While hip-hoppers argue over tight pants, the relevance of femcees, hip-hop’s lifeforce, regionalism and realness Black Spade is in St.Louis making music he overheard someone call “ghetto clash.”The March release of his debut album To Sir With Love disclosed a style of hip-hop built on a Kurzweil keyboard, shower singing and steady verses at the [...]
Once a member of the St.Louis R&B group Soul Tyde Black Spade’s dissonant keyboard pieces from Worrell world, doleful belting and earnest rapping has pulsed since the ’90s. To Serve With Love is his first proper album hip-hop version 3.0 for a prominent triage of soul, R&B and funk that take sonic favor. Rapping in [...]