Hip-hop crew takes in everything
They're a seven-piece hip-hop crew funkier than morning breath. MC Jerry Wayne Walker breaks down one of Vegas' best live acts, Rhyme N Rhythm.
What does Rhyme N Rhythm sound like?
We take a little from everything. Rhyme N Rhythm is easy like Sunday morning. We sound like the music you want to hear at a barbecue, chilling with your family and friends, that turns into a poppin' house party everybody in the neighborhood wants to come to. It's groove music.
All-time greatest hip-hop septet? Stetsasonic or The Roots?
Definitely The Roots. They are The Ultimate, rock-rocking it!
What's the best and worst thing someone has ever said about your band?
The best was at the Bunkhouse. Some guy told us that he had given up on the Vegas music scene. After he heard us, "His soul smiled." The worst was at a battle of the bands at the Cheyenne Saloon. A judge, who was a death metal expert, said that our song "Hello Groove" sounded like Soulja Boy's "Superman." Ridiculous!
What's your guiltiest musical pleasure?
We're not ashamed of anything that we listen to. If it sounds good, we dig it. Well, maybe the theme song to "Jeopardy!"
Name five must-have hip-hop albums.
This question almost broke up the band. You could name the greatest albums of all time like (2Pac's) "All Eyez on Me" and (Nas') "Illmatic," but we decided to pick albums that related to our music: 1) Every Roots album; 2) OutKast, "ATLiens"; 3) Dr. Dre, "The Chronic"; 4) "Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections," "Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine"; 5) "Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar."
See Rhyme N Rhythm today at 9:30 p.m. at the Canyon Club at the Four Queens, 202 Fremont St.
Contact reporter Jason Bracelin at jbracelin@review journal.com or 702-383-0476.
