TSS Presents Smoking Sessions With Kwame & Beyond Belief
"Smoking Sessions With..." By Khalid Strickland on September 9, 2009 at 1:06 pm
During my recent interview with rapper/producer Kwame, I didn’t mention the famous dart that The Notorious B.I.G. tossed at him (“Your life is played out like Kwame and them fuckin’ polka dots”). Kwame has heard that question a million times; why be a Hollywood producer and re-hash the same old shit? Radio personality Ed Lover of the Power 105 Morning Show wasn’t as subtle. While hosting Fat Ropes & Shell Toes, a charity event where Kwame performed at M1-5 Lounge, Lover announced to the audience: “Biggie’s dead, (Kwame) is alive and doing his motherfuckin’ thing. You goddamn right I said it.”
However you feel about Mr. Lover’s non-P.C. comment, he was correct in stating that Kwame has been doing his thing. After striking gold as a flamboyantly-dressed rapper in the late eighties to early nineties, Kwame exited the spotlight to become a full-time music producer. He has worked with Mary J. Blige, Will Smith, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Christina Aguilera, Method Man, LL Cool J and Talib Kweli, to name a few. Kwame also founded an independent record label called Make Noise Ent.. The imprint’s flagship artist is rapper Beyond Belief, a pure lyricist from Rockaway Queens. What About BOB?, Beyond Belief’s debut, is produced exclusively by Kwame.
Before they took to the stage at M1-5 Lounge, I met with Kwame and Beyond Belief for a Q&A session. Once Kwame got me up-to-speed on his endeavors, Beyond Belief dropped some potent bars of raw and clarified why Make Noise signed him. Check out the tale of the tape.
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On the low… Kwame was a huge reason why I started listening to Hip-Hop.
Why on the low? Kwame is dope as hell. Always has been. It’s good to see him doing his thing!
He did something different and was having fun….can’t say that I’ve seen that in a long time..
They didn’t make polka dots in Biggie’s size… unless you count Twister.
But Kwame’s was dope early… He was a late 80s Drake–middle/upper middle class. Big with the ladies, but dudes had to respect that he could flow. Exponentially better production than most of what you hear now. And he had some styles going.
Kwame had cats not just rockin’ polka dots, but gettin’ some jazz samples and dancin’… kid was wild.
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Like a better version of Kid-N-Play
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Kwame inspired my style when I was a youth lol, no lie.
I wanted to dye a corner of my flat top blonde but moms woulda killed me lol.
Kwame 1st album is HIGHLY slept on…
Kwame could rhyme; people got caught up on the Polka Dots.
Kwame was dope as a rapper - bottom line.
A daily staple on Yo! MTV Raps (remember?)
And his production is incredible.
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If you think Kwame and Kid n Play were on the same level — you watched too much Teen Summit as a pre-teen.