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The Philosophy

The Philosophy

About Me

Striving to make good music and indisposable hiphop...Representing the Nappy City aka Hater Bay... BUY OUR CD "In the Trenches" online here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/philosophyor on iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? playListId=200892909The Philosophy and Those Young Lions by the Innate...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/philosophy
Band Members: MCs: Bambu, Spread and Toe Jam...the lyrical 3-headed beast...The Band: 3Deep (Devon Ashley aka Dam Rite, Jay Jones aka Lavender Sprinkles and Sean McGary aka Eastside Larry )...Producers: Spread, Toe Jam, Dam Rite, Exquisite and Lavender Sprinkles...The Philosophy production team...Varsity Squad...we got beats...
Influences: Goodie MOB, Funkadelic, The Roots, Sly, KRS1, Arrested Development, Melle Mel, PRT, Tribe Called Quest, JAY DILLA, Cee-lo, Outkast, Dr. Dre, De La Soul, Prince Paul, Kool Keith, Pharcyde, 3-6 Mafia, Common, Dead Prez, all the okp fam, Bjork, DJ Shadow, The Beatles, The Rza, Ghostface, ODB, Blowfly, FISHBONE, Indianapolis, Mississippi, Ani Difranco, Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Miles, Eddie Hazel, Billy Bass, Bootsy, the 4 Tops, Temptations, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Roots Manuva, Weed, DJ premier, Pete Rock, DITC, and pretty much anything that's passed through our ears...
Sounds Like: what you want to hearThe Philosophy is in this video near the end. It's tripped out.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Toe Jam’s solo album...

I have been recording my first solo album since december, hitting the studio about once a week (twice lately) laying shit down. I think this is the best music I have ever written and recorded.  ...
Posted by The Philosophy on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:52:00 PST

Stories and videos

We were featured in the cover story in Indy.com this week... http://www.indy.com/posts/5397 ...and accompanying video... http://www.indy.com/videos/show/99 ...Thank you, Mr. David Linquist.   And...
Posted by The Philosophy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:11:00 PST

The Philosophy goes OutKast?

I, Toe Jam, am currently working on a "solo" album. I put solo in quotations because I've been involving a lot of the fam in the process. So far I have seventeen tracks recorded to various degrees, as...
Posted by The Philosophy on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST

The Philosophy rocks a Girl Scout connvention

Prooving once again we can move any crowd, The Philosophy played a show last Saturday at the Omni downtown for a convention of Girl Scouts. Word to Hip-hop Congress and Josh Kupke for putting thi...
Posted by The Philosophy on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

Nuvo covers the Harrison Underground show

Check it... http://www.nuvo.net/articles/partners_in_rhyme_cd_release_pa rty/
Posted by The Philosophy on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:49:00 PST

The Philosophy gets respect in print from the Top

http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/6/028324-2696-157.html   Tip Top Tavern takes on local acts --> ARTICLE SUB-HEADER --> --> BEGIN PROFILE NAVIGATION ELEMENTS AND LINKS **********************...
Posted by The Philosophy on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:45:00 PST

Hip Hop Summit Coverage

Featuring your boys The Philosophy: http://www.nuvo.net/articles/third_annual_hiphop_summit_/ Featuring your man blackSoil project: http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/9/028007-8249-157.html Last yea...
Posted by The Philosophy on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:51:00 PST

"In the Trenches" Top Ten albums of 2006 -Indy Star

Music writer for the Indianapolis Star, David Lindquist, has selected "In the Trenches" as one of the ten best Indiana albums of 2006! Check out what he had to say at http://blogs.indystar.com/celebra...
Posted by The Philosophy on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:30:00 PST

INtake video interview/acoustic performance

"Off the Record" featuring The Philosophy. www.intakeweekly.com   We filmed this interview and performance at the Indianapolis Star building downtown last week. Then went and joined a g...
Posted by The Philosophy on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:11:00 PST

Photography by Crowes Eye

Almost all of our photos were taken by John Crowe, who also does our graphic design. Check them out at http://www.croweseyephotography.com/    Some photos also by Sarah Zeta.   Peace....
Posted by The Philosophy on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:12:00 PST