Marvin Gaye, George Duke, Parliament, Dilla, Donny Hathaway, OutKast, D'Angelo, Sly and the Family Stone, Madlib, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Grover Washingnton Jr, Curtis Mayfield, Herbie Hancock, Mizell Brothers, De La Soul, Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, Ohio Players, Ray Charles, Roy Ayers, Gil Scott Heron, Minnie Ripperton, Southern Roots and Northern Lights.
The Hawthorne Headhunters is a project made up of the individuals; Stoney Rock, Ced No and Proh Mic. The project was conceived in Ced's Studio in that special place between Long Beach and Los Angeles - Hawthorne, California. The St. Louis natives Ced and Veto, and Seattle transplant, Proh Mic locked it down under the shine of Hollywood Park and created some sounds in the great traditions of musical heavyweight projects such as Funkadelic, Headhunters, Soulquarians, Native Tongues Posse and Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills' Super Session. Crossing the lines between the Southern influenced tastes of the producer/singer/rapper Stoney Rock, keyboard and studio controller Ced No, fused with the next level northern bounce of rapper/producer Proh Mic, the HH's is at the crossroads of funk, soul, jazz and hip hop from players already years deep into the game. Look for the album to drop later this year on the new HVW8 records imprint.
Executive Produced by Ty G.
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Look out for Black Spade on the road support of his new album.
New GravisLive at the BBQ ad featuring the HVW8 music super project Hawthorne Headhunters. Shot and recorded Live at the HVW8 Gallery in Hollywood. Listen to thier mix on the HVW8 Podcast.
01: Pete Rock/Beat Six 02: Dutchmassive/Kill Em In 8bit(prod. Samiyam) 03: Flying Lotus ft. Lil Wayne/Robo Tussin 04: Ge-ology ft. Yukimi Nagano/Longin 05: Ichiro/Birds 06: Skymark ft. Deva Mahal/The Shadow 07: Hawthorne Headhunters/She Wanna 08: Stephen Simmonds/Alone(RMX ft. Big L & Marquee) 09: Moody Allen ft. Vince Franklin/Six Feet 10: Recloose/Catch A Leaf 11: Nicolay ft. Black Spade/I Am The Man
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“Black Spade gets necks snapping with his throwback-to-the-future beats.” – FADER
“What hip hop fans and music lovers in general have been waiting for. Spades’ intellect and creativity oozes from soulful self produced tracks.” – VAPORS
“St. Louis mc Black Spade arrives just in time to help you remember the days when Hip Hop championed creativity and fueled a culture of poetic and hungry youth.” - REMIX MAGAZINE
“Instead of hard up gangsta rap, Black Spades’ voice is soothing and it holds a certain romanticism that makes you want to keep listening” - SF STATION
“It’s the Bitches Brew of Hip Hop..all about breaks, jazz, hip hop and soul.” - Wakeboarding Magazine
“Black Spade is my rap guy to watch for 2008. He’s the dude I want to see succeed, sell records and make it on to people’s “best of” lists at the end of the year.” - OKAY PLAYER
Black Spade drops his impressive debut album on Om Hip Hop March 4th. To celebrate the release of “To Serve With Love”, Zune & Om are teaming up to give away a Zune player featuring an unreleased EP from Black Spade & a remix from Wajeed of Platinum Pied Pipers of Spade’s first single, ‘Actioneer’ and an autographed copy of “To Serve With Love”. Contest Details: Send an email to contests@om-records.com with the answers to the three Black Spade questions below. Two (2 – runner ups) random emails with correct answers will be picked to win an autographed CD. One (1 – grand prize) random email with the correct answers will be picked out and receive a Microsoft Zune player & an autographed Black Spade CD.
Contest Questions: 1. What hip hop / soul crew from St. Louis was Black Spade originally a member of? 2. What producer / artist featured Black Spade on his critical acclaimed album entitled “Here”? 3. What is Black Spade’s real (birth) name?
How To Enter: Email your answers to contests@om-rec
