Behind the scenes

I wanted my first feature to be about our 1st major affiliated artist’s. I want to give you a little background on the lyrical duo everyone knows as 1st Class. 1st Class consists of a trio of perfectionists, 2 emcees which are Mr. Smith & Sick Sense and the DJ/Turntableist DJ Skinwalker. Skinwalker is pretty much the backbone of the group as he makes most of the beats just flipping samples and adding his uniqueness to every track he creates for Smith & Sick. When the building process of the beat is done he than links up with 2 of the most lyrical cats I had the chance of listening to, Mr. Smith & Sick Sense. They are based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, San Francisco, California & Boulder, Colorado.

I was first introduced when a good friend of mine messaged me like “Yo I know this dope artist I go to school with” and I was hesitant at first because I’m not the type of hiphop head to be open to new artists let alone 2 at the same time. He than began to send me a track which I believe was titled Go Back. As soon as I went to play the track I thought it was gonna be some corny shit but as I got further in the cut I started enjoying it more and more. The track was hella smooth and reminded me of some TCK(The Cool Kids) type shit.

1st Class – Go Back

How they became affiliated

How they became affiliated with thesidetracked is actually quite simple. Since 1st Class haven’t quite made it to the internet yet in their music career one of thesidetracked admins(Kevin S./sff) offered his friend Mr. Smith the oppurtunity to be affiliated with our site which is quite popular among the internet and it rolled from there. 1st Class shot us their album to listen to as we are pretty much their source on the internet and they gave us the go to release a few joints to the public from their much anticipated freshman album The Future of Classic.

1st Class – Mr. DJ

1st Class – Driving Slow

The conclusion

On behalf of thesidetracked team I would like to thank 1st Class(Mr. Smith, Sick Sense & DJ Skinwalker) on being affiliated with us and more importantly keeping us updated with your latest releases in this music shit. I also got word that some labels contacted them from listening to them on our site so that is also a good look. If you are also kind of behind on this 1st Class shit you can cop the whole album here which I can personally say is completely full of classic material. On that link you can also book the group for possible shows and whatnot. For upcoming shows you can check their myspace here. You can also join their facebook group here to stay updated with the plans and features 1st Class has going for them. But remember where you get the exclusive 1st Class material at.