And to think this clown’s “people” hit us up before his Blog Barrage of mixtapes trying to get us to host them to give this lil nobody some buzz. Give me a break. All this manufactured buzz has got to go. I know 100 rappers that make better music than this cat, why is we talking about him? Peace Kenny, Black Spade, and all real mickey fickeys everywhere. Charles, go away and grow up somewhere.
Okay, first off – here is Black Spade’s side of the story for the first time since the original e-mail. Note that everything else in the original post and subsequent comments under my name were my thoughts, opinions and words. So here are his:
Credit due to Made Monarchs for putting the video together.
On the other side of things… after two days of dodging questions and beating around the bush, Charles Hamilton finally came through on his word and uploaded the ProTools session files for his version of the “Shinin’” track. Below is a video the homie Primuts Luta of AvantUrb made showing that Black Spade’s original beat is sitting right there in the very file Charles himself uploaded, titled “08 – Shinin’” as it appeared on the beat CD and all.
So what this means is that Charles Hamilton, one way or another, took Black Spade’s original composition (note its a stereo track and not original source files) and added other elements to it. Now, all in fairness – what most likely happened was Charles was given the Black Spade beat on a CD by a mutual friend or something, and he used the beat thinking it was either that person’s beat and they were cool with it, or he thought it was the original break itself (since Spade did re-create it and sing it to mimic the original).
Not a big deal, right? However – Charles should’ve just said that shit from the jump and this wouldn’t have even been an issue, but he didn’t. He claimed that he did the beat all by himself straight from the original record, that the voice heard on his song was a filter and not Spade’s (note there’s no filtered voice part in those sessions), etc. So now this kid’s credibility is completely shot and I can only hope that people continue to treat him as such from here on out.
This is 2009. We are WELL into the internet age at this point. You CANNOT get away with blatant bullshit like this and not expect to get called out and exposed for it.
So in closing – I hope this a lesson for everyone. True artists – please be careful about sending out your demo beat CD’s, uploading tracks to your MySpace, etc. Watermark your shit, date it, copyright it, whatever – just make sure you don’t get Charles Hamilton’ed. And for all the fraudulent artists out there trying to pull similar jack moves – stop.
sonic boom
DAMN Cold Busted
Pikahsso Of AwkQuarius
thats just bad bidness.. is he STILL tryna say he made that piece?
thanks, Frank.
more cats need to be exposed for their bullshit
we can’t continue to let blogs turn into what radio is right now.
spade handled little man like a champ
Gotcha Bitch!!!! LMAO
Ben Johnson of Rap! That’s a cowardly individual right there.
I can’t believe that a nigga would do some ish like that. that dude is extra weak for that LMAO!
Wow..Damn!! i like Charles music and i love Blackspade Music .Shits crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he cudnt do that with spade!!
I say string his little pink wearing, Sonic the Hedgehog lovin, beat jackin ass up…I’m sick of these newcomers actin like bitches. MAJORS AT LEAST WAIT TIL THEIR NUTS DROP BEFORE YOU SIGN EM!!!
After this, I went back to check his mixtapes. I don’t like forming opinions about cats without listening to they music 1st. After listening, he kind of sounds like a cross between Mase and Eminem. LOL
MAN,I really liked that song,but in the back of my mind I did have one thought of Black Spade when I heard it. I should`ve known. It sounded very simular to something off of “To Serve With Love” but I wasn`t paying attention. Shame on you Charles Hamilton,shame on you!
Interesting but either way this doesnt really matter to me… why? Because I don’t like the beat anyway ha-ha. Im feeling some of Charles’ tracks (whether stolen or not) if he is lying about stealing the beat then that is messed up but like I said I don’t like the beat anyway so…..