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Ladies and Gentlemen (feat. Ellen DeGeneres)

from Refinery by Reuben Walton

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An early attempt of mine at what I would later become more proficient at. My goal at this time when I made this was to freestyle, to knock Jeffree Star out of his league and blow him out of the water, to have a lot of bravado, and to make a bunch of looped beats and see what they sounded like. Once they were chopped and looped, they ended up sounding like a weird cool-jazz/stride/bumpity bumpity/shuffle hybrid rhythm. I don't think I was quantizing my beats at this point, so a lot of my productions from this period and from these types of songs tend to sound very rhythmically left-of-center. This song was originally uploaded to my SoundClick music page at www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=541671&content=music&songcount=107&offset=0&currentPage=2 on Sunday 8/26/2007. This song contains a sample in the beginning of a 50 Cent/Eminem instrumental. I composed this using GarageBand software. It also contains a sample of Ellen DeGeneres' voice reading aloud in her audiobook "The Funny Thing Is...", which is a comedy favorite of mine. I think some of the lyrics are from the song "Crownin' Me (feat. Chopper Girl)" by Underground Queens of Crunk. The track artwork for this song is a picture of my late friend Amber Scanlan sitting in the driver's seat of her 2006 Kia Optima smoking a poke, taken with my mom's old digital camera. A "poke" was Amber's term for a cigarette in which the filter has been removed and replaced with cannabis pushed into the non-mouth end. I often used to call out "Deuce on the poke!', meaning I would reserve the second turn or hit on the poke, even though I now realize that very often all that was left for me by that point would be tobacco. In this picture I think we were parked near the North Falmouth Marina, near her Nana Laurette Kelliher Scanlan and Harry Scanlan Sr.'s house on Wild Harbor Road in North Falmouth, MA, United States.

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Reuben Walton: That's what opposite tracks/and my hometown Indiana stuck with all the soprano penitentiary payin' no attention to nellapanella of the model/climb on stage and stereo/be on point like "Where he go?"/and when I'm fallin' first thing on stage is the last one standing like the Empire State/get a queen so she could get that sidewalk fixed baby pemped in the beer so he could get knocked out of there/suddenly she swooped and moved to kiss me/and I said damn what kind of situation could this be/I think about her all week/ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please/I'd like to welcome all o' y'all to the un--first underground award show this album for the underground queens/I'm your host Steve/a loved by few hated by many/super free/rollin dub whites spinnin' got pressas on my team/need to let off some steam/drop seaweed for the Mississippi/come for the swan swamp muthafucka this is exactly
Ellen DeGeneres: Mariah Carey? No! Suddenly it's like you're playing The $10,000 Pyramid. "Things that taste like chicken! Things a monkey would wear! Ah, that's right, we were talking about tiny hats."

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from Refinery, released September 10, 2011
Vocals by Reuben Walton and Ellen DeGeneres
Vocal production by Reuben Walton
Lyrics by Reuben Walton and Ellen DeGeneres
Composed by Reuben Walton and Ellen DeGeneres
Programming by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton and Ellen DeGeneres
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Track artwork by Reuben Walton

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Reuben Walton Falmouth, Massachusetts

Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music. ... more

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