Artist: Hi-Tek
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Hi-Teknology Vol.3
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Hi-Teknology 2 : The Chip
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Hi-Teknology
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Hi-Tek played a major role in the extremely admired golden age evangelist sound connected with the Rawkus Records collective, crafting many of the label's initial find releases. While Hi-Tek's production style owes a debt to New York's finest beat-makers from the early '90s -- DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor -- the producer actually arose from Cincinnati's subdued hip-hop scene instead than the streets of Brooklyn. Local mentors such as Ravi T, J-Fresh, and Sen Sai showed the wishful youth how to craft beatniks, and by 1992 he had crossed paths with Mood, one of the Midwest city's prime minister hip-hop groups. Hi-Tek collaborated on the call "Hustle on the Side" and helped the grouping scotch a track record deal. Years later on, the producer befriended Talib Kweli, wHO was in town on the job with Mood. This affiliation eventually spawned the Reflection Eternal duo, one of the first acts to commit the Rawkus label on the map. But it was Hi-Tek's work with Kweli and Mos Def on the milestone record album Shameful Star (1998) that first made the producer a hot commodity. He next collaborated only with Kweli for Reflexion Eternal (2000), an album that crossed over from the b-boy bivouac to the mass market and became a critically championed coast-to-coast success. Then came Hi-Tek's solo spotlight on Rawkus, Hi-Teknology (2001), which featured a broad ambit of up-and-coming MCs, including some of his Cincinnati peers. Between releases he produced tracks for a unsubtle regalia of rappers, including such notables as Snoop Dogg, Blackalicious, and Raphael Saadiq, all the piece shopping around for labels to issue his indorsement solo record album, at long last subsidence on Babygrande. Hi-Teknology 2 (2006), which included verses from Nas, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, and of course of action Kweli, was followed by a practically less star-studded Hi-Teknology 3 late the next year.
