Happy new year, everybody! I hope you and your loved ones are enjoying yourselves, and I hope you have a great 2023! I've got a lot of plans in store for this year, one of which is a new instrumental EP coming out on Feburary 3rd! It's gonna feature all of my work done for the Newgrounds Voice Acting Collaborations, plus two exclusive beats. My mans DJ Chidow will be assisting with a couple tracks, too. Can't wait to drop it for you guys!

Cover art by the amazing Newtaboot!

...It's a Michael Jackson/Nas/Jay-Z mashup I did in a day. I guess I could do worse lol. I'll have more original content for y'all soon.

~Vadell~

Hey all, got some good news: My power is finally back post-Hurricane Fiona, and I'm headed ack home. Unfortunately, I lost all my groceries due to the outage, but that'll be taken care of in time. Thanks to everyone who helped support me while I was displaced, y'all will be getting some special beats soon. And as a reminder, I got commissions open, so if you need some beats, or just wanna support a brother, my commissions are still 30% off until midnight tonight.

Also, while I was out, I finished up a video for a Wu-Tang Clan x Donkey Kong Country 2 mashup I made a while back. I can't upload it to NG because of the Audio Portal rules, but you can see it on YouTube down below.

Peace,

~Vadell~

Hey NG Fam! Been a minute, but I thought I'd give y'all an update sooner than I was planning on.

For those who don't know, Hurricane Fiona hit the Atlantic Canada region last friday and saturday, and did a ton of damage, especially to my province, Nova Scotia. Long story short, I'm temporarily displaced for a week, mainly due to my neighbourhood being powerless until this coming saturday, and am staying elsewhere. However, I will have my music gear with me, and will be taking commissions for 30% off until Oct 1 to cover my lodging costs and other bills. So if you need some new jack swing or rap for your projects, get at me on Ko-Fi.

Peace,

~Vadell~

I generally dislike doing the E-begging thing, but without going into too much detail, I've been put into a situation out of my control where I could possibly get evicted. So not only am I doing emergency commissions, but I got a fire sale on, and I've slashed my prices down. Every little bit will help majorly for me, so if you can spread the word, it'd be appreciated.

You can commission me on Ko-Fi.

Hey y'all. Haven't posted on here in a minute, but I thought I'd give some updates:

So, I'm still in rough straights about a full year removed from losing my day job, and the job market in my area is wack, if I'll be honest. So if you, or someone you know, got games and animations that need some funky rap, house, or R&B music, or need beats/writing for your own musical project I'm still open for commissions. Feel free to DM me here, or hop on my Ko-Fi page. Examples of my work can be found on my NG page.

Speaking of music, I wanna say I got some new stuff in the pipeline I'll be announcing soon. I can't say a whole lot right at this moment, partly due to NDA for some of it, and wanting to keep the rest a surprise, but I can guarantee y'all will love it, and I'm working with Pepperoni-Ravioli and DJ Chidow on something special for it. It's gonna be my biggest project yet.

In (slightly) non-music news, I'm reviving my podcast, JoyRide. To kick off the relaunch, I did an interview with Richard Rodwell, a Canadian composer and musician who produced for several pioneering rap and R&B artists in Canada and was behind the music of many classic TV shows on YTV in the mid-90s and 200os, most notably Uh Oh! If you got an hour to spare, feel free to check it out:

'Til next time, I'll be back with more music for all of y'all on Newgrounds!

~Vadell~

I'll cut to the chase: 2021, certain projects aside, was not a good year for me, mainly due to losing my job, and now I'm being financially boxed in. If y'all need some hip hop/R&B/new jack swing beats or songwriting for your own projects, and wanna help a brother out, commission me on Ko-Fi!

Some examples of what I do:

~Vadell~

With it being the anniversary of MF DOOM's death here, I had to do something to show the late supervillain some love. So I did a chiptune cover of the track, with my homie Funk Doc giving an eulogy as the bridge.

Remember: ALL CAPS when you say the man name. RIP Daniel "MF DOOM" Dumile.

So, as some of y'all probably already know, the one and only Joel Guerra finally released a new HANDS UP short, once again featuring beats from yours truly and the funkmaster himself, DJ Chidow:

I already released the instrumental version, but if you wanna show some extra love to me, Chidow, and the voice actors, I've released a soundtrack of all the songs I did for Joel's shorts; including remastered tracks, instrumentals, and acapellas, all featuring the cast recordings of the songs! It's only $6, so you can't go wrong.

Until next time, I hope y'all enjoy Joel's short, and the music that went with it!

Hey, y'all,

I'm not dead yet, just juggling my day job with trying to make more music. I'm glad y'all are still enjoying the cuts I've posted here, and I've got more to come soon, including another collaboration with Joel G that hopefully should be out sometime in April, as well as some new original music.

In the meantime, if you're an animator, game dev, musician, or whatever, why not consider commissioning ya boy on Ko-Fi? I do beats, lyrics, jingles, ringtones, all of that. https://ko-fi.com/vadellgabriel/commissions

~Vadell~