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les swashbuckling napoleons
12+ albums
underground hip-hopHip-Hop
about
A "swashbuckler" was "one who makes a noise by striking his own or his opponent's shield with his sword ... a swaggering bravo or ruffian." Picture a cool stud of the late 15th or early 16th century wearing a sword and buckler (small shield often with a spike in the middle) on his belt and clanking the two together as he swaggers around town: "Clankity-clank; I'm a tough guy." Forged in the steel fires of an Ontario/Florida rap-workman's union, Thesis Sahib and bluebird met by chance in 1990 on a Caribbean cruise rewarded to them and their families when they each became regional Nintendo Power Glove champions. It was during this cruise that the two fourteen years old drunks were thrown together randomly to perform Kris Kross's "Jump Jump" at a youth karaoke contest. The two quickly formed a bond on stage when they began rapping KRS ONE and TOO Short lyrics over the hot Kris Kross beat. They spent the rest of the tom cruise together making frequent visits to the all you can eat ice cream bar, getting kicked out of the casino, club, and captain's lodge, and free-styling mutiny on the open seas. It was over ten years later when the two met by chance once again in Halifax in 2001. By this time they had each developed into conquerors of musical and artistic barriers in their own right. Nomadic travelers on the constant move, they set out to make an album in 2003, doing some recordings in Orlando, Toronto, and Michigan - whenever they happened to be in the same place at the same t
