NICOLAY / THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE / WORKING WITH PHONTE / HIPHOP IN THE NETHERLANDS / FUNK BAND BEGINNINGS
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Send us a Text Message.Born and raised in the Netherlands, classically trained multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicolay played in a number of hip-hop and R&B bands around his homeland, but it wasn't until 2000 that he decided to start producing his own beats. In 2002 Little Brother MC Phonte Coleman stumbled across one of them on Okayplayer's message board and asked if he could put his rhymes over it, and soon a friendship and a musical relationship were born. This transatlantic collabo... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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