One of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling independent hip-hop artists of this era, Lyrics Born is no stranger to Australian audiences! He knows what they want and brings it bigger and better each and every time…
On tour for The Falls Festival and Field Day, this is the only chance to see Lyrics Born up close and personal in Sydney. His breakthrough solo debut, Later That Day, was a huge indie seller and one of the top 5 most critically acclaimed American hip-hop records of 2003 alongside Jay-Z's The Black Album and Outkast's Love Below/Speakerboxxx.
On his last album, Everywhere At Once he revealed the full breadth and depth of his skill and vision: minimalist grooves, reimagined electro, East Bay greasy funk, devoluted punk, futurist dancehall, postmodern blues, tomorrow's slappers.
His 1997 debut with Lateef the Truth Speaker, Latyrx, sold 100,000 for his influential indie label, SoleSides. When the label was reborn as Quannum Projects, the album he helmed, Quannum Spectrum, yielded him an international hit with "I Changed My Mind". The Later That Day album, featured "Callin' Out", a monster crossover that lodged at #1 at the influential rock station LIVE 105 for 5 weeks.
Lyrics Born has been one of the most licensed hip-hop artists in the world, with placements on Diet Coke, Motorola, Nokia, and Vans commercials, TV shows such as "Entourage", "Six Feet Under", "What About Brian", "Gossip Girl", and "Gilmore Girls", films like Michael Mann's "Collateral" and Justin Lin's "Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift", and videogames by EA Sports, 2K Sports and Atari. He has had sponsorships with Puma, Adidas, Diesel, and Evisu.
As the world awaits the imminent release of the next Lyrics Born album titled ‘As U Were’ (Funk 4 The Future) for now there is a brand new single titled ‘Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart’ and an accompanying video (link above) to wet our LB appeities and of course there is now the chance again to experience this great vocalist and musician live with his full band... |
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