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Inspectah Deck & Raekwon: Album Neuigkeiten!

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Inspectah Deck arbeitet in diesen Tagen an gleich zwei Alben.
Zusammen mit DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) wird er gemeinsam eine komplette LP erschaffen, "The Rebel Assassin" oder schlicht "Muggs meets Deck" soll das ganze dann heißen.

Aber auch das dritte Solo Album ist in Arbeit. "Return of the Rebel" wird es wohl heißen, nach der Muggs LP erscheinen und Beats von The Alchemist, Muggs, Bronze Nazareth, 4th Disciple und The RZA enthalten. Masta Killa, GZA, Raekwon und eventuell Nas werden gefeatured sein...

Auf dem Splash hat er es dieses Jahr bereits angekündigt, jetzt wird es so richtig offiziell: Raekwon ist in diesen Tagen wirklich intensiv damit beschäftigt, "Only built 4 Cuban Linx Part 2" wirklich Realität werden zu lassen!

Die ersten Gerüchte besagen, dass Nas, Mobb Deep, Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe die Gäste sein werden, für die Produktionen sind The RZA, The Alchemist und sogar Dr. Dre im Gespräch...

Twista was injured in a car crash that killed a member of his entourage Monday (Sept. 7) morning in Pennsylvania.

The rapper was treated and released after the van he was a passenger in crashed on Interstate 90, as Twista was heading from Syracuse, New York, to his hometown of Chicago.

The van swerved off the road and into the median where it flipped over.

Arthur Dixon of Chicago suffered fatal injuries and died at the Hamot Medical Center.

Five other occupants were also injured, none seriously.

No charges have been filed against the driver of the vehicle, but police are still investigating why the driver swerved off of the road.

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Neues vom "Wu-Mastermind" RZA laut hiphopnews.de:


RZA: The Formula for Cure - Neue Solo LP!!

RZA / Wu Tang Fans dürfen wieder hoffen!

"The Cure" wird es zwar auch in nächster Zeit (noch) nicht geben, doch es besteht Hoffnung, dass das seit der ersten Bobby Digital angekündigte Album nun doch noch irgendwann in den nächsten Monaten kommen könnte! Warum?
Noch in diesem Jahr wird es mit "The Formula for Cure" ein neues Album von The RZA geben. Darauf enthalten: 7 neue Tracks vom Rzarector, sowie unveröffentlichte Exclusives und Originalversionen von sehr raren, älteren Tracks.
Als Gäste bzw. Inspirationen sind Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder und, man beachte, Beethoven im Spiel.

Mit den 2 Black Market Mixtapes hatte sich eine Zusammenarbeit der beiden ja schon angekündigt, mal abwarten ob das Album tatsächlich erscheint:

Tragedy Khadafi & Killah Priest: Gemeinsame LP!

Black Market, so wird die neue Crew von QB-Gott Tragedy Khadafi und Killah Priest heißen, zu der sich obendrein Hell Razah, William Cooper und Timbo King gesellen werden.

Die erste Crew Debüt LP ist seit einiger Zeit bereits in der Mache, und dass dies kein großes Bla Bla ist beweist die Tatsache, dass die erste Maxi "The Struggle" / "Thug Nation" bereits in weniger als zwei Wochen über Performance Records / Nature Sounds rauskommt.

Als A&R wird übrigens Dreddy Kruger tätig sein, der Mann, der auch A&R für die nächsten Alben von GZA, Killah Priest, Justice und u-Tang sein wird...

Dein Cover wurde nicht angezeigt, hier ist es:

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Das Cover sieht sehr fein aus.
Allerdings frag ich mich doch, was das soll. Erst Cure Mixtape. jetzt Formula for Cure...

Naja, hoffentlich kommt das Muggs & Inspektah Deck Album bald.

Last week, 730 and Tha Realest finished recording a collaboration album. The album was recorded at California's Can-Am Studios. The album is titled "From East 2 West" and features Swoop G, G-Money, New Child and many more.

Tha Realest and 730 appear on 11 songs together. The album also features a solo song by Tha Realest as well as three solo songs by 730. The production was handled by Kurt "Kobane" Couthon, Marv "Marvelous" Paige and Hella Tight. The album will be released later this year and will also come with a free DVD

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In the last two years, Immortal Technique’s voice has steadily gotten louder outside of his normal underground surroundings. The Harlem-bred lyricist is weighing his options before he releases another album, he said, but he spoke at length about where he’s headed.

“I’m coming back to the roots, what made me Immortal Technique - real raw. [I’m bringing} the brutal lyrics and at the same time a lot of conceptual substantive in the next album,” he told AllHipHop.com. “If I make something and it doesn’t feel like an original idea from me, then I can’t put it out. It’s formula man [and] that’s limiting. Put that with the others.”

On Revolutionary Vol. 2, which was released last year on his Viper Records, Technique spoken brazenly about the state of political affairs in America and his Harlem hometown. The buzz, which has been increasing for years, has gotten the attention of the majors.

Having shunned a major label deal, Technique said such a move would be highly unlikely, because of the type of artist that he is.

“They call a couple of times sometimes during the week asking me what I’m doing, what I want to do. It’s not just the major labels it’s the under major label [large independents],” he said, taking the interest with a grain of salt.

“It’s not what you rhyme about though because you could rhymes about being a revolutionary or you could rhyme about streets, your ice, your 24’s. The labels are going to look at you the same way, they don’t care what you rhyme about. You can talk about anything you want to. At the end of they are going to look at you the same.”

The rapper, whose rhymes are drenched in commentary, said he is more interested in applying his income and business savvy to more practical things.

“I think economical power equal political power, if you don’t have economical sovernty, you won’t have political sovernty. You don’t the control the economics of your neighbor hood you don’t control the political side,” he clarified. “If everybody in Harlem owns those brimstones - they own all those businesses.”

Advising, he rationalized, “Invest in things that people can’t take away. Get someone in your family to invest in a college education scholarship program. Can’t nobody come back saying you’re an idiot give me back your college education. It’s something that you are going to have for the rest of your life. I’m invested in that and I chose carefully what I invest in.”

While he was a college student at Penn State University, Technique was incarcerated and eventually incarcerated on aggravated assault charges after a group racially harassed him and others. He intends to pick up where he left off one day, he stated.

“I got like a semester left to do in school. I feel that I definitely will go to school to get my degree. It’s just that it’s so much drama right now music,” he explained. “I might have to do some online course or something to get my degree I don’t have the time to go to a regular class room.”

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Songwriting legend Burt Bacharach and Dr. Dre continue to work together on an untitled project, which was first announced in February of 2003.

Bacharach, who is 76-years-old, said that working with Dr. Dre on the untitled project was comparable to his relationship with his famous songwriting partner, Hal David.

"Three of the four things I've already cut have Dr. Dre drum loops that he gave me," Bacharach told the Denver Post. "It's a challenging, freeing feeling, to take an existing format - like these rigid, four-bar loops - and to see what you can write on top of it. It's hard and challenging too because it does have some restrictions. It's kinda like Hal giving me the whole lyric on'Alfie' and then having to set that up around it."

Bacharach’s foray into Hip-Hop is not surprising to critics. David has survived through several era’s of music, working with artists from every genre, amassing over 70 hits in his 50-year-career.

Bacharach said Sony gave him complete creative control over the album.

“They didn't want me to write another hit song, and I had got together with Dre about a year and a half ago and talked about doing something for the album that we never did,” he said. “Then he gave me the loops, and when I decided to do this album for Sony England, it seemed a natural fit.”

Bacharach has penned some of the most memorable pop songs in history, including "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," "Walk On By," "A House Is Not A Home," and many others.

His music was introduced to a new, younger audience after he and his music were featured in the Austin Power's franchise of films.

The album will be finished next fall.

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Slim Thug's new album Already Platinum will be dropping this Winter by Geffen Records through Slim's Boss Hogg Outlawz label and Star Trak, the label founded by mega-star producers, The Neptunes. Slim Thug hails from Houston, Texas and worked with The Neptunes to produce 8 songs on his upcoming CD. Other producers include Jazze Pha.

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Talib Kweli returns with his highly anticipated album The Beautiful Struggle set for release September 28th. Album includes guest appearances by Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans & RES and production by Kayne West, Just Blaze, Hi-Tek, & Charlemagne among others.

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are semifinalists in nominations to be inducted into the world renowned Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The top 15 artists that tally the most votes will be this year’s nominees for consideration. Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record.

The nominating committee is made up of Rock and Roll historians. After the committee has chosen their semi-finalists, ballots are sent to an international voting body comprising of almost 1000 authorities on the history of Rock and Roll.

The artists who receive the highest number of votes are inducted. Usually that equates to about five to seven groups being inducted each year.

This year’s list is one of the most diverse in the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were nominated along side ABBA, Jeff Beck, seminal Doo-Wop group The Harptones, The O’Jays, Kraftwerk, Ringo Starr and others.

The group recorded first as the Younger Generation and released a single, “We Rap More Mellow” in 1979. After a name change, the group signed with the Enjoy record label owned by Bobby Robinson.

The group recorded Superappin’” in 1979 as well. Once they switched to the Sugar Hill record label, they recorded a series of legendary Hip-Hop songs, including "Freedom," "Birthday Party," "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel," "The Message," and "White Lines."

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Zweifle - und es werden dir Probleme kommen.
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After first being introduced to the world on the Gangstarr's Daily Operations album via the track, "I'm the Man," Jeru The Damaja stormed on the scene with his "hardcore conscious" style of hip-hop.

From there, Jeru dropped his 1993 classic single "Come Clean" from his legendary album The Sun Rises in the East, but didn't reach his peak success until The Wrath of the Math, which spawned a hit single in "Ya Playin' Yaself."

With much history in the game of hip-hop, Jeru is back again with his second independent release titled Divine Design, on his new label Ashenafi Records.

Currently, the album has two new singles. The first being "Rap Wars" produced by Sabor, which is an old school battle-style record, loaded with witty punch lines and pure rhyming skills. The second is a collaboration Jeru did with Lil' Dap (aka Big Dap) of the Group Home called "Don't Get It Twisted."

To hear both singles, logon to TygerEye.net/Jeru.

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Fans seeking the final installment of De La Soul’s Artificial Intelligence series, shouldn’t look towards their next release, The Grind Date.

Since leaving Tommy Boy Records, and going independent for their first time ever, the group decided that they had experienced too much and changed to follow the concept. The third Artificial Intelligence record, which is supposed to be dedicated to the art of DJ’ing, is yet to be recorded.

Group DJ Maseo told AllHipHop.com, “We do still plan on doing [The AOI Volume 3] record, [but with The Grind Date,] we just had to focus on putting a record together that was gonna kind of put us back in today’s Hip-Hop. [Volume 3] was a record would kind of just involve me and my fellow DJ’s, which is more of just a novelty De La record. I think going after the MTV and BET viewers, is not the record.”

Previously, Maseo said that De La Soul's third installment of the Artificial Intelligence series will be released independently through his own Bear Mountain Entertainment label.
As for The Grind Date, it will drop within the next month. Maseo said.

“The album is just the existence of what we been dealing with since breakin’ off that relationship with Tommy Boy, being 30 plus years old.”

This album, like the last, uses outside production from Dave West, Jake One, Madlib, and collaborations with Ghostface Killah and others.

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COMING MARCH 2005!!!

Ca$h and Mr. Sche present Cold Hard Ca$h Feat: Ca$h Mr. Sche, Indo G, X-Raided, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Al Kapone, Snypaz, Cool Nutz, T-Rock, Young Droop, Mac T Dog of Tommy Wrights 10 Wanted Men, Dulaa, Dawreck of Triple Darkness, Lil C.S., Mackvillin, Boss Bytch, U.K., Da Reapa, Outside, Nicc Saccs, DJ Cree, and more....

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