DRE’ ROCK da PHUNKWARLOCK & MY MOTHER MRS. MARGURITE MCDONALD ALSO KNOWN AS: COOKIE (RIP)
Influences
Mother,Father,Rakim,Kool G Rap,Cool Keith of the Ultramagnetic Mc's,Guru from Gangstar. KRS-One. GrandMaster Flash,Run-DMC, CountCoolout,Sugarhill gang, LL Cool J,Tribe called Quest,EPMD. DJ LordJazz,The Ohio Players,George Clinton,Parlaiment Funkadellic,Roy Ayers,RAMP,Gap Band,Cameo,Curtis Mayfield,TheTime,Kraftwerk,The Fresh Prince, The Black Byrds.
Sounds Like
A boundless eclectic mixture of Hip-Hop,Jazz,Soul,Funk,and Rock influences.
..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5Growing up in a household filled with musical vibes, Dre' Rock learned to appreciate all styles of music. It was the jazziness of his father's album collections. It was the soulful funk and R&B of his mother's 45's that began the fusion of melodies in his head. Whenever my mother and father took a trip to the record store when I was young I would beg them to give me money to buy one 12 inch single of my choice. I would listen to the vocal version then flip it to the B side and construct my own rhymes to the instrumental. This began my training grounds to becoming an EMCEE. I vividly remember coming home from school each day bursting in the door to find moms cleaning the house, cooking dinner, and singing to her favorite tunes, blasting from our family record player. Sometimes when Pops wasn't on the road driving big trucks, he would be in his back room listening to his jazz records or Richard Pryor. When I turned 12 years old my mothers cancer returned and she passed away. Before she died she bought me a boom box and I always took it with me I guess it made me feel close to her in the physical. I'm a blessed dude because my Pops wasn't a dead beat dad, and he was always there for me helping me deal with the impact of losing my mother at such a young age. when I turned 15 I began to get real crafty at rhyming but my school work fell off drastically. I used to sit behind my homegirl Rhonda Felix in class and write ryhmes instead of paying attention, I made moms a promise before she died, that I would graduate from high school so my 11th and 12th grade year I buckled down on my studies and received my diploma after high school I worked different jobs, attended a vocational and techincal school while I still persued my goal to land a record deal. Around 1994-95 I met Ron "Rough Draft" Williams at a late night session at Soulful Senate Studio through Marc "Jazzmarc" Belcher. Rough Draft dug my flow and I was mesmerized by the way he freaked beats on the SP-1200. We exchanged numbers and the very next day I drove to East Cleveland, Emily Ave And Rough Draft and I began experimenting with my vocal ability and sound inflections. It was RoughDraft's unique Production savvy that created the PhunkWarlock sound that is present in my music today. You can't stop chemistry or destiny when its meant to be. Check out: Dre' Rock da Phunk Warlock The Anthologies vol. 1 produced by: Ron "Rough Draft" Williams . DRE' ROCK IS ALSO CO-FOUNDER OF THE N.A.A.C.G. ( NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF ARTIST COMPRISED OF THE GIFTED )ALONG SIDE HIS FRIEND AND PARTNER MR. CAREY McCRAY THE N.A.A.C.G. MOVEMENTS SOUL PURPOSE IS TO REACH OUT TO THE YOUTH AND PROVIDE POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR MANKIND.TO PURCHASE DRE' ROCK da PHUNKWARLOCK'S ANTHOLOGIES VOL. 1 SIMPLY LOG ON TO: cdbaby.com/cd/phunkwarlock DRE' ROCK IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON HIS FULL LENGTH ALBUM ENTITLED: MONSTAH PHUNK
DRE’ ROCK ... :o) Hope all is good wit ya. Been crazy busy here.. and getting the award for Brevard County/321's Hottest R&B Artist is just the BEGINNING for me... Remember.. the sky ISN'T the limit... cause the universe is INFINITE!!! Keep doing ya thang aight...Grind HARD...do YOU... no matter what.. Keep yo head up!
Peace & blessings. President Obama has called us to action on National Service Day, 9-11-09! Green the Block is going down tomorrow in Charlotte's Hidden Valley nighborhood, on Sugar Creek Road, from 5pm-9pm. A cleaner environment and green jobs now! Ketchmore Kids will be getting it in, along with Masjid Ash-Shaheed, Cohesion Marketing, and others. This is a national effort, called to action by The Hip-Hop Caucus, Green For All, and The President Himself! You can help by coming out to support, or sharing this message with at least 3 friends in the Charlotte area. BLAST THIS OUT!
Thanks to Cohesion Marketing (Mellie Mel!), Ketchmore Kids has been put on to the Green The Block Initiative, along with the Hip-Hop Caucus and Green For All! The purpose of this campaign is to educate and mobolize low-income communities and communities of color to ensure a voice and stake in the clean-energy economy! The campaign is principled on the foundation that a clean energy economy can address the joint crises of poverty and pollution at the same time. WE WILL BE OUT IN CHARLOTTE IN FULL FORCE ON 9-11-09!
This comment was sent by your friend via the Vegas app. To block this app and all communications from it, click Here.
-------------------------------------------
Hi, come join me in VEGAS. To get you started I have given you $200 from my own pocket :). (click on image below to teleport to vegas)
Online Now!
..
