Thirstin Howl III

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Thirstin Howl III is a New York-based hip-hop artist of Puerto-Rican descent from Brownsville, Brooklyn. In 1997 he was the winner of The Source Magazine's Unsigned Hype Award. Thirstin is an accomplished freestyler and Battle Emcee.

1 Delivery and Content
2 Trivia
3 Output
4 External links

[edit] Delivery and Content

Thirstin Howl's rhymes are usually delivered in a nasal tone that veers between braggadocious and melancholic (Regardless of the subject matter). He is considered a battle emcee at heart and as a result, most of his material has an over-exaggerated, almost comic bent to it. Unusually for a criminally-minded emcee, Thirstin rarely raps about guns or murder, with most of his lyrics concerning petty theft such as pickpocketing, shoplifting, mugging and burglary, and always in an absurdly melodramatic style (For example: "Stick you up with a safety pin or lit Roman Candles!" or "These hands here...could pickpocket grass skirts!"). Other topics include his love of Ralph Lauren Polo clothing and his many Baby mothers. His sense of humour and wit are notable in much of his material. Howl frequently utilizes a Spanglish flow in which English and Spanish words are blended within individual lines. Another characteristic trait of his rhyme style is the use of exaggerated pronunciation to create seeming rhymes among words that are not even near rhymes (e.g. "a socio with illegal negocios / 9 inch nail your coffin after it slowly close / make the latin language sound similar to that of portugal/").

[edit] Trivia

Howl is allegedly a founder member of the Lo-Lifes, an infamous New York gang who gained notoriety in the 1980s and '90s for wearing only Polo clothes which they shoplifted to obtain. He has since renounced theft and his later material contains far fewer references to shoplifting.
The arrest photos of Howl's mother, used on the inlay art of Skilligan's Island, are real: they were taken when his mother was arrested for trying to steal a chain from an undercover police officer.
His name is taken from Thurston J. Howell III, one of the supporting characters of the television show Gilligan's Island.
His name is also mentioned in the song "I Must Be High" by South Park Mexican.

[edit] Output

He has released six albums to date: Skillionaire (1999), Skillosopher (2000), Serial Skiller (2001) and Skilligan's Island (2002), Skillitary (2004), and La Cura (2006).