Toure "Southpaw" Harris
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Toure "Southpaw" Harris is co-Owner of One Enterprises, Ltd & producer / engineer for Immortal Technique and Akir. He is also the current head of A&R at Viper Records. He is close to the same age as Technique and attended the same Elementary and Jr. highschool. He is known for his very musical and hard drum style of music. Whether shopping production to major labels and various industry talent he is well known in the Hip hop circles as someone to watch in 2007. HIs current projects include: the new album from Akir and the much anticipated Immortal Technique album "The Middle Passage" and a mixtape overseen by DJ Green Lantern.
Toure "SouthPaw" Harris started out with classical & Jazz piano at an early age then moved on to college radio (with Akir) as he said in an interview with www.hiphopgame.com. He also was employed by Puff Daddy at his studio 'Daddy's House' and served there as an engineer for a couple of years before leaving frustrated by major label politics to build a studio with Viper Records and officially join with Immortal Technique to complete his cult classic Revolutionary Vol.2.
On that album he produced the following songs.
-The Point of No Return - Peruvian Cocaine (feat. C-Rayz Walz, Poison Pen, Tonedeff, Diabolic, Loucipher & Pumpkinhead) - Harlem Street (feat. Dj Rocraida) - Obnoxious - The Message & The Money - Leaving the Past - You Never Know (feat. Jean Grae) - One (RMX) (feat. Akir)
He also produced the following tracks on Revolutionary Vol.1
- The Poverty of Philosophy - The Getaway
