L-Beezies!
It is official, and we are very excited to announce the debut book from Lyrics Born; “Yes, Bay Area”.

“Yes, Bay Area” is a collection of Tweets that have been compiled from over the past 2 years and features LB’s funny and insightful musings on the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich and diverse culture.

Prompted by the suggestions of hundreds of fans on Twitter and Facebook, “Yes, Bay Area” is the first of its kind for LB and sees the veteran MC, Producer and Voiceover artist once again stepping into new territory and breaking new ground in a career constantly expanded by his bold and out-of-the-box approach.
Featuring artwork by the Bay Area’s own, Eddie Colla and Jason Malig, the book is through and through a testament to the San Francisco Bay Area.

“Hapa dude from Berkeley with Italian hair, Cajun accent, and intergalactic mic skills capturing the funniest observations on the quirks of the 510, 415, 408, 650, and 707 since Richard Pryor stalked these same streets? Yes, world. You’ve come to the right book.”

—Jeff Chang Award winning author of “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” and “Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop”

“We’ve got much more than 140 characters in the Bay… but 140 is all LB needs to rock these compulsively-readable, hilarious, and incisive mini-portraits. If you live here, you’ll be nodding your head in recognition… and if you don’t, well, you’re fucking up. But at least now you’ve got a field guide.”

– Adam Mansbach, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Go the Fuck to Sleep”.

The e-book will be available for download June 12th, 2012 and also available at the Official “Yes, Bay Area” Book Release Event at the Independent in San Francisco, CA!

Presented in conjunction with the Bay Area’s own LitQuake, June 16th, 2012 will be a celebration of epic proportions as LB brings his full LIVE band to The Independent in San Francisco, CA featuring Jazz Mafia, Joyo Velarde, Kat O1O, Skins & Needles and many more.
In honor of this momentous occasion, LB has curated a very special night of music, comedy and surprises to celebrate his foray into the literary world with special guests Bayonics, Berkeley native, Adam Mansbach (best-selling author of the book “Go The Fu*k To Sleep”) and hosted by the very funny, Joey Guila!!

It is truly going to be a night to remember as LB celebrates the release of his very first book and brings to The Independent a night unlike any other.
Get your tickets right now by clicking here and do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime event!

Today we’re excited to announce the release date of the brand new mixtape from Lyrics Born, ‘Variety Show Season 5 On The Floor’ — presented by LB’s own Mobile Home Recordings & Decon Records and featuring 2-step & boogie mash-ups and remixes of LB tracks spanning the entire LB catalog.
Mixed by DJ Icewater and available February 28th, 2012, ‘Variety Show Season 5′ includes special appearances from Sam Sparro, Francis & The Lights, Proh from Far East Movement, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Trackademicks, Joyo Velarde and more.

Available today as an exclusive free download is a mash-up of LB’s song “Coulda Woulda Shoulda” ft. Sam Sparro from the album AS U WERE with Teena Marie’s “Square Biz”.
Get the free download by clicking here (right click to save to your computer).

LYRICS BORN – Coulda Woulda Shoulda Biz f/ Sam Sparro by lyricsborn

Let LB tell you all about the mixtape in this special webisode of LBTV:

That’s right L-Beezies, Lyrics Born is coming to Australia to ring in 2012!
Joining him is the one-and-only Joyo Velarde as well as Skins & Needles and Kat O1O.

Get your tickets now to these shows:

12.29.11 – Melbourne – The Espy
12.30.11 – Victoria – Pyramid Rock Festival
12.31.11 – North Fremantle – Salt on the Beach
01.01.12 – Nedlands – Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club

The latest LBTV webisode features Lyrics Born talking about a couple of exclusive and special speaking engagements he has for the month of October.

October 3rd, 2011 LB will be giving a speech at the Mayoral Candidates Forum at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA as part of the Grammys organization.

October 9th, 2011 he will be at the JCCSF talking with author Adam Mansback (Go The Fuck To Sleep) about music, parenthood and more.

Make sure you check out both of these events.

For those of you looking to get your musical LB fix, you can catch him tearing it up at the Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol, CA on October 19th, 2011 with Joyo Velarde feat Skins & Needles.
On October 29th, 2011 LB will be joining Miles the DJ and Party Ben for a night of music and fun at Milk SF on Halloween weekend.
This is LB’s first public DJ set, so make sure you come down and see history in the making.

Hey there, L-Beezes — make sure you peep the latest LBTV episode.
Set to perform this Saturday at Rifflandia Music Festival in Victoria, BC w/ Joyo Velarde and Skins & Needles, LB takes a minute to chop it up about his summer touring as well as the show this weekend.

L-Beezies,

Are y’all ready for this?
September 24th, 2011 LB is hitting Victoria, BC for the Rifflandia Festival. Backed by Skins & Needles and featuring the one-and-only Joyo Velarde, LB & crew are set to tear it up, tear it down and shred it like confetti. Make sure you get your tickets if you don’t have them yet!

RIFFLANDIA 2011

Lyrics Born is headlining Saturday with his performance scheduled for 11pm. Don’t miss this amazing show!

Changing things up, LB is going to be making a special appearance with Adam Mansbach at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on Sunday October 9th, 2011 at 7pm.
Adam Mansbach is the author of the best-selling children’s book, ‘Go The Fu*k to Sleep’ and LB was asked to join him on stage for a special discussion.
The two will be chopping it up about parenthood, music and more. This is a very special night so get your tickets!

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Events

For those of you who may not be familiar with the book, here is Samuel L. Jackson reading it:

Daaaaaaaaaaaaang!
It’s been a crazy past couple of months here at LB HQ.
In addition to all of the Lyrics Born business we’ve been handlin’ we’ve also been keepin’ things movin’ with the Latyrx re-union that just keeps on going!
Things kicked off at Outside Lands with a very special re-union show where LB & Lateef performed with the Jazz Mafia Orchestra ft. Skins & Needles, Kat Ouano and Joyo Velarde to a sold-out crowd of thousands! Soon after, the duo played a special private show for the folks at Google HQ.

It wasn’t but a week later that actor and artist extraordinaire, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, Inception, Hesher, 500 Days of Summer) asked LB & Lateef to join him on stage at the Regency Ballroom for a very special night of film, music and discussion. One of the topics of the night was vinyl records and remixes.
Joe, founder of hitRECord.org (a community of artists mixing their skills to create unique and original content), thought of none other than Quannum Projects to represent the Bay Area on the topic.
2 days prior to the event Joe and his team hit up the guys and by showtime they were ready to not only talk vinyl, but were joined by DJ Zeph (Skins & Needles, Oakland Faders) to perform a live remix on stage.

The following video gives you a taste of the action that went down that night with the first of a two part series of videos from the Regency Ballroom. Check it out:

A very special thanks to not only Joe, but the entire hitRECord.org community.
It was an amazing night and we can’t wait to get together and collaborate again!

If you need that Latyrx fix, don’t miss LB & Lateef performing this coming Sunday (9/11) at Big Sky Brewery in Missoula, MT as they join Pretty Lights for a night of amazing music.
But wait, that’s not all — later in the month LB heads north to Canada for the Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, BC on 9/24 with Joyo Velarde and Skins & Needles.

We’ve got more dates coming very soon, so keep checking back in at LyricsBorn.com and keep up-to-date on all things Latyrx at LatyrxAuthentic.com

(photo by Mark Austin Heim)

L-Beeeeeeezies!
What’s happenin’ people?!

LB just returned from a 3 day run in the midwest where he, Joyo Velarde and Skins & Needles played Minneapolis, MN, Davenport, IA, and Madison, WI.
Y’all were amazing crowds all weekend and it was a great time had by all.

Looking forward we’re hella juiced about the latest Latyrx show coming up this Sunday (September 4th, 2011) at the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago, IL.
LB, Lateef the Truthspeaker and Skins & Needles are bringing the Bay Area to Chicago for a special night of Latyrx-ness. If that’s not enough for you, the afterparty that same night at The Congress, will have LB & Lateef opening up for Thievery Corp!

So get your tickets to both and see what the Bay has been keepin’ under wraps all this time.
For those of you who didn’t get to Outside Lands earlier this month, check out this video from the show giving you a taste of that Latyrx goodness:

Hey L-Beezies — don’t forget this weekend to catch LB w/ Joyo Velarde and Skins & Needles tearing up the midwest with 3 mega shows going down this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Tomorrow night (Aug 25th) catch LB @ The Cabooze in Minneapolis, MN
Friday night (Aug 26th) @ The Redstone Room in Davenport, IA
and Saturday night (Aug 27th) @ Orton Park in Madison, WI for a FREE show in the park!

Get your tickets now and don’t miss these awesome shows!!!

L-BEEZIES!!!!
This past Sunday was one for the history books as LB & Lateef hit the Sutro Stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA for the official Latyrx re-union.
Joining them was the one-and-only Joyo Velarde, Skins & Needles, Kat O1O and a stripped down Jazz Mafia Orchestra, led by Adam Theis.
If you were there you know how amazing the show was — and if you weren’t, well, here are some photos to give you a taste of what you missed out on:

The dynamic duo tore through classic Latyrx tracks like “Lady Don’t Tek No”, “Storm Warning”, “8 Point Agenda”, “Say That” as well as some Lateef the Truthspeaker and LB tunes.
The highlight was the brand new Latyrx track “Hardship Enterprise” that everyone has been going nuts about.

All 3 days at Outside Lands were sold out and Latyrx’ performance was talked about as one of the top 3 of the entire weekend, rivaling The Roots & The Black Keys shows.
Here’s a short clip from the OL rehearsals:

Keeping it all the way funky, we wanna remind you that LB has a handful of midwest dates coming up later this month.
You can catch him with Joyo and Skins & Needles August 25th, 26th & 27th. Here are the dates and venues:

Aug 25th – Minneapolis, MN – The Cabooze
Aug 26th – Davenport, IA – Redstone Room
Aug 27th – Madison, WI – Orton Park

Get your tickets for these shows while you still can — they’re projected to sell out.
We have more LB shows coming soon as well as more Latyrx dates.
Summer may be ending, but the Fall is going to be HOT!