Artist: Spoon Studio
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
China Colours
Year:
Tracks: 16
Spoonie Gee was the nephew of ex-serviceman R&B producer Bobby Robinson and one of the earlier rap artists. He was known as the "love knocker," an mental image that was established by his first-class honours degree track record, "Love Rap," released on his uncle's Enjoy label as the flip side of the Treacherous Three's "The New Rap Language." The volume of early rap records reproduced an MC's party turn with a loose sequence of tale, jactitation, and call and response. Spoonie's initial picnic, however, organized a hip-hop styled record book around a amatory theme, coming closer to the lyrical norms of pop euphony. The informal "Love Rap" was accompanied only by drum go down and congas, and Spoonie's side by side record continued in a likewise minimalist mineral vein. The voice over on 1979's "Spoonin' Rap" stuck to more conventional old school jactitation simply looks onward to the gangsta attitude in its gaol references. "Spoonin' Rap" was as well prophetic in its habit of flexatone and heavily echoed voice, suggesting the Jamaican connection that was denied in early interviews by some of the rap originators. In 1980, Spoonie collaborated with Sequence on a classical exclusive, "Monster Jam," credibly the last good Book on the series of "Near Times"/"Another One Bites the Dust" variations, and a classical in the Sugar Hill vein, complete with a bone-crushing bass line and ecstatic crowd noises.
