ABOUT 10BASS T
San Jose, California finds us face to face with the spirits of hip-hop past, present, and future. Enter 10BASS T, a mutli-ethnic trio representing the universe with some of the most original sounds in the Bay Area. Vocalist Slim Daddy [+]ABOUT 10BASS T
San Jose, California finds us face to face with the spirits of hip-hop past, present, and future. Enter 10BASS T, a mutli-ethnic trio representing the universe with some of the most original sounds in the Bay Area. Vocalist Slim Daddy Milo kicks an original blend of dance-hall and West Coast patois, while Solrac commands attention with his rugged Brooklyn style rhymes. Musical styles and languages are no barrier to this crew, with Selector G providing the musical framework. The combination of melodic rhymes and funked out jazz, provide a direct path to hip-hop enlightenment. The influences are all there, from Yellowman to John Coltrane, from Jack Kerouac to Gil Scott-Heron. For a genre-specific comparison, 10BASS T would be called a cross between the Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, and GangStarr. This Afro-Latin, Asian trio has had much local success in the Bay Area. Classic, Timeless, Material!
CREDITS AND ACCOLADES:
- Won WAMMIE from SF Weekly for Best Hip-Hop/Rap group!
- Voted into BAM magazine's Best Undiscovered Bands!
- Selected from over 300 bands to represent the Bay Area at Lollapaooza!
- Heralded track on Ubiquity's debut release Home Cookin'!
- Opened for Counting Crows at the Filmore!
REVIEW:
And for those of you who don't understand
This... is hip-hop culture"
Damn straight. Jazzy like Gangstarr, gifted like December 25th, "the ten-bass trio" is in full effect on an album I can't be 100% convinced is a debut -- even though I've never heard of them before. This is too good to be a rookie crew with no rep; they've been recording something _somewhere_ before this.
I'm loving this album to pieces yo. FRESH as hell metaphors like "coming with more lyricals than white folks on prozac... got more styles in my house than Cindy Crawford" in "Good Times" got me MAD OPEN. Milo and Solrac chop the mic up lovely with their rhymes, flow, and they manage to sound distinctive in an era where everybody sounds like Rakim or Cube. Selector G hooks up some really FAT ass basslines, drumlines, and all around head-nodda beats.
This album hits all over the place; showing a highly credible versatility in lyrical compositions. "Some Say We're Spanish..." rings the same bells for me that Chino XL's "Who Am I" hits and "
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