Trilogies Of Tragedies [BOOK 1]: The Stories

I made "Trilogies Of Tragedies: Book One" from October 2006 to March 2007. It was a decent album. Not very many people heard it due to me packing stuff away and misplacing my copies. I think maybe 20-30 people have heard the album. Sad...I know. I'm thinking bout giving T.O.T. 1 away with Book Two but I gotta find the copies I got left. Lol.

01. Book One (Produced by Tre D Crazi): I really wanted a special beginning. This was beyond perfect. It sampled some song by Supertramp. The beginning was just fuckin sick. I loved the way it went into that beat. My verses were on some Weezy shit. I just went off. Chorus could've been better. I'm not sure when this was made in the process. One standout line: "Pop hears me and gangsta rap ignores me til I put on this hockey mask and swing a machete like Voorhees". I made two really sick verses for this joint. P.S. that intro comes back into play for the new album.

02. Ladies & Gentlemen (Produced by Tre D Crazi): The beat for this joint was originally made for a remix of a Chamillionaire song but I completely changed it. I wanted to have a good club song to follow up the intro. I sound pretty awful on the chorus. Lol. The first verse wasn't very good. The beat is so sick. I like the last four bars of the first verse. I was smoking phillies with Hitta when we made this joint. The beginning of the second verse is sick. It's a cool song though. Nice addition of This is Why I'm Hot at the end.

03. Afraid Of You featuring Eyerishkyd (Produced by Tre D Crazi): The first single. When it was time to release a single for the album. I really didn't have shit. So I took a song I had with Hitta on it and said fuck it. Very catchy chorus. My first verse is sick as fuck. "White bandana, black tee, Tre Fantana, that's me, If you wonder, end up like Stevie Wonder, can't see". This is definitely a thumbs up still. Verse 3 wasn't very hot. Hitta went hard.

04. The Frontline (Produced by KaneBeatz): I was starting to see Kane get more and more popular in the producer's game so I wanted to capitalize on having a beat on my record. This chorus is trash. The first verse is cool. I predicted I was going to buy a Sidekick that summer. Ha. Second verse was 10 times sicker. The second verse was written for "Chevy Ridin' High" for my mixtape but it fit fine on the beat. The third verse was sick. "I leave my mark on every rap dude like a tattoo. I ain't comin' at you. I'm just comin' for you." and "I ain't never heard a single of you murder me." Ah. I had a couple gems.

05. Warrior (Produced by Tre D Crazi): I released this around Xmas 2006. I actually went at Chingy on this song cause he had a line about being the King Of The Midwest. This song was probably in the top 3 on the album. I went fucking off. "I'm the only rapper y'all should ever anticipate". Chorus was cool. I'm thinking about performing this at the Album Release Show. "Put chu in my army, sendin' bodies into Baghdad". I really have fuckin went from Chingy to Lil' Wayne in a year and a half. I am such a better rapper now. Third verse was the best. My "Chingy" disses were sub-par. Ehh. The song's hot though.

06. Dominate (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This song sampled the beginning of the movie, "Red Eye". Sick sample. I stopped the movie just to sample it. Originally, the song was me, Boy Butta & Taz. And it was made in Early '06. But I ended up re-doing the whole song for this album. I kept some of the same lyrics from my original verse for the first verse. It's a hot verse though. "I'm so fly. I should've been the one to write "Infinite". Haha. I was going off on this CD. Third verse was off the fucking wall. Like MJ off the wall. Second verse was crazy too but the 3rd verse featured some of my hottest bars.
"Hip Hop Honor Roll, only honor roll I'll ever make,
Got a hundred tracks stashed away if I die today,
Got a couple gats stashed away if you try today,
Got a couple raps stashed away for your entire gang,
If I retire mayne, they'd be missing the future,
It's like an assanation missin the shooter,
It's like the shooter missin' the ruger,
Sick of you losers snitchin' like intruders"

07. Forget About Tre (Produced by Tre D Crazi): Well, the title influence should be obvious. I always wanted to rap to Forgot Bout Dre. But I ended up doing this first. I sampled a band called Red. It's a cool concept. The first verse is trash until the last couple bars. The chorus is sick. Verse 2 actually is partly freestyled. I came up with it one day while I was working. I think like the first 10 bars. This song is poorly recorded. Third verse starts with a beautiful sung part. I like it as an ending. Otherwise, song's a skipper.

08. Natural Born Hustler (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This was actually supposed to be the first single. But when it came time to release one, it just didn't seem good enough. I was going a little too hard on the "hustler" subject. Lol. I just can't believe how much better I've gotten in a year and a half. I didn't think it was this big of a different. The beat is really hot. Chorus is sick. I might have to re-work that chorus melody into a new beat. Lol. Hitta's gonna get it. Verse 2 is a little better. I like how I talk alot bout how I was gonna move to Des Moines. And I actually did. I think I had a lot of my mind this CD so a lot of it was addressing the move. Verse 3 isn't anything special. I have like the same flow on every song for this CD. I guess I get better with each book. I love the instrumentals at the end of some of these songs but that's what happens when you bang a lot of JT & Timbo.

09. Waiting On The Day (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This is the sickest song on the CD. I still get goosebumps from this track. I made this probably early March. Chorus is amazing. Verse 1 is nuts. I am amazed by it. And that's saying a lot for this CD. I'm not saying it's not hot enough for anyone to hear. But compared to the album I'm about to release, this is so immature. Verse 2 isn't very great. But there's a couple great lines. "I came with a pen, no need to erase history". The verse 3 is sick as fuck. It addresses my past. Halfway through the album, I think there's a couple gems on here. But it's just a bookmark compared to Book Two.

10. Ain't Got Deez (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This beat was a lot simpler originally. I wrote the first verse and chorus originally to a simple beat. Then when I started making the album, I figured I'd make it a full song. I originally did the full hook but Hitta pulled it off nicely. I don't really care for the song anymore. I've heard a bunch of songs with similar choruses since I made the song. Lol. Third verse was cool. Otherwise, this song's another skipper.

11. Quit Whisperin' featuring Eyerishkyd (Produced by J. Mack): Well. The most popular song off the CD. The one we made a video for and everybody thought we was dissing them. I made my two verses and the hook probably January 2007. And then Hitta added a verse at the last minute. It's beyond hilarious that he dissed his-now girlfriend on this song. Sick ass song. Remix is better lyrically. But this one has more history. Both my verses were sweet. www.youtube.com/user/tredcrazi if you wanna see the video shot by D-Roc. I believe it's on there. If not, check Eyerishkyd's MySpace.

12. King Me (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This song did not turn out. The idea was tight but it just didn't work. The first verse was tight. The beat's nice as fuck though. "I didn't know you was an officer, dude. I didn't give a fuck though, off with the shoes, what you want? an urn or a coffin, choose? Those the only options I ever offered to dude." The chorus sounds cool but it could've been done so much better. "We splittin' wigs, causing rappers to get permanaent death certificates. Bodies burn, ashes in the urn". I know I had a line on this song about CM Punk. Lol. The third verse is hot.

13. Live My Life featuring Ashley (Produced by Mardah Beats): Wow. This beat is fucking nuts. No wonder I bought it the night I heard it. Ashley was a girl I worked with who I already knew could sing. It came out nice. I was going thru alot of shit when I wrote the verses...Almost dissing my family. It's one of those therapy songs. Very awesome. I recommend this one. I know I wrote this in March 2007.

14. The Audience (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This intro is fucking hilarious. We came up with it after the whole song was recorded. We should do this live. Lol. Too bad the song wasn't nearly as good. The chorus is tight. I remember not even liking the verses once the album came out. Ehh. Wow. "Flow charasmatic, voice sexy"...This is trash. Moving on, already. "I mean she a hoe, but it ain't like she a hoe, hoe." Ah. This is the one where I said "Show some motherfuckin noise". HAHA

15. One Wish (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This was the original "Road to Nowhere" beat made in 2004. I lost the save for FLStudio so I sampled my beginning and re-made the beat. One of my best songs. Chorus is so smooth. I did four eight-bar verses. I remember I wanted one of my songs to end opposite of what people would expect. I have a song on the album similar to this. So that's kinda cool.

16. Last Train Home (Produced by Tre D Crazi): Wow. This one takes me back. I made this I think right after we finished Kings Of The Midwest. If that hook would've been Auto-tuned, it would've sounded so much better. I like this song still though. I originally wrote the first verse about something entirely different. But then it became a story. This is probably behind Quit Whisperin' and Warrior in the top 3 songs on the album. I loved the ending how it went into the next song so perfect. It was almost like a guitar solo.

17. Emergency featuring Eyerishkyd & Thrilla (Produced by Tre D Crazi): We actually were going to perform this at a show. Song is cool but not as great as it could've been. The subject now is so dead. But this beat is fucking fire. The chorus was sick as fuck too. I think this was in the last couple weeks of recording. We actually had to take a random verse from Thrilla to even have him on KOTM so I made sure we had him on my album. My verse is cool. Hitta killed it. AJ killed it too. He had the first "Guitar Hero" reference. Lol. Sick song. Top 5 on the album.

18. No Sleep (Produced by Tre D Crazi): This is one of my favorite beats. This song was so true. I was suffering from insomnia bad. So I was taking like 5 tylenol PM a night just to fall asleep an hour or two after I laid down. I also had a really bad twitch from all the stress building up. The chorus is amazing. I ended this album on such a good note. The first verse and chorus was written somewhat early in the process but I didn't finish it until the last week. I liked the outro to the album. Segway into the upcoming album.

Overall thoughts: I really have come a long way from this album. I think Kings Of The Midwest to now is such a different time. 5 albums have been released in 20 months. This album is better than The Crow but I don't know if it beats The City of Angels. Maybe it doesn't even beat The Crow. Either way, I give it (3.25/5). The new album, I'm giving a (4.75/5) ahead of time lol. We'll see how I feel in a year and a half.

Hope you enjoy listening.


The rest is to come...