FRESH RANT
Charles Hamilton steals beats:
Black Spadeגs גShininגג
Okayג¦ so you guys know me, I usually play it cool on artists that Iגm not into and instead, stick to supporting & promoting those that I do feel. But in this case, enough is enough - this Charles Hamilton shit needs to end already. And Iגm not even tripping off of his personal life shit like a lotta people do - i.e. wearing pink, trying way to hard to make his fascination with Sonic characters sound deep when its not, his little schoolgirl blog writing style, etc. All of that is whatever to me - Iגm talking strictly music and his career. Besides being massively underwhelming and suspiciously overrated as an גartistג - this dude has time and time again shown both a general lack of knowledge in hip-hop, as well as a arrogant disregard and overall lack of respect for it. You should already know how I feel about that wack ass mixtape he did over Dilla beats. And oddly enough, he left a comment replying to that post even though I never said his name in it and what he said just further confirmed that he is a newjack and doesnגt know what the hell heגs talking about. Saying that he גanticipate[s] buying a real CD if it should dropג over a year and a half after the CDגs release dateג¦ ?!!?? LMnonpinkAO.
But whatever, I said my peace in my reply back to him, stayed cordial and kept it moving. Since then, Iגve been hearing a lot of stories about him being on some overall shady shit - jacking different producersג beats and saying he did them, showing up unprepared for gigs & trying to use the opening actגs live band for his own set, starting YouTube/blog beefs with more established rappers, etc. But the e-mail that I got this morning from St. Louis producer/MC and Fresh Selects alumni, Black Spade, was the nail in the coffin as far as my tolerance for this dude.
Basically, Charles jacked a beat straight from Black Spadeגs MySpace player and rapped over it, released the song on one of his endless barrage of half-assed & disposable mixtapes, and ironically ended up performing the song right in front of Black Spade at SXSW the other week. So Spade approaches him after the show saying that he did that beat but liked what he did with it (his opinion, not mine), asked where he got it from, etc. So the jig is up, right? Nope! Aparently, this fool Charles still tried to act like he made that beat and even went on to say that it was HIM singing on there, when anyone whoגs ever heard a Black Spade song can clearly recognize that voice as Spadeגs.
So with Charles refusing to admit that he took the beat from Black Spade, Iגve decided to post both of them here for you to decide for yourself. Below is Black Spadeגs demo beat and then Charlesג song - both of which are coincidentally called גShininג.ג Besides the different mix, youגll notice that Charlesג song also has an intro before the beat drops - thatגs something that Spade only included on the track when he uploaded it to MySpace, which is how he knows thats where Charles got it from. Iגve included the full e-mail I received from Black Spade after the jump to further explain the story and to seperate his thoughts on Charles from my own.
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My bad, I didn't realize you said at the end of the song. Still check that post anyway, it's dope.
