Wonder cranks out the hits
Grammy winner Wonder more than deserves his props.
- Kristien Elan Chase
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Last damn year I was interviewing Atlanta-raised producer Wonder Arillo, choppin’ it up over a few pints of Guinness. I had just started blogging for Crib Notes, trying desperately to keep up with the internet and post something, anything, that hadn’t already blown through everybody’s playlist at the speed of sound. And it’s not like Wonder was a fly-by-night musician. At the time, I went to him for a feature not only because he is a friend, but because he is extremely talented. He’d put in plenty of work, winning a Grammy working with DJ Toomp to produce TI’s “What You Know.” Either way, I slept on publishing anything about Wonder. I blame myself. See, Wonder and I have known each other since 6th grade, and for some reason, it’s a hell of a lot easier for me to write about a complete stranger than it is a guy I’ve always looked up to.
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Nowadays, Wonder is doing even better than he was back in 2010, and things could hardly be described as bad then. Check out the sexy video for “Feelin’ You” from 2Chainz (aka Tity Boy), featuring the Codeine Cowboy rapping over Wonder’s hi-hat heavy reinterpretation of an Alicia Keys’ interlude. After the jump, read an edited version of my unpublished piece on Wonder. In the meantime, follow him on twitter, listen out for the signature computer-voiced “Wonder” tag in front of his beats, and if anybody needs me, I’ll be hanging my head in shame...
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