One of the more creative left-field hip-hop figures to surface during the late 2000s/early 2010s, New Jersey-based producer Clams Casino landed his first collaboration after contacting the Pack's Lil B via MySpace. The MC proceeded to use several Clams Casino productions, all of which were trippy, wistful, and strangely emotive, for the likes of “Realist Alive,” “Motivation,” and “I’m God” (the latter of which was also used by Soulja Boy for “2 Milli”). Clams' profile gradually raised as word got out that he was the one behind these tracks, as well as material by Main Attrakionz, Main Attrakionz's Squadda Bambino, and Mobb Deep's Havoc. In March 2011, he uploaded a free 13-track mixtape of instrumentals -- something of a highlight reel, along with a previously unused beat. This preceded the first official Clams Casino solo release, the Rainforest EP, which was issued by Tri Angle that June. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
Last year -- before Stereogum40 member Clams Casino exploded in a major way -- he released a remix of a cut from Wichita, Kansas rapper XV's Zero Hero...
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Clams Casino guested on Benji B's late night BBC show to play a set of his own instrumentals, featuring his ASAP Rocky contributions and a few other o...
Clams Casino just tweeted a link to a new mixtape of instrumentals, a collection that includes tracks he produced for people like ASAP Rocky, Lil B, t...
Tweet A short while ago producer Clams Casino dropped his second instrumental tpae, appropriately called Instrumental Mixtape 2, through a Twitter pos...
When Clams Casino released his first Instrumentals mixtape just over a year ago, he was living off the rap grid, studying to be a physical therapist a...
A week after he tweeted a link to a new mixtape of instrumentals -- a mixtape that earned a Mixtape Of The Week distinction, no less -- Clams Casino i...
These days, many of his best tracks seem to be instrumentals or remixes, so it may be time for me to stop referring to Clams Casino as a "cloud-rap pr...
Here's comparison that makes so much sense that nobody, except the actual collaborators, thought of it: DOOM's muttered free-associative raps over Cla...
