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About Me

No pre programmed beats. No playing music off a CD for live shows. No bullshit. No Gimmicks. Just pure, true, uncorrupted, unadulterated, creative, REAL hip hop.

Hiphopotamus is a social conscious, positive hip hop band. It is a perfect mixture of rap with live instruments and a turntablist. Old School, new school, trip hop, underground; we are influenced by everything and refuse to give into falling into one sound.

Featuring the long time rhythm section of Kevin Lantz and Tip Toasty from the band Goodbye Mind, the skillful guitar work of Mr. Green from The French Connections, the poetic rhymes and flowing style of MC Mix Nuts, and the hypnotic scratches and samples from DJ Steve, host of 91.3 FM's Saturday Night Trip.

Do you all go to church? We go to church every Sunday. Its called band practice. Our sound is evolving with every service. Come join the First United Church of Hiphopotamus.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/23/2006
Band Website: reverbnation.com/hiphopotamus
Band Members: Ray - Rhymes, raps, and vox

Kevin - Rhythms and percs
Tip Toasty - Bass

Mr. Green - Guitar, and keys

DJ Steve - Scratches, raps, and samples

Influences: Music. Everything from hip hop, punk, reggae, rock, ska, jazz, latin, and everything inbetween.
Artists like MF Doom, Deltron, Atomsphere, Madvillan, Gnarls Barkley, Kanye West, Madlib, Outkast, Gorillaz, Dangerdoom, the entire Rhymesayers Entertainment label
Sounds Like: "It's socially conscious, positive hip hop with MCs rapping over a live band with an indie-rock tilt... and you'll still hit the streets with a grin afterwards."
GARY HIZER
Urban Tulsa

Type of Label: None

My Blog

thanks for the help in 2007/trying to kick it up in 2008

Give us some encouragement. Check out our songs, join the mailing list, come to our shows, leave comments, etc. Also, we are a huge supported of local music, and we love these local and independant ar...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:05:00 PST

we want you, to want us!

Want to see us play some more all ages shows? Well then help us out on this one! Tulsa Overground Film Festival is wanting to know what bands you want to see play there. Let them know you want to see ...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:26:00 PST

check it out

Check out this week's Tulsa Music Pulse webcast, we're in it. The song is Hip Hop is Lost. Check it out at www.tulsamusicpulse.com And thanks again to the cool guys at Tulsa Music Pulse for putting u...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:22:00 PST

A much needed update

I figured it was time to do an update and all that jazz. Everyone we see asks if we have CDs. We sort of hit a snag recording, but we should be getting back in the studio soon. I promise, we want this...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:19:00 PST

Have you heard our new song? (July Updates)

Its the first complete song out of recording. Check it out, hell, even add it to your profile while you're at it! Contact Sport is probobly my favorite song we play, so go check it out, for me! A bit ...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:43:00 PST

June Update

Hello to all HipHopotamus faithful! Anyway, I got a few updates for the coming months. First off, we've been asked about recordings a lot lately. Well, we're working on it. We've got all the drums d...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:45:00 PST

some more updates

Live hip hop music is back in Tulsa! Finally! We're gunna be playing a bunch of shows in the next few months. We'll be trying to play at least once a month starting in February (maybe even January), w...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:53:00 PST

Shows and stuff

Whats up guys?hows it hanging? Wait, no, don't answer that.I just wanted to let you all know that the shows are going to start rolling in, so please keep watching for more. We Have a few places in min...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:56:00 PST

Studio time and updates

The studio time we had was well worth it. You can hear Shade of Brown on the site right now, and expect more in the near future. I'm really excited based on the response we're getting. I'm glad you g...
Posted by HipHopotamus on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST