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Sticks Downey is a three-person rap group from Portland, OR. We formed (loosely) in 2007, after repeatedly running into one another on the flea market circuit. Once they sealed the deal with a run-of-the-mill "blood in/blood out" pact, they spent the next year holding marathon roundtable discussions predicated on riffing, spitballing, tossing ideas around the room, and running a handful of things up a series of flagpoles. Eventually, they came to find themselves on the same page, and felt thy've knocked it out of the park. And by "it," they of course mean the collection of songs thy recorded after the white board was too jam-packed with ideas to possibly house one more "noggin nugget." (That's our buzz word for song ideas!)
Their debut album (CD) is called When the Belt Changes Hands, and They've done themselves a great favor by self-releasing it on Sly Records, a small but powerful label they won a majority share in while refereeing an early morning Guadalajaran cockfight back in '02 (long story). It's crammed full of 14 tracks equaling over 50 minutes of music. If you buy the CD version (and their secret family prays that you do) you'll even get the lyrics, painstakingly translated from the original Dutch.
Sticks Downey won't lie: it's the answer to all of your problems.
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