2009 Best Hip-Hop Performer
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35.52% Third Frame*
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It's hard to rap, ahem, wrap one's head around this fact, but the guys from Third Frame -- the two founding members, anyway -- have been together for 15 years. Perhaps that's how they've been able to rack up a total of six Whammys, including this year's award for Best Hip-Hop Performer.
It's also why they're in the process of compiling and recording tunes for an 18-track greatest hits album that Ryan Messman (a.k.a. Ry Guy) said will be released some time in the coming year.
"We've been doing this so long, Derek and I have, that we have a ton of material to share, and we really wanted to put it all together in one package," he said.
The package will include a DVD of live performances from Third Frame's illustrious career, including clips from when they opened for the likes of Snoop Dogg and Sir Mix-a-Lot. Fans who pick up the CD-DVD greatest hits package -- tentatively titled Cumulonimbus -- can also look forward to four or five brand new tracks that Messman, Derek "Ddlux" Quandt and Gavin "DJ Spot" Gough, have been working on the past couple months.
"There's some great stuff there, some great new stuff," Messman said. "We've been doing this so long we've gotten pretty good at it. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but you know. It's amazing, our chemistry up there, and it's fun."
Messman and Quandt's chemistry started way back in the halls of Concordia High School, and it solidified over several years of working together as line cooks and servers in area restaurants. They started rapping together for fun, but things got serious when Third Frame Wednesdays became an institution at Columbia Street West. Rap and free pizza. Does it get better than that?
It did get better for Messman and Quandt. They released their first two CDs, a self-titled debut and Absorb the Orb, to much acclaim. They started winning Whammys. They recorded more CDs -- Roped Off Section and Frame of Mind -- they opened for national acts and they became all-round favorites of the Fort Wayne music scene. Last year Third Frame took top honors in the Hip-Hop category and in the Non-Rock CD Release category for their fifth full-length album, Yum-Yum, recorded while Messman won his battle with testicular cancer.
Now they're looking at a bright future, a greatest hits album and who knows? Maybe 15 more years of killa rhymes and mad beats.
"Just 'cause we're putting out a greatest hits album doesn't mean this is the end of us or anything," Messman said. "We're going to work on another album of new stuff in no time, and we'll be out all the time, at the Latch String, Mid City, Gin Mill, all the good spots, just doing our thing." (Deborah Kennedy) |
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