Debut album "A Toast" featuring Talib Kweli, Rapper Big Pooh, Jonny Cool, Saeeda Wright, Jarred Lawson and more!

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A Toast

Remixes, features and singles inspired by the times. Sunday Brunch is the product of the diligence between new projects. Updated regularly with a new track, it's smooth, soul-southing hip hop to cap off your weekend. Let the Champagne flow. #SundayBrunchMusic

Sunday Brunch

‘The Campaign’ is a soundtrack to the current social and political climate from leadership to gun violence to equality. Timing is everything, and this album couldn’t be coming at a more important moment in this country. Much like American society, most will agree with the ideals on the album, some will be shocked by some concepts, while for others it will have an awakening impression. Production from Cee Goods does not disappoint as it has pushed Duane to be more insightful, informed and innovative. This is truly a time-defining experience.

The tone for the album is powerfully set on the opening track “Power to the People,” a rallying call and response which aims to unite people of all walks and pays tribute to freedom fighters such as Nelson Mandela and The Black Panther Party. “One Day” is an uplifting track that takes cues from speeches and writings made by iconic politicians and activists like Dr. King. Sprinkle some Saeeda Wright and Nehemiah Booker all over the Cee Goods-produced track and you’ve got an anthem to guide you the turmoil of the next 4 years. The stand out single “Gun Control” sees Duane take a militant approach, where he has an eye-for-an-eye viewpoint on police brutality over a dark, sultry beat. “We should Grant him an Oscar for Shootvale Station/ way to play innocent, standing ovation/ clap for him or clap at him, what if we change the conversation” are some of the lines aimed at the institution of racism and it’s by-product, militarized police forces. In true champagne fashion, the project ends on a celebratory note in “Taste of Victory” featuring Champagne James, an ode to Obama’s legacy as HNIC. Besides Jonny Cool’s spoken word on “True Leaders”, the only other features are on “Get Up” where Oregon emcee Wynne makes a fierce appearance with bars like “they’re supposed to support us, not deport us, that’s who we are/ immigrants building resilience, oppression giving the scars.” Backed also by Elin Skei vocals, “Get Up” speaks to Duane’s core of bypassing expectations of establishment, taking responsibility for your own liberty and continuing the spirit of those who paved the way. Woven throughout the rest of the album are themes surrounding women’s rights, the corrupt industry of incarceration, gentrification and culture appropriation, environmental justice and economic inequality. There’s no debate- The Campaign will spark conversation.

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The Campaign

Champagne Poetry Freestyle by Champagne Duane

Champagne Poetry

Top Floor
Lyrics and Vocals by Champagne Duane & Jay Child
Music Production by Cee Goods & Jay Ham
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

Top Floor

In My Lifetime
Lyrics and Vocals by Jay Child
Music Production by Jay Ham
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

In My Lifetime

Talk My Shit
Lyrics and Vocals by Jay Child
Music Production by Jay Ham
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

Talk My Shit

Off Wit They Heads
Lyrics and Vocals by Champagne Duane & Cee Goods
Music Production by Cee Goods
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

Off Wit They Heads

Phatboy
Lyrics and Vocals by Jay Child
Music Production by Jay Ham
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

Phatboy

What's Goodie
Lyrics and Vocals by Champagne Duane
Music Production by Cee Goods
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

What's Goodie

"Pink Champagne" is available on iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pink-champagne-feat.-elin/id974276187

"POP! POP! POP!" It's Champagne three ways!
Pink Champagne ft. @champagneduane, @champagne-james, @champagnetane (The Champagne Gang)and @elinskei
Produced by @ceegoodsproduction
Mixed and Mastered by @devinenoise

Lyrics

Intro (Duane)
Ladies and gentleman, this is not a mirage. It's the Champagne Gang.
We specialize in exquisiteness and celebration, and subsequently, exquisite celebration. Loyalty is currency, family takes precedence, and the sky is the limit.

Hook (Elin)
When the bottles go pop pop pop
And the flutes get played
You know you're sipping on champagne
You're sipping on pink champagne with the Champagne Gang
See we dressed to kill
So let's break the seal
Keep the moment real
And the glasses filled with champagne
You're sipping on pink champagne with the Champagne Gang

Verse 1 (Duane)
Whoo! Black jackets in the closet I still haven't worn/ hang tags on the pocket I still haven't torn/ when I do decide to rock it, you'll get ample warn/ give you some time to go shopping, but yo chance is gone/ y'all never be as fresh as me, you fermented milk/ I'm saying cheese for the pictures, hunned percent silk/ Time is money and money talks/ if you ain't got no mouth on the face of your watch then watch the honies walk/ I know they call you Champagne but what's ya last name/ you don't need to know that yet, get out the fast lane/ let's take it slow/ let's make it grow/ let's water the flowers (flours) and then let's some break bread over a plate of dough/ so/ everybody put ya glasses in the air/ raise em to the sky it's a classy affair/ the only thing clashing is the glasses when we cheers/ ya body is bangin so lemme it splash it ya hair/ I'm kidding

Hook

Verse 2 (James)
I'm on that Bel Air rosé/ smelling like Jose/ flavy on wavy/ ask baby is she ok/ she gon do the NaeNae... WHAA!!/ she like, 'James you so cray cray'... whaa!/ okay champagne on the brain/ bubble like good D/ section on very, you can catch on Dom P/ Kanye's brother why the hell I need ID/ Moët sippin, ma, infact I got an IV/ she was in Vibe , she gon Bob like Marley/ told me CJ don't move I wanna ride like Harley (vroom! vroom!)/ white boy wasted, I was feelin all gnarley/ at a white people party, only nigga at the party/ and it was at the Carter, but I guess you had to be there/ and you ain't never there, it's only mu-f**kin me there/ a chick with some flutes and a BCMG there/ and Becky came through with some new Chanel knee wear/ yeaaaah

Hook

Verse 3 (Tane)
I'm not a fan of Cris and the waitress knows I'm hatin Dom/ my table look like Paris with the bottles girls pronouncing wrong/ same champagne that be my baby mom be sippin on/ same champagne my newest girl be slippin on/ she wanted mo Moët, so we ordered Rosé/ way we let it spill, man, you'd swear that sh*t was Andre/ wave another round, we gonna let that b*tch spray/ man there's chips in the ceiling, popping corks all day/ I'm like krill in the club, so you keep a plane or boat/ I got receipts on the table that'll make you feel broke/ and the price of ya bottle little hoe add a zero to it/ this is that ice cold pop like Prosecco music/ like a French class everytime I grab a glass/ it's that Louis Roederer, Clicquot for ya ass/ so just the flutes clang/ and my team will do the same/ ask James, ask Duane, it's the Champagne Gang/

Hook

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Pink Champagne (The Champagne Gang feat. Elin Skei, Prod by Cee Goods)

Grace
Lyrics and Vocals by Champagne Duane
Music Production by Cee Goods
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Zebulon Dak at Momentum Studios in Portland, OR

Grace

A Toast (feat. Saeeda Wright)

I Got You (feat. Jonny Cool)

Dance Floor (Interlude)

Friday

Killin' Em (feat. Keem G)

Darling Girl (feat. Jarrod Lawson)

Shine (feat. Chelsea Uniqorn & Saeeda Wright)

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I'd like to thank everyone who helped with the completion of this project. I love you all! Rich, we did it!

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Life & Def LP

No (feat. Champagne Duane)

Good Vibes

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Pink Champagne II ft Champagne Duane

Plug ft Cee Goods & Champagne Duane

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The Sampler

Lavender Lemonade Ft. Champagne Duane

"One Day"
Album: The Campaign
Produced by @ceegoodsproduction
Vocals by @saeeda-wright and Nehemiah Booker
Guitar by Evan Simko

(Intro)
As the campaign trail moves on. It feels so Good. It feels so Wright. It’s one for the Books.

(Bridge)
Treat each other fair/ see each other in the mirror
Regardless of race, sex, creed, color o’ hair
Love who you want as long as love is in the air
Let em up above know we care
(2x)

(Hook – Saeeda Wright and Nehemiah Booker)
It’ll happen one day
We gotta start today
It ain’t gon take one day
It ain’t gon take two days

(Verse 1)
Long live the King, King, and the right thing to do
Long live the fight for the truth
Lets set aside our differences and set our sites with emphasis
On giving longer lives to the youth
Redistribute the funds/ reinstitute the fun
Resist from using guns/ on our discontinued sons
We in a state of mass incarceration
Reinstate jobs and education
And redefine global warming
As having one heart that so enormous
We can fire up compassion so all are nourished
With the finest of fashions we’ll clothe the homeless
The Strength to Love is my Constitution
The Strength to Love, that’s my Declaration
I say we cut down on pollution, smell the celebration
With a breath of fresh air, we can vent elation/ it’ll happen

(Hook)
It’ll happen one day
We gotta start today
It ain’t gon take one day
It ain’t gon take two days
It’s gonna take all us together
A promise to never
Give up on each other
Make the world better
One day

(Verse 2)
The policy needs editing
Equality is the medicine
Democracy’s even better when
Economies can benefit/ all, not just the wealthiest
Your perfect lives with your perfect wives
Perfect colonies, your perfect hives
While we work to survive/ it only hurts to divide
And God forbid we ever verbalize
There’s too much month at the end of the money
And too much money spent defending the country
And too much country with nothing to eat
And too much to eat but it’s just for the elite
And too many sick, poor, hungry and dying
Who can’t afford to care when the youngest is crying
And too many crying from the social injustice
I still have a dream, I know it’s amongst us/ it’ll happen

(Hook)

(Outro)
I need everybody to put one finger in the air like this. And let’s turn one day into day one. How wonderful would that one day be? One day of love, one day of peace. Then imagine day two and day three.

One Day [(feat. Saeeda Wright & Nehemiah Booker) prod. Cee Goods]

Album: The Campaign (Feb 20, 2017)
Artist: Champagne Duane
Producer: @ceegoodsproduction
Track 5 of 10
©2017 Champagne Duane

(Intro)
President Obama on the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

(Verse 1)
They stuck with us now/ put up wit us now
Never thought we'd run the town when we ducked underground (we runnin')
Though How to Make a Slave by Wiilie Lynch is still applying
Keep the body, take the mind, I swear they got it to a science (Go!)
Like, first ship em dope and let em deal to brothers (then)
Give em guns, step back, and watch em kill each other (then)
Devour, then deflower n devalue their heroines
Street powder to keep power, put a value on heroin (got it)
Like D Howard we ran to the block
With outstretched hands we asked our mans for the rock
Page 4 of the curriculum/ wage war, start convicting em
Here comes Daniel with the vans and the locks (Book 'em, Danno!)
So how you feel, how you feel, how you feel
In 25, the number's grown to 2.5 mill
Cheap labor became free, too costly to send us back
Blackmail the black male, I'm just sending the facts (fax)

(Hook)
Will I die in here? Will I see the sun?
25 more years, 'Til I see my son
I'm buried alive, I'm gone and forgotten
Black's the new black, bloodshed's the new cotton
They can take my body, they can't take my mind
Lord take my soul, when they say it's my time
Will I die in here? Will I see my son?
25 more years, Will I see the sun?

(Verse 2)
The rules are bent, assaulted female prisoners consent
To stay content/ Who's job is to repent?
When 12 officers have felt her breasts/ today alone
12 months from now, 12 million more arrests (oh no)
Happy anniversary baby!
Come here and peel off that orange, you ain't been nursing me lately
Demented, sick defendants plead the 5th amendment
While trauma alters genetics of troubled and scarred descendants
I take it from your silence that I'm making you listen
State of the prison/ designed for violence n racial division
Main Mission: confine 'em to a hole
Deny 'em payroll so they violate parole (you'll be back)
So how you feel, how you feel, how you feel
In 25, the number's grown to 2.5 mill
800 on death row, takes 80 million to power
So much for the 8th Amendment/ when you make 8 cents an hour/ these are facts

(Hook)

(Verse 3)
They don't educate, they throw the book, they make sure they hit ya
Jew-veniles locked up at 13, bar mitzvah
18 times more likely to be tried as an
18 year old for the same crime as them
They watching us, in the hood, 3 striKes just for burning trees
While swatsikas, in a hood n 3 Ks get to burn trees
To please cops, we cop pleas/ blood drops on leaves
They'll eavesdrop/ we've got to stop these thieves/ try to keep up (facts)
Direct deposits into the bank/ fund for-profit criminal tanks
With no intentions but detention retention, inventin' offenses for walkin' the plank
No dental coverage, no help for the mental, suffrage
Commission off the commissary, families left to suffer
So how you feel, how you feel, how you feel
In 25, the numbers grown to 2.5 mill
Born with a death sentence, the burden of being black
These ain't feelings, see these are facts/ there ain't no taking em back

(Hook)

See The Sun [prod. Cee Goods]

Watch the music video! --> https://youtu.be/O0vV9LCHfTk
Album: The Campaign (Feb 20, 2017)
Artist: Champagne Duane
Producer: @ceegoodsproduction
Track 4 of 10
©2017 Champagne Duane

(Intro)
President Obama on the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

Crowd chanting "No Justice, No Peace" in front of Police Department in Oakland, CA

(Hook)
What if we shoot back?
What if we shoot back?
What if we shoot back?
What if we shoot back?

(Verse 1)
Murder in the first degree/ with no urgency/ to get his body to emergency/ just left him in the Ferguson street/ for the world to see/ god damnit how perverted are we/ and it's burning in the 3rd degree to see our dreams deferred and be referred so fervently/ as the reason it occurs like we yearn to be gunned down to the ground like a herd of beasts/ wait, I just heard the police/ kill another brother in broad day light/ we don't tell our kids about the birds n the bees/ they learn how to freeze/ and lose all their rights/ that's not propaganda/ there don't ever stop Amanda/ you lucky if you meet Miranda/ when the cops say hands up it's... (Shots)...To all the Katie's who want 'em a mixed baby/ better hope he turn into another Curry or a Drake/ what you gon do when they say the family picture you painted is tainted/ he gotta wash the dirt off his face/ that's the color of his skin/ your his mother you're his kin/ but the prisons are filled so they killing at will and next they could be coming for him/ Why must I be mortified everytime someone's immortalized/ why does it take a sole to rise like Jordan 5s when 6 ring out from the .45/ he was only 23... He had all his life/ he was only 12 years old, you saw 21, you not qualified

(Hook)

(Verse 2)
What if we shoot back/ what if we each had at least 2 gats/ one cast steel for Castile, one new Mac for move back/ what if we was out for vengeance/ what if we go pay they house a visit/ what if we go ahead n Malcolm X them right out of existence... (shots) Man Down! ... what if we call up the leader of Isis/ tell em there's really a crisis/ tell em we gon need some advice kid/ cops killing kids out here and they bleeding for life it's/ gone way way way past brutality/ this is now bad for humanity/ this is now mad, it's insanity/ all at the hands of their vanity/ n still no recourse/ for militant p'lice force/ we're starting to get really impatient/ still no convictions/ we're boa constricted/ to thinking that the laws ain't changing/ we should Grant him an Oscar for Shootvale Station/ way to play innocent, standing ovation/ clap for him or clap at him, what if we change the conversation

(Hook)

President Obama on the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

Gun Control [prod. Cee Goods]

Album: The Campaign (Feb 20, 2017)
Artist: Champagne Duane
Producer: @ceegoodsproduction
Track 2 of 10
©2017 Champagne Duane

(Verse 1)
Just seen a homeless woman sleep in front of city hall
Thirty feet from her, there layed the holy bible
Both of them abandoned, neither one could see the fall
I started thinking am I here for my own survival
The irony hit me, and lit a fire within me
Her guidance was literally a stones throw away
If Goliath can get beat, then why can't I empty
My pride for my pennies and fill a hole in her day
Is a dollar enough? Is a dollar enough?
Is that all that I can spare, she could probably call my bluff
Is a dollar enough? Here a dollar's enough.
But what happens to the dollar as soon as it leaves my clutch
Isn't 'In God We Trust', Isn't 'In God We Trust'
On the money for a reason or am I making this up
And if it's God that we trust, IF it's God that we trust
Then why not give her the bible, why didn't I pick it up, huh?

Barack Obama: Fixing the Homeless Crisis

(Verse 2)
Single mother, victim of abuse
The web she's caught up in got her feeling recluse
Ex husband, just to spite her (just a spider)
Won't pick up the kids before she works an all-nighter/ two jobs, true survivor Provide the type o life her kids would like to live
So they won't freeze, no eve without the ribs
Minimum wage pays for a maximum rage
Sinking lower like a casket so she asks for a raise
Is a dollar enough? Is a dollar enough?
A dollar more still couldn't get her on the bus
Is a dollar enough? Here a dollar's enough.
By now she's thinking she should have never fallen in love
Is her daughter a crutch? Is her daughter a crutch?!
A mother shouldn't have to think that way about her pups
Is it bothering us? Ain't it bothering us?
That the system missed the point and now we amidst all this dust

Barack Obama speaks on Women and the Economy

(Verse 3)
Dear Brock, if your name was Barack
You wouldn't make it this far/ you'd a been slain by the cops
Though this is not about race/ this is about disgrace
This is about a woman who can barely show her face
But he's a star so she must've kissed him
Just a slap on the wrist, a couple months in prison
The justice system says 'it's just his system'
Well there's some real killers inside that'll adjust his system
Is a dollar enough? Is a dollar enough?
That's gotta be enough for her to keep it on the hush
Is a dollar enough? Here a dollar's enough!
Spent the rest on a lawyer who painted you as a lush
You think locking him up's/ not worth the horrible cut
That she has to live with daily, I'm sorry your honor, what?!
He graduates with honors while she can hardly conduct-
I'm at a loss for words, I think I've said enough.

Barack Obama: Rape is Rape

Enough [(feat. Barack Obama) prod. Cee Goods]

Album: The Campaign (Feb 20, 2017)
Artist: Champagne Duane
Producer: @ceegoodsproduction
Track 1 of 10
©2017 Champagne Duane

(Intro)
Welcome, everybody. Welcome. You're here for a reason. 'Bout to open the ceremony, and you know what to do...

(Hook)
Power to the people, power to the people
(4x)

Right On. If this is your first time then welcome. Just remember it's all love. Now when I say 'power to the people', you say...

(Hook)

(Verse 1)
An injury to one is an injury to all
If our sons can't rise, our daughters will fall
So get up on yo feet and everybody stand tall
If you wit me, let me hear the call
Power to the people (power to the people)
We can't stop now, we just an hour from the steeple
Absolute cowards use their power for illegal
The march must go on if we're to tower over evil
The poor are getting poorer, the gap needs diminishing
Great American horror, time to extinguish it
The party Martin started, let's fight til we finish it
It's now or never equal, time to relinquish it. Power to the People.

(Hook)

(Verse 2)
This is for Mandela in the trenches/ defenseless behind fences
Live long and prosper more than weapons formed against us
To the Huey P Newtons who ready to keep shootin'
Gimme the loot, gimme the loot, gimme the loot or we lootin
For Biggie and for Pac/ for Negus who been locked
For the right to cast a vote/ for the right to tote a glock
For that right not to be in vain, we get shot
By cops with the desert eagle like doctors injecting needles
For the 1 millionth man/ holding 1 million hands
Making 1 million plans/ to take 1 million stands
Against any injustice, in 1 million lands
If one can dream, then 1 million can/ bring Power to the People.

(Hook)

We bout to take it around the world. All around the world. So when you hear your country or any country for that matter, you know what to do.

(Hook)

Right on! And if you don't mind, I'd like to make a pit stop in South Africa. When I say Amanda, you say Awethu. Freedom awaits. Let's get it.

(Hook)

Right on. And if you don't mind, I'd like to take a pit stop in my birthplace, Guyana. Celebrating 50 years of independence. GT! No doubt.

(Hook)

Call it coincidence. But I'd like to give a shoutout to 50 years of the Black Panther Party. And for that we raise a fist and we say

(Hook)

Right on.

Power To The People [prod. Cee Goods]

"44 4's" is Champagne Duane's nod to Jay-Z's latest album, 4:44, as well as the single "22 Two's" from his first album, Reasonable Doubt. (2:22)

44 4s

Champagne Duane teams up with @brookfieldduece to deliver "Fly Free", a powerful political statement over a @ceegoods beat.

Watch the music video here: youtu.be/u7np6TTVNxk

Fly Free (feat. Brookfield Duece x prod. Cee Goods)

Champagne Duane drops off his first single of 2020 with an uptempo tribute to Notorious B.I.G. titled "Birthdays." Sampling the hip hop classic "Juicy," Champagne Duane gives praise to Biggie while celebrating his own born day over the funky instrumental provided by TOPE. Originally, Duane and TOPE connected while living in Portland and again a few years later when both of them coincidentally relocated to Oakland, California. After finding out they were neighbors, Duane came to TOPE with the idea for "Birthdays" and the two built the song from scratch in-studio, with Duane deciding what sample feel and tempo he wanted to go with. Featuring some additional vocals from TOPE, Champagne Duane flows with ease over "Birthdays" displaying an air of confidence and swag that shines through on the track. Press play on the official single "Birthdays" by Champagne Duane and stay tuned for the music video dropping soon as well!

Lyrics

Intro

Hook 1
I was dead broke on my [birthdays]
Now the honies play me close on my [birthdays]
Now it’s time to get paid on my [birthdays]
Glow up like Dwyane Wade on my [birthdays]
And all I really want for my [birthdays]
Is to see us all in front cuz my [birthdays]
Was the worst days
And now we drink champagne when we thirty

Verse 1
I’m zoom zoomin’ with the speakers boomin’, Metro
I’m gassed up with this full tank, Petro
I’m feelin’ funky in the fresh Fila, retros
And nobody could stop me so, leggo
Got the Dolce on the wrist beamin’, neck glow
Oh I’m drippin’ in that sauce baby, pesto
You can hate me now but I got the, best flow
And it’s time for me to let the whole U, S know
You been jockin’ my style from the, get go
I’m the one, we don’t need two, echo
Tell me why you always hatin’, why don’t you, FO
Oh you mad ’cause I’m flyer than U, FO
Look, don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the, edge yo
And I’m really tryin’ not to lose my, head yo
If it pop I’ma pop like a Pro, secco
Knuck if you buck but you better duck, get low
‘Cause it’s yo

Hook 2

Bridge
You damn right i like the life i live
You damn right i like the life i live
(3x)
You damn right i like the life i live
Because I went from negative to positive and it’s all

Verse 2
It’s all good
Negative to positive, the checks have been deposited, it’s all love
And stress is not an option kid
So if you mad at the flow, go that way bro
I’m with my whole crew loungin’ in the front of the bar
A school of foreign women like we study a broad
Ha ha ha ha ha, she feelin the liquor
Shorty's throwing it back, we runnin that flea flicker
Don’t hurt me baby, don’t hurt me baby
Just work it baby, oh that’s perfect baby
It’s my birthday baby, I need a piece of that cake
Just don’t desert(dessert) me, I got a milly to make
I’m showing off of course, I’m a better design
I never thought it could happen, I’m gettin better with time
And the air up here is as clear as it looks
Another dollar, ‘nother year in the books
Biggie bring in the hook

Hook 3

Birthdays (prod. Tope)

It is often said that an artist can change the game, but all too often it doesn’t happen. In the case of Champagne Duane, people should at least start paying attention. Humble and ambitious, he is the definition of hard work and has brought his solid work ethic to the booth. Creative, witty, edgy, smooth and perceptive only begin to describe his approach to the game, but one word you should use is, complete. From the up tempo tracks like ‘Friday’ and ‘Killin Em’ to the introspective ballads ‘Need’ and ‘We Love It’, Champagne Duane brings versatility, depth, and a confidence that says, “I have arrived.”

And that confidence is well placed in someone who, a product of ’82, has experienced and achieved more than most do in a lifetime and is a solid student of the game. His early influences include Nas, Jay-Z, Slick Rick, and Talib Kweli. Described as “LL over Primo beats,” he comes with an eclectic style while being articulate and intelligent. His music making began in high school when he produced songs for his church and ghost writing for other artists, but decided to put recording on the back burner to focus on his chosen career, footwear design.

Guyana-born, Florida-raised, Duane Lawrence has always harbored an artistic side. An almuni of Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami, he often found reinforcement in his ability to communicate his ideas visually, drawing from an imaginative personality. That imagination led the former Miami Heat Ballboy to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit where his passion for design, art and music grew. In 2004, Duane’s footwear career began at Converse, near Boston, where he would become the lead designer for NBA superstar Dwyane Wade. Now residing in Portland, his designs have also been worn by athletes like Dwight Howard and Tim Duncan.

After a decade in the shoe game, ‘The Champ’ has finally returned to the booth. More charismatic, clever and craftier. Break out the champagne!

Champagne Duane

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