This is a Stalley video for his song S.T.A.L.L.E.Y. off the upcoming Ski Beatz Mixtape, 24 Hour Karate School which also features Mos Def, the Cool Kids, Jay Electronica, Curren$y, Jim Jones,Nicole Wray and more, out March 30th. This video has various people rocking Stalley’s trademark beard.
No he isn’t from Philly.
Stalley is from Massillon. Thinks about that for a second. He has already dropped a jazzhop mixtape called Mad Stalley:The Autobiography that would make Scott Storch beg to rejoin the Organix Roots and not be funny and has a bunch of projects with whose who in modern Low End Theory land on deck.
But he isn’t from Philly or Queens.
Fucking Massillon.
Stalley is performing in Austin for South By Southwest this year:
March 18-SXSW Urb Magazine Showcase Light Bar,
March 19-SXSW Last Rights Showcase Firehouse Lounge .
March 20-SXSW Kenny Dorham’s Backyard.
For this interview, we talked Massillon sports, Hip Hop, Islam, Ohio weather, Jamaica, J-Rawls, and mainly how the fuck someone goes from small-town Ohio to being Dame Dash’s latest discovery. You should read it. He is from Massillon and is in a rap group with Mos Def, Curren$y, and Jay Electronica called Central Edge Territory.
Have you been to Massillon?
ME:We are in Columbus, which is close to Massillon. I know you got you’re thing going on in Cleveland with Terry Urban and them. But I’m going to try to get Columbus up to speed. You grew up in Massilon your whole life?
Stalley:I grew up in Massillon until High School I left Massillon when I went away to college That’s when I left.
So you played for the Massillon basketball team. Sports is big up there uh?
Yeah. Football is huge. As everyone in Ohio usually knows. If they do know about Massillon that’s what they know is football Continue reading →
