Am I Soundboy?

Appears on ROLE MODEL cd and ROLE PLAYA 12". Also sublimely mashed up with 8Ball & MJG's "We Started This" on DJ/rupture's MINESWEEPER SUITE cd.

Samples ODB's skits from the Chris Rock album that came out in 1999. Rjyan was living in a dorm ("Building A") at Johns Hopkins University that autumn and borrowed the CD from one of his roommates. Possibly the one whose little sister was the girl from Matilda and who had a picture of himself with Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman on his desk. But possibly also from the other roommate. Some time in the winter Rjyan was moved from that room to a solo occupancy in the (mostly-sophomore) Wolman Hall on the other side of Charles Street. "Am I Soundboy" might have been the only song that was begun and finished entirely in that triple sitch.

The title is a reference to the Soundboy Yakuza tour in August 1999, Cex's first solo gigs outside of Baltimore, with Kid606, Lexaunculpt, Hrvatski, and Cathars. Apple.com did a short article about this tour just before it happened, but there's a hole in wayback machine where it would be :/ Rjyan himself wrote a short (and emo) article about it for Grooves Magazine issue #1 or #2.