Charles Hamilton Drops Another Mixtape
Harlem-via-Cleveland's Charles Hamilton has been polarizing blog comments sections for a few months now. The self-promotional, self-referential rapper is halfway through a three month blog tour that finds him releasing eight, DJ Skee-assisted mixtapes "in an effort to reach close to two million unique visitors combined instead of thousands potentially going city to city." He's a blogger, too (the self-proclaimed "best blogger alive" in fact), and diligently maintains his Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/YouTube. Along with his irreverence and prolificness, this social networking finesse makes Charles a poster-boy for Web 2.0 hip-hop. The kid's also turned the requisite rap alter-ego into a joke by adopting a Sonic The Hedgehog avatar on all his releases. Reviewers have generally praised CH's laid-back flow, though it's hard to get a legit read since the top eight hip-hop blogs are hosting his publicity tour. Anyway! Did I mention he samples Lykke Li? Tori Amos? And the Clash song that M.I.A. sampled? I thought you might be curious about those.
From Staff Development (download at Nah Right), this samples "Caught A Lite Sneeze," which is inspired even if the end result is a bit "Chocolate Rain"y.
Charles Hamilton - "Anti-Bullying Zone" (MP3)
Sped up Lykke, from It's Charles Hamilton (download at 2dopeboyz), is better.
Charles Hamilton - "Starchasers" (MP3)
The L Word mixtape is available for download starting today at Xclusiveszone. More at iamnotcharleshamilton.com.
Posted at 2:04 PM by Scott in MP3
Tags: Charles Hamilton | DJ Skee | Lykke Li | Tori Amos
That cover art is like a 'which one of these things is not like the other' segment from Sesame Street. All of them are smoking hot except for....
Let's see we've got Alba, Sonic, Dunst...
What the Hell is Kristen Dunst doing on there?
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seriously....wtf is she doing there?
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