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SKEW

Leap! Head First! Don't Look Back! Have No Regrets

About Me

I been into music since I was a very young kid. I was born in LA and my moms raised me and my sis in church, that was where my passion for music started. I played drums in church when I was only 6 years old. My family moved to Rialto CA when I was about 9, we were about 50 miles east of our old church so I had to give up the drums, I moved on and played trumpet in elementary school. I played trumpet for about 5 years, I stop playing trumpet, in middle school when they started making us march with military decipline, I wasn't feeling that so I quit band and got more involved in sports. But I'm no jock, so I slowly got back into music. This dude in High School named Steve was an emcee, he came to school everyday with a new rhyme that he would spit to me, his rhymes was fly, so one day I decided to write my own rhyme it was aight, and I been rhymin every since then. I got into producing too. I started spending my christmas money on new gear, and I accumulated a nice lil rookie set up. I been making music for about 10 years now, making demos for myself and other artist around the town. Anyway, I'm here to make hip-hop that's not as traditional as what's out there right now. My style is different cause I'm different. I'm not like that flashy ballin' out of control rapper that you see on TV, and I'm not like that raw emcee at your local open mic night that's rippin the head off any emcee that steps in the arena. I'm my own emcee, I use hip-hop as a vehicle to express what I'm feeling at that moment, I never "TRY" to make a certain type of song I just do what feels good to me at the moment. I think that is what's missing in MUSIC not just hip-hop right now, everyone wants to make a "HIT" but the music that really matters never starts that way.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/2/2006
Band Website: SKEWbeats.com.....coming soon
Band Members: SKEW
Influences: Musically, Im influenced by everyone from Outkast, Hiero, El-P, RJD2, Madlib, MF Doom, Kanye West, Murs, Beastie Boys, Cage, Common, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Gangstarr, Wu-Tang, J-Zone, Jay Dee (dilla), 9th Wonder, Little Brother, Alica Keys, Eryka Badu, Nas, Pharcyde, the Roots, Redman, Will.I.Am, Young Jeezy, Xzibit, and T.I. all the way to artist like Bjork, Squarepusher, Luke Vibert (Plug/Wagon Christ), Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Tracy Bonham, Gorillaz, N.E.R.D., Stereolab, Portishead, Massive Attack, Marilyn Manson, Jamiroquai, the Cardigans, Beck, ect.Other things that influence me are art, movies, life, women, fashion, colors, cars, food, dreams, party scene, section 8, wack music, jellybeans, architecture, space, booze, and booty videos (thanks MTV/BET!)
Sounds Like: my music sounds like a cross between SKEW and SKEW, with a little touch of old school '93 joints by SKEW. Musically it's reminds me of jazzy/hip-hop cuts by SKEW, with ill drums similiar to those of SKEW, all production, mixing, by SKEW.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

SKEW's Hatched coming very soon

I've been writing and recording this album forever, and it's just about wrapped up. When I started the album I wasn't really thinkin of recording an entire album, I just wanted to do a couple of trac...
Posted by SKEW on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:20:00 PST

JAY DILLA rest in peace

I was driving home today listen to 99.1 kgfi (an unusual practice for me) when one of the house DJs/personnalities was talking about Jay Dilla, about all the work he's done throughout his career. The...
Posted by SKEW on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:34:00 PST