Super DOOPER Hyphy!?!?
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Keak Da Sneak Featured in this month's XXL
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 by nando
The Bay Area's own Keak Da Sneak was featured in this month's XXL Magazine with Lil Wayne on the cover. Make sure to pick it up and turn to page 72 for the Keak feature on Show & Prove. We got the article here for yall to check out also:
Keak Da Sneak: The Come Up
In the mid-70s, Alex Haley's best-selling novel Roots and its subsequent movie adaptation opened many eyes to the history of Black oppression in America. For Oakland, Calif. rapper Keak Da Sneak, the masterpieces had a more personal connection. "I just saw [Roots] last year," discolses the 27-year old, divulging that the name on his birth certificate, which reads: Charles Kunta Kinte Bowens, was his own source of torment. "Everybody used to call me Toby, playin' and shit. But Kunta Kinte was a warrior, and that's me. I'm the Kunta Kinte of this rap industry right now."
Slowly but surely mounting his attack, Keak is the creative force behind genre-defining catchphrases for popularizing Bay Area lingo as does the slanguage samaritan himself -- E-40.
An ex-member of the now defunct Oakland trio 3XKrazy (himself, Agerman and BA), Keak is as battle tested as a crash-test dummy. Just a junior in high school when the group first signed to Noo-Trybe/Virgin, the former football standout juggled the industry, tons of athletic inquisitions and the street element all at once. It wasn't until he and his father dialogued about his future that Keak decided on using his trademark wit and incomperable flow to pay the bills. "[My dad] wanted me to play football," Keak remembers "but [he] said, "If you gon' rap, be the best at that shit."
By Bay standards, Keak's done just that. Currently earning 800 spins a week for his contagious single "Super Hyphy," the self-proclaimed "Prince of the Bay" is a truism away from a major deal. Moreover, the nuts and bolts behinds Oakland imprint Rah Record's compilations Dope Game Vol. 1 and 2, Keak continues to push his carreer forward--the Bay way. His fourth indie album, Kunta Kinte, is set to be released on his own imprint All in Da Doe, along with A Star is Born which is scheduled to drop at the top of '06. In a minute, Keak will impact rap the way Roots did the USA, Yaddadamean?!
Keak's official video for Super Hyphy was also recently completed. You can find cameos by Keyshia Cole and Ms. Veronica on there, as well as others. Check it out in Windows Media format:
Keak Da Sneak - Super Hyphy
Thanks to Keak's management for the info. A video for Super Duper Hyphy is currently in process, which is the remix featuring Bra Heff.
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 by nando
The Bay Area's own Keak Da Sneak was featured in this month's XXL Magazine with Lil Wayne on the cover. Make sure to pick it up and turn to page 72 for the Keak feature on Show & Prove. We got the article here for yall to check out also:
Keak Da Sneak: The Come Up
In the mid-70s, Alex Haley's best-selling novel Roots and its subsequent movie adaptation opened many eyes to the history of Black oppression in America. For Oakland, Calif. rapper Keak Da Sneak, the masterpieces had a more personal connection. "I just saw [Roots] last year," discolses the 27-year old, divulging that the name on his birth certificate, which reads: Charles Kunta Kinte Bowens, was his own source of torment. "Everybody used to call me Toby, playin' and shit. But Kunta Kinte was a warrior, and that's me. I'm the Kunta Kinte of this rap industry right now."
Slowly but surely mounting his attack, Keak is the creative force behind genre-defining catchphrases for popularizing Bay Area lingo as does the slanguage samaritan himself -- E-40.
An ex-member of the now defunct Oakland trio 3XKrazy (himself, Agerman and BA), Keak is as battle tested as a crash-test dummy. Just a junior in high school when the group first signed to Noo-Trybe/Virgin, the former football standout juggled the industry, tons of athletic inquisitions and the street element all at once. It wasn't until he and his father dialogued about his future that Keak decided on using his trademark wit and incomperable flow to pay the bills. "[My dad] wanted me to play football," Keak remembers "but [he] said, "If you gon' rap, be the best at that shit."
By Bay standards, Keak's done just that. Currently earning 800 spins a week for his contagious single "Super Hyphy," the self-proclaimed "Prince of the Bay" is a truism away from a major deal. Moreover, the nuts and bolts behinds Oakland imprint Rah Record's compilations Dope Game Vol. 1 and 2, Keak continues to push his carreer forward--the Bay way. His fourth indie album, Kunta Kinte, is set to be released on his own imprint All in Da Doe, along with A Star is Born which is scheduled to drop at the top of '06. In a minute, Keak will impact rap the way Roots did the USA, Yaddadamean?!
Keak's official video for Super Hyphy was also recently completed. You can find cameos by Keyshia Cole and Ms. Veronica on there, as well as others. Check it out in Windows Media format:
Keak Da Sneak - Super Hyphy
Thanks to Keak's management for the info. A video for Super Duper Hyphy is currently in process, which is the remix featuring Bra Heff.
