Miami Rapper Baysiqly and Music Producer E.R.

Miami rapper Baysiqly and music producer E.R. are two artists that have putting in work for a minute in Miami's underground Hip-Hop scene. Together, the duo has received a lot of attention over a recent song entitled "Space Music". We had a chance to ask them about the producer / rapper combo about the songs and what else they've been up to since our last interview.

What they do yall? It's been a minute. Baysiqly: Whats up, yeah it has. It's been too long but now we're back.

E.R.: Yessir...that's not gonna happen anymore. I just sat back and perfected my craft and sat back and studied this funny business we're in.

Last time yall had K-Otic with yall. What happened? No more DSI? Baysiqly: There were some differences within the camp, we're all doing our own thing, but me and E.R. are a duo. He laces the beats, I rip 'em. But to further answer your question, NO, there is no more DSI sometimes people just gotta move on to other things.

E.R.: Yeah, pretty much there were some internal problems, not necessarily with me personally, but also our musical directions were growing apart. It worked our for the best for all of us though, it seems.

So word is yall been getting a lot of love with that track Space Music. Tell us a little about that. Baysiqly: Space Music is my re-introduction. This time though, I'm bringing something new to the table. It was during May or June i believe i hit up E.R and told him I heard this track by Max Romeo one day and I had this vision of re-making the song with my worldly views. E.R felt what I was talking about and he cooked up the beat. As soon as I got it, I was on it. Space Music is the epitome of how I feel about the direction hiphop has taken.

E.R.: A blessing is what I see it as. Like you mentioned, it's been a GOOD minute since we've spoken. Life was holding me back for most of 2008/2009, so I was just locked in the studio perfecting my craft. No lie, as soon as I heard this, I knew we had something special brewing, and I sent him an album worth of material and he got to work. We threw this track out on the net just as a buzz record, and here we are, 12,000+ downloads with no promotional/marketing teams, just basic word of mouth and some local features.

Where can people download the mp3 to Space Music? Baysiqly: You could find it basically anywhere on the net. The direct link is http://bit.ly/3dsfWc, which will direct you to a Limelinx link.

E.R.: In addition to that, you could find "Space Music" featured on many hip-hop blogs/websites and local Miami websites such as 305hiphop.

Now that we talking about downloading and stuff.. what are the links to all your profile and web pages? Baysiqly: twitter.com/bysiqly, facebook.com/baysiqly, and myspace.com/baysiqly

E.R.: twitter.com/er305, facebook.com/er305, and myspace.com/er305. We owe a BIG part of our success to these three social networking websites.

And if someone wanted to holla at one of yall for a feature how should they go about it? Baysiqly: Im on my Twitter and Facebook accounts the most, but you could also hit me up on my email at gogauthie@gmail.com or hit up my phone (305) 984-1752.

E.R.: They can hit up any of those links, give me a call at (305) 989-2256, or e-mail me at etother305@gmail.com, which comes right into my phone.

Ok now that we got that out the way what project was Space Music done for? Baysiqly: Space Music is a promotional track for our upcoming album "Vagabonds", and also to get our buzz going in the streets again. We havent released a single for it yet. I feel confident about the project and it's a sound in which I feel Miami has yet to explore.

E.R.: Like Baysiqly said, originally it was for the "Vagabonds" project, but it fared better as a buzz record, and I didn't want to get into the industry headache of trying to clear a sample, especially one as known as this one. We decided to throw it on our free promotional EP that we'll be releasing around the time of this interview titled "No Gimmicks", which will be available online and out in the streets in different cities.

Did you do all the production on there E.R. or did you feature other producers? E.R.: Yeah I handled 100% of the production. But I have to give Baysiqly credit because he came to me with the vibe he wanted, and the mood he wanted to create. Luckily what I sent him fit perfectly, and now "Vagabonds" is pretty much a rapper/producer combo album, which you don't really see these days.

How bout other artists? Any features? Baysiqly: We are still working on the project and are looking into featuring other artists but we wanna make sure we collab with those who have the same vision as we do, not just that of success, but those who carry the same ideologies in their music as we do in ours.

E.R.: Yeah we are in talks with certain artists, but it's mostly singers for hooks and bridges. As far as the rapping is concerned, Baysiqly holds down the entire album by himself, except for two verses that I'm featured on.

So what yall have in the works for the future? Baysiqly: Besides the "Vagabonds" project I'm workin on "16 16s" which will drop before the project. It's a series of different industry beats that I'll be spitting a verse or two on. We're also getting on mixtapes and in the process of setting up shows for the up coming year. We're just gonna keep pumping music out to there.

E.R.: In addition to Baysiqly dropping new freestyles on mixtapes and other sources, I'll be keeping busy producing songs for other artists and doing guest verse appearances as well. I actually produced a banger for Colosus' new mixtape Reality Check pt 2 titled "Sweetest Hangover", and got a song in the works with BBK. I also have a couple of business ventures I'm going into with long time friends of mines, but I don't want to too deep into that yet, but you'll definitely know when you see it.

Aight fellas. I want to thank yall for taking time out to chop it up with us for a while. Is there any last words before you go? Baysiqly: Yeah BIG shout to y'all at 305hiphop.com. Y'all seem to always hold it down for a nigga no matter how long or how absent we've been. Shout out to Camp Vagabond, everybody workin with us on this project and future ones to come. Shout outs to Jay Fingers, our Engineer Mr. B, Grant Rice, and everyone else.

E.R.: Just like Baysiqly said, shout out to 305hiphop.com. You, UB, and everyone else have always shown us that love from day one. Shout out to Jay Fingers, Mr B., my boy Phil with Impresario Talent Management Agency, and Ralf and the good folks at Addiktive Clothing.