phillipdrummond

Phillipdrummond is a long-time beat maker and Executive Director of Today’s Future Sound (TFS). In the past ten years he has performed live beats and arranged beat battles/beat cyphers in 25+ countries across six continents, including 9 national tours of Australia, and working for the US State Department as a Hip Hop ambassador as well as organizing the longest-running monthly beat battle in the Bay Area (and world) for over a decade. Growing up in NYC in the Golden Era of Hip Hop, he is informed by the East Coast 90’s sound with touches of G-Funk and West Coast flavor, as he now resides in Oakland, CA.“Philthy,” as many know him, fuses obscure samples lifted from dusty vinyl dug from across the globe with retrofuturisti...