Race Card - Race Card
ARTIST.....: Race Card
TITLE......: Race Card
LABEL......: Independent
URL........: http://www.racecardband.com/
RIP DATE...: Jul-13-2005
STORE DATE.: 000-00-2005
GENRE......: Crossover
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 57,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Do You Feel Me? 04:11
02 - Race Card 03:41
03 - Wake Up (feat. Shanice) 04:47
04 - Lighters 02:33
05 - Do You Love Hip Hop? 03:30
06 - Venting 03:18
07 - Alive 04:14
08 - America's Drugs 03:14
09 - Our Anthem 03:00
10 - Civil Writes 02:41
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35:09 min
Release Notes:
Do you love Hip Hop? Hip Hop mixed with a little Rock?"
It's a line from one of the songs on the new self-titled Race Card
album and it's a line that sums up the band perfectly. Think Jay-Z
meets Led Zeppelin. Think Chuck D meets Weezer. Think Eminem meets
Living Colour. Think you can handle it?
Rapper Tahir Jahi and guitarist-singer Damian Hagger conceived
Race Card early in 2004. Both did solo projects prior to working
together, one Pop-Rock, one Rap. The merger of the two came
naturally and the self-titled debut album was recorded in only 6
days of studio time. Race Card blends riff-oriented rock and pop
hooks with intense hip hop rap lyrics and subjects; and the
combination is unlike anything out there. Keeping the solid
rhythm-section foundation for the group are bassist Aaron
Schwoerer and drummer Jay Warren.
Rapper/vocalist, Tahir Jahi, has enjoyed abundant shares of shine
and various successes ever since he began rhyming at the age of
15. While other kids were squabbling over tennis shoes and cutting
class, a young Tahir was mastering a craft all his own, competing
in local battles, performing on occasion, and honing an artistic,
standout, and standalone mic style. He met guitarist and singer,
Damian Hagger, in 2000 when they both worked at MP3.com.
Guitarist and vocalist, Damian Hagger, is also an
African-American... Ok, not literally, but spent part of his
childhood in South Africa and the rumor is that his first words
were spoken in Zulu. After high school in Singapore and South
Africa, he was accepted to study at the prestigious Berklee
College of Music in Boston. Damian graduated cum laude from
Berklee in 1998 with a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary
Writing/Production and Music Business.
Bassist, Aaron Schwoerer, was raised in an environment directly
related to the surging Minneapolis music scene of the 80's. Aaron
went on to study music in at Berklee in Boston before setting his
sites on Los Angeles. A veteran of numerous bands, his talents
combined nicely with those of Tahir and Damian thus creating the
true diversity of influence that is Race Card.
Rounding out the Race Card line up is drummer, Jay Warren. Jay
graduated from the Collective School of Music in New York City and
has toured, recorded and performed professionally since the age of
17 with several signed and independent acts.