About

About The Based Update
-So here I am to tell you about how this site started. The whole thing started back in November of 2009. I had always been a huge follower of music, especially from the artists in and around the Bay Area, so that was the only thing I was planning on focusing at the beginning, "Bay Area Music." The concept of "based" was started from a group called "The Pack," if you are not familiar with them they had the hit song titled "Vans" in 2006 that I am sure you are aware of. Anyways, Lil B from the group took "based" to a whole other level and gave it a new concept that I really agreed with and supported. Since I was friends with him at that time of creation along with being affiliated with other members of the group it was easy for me to adapt to the concept not only at a friend perspective but as a fan also. After seeing tons of Bay Area artists not get the shine that they deserved, I decided to make a site where they could be heard. Of course many people create sites like this, but my friendships with artists and other websites helped me get a quick start to readers and a respectable amount of hits for a new site that no one had heard of. Examples of some of the first interviews on the site include: Dev, Young L, and Bobby Brackins. Those are just some of the names that have been featured on the site that everyone knows of now. Others that have been interviewed on this site include artists like T. Mills and groups like Free Sol who are signed by Justin Timberlake. Of course I am not the reason that you know some of the people interviewed on this site, but I could have been a stepping zone to new fans, opportunities, and gigs. That was and still is the point of the site now, to push talent out to people that need to hear it.

The Based Update Alias
-So the name "The Based Update" came together really simple. I was involved in the early stages of the "based" movement and I was giving updates through certain pages on MySpace I made which people were enjoying and following. So the idea just came to put it in one place and to put it all together with a really simple, but catchy idea. The idea was original and everything was created before things with this idea of "based" started to get around. This is the number 1 and original source!

Update About The Based Update
-Based has expanded from just the music aspect to any level of talent. As you can see the site not only supports Artists, but Directors, Producers, Models, Clothing Lines, Stores, Photographers and more. If there is a talent at hand anywhere across the country at any level and a positive aspect towards the Based Movement is apparent, then it has a spot on this site!