CTRAFFIK - Miami Hip Hop and Colombian Funk! » story-telling http://www.ctraffik.com/traffi Official Website of CTRAFFIK - The crazy Miami political Hip Hop funk specialist! Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:40:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sick Hook http://www.ctraffik.com/traffi/music-singles/sick-hook/ http://www.ctraffik.com/traffi/music-singles/sick-hook/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:06:03 +0000 traffi http://www.ctraffik.com/traffi/?p=423
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This is a track that was inspired by my life in more ways than one. I must have put this Pete Rock instrumental on a CD during the planning stages for a new mixtape for Tha Union. I came up with a crazy hook for the track (seriously) – it was really tight and I had it memorized for the time being. Then as time went by, life got in the way and then when I heard the beat again I couldn’t recall the hook to save my life. I started freestyle and bullshitting on the track again and the new hook “I used to have a real sick hook to this…” stuck. The rest is history. Secondly, being super busy with work, clients and family I had zero quiet time to sit and write songs. The majority of my last two CDs were not written on paper but freestyles performed in my car – driving to and from workplaces. This song captures this moment in my life when not even a hectic schedule could stop the music, without a pen and pad or a raw hook (that I forgot), I still kept making that hip hop funk. The music video will illustrate all of this. Enjoy!

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This song was another that was not written down but created as I rehearsed it over and over in my head… building it up until the story and the rhymes were catchy enough that I’d remember them again in the morning. I think I was obsessed with this song for months while I would freestyle a bit of it everyday to make it come to life. I have to confess that Wikipedia was used to get my facts right even though I already had an idea of how the verses would connect and which artists and genres I would mention. The song is based on the question “Where did Hip Hop come from”. I usually would reply “Do you want the short answer or the long answer?” The quick answer is “the Bronx in the 70′s” – namely DJ Kool Herc. But the long answer is this song, where I try to make the case that Hip Hop is as eternal as the first drum beat from the first Human beings to walk the Earth. If you got a beat and rhymes you got Hip Hop. Drawing on the cave walls was the graffiti, etc. I also try to make the connection that Hip Hop is a result of the evolution of America’s great music genres like Jazz, Rock, Blues and Ragtime. Its been like 30 years since Hip Hop was “born” and it’s world-wide impact proves that it’s one of the greatest forms of expression that mankind has ever created…. Bitchez!!!

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