Tune of the Week: Sharkula

Sharkula is a one-of-a-kind artist/lyricist/personality from Chicago. When I first met him in the early 2000s he was the guy my age who could still spin on his head at shows. He has gained notoriety in the Windy City by hustling his art on the street. He wraps his CD-R creations in heavily tagged xeroxed pages and sells them all across the city, which he traverses by public transportation. I have sat down in train compartments to find that Shark had been there by seeing bits of tagged paper all over the advertisements above the seats. He is tireless in his productivity. Recently I spoke to him and bigged up a release of his I had checked out on Bandcamp. I couldn’t remember the name of the album and in trying to remember he listed at least four others he had released in the meantime. He had to get off the phone because he was out and had to deal with some customers. Official hiphop legend Kool Keith has taken notice and has put him on productions as of late. For a true hiphopper, there are few other co-signs that could mean as much and Sharkula has definitely put in the work to earn it. The above tune was produced by Roburt Reynoldswrap with scratched by Chuckster, which were engineered by yours truly.