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Artist
Matlock
12+ albums
underground hip-hopHip-Hopunderground rapchicagorap
about
There are at least two artists called Matlock: Raised on classic rock, Matlock began making his own music after meeting friend\producer Granite Sandstone in high school. The duo started making mixtapes, experimenting with drum-machines, samplers, and whatever wax they could get their hands on, and would go on to form Family Jewels in 1998. Also known as Morty Goldstein, (a moniker given to him by his uncle, also a blues guitarist), Matlock made a name for himself performing at showcases, open mics, ciphers, and battles all over Chicago before releasing Crazy Artist Type in 1999. That tape would eventually fall into the hands of Kevin Beechum who played it steadily on his radio show, The Time Travel Show on college station 89.3 WNUR. More local DJ's would follow suit, and soon Matlock had a devoted fan base that helped his album sell considerably well in and around the Chicagoland area, despite the horrible sound quality. Later, with fans extending from Chicago to both coasts in the U.S., Sweden, England, Canada & even Japan, Matlock continued recording, releasing and self-promoting his home-grown brand of basement hip-hop with Paradise Lost in 2001, touching on a wide aray of subjects from battle-rap to bootleggers, getting stoned to the self-realization of one's own mortality on the emotionally powerful "Caminando Sobre Agua". A contract dispute left him unable to release any new material until he signed with Gravel Records in '03, home of fellow Family Jewels mem
