Hisyde
Originally posted in Daddy B. Nice's Mailbag.
DJ Haynes Replies To Daddy B. Nice's Comment on Possible Copyright Infringement in #5 Single "I Know He's Cheatin'" by Lady Kay (December 2024 Top 10 Singles)
Daddy B. Nice had written:
Somebody tell me where this rocking instrumental track came from---it is so familiar!
Listen to Lady Kay singing "I Know He's Cheatin'" on YouTube.
DJ Haynes replied:
I thought the same thing you mentioned about “Lady Kay - I Know He Cheated” sounding like another song - I am racking my brain! If you figure it out, please let me know so I can turn off my brain! Haha
I know it was used on another song!
DJ Haynes
Daddy B. Nice notes:
Eight days later
DJ Haynes wrote back:
Bingo “Lady K” sound a like!
Back from 3 years ago!
Hisyde and
Chrissy Luvz "Sleeping Pill"!
Listen to Hisyde & Chrissy Luvz singing "Sleeping Pill" on YouTube.
Like you, I knew it was the track to another song!
I wish artist would stop and do some research before they invest time and money on making a song!
Tonio Armani’s song
“Start Over” has 25 other artist now singing over that same track! That song is 2-3 years old, actually got one today! It’s crazy!!
Good Ear!!
Daddy B. Nice notes:
As DJ Haynes mentions, this kind of piggy-backing happens frequently in southern soul, not to mention all popular music. DJ Sir Rockinghood and I often seize on similar cannibalizing of soundtracks by southern soul artists. And our publicizing of these appropriations is purely artistic. Acting upon copyright infringement is the province of artists and lawyers, i.e. expensive. That is why the most famous instance of copyright infringement had to do with
George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" retread of the soundtrack of
The Chiffons' "He's So Fine" ("Doodle-lang doodle-lang doodle-lang..."). The prosecution was after that pot of gold of
Beatles money.
The most famous instance of copyright infringement in contemporary southern soul was in the mid-teens when the late
Bishop Bullwinkle stole a
Bigg Robb soundtrack for his smash hit "Hell To The Naw Naw". For those interested, I chronicled and to some extent refereed the blow-by-blow account in the
Bishop Bullwinkle and
Bigg Robb artist guides. The outcome was the disappearance of the original and best version on YouTube and retail outlets and its replacement by "Hell To The Naw Naw With Da Bicycle," which artistically just didn't have the same juice.
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June 1, 2021: First posted on Daddy B. Nice's New CD Reviews.
June 1, 2021: Hisyde: Who Is Hisyde (Dirty South Journals) Four Stars **** Distinguished Debut By A New Southern Soul Artist.
I was reminded of the late
Reggie P. while reviewing the debut album by Hisyde,
Who Is Hisyde? Reggie P's debut was entitled
Who Am I?
I'm not going to say Hisyde's debut is as auspicious as Reggie P's---
well, yes I am. Reggie's legendary, break-out album was his second long-play,
Why Me? Hisyde also reminds me a little of
Luster Baker (Vickie Baker's little brother for the old school), who's a musical genius but less career-focused than Hisyde, and of
Arthur Young, who is the more accomplished vocalist and writer but lacks Hisyde's producing acumen. That's some pretty elevated company for a debut artist. Hisyde's not a producer per se (he gets the cream of the crop---
Beat Flippa, T. Tatum, Eric "Smidi" Smith---to do the work for him), but he understands the importance of getting the best out of every record (something Young still needs to work on), and that's half the battle.
Born in 1979 in El Dorado, Arkansas and raised just down the road in tiny Strong, Arkansas, Sernerick Greer (aka Hisyde) started managing and doing promotional work for a rap group called the Swangaboyz in south Arkansas after graduating from high school. In 2009 he moved to Dallas to pursue a gospel recording contract with gospel producer Flaco Da Great. When Flaco relocated to California, Greer pursued musical studies at Eastfield Community College, interned in "Artist Boot Camp" under engineer/professor Brad Cox and managed Cynithia Walker.
Hisyde published his first southern soul single "Ouchie Coochie" in March of 2019, and followed it up in 2020 with the release of his debut EP
Hap Here, containing
"Oochie Couchie" and the tunes
"Fantasy Man," "Sleepin' Pill" (feat.
Chrissy Luvz), "Hap Here" and
"The Git Up" (feat.
Big Mucci & Rico Cason).
Hisyde first appeared in Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Singles in
June of 2019 with
"Sleepin' Pill" featuring Chrissy Luvz. The giddy and disarming "Sleepin' Pill" also gained year-end honors, coming in at #21 on Daddy B. Nice's
"Top 25 Singles" as well as propelling Hisyde into a nominee for Best Debut artist of 2019.
Who Is Hisyde? essentially reprises the songs from the Hap Here EP while adding Hisyde's two head-turning, blockbuster singles of 2020 and early 2021,
"Is It Ova?" and
"For Your Love". The roof-rattling "Is It Ova?", featuring Avail Hollywood and produced by Beat Flippa on his celebrated P.O.T.Y. album, was #1 with a bullet in
December of 2020, and the buoyant, swinging "For Your Love," produced by Eric "Smidi" Smith, was #2 in
March of 2021 (and the 11th-ranked single of 2020), prompting Daddy B. Nice to comment:
Hisyde is really coming on. Two in a row! "For Your Love" comes at you as easily as Mr. Campbell's "I'm Stepping Out" a couple years ago. This song plus "Is It Ova?" should catapult Hisyde above the rank-and-file for good.
The rambunctious "Is It Ova?" was an outright smash, peopling deejay turntables across the South and not only lifting Hisyde's profile but revitalizing Beat Flippa's mojo. And just as with Chrissy Luvz's inspired vocal on "Sleepin' Pill,"
Avail Hollywood's turn on "Is It Ova?" was among the King of Grown Folks' best-ever, guest-artist spots, furthering Hisyde's reputation and knack for bringing out the best in his collaborators.
Southern soul devotees may do a double take at
"If You Were Mine," a full-fledged country-western single that according to Hisyde has already attracted some attention in Nashville, and proving, like so many before him, that if you can sing southern soul you can sing country.
Of the handful of remaining tracks, there's not another song of which you could say, "This is a sure-fire new southern soul hit single." But there's more than enough to savor just catching up on the last two years of Hisyde's product. Debut albums seldom pack in as many deserving cuts as Hisyde delivers on
Who Is Hisyde, and I would rank the not-to-be-missed songs in this order: "For Your Love," "Is It Ova?", "Sleepin' Pill," "Fantasy Man," "Ouchie Coochie," "Hap Here" and "Nookie Now," with the best of the new/unknown cuts the ballad
"Yes Maybe No".
Hisyde takes to the road with a host of venues in 2021 including El Dorado and Crossett, Arkansas, Dallas and DeSoto, Texas, Monroe, Richwood and Choudrant, Louisiana, with big-city stops in Atlanta and Detroit, and if his official video to
"For Your Love" is any indication, he should be great in concert.
---Daddy B. Nice
Listen to all the tracks from Hisyde's WHO IS HISYDE debut album on YouTube.
Buy Hisyde's WHO IS HISYDE album at Apple.
Visit Hisyde's official WHO IS HISYDE website.
--Daddy B. Nice
