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88-KEYS: Going After Those Weezy Numbers
By Marsha Gosho Oakes
As a teenager, Charles Misodi Njapa interned at The Music Palace - a studio in his hometown of West Hempstead, Long Island. He spent a decade working his way up the ladder, from being Assistant Engineer on
Busta Rhymes’ debut album,
The Coming (“He’s a great guy and super-talented but now I feel like I’m in a position to label him a colleague or a peer”) to producing several cuts on the
Black Star album
and
Mos Def’s solo debut
Black On Both Sides.
Now at 32 years old, producer and DJ
88-Keys (don’t you
dare call him Charles! “People haven’t referred to me by my birth name since elementary school…NOBODY, aside from my parents and my siblings, nobody else calls me [by my birth name]…“) has added rapper and singer to his repertoire, independently releasing his debut album:
The Death Of Adam.
