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Collard Greens & Gunpowda
Many dog owners and trainers feed their pets an admixture of leftover food from the dinner table and gunpowder. It is said that gunpowder causes a canine to be more aggressive, erratic. Angry. In essence, the food portion of this strange diet sustains the dog's growth while the gunpowder alters it's temperament and corrodes it's emotional stability. The combination simultaneously nurtures and destroys the animal. Dogs reared in this manner are most often killed in dog fights, die from health complications, or are put to sleep.... Sorepo Records proudly announces the release of Blac Phoak's groundbreaking new album, the aptly titled Collard Greens and Gunpowda. After selling over 9,000 hand-to-hand units of their underground album, The Movement, the eight member group, Yum Yum, Donavelli, Spody, Ni'key Baby, Vorhese, DK, Emlo, and Chozen, are back with their first commercial release. The new project flows as life does itself highlighting and poetically interpreting all of the fundamental human emotions including distress, anger, pain, depression, happiness, fear, love, and sensuality. The album's title relates to the opposing spiritual, emotional, and socio-psychological forces shaping the lives and perspectives of the group members. The group finds it's roots in the historic city of Selma at the heart of Alabama's Black Belt region. The Black Belt, also referred to as the Bible Belt, is one of the most economically deprived regions in the nation, prompting comparisons to third world countries. Moreover, the Bible Belt, despite it's religious intensity, is overwhelmed by crime, violence, and failing educational institutions. It is a world were black mothers are forced to raise their children to survive instead of to live. It is this incongruous background that lays the foundation for the group's unique perspective: While Selma's civil rights legacy, black power ethos, and concentrated spirituality afforded the group members their consciousness, character, and faith, the city's joblessness and hopelessness are partly responsible for the group's anger, emotional instability as well as for the more destructive aspects of their personalities. Collard Greens and Gunpowda is concept driven from beginning to end. Following closely to the theme of the album, most of the songs reflect the contradictory nature of the black experience. However, despite the intensity and scope of the album, it still maintains a unique commercial appeal. One of the group's most defining songs, "First Thang Monday Mornin' (Remix)" is an unusually self-aware song about procrastination, failed self-change, and regret. The refrain reads in part, "First thang Monday mornin', I'm getting off this nicotine, puttin' down this alcohol and slacking off these collar' greens, but Monday neva comes." Also featured on Collard Greens is the subversive "Start a Riot," a street anthem destined to be a coast to coast club banger. This song, in particular, is a classic example of the Blac Phoak formula... "Give your audience what they need to hear, flipped in a way they want to hear it". Not overlooking the lighthearted side of life, Collard Greens & Gunpowda includes the tongue in cheek "Southern Lovers". One of the albums more humorous and whimsical tracks, it is seemingly a song about "gimme guls" (the southern version of gold diggers), but is more a play on materialism. The song finds the artists instructing us on how to get the gold diggers without giving the gold. In the process, they almost make it cool to be broke: "Southern lovers ain't no Casanovas ridin' 'round in no Range Rovers, girl we drive in Chevy Novas hemmin' you up on yo' mama's sofa." All in all, the masterfully assembled Collard Greens and Gunpowda is a breath of fresh air in the some times suffocating world of Hip-Hop music. The album, boldly combining social commentary, emotional disclosure and commercial appeal, can only be described as Collard Greens and Gunpowda. The group members with their varied lifestyles, distinct personalities and diverse perspectives can only be described as Blac Phoak. A movement indeed. Chozen "Man this is fo'real to me. I mean the way I connect with it is almost spiritual. I actually believe, I was born to be an MC. That's why they call me 'Chozen'....and when I hit that stage man, I go into a whole 'nother zone. But on another level, I also believe that what I do can affect the world, and I stand by my beliefs because I was taught that a man is nothing without his integrity. I was also raised to speak my mind, so of course this music is just natural to me. I done seen so much and been through so much...I just want to bring my point of view and my experiences to our music and give something to the world that has as much grit, intensity, passion and significance as this here ditch we represent." Yum Yum "There ain't no way to really describe me or my style. It's slaughta. I been all over and ran with all types of cats, from arm robbers to activist, dope dealers to doctors, hustlers to lawyers. So I picked up a little of this, a little of that from everybody along the way. I ain't no psychologist or nothing, but you could say that that's what shaped the attitude I approach life with. I don't want no stress. I didn't even want to be no rapper. I wasn't one of those cats walking around with a backpack and a notebook all of the time, but when we created Sorepo and set up the studio I would be down there messing around with the group and they started telling me that I had a raw style. They damn near made me get on a song. Up until then, I was doing it as a joke. I still just rap when I feel like it. But I guess I'll keep doing it. Ain't no telling." Nikki Donavelli "My life is crazy because I was like raised in two different places with two different realities. My people back in Ohio was heavy in the dope game-I ain't gone lie I got caught up...did almost a year--but my mom always made me aware of the history of our folk. And then living in Selma just reinforced all of the stuff I had learned. The level of consciousness I put into my songs is just a reflection of the crazy way I was brought up. You know, Collard Greens and Gunpowda. The content of my lyrics is a lot of times inspired by folk like W.E.B. Dubois and Malcolm X, but the spirit of my rhymes have the influence of cats like Tupac Shakur, the Last Poets and Donald Goines. I feel like it's on me to represent them all." D.K. "Man, I have 5 brothers & sisters and I grew up in a home that sometimes had up to 19 other people in it--Foreal. My family was real active in the community, so I was raised on the struggle. At the same time, growing up around all them people, you got to create your own space just to keep your sanity. Sometimes you had to fight just to eat. Man, that's the story of my life. I been at it with someone or something every since I was peeing in the bed. It's been a constant war with myself, always challenging myself, always trying to get better. It really just comes down to survival. You know a lot of people call me hard-headed, but sometimes I feel like it's my will that gets me by. I'm a born competiter. Now, I almost feel like I am competing with myself. It's like 'can I make a hotter beat?' or 'can I write some more fire lyrics?' I feel like I am about to loose it sometimes because I know they ain't ready for us and I'm ready for them to know they ain't." Spody "Man I been hustlin' all my life. And it seem like I been rappin' as long as I been hustlin, so I guess you can say I'm a veteran of both worlds. I bring to hip hop, what I got from the streets. That type of Wisdom and Knowledge that can't be learned in 4th period history class. I know I got something to get and give from this. Ain't no free lunch in life, and ain't nobody gone give you sh-t. You got to earn it or take it. And after watching so many of my homeboys getting locked up and buried, I knew there wasn't nothing left for me on the streets. What I'm doing now- Shop: odax
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Lifes Portrait
Q.Mix was born in the dirty south state of Texas. Living in areas where there is a constant hustle, he turned to music, sports and education as a source of survival. Q. Mix listened to a variety of music pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gay, The Jackson's, Sting, Public Enemy, Run DMC, NWA, Ghetto Boys and a list of other various artists. Upon graduating from high school, he was forced to choose between street life, music, and the military. He joined an elite air defense artillery unit where his music was in constant survival mode. Q. Mix formed an underground alliance called SNIPAZ. The SNIPAZ was a gangster unit with history in Texas, Missouri, Maryland and Massachusetts. Q. Mix meshed his gritty southern style with hip hop, rhythm and blues to become a profound artist in music's modern era. He left the SNIPAZ to pursue a music career in Texas. Q. Mix harvested his talents by ghost writing and developing artists from Dallas to Houston. Launching his solo composition, he began working with producers to magnify his lyrical love for music. His style and passion keeps him creating new sound transitions that are able to move millions. Q. Mix majestically pieced his solo album together with explosive tracks by Dway (The Hit Maker). Gangster melodies were turned into musical masterpieces that challenged young and old minds in the ghetto, suburbs and rural areas. Together Q. Mix and Dway became a localized force with the help of JAB, a multiplatnum producer/engineer who challenged and expanded his music creativity. Q. Mix is a profound writer, artist and entertainer that continues to breach new levels in the music industry. The highly anticipated album has achieved widespread notoriety with tracks like Whip That Thang, Game Plan, Cash, and Let em Bump. Q. Mix is truly a versatile style of the south, for the south and will forever be the south.- Shop: odax
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Chevy Ridin Music
A-Won is the hottest and most dynamic hip hop group to emerge out of Atlanta. A -WON is comprised of three members, TR8MARK, STRANGA, and REVOLUTION. This innovative trio spits more than typical south rap, with extensive stays in Belgium and Germany it's no wonder that these worldly travels have in many ways influenced their free thought and creative spirit. At an early age the threesome realized that they had God given talents, so they began to focus steadfast on the mission at hand: To be successful musicians. Nurtured on the sounds of good music, A-Won draws inspiration from musical pioneers such as: Tribe Called Quest, Bootsy Collins, and KISS. What started out as a part time joy ride soon turned into a full time Nascar race. A WON has rocked shows from Miami to Atlanta, with an ever growing fan base, entourage, and even a cult following in some cities. With the turning tides of hip hop, A-Won would be considered the surfer of the rap game. There are no words to describe their style. It's not modern, it's not street, it's whatever the fuck they feel. 'Hell, I'll rock a show butt naked if that's what I feel.' says TR8MARK. With hit songs like IN DA CLUB,Put It In Da Air, Sexy Sexy, Fly Boi, and Chevy Thang, there's bound to be something that the A-Won has to get your motors rolling. So log in, tell a friend, and buckle up and enjoy the ride. ..- Shop: odax
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Bartok's Room
Take yer fav ball o' silly putty and roll it over a sound/style image of chops a la Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Alex MacHacek, Joe Satriani, and snippets of Robert "the math-rock, monsieur Roboto" Fripp and squash out a nice distorto reprinted mosaic riffage picture of Michelena's multi- instrumentalist expertise and voicings . . . and you have this release in a nutshell or putty print. Seriously, a great deal super-duper, quicksilver riffs, frettage and wailings are going down here. There is a variety of hippy-trippy, Euro-cool-techno- futuristic, furious, frenetic, yet laid-back Floydian, "Comfortably Numb"-ish fusion prog guitar and programming inside. Did I mention groovin beats and a unique variety of song flows? Cool acoustic axe work is included too! Michelena has a new groove here of fresh chops galore but in a package like I haven't heard in awhile. There's even that Lost Tribe boogie-yer-bootay thang in places but overall this is avant-fusion, not freeform, but free-for-all fusion, whatever goes be slick. Attaching a post-rock, experimental, technical fusion moniker might work with a nod to Zappa and Vai's Flexable way of attacking and decimating the expected. Michelena is full of surprises and overflowing with technical prowess. Don't expect to relax too much nor for too long. This is an "upper" y'all. Recommended for the adventurous folks tired of fuzak. ~John W. Patterson, EER-MUSIC.com.- Shop: odax
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Picture Perfect
Birth name: Argentry Holland Stage name: Ya Boi Gent aka Gent Spitta Spitta aka A-Holla Birth place: South Side Fort Wayne, Indiana Born to a young Yolanda Holland and Louis Lawson, on May 7th 1988. Unfortunately gents father was never present in his life. Which cause his great grandmother (his dads mother) to raise him in place of his father. Gents mom was too young so he lived with his great grandmother most of his life. At the age of ten gent had moved back with his mom, because his great grandmother moved to Alabama. Living with his mom was not so easy for him. This is where he was introduced to a lot of the worst times of his life. At the age of twelve gents grandmother had past away. Which was something very hard for gent to deal with, seeing as though she was always like a mother to him. At fourteen gent attended south side high school. Which had the biggest influence in gents life. This is where he was introduced to gang related activity and drug dealing (selling marijuana). Through his early high school years gent would always freestyle and play around with rapping. It was always another way to express his feelings. At sixteen gent started writing his raps down. But had never thought to record. Until his senior year where he had met, his partner in crime Marvin Billingsley better known as M. Bill$. He had always known him but one day they decided to become a duo. Forming the group m. O. E. T. (money ova every thang). After finishing their first mixtape 'beginning of tha end vol. 1'. They signed with's t r (street theory records). Gent will release his solo project first. Gent has been influenced by tupac, jay-z, nas, notorious b i g, dr dre, the game, fabolous, and lil wayne. All which his has learned a lot about the rap game. Gents goal is to uplift the midwest, and bring hip hop in the midwest to where it needs to be. And's t r is going to make sure that he does this. And is still on his road to success, and is very determined to achieve his goals.- Shop: odax
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