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  • EbGb records in the studio at Orange Glow Music, Inc. in Bonita Springs, Fla. EbGb has very firm ideas about his music and the direction he wants it to go. It has taken time for him to release some of the control during the creative process. To this date, Orange Glow has invested more than $400,000 in recording costs on EbGb. The producers plan to make a trip to New York with the best songs to pitch Eb to major record labels.
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  • EbGb works with producer Tony Catania on a song for his album Black Light District in the studio at Orange Glow Music, Inc. EbGb has recorded about 60 songs with Orange Glow Music in the past year. His working relationship with Catania during that time has reached a point of mutual respect. On this night they had differing thoughts about the direction of a song they were creating, but Catania convinced EbGb of his idea by showing him a video on youtube for visual inspiration. EbGb has very firm ideas about his music and the direction he wants it to go. It has taken time for him to release some of the control during the creative process. To this date, Orange Glow has invested more than $400,000 in recording costs on EbGb. The producers plan to make a trip to New York with the best songs to pitch Eb to major record labels.
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  • EbGb's lyric book lays open at the recording studio. "This is my Bible," EbGb says of the moleskin notebook he carries around in his pants pocket. Music is his therapy, something he hopes others will relate to. "You wanna reach people and you wanna let people know, 'look you're goin' through some bullshit, but you're alright.'"
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  • Mami-based artist "Bad Guy" comes to Fort Myers to record a video with Fort Myers hip hop artist Alvester Conner, a.k.a. "Gutta Slim," in Fort Myers. The song called "Fairytales" calls out artists for being "studio gangstas." There's a lot of controversy over hip hop artists who pretend to be something they aren't in their music.
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  • EbGb, records at the home studio of friend and fellow musician Nate Augustus. EbGb and Augustus created the term "Swamp Hop" as a way to describe the music they make - which they think has a disctinctly South Florida Sound.
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  • Fort Myers hip hop artist Alvester Conner, a.k.a. Gutta Slim, records a video in front of his brother's home on Polk Street in Fort Myers with Mami-based rapper, "Bad Guy."  Gutta Slim's music speaks of growing up in Fort Myers ? sometimes referred to as ?Li?l Pakistan? for the harsh street life ? and calling out fakers for singing about a life they don?t lead. ?Y?all startin? to piss me off, acting real but inside ... you know you?re soft. Never been in no block, never been in that cell. You?re just a studio gangsta livin? fairytales.? ? Gutta Slim, ?Fairytales?
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  • TimWes records the song "Unborn Child ? originally by the late rapper, Tupac Shakur ? in the closet studio of producer Dang Dizzle. Dizzle's studio is a room he rents from his sister-in-law in Lehigh Acres, Fla. TimWes, who is expecting his first child, calls himself Mr. ReceiptMoney, meaning he makes his money the legal way. "I'm in my own lane. I'm not competing," he said comparing himself to other rappers. "I'm the only one talkin' bout legal money."
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