Your Lightness

Producer|Beatmaker|Songwriter Lightwork Productions LLC NYC/ATL

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

If you’ve never heard my beats, check the link in the bio. Diverse set of beats for everyone. EDM to Trap to Boom Bap to R&B https://t.co/mxZNId7zNC

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

@leensreason 🤔

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

JAŸ-Z responds to Drake's 'The Jig Is Up' diss from 'ICEMAN' during a freestyle at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia 👀

“A rapper can’t be my opp”

"The jig is up, n**** I'm up 10, wrong chart champ, n****s looked up to Hov, I never looked up to them"

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

Also learning Latin rooted languages helps understand root words if English is your primary language

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

I agree. Etymology is the architecture of everything. But it also has been perverted in modern society

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

I agree. Etymology is the architecture of everything. But it also has been perverted in modern society

[Victoria @Vicky]

I create as I speak so I read the roots like I read the stars:

- In-spire: breathe spirit in
- Re-member: reassemble what was scattered
- In-tuition: look within
- Kind: act in your true nature
- De-sire: feel the pull of a star
- Sil-ly: blessed, happy, & holy (once meant divinely touched, but the fool is still the sacred one)
- Curi-ous: care deeply enough to look

Etymology is divination. Most of the words on this list were seeded before the architects arrived. & every word you speak is a ritual, so choose the ones that builds your altar, not your cage.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

This is obsession in the greatest sense

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones listened to 800 songs to find 9. Then Quincy threw out 4 of those 9 and went back into the studio. Beat It, Human Nature, P.Y.T., and The Lady in My Life were emergency replacements for songs that were not good enough.

They spent four months just listening. Quincy and Rod Temperton sat in a Los Angeles studio in 1982, going through song after song after song from every songwriter they could pull a favor from. Most got cut after a few seconds. Of the 800, they only ended up recording around 30 with Michael actually singing. Of those 30, only 9 made the final list. And then Quincy listened to the finished album, decided 4 of his own picks were not strong enough, and pulled them. The four songs he replaced them with became some of the most famous in pop music history. The four he cut went on to become hits for other artists.

Recording those replacements almost broke the team. During the Beat It sessions, Quincy had three studios running at the same time. Eddie Van Halen was in one of them laying down his guitar solo for free. He had thought the call from Quincy was a prank his friends were pulling on him. Michael was in the next room, singing a vocal part through a cardboard tube. Engineers were mixing in the third studio. They worked five days and five nights with no sleep. At one point the speakers overloaded and caught fire. Quincy later told the BBC they had to carry engineers out of the studio on stretchers. Musicians too. Greg Phillinganes, the keyboard player on the album, said there was a moment where everyone thought it was finished, that they had nothing left to give, and Quincy was still standing there saying "It is not there yet" while Michael, almost falling apart, kept asking what they were supposed to do now.

They finally finished mixing in early November. Then they sat down to play the master back, and the album sounded weak. They had crammed too much music onto a normal vinyl record, and the grooves had to be cut so narrow that the punch was gone. So they cut a verse from "The Lady in My Life," shortened the famous 29-second intro of "Billie Jean" that Quincy had been trying to drop the entire time, and remixed almost the whole album from scratch. One song a day. Eight straight days. The only track they left alone was "The Girl Is Mine" because it was already on the radio. The final mix wrapped on November 8, 1982. The album came out 21 days later.

The wolves you hear at the start of the song "Thriller" are Michael. The engineer set up tape recorders in a barn overnight to catch his own dog howling, and the dog never made a sound. So Michael did the howls in the booth himself. Some of the background vocals on the same track were sung in the studio's shower stall. Vincent Price did his entire spoken-word horror section in three takes, and the verses he was reading had been written by Rod Temperton in a taxi on the way to the studio that same morning. Michael never wrote his songs on paper. He recorded them on a small handheld tape recorder and then sang them back from memory in the studio.

The album ended up selling around 70 million copies. It won 8 Grammys, sat at number one for 37 weeks, and produced 7 Top 10 hits out of 9 songs. At its peak it was moving a million copies a week. But all of that came after the work was done. The work itself was 800 demos, 30 recordings, 4 last-minute saves, three studios running until the speakers caught fire, and a producer who refused to put out something he did not believe in even when it meant pulling his own album apart twice. Nine tracks because they could not find more that were good enough.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

Yes

[ibtisem 𓂆🕊️ @ibti_16]

« Ma grand-mère chrétienne et ma grand-mère musulmane en Palestine »

Partagé par un Palestinien sur Facebook.

[Leen @leensreason]

Probably needed a hug
Created this piece instead

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Offline is the new luxury

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

Greatest genre of all time

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

shoutout to kids spilling reincarnation tea cause the veil is extra thin while they’re that young, gotta be one of my favorite genres

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Jeffrey Epstein had clear connections to U.S. and foreign intelligence, according to VPOTUS.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

Exactly

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

This is very stupid. Some 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level and they are all exposed to the most diabolical propaganda machines ever created. Both political parties use this to their advantage and rob us blind while people post about how dumb the other side is.

[Caleb T. Maupin @RealCalebMaupin]

Nope.

She’d also be bombing Iran, but she’d be smart enough to frame it as “girl power” social justice… and all the woke people would support it.

Remember Obama & Libya?

She’s literally married to an AIPAC Lobbyist.

[Lily Jay @lilyjayofficial]

How can we trust history.. when the present is being manipulated right in front of our eyes? 🤔

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

So When does it fall straight down at free fall speed into its own footprint? I learned that this is how it works on 9/11.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

The greatest era of internet

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

I wish you guys could've been around to see late 2000s-early 2010s online conspiracy culture

Forums in general, were peak internet.
Conspiracy forums, the best of them.

Today with social media, you get algorithms that premasticate shit onto your TL. Sterile. Isolated. Fragmented. Shallow. A schizophrenic kaleidoscope of ideas trends and headlines all pulling your attention and focus in 1000 directions simultaneously.

Dopamine and virality > Research and synthesis.

Back in my day?
The best we had was blogs + FORUMS.

Meaning - if you wanted to learn about some schizo conspiracy theory... the only way you could do so was by entering into an established digital village with its own unique lore, hierarchy, and information ecosystem. Bullying culture functioned as immune system. Weaponised autism. Everyone was anon. Reputation was everything. Meritocracy. You had to earn your initiation. No hand holding. Newfags STFU. Lurk moar. Acclimate to vocabulary, inside jokes, traditions. Read the archives. Observe. Ask questions. Learn. Speak later.

There was no passive consumption.
You had to go in BALLS DEEP or not at all.

I want you to take a second to genuinely contemplate the difference between now and then.

The difference in breadth VS depth.

The difference between seeing something, scrolling, intermittently lobotomising your attention span between 1000 different topics...

VS an entire community dedicating thousands of hours of collective unbroken focus toward dissecting information on ONE topic.

Funnily enough, this same transition and architechtural shift has observably metastasised into just about every domain of human endeavour; trading depth and connection for dopaminergic expedience.

Pre 2012 forums were peak internet.
Conspiracy forums, the best of them.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

Extremely dangerous rhetoric

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times," per HuffPost

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

A true follower of Islam wouldn’t wear a shirt with Allahs name on it. Or ride around with the Quran

[New York Post @nypost]

Austin bar mass shooter possibly motivated by Iran attacks, Quran found in car as FBI eyes terrorism after 2 killed, 14 injured https://t.co/jmWCV7Rker

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

They don’t even change the scripts for the psyops. Same shit. Over and over.

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: FBI confirms last night’s Austin mass shooting was an act of terrorism.

[Your Lightness @Ray_DoubleU]

How convenient

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: FBI confirms last night’s Austin mass shooting was an act of terrorism.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

"The goal is an endless war, not a successful war."

~ Julian Assange