*Album Available @ itunes & amazon.com* Entertainers do alot of talking. From saying they're the best to they're "so hood". Reality is, they're only entertainers. Hood Blues is when the streets and art collide. Hood Blues is a street reporter who fights against injustices, police terrorism, for peace and true freedom. His work is documented on the acclaimed "HoodNews™". HoodNews™ is circulating around America and is becoming one of the most popular DVD series around.
Artist Hood Blues is the united rebellious spirit of hip-hop. Coming from humble beginnings that began in Watts and later in South Central, Blues became enthralled in West Coast gangster music. The lifestyle was affluent with the music but foreseen traps are deeply entrenched in the music. The devastation was the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace that woke Blues out of the haze and he UNDERSTOOD music reflects life.
Blues began honing his skills while in the Army but decide to go to film school before starting his music career “I’ve always seen the vision of direction, and after being told what to do for twenty two years, I did my thing”. As the road looked bright, a ridged dark valley was ahead for Blues. God said diamonds are purified through fire and that was Blues’ focus. With no time to be hopeless and fall in the traps that were set before him, Hood Blues delivered a feast for rap heads “On Hell’s Edge”.
On Hell’s Edge is a storyline album about life, direction, choice, god, heartbreak, hustling, making up and making it. “I banged this one out. I had got my sentence and I had two months before I had to turn myself in and I just hammered it out. I was going through so much but I felt strong. I didn’t let anything shake or move me I just kept at it. When I got out, I gave my peoples a copy and they couldn’t believe it. All my faith was in God.”
Hood Blues is in the studio recording with the UnIon and his follow up album due in 2008
talents
Film Rapping Producing Editing
music
I love all music
artists
Hood Blues, SOS, Black Exodus, StickaBush, Monnie Mon, Melo, Jagged
movies
Hood NewsVol.2 "Freedom Of Press"purchase at http://www.hoodnews.info
Influences
Late '80s to mid '90s Hip-Hop / Rap
Other Artists
Coltrane, Miles Davis, James Brown, Joe Batan, Stylistics, Chi-lites, SOS Band, Zap, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Debarges, Minni Rippleton/ Smokey Robinson, Jill Scott, Micheal Jackson (J5), Makaveli, Eminem, Bob Marley
Website
Hood Blues
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Band Members
Hood Blues-The Council
