It's not so hard out here for a pimp...
... not when you're good, anyway...
So this Darondo dude seems like an interesting story. If you read between the lines of his bio over at Ubiquity, you can pretty easily figure out that this guy was "Hustle & Flow" for real... a pimp who between his time slappin' hoes was laying down tracks, but just for shits and giggles. He never really struck it big as more than a Bay Area act, which was just fine with him 'cuz a brother was rollin' on the '70s equivalent of dubs anyways from his main business. But then who comes along? Gilles Peterson, of course. Picks one of his tracks for a comp, Ubiquity puts out a re-issue album of like, all 9 songs he ever recorded and now he's back and hipper than hip. Of course, all this happened because the tracks were really freakin' good as it turns out...
Fuck Terrence Howard, eh? :P
So this Darondo dude seems like an interesting story. If you read between the lines of his bio over at Ubiquity, you can pretty easily figure out that this guy was "Hustle & Flow" for real... a pimp who between his time slappin' hoes was laying down tracks, but just for shits and giggles. He never really struck it big as more than a Bay Area act, which was just fine with him 'cuz a brother was rollin' on the '70s equivalent of dubs anyways from his main business. But then who comes along? Gilles Peterson, of course. Picks one of his tracks for a comp, Ubiquity puts out a re-issue album of like, all 9 songs he ever recorded and now he's back and hipper than hip. Of course, all this happened because the tracks were really freakin' good as it turns out...
Fuck Terrence Howard, eh? :P
1 comment:
Thanks for this excellent track--the article from San Francisco Gate at the url below is based on a recent interview with Darondo, not resident again in California.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/PKGTKGV0MS1.DTL
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