Sol-T

Esteemed as one of Long Beach and Orange County's premier golden calf's of hip hop and funk, Sol-T has commanded respect on the stage long before his days on the mic. Having toured majorly through So. Cal - Hollywood and Orange County - venues as a show-stopping pocket-funk bass player in his early teens as a young Angelino, Sol-T is said to have been raised by drunken and whore-hungry Sunset-Strip club owners, and watched all his Saturday morning cartoons through his tragically-smoove audience's eyes. Whether in the vocal booth at Buttasopht Studios, or live on stage with his prodigious band, The StreetFevers backing him, Sol-T remains keeps the bottle light and his foot heavy on the throttle for velvet in 2008.
Mixing street-savvy dialect and Father Time intelligence with gutter-quick delivery and classic Slick Rickesque story-telling in his raps, Sol-T has attracted a wide array of producers and musicians to his projects over the years, and the list keeps getting bigger Billboard-graced producer Jud Nester, Psytrip/Electro producer Schlaut, and Hawaiian Island page-oner, Skrewfase Elle, have all produced for Sol-T, who remarkably produced most of his debut full-length album, The Great Angelino Secret on his own. While Sol-T had several mixtape CD's, collaborations, and demos in circulation, the full-length, 15-track recording was finished at Earth Tone Studios, under the cold pimp-hand of producer and Columbia recording artist/engineer, Michael Raphael in early 2006.
Delivering solid cadence, catchy rhymes, hooks reminiscent of the music's swanky Funkadelic era, as well as bona fide cinematics laced throughout his flow, Sol-T has linked up with Abstract Workshop DJ/Turntablist/Producer, DJ Cocoe, with the upcoming release of his second and third LP's – "Oranje Crusche: Goodbye, Los Angeles." as well as another self-produced project he's dubbed "Nickel Slots & Dollar Shots (Memoirs from the Thirsty Desert)," both of which Sol has already released first singles for through his Buttasopht Musilk label.
New Sol-T Videos!
Alone in the Rain
Sol-T: Alone in the Rain



Sol-T: Reo Nasty featuring Hochii



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still the same spit-when-i-talk son of a gunbut i've moved on. or uhh. maybe taken a step backwards.back to strange flowers and colors that remind me ofvenice beach in my childhood.to old jazzbox guitars and top shelf liquor bottles thatjust sit on my shelf and drink themselves,old records from secondhand shops andeating ice cream cones on colorful bicylceswhile i hang on to the last of the soul i've got left.i wish i had more time to discover strange cities.full of big beautiful and decrepit decomposing old buildingsthat i could later sleep inside of without fear of getting caught.maybe dance 'til dawn with my old ladywithout stepping on her expensive kicks.then wake up and feed her buttery lobster and sloppy ribs,grab a massage, and watch something scary on the telewhile i swish and swash lemonade in my mouth,and kick it back down my throat.i'd count the wrinkles on the side of my face,remember my friends and all that they've done for me,paddle around in the blue-green ocean behind the breakerswithout fear of being eaten alive, then make it back to the city in time tokiss my spotted dog goodnight and do it all again tomorrow.



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