Rashad "Ghost" Wallace

Bio: Many people consider Rashad "Ghost" Wallace to be the future of hip hop. His unique sound is a combination of early 90's hip hop and jazz. learning to read and understand music at an early age helped Ghost to become of the best underground hip hop producer. Growing up Ghost has always followed the foot steps of legends such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Rza. Ghost plans to connect to different genres of music and create his own sub genera. Ghost has been featured on songs such as "Fame:stars from mars" "Whats goodie" and "if u need work" just to name a few. Hus of The Connection has been quoted to say "It aint a hit, if ghost ain't make the beat".

Production: Fame (Stars from Mars)

Artist: G.Q. Squad

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Program Notes: The song "Fame: Stars from Mars," is the first chapter in my experiment to find out what hungry unsigned artist plan to gain from the music industry. The song revolves around the quoted the "Some may want the girls and pearls; others want the power and the world". This is the implication, that people become rappers for the wrong reason such as fame, money, cars and girl. All of the artists on this song express their upmost discuses with the symptoms of fame. For example, the Paparazzi are mention a few times by different artist and they all paint a negative vibe about them.

"Fame: Stars from Mars" is a hip hop song that features the lyrical styling of Nick Sosa, Steve G and I. "Stars from Mars" compares and contrast current hip hop artist to us. The beat is a futuristic nirvana, which moves your heart to the sound of the drums. The descending syths takes you to the underworlds then they bring you back to the heavens. Each M.C. delivers a different lyrically style when they step up to the Mic. Nick Sosa starts the song off with at his hard punch-line flow. Nick paints a picture of the negative aspect of the fame. Steve G follows with his big pun/ Pharoah Monch flow. Steve explains his I end the song with my slick clever rhymes.

"Fame: Stars from Mars" will not be the last installment to the Fame series. If provided the chance, I would love to work with Nick Sosa and Steve G again to pull off another astronomical hit which would soon to become a 3g hit. I hope everyone enjoys.

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