girl’s that don’t want to be bad, are like diamonds that never reach the shelf, they are rarely on display. Very little clubbing (nothing less than VIP), new this new that, daddies credit card and a bad attitude……NOT! They are the lame ass bitches my dude. What you need is a real chick and I’m going to write my response replying to points of an article that I stumbled upon about, How To Spot A Good Girl/ Women a.k.a. a Good Girl / ( permanent booty-call girls).

Here are just a few things to look for when you meet or date a girl/woman:

1. She has an open and welcoming smile that goes beyond the surface deep inside her eyes – the window to her soul. Her eyes and her whole demeanor kind of “lights up” when you walk into the room or towards her.

D. Tucker – Smiles are deceiving at times so you are to be careful. False smiling is a technique developed by females most often used when talking to other females. The eyes are the gates to her soul but with the perfect smile and eyes she’s capable of abducting your soul like a rat cornered by a cat. To avoid, keep chasing that cheese and that kitty will chase you.

2. She lets you be you. She does not want to change you – clean you up, re-make you or rename you etc – so she can love you but accepts you just the way you are.

D. Tucker – This is primary. WTF you mean “She let’s you be you.” You are who you are, as YachtLife you must be true to yourself, true to your craft, and if she’s not having that, then tell her fuck off, it’s that simple. That piece of advice goes for her or anyone that’s in the way of you being a better you.

3. She genuinely enjoys your company - isn’t afraid to ask for it or tell you that she enjoys being around you. Being around her feels like being around your best friend because you can truly be just yourself — no feeling like you’re always walking on egg-shells or trying too hard to please (and always coming short). The experience of being around her is “satisfying” in its own.

D. Tucker – The only way she’s going to enjoy your company is if your life is exciting. The only way your life remain exciting is by producing better work. Make better work, make more connections and you’ll have more access to the world. Because of this you’ll make a few extra dollars that will allow you to chill with her on your off time. Fuck that thought of people saying they don’t give time to themselves / all they do is work 24/7; everyone needs a little break but she’s must be special enough to spend the 2 hours out of the day that you keep for personal time. Make it worth it.

4. She goes out of her way to do things she thinks will make you happy. She’s the woman who’ll call you just to say “hi” or “I was thinking of you” however busy/tired she is.

D. Tucker –  ”Everyone wants a good girl but where the fuck they’ all at?!”

5. She is independent and secure within herself. She does not need constant attention and does not put pressure on you to feed her self-esteem, anxiety or worries about the future.

D. Tucker – Nothing much to say about this one.

6. She’s there for you when it’s up and when it’s down. She’s happy out in an expensive restaurant just as she’s happy sitting next to you on the couch, doing nothing.

D. Tucker – Read my article: The Permanent Booty-Call 

7. She does what she says she will do. She does not play mind games but lets you know where you stand because she cares enough to treat others the way she’d like to be treated.

D. Tucker – Never expect anything from anyone but yourself. The moment you see mind games in the mix tell her you don’t have time for the shit (in a nice way ofc) and if it get out of hand just stick to your music.

8. She believes that a relationship should be a 50/50 give-and- take partnership. With her it’s not always “Me, me, me” but “we” and “us”. Not only does she believe in a 50/50 give-and- take partnership, she takes her 50% part of the partnership seriously.

D. Tucker – 50/50 means half of everything; “Bitch you wasn’t with me shooting in the gym!”  - Drake.
The only thing that should be 50/50 is the respect and love you both share for each other. Leave it at that.

9. She shows respect for you not only in private but more so in public because she cares about how others see you and treat you.

D. Tucker – “Everyone wants a good girl but where the fuck they’ all at?”

10. She’s not just nice to people she has something to gain from but is kind and treats the doorman, the customer service rep, the waitress, the beggar on the street, a child, the elderly etc. with compassion and respect. This is a telling sign of how she’ll treat you once she feels she has you and isn’t trying to impress you anymore.

D. Tucker – “Everyone wants a good girl but where the fuck they’ all at?”

11. She genuinely wants to be in a relationship with you and not just looking for “any man” to solve all her problems. She talks positively of the opposite sex but also not blind to their shortcomings.

D. Tucker – “Everyone wants a good girl but where the fuck they’ all at!?”

12. She likes the things you like and makes an effort to do even the things you like and she doesn’t.

D. Tucker – I don’t agree with this one as much. She doesn’t have to like everything that you like and you don’t have to like everything that she likes. Her making that effort is awesome though; do the same for her.

13. She’s not embarrassed or too proud to show you how much she loves you. She gives you her love and she also gives you her trust.

D. Tucker – “Everyone wants a good girl, but where the fuck they’ all at?”

14. She’s positive, happy with her life and always upbeat. She does not try to put other girls/women down to look better than she really is.

D. Tucker – This is awesome because it’s a must to have a “just-chillin’” lady. Natural beauty is the best beauty, however, mental beauty is the most beautiful.

15. She makes you feel like you really matter even with all your faults and shortcomings– and she’s happy that you were born!

D. Tucker – “Everyone wants a good girl, but where the fuck they’ all at?”

“When a good girl goes bad she’s gone forever!” – Jay-Z

Below is the download for my track Good Girls from my Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 2 mixtape. Enjoy it, share it with your friends and don’t forget to like my Facebook fan-page for more tracks and motivational stories to keep you YachtLife official!

“Some people are meant for dating others are meant to simply be fucked. It’s as black and white as that, however, it’s not to say that a booty-call can’t develop into a relationship but it’s rare and that’s a whole other topic in of its own.” - HotDamnMiami.co

A few months ago I was introduced to this lifestyle blog based out of  Miami, Florida (HotDamnMiami.co) which became one of my favorites because they keep it real as fuck. I’m Facebook-friends with one of the writers, she posted her articles, I read them, I surfed the blog’s barrel of good stories and now I’m sharing my experience after a few fucked-up booty-call wipeouts with the help /addition to the aforementioned quote and my track, How Can I Trust You, from my SGIOV2 (Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 2) mixtape. This post will speak directly to the blurred-foucs males of Miami, Florida, Bahamas and the world, that chose to make their booty call lady permanent. If you know friends slipping or if you’re slipping yourself utilize the advice shared.

A mentor of mine once shared the most respected cliche, “You lose a lot of money chasing women, but you never lose women chasing money.” 

The idea of going out on a Friday and Saturday night looking for a random chick to hook up with sounds awesome. From experience it is awesome, and it’s even more awesome when the those lucky nights happen at random. After a series of successful hook ups using HotDamnMiami’s advice you’ll notice the process of: making plans with your wingman to hit the bar or club, finding the right button-up shirts, and sacrificing a few dollars for drinks on random girls is a vampire-cafeteria to your bloody wallet.

Eventually you’ll have that one girl on call. My advice to you if she’s somewhat of a good girl and she understand that your lifestyle is YachtLife (Young. Ambitious. Creative. High-standard. Talented. Lifestyle.) keep her close. The permeant booty-call lady is perfect for you if you don’t want to bother with the stress / expectations having a title (my girlfriend / in a relationship) brings.

Just because you’re not in a relationship with the lady doesn’t mean you should be using your energy chasing other women. You should respect her like your girlfriend and use your energy toward producing better work. Put your fucking work first buddy. The better your portfolio the more ladies will appreciate your hustle and you’ll have more options for choosing the lady that could be the one. If the permanent boot-call lady continue to respect your mission and your work ethics then why not develop it into a relationship over time. Put in the mean time I repeat, keep your fucking work first buddy.

Until next time,
D. Tucker | YachtLife

Sometimes we search for the strangest shit on the internet to help us with our relationships. If you arrived here talking to the search engine like it is your f-ing psychiatrist, asking, ”Thing’s to talk to my gf (or bf if you’re le female reader) about”, or, “How to make my gf stop being mad at me”, you should look left, then look right, then repeat the process as you shake your head in disgrace. 

Keep calm and read on; everything will be fine, I’ll provide some information within this article for you to get over that bullshit. If you’re not on the lame side of the fence, then use the information shared to help others  that will come to you someday asking for relationship advice etc. while dripping “blood” (Charlie video British youtube kid accent) from their wounded  barb wire cuts. Before I continue, I hope you enjoyed the, My Digital Girl, Facebook fan page performance video above. (If you read thus far take a second to like my Facebook fanpage) If you’re going to be lame and only read what I have to say here instead of listening to my music, the song spoke about….mother fucka go and watch the video first then start reading again (share with your friends – please.)

Now that you’ve listen to the song you know my feelings towards long distance relationships. Those feelings developed after getting played by my ex-gf and because I’m no stranger to meeting a girl with a bf and plays single for the night. To the stressed-out heart, start by throwing the bitchassness emotions in the bin, forever. The most likely possibility why you’re feeling the way you feel about your long distance relationship is because of weak bitchassness emotions. Control your feelings before they end up controlling you; strengthen those bitchassness emotions.

It wasn’t until my long distance relationship ended until I realized what I could have done better to avoid us growing sick of each other. A sample list of ingredients that help make up the frustration-energy-platter served in long distance relation-shits are: trust issues, jealousy, etc. all the same but that bullshit develops naturally but you need to know to the known simple truth to fixing it all and it’s: don’t give af!

I’m not suggesting you be an asshole. However, I’m advising that you make yourself a better you before you try to be a better person for somebody else. How to not give af while making a better you? The answer is to, “Do more work!”.

The most beneficial way to keep your mind off of the stress is to do more work. Relationships are cool, I love the ones that I’ve had and the one that I have but let’s face it, you’ve probably dated before; hence the keyword “dated”. People die; keep that in mind as well. Chances are if you’re fighting so much you’ll probably break up. If the unnecessary bullshit has been going on for so long why would you want to keep in it anyway. Doing more work will build you a stronger portfolio, a stronger portfolio is what make you look good, when you look good you feel good, when you feel good you perform better, when you perform well you have options, when you have options you start to make more money, when you make more money and your girl is tripping you could buy flowers, a plane filled with flowers to stay calm and a plane ticket to visit.

When you become a better you she’ll love the better you that you become for her. On that note playa, all I’m saying focus on you and never mind the relation-shit if it’s giving you problems. Keep it YachtLife!

Listen / Download My Digital Girl by D. Tucker:

That’s All Playa,
D. Tucker | YachtLife

My Digital Girl by D. Tucker (Learn the lyrics and sing loud when I’m in your town!)

[Hook:]

I’ll do anything,

to see the sun set,

behind your hair,

look you in your eyes,

kiss you on your lips,

and tell you,

that I would,

love you forever.

but that day,

will be,

never,

if I, Can’t

feel your touch,

and tell you the words,

tell you the words,

that I love you.

[Verse 1:]

My digital girl,

my digital girl,

she’s probably in the crowd tonight,

my digital girl,

my digital girl,

wanna leave with me tonight?

my digital girl,

my digital girl,

sounds oh so perfect right.

but,

my digital girl,

my digital girls

are only for the night,

one,

plus,

every time,

I tired before,

it,

NEVER,

ever

worked out,

but,

how would I know,

if I said no,

to,

your deceiving smile,

three,

cause when I leave,

and we can’t be,

cause all we can do is Skype.

I’m sorry girl,

but I need a girl,

whom is right there by my side.

[Hook:]

I’ll do anything,

To see the sun set,

Behind your hair,

Look you in your eyes,

Kiss you on your lips,

And tell you,

that I would,

love you forever.

But that day,

Will be,

Never,

If I, Can’t

Feel your touch,

And tell you the words,

Tell you the words

That I love you.

[Verse 2:]

Sand falling from my Sperry with a drink in my hand,

then she walked up,

looking like the perfect ten,

with the perfect tan,

she were so hot,

I played it so cool,

you know,

the way YachtLife supposed to,

but what,

I’m used to,

are,

these girls,

being,

as cool as Pluto (,extra cold)

now they want me freeze their fingers,

looking like Pluto,

who though?

not I,

but she is,

what’s up,

so I,

pulled a chair up,

and she,

told me,

that she

loved it, loved it,

never hate,

and,

her boyfriend’s mad,

because he,

wished he made it,

in my mind I’m like oh you got a man,

oh you got man,

and you’re right here trying me hold your hand,

fuck,

I’ll go with what’s plan,

like I were taught,

grand slam, bacon and the ham, Damn!

[Hook:]

I’ll do anything,

to see the sun set,

behind your hair,

look you in your eyes,

kiss you on your lips,

and tell you,

that I would,

love you forever.

but that day,

will be,

never,

if I, Can’t

feel your touch,

and tell you the words,

tell you the words,

that I love you.

YachtLife,

A quote from New Music Strategies, “…By far the most reliable way to promote music is to have people hear it. Repeatedly, if possible – and free. After a while, if you’re lucky, people get to know and love the music. Sooner or later, they’re going to want to own it.”

If your needs for this collection are alike, you’re looking for great websites to download / share great new music. Chances are you crave new music work-out to, work to, study to, and if you’re an artist, you’re looking for great websites to submit your music to.

Less than a year ago I transformed my music into more than a hobby when I released Somewhat Good Is Okay Volume 1 and recently my SGIOV2 mixtape (click here to read more about it). Transferring from another creative profession (professional photographer), I understood the importance of an artist sharing a portfolio of work. Luckily for me, my collection of websites was organically built by randomly bookmarking the ones I got music from to play at my photo-shoots.

The websites I share are a sample of my collection but they’re some of my favorite ones. These websites / blogs make up the small percentage of the great ones artists share their music to with hopes to accomplish the aforementioned quote’s goal. 

- FreshNewTracks.com: serving daily, hot out of the oven, new, hip-hop, electro, dubstep, house, mashups and indie music. The menu that Fresh New Tracks delivers serves healthy hot tracks. You may find your CD-Rs getting burned a lot; wear hot-hands!

- Camelbackmusic.com: a journey on the hump takes the opened-minded-individual to discovering new tracks in the internet’s deserts. Prepare yourself to return with the hottest from, Hip-Hop to Electro and House! Don’t forget to wear your turban and take lots of water.

- LeftOverCake.com: As many as there are, there will never be too many music junkies thanks to LeftOverCake’s services. When you wake up in the morning you’re able to count on a few slices from Left Over Cake for your music fix.

- LetTheBeatsFlow.com: The music god said, “Let The Beats Flow!” then exclusive, unique, high quality music became available to you. Be sure to fasten your helmet and grip-firmly your paddles when entering LTBF’s streams of music.

- ThisSoundGoesAround.com: They are the miners that filters the gems in the music industry’s blog-community. I favor this blog because they thoroughly analyze the jewelry before you listen. Their display windows consist of chill, electronic, rap/ hip-hop and indie music.

- TheKollection.com: This is one of the quickest growing army collection of music fanatics and writers. The fact that I have a “sweet-ear-drumb” and I’m ambushed by the ear-candy is the reason why, until this article, I haven’t visited the about page. Sweets available for scoops are: hip-hop /pop, dubstep, electro, indie and mashup’s music.

My respect level for the website is at its highest, knowing the founder / owner is only 18. Brian Lovin if you ever read this, as the leader of YachtLife (Young. Ambitious. Creative. High-standard. Talented. Lifestyle.) I’d like to personally say mad props! What you and your team is doing over at The Kollection is 100% Yachtlife!

- CheckThisTrack.com: Shout-out to the students over at PennState from ya boy D. Tucker! Before you take a visit to their website I’ll warn you that you’ll be checking that track, and-that-track, and that other track. Honestly the discoveries are addictive, they should have named the website “CheckThisCrack!”

- PigeonsAndPlanes.com:

Does anyone here remember, “I standout like bird shit on a black shoe!” Nah I didn’t think you knew it, that one is for the hustlers that used FruityLoops samples back in the day! This website  frequently post anything but shit, however, music that stands out!

From the about page they say it best themselves, “Pigeons and Planes is a place where you can keep up with good new music, whether it be mainstream hip-hop, indie rock, or anything in between. Whether it’s the pop star you see on the magazine covers or the local band you’ve never heard of. The site is updated multiple times every day so check back. We work closely with artists, labels, promoters, and good people who are into good music – check it out and I think you’ll find a unique blend and discover some gems.”

- GoodMusicAllDay.com: I took note of Good Music All Day because they share new artist like myself music. Reading about GMAD’s music team, business team, about the founder and about the entire operation gave me much respect for the company. I love when others reflect our YachtLife movement. Good Music All Day’s is made possible by a team of young, passionate individuals that run the blog because they love sharing music and want to make a difference within the industry.

“Los discoveries on Good Music All Day estoy muy loco! WTF!” While there you are sure to find good music, all day, and good music all night for sure!

- TheMaskedGorilla.com: Kings of the New Schools Jungle! If this “Masked Gorilla” show up to your counter don’t be afraid, it won’t shoot ! The Masked Gorilla is strapped with / will provide you the most dope new music. “The Masked Gorilla is an ever-evolving new age media outlet focused on the current youth, “New School”, hip hop scene.”

“New School hip hop is not a genre, it is a culture.”

PLEASE NOTE: The Masked Gorilla doesn’t accept submissions any longer, go to their website to read more about it. Despite that they are still one of the most dope to check out modern music.

- Fab4music.com: Congratulations on the another anniversary of serving “FABtastic”music! (You guys can keep that one from me!)

From their website, “Fab4 Music is a different kind of music site, and we want to explain why. We’d be the first to tell you we’re constantly evolving, and in many respects still a work in progress (yeah we make mistakes). Then again, hip-hop is always shifting, and we hope our rationale reflects that principle. That being said, if you don’t like change, then we don’t expect you to stick around here either.”

- ThisSongIsSick.com: No medicine needed for these tracks, if you don’t get the picture (check your f-stop…HA) urban-dic the term sick! Fool!

From his story, “My name is Nick Guarino and I love music and especially showing people new music. Making mix cd’s for friends my whole life led to the founding of Thissongissick.com with which I hope to broaden everyone’s musical taste beyond the radio.”

I favor the site because Nick turned his passion of sharing “sick-songs” to help save the lives of people dying due to shitty music exposure!

To conclude this write-up for you, the topic of downloading free music is one that can hold great debate. To show my support for the listed websites, they are not designed to hurt profits of the artist any way shape or form. If anything, they help the artist before the television, radio, etc. make puppets out of the music industry fathers’ bread and butter.

As an artist myself I’m asking you to please support the artist whom music you download. Support by going to a show, joining the fan-page (mine), the twitter (mine), youtube (mine) and when projects are released for sale, support by making a purchase.

Until next time,
D. Tucker | YachtLife 

YachtLife, 

Two of my favorite Carlos Santana quotes are, “… Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music…” and “… everyone was using tiny brushes and doing watercolors, while Jimi Hendrix was painting galactic scenes in Cinemascope. We are working in a field of mystical resonance, sound and vibration… that’s what makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up … ” I’ll explain in a sec how they relate in this letter sobre mi amigo Barney Chamorro. If you recognize Barney’s name, there’s a chance you stumbled upon one of his videos on YouTube, or you recognized his name on SGIOV2‘s back cover’s credits as my engineer for the mixtape.

Barney is a friend of a friend, whom is like a brother to me, then became alike. I met Barney a few years ago at my location in Miami,Florida. After the greeting the first thing he asked me was, “Whose guitar is that? Do you mind if I play it?” He strummed a few complex chords and I knew he was passionate about his music. At the time music was solely a hobby, my focus was dedicated to being the best photographer that I could be; we had no idea our friendship would strengthen because of music’s power. A few years later, we worked hours on SGIOV2′s production and he proved everything mentioned in his recommendation.

A few days after SGIOV2′s release, Barney said to me, “Tucker, I’m going to learn Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb track and make a cover for it.” Knowing Barney, I knew he wasn’t about to paint with watercolors nor use tiny brushes.

I asked Barney what inspired him to make the cover and he replied, “First time I heard this song I knew I had to learn the guitar solo, it’s the guitar solo that has inspired me most as a guitarist. I was basically somewhat bored of playing guitar until I saw David Gilmour playing it live, then I knew I had to master it.”

Barney’s definition of “master it” was to create the video you watched above by himself, a week and a half of mixing and mastering the track to get the less compressed live sound that he achieved (take a breather), and after close to a month learning the parts, playing by himself the: drums, 12 string acoustic, 6 string acoustic, electric guitar, bass, cello (sample instrument), synth and vox. He’s not an over achiever, he’s just super fucking passionate about his craft and that’s why I feel so lucky to have him as a part of the YachtLife fam.

A song as powerful as Comfortably Numb should only be treated with respect and Barney kept it YachtLife. I’ve listened to Barney’s cover a few times on repeat already on the tube. If the video ever reaches 1,000,000 views know 900k of them were probably my replay views! Below I’m providing a SoundCloud embed for stream / download. Enjoy it!

Until next time,
D. Tucker | YachtLife

YachtLife,

Kanye West’s Theraflu track dropped today (4.05.12) and if you haven’t heard it go and listen to it / download it from the site I did, Hot New Hip-Hop (here). It’s good to have Kanye West music back, it was an instant soothing, powerful relief for the music industry! It’s not my goal with this website to share music from other “hip-hop / rap artist” but Kanye West is an exception. He’s an inspiration to my music, fashion and work ethics and I share content on this website to inspire you. I want you to listen to the things he’s talking about in the track because it’s totally YachtLife appropriate.

A quick update:

I’m at the studio right now and my friend sent me a message saying, ” Dude, listen to this new fucking Kanye West track I know you’ll love it, peep that Mase flow!” He knows how much I love Kanye West’s music, so I signed on to write you real quick because the track is super dope!

SGIOV2, is doing really well right now thanks to you all, if you haven’t downloaded the mixtape yet download here! We reached 900 likes to the Facebook fan page and that’s something to celebrate, I spoke to the guys about giving something away on the 1,000 like, to a person on board YachtLife, that have been taking part on the page commenting sharing etc. we take notice of everything!

I have to get back in the studio we’re cooking up a ton of new content while balancing spreading SGIOV2, working on SGIVO2 visuals, blah blah blah can’t say much but know everything’s going awesome because of your support! Thank you!

I’m introducing to you an amazing / beautiful lady friend of mine, with a voice to match, from Dubai, Stephanie Farah. To back up everything I said within Stephanie’s introduction I’d like you to take a “view-minutes” to watch / listen to Rihanna’s Rude Boy, sung by Stephanie Farah. (The video is above.)

An off beat story about Stephanie and I: Stephanie was a mutual friend of a girl I went to high-school with in the Bahamas. We met on a trip to the Atlantis hotel with two friends of mine for a visit to a night club. We had no idea either did anything music related until a few weeks after at random. She sent me her YouTube channel (youtube.com/StephanieFarah2) to listen to her sing and I sent her my SGIOV2 mixtape; a few hours later we made an amazing track together (not released as of yet but be on the listen out for it!)

Stephanie is a lady keeping it YachtLife to the fullest by going after her dreams! I could sit here and write to you forever on her amazing characteristics and how much I respect her hustle and dedication to her craft. Stephanie was blessed with a voice that will definitely make some beautiful noise around the music industry because of her hard work to develop her gift; be on the listen out for her!

Until next time,

D. Tucker | YachtLife