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 Brooklyn
has a long standing tradition for greatness, whether it was
the Brooklyn Dodgers, Mike Tyson, a Spike Lee joint or the
legacy of Christopher Wallace.
Brooklyn has always produced a certain magic. Just when the
magic seems to have passed away, retired, or gotten jerked
by Don King, enters Franklin Rossman aka. Shakespeare, and
all the 24-year old wants is for the world to "feel" him.
"When writing a song, I try to find ideas
that everyone experiences at some level", answers Shake when
asked about his creative process. "Everybody experiences
death, love, hate, and betrayal", he adds. Not only is
Shakespeare willing to relate to his audience, he is also
willing to show them a vulnerability within himself that
most rappers would never own up to.
On his lead single, "Hater", Shakespeare admits to being a
player hater, showing distaste for everything from trucker
caps, to "rappers with a clothing line".
On the Moss
produced track Shake challenges the notion that all rappers
must fit into a cookie-cutter, fitted-cap mold, while using
a melodic flow with more substance than Boston George; which
is why Complex Magazine chose to run the verse in its
inaugural "Dial-A-Freestyle" section
In Rotation / On Demand and most definetly Sucker Free
The Incomparable Shakespeare's 1st EP, Heavy Rotation, is up for
download. You can download it from
www.sharebee.com/3c9665ad (as a zipped file) or
www.shakeink.podomatic.com (as a podcast)
Also you can view Shakespeare's MTV "Sucker Free" Freestyle here
www.youtube.com/shakeink
And last but certainly not least check out The new mixtape/podcast
"The Instant Classic" now available Download or listen to it
at
www.shakeink.podomatic.com
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