Entrigue

ThIs IS wHErE It aLL StaRtEd... Imagine just starting basically from nothing...out of the blue someday you decide you can make some music better than the artists currently out there. You grab the singles you have and flip them to the B-side for the instrumentals. Then, you just go with it, and start making music out of whatever comes to mind. It becomes a mix of raw emotion and pure whit. You throw whatever sounds good to you off the top of your head into the recorder. That almost marks the essence of what hip-hop is and how it began. It first started out like a hobby for E. His best friend Ryan, who in the booth took on the name $hoelace, started up rapping with Entrigue. E and his boy $hoelace hung out in the summer of 1998, picked up a mic, and just started ripping lose with freestyles. Entrigue took a bunch of the earlier work and freestyles and compiled them into my first recorded tape, known as “Lethal Injection.” “Lethal Injection” never got a whole lot of airplay, but everyone had to start somewhere. $hoelace and Entrigue went thier separate ways to work on their first solo project tape. E’s became known as “Entrigued by the Moment.” It consisted of 18 tracks, some personal songs about the changes he was going through in his life, and others cuts simply dealt with the creativity that was stemming from rap. The tape got passed around school and it all got started from there. E then decided to hit the recording booth and do it bigger and better, this time with a CD. The tracks were recorded straight out of his bedroom at home and he compiled the album, “Coming to a Theatre Near you.” It was more or less a statement about what was set to come in the future. It was a title chosen to exemplify the blockbuster that was about to hit in the future. This album was Entrigue’s first CD that actually was sold. Like I said before, you gotta start out somewhere and from the bottom he did just that. He put together some concerts to promote the album and try out some new material. The buzz hit and word started spreading. The follow up CD was now in production and it was set to be released 2 years after the making of his first CD. The album dropped in April 2002 and was titled, “Still Entrigued by the Moment, “ and it featured contributions by long time friend and rap mogul $hoelace and a new artist. This artist went by the name of DJ Pioneer, and wherever $hoelace and E went, Pioneer was sure to be somewhere alongside. I can guarantee the album stil gets airplay with some of Entrigue’s most popular songs: Round Here + Simply Irresistible. “Still Entrigued by the Moment” started to pave the ay for the artist. The eagerness and the motivation kept fueling Entrigue and by the start of 2003…he was sitting there waiting to drop his album once again in April. This one would be titled “Rap Speaks Louder Than Words.” By far, this album stood out from all the others. It was harder, deeper, and started to show a new side to a developing artist. Not only that, it also had an acoustic version of Round Here. “Rap Speaks Louder Than Words” sold like a Paris Hilton Sex tape and provided enough money for E to buy some newer equipment. Not to mention it started up what became known as the E-unit. The E-unit was a collaboration of artists and other supporters of Entrigue’s work. 2004 hit and it became a pretty big year for Entrigue musically. He hit the Overlook Recording Studio and start to produce the latest installment, “The Soup Kitchen.” The album was wrapped around an inside message about life and a theme of what else, but a Soup Kitchen. Chef $hoelace was back in the kitchen cooking up a bonus track with Pioneer and Chad Evans helped Entrigue put together arguably his best work to date. From there bigger concert started stemming. Mansfield, PA home of The Giant’s 35th Anniversary Concert where E and $hoelace took the stage. Then there was a nice turn out crowd for WankstaPoolza Vol. 2, which featured another local rapper-Ridik. After the album dropped in October, E and $hoelace got an invite to perform at the Coal Hole, in Shamokin PA. Now we sit on what is next to come for Entrigue and the E-unit…