July 9: Stalley, Libretto, Manimalhouse, Ronin Roc @ Crown Room | One Hour of FREE Drinks w/ Lifeisaparty Info
From our friends at Lifeisaparty:
A lot can happen in an hour. Thirty minutes after picking up a finished copy of Stalley’s demo, recorded in New York City in 2007, he brought it to the clothing boutique where a friend worked and played it through the store’s speakers. Thirty minutes after that, Mos Def walked in — and liked what he heard. “He’s like, ‘Who’s this?’” explains Stalley, 28. “He asked for a copy. That was the only copy I had!” Smartly, he handed it over. “That put the battery in my back. I was like, ‘Yo, I might be doing something right.’”
It would be a few more years until Stalley, who was recruited to play basketball for the University of Michigan until injuries derailed his career, saw Mos again. In the meantime, he recorded mixtapes, including 2009′s ruminative MadStalley: The Autobiography, which landed him an invite to Damon Dash’s DD172, a Manhattan space that functions as a salon for hip-hop creatives.
Right now, though, Stalley’s focused on the solo stuff. His recent mixtape Lincoln Way Nights: Intelligent Trunk Music landed him spots on BET’s 106 & Park and MTV’s Sucker Free Countdown. The nuanced, soulful Lincoln finds Stalley threading woozy beats and Tropicália samples through his laconically delivered relationship anecdotes and novelistic tales of small-town hardship. Luckily for fans in our city, they will have a chance to see Stalley for his first appearance in PDX on July 9th!
From Atlanta to Watts to PDX to everywhere in between, Libretto has been making classic music in the world of hip hop. With projects on Dim Mak and Fatbeats and features involving J Dilla and Lifesavas, Libretto has stayed busy! For information on his current projects, check out www.slumfunk.com
