IT'S TEAM PKT, NOW WATCH US WORK!!!!

Okay people, 2011 is here so everybody was talking' bout resolutions and what not. Me myself, I'm not really into resolutions- I'm more about reconciliations. I think true resolve comes at its own pace, not because the calender is rolling over. With that said, I ain't really gotta tell y'all about all these crazy new ideas and plans because we're already halfway through January and my movement is speaking for itself. This isn't my first post of the new year because I've been slacking, it's my first post because I've been hella busy!

Let's start with what Team PKT is calling the 1st major step of our careers for the new year- the My Adidas 2K11 venture. If you haven't heard yet, I teamed up with rap icon Devin The Dude & Go DJ Mankind to contribute something back to hip hop that's about both growth & homage. With all respects due to Run DMC and the late great Jam Master Jay, we decided to return to the true roots of hip hop by revamping what we all know gave rappers the "original swag". The My Adidas 2K11 project is the southern version of the original Run DMC classic paying tribute to both the brand and the icons themselves. Produced by none other than Mike B. & backed by both Go DJ Mankind and Teresa at SF2 fashions, Migration Music is now in cahoots with the Adidas shoe company........had to pause to let that sink in! lol We are fortunate to be a part of the legendary Sneaker Summit on the 23rd where the song will be debuted and a pair of Adidas autographed by Devin & myself will be given away. This whole venture and opportunity is still surreal to me so I don't really know what all I'm supposed to tell you!
Secondly, I'm excited about my 1st Executive Producer project entitled "TEXANS & TITANS" by Lion From The Lake out of Nashville, TN. He and his label entrusted my musical knowledge enough to allow me & Team PKT to handle this project in its entirety and the end result is nothing short of phenomenal! Besides myself, the project has guest appearances from Young Buck, Papa Reu, Lil Keke and more! I'm very excited about my future career as a result of this opportunity and I know that Migration Music & Team PKT will be a force to reckon with for quite some time.
And last but definitely not least, I've completed the Cab Coolerway Project mixtape and THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE is locked and loaded! This is going to be a great year for my entire conglomerate & I promise respect will be given because we've worked hard to earn it! So shout out to T. Flowers, Cool Rob, Mike B & the Houston Track Bangers, Nikki the "Promo Princess", Go DJ Mankind, Teresa & SF2, Sama'an & Alice Ashrawi, my wife Lakeisha Green aka Mrs. PKT, all 5 of my beautiful children (Jalen, Aniyah, Londen, Kyndall & Brayden) and any and everyone who supports, believes in or is affiliated with Team PKT!!!

CAB COOLERWAY???

1st and foremost, let me start by saying I apologize for my absence. 2010 has been one hell of a roller coaster ride full of both highs & lows and a whole lot of speed! lol Anywho, let me get back to our regular scheduled programming and do what it is I came to do- update you......
Since the last time I blogged God has continued to find favor with me and my direction. My team has gotten stronger with the addition of a couple of new people who I'll introduce a little later for shock value & some crazy new opportunities! The album THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE has been wrapped up for a couple of weeks now & I'm going into promo mode at the 1st of the year with the album before the album mixtape also being fully produced by Mike B. Since everyone was asking me what happened to the Swagger Bird movement I decided to give it new life & allow my brain child to see the light through this mixtape. As I'm sure you remember, the Swagger Birds underwent a drastic reinvention & is now the Fly Flock. I am still the general & the crew consists of KING, Big Lunny, Nature Boy Rowe, Pyro Stakkz & a handful of affiliates from Team Blue to New Houston. The name of the mixtape is "The Cab Coolerway Project" and it's being mixed by none other than Go DJ Mankind. It's mostly an inhouse thing with features from The Fly Flock crew & a few affiliates, no one major (not yet anyway). It's a complete 180 from the direction of THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE being that it's just fun music with no definitive barriers- we're just showing off & having a good time in celebration of our recent success.
Oh wait, let me slow down, I forgot I haven't been blogging so you have no idea what "success" I'm speaking of! Well, let me just say that I found exactly what I had been searching for & now all of my com-padres are good. Speaking of good, shoutout to the homey Bernard "Jay" James for the visuals he provided for THE CAB COOLERWAY PROJECT. All b.s. to the side, my dude is a beast on those graphics! Matter fact, while I'm in a shoutout mood I have to send some words towards the homey Statton Gray for the engineering & energy he provided in the studio, he had a lot to do with the direction the sound of the mixtape went in. I will say this, for new PKT fans THE CAB COOLERWAY PROJECT is lyrically nothing like what you've been hearing from me. For old PKT fans, it's like it used to be with stuff like The Freestyle Junkie & The Beastmaster projects. All I can honestly tell you is you are definitely in for a treat! In fact, real soon you'll get to see just how much fun we're having with a youtube posting of the first single entitled the "Calloway Shuffle" where my wife & a few of her friends teach the world the new line dance- BANANAS!! LOL
So, with all that said, I hope I have updated you enough with my vagueness! I really don't want to spoil any surprises so I can't go into too much detail. Just know that at the beginning of the year you will definitely know all that has been going on with Migration Music & Team PKT. Much love to the people who jumped ship too early, I hope the waters lead you to a safe dock & a land as beautiful as the one this ship has arrived at. To T. Flowers, Cool Rob, Nikki the Promo Princess, Todd Moscowitz, X Allah & all of my GO DJs ESPECIALLY Go DJ Mankind I salute & appreciate you! I know I aint the easiest dude to work with because my vision can sometimes seem a little far fetched but at the end of the day I'm glad y'all stayed to realize there will be a tomorrow. To all my fans, I appreciate the continued love & support and I promise that I will not let you down! Music is life & life is a song, I'm gonna dance all the way to the grave! Love & respect from me, PKT aka Cab Coolerway aka Mr. Hi-De-Hide-Ya-Hoe!

NEVER FORGET

On behalf of myself & the entire Team PKT staff, I'd like to thank all of our fans and supporters for the continued love and motivation you provide. Because of y'all we consistently continue to break new grounds in every aspect of my career from the business to the craft. Every now & then I reflect back on just how far I've come and have to pay respects to certain people who I realize I've never taken the time to personally say thank you to, now is one of those times.....
In 2006, I accomplished a feat that was ahead of its time for my city so I didn't really have the opportunity to make the accomplishment pay dividends then. 4 years later, getting a glimmer of that same spotlight I had is something to rave about. In case you have no idea what I am talking about, I'm speaking on making it onto the AllHipHop.Com site. I did just that in 2006 thanks to three very important individuals- T. Piper, Kevin Clark & Steve Raze. Because of the very special write-up within the sites Breeding Ground section, my local craft generated a nationwide viewing that launched my career into full gear. Almost 4 and a half years later , I am still getting major support from the web site's owner Steve Raze who continues to post my music for everyone to hear. Just recently, he crowned my song "THIS DREAM" featuring Dave Sha as the site's Heater of the Day, an honor all artists wish for. So to Kevin Clark, T. Piper and especially the homey Steve Raze, I'd like to say thank you for everything!
One of the reasons I was even able to get that plug to AllHipHop.Com was due to my music being played and heard on a station that was also broadcast worldwide via the internet, 90.1 KPFT. So without a doubt I have to thank 2 major individuals, Matt Sonzala & DJ Bobby Phats. Phats, who now hosts the station's show "The Groove," continues to play my music and support my career. He has given me numerous occasions to utilize his platform to reach the masses and for that I am eternally grateful! Hell, he had even been spinning an exclusive off of the upcoming album THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE for weeks before I even knew anyone had it! Now my dude Matt is no longer in Houston, but he continues to do the same thing he did for me here for the lucky artists who now have him in Austin. Besides the radio, Matt spotlighted me on his blogs, in his magazine articles & most importantly on an oh so coveted bill at the SXSW showcase! When it comes to the Texas music scene, Matt Sonzala is credited with being a major gate keeper to its success so just being able to say that he has personally helped me out is a distinct honor! Oh yeah, I also have to credit him for linking me with one of my Houston emcee idols Devin The Dude- Matt booked me to open for Devin & personally introduced us...heavy! Oh yeah Matt, Houston needs Pushermania back!!!!
So I guess I'll end this little blog by saying I hope I have a future filled with more write-ups like this one. Even more so, I hope that I can affect someone else's career in the same positive fashion as these people and so many others have affected mine. Believe it or not, success can never be attained on one's own merit, someone somewhere has to help you out with something. Whatever you do, just never forget to say thank you......

SOUTHSIDE LEGEND!!!!

In the words of my big homey Paul Wall, "I got the internet goin' nuts!!" It's official, SOUTHSIDE LEGEND featuring my "playa potna" Mr. 713 aka Lil Keke aka Don Ke aka THE Southside Legend is taking the city by storm! After being leaked for only 24hrs, this song has managed to make over 10 major mixtapes, numerous blog sites, countless forum threads & most importantly internet radio! Thanks to the individual efforts of my entire team, once again I have broken new ground. THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE album keeps gaining higher anticipations with every new day I see partly due to the quality of work that my team is putting in. The new website is under construction, the album is almost complete & he deal is being negotiated! Shoutout to the homey X Allah at Fontana Distribution/Universal Records for bringing me to the table & to T. Flowers for working hard to get me to X! lol I'd also like to take his time to show some love & respect to Lil Keke for being 100 & taking me up under his wing. I appreciate the fact that I'm surrounded by people who appreciate my dedication & support my craft as well as my vision.

Speaking of vision, props to the homey Tosin of TheScrewShop.Com for the throwed graphic work on the single! If you are a lover of everything Dirty South especially screw music then you definitely need to hit up the website & become a member- it goes down in these forums!!! Oh yeah, gotta thank the homey Mike Mo of M.A.D. Studioz for mixing & mastering the song to perfection.
And to everybody who wants a copy of this song, join my fan club at REVERBNATION and receive the free fan exclusive download! Oh yeah, last thing......can you say "remix coming soon????" I hate to ruin the entire surprise but let's just say Twista, Big Pokey, Z-Ro and more!!! POW!!!!! (Go DJ J Boss voice)

Have You Had Your Awakening Yet???

Every now and then in life, we are blessed with the privileged honor of meeting people who inspire us. Luckily for me, I can say that during my musical journey I have encountered this rare phenomenon twice in the form of two very talented artists- Tha Centop & David Sha.
Now in order for you to understand the importance of my words, you first have to understand the importance of the word "talent." I have realized over the years that everyone possesses a talent, but what separates the gifted from the talented is an awakening of one's purpose in life. A talent is easily recognizable and considerably easy to put to use but a gift is something that's often locked away within your talent that can't be accessed until you have learned how to use your talent to benefit others, not just yourself. Contained within each of our talents is a limitless potential that will allow us to ascend to a cerebral place of personal harmony once we have awakened to the fact that our talent makes us part of something that's bigger than ourselves- and that's what unlocks our gifts. Now with all of that said, let me get back to my original thoughts...
My homey Tha Centop, who I just refer to as Top, is an amazing artist whose talent to convey thoughts through rhyme is a gift within itself. It wasn't until I was able to converse with him on an intellectual level that I learned how much more sophisticated his thoughts were in comparison to his rhymes- and if you haven't heard his lyrics then you can't truly appreciate that statement. I can honestly say that talking with Top was the 1st time I experienced the feeling of having a discussion with myself, and I have conversed with multitudes of people. This brother has a vision that has allowed him to put himself & his talent in the background in an effort to better the entire landscape of the same city that has tried to oppress him- if that's not a gift then I don't know what is. Never one to be concerned with personal accomplishments or accolades, I have witnessed Tha Centop use every platform he's been provided with to reflect the light off of him & onto those around him. As much of an underrated artist that he is, he's chosen to spread the word about other artists he feels are as underrated as himself- case in point myself, Kritikal and Rock Show who together with Top comprise The 4 Horsemen. This group, the NHO movement & a number of other artists are an extension of Tha Centop's vision and we're all very appreciative of his gift.
Speaking of gifts, until you hear David Sha in action you cannot appreciate the word anointed. God has truly blessed him with an unbelievable talent to not only be a great lyricist but also an amazing singer. I can say without hesitation that mister "Dibidi" is definitely the beast of both worlds- that's right I said beast, not best, it wasn't a typo! Even though I personally feel that he may be musically unmatched, his vision in my opinion is what places him in a lane that no one else can drive in. For instance, I have been bestowed with the distinctive honor of being a part of his project entitled "4 The Sistas." When I heard the title I just figured it was about the music because that's what talented artists are focused on, I was as far off with that thought as I was right on with it. The title wasn't about just the focus of the music, it was about the power of the music as well. He told me that the songs had to be uplifting because he was tired of artists using this platform to demean the most important gender on the planet & even more importantly all the proceeds would be going directly to breast cancer research- respect. Without shilly-shallying I told him I was on board! Sha's words in his music are all you need to hear to know that he has already realized his purpose, now the work is in just helping others to find theirs.

I'm not really sure what the purpose of this blog was other than inspiring others to inspire others. I myself hope that someone somewhere feels the same about their encounter with me as I feel about my encounters with Tha Centop & David Sha. Entertainment is so much more than just entertaining, it's about capturing & stimulating the hearts of those whose attention you have. We all have talents but until we figure out that we are part of something bigger than we could ever be we won't unlock the limitless potential contained within our talent. So if you want to transform from simply talented to gifted, ask yourself this- "Have I had my awakening yet?"

I'm Back!

As you all can see, it's been a minute since my last blog & for that I apologize but I promise it has been for good reasons. If you haven't learned by experience yet I'm sure you've heard that life has a way of throwing curve balls at you that may seem impossible to hit, but if you just keep swinging eventually you'll make contact & may even knock it out of the park. I recently experienced such pitches & just when I was one strike away from my final out contact was made.....
At this juncture of my career, people everywhere are anticipating the completion of my album THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE with an unexpected amount of enthusiasm. The sad part, is it's not just fans but also a handful of freeloaders, plotters & genuinely envious people who are sometimes disguised so well they infiltrate your team & pass as family. Luckily, I can say that after a few minor setbacks & a whole lot of deuce chunking it's back to business.....and the business is good!
For starters, the album is nearing completion. Secondly, the big homey Lil Keke has so graciously taken me under his wing so to speak and we have some big things popping including a full mixtape & a new hit single dropping soon entitled "Southside Legend" featuring the homey Z Ro.
Lastly, this was just a post to update everybody & let y'all know it's going down! Follow me on twitter @misterpkt & look me up on facebook under TeRay Green, the REAL Migration Music is back in full effect!

ALL I CAN SAY IS....WOW!

I don't know what it is about the entertainment industry that makes people feel like performers aren't regular people but whatever it is I damn sure don't want any! lol Even though I'm working on a very highly anticipated album right now, it never occurred to me that I was approaching "celebrity" status. Anyone who knows me knows that I have always been a laid back down to earth kinda guy, fame is not something I embrace at all. With all of the internet press and buzz surrounding the project it's getting really weird to have conversations with people who have been knowing me & are starting to treat me different. For the record, if we know each other personally, PLEASE don't call me PKT- address me by my real name! I promise you that I am still the same guy I was 3 years ago with the exception of a few material things that in no shape form or fashion define me. Come on people, stop putting me on a pedestal & creating a separation that doesn't exist- it's really awkward. Music is nothing more than my job so praise isn't necessary but appreciation is definitely appreciated! All I want to do is make good music & kick it with y'all like I always have. If you see me somewhere it's cool to holla at me, I chop it up with everybody! With that said, thanks for all the continued love & support and THE TEXAS RENAISSANCE is coming soon! Join TeamPKT on ReverbNation and add me on FACEBOOK and TWITTER! It's go time, LET'S GET IT!!!