Charles Hamilton Is...

I've never really liked Charles Hamilton one bit. I've made a very strong effort in not expressing these sentiments lest I be deemed a hater*. But what the heck. Maybe it's 'cause his lyrics are weak sauce, maybe it's 'cause he's trying to get with my girl Lacey (I keed, I keed), maybe it's 'cause of that lame display in the short-lived Charles Hamilton vs. Rhymefest saga, or maybe it's because he suffers from arrested development, exhibited by his excessive displays of childish nostalgia and cartoon/video game character fixation. Who knows? But now, perhaps, I've come across yet another reason to keep him on my "ignore" list.

I received a forwarded e-mail (phat shouts to RT!) from this cat named Black Spade out of St. Louis, and here's what it said:

Yo! So this is the beat Charles Hamilton CLAIMS he created. In short, when I was in Austin to perform and check out SxSW, I caught his set. He performed one of his tracks, "Shinin'", which I thought was dope. However, come to find out the instrumental that he used for that track is a beat I produced a while back. After he was done performing, I let him know that I produced the beat and asked him where he got it from. In the back of my mind I know that the only place he really could have gotten it from was off my MySpace page. When I told him I produced the track and liked his lyrics, he still continued to say that HE produced the track with some dude....FALSE. He said he cleared the sample and that he is the one singing 'Shinin' in the background and also that his homeboy was playing the keys on the track.

Now mind you, the background 'Shinin' vocals that he claims he laid were not laid in the studio at all. I know this because I sampled them by singing directly into the MPC.

Basically, the Frankie Beverly & Maze sample at the beginning is from when I put the beat up on MySpace. The whole point of putting that part in the track was to show that I was about to produce, from that part, my own version of the sample. So, if you don't hear the Frankie Beverly & Maze sample in the MP3 I am sending you, that is why.

Please Blog, a brotha needs his credit...

He included the two tracks, his and C.Hamilton's:

Spade...



Hamilton...



And I've added the original sample, courtesy of Frankie Beverly & Maze...


So... what do you think?

* Yes, this post was just an excuse to rail against Charles Hamilton! :D