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Coley Cole Refines His
West Coast Rap
Goldplated Straitjackets
Coley Cole
Coley Cole was a hard guy
to get hold of this week.
Tuesday marked the release
of his debut solo CD, "Goldplated Straitjackets," and it has him on the
move.
"It's been crazy," the
fast- flowing rapper said, finally reached at his home in Santa Cruz on
Wednesday. He was re- covering from his release party the night before.
Coley Cole, real name Cole
Dyar, is a Visalia emcee who moved to Santa Cruz for college. He graduated
in December with a degree in sociology and has stayed in Santa Cruz while
his music career begins to take off. He's a part of the Santa Cruz
collective Lost and Found Gen- eration, whose Grad School Music put out
Cole's CD. Most of the songs on the album, however, were recorded in Fresno
under the watch of local producer Hecktik.
"Goldplated Straitjackets"
shows a more mature Coley Cole than the one who is known as an accomplished
battle rapper in the central San Joaquin Valley. He handled a good portion
of the production himself and his flow, cadence and rhyme patterns have all
stepped up a notch.
Lineup:
Coley Cole on rhymes and beats with help from emcees Aesop, Diego Redd,
Infored, Sole Profit, Oldominion and his Lost and Found Generation crew.
Additional production from Hecktik and F-Plus.
Style:
"It's hip-hop, but it's a little more technical," Coley Cole says. "I try to
call it dark, funky soul. I try to keep my boom-bap roots, but try to do
what I can with my artistry."
Sales pitch:
"It's a new style of West Coast rap that I don't think many people have
heard enough," he says. "Kids all over the nation will like it, but it's
definitely got that West Coast flavor."
Influences:
Pharoahe Monch, Spice 1, Oldominion and Masta Ace.
Trivia:
His single "Goldplated Hustla," did well on college radio, reaching No. 13
on the Rap Attack national charts and hitting No. 1 in Canada and Montana.
It could be the
soundtrack to: "My homies put it on their Xbox,
and they said they were playing Halo 2 to it," Coley Cole says. "Maybe
that."
Check them out
live: He has a show April 9 in Petaluma and April
23 in Los Angeles, but nothing scheduled locally. "We're working on it,"
Cole says.
For sampling
purposes: Get online at check out
www.lostandfoundgeneration.com and
www.myspace.com/lfg.
Key tracks:
"Goldplated Hustla," "Goldplated Straightjackets," "Sequoia Slump" and "The
Eternal Curse (Money)."
Buy it at:
Nationwide at Tower Records locations, at FTK, online at
www.amazon.com,
www.bestbuy.com and the
Lost and Found Web site.
Cost:
$8-$12.
Find out more:
At
www.lostandfoundgeneration.com.
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