- Spoonie Gee
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Name = Spoonie Gee
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Birth_name = Gabriel Jackson
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Genre =Old school rap
Occupation = Rapper
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Label = Enjoy! Records, Tuff City Records, Sounds of New York, USA
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Past_members =Spoonie Gee (born Gabriel Jackson) was the nephew of veteran
R&B producer Bobby Robinson and one of the earliest rap artists.Career
He recorded for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy! Records and
Peter Brown 's Sounds Of New York, USA imprint. He sometimes performed and recorded as part of Spoonie Gee &Treacherous Three . There is some controversy over the spelling of his nickname. In "Spoonin' Rap" he is heard spelling his own name as S to the p-double o-n-y. In interviews he says his nickname is correctly spelled with a 'Y', but he later spelled it with an 'IE'. The bulk of early rap records reproduced an MC's party routine with a loose sequence of narrative, boasting, and call-and-response. Spoonie's initial outing, however, organized ahip-hop styled record around a romantic theme, coming closer to the lyrical norms ofpop music . Spoonie Gee is considered to have developed a unique rap style. "Love Rap" was accompanied only by drum set and congas, and the rapper's next record continued in a similarly minimalist vein. The voice-over on 1979's "Spoonin' Rap"Sound sample box align right|Music sample:Listen
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format=Ogg sample box end stuck to more conventional old school boasting but looks forward to thegangsta attitude in its jailhouse references. "Spoonin' Rap" was also prophetic in its use of flexatone and heavily echoed voice, suggesting the Jamaican connection that was denied in early interviews by some of the rap originators. In 1980, Spoonie collaborated with Sequence on a classic single, "Monster Jam ", probably the last word in the series of "Good Times" / "Another One Bites the Dust " variations, and a classic in theSugar Hill Gang vein, complete with a heavy bass line and crowd noises. His album "Godfather of Rap" was released on Tuff City Records in 1987."Spoonin' Rap" was featured on .
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In 2004, "The Godfather" appeared on popular
videogame "", playing on classic hip hop radio stationPlayback FM . The song also features on thecollaboration album "Electro Beatbox ".External Links
* [http://www.jayquan.com/spoonint.htm An interview with Spoonie Gee]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Spoonie+Gee?anv=Spoonie+G Discography]
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