Is He On Drugs? the best of tommyrock

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#		Title	Length
1		Smoking Weed	2:05	Play
2		Never Understand	4:38	Play
3		Sup Wit Dat	4:58	Play
4		Smoking Crack in the Cadillac	3:16	Play
5		R.U.Still Breathing?	4:55	Play
6		A Party With Tons of Drugs	1:05	Play
7		The Story of My Life	5:25	Play
8		Moral of the Story	4:18	Play
9		Another Bag o' Shrooms	3:06	Play
10		Impossible	5:05	Play
11		Shame Game	5:17	Play

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Description

I've always had the rockstar dream, since as long as I can remember. I started taking piano lessons very young and switched to guitar at age 9. About 5 years later I was writing my own songs and frequently collaborating with rappers in the Pittsburgh area. The success of many recordings made in my bedroom at my parents' house and several lame performances at high school dances gave me a lot of hope and influenced me to make due with the lack of a music scene in Pittsburgh and get really good at my craft.

Through my college years, I got comfortable playing guitar and actually singing in front of crowds, which is when my music career really began to blossom. I did alot of self-produced recording and was in several bands, the most memorable being The Stank and Tripitaka. I continued doing solo work on the side and getting good at producing my own stuff....Sure enough, some pretty major hits for me emerged, at least on whatever local ground I've been able to cover, but I have no impressive stats or quotes from magazines to WOW you with. You can check the songs out and decide if you like 'em or not, 'cause that's what really matters.

Graduating college and coming back to Pittsburgh kind of made it impossible for me to stay with Tripitaka, so I decided to focus on building a good home studio and just doing my own thing. So here I am today, still in Pittsburgh and recording my 5th solo release (4th LP), just finally breaking out of the home-manufactured demo stage of my career.

Anywhoo, my musical style varies ALOT. I do everything from rap to punk and pop to electronic, plus some mellow 'trippy' stuff and some angry hard rock and screamo (I don't know how the trendy people spell that)....basically a little bit of everything; I'm a very complex person as you can tell. In terms of my voice and style, that stays pretty consistent with any genre; I try to keep it raw and improvisational, yet I'm a perfectionist and I really try to make sure I am 100% confident with any direction I take. Lyrically, I'm very politically motivated and a very ANTI-kinda guy, and sometimes I'm just ridiculous and silly. If you can't tell the difference, you're severely impaired in some way. To those of you who question whether or not I smoke crack, I cannot believe you think anything about "Crack in the Cadillac" is serious...I mean c'mon, it sounds like a bunch of drunken idiots backing up a corny wannabe pimp rapper from the 80s! If you can't tell the difference, please don't listen to my music; you'll have all kinds of problems with it.

For the rest of you, enjoy! "Is He On Drugs?" is the absolute best of my music career thus far, chosen by the fans and remastered from its original sources to sound better than ever. It's basically for anyone who wants the history of tommyROCK and for the countless people that come up to me and say, "Dude, I gotta get the CD with Smoking Crack in the Cadillac!" Alot of my demo CDs, including that one, cannot be reproduced anymore due to outdating of the programs and materials I used to make them, so THIS is the one you want. And I can assure you, it's only the beginning.