As I Live and Breathe

For 20 years and under many names, Skinny Hendrixx has been making noise around the world. Hailing originally from Half Moon Bay under the pseudonym Pan!k, this decade plus Oakland resident has played hundreds of shows from California and the greater United States, to Latin America, and Europe. 

He founded Knowmatik Soulz in 2003, and moved on to cofound and participate in such groups as Coastyles, Moon Town Crooks, Thanks for Leaving, Love Street, Skinny Hendrixx & The Earthtones, and feature regularly in the Brothers Amor.

Having shared stages with the likes of Talib Kweli, Hieroglyphics, Blackalicious, Afroman, San Quinn, Spice 1, Keak da Sneak, Zion I, RBL Posse, Andre Nickatina, Mac Mall, Naughty by Nature, AbSoul, Qwel,  2Mex, Evidence, Equipto, Michael Marshall, and countless others, Skinny is a certified vet when it comes to rocking crowds. 

Today, Skinny is focused on his solo career as well as his band Skinny Hendrixx & The Earthtones.

 He has changed his sound from the gritty, underground tradition from which he came and embraced a more polished and explorative form of expression that transcends the hip hop genre. 

 His style has become introspective and heartfelt while his wordplay and wit keep you hanging on the last line while you try to keep up with the next. The songs themselves touch on themes of grief, loss, redemption, self discovery, addiction, mental health, love, heartache, and reconciliation.

His album Daybreak is riddled with incredible features from some of the Bay Area's hottest up and coming vocalists over an array of diverse soundscapes that defy all expectations.

Skinny Hendrixx & The Earthtones is the next evolution in Skinny's quest for musical transcendence. Inspired by his community of skilled instrumentalists, and driven by his urge to dig deeper into his consciousness, he formed the group in July of 2023 and it has been his idée fixe ever since.

The structure of the project allows Skinny to dive into the depths of his perspective and create his personal works in isolation guided by beats from various producers. His journalings are made whole through collaboration with singers and songwriters that give them their melodic hooks. Next, they're passed off to The Earthtones for instrumentation and finally they are ready to be set free.

The result is the amplification of his innermost thoughts over grooves and riffs, rhythms and waves that one would be hard pressed to find over production alone. The fact is, live instruments just hit different.

To experience Skinny Hendrixx & The Earthtones is to witness a spiritual awakening manifested through vivid soundscapes and versification. 

It's the sound of growth in motion.

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Basically I find beats, write songs to them in my dark ass room, pass them off to the homies to make them catchy, then take them to the band to give them that live touch, then we play shows and people dance and it's dope.