Chief 4syt (of Faction) – Hail To The Chief (2012)

Posted by HHB Admin on November 30, 2012 – 8:41 pm

TRACKLISTING

01.Camouflage Mirage
02.Unsung Heroes ft.Iron Wind aka Scratch Cat & Primordial
03.Did It Anyway
04.Hail To The Chief
05.Each One Teach One ft.Lah Chemist
06.Funkin’ High
07.H2flow
08.Exemplar Mics ft.Newbreed MC & J-White
09.Occulture
10.Freedom Of Speech ft.Hazardous Material
11.Sleepy People
12.You Ain’t Rapping ‘Bout Nuthin’ ft.Primordial
13.Executioners Song ft.Primordial, Iron Wind & Hazardous Material
14.Mythbuster Remix
15.Something Wicked This Way Comes

Released 30 November 2012
Written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Chief 4syt
@ Sound ‘n Sane Studio
Track 3 produced by Iron wind aka Scratch cat
Album art by Chief 4syt
Jak Trayd Productions

As a founding member of Faction, Chief 4syt(aka C4) is the groups main producer, and is also a lyricist and a DJ. Chief 4syt started writing and rapping back in 1998 as a hobby and to vent. By the year 2000, Chief 4syt was regularly kicking rhymes and freestyling with long time friends and collaborators Primordial and Apocalypse. In 2002, Chief started making beats and quickly caught on and blossomed into a skilled hip hop producer. After a couple of years of studies in music production, audio engineering and recording, Chief 4syt started to record his first tracks. After years of seeing hip hop deteriorate into a watered down, commercial shell of what it once was, Chief 4syt decided to write, produce, and record his own solo album in 2007. By 2008 he released two albums, Haunted manner and The Grinch who exposed Christmas. Haunted manner was a dark, brooding horrorcore album, and The Grinch who exposed Christmas was Chief 4syts comical and historically referenced exposure of everyones favorite pagan celebration. The following year Chief 4syt released his third solo album called Wake up, a more personal and more well rounded and polished album. With the positive response and feedback from listeners, Chief 4syt decided to step his game up lyrically and mucically and take things further. In the summer of 2009, Chief 4syt reunited with Primordial and Apocalypse to form a new hip hop group called Faction, and started recording a new album called Pulp Faction. In 2010, due to higher priorities, Apocalypse couldn’t finish recording the album and stepped aside. Chief 4syt and Primordial quickly decided to replace Apocalypse with Julz(aka J-white), a raw in your face rapper with a freestyle any time mentality, to salvage the album and keep Faction going. By July 2010, Faction(Chief 4syt, Primordial, and Julz) released the Pulp faction album and started doing shows and hitting open mic venues across the GTA. By the end of 2010 Faction added a fourth member, the infamous Scratch cat, bringing beatboxing, graphic design,and many other talents to the table.In March 2011 Chief 4syt and Faction released a remixed version of Pulp Faction with Scratch cat beat boxing throughout the album. In June 2011 Chief 4syt released a radioshow/compilation project called, WFUK “Da radio”, featuring Faction and different Toronto indie hip hop artists. Over the year of 2011 Faction performed all over Ontario, opening and being on stage with the likes of Killah Priest, Choclair, Dan-e-o, Thrust, D-sisive, Noah 23, Mindbender, and many more. Throughout the year Faction was performing songs off thier new album, X-Faction. In January 2012 Faction released the much anticipated and over-due X-Faction album. 17 tracks of Chief 4syt, Scratch cat, and Primordial hip-hop, featuring guest appearances by allied Toronto rappers, and a video-game included. Since then he has been hard at work on this new project!


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