J.O.K.E. – Being Normal Again… (The Re-Introduction of Charles Hamilton)
K1ng Eljay - I’ve rode with him this far, I might as well keep riding, lol.
I’ve been following Charles Hamilton since the drunken freestyle/cipher was featured on allhiphop.com between him, The Game, and Kanye West. For some reason, the cat looked homeless (no offense, but he did) but I was interested.
So you know me… I did my research. Found the November 10th video, and fell in love with homie’s music. To top it off, his favorite game icon is mine too?
WORD??? We Sonic fans???
So then I downloaded a mixtape he did, dropped an opinion piece on it (first ever for hiphopstateofmind.com) and reviewed the mixtape “Sonic the Hamilton” (here) and I basically said that C.H. was nice, but he had to come more and more correct if he’s to be representing the Sonic franchise like that.
Although technically, his CD for Rihanna failed, it still produced some great and interesting songs/instrumentals, and is still worth listening to.
I reps for Sonic. Keep in mind I had a custom Sidekick Slide with Sonic graffiti… It was sick… But enough about me and Sonic.
A whirlwind of things happened next. His blog took off, he began releasing mixtapes as if he breathed them. In no particular order, he formed (and severed) partnerships in the industry, dropped some EPIC freestyles on DJ Green Lantern’s radio show, got featured in XXL, dropped one of the dopest mixtapes EVER (The Pink Lavalamp), and teamed up several times with controversy to get mentioned for all of the wrong reasons, .
Whether it was ciphering with a fan, or getting rocked by an (ex?) girlfriend, or having the right idea with the wrong methods to do it (J. Dilla situation), it got crazy to just BE a Charles Hamilton fan…so I can imagine how insane it became for him to be IN it.
And then when his album was supposed to drop…he disappeared completely. If it wasn’t for random sightings here and there from me and Rhymestyle, we might’ve half thought C.H. was dead… Read more
