Oktober hat gerade sein neues Album "projekt:BUILDING" veröffentlicht nachdem er vorher ein paar Mixtapes auf den Markt gebracht hat. Er hat in der Vergangenheit auch einige Sachen mit u.a. L.I.F.E. Long aufgenommen. Das Oktober vs. Madvillain Projekt ist eine Respektsbekundung von Oktober an Doom und Madlib, er rappt über die Instrumentals der beiden. Das wurde in seinem Forum auf seiner (offiziellen) Homepage zu dem Projekt gepostet:
WHAT UP YALL..YOU KNOW OKTOBER IS ALWAYS ON THE GRIND, SO AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE SUCESSFUL DEBUT LP, "projekt:BUILDING", OKTOBER DECIDES TO DO WHAT HE DOES BEST:
GET BACK TO BUSINESS!
SO OKTOBER IS BRINGING THE MASSES A NEW INDEPENDENTLY RELEASED MIXTAPE.
HIDING IN THE SHADOWS OF HIP HOP, OKTOBER KEEPS A CLOSE WATCH ON WHATS HOT. NEARING THE END OF 2004 OKTOBER COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HIP HOP ALBUMS ARENT BUMPIN LIKE THEY SHOULD BE. SELF PROCLAIMING HIS OWN DEBUT LP AS ALBUM OF THE YEAR, NOTHIN MOVIN, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONE ALBUM,
MADVILLAINY.
OKTOBER CERTAINLY RESPECTS THIS BODY OF WORK, ESPECIALLY THE BEATS. HE PONDERED TO HIMSELF:
WHAT IT WOULD SOUND LIKE TO HAVE SOME TRUE BOOGIE DOWN BRONX LYRICISM ON IT? STREET RAW LYRICS, WITH A TWIST OF INTELLEGENCE AND A DOUBLE SHOT OF RHYTHM, BLENDED WITH THE FINE BREWED MALT BEATS OF NON OTHER THAN THE LEGENDARY MADLIB, OF LOOTPACK...SOUNDS INTOXICATING.
AFTER THIS REVELATION, COINCEDENTALLY THE LABEL WHO RELEASED THIS PROJECT, STONES THROW, DECIDED THEY WANTED TO INVEST THEIR JEWELS INTO RELEASING MADVILLAINY AS AN INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM.
THIS IS LIKE LEAVING OKTOBER ZERO IN THE CASTLE WITH THE PRINCESS WHILE THE KING IS GONE...YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF.
BEHOLD....THE MADVANDAL MIXTAPE CD!
THIS IS LYRICAL EXPLOITATION ON THE PART OF OKT, AND THE DRAMA THAT HE SPITS DOESNT STICK, IT PENETRATES. THIS ONLY LEAVES US TO WONDER:
WHY DID HE JACK THESE BEATS?
WHATS THE BEEF ABOUT?
THERE IS NO BEEF. PERIOD.
OKTOBER IS AN ARTIST OF RAP AS BLOODSPORT. THIS IS THE WAY HE VENTS OUT HIS ANGER. NOT THROUGH PHYSICAL CONFRONTATION, BUT THROUGH EMOTION IN SOUND.... BUT HE NOT PUSSY THO.
THE PROJECT IS TAKEN TO THE EXTREME BY OKT NAMING IT "MADVANDAL" BECAUSE HES AN ARTIST, ARTISTICALLY PAINTING OVER THE ARTWORK OF ANOTHER ARTISTS (or as some rappers say, "artississs").
OKTOBER STRONGLY URGES LISTENERS TO TAKE THE CONTEXT IN AS SOMETHING CREATIVE, CONCEPTUAL, AND COMPETITIVE, NOT SOMETHING DISRESPECTFUL OR PERSONAL.
PLEASE PICK UP A COPY OF THE MADVANDAL MIXTAPE, AS WELL AS THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC LP, "MADVILLAINY".
LETS TAKE IT BACK TO THE TRUE SCHOOL AND MAKE HIP HOP WHAT IT SHOULD BE: FUN!
THANK YOU OKTOBER!! WE LOVE YOU!!
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