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Sole, born Tim Holland, is an alternative hip hop artist and a co-founder of the anticon. collective. Sole is known for his dense, often dark stream-of-consciousness writing style. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstructing traditional hip hop topics. His albums and record label have been featured in magazines such as Playboy and The Wire. Sole is also a producer and releases his self-produced experiments under the alias mansbestfriend, taken from the name of his Apple G4 computer

Sole was born in 1977 in Portland, Maine. He recorded his first demo in 1992. He shopped the demo to Entertainment Resources International. There was serious interest, and he was flown to Florida to record a few songs. However, the record deal fell through, and soon after, at age 15, sole got together a new group called “45 Below Records”, which included alias and a DJ, Cuz the Highlander, now better known as Moodswing9, and together released an album titled “Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz” under the moniker Northern Exposure, selling more than 300 copies. At the age of 16, sole pressed up his first 12” and gave it away for free at the 1995 Gavin Convention. In 1996 sole started up a “webzine” and online radio station, run directly from his basement bedroom in Portland, Maine. His Live Poets 12” from 1997 garnered some press and college radio play, selling a few thousand copies and leading to connections with other like-minded artists like Doseone (Adam Drucker), Jel (Jeffrey Logan), Atmosphere, Shapeshifters, and the Sebutones (Sixtoo (Vaughn Robert Squire) and Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)).
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  • ezgizissou

    Guess I found my new album to put on infinite loop on public transportation. Awesome work!

    9 Jun 5:15pm Reply

  • PhyrePhox

    sole.bandcamp.com --- to listen [or buy] the albums

    6 May 8:12pm Reply

  • h-starmountain

    Civil War is dope!

    1 May 11:26pm Reply

  • DreamFragments

    Ok, so I'm REALLY digging the new album. It's a lot better than ARCOEE. Good stuff.

    28 Apr 5:38am Reply

  • artophicial

    WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED SOLE?

    20 Apr 4:02am Reply

  • Yeah_Brah

    I'm scared to give his new album a try....A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing was a mess.

    18 Apr 9:22pm Reply

  • Notjoeybloom

    @badgyrl310 I think you are looking for Solé

    4 Apr 3:18am Reply

  • badgyrl310

    What the hell? I'm listening to Ginuwine's wife, Sole', the rapper. I don't even know who this is. Why is this page in my library?

    2 Apr 7:33am Reply

  • ru1ner

    For real, his new album is pretty bad ass.

    25 Mar 8:39pm Reply

  • rose4rome

    amazing work with Bong-Ra, btw.

    3 Mar 8:45am Reply

  • Notjoeybloom

    Personally, I enjoy ARCOEE & I am hoping his ARCOEE Volume 2 isn't being rushed. Quality over quantity and keep doing what you love to do Mr. Holland.

    18 Feb 10:16pm Reply

  • Yeah_Brah

    For real, his new album is pretty bad.

    15 Feb 1:46pm Reply

  • DreamFragments

    "new one is his best release since selling live water." Yeah right, dude. Live From Rome is way better than ARCOEE. I dig the new album, but it's definitely not his best since Selling Live Water.

    10 Feb 7:15am Reply

  • Aesthethica

    Sole used to be so hungry and a monster on the mic. from 1998-2005 he was pretty much unstoppable. from Deep Puddle to Bottle of Humans to both "Live..."'s to the first Skyrider Band he had lyrics and a flow that would make my jaw drop. BoH is still a massively underrated album, prolly top 20 for hip-hop all-time. his new stuff? eh. w/e tho it's still listenable...i guess

    5 Jan 8:14am Reply

  • sombrero825

    man sole has been on a mad tear in recent years. he's released like 10 albums since 2007 and nearly all of them have some great songs on them. i don't know if any other rapper has that track record

    24 Dec 2012 Reply

  • KillerDuctTape

    Ruthless.

    21 Dec 2012 Reply

  • h-starmountain

    "I rap better than most members of my race, most white rappers sound like they've never been punched in the face!"

    9 Dec 2012 Reply

  • jeffboulter

    Bottle of humans brings back memories, many many many memories good and bad. Love that album. Really dig SoLe.

    28 Nov 2012 Reply

  • xxbassxx

    new one is his best release since selling live water.

    27 Nov 2012 Reply

  • roemilca111

    yessssssss

    14 Nov 2012 Reply
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