02/23/03 | Artist Feature: Damani

      Inglewood lyricist Damani intends to bring some different West Coast flavor to the table. With raw lyrics and charismatic flow, Damani plans to keep the radio - instead of the streets - bangin.

His picture is on the left, click to enlarge...thanks to Dieter187 for the scan.

Most people probably first heard of Damani on Kurupts last album "Space Boogie" on the song "Hate On Me" which also featured Soopafly. Damani has also recorded with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Clinton Sparks and others.

Damani is signed to Fully Blown Records. He has a few real good underground tracks out. Some of them are "Speak On It", "Damani", or his hometown joint "Inglewood" where he's takin it back to the hood. Here are some of the lyrics from "Inglewood":

"I Walk the streets of Ingelwood and its not all good/I try to mind my business but niggas steady mind mine/Niggas must dont know that self-defense is not a crime/Im not a thug rapper/Im a rapper with thug tendencies/ I aint got no time for fightin too many women envy me/Im dark skin, 6'3'', 200/Come on dogg tell me do you really want it?/West, see it from here aint no MC that I fear/Ill go line for line with anyone on either hemisphere"

Damani had a radio single in summer 2002 called "Move" with the tight ass B-Side called "Remember The Day". Damani recorded a "Move Remix" featuring Clypse which came out in January 2003.

Damani's "Move" was Produced by Clinton Sparks.

Other tracks are "Stay Foolish" featuring Big Mike, which is a remake of Ashanti's "Foolish". Songs like "As If U Didnt Know" have a East Coast feel, but Damani keeps it Str8 West Coast on songs like "Rogers Park" or "Olympic Pimpin". Rapper Toshamakia is Damani's labelmate, they recorded a few songs together, one of them is "Be Yourself".

Damani was on the underground Remix of Tweet's "Call Me" which can be heard right here...."Call Me (Remix)".

Most of the songs mentioned here are featured on his demo he has out right now. Damani shouldnt be limited to only one coast or style, sure he is reppin the West to the fullest, but he has a nice East Coast flavor.

Last but not least two more songs to check out, two Freestyles to be exact. The first one is a Freestyle for Dj Kurupt and next up is a Freestyle over the Addictive beat.

Damani has production by Clinton Sparks, Soopafly or D. Evans. He has the skillz to blow up for sure, all he needs is to catch thr ear of the right label and some exposure.