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Infusing hip-hop with live instrumentation à la The Roots, a positive message reminiscent of De La Soul and the unique dynamic of a human beat box, Inflowential has established itself as one of the Triangle’s premiere live hip-hop groups.
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“We wouldn’t be doing what we do if [The Roots] hadn’t paved the way,” beatboxer Adid said. “Before The Roots hit mainstream, if you said you were going to perform in a hip-hop band, you might might have been laughed at.”
In addition to the live band aspect, perhaps one of the most prominent features of Inflow that has helped the group to stand out from countless other hip-hop acts is the presence of a beatboxer. Adid brings that to the table after catching The Roots at Duke University while he was a freshman at N.C. State.
“If you watched Jordan, you wanted to fade away like Jordan,” Adid explained. “After seeing [Scratch perform], there was nothing else I would rather be able to do than do what he was doing. So I did it non-stop, and I had good friends who gave me support and that pushed me to keep doing it and get better.”
As for the positive message, the group says they’re ofter mistaken as religious artists, though they say they just like to have fun while addressing real world issues.
“We try to write songs that pull at your emotions,” emcee Charlie Smarts said. “‘Caged Bird,’ for instance, has sometimes made people want to cry. Music needs to be powerful, and we try to make it that.”
Emcee Tab-One added, “Music itself is often a spiritual thing. Music can evoke certain emotions; and really it’s just Charlie and me pulling from what we get when [the band] plays. It’s all about energy — positive versus negative — and we try to give out more positive than negative.”
Since its inception in 2003, the group has released a live album of one of its earliest performances, a mixtape and a professionally recorded EP. Next up is a full-length — entitled After This — that the band says has been a labor of love victim only to their own perfectionism.
“We’ve actually recorded it three times,” Adid said. “But we’re perfectionists, and I think we have a harsher ear than anyone else.”
“We’ve built our whole following based on our live show. So that’s what we want the album to sound like, and it’s kind of frustrating sometimes,” Tab-One added. “I feel like we’re getting close, so I think this last time we recorded — once we go back and re-work some of it — we might actually have an album coming sometime soon.”
Tab-One joked, “You know, before the Mayan Prophecy.”
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July 15th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Love ya, glad I got the text, c u Mike
July 15th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
You guys are awesome!!!!
August 12th, 2010 at 4:44 am
You guys are quite simply outstanding. Can’t wait for ‘After This’ to drop.
August 13th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Great job fellows. Good flow!