THE WARREN CLARK FILES - Offical Website

On Halloween, Warren Clark was deported to Jamaica where he is a citizen of based on a legal situation.

Warren started off working for Dreamworks Records back in 2001 after coming to the U.S. on a work visa. After moving to Akron in late '02, he met with an aspiring Youngstown Hip-Hop artist known as Rook Infinite (who later went on to become Peter Blue). The two began using their talents and vision (Blue with the music production and direction, and Warren with the business savvy and manipulation of finance and resources) to push out Blue's music in the form of mix-tape and street albums (The Warren Clark Files volumes 1-4).

After having the projects on two differnt labels, Parallax Audio, and Foundation Music, both Warren and Blue felt as though their collective vision was not being honored and/or shared by their labels. Tired of being placed on back-burner status and letting their music get "moldy", they severed ties with both labels in similar fashion, and put their money together to form FLy On The Wall Entertainment. This would be the ground breaking of a production company which took under its wing not only Peter Blue, but Royal Family (rap group co-founded with Dro and Peter Blue, and included a rapper from Sharon, Pennsylvania named Streets).

After Peter Blue released "It's Always A Struggle" on The Warren Clark Files volume 2 in the summer of 2005 (first official release of FLy On The Wall Ent,) Clark and Blue began purchasing and leasing beats from producers such as solEternity, Yessur, Mad Fame, TrackBangaz, and more, and in January of '06, the acclaimed "Crown Royal" was recorded with Royal Family on the 3rd edition of The Warren Clark Files.

Blue had an old friend in southern Georgia who was interested in starting a distribution company (P.L.O.ster), and badly needed a viable product to carry. Crown Royal gripped Ill Rich (owner of P.L.O.ster) so much, that he immediately bought 12,000 copies. It seemed as if the ball was rolling. five months later after the release of "Crown Royal", Blue and Clark went back into the lab with a collection of industry beats and a few original beats, and recorded the 4th installment to The Warren Clark Files which was titled "Keep On Pushin'".but shortly after its making Clark was deported, and Ill Rich suddenly disappeared as well. The album (which is a street release for promotional purposes and consisted of songs recorded to already established Hip Hop beats, as well as songs to original beats) has yet to be officially released beyond advance copies to industry insiders and select associates.

Since the deportation of Warren Clark, and the disappearance of Ill Rich and P.L.O.ster as a manufacturer and distributor of FLy On The Wall music, Blue began fostering a musical relationship with another prominent artist from the Youngstown area known as Eclipz, and an R&B sensation also from Youngstown known as Fylthy Rich. With Eclipze in actual posession of tracks owned by FLy On The Wall (Blue commissioned south side producer MAD FAME for 5 tracks that were handed over to Eclipz), it looks as if he will be a certain addition to the FLy family. Fylthy Rich has been contacted to do some crooning upon some works that Blue has in the fire.

The current state of FLy On The Wall Entertainment is searching for a recording label that will provide the necessary budgets and human resources, as well as connections to allow FLy On The Wall Entertainment products to be bought worldwide. At the current phase, FLy only has recources to commission and record music, but not to make manifest widespread distribution, and video production.

Worldwide, Padrone has worked with the best! originally from Youngstown, Ohio, left town in 1997 to pursue his music vision. He worked closely with Whoz Who, also from Youngstown while under the managemnt of Ray Prisby (managed WHos Who and later on the boy-band Youngstown) and produced many street bangers for a host of artists from his area, including Peter Blue. First catching up with Who's Who in Los Angeles in 1997 and working along with Dr. Dre, Padrone later found a more amiable environment for his style in New Your City. He's been there ever sonce 1999 and has produced tracks for G-Dep, Black Rob, and many other prominent New York artists.

"Growing up in Ohio attending Church is where I developed my musical genius. From piano to drums the Lord blessed me with a gift..." he asserts about his beginnings.

Padrone has worked with the best in the business when it comes to hip-hop. his list of clients include Bad Boy, G-Dep, Black Rob, The East Side Sopranos, Fabulous, Knocturnal, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre., and Wah-Wah Watson.

Whats really incredible, not many folks knew Padrone had writing skills when it came to lyrics and melody, and they never really knew he could sing! Padrone is blessed with that ability as well. Padrone is different, refreshing and right on point when it comes to street banga's Padrone is silent but deadly!

"He will come from behind shock to you with his expertise! From the MPC to the Piano from the Drums to the Mic, man Padrone is definitely true Green Beret in action..." says a staff member at Bad Boy Records.

"He was my first real producer, " claims Peter Blue; long time friend of PAdrone when the two lived around the corner from eachother. " He lived on the next block up, and he used to hit me with beats of all kinds for my demos back then. The dude always had a dope sound, he hardly ever sampled, and since he was a drummer for church, he always was able to program the most incredible dums patterns. As a matter of fact, I gotta say that when I was producing, I was influenced by his drum-pattern style."

Padrone produced the cut "Seen" on Peter Blue's debut album "Highlighting Natural Fact". (Blue was then recording as Rook Infinite)

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    We feel that there are certain music artists that you should know about. Not only should you know them for their music, but we take you deep with them, so you can know what they're about, and why they kick the tunes the way they do.

    Our first cat that we'll talk to is Youngstown's own Peter Blue. Teresa Hanley spent some time with The People's MC, an artist that Warren Clark himself manages, and is co-founder of FLy On The Wall Entertainment.

    Next session, we'll be strolling through The Dub (Warren, Ohio), and seeing what's good with That Guy Eclipz, as well as chop it up with producer extroidanaire- SOLETERNITY. DON'T MISS OUT!

    So without further procrastination, here we commence with our first sit down:

            Peter Blue is almost brutally honest with everyone - including himself. This is in contrast to a lot of aspiring rappers or musicians who have yet to transcend the status of, well, aspiring. Shuffling papers in an office inside of his north side home, and browsing a hard drive for a certain windows media play list, he elaborates on why he's not plastering posters of a "coming soon" album.

            "People don't know me well enough yet for me to put out an album. What I look like?" (he sounds disgusted, or moreover taken aback by something that he deems to be a zany idea) "We got way more work to do and money to spend. �Hurricane Life� will be hitting sometime towards the end of '07. You have to understand, you can't just say you're recording an album and then that's what you do. An album - for me anyway - gotta just come together. I have to record a lot of songs, be in some form of theme-like mind-state, then kick back after a while and see what I have. I like to pick from about 30 to 50 songs for an album. That way I can span the table of any fad that may be hitting hard at that time or anytime. A fad usually lasts for about 6 months, I like to take about that time to record 50 songs.

            Also, I don't stick with one single producer or beat maker. I have a couple people on staff that do nothing but scour the net, industry connects and so forth for beats. I do NOT do wack beats, or amateur sounding beats. I need that professional sound, I don't get with keyboard factory or pitter-pat drums and anyone using the Fruity Loops preset drums that sound extra lame, and extra computer-ish. I ain't looking for no Lil Jon carbon copies, or Nitty or whoever. I am a real musician yo...I mean I actually can make beats on the MPC2000, 4000 or whatever, I've produced a whole album before, so I know what the will sound good, and what sounds like it came from your homey's basement 4-track. I just don't have the time to make beats, cuz I gotta make money- especially with Warren gone and Ill Rich missing. As far as rhymes go, I got verses from '93 that will still rock what a rapper wrote yesterday...plus I do write new rhymes.

            Balancing between having one conversation via text messaging and another over the Boost Mobile chirp, Blue pours himself a cup of coffee. He also needs to get a ride to the Cleveland airport to pick up a rental that he'll drive to Detroit later on in the night. He�s trying to get with a television producer of a show that airs on public access channels throughout Ohio. At times he seems as if he�s war-weary veteran who's fought the long fight of trying to "go platinum" in the streets of his hometown. He's often been vocal about the lack of support for not only him and his musical endeavors, but for his local colleagues as well. It's apparent that he also now contemplates the importance of even trying to "blow up" in one's own hometown first anyway. read on

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