Peep The Liquor Store Hookers project I have with Scotty B. The Digital Assassin, in Melbourne, Australia.
Lately I'm on the Akai MPC4000, Propellerhead Reason, and some live instruments - Basses, Keys, Guitar. Also always working with a ton of great live musicians... Some more motivated than the others. Late night killers, clam-stretchers, vein-drillers... It all works out right in the end, right?
Sol-T Elected Best Local Hip-Hop Artist In the Annual OC Weekly Magnificent '07 Reader's Poll!
Influences
strange, strange love
bootsy & the P, baby!
the american "dream"
henry "high life" miller
rick the ruler
dirty publications
hometown vigilantes
hank chinaski
japanese ingenuity
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"Marry Charles Bukowski's grimey, drunken whore-stories and early work in Los Angeles with Biggie Smalls' adolescent tales of being broke and living it up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and you have SOL-T's across-the-board O.G. swagger in 2006..."
- Lost Souljur Kadillac Krush Weekly
"Sol-T keeps it cocky, but conscious...Not every rapper name-checks Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski, but Sol-T doesn't aim to be like other rappers."
- Rex Reason, Music Writer OC Weekly
"Sol puts a fresh, funny and raunchy spin on old-school hip-hop, both on the mic and the MPC2000."
- Dave Segal, Music Editor OC Weekly
"It was just out of control, people spitting on law enforcement, girls with their breasts out with guys doing ski-slope shots of whiskey off their nipples, people who had pissed their pants and were dancing around like nothing was going on because they didn't want to lose their spot in the front row... I'm just saying - it was out of control, that's why we had to taze half of the people at Sol-T's last show... He's a good guy, but that noise he makes, it just attracts too many psychos."
- Officer Matt (2nd Street Beat) Long Beach Police Dept.
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Esteemed as one of Long Beach and Orange County’s premier golden calf's of hip hop and funk, Sol-T has commanded respect on the stage long before his days on the mic. Having toured majorly through So. Cal - Hollywood and Orange County - venues as a show-stopping pocket-funk bass player in his early teens as a young Angelino, Sol-T is said to have been raised by drunken and whore-hungry Sunset-Strip club owners, and watched all his Saturday morning cartoons through his tragically-smoove audience’s eyes. Whether in the vocal booth at Buttasopht Studios, or live on stage with his prodigious band, The StreetFevers backing him, Sol-T remains keeps the bottle light and his foot heavy on the throttle for velvet in 2008.
Mixing street-savvy dialect and Father Time intelligence with gutter-quick delivery and classic Slick Rickesque story-telling in his raps, Sol-T has attracted a wide array of producers and musicians to his projects over the years, and the list keeps getting bigger. Billboard-graced producer Jud Nester, Psytrip/Electro producer, Schlaut, and Hawaiian Island page-oner, Skrewfase Elle, have all produced for Sol-T, who remarkably produced most of his debut full-length album, The Great Angelino Secret, on his own. While Sol-T had several mixtape cd's, collaborations, and demos in circulation, the full-length, 15-track recording was finished at Earth Tone Studios, under the cold pimp-hand of producer and Columbia recording artist/engineer, Michael Raphael in early 2006.
Delivering solid cadence, catchy rhymes, hooks reminiscent of the music's swanky funkadelic era, as well as bona fide cinematics laced throughout his flow, Sol-T has linked up with Abstract Workshop DJ/Turntablist/Producer, DJ Cocoe, with the upcoming release of his second and third LP's – "Oranje Crusche: Goodbye, Los Angeles..." as well as another self-produced project he's dubbed "Nickel Slots & Dollar Shots (Memoirs from the Thirsty Desert)", both of which Sol has already released first singles for through his Buttasopht Musilk label.
" The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. ”
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still the same spit-when-i-talk son of a gun but i've moved on... or uhh... maybe taken a step backwards... back to strange flowers and colors that remind me of venice beach in my childhood...
to old jazzbox guitars and top shelf liquor bottles that just sit on my shelf and drink themselves, old records from secondhand shops and eating ice cream cones on colorful bicylces while i hang on to the last of the soul i've got left...
i wish i had more time to discover strange cities... full of big beautiful and decrepit decomposing old buildings that i could later sleep inside of without fear of getting caught... maybe dance 'til dawn with my old lady without stepping on her expensive kicks... then wake up and feed her buttery lobster and sloppy ribs, grab a massage, and watch something scary on the tele while i swish and swash lemonade in my mouth, and kick it back down my throat...
i'd count the wrinkles on the side of my face, remember my friends and all that they've done for me, paddle around in the blue-green ocean behind the breakers without fear of being eaten alive, then make it back to the city in time to kiss my spotted dog goodnight and do it all again tomorrow...
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still the same spit-when-i-talk son of a gun
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