Knowledge (producer from Philly) (free download)

Homey, Sweeney Kovar is now writing for the homies at Oh Word.  I am seriously kicking myself for not asking him and some of my other favorite sources of goodness to help write in this blog, especially while I’m overseas.

Sum’ bitch.  Anyways, here’s what he would have potentially shared with you guys.

 

Straight outta Illadelphia, Knowledge began making beats before he could remember (true story) and is slowly but surely building up a healthy MySpace buzz amongst post-Dilla beat makers. This guy is a problem, but the problem is not too many people know about him.

I can remember when I first met him online and began to get a few beat snippets over AIM a few years ago. I can’t lie; my very first impression was that the beats sounded a little out there. But the more time we spent building, the more I understood where he was coming from and was able to realize this dude was for real.

Knowledge is a workhorse as well. Peep his myspace, he changes beats on there damn near daily, and I know that is only a taste of all the shit he is cooking up at the crib. He has some kind of instrumental EP in the works and he just had a beat on Invincible’s stellar debut LP, so I’m glad to see more people beginning to gravitate towards the kind of music he is creating.

It was a little hazy back then, but now I can see there is a musical common ground that you can hear when you peep cats like Flying Lotus, Ras_G, Samiyam, Hudson Mohawke and others. I’d like to add Knowledge from Philly to that list.

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