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The Bad Tenants
12+ albums
raphip hopbellingham
about
You probably wouldn’t expect hip-hop’s most compelling new sounds to rise from a resume filled with blues music and college degrees. But Bellingham, Washington’s The Bad Tenants, consisting of Casey Grant Gainor (C-Spot), Matthew Goodwin (Good Matters), Kristopher Dyche (Dutchman) and Gabriel Ghirardini (DJ Idlhnds), don’t expect you to be ready for them either. The foundation of the Tenants was l...aid in 2009 when Gainor and Goodwin decided to turn a long-standing friendly rivalry into collaboration. The two have been good friends since high school, but never skipped a chance to pick on the other through freestyles. The decision to form the group was simple and quick through a phone call when the duo was discussing a project that Goodwin and Dyche had been working on. Gainor expressed an interest in starting something new and Goodwin merely replied, “Yup.” After a short time working together, the pair ran into DJ Idlhnds, formerly of the Educataz, who mentioned his own desire for working on something new and the recruitment was immediate. Dyche re-entered the picture a few months later while working on the group’s song “A Wholelotta,” which he was originally invited to be featured on. However, upon hearing the result of the collaboration of sound and styles that emerged from the track, Goodwin and Gainor knew they’d found the final piece, Dyche agreed, and The Bad Tenants were officially whole. The group draws from a wide variety of lyrical and instrumental backgrounds. C-S
