INTRODUCING KWAME’S DEBUT ARTIST – QUEENS NATIVE, BEYOND BELIEF – DOWNLOAD THE SINGLE
Posted by bigced on May 1, 2008
CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO WATCH BEYOND BELIEF’S DON’T TOUCH VIDEO
Super-producer Kwame is no stranger to naysayers so it is perhaps fitting that his first artist, Rockaway, Queens native Beyond Belief, is a white rapper for whom the most obvious comparisons – that of Eminem and Vanilla Ice - have already been made ad nauseum. But Beyond Belief is neither.
With musical influences that range from classic rock staples like Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones to Hip Hop legends like Jay-Z and Wu-Tang, Beyond Belief’s style is just not that easy to pigeon-hole. He is certainly not a gangsta but a 20 year old student at the University of Miami where he is majoring in marketing and so far as I know, there is no one in his life that he feels inclined to dismember and cart around the city in Hefty bags. And he loves his Mom – in fact, the mother in the video to his soon-to-be-smash single Don’t Touch is his actual Mother. The extras, bar one, are his actual friends and the video was shot in Beyond Belief’s house in Queens by Jason Perez.
Kwame-produced Don’t Touch is a catchy, party ’til you puke anthem that not only recently won the Battle of the New Songs several days running on Reno’s WYLD but was also immediately added into rotation at the station, a repeat of the song’s performance on California’s KISV. The accompanying video has been viewed over 100,000 times on MySpace so far and over 40,000 on YouTube and will soon be added to Music Choice. Don’t Touch IS the quintessential Summer single.
Naysayers beware though. Beyond Belief can freestyle as well. His entrance into Hip Hop came from his experiences battle- rapping with his friends in high school much like so many emcees. The crowd reactions were addictive and a career was born. 6 years of work with Kwame nurtured that rhyme-writing into song writing and his own unique style.
FREESTLYE LINK ON YOUTUBE – http://youtube.com/watch?v=hgM9TxiFh0g
I asked Beyond Belief what he had to say to haters that might think a white guy has no place in Hip-Hop and he offered the following-
It doesn’t really bother me because true Hip-Hop heads and music fans judge artists by the quality of their music, not the color of their skin. I accept the fact that some people will hate on me just because. That just inspires me to make the best music I can make. I feel that talent ultimately prevails at the end of the day. They can hate me all they want to.
We invite you all, aspiring haters included, to download the single below, watch the video and judge for yourself. Feedback is definitely welcome.
DOWNLOAD LINK:
Don’t Touch – Radio Edit – http://www.sendspace.com/file/hgvmho
Don’t Touch – Explicit – http://www.sendspace.com/file/17zz9q
