PATIENTLY WA ITING
Pachino Dino Charleston, SC
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iming couldn’t have been worse for Pa chino Dino in 2002 album Dummin’ Ou . When his debut ind t hit the streets, the ependent Charleston, SC rappe behind bars in a Fe de r found himself sit ral pe nit entiary on firearm my time and the alb ting and drug charges. um came out, I fel “When I was doing t lik now,’” Dino says in a thick Geechee dia e, ‘Damn, I wish I could have been ou lect. “Dummin’ Out t there right into that. The shit meant so much to was straight real, me. I put so much live, raw and uncut reality, gangsta music. If yo u don’t feel that, I don’t kn ow what to say ab out you.” As Dino sat, the str eets spoke loud an d clear. Dino’s album, cons idered by many to be a Carolina classic, fill ed with murderous rhy and hardcore tales of sex and drugs, cre mes ated an unprecedented street buzz in SC. “Ch arleston loved [the album ]. we were waiting on That was something down here. Not jus t Charleston, but thr oughout South Carol ina,” Dino explains. Despite his four an da proper planning an half year incarceration, d subsequent mater ial helped Dino remain one of South Carol ina’s most talked about and respected emcee s. “I had a good promo tion and marketing sch even though I was locked up,” Dino ex eme, plains “I put in so much wo rk in the studio; I ha . lot of music on de ck. So what I did wa d a s chop it up and stretched it out, to where as I could put a CD out this ye ar, I could put a CD out next year, I could put a CD out the year aft er that, even though I was locked up. I just tim ed it out to the ‘T’ to ke ep my shit burning until I got back.” Five years since rel easing his debut alb um, Dino is back on the str benefits from what eets and reaping the he started. Since be ing released from the bing, Dino has reu nited with Dummin’ Out producer and popu lar SC beatmaker Twin D for his latest comp ilation project and first un der his Hard Head Reco imprint, entitled GMixxin’. Now that he rds second chance, he has a ’s making the best of it. He’s currently in talks wi th major labels to nationally re-release thi s debut album and back his next project Hustlin’ and Head Bustin’. An he insists, the next d, time he drops an alb um it won’t be from the belly of the beast. “Everything happen s for a reason,” he rationalizes. “Everythi ng’s coming aroun d full circle. So next time I’m going to be ou t here.” Word to Akon. // myspace.com/break
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