2011年10月2日星期日

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In a 15-minute SXSW set at the Back Alley Social, Harlem rapper Charles Hamilton Rosetta Stone Outlet was as upbeat as a motivational speaker: expressing equal enthusiasm whether the crowd was cheering or , joking with the guy who flipped him off, rocking a bright yellow Sonic the Hedgehog T-shirt and being so amped about having a new girlfriend that he just had to give her a phone call in the middle of his set. "Whatever adolescent whatever you want to put on what we have," Hamilton says about the first girl hes dated since becoming a rising star, "it still feels real because Im literally going through some high school, the-movie-Twilight type shit in front of a spotlight. You want to know how real this shit is? Im about to dead-ass call my girl on stage with yall."(See live shots from Austin in our SXSW gallery.) With his music and performances, Hamilton wants to give an unflinchingly honest, undiluted impression Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 of himselfhe refers to his track "Shinin," which he also performed, as "my suicide letter." When not on stage, he creates a direct pipeline to his emotions by creating music constantly, releasing (at his estimate) 13 mixtapes in the last year. "My mission is healing through music," says Hamilton. "All I want to do at this point forward is smile and be a big-ass dollar menu for people. Order, motherfucker. Be hungry, get full. Cheer up. I wanna damn near be Henry Rollins in making motherfuckers feel better."Hamilton got the Austin crowd feeling their absolute best when he closed with his hit single "Brooklyn Girls." As the laid-back, summer-anthem-to-be makes its way across the world, Hamilton has found that people everywhere react by telling him about their own hometown hotties. "Ive gotten Yugoslavian girls. Tonight some Rosetta Stone Greek girl was saying Dallas girls," he tells Rosetta Stone. "Im sure Im gonna get a Venus girls at some point." "This band is interesting," said Hart afterward, slipping into Forest Gump voice. "Its like a box of chocolate: You never know what youre gonna get."The shows served as a warm-up for the Deads full tour, which starts April 12th in Greensboro, North Carolina, and continues through mid-May. (The band has worked up nearly 100 songs, including rarely performed oddities like "Kings Solomons Marbles.") What did the band think of the music they made on their Manhattan "cab tour"? "It still needs some work," Weir said after the Roseland set. "We have to stratify our parts more. But hope is on the horizon."For much more from the Deads triple-gig marathon in New York, keep your eyes peeled for a full story Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 in an upcoming issue of Rosetta Stone.

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