Artist: Mad Skillz
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
From Where
Year: 1996
Tracks: 16
With a second-place last (behind Midwest doorknocker Supernatural) in the freestyle contest at the nation's about honored MC seminar in 1995, this competently named Detroit native turned Virginian demonstrated his limitless verbal potential. The number one salvo dismissed from Mad Skillz was the unmarried "The Nod Factor," of which a extended stanza appeared as a memorable Hip Hop Quotable in The Source magazine. Mad Skillz reigned supreme with his sword of raspingly terrible witticisms, uncorking the type of ominous rhymes that would get a freestyle foe hang his head in shame. The complete lyricist, Skillz down pat the unique artistic creation of double entendre with rhymes like "assign your The lampooning attack came to a capitulum with Skillz's debut in 1996, From Where???, which called care to the near untapped endowment within his home base state. The album featured a few gems on product from Large Professor and Buckwild and a guest appearance from Q-Tip on "Duplicate Abstract Skillz." Mad Skillz reappeared in 1999 on Rawkus' Soundbombing, Vol. 2 on "B-Boy Document," which besides featured Mos Def. In 2000, he released his possess single on Rawkus, "Ghost Writer," produced by fellow Virginian Timbaland, the title of which alluded to the fact that he made much of his living by writing rhymes for other MCs. In 2005, the rapper, wHO was at this point going entirely by Skillz, issued the full-length Confessions of a Ghostwriter on Sure Shot Recordings, though Rawkus released I Ain't Mad No More, which contained many of the same songs, the following year.
