Styles Of Beyond
Styles of Beyond doesn't make your average, everyday rap songs. With the impending millennium staring us all in the face, Ryu and Takbir, the two incredible gifted MCs that make up the LA-based hip-hop group, are fearlessly looking right back at the big, bad Y2K; vigorously spitting rapid-fire, action-packed rhymes right in its ear. SOB's debut album 2000 Fold is a fresh and innovative approach to creating "extreme" hip-hop music that creatively spans genres, suggesting that there's no group better equipped to carry us into the future.
"You can only take so much of what you hear now," asserts Takbir. "But every so often, every few years, you get a group like us, or Tribe [Called Quest] or a Beasties, that's gonna stray away from everybody and have their own sound and their own fanbase. And that's what we wanna do and that's what's happening right now, because you can't really compare us to anybody else."
"We're trying to actually do something good for hip-hop rather than follow the trends," adds Ryu. "We don't purposely do anything. We just know what we have to do and know how it's supposed to sound."
"And we pull our rhymes from a higher source," explains Takbir. Perhaps it's the same "higher source" that brought Ryu and Takbir together one day in 1995. While on a "break" from class at Pierce Community College in Woodland Hills, CA, the two aspiring MCs met and exchanged off-the-head lyrics, equally impressing each other with their nimble wordplay. Ryu and Takbir decided to join forces as Styles of Beyond, a name Tak was already using along with DJ Cheapshot.
SOB's first single was 1997's independently-released "Killer Instinct" on Bilawn Records. The energetic, video game-based song also featured hip-hop legend Divine Styler, a longtime friend of Takbir. (Tak's older brother Bilal Bashir has produced for Ice T, Everlast and Divine Styler, along with a couple of songs for SOB, including 2000 Fold's outstanding title track.) With a hype, uptempo energy unusual in today's midtempo world of hip-hop mix shows, the adrenaline-pumping "Killer Instinct" managed to attract a staggering amount of positive attention from a wide range of music-loving critics, from the ones that work at magazines to the ones who simply hang out at record stores.
As merely one of the indicators of Styles of Beyond's undeniable appeal, the group was named the Best New Artist of 1997 by the Wake Up Show, one of the world's most heard and highly respected hip-hop radio programs. To satisfy an underground demand, SOB released 2000 Fold in summer 1998.
In addition to Takbir and Ryu's impressive lyrical skills, 2000 Fold features innovative production from their most frequent collaborator Vin Skully, as well as Divine Styler and Bilal Bashir. Displaying a dedication to hip-hop's fundamental elements, turntable technicians also figure prominently in SOB's soundscape: DJ Revolution, DJ Rhettmatic (of the Beat Junkies) and DJ Cheapshot all supply 2000 Fold with production and scratching.
Living up to their name, Styles of Beyond's lyrical content spans a universe of topics. "Spies Like Us" is an intriguing tale of B-boy espionage, as Ryu and Takbir are spying on hip-hop, plotting and preparing to take it over. "Glaxowellcome" is an invitation to alien life forms to come on down and show themselves. "Easy Back It Up" is a subliminal club jam that finds SOB entering the listener's bloodstream via intoxicating wordplay. "Winnetka Exit" pays homage to SOB's stomping grounds, the San Fernando Valley, "the basement of the Los Angeles basin."
Styles of Beyond kicked off 1999 by signing to Hi-Ho Records, the label founded by the Dust Brothers, producers of the critically acclaimed, groundbreaking Beastie Boys album, Paul's Boutique. With a fresh and exciting energy that is sadly lost in the majority of today's rap, combined with an open-minded, innovative approach to making music, Styles of Beyond is the group to take hip-hop into the year 2000. And beyond.holla @ cheapshot. jonandbt holdin it down for yoFREE RAP BEATS CD!!!
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