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You ever hear an MC somewhere and think, hey that guys pretty good, but the conditions you heard it in weren’t conducive to finding out what the song was or who was performing it.

Flashback to 2005, I was still living in the midwest, and one of my peoples went to California and brought back (among other treats)  this mixtape labeled Calicomm 2004. It was full of artists I already knew and admired like Del, Zion I, and Aceyalone, but there was this one voice I didn’t recognize on a couple of the Zion I tracks spiting in Spanish and killing it. I remember riding around blowing some of that good Cali Kush listening to a song that I would later find out was called “Ride Off in the Sunset”, but the copy ak had was a bootleg, and didn’t have any track info. And of coarse, he lost the disk like a week later. So the song was presumed lost for eternity, like the Mobb Deep track “Avirex” (I swear it exists, I think it was on a Tony Touch mixtape, if any body knows anything about it, or has a copy, there is a reward involved)…(That includes you Havoc)

Fast forward to 2008,  Carnival, San Francisco. I’m sitting there enjoying my meat on a stick, enduring the sun that shines down stronger on the Mission than anywhere else in Sucker Free, watching the Scion (what else) Hip Hop stage when who steps to the mic, but Deuce Eclipse. As soon as he spits it hits me. I had lost track of who was performing, and where we were at in the lineup, so I had to start asking around to figure out his name. His set was really good, not just because I had solved a three year old case a’la Sherlock Holmes or Angela Lansbury, but it was good on it own merritt as well. His flow was even crisper live, and the meaning of his lyrics and message was righteous and appropriate given the surroundings.

After finally fighting our way home that day, we were exhausted. But I still went to the computer and looked up Deuce Eclipse. And right there on his myspace page was the song, and you can download it for free. Matlock bitches.

Turns out, the guys been on tour everywhere with DJ Vadim and Zion I and has actually been putting it down the whole time. So I humbly took my late pass and played catch up. He put out an album in 05 called The Radio Plantation and was on numerous other mixtapes and compilation cds. He also reps Nicaragua hard, which I think Hip Hop definitely needs.

His new joint is The Oy Walkout, check for it, and if you see him on tour, support, its good for the economy, consider it a “Hip Hop Stimulus Package.”

http://www.myspace.com/deuceeclipse

http://www.oywalk.com/

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