The Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #2 Online Challenge results are up!

The results of the Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #2 Online Challenge: Find the Smokes are in.

I’m givin’ away money and stuff… Tell a friend.

Contestants had to identify as many brands of Cigarettes in the Tah Phrum Duh Bush song “ Cigarette" as possible.

They used their online chops to help them out.

We had people from all over the US and in the Czech Republic playing along.

These were the participants who worked it. Congrats to Morgana, Tori, Kerel, Micah and Khris for absolutely killing’ it in the top five! Everyone did a stellar job.

The $50 US Postal Money Order and the Tah Tee Shirt go to Morgana from Staten Island, NY
The top 4 runners up will receive copies of either “Say Word Entertainment’s Get Up Stand Up European Tour CD which features the final album Version of “Semi-Reserved Closet Maniac” by Tah Phrum Duh Bush or Sketches of a Neighborhood by The Bass Mint Bros.
All other participants will receive gifts as well.

This is the rundown of the contest participant top scores.

Morgana (40) (41 with Ice)
Tori (39) (40 with Ice)
Kerel (39 but one was out of sequence so it’s really 38)
Micah (38)
Khris (34)
Paula (33) (34 with Ice)
Lesliayn (32)
Moi (31)
Sargon (31)
Anna (29)
Dulce (25)
Charlotte (24)
Dennis (18)
Melissa (10)
Curtis (8)

Believe it or not a ton of people only got like 2-3.

Below is the actual list and order of how the Cigarettes were mentioned in the song:
The lyrics are comprised of a total of 52 brands
(“Style” was mentioned 4 times; “Yes” was mentioned twice. But they only count once.
Incomplete names were not counted
The sequence of the names was counted.
Spelling errors were OK as long as they were close.
“Ice” in the intro was counted as a bonus because people were complaining that it was not fair. It did not change the order of things.)

Merit
Kool
Vantage
Monarch
Spirit
Basic
Players
Style
Maverick
More
Brooklyn
Marlboro
Now
True
Kent
Lucky Strike
Misty
Style
Barclay
Sport
Wave
Newport
Style
Camel
Kamel Red
Black
Tareyton
Saratoga
Virginia Slims
Eve
Parliament
Lark
Yes
Pall Mall
Viceroy
Silk Cut
Rat
Bidi
Superking
Omni
Dunhill
Benson & Hedges
Quest
New York
Winstons
L&M
Style
Jade
Regal
Bond
Mild Seven
Capri
Monte Carlo
Velvet
Chesterfield

More fun to come. Make sure you mark the date. August 29th, 2009. The full on Tah Vinci Code is Coming!!!

Warm up #3 is happening this week. Stay tuned.

Peace,
Tah Phrum Duh Bush

Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #2 Online Challenge

OK People... It's on. People outside of NY have been asking to get on so here it is...
An opportunity.

The Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #2
Online Challenge
Get the Smokes.
Prize: $50 (US Postal Money Order because I can’t mail cash) and a Tah Phrum Duh Bush Tee.
I will mail it anywhere in the world that the US Post office will deliver. So get on it!

There is a song on my first album (Sunshine or Pure Shade) called “Cigarette”.
I wrote it so that I could encourage people to smoke emcees instead of cigarettes. It’s a healthy alternative ya know...

Here is the link to the song http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/4128

If you can't hear the whole song it is because you are not registered as an official fan. All you have to do is:
1. Go to the player right here on the blog and click the "become fan" button and enter your email right there. (Easy As Pie)

2. Enter your email to become a fan.
3. Listen and enjoy
You don't have to download it but you do have to be a fan to listen to the whole song. Street team membership is not required but you can join if you like.

Anyway, the lyrics are constructed from different brands of cigarettes.
You need to identify as many cigarettes as you can muster.
The cigarettes need to be in the same order as they are on the song. Email answers to

Tah@TahOnline.com
Include your name please.

The first person with the most Smokes in the right order will win. You are allowed up to 3 submissions of your answers.

You have until 12am 8/10/2009 EST (New York time) that’s Sunday night.

Good luck.

Tah & the Kids and Demostina's Art Opening.

Today was a long one. I was interviewed on film for an Aids/HIV/Safe Sex awareness outreach program today in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The Kids were fantastic and very sharp. I had to perform for an open mic afterward. In the spirit of promoting safe sex via condoms and abstinence, I performed " Slumber Free Noctural Emission Admission". It was a bit akward at first but the kids loved it. (Or so they told me). They are so used to people being derrogatory about sex that they didn't know how to react. It was still dope though and hopefully a few people will benefit from it.

After that I swung through to Demostin'a Art Opening in Washington Height's today.
Her exhibit is called Breathing Under Water.
It is at a restaurant in Washington height's called Plum Pomidor.
I highly recommend swinging through if you have the time.
It is absolutely breathtaking!

If you didn't know, Demostina did the artwork for my upcoming release "Luminous Dark Alleys: The Insomniac Works". She is also featured on one of the songs called "Nightmares in the Daytime". She is a true talent and she deserves a look see.

Demostina.com for more info on Demostina and the exhibit.
Go see it.

By the way the place makes spectacular food and the bartender Anthony makes the best Mojito I have ever had.

The Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #1

OK. So nobody found the very first item....
Take a look so you can get used to my style of clues.... The money gets doubled for the net warm up... Watch the video.

The Tah Vinci Code Warm Up #1

OK so we're gonna start off the month with warm up mission for the Tah Vinci Code so you can see how serious this is gonna be on the 29th. Somewhere in Manhattan between 16th Street and 30th Street and Between 7th Avenue and Park Avenue. There will be an envelope conveniently hidden in a somewhat obvious place. It will have enough cash in it to buy you lunch. If you find it, I will double it. Period.

At 9am clues will be up on twitter and facebook and I will also send out an email blast. There will be a phone number to call when you find it. Call it and I will bring the other half of the money to you. You must have the envelope and the contents with you. Spend the money on lunch if you like but the rest needs to be there. Chance to win ends at 1pm unless someone else finds it first.

Listen to Semi Reserved Closet Maniac at http://TahOnline.com

(No T-shirt required for this one but if you have a Tah Tee and you wear it tomorrow I will have a Free Mos Def T-shirt for you. in addition to the prize $$ )

The Third Party European Tour Send off Bash at Rabbi Darkside's Crib

8-1-2009

Rabbi Darkside's BackYard bash. Private going away party for 3rd Party before they go to Europe on Tour with the legendary J-Live (Remember the guy I performed with in Albany NY?)

What a Jam man!

Rabbi Darksides backyard was crammed with the "Who's Who" of the NYC underground.

DJ Kevlar Had the wheels spinnin with th illest of underground blends.

Who got to follow up 3rd Party's Openeing set?

U guessed it Mr Phrum Duh Bush...

I let Rabbi Darkside pick the tracks I would perform and he chose "Semi-Reserved Closet Maniac" (which just happens to be featured on the tour compilation CD) and "Script Flip Flash" (a song produced by Coole High from out upcoming collaborative album High Phidelity/Phidelity High). The crowd participation was on point and as always I am amazed by how many people know the lyrics to songs I have that haven't even been officially released yet!

Some of thefolks in the crowd and performing:

Coole High

Ciph Diggy (Sleep Walkas)

Mwalim

Gr& Phee and Ryson hall

DJ Kevlar

Too bad I had to leave early...

I believe there is Video Footage to come.

Insanity? I must be crazy!!!

Insanity

As if P90x for a year straight wan't enough. I had to go and chalange myself to something else to help me to sleep. P90x wasn't making me sleep anymore. So here I go with "Insanity". Today was day #1. Holy Shit! You wanna talk about hardcore? Nah man... The is beyond hardcore... and this was just the first day which is a test day to guage progress in the future.

Baby Loves Disco in Union Square Park... Oh Yeah!!!

Baby Loves Disco in Union Square with DJ's PK and Mikey Palms

Many of you already know that I Emcee a party called Baby Loves Disco where we have kids and their parents come to clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan on a monthly basis from September through May. This year we are in Union Square Park every Thursday through August. It was bananas there were kids all over the place and we rocked for 2 hours straight

Random Prague

Tah Live at Pantheon In Prague, Czech Republic Feb 27, 2009

I busted down the stage at Pantheon in Prague. Two girls started kissing while I was performing "Slumber Free Nocturnal Emission Admission". The crowd went nuts!
"By Myself and I'm feelin' myself and I'm wishin to myself that U were feelin' myself... " If you don't know the lyrics then U haven't been to one of my shows lately. Bring that ass on out! Big ups to Oereo for the cameo in the spot and Jaro Cossiga for holdin me down on the effects and the Beatbox. I rocked for 90 minutes and they were asking for more at the end of my set... People were brining me drinks while I was performing and passing me weed to rhyme about it was crazy! Peep out the slide show below.

I'm back on tour in Europe shaking off the Negative Willies

So I'm back in Europe and refuse to let my blog lag behind again. I had a series of really negative events transpire in my life since January 1. I am not going to mention them all. There are so many... I am doing my best to shake the negative vibe but I'm sure you all know how it gets sometimes. All of these crazy events came to a head. My car got smashed by a taxi cab the night before I left. My vocals for my album mysteriously disappeared off of my hard drive and then the back up drive became corrupted. Which means yes... there will be more of a delay for the release.. 9 months of recording "poof!" Sorry. Now I get to Europe to find out that some of my shows were canceled...

Just before I left NYC I had a series of really shitty premonitions; all of which included me dying in not so pleasant ways. A friend of mine also told me that she had a psychic reading done on me and that she was told that there would be a stabbing near me soon. An extremely large black fly was hovering over my bed when I woke up the day I was leaving. I wouldn't normally be concerned but it was 20 degrees outside and it is February...

Signs? I dunno. I am not really superstitious but... dayum... Shit is shiftin' my faith in not having faith in BS superstitions...

Stick with me and send me some positive vibes. I can use em.

Tah@FilthyClean.com

Prague is the shit!!!!

Just landed in Prague and I love this place already!
It's about 50 degrees outside and the air is crisp. Almost like San Francisco early in the morning.
If you haven't been here, do it before you die.
Especially if you are from the United States. There is so much history here it's amazing!
The architecture, the streets, the parks, the whole shebang.

More to come with pictures and video. Stay tuned and tune in on the regular.

Get at Me
Tah@TahOnline.com

OK... P90X results.... Are You Ready?

So here it is... on May 27th, I sent it out to you all that I'd be doing this fitness program called P90X because in a nutshell I got fat and lazy from October, 2007 to May, 2008. If you didn't get the email, check the may 27th blog posting.

I'm exposing a very personal thing here. My damn body... This may be the only time I do this. I know some people are gonna be like "I don't want to see this shit" but the majority of responses have been that they want to see the results. If you don't want to see it, then don't look. It's just that easy. A bunch of people have asked me based on face to face observations of the changes to train them or to put them on to what I've been doing... Hit me up and I'll tell you all about it. Just be aware, this is no "over-night" easy fitness shit. It requires a lot of work, dedication and restructuring of how you eat. You do eat. As a matter of fact you eat more frequently than you probably did in the past so you won't starve at all. It's no starvation diet type of deal but the quality of the things you eat has to change.

I'm putting this out there because I see how unhealthy I became in just 6 months. Most people are super unhealthy all their lives. Especially people in the hood. Bad neighborhood and poor education usually comes with a shitty diet and poor health soon follows. There is an epidemic in the US and it's called obesity. It's killing people left and right. It also has a serious effect on self esteem which leads to more unhealthy crap like smoking and being sedentary. I feel the difference in my mood as well. I went through some really rough times when I was putting on that weight and it made the rough times a whole lot rougher.

So with that being said... If I can do this, anyone can do this. You'll be surprised how quickly it goes by and how good you'll feel physically and mentally.

Here are the pre and post measurements:
Pre Day 1
Weight 213 lbs, Waist 39, Chest 42 , Hips 42, Body Fat 25%

Day 91:
Weight 185 lbs, Waist 34.5, Chest 40 , Hips 40, Body Fat 13.8%

Dayum... I'm just realizing I lost 28 lbs... I said I'd lose a toddler and I lost a school aged kid!

Now for the pre, intra and post photos:
Here it goes... I'm warning you, I really let it go... so get out your air sickness bags for the first picture and don't tell me about how "gay" the pose on the Day 60 picture looks, I don't really care to hear that from anyone else at this time. It's really annoying.

Pre Day 1


Day 30


Day 60


Day 91


Wash your panties on that washboard woman!!!
Oh Yeah!!!! Clean em real goooood!!!
Smile...

I didn't think I was gonna get the results I got especially after I took the Day 60 pics but the last 30 Days does the trick.

Believe it.
Hit me up if you want to know more. I'm thinking of becoming a Beach Body coach... What do you think?

Thanks for reading and take care of yourself.

Get @ Me!

Tah@TahOnline.com
TahEmceez@gmail.com

Hired Gun's Release Party: The People's Verses

What a bash!

These things just keep getting better and better!!!
For those of you outside of NYC and those who could not make it out to last night's concert... This is the exciting news!

The show kicked off with an exciting opener by one of the most talented eMCees in NYC Why G.

He killed it with a set of pure energy.

Next up... Yours Truly! I performed Semi-Reserved Closet Maniac and Laceration which are quicy becoming crowd favorites.

After that I introduced the man of the hour: Hired Gun!

I had the crowd on the left chanting "Hired Gun, Hired Gun, Hired Gun"

and then the right side chimed in "H-G!"

"Hired Gun, Hired Gun, Hired Gun"

"H-G!"

"Hired Gun, Hired Gun, Hired Gun"

"H-G!"

"Hired Gun, Hired Gun, Hired Gun"

"H-G!"

The man came out to a thunderous roar of cheers. What a tremendous set; with cameos by Core Rhythm, Tranquill and Preacher Mann to name a few.

What a performance!

At the end fo his set Hired Gun did a song about his ex girlfriend. I say ex-girlfriend because they were no longer boyfriend and girlfriend after he pulled out all the stops and proposed to her on stage!

She said yes!

Congratz to Hired Gun and his wife to be Cee Cee.

Thanks for reading. More exciting things to come....

Did I mention I'm going to Europe to perform in September? Email me for details!

Get @ me!!!

Tah@TahOnline.com

Jake Lefco's Album Release Party

What more can I say... Another hot bill with cats I truly admire. You need Jake Lefco's album in your life! Incredible. I'm a fan and you should be too!!!!
Somehow the only pics that I got were of Jake's performance. If I can get some of the rest, I'll put em up here.

Get @ me!

Tah@TahOnline.com

A to Z eMCee... Old School Gangsta Night!

What a Blast. U gotta come out to this event!
Get at me!
Tah@TahOnline.com

Tah Origin, J-Live and Oddy Gato in Albany at the Red Square

How many cats can say that they had the opportunity to perform on stage with a whole roster of people he is a fan of? Including an underground Hip-Hop Legend?

AHHHH but Tah can!!!!
Big ups to DJ Polarity for holding me down on the decks!


DJ Elementwas dope on the 1&2s.

And this time I didn't run into 12 hours of traffic on the way up there!!!

Origin
Oddy Gato
J-Live... I salute you!

What a show man... what a show!!!!

Get at me!

Tah@TahOnline.com

Make Music New York

I was supposed to perform at two different locations for the Annual Make Music New York Celebration. For those of you who aren't familiar. It is the day of the Summer Solstice. Musicians from all over the City perform at hundreds of locations on the streets of NYC. The first location was the same place I was supposed to perform at last year that was thwarted by a rogue thunder storm. This year, I waited and waited and waited and the sound wasn't set up so Coole High and I had to move on to the next gig outside of the Flatbush Development Corporation headquarters on Newkirk Avenue in, you guessed it, FLATBUSH!

Coole High and I tag teamed a set and I must say it was pretty damn good!

I was all over the place. I somehow ended up on top of a fire hydrant. Rhyming to people. They went crazy when I performed "Flatbush". Tons of people joined the email list.
You really need to see a Tah and Coole Tag Team show. We're gonna do it at the Flatbush Frolic on September 14th. You should come out!

Photos are below.

Get @ me!

Tah@TahOnline.com

A to Z eMCee is back!!!

After the May hiatus A to Z eMCee is Back!
We started to theme the competitions.
This month's theme...
Star Wars.
The eMCees came armed with their Star Wars references and
Still Life took the Champ title. Concept was the Number One Contender.

Star wars movies cluttered the joint and http://ChillyS.tv was covering the event on the web cast end.

Stay with us. A to Z eMCee is growing!

Get at me!

Tah@TahOnline.com

The Jamma at NAMA

You want to talk about Sweat Box?
WOW!
This place was sweat box supreme!
It was about 90 degrees outside and 956 degrees inside. They had one church fan blowing air around and they had all kinds of food laid out. U know I couldn't eat any of it because I'm on this P90X fitness business... man, I never wanted a piece of fried chicken so bad in all my life! It was all home made too. (sigh!)

Anyway... After the people packed in the show started, I got kinda pushed back a few acts. My feature Doc Beats showed up late and he and DJ Polarity held me down on the beatbox because the sound system was not functioning properly. I got up on the chairs and freestyled around the room and the crowd loved it. I performed Semi Reserved Closet Manic and they loved it.

Hot Room, Hot show!

Donate to NAMA... They need air conditioning badly!!!

Get at me!
Tah@TahOnline.com

Today... Is a day for change!!!!

OK man...
I'm fed up with this unhealthy shit!
I'm usually in the gym 5 days-a week.
Since November 2007 I've been to the gym about 5 times in total.
I've gained about 12 pounds and I now have a belly. This shit ain't sexy. People are telling me I look fine but I don’t feel fine.
Stress leads to unhealthy habits and eating patterns which in turn bring more stress and it becomes a vicious cycle.
I'm starting to feel really disgusting. So here it goes. I saw one of these infomercials on TV... I just happened to turn on the TV and it was there. I rarely turn on the TV so this was a message. It was an infomercial for this program called P90X. Guess what… I ordered it. It came and I'm on it like a hornet! I'm going on a 90 day fitness binge. I'm going to put the pre, day 30, day 60 and day 91progression pics up here so around August 26th we'll see if it works like they say it does. Feedback would be appreciated. Support would be appreciated. Love would be appreciated. Help would be appreciated. Buy a CD. Tell a friend, come to a show.

By August 26th. I will lose a toddler! At least a toddler's weight anyway.. ahem...

Hit me up!

Tah@TahOnline.com

Core Rhythm's Album Release Party

What a dope show.
I was like Mr Roarke. your host.
The place was packed.
3rd Party, Verse All, Baba Israel and Yako 440 all opened up the event with insane sets.
Core Rhythm Killed it!
Then the freestyle cypher a-la "Sin Sin" ensued.
Congrats Core!

OK so Second Place ain't bad...

OK Y'all The May edition of the Off the Head Gameshow Battle.

I'm there to defend my title from last month right... and then...

I kill it all the way through to the last round and it was me against PreZZure who is the current #1 contender at my event A to Z eMCee.

After the round was over, the crowd was screaming out for a bonus "Head to Head" round.

I started to laugh uncontrollably for like 20 seconds because I kept seeing this character (that Super King Armor had drawn for a flier for a show we did in March... peep the flier below) with PreZZure's face on it saying "Watcha gonna do now huuuuuh? Whatcha gonna say now suckaaaaah?" I couldn't focus at all and I came out with some of the worst lines in my battle history in between laughing. So I guess the jokes on me right? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
That was some weird shit.

Congrats PreZZure!

U can't win em all huh?