EP - 1998 - Overkast Records
Baltimore based group which consisted of Christopher "30 Fingaz" Gittens, Robert "Hawaii" Russell, and DJ Joe "Guess Who?" Davidge.
Since 1995 the group appeared on local radio, been featured in The Sun and City Paper, and released its first album, Starving Art, on Davidge's own Overkast Records in 1998, produced by Guess Who? and Shane "The Doctor" Faber. But the full album was only released on CD.
"On the self-produced album, both 30 Fingaz and Hawaii exhibit a lyrical density and maturity that belie their age. They engage true life with wordplay and metaphor for a result that works on several levels, and Guess Who? complements the duo's lyrics with beats and sounds. Instead of the typical stripped-down bass and drums that producers usually place beneath "reality" lyrics, Guess Who? swirls horn lines and piano around the griminess of the rhymes in way that is jolting but effective."
The only vinyl version you 'll be lucky to find online or at your local record store is the Starvin Art Clique EP, composed of five tracks and one Instrumental. Everybody hopes for an upcoming reissue of this album on vinyl ... maybe one day with the help of a dope indie label, fingers crossed !
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