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Spokes

About Me


SPOKES - DRIVEN CD
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN STORES:

HMV on Robson - Downtown Vancouver
Eastside Urban Wear - E-19 4700 Kingsway St., Burnaby
Ephin Apparel - 15149 Fraser Hwy, Surrey
Zulu Records - 1972 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver
BIO:
The past decade has been marked with much growth and constant change in the world of hip hop. The recent commercial success of some of underground hip hops most dedicated and talented artists is driving a movement that is opening many peoples eyes to the genres infinite potential. To one Vancouver, BC born MC it almost seems as an alignment of the stars is fast approaching. For Spokes the past decade has been a time to hone his skills lyrically, musically, and professionally.
In 1999 a group of four emcees, Spokes, Dlux, Illucid and JT 420, came together to form Reverse Priorities. Under the direction of prodigy producer JT (Jahranimo, Lil Precious, Zukie Joseph), Reverse has steadily built their name in the Vancouver hip hop scene with the release of two full length albums, All This World in 2001 and their self titled LP in 2003. This gave Spokes the opportunity to share the stage with some of Canada's hottest hip hop artists including Josh Martinez, Classified, Emotions, DL Incognito, Sweatshop Union, and Kyprios.
In 2005, Spokes track Freedom was featured on the Yellow Light District Mixtape produced by Slow DJs, and hosted by Charlie Tuna (Jurassic 5), and Opio (Hieroglyphics). In the lab ever since, he is currently putting the finishing touches on 2 long awaited projects and preparing to deliver what many have been craving. His debut solo CD Driven is a hip hop journey through the mind of a modern poet. A tribute to strength, independence, and humanitys neverending quest, Driven" is a major benchmark in the career of a true artist. With production by JT 420, The Healing Project, and Baldy Loc and mixed by Danny Elmes (Sweatshop Union, Kyprios) Driven will keep you guessing with each new track. Also due out this year Spokes and The Healing Project present Collide, the product of a perfect union of producer and MC that will change many people's perspective on hip hop. Visit www.myspace.com/hiphopcollide to check it out.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/05/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/spokes1
Influences: OutKast, Rolling Stones, 2Pac, Too Short, Wu Tang Clan, B.U.M.S., Pink Floyd, Atmosphere, Visionairies, Bob Marley, Hiero, Zion I, LL Crew, SuperTramp, Sublime, Beastie Boys, The Roots, Das Efx, Common, Digable Planets, K-OS, Cunninlynguists, RJD2, Roy Orbison...
Record Label: Paranoyd Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HOW BOUT DEM APPLES

An apple a day keeps the doctor away To me sounds like something an actor would say, Lost in a maze like a hate filled pastor I'm an actor and a doctor of disaster MD Manic Depressive plus a Muscle di...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:11:00 GMT

"Your playing small does not serve the world"

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be bri...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:33:00 GMT

You Feel Lonely

"are you waking up slowly? Are you waking up lonely"? -olp One day you wake up riding your bicycle down a cobblestone street in an ancient European village going I'm FUCKING LONELY! THen... for the h...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:44:00 GMT

Knockin on Heavens Door

They say when we die, our soul leaves are body and we can see ourselves and look down at everybody from the ceiling. Then we feel our soul being surrounded by other souls who have passed away before u...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:02:00 GMT

Unite the World

What brings the world together ? The same thing that brings it apart ? I dont think so... its pretty clear to me.. Uniting Nations are these 2  amazing things like never before: 1) World Cup Socc...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:48:00 GMT