Birth name Kyle Jones Role Musician Name Kyle Jones | Genres Hip hop music | |
Occupation(s) beatboxer, human turntablist Instruments beatboxing
vocal scratching
vocal bass
loop pedals Associated acts The Roots, Schoolz Of Thought, Dino 5 Website okayplayer.com/scratch/ Music groups The Roots (1998 – 2003), Dino 5 Albums MTV Unplugged, The Roots Come Alive, Phrenology, Things Fall Apart, The Legendary Similar People Hub, Pink, Talib Kweli, Damon Albarn, Malik B | ||
Kyle Jones (born in Camden, New Jersey), better known as Scratch, is an American hip hop musician who specializes in Beatboxing and vocal scratch sounds. He is best known as a former member of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. He is well known in the hip hop and beatbox community for his outstanding ability to simulate the music of a Hip hop Turntablist using only his voice and loop machines.
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History
Originally a member of Philadelphia based rap group, Schoolz Of Thought, he joined The Roots in 1998.
Scratch released his debut solo album The Embodiment of Instrumentation in 2002 on the Rope A Dope record label. It featured The Roots, Dice Raw, E.S.T of Three Times Dope, Cyph Born of Aphillyation, Bilal, Jill Scott, Malik B and M.A.R.S. Co-Op. After the release of his solo LP, he abruptly left The Roots in 2003.
He now continues to tour the world.
In 2004, Scratch contributed to Zap Mama's Ancestry in Progress on the track "Wadidyusay?".
Scratch is a member of Dino 5, who realized their first album Baby Loves Hip Hop in 2008. Scratch plays Teo, a Pterodactyl.
In 2009, he released an album titled Loss 4 Wordz, featuring artists such as Kanye West, Musiq, Damon Albarn, and Peedi-Peedi. He also appeared on British rapper GoldieLocks's EP titled Goldie's Oldies.
Scratch has now released four songs on his Myspace but the album, which was promised to be released in August hasn't been released yet.