“If you owed me $2.50 I’d say you owed me a 2.50-sheet,” says Matt
Kliffer, lyricist and beatboxer. “It’s something that has yet to exist,
it’s not printed by the government. We’re our own kind of
currency.”
Three Sheet—Kliffer (AKA Expedyte), bassist Kevin Tilley,
beatboxer EMC (Eric McIntyre), guitarist Ryan O’Quinn and vocalist
Vanessa Furlong—have been making waves with their organic hip-hop,
especially since their Thursday night residency at Elephant and Castle
took off this winter after the group appeared at an open mic.
Because the quintet, whose debut LP will be out in July, isn’t a
straight rock band or a straight hip-hop group—and not a
rap-rock outfit—they fit divergent bills.
“We wanted to make a solid hip-hop group that’s not limited to a
hip-hop realm. We haven’t even gotten on any hip-hop bills except our
own,” says Kliffer, laughing. “We get a lot of people who like us who
don’t like hip-hop. Any type of person, we’ve had them out on the floor
dancing.”
Three Sheet appear June 13 at the North Street Church and every
Thursday at Elephant and Castle.
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This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.
