(AllHipHop News) As President Obama gave his third State of the Union address last night (January 24) and opened the last year of his term, it was clear that several overarching themes are priorities for his Administration in 2012, including the economy, tax legislation, and the development of more jobs.
“We can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules,” Obama said. “What’s at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.”
In addition to addressing the country’s economic issues, Obama said he hopes to boost manufacturing, develop new energy sources, and train workers in order to boost the economy. He also called for the development of America’s bridges, roadways, and other infrastructure with financing saved as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to a close.
Questlove of the legendary Roots crew chimed in on the State of the Union address by joking with his Twitter followers and tweeting videos that indirectly related to statements made by Obama:
“#SOTU#POTUS for those banks who break the law on wall street i will no longer bail you out. matter of fact i will http://youtu.be/1VRZq3J0uz4,” Questlove said as he Tweeted the link to KRS-One’s “Sound the Police.”
Obama also pointed out signs of economic recovery, claiming to have created 3.2 million private-sector jobs in 22 months, while saving the auto industry.
“People can say whatever, but if you oppose what President Obama says when he talks, you best to sharpen your intellect. TheseNextYrsNotForDumbsht,” the outspoken Chuck D of Public Enemy tweeted.
“We do not accept that ours will forever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves,” Obama said to listeners, encouraging the pursuit of the American Dream and happiness.
“You can call this class warfare all you want,” Obama said. “But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense.”
On February 28, Columbus, Ohio-bred MC Peter Nelson a.k.a. Copywrite drops what he bluntly says is “my best album” with his latest release God Save the King. The project will have two different versions – a U.S. and a U.K. version – and features what old fans of Copywrite should expect – solid beats from producers RJD2, Marco Polo, Illmind, Chrysis, Bronze Nazareth, J Notes, Stew Bangers, and Vanderslice. Expect MC skills on a high level and features from Casual, Heiroglyphics, Evidence, Jakai, Cage, Future, Tourex, and Ill Logic.
“DJ Drastic did all the cuts on the album, and he’s probably the best DJ I’ve ever heard. This album wouldn’t be what it is without him,” Copywrite confesses rather nonchalantly. “I didn’t think I would ever do anything better than Life & Times of Peter Nelson, but this album is even better than that one. It’s just hard because I cringe when I hear it, and I can’t listen to it all the way…” [cue the long record scratch sound].
WHAT?!?! Why can’t Hip-Hop’s celebrated underground giant listen to his own, self-professed “best album?” He says, “Because of what I’m talking about on there. Artistry is great, wordplay, etc., but the lyrics make me sick. I’m so happy that I’m not in that anymore, just saying whatever to earn the praise of man.”
For the people who follow him on Twitter, Copy surprised a bunch of his fans with a sudden change in his posts. Out of nowhere, the usually irreverent MC began talking about Jesus…a lot. And for some it was a new turn for their favorite rapper.
“What people don’t understand is it’s not new. I’ve been saved since I was 16 years old. I wasn’t being obedient at all, but if you look, every single album, I thank Christ, my personal Lord and savior. I wasn’t always obedient, but I’ve always believed it.”
In hindsight, he even sees how his internal struggle was coming out loud and clear in his music but he, and most of us, missed it. “Songs like “Don’t Kill Me” – it was like my flesh and spirit fighting [listen to clip around 4:30 mark for lyrics]. My silly plan was like the Mike Epps joke: ‘I wanna get right with God….but I gotta get this money first!’ And how silly was that of me to think I had any control of time as if I was promised any of it?”
While his lyrics, and subsequently his lifestyle, never lined up with his beliefs, Copywrite says he’s never rejected his long-held Christian beliefs publicly. “I’ve never denied Jesus, but at the same time, it never came up because everyone thought I was a reckless heathen…because I was.”
So what happened? Was there some tragic turn of events that forced him back to his old faith from his teenage years? No. It was a gradual change. Having been a longtime friend of rap veteran John Rueben, known for making rap songs that cater to the Christian Hip-Hop market, he would watch his career and life, and see how it would have a continued impact on his own life. “Me and John Reuben go way back. I remember John Reuben when he was fat! It’s good to see where he is in music. I remember seeing him on TV when I was in Maryland and thinking, ‘That’s what I’m supposed to be doing.’ That’s because he was still rhyming AND still repping the Lord.”
Then in May 2011, he wanted to change. “I prayed to God to change my desires because I really wanted to live for him. Then I just found myself really uninterested by the things I was doing.” Even performing the old songs didn’t feel quite right to him. “I remember when I did my first show after rededicating. And I dreaded it. It was like wearing old, dirty, dead man’s clothes,” he adds.
While Copywrite couldn’t be more happy about his current state in life, his fans and followers have had mixed reactions to the MC’s faith. “Some fans are like ‘do your thing.’
“Some of them think ‘you’re looking for a crutch because of losing your parents” but what they don’t know is when I accepted Christ, life couldn’t have been better. Mom and dad were still alive and all that. So it’s definitely not a crutch for me. Some people are excited. They knew what kind of music I did before and now they’re like, ‘Yo, I used to pray for you! It’s good to see what God is doing in you!’ Some are just disrespectful, but not towards me, but towards God.
“I’m cool if people disagree. I’m totally alright with that. You can say, ‘That’s a total lie, dude, I don’t believe at all. But if that’s you, then do you.’ But when you come off just blatantly disrespectful and just trying too hard, then those people I block [on Twitter].”
But again, despite the title of the album, his latest release doesn’t fully reflect his current beliefs.
“God Save the King isn’t about my beliefs. It was supposed to be a UK-catered album, and the title, a spin on the Sex Pistol’s God Save the Queen. The album was almost completely done before I came back to Christ. The title just kind of happened that way.”
So, is there ANYTHING on the album that reflects his current beliefs? “There’s 2.5 Christian songs. I say .5 because I wrote it right at my transition. I cussed on it, but I beeped it out,” admits Copywrite. Even with his 2.5 “Christian songs” on the album, he has a very clear message to the new faith-filled fans he has gained, especially after the release of his song “The K.I.N.G.”: “I don’t want my new Christian audience to buy this album. I don’t want people to think you can live on both sides of the fence. I’m even putting a disclaimer in the album. I’m not playing around with this.”
There is a serious and honest question that HAD to be asked here. If the content is so bad and it’s so evil, then why put it out?! “I feel like all of those fans I’ve built up over the years won’t just listen to me talking about God if I just came out with an album like that. I needed a bridge album. The album was already recorded so people will get to see the change. But in the future all of my music will be Christian music,” Copywrite says.
“Most of my fans are wild. But I hope that they hear the music and now, hearing me giving God praise, that they’ll start to think. Like, ‘This guy is pretty smart. You can’t write stuff like he does and be stupid. Why does he think like this now? Maybe there’s some truth.’ It’s my job to plant the seed, its God’s job to grow it, and I hope with the good content on there, He does.”
Surely, there will be some who feel like he’s presenting two different people on the new album, as if he were some type of hypocrite. But Copywrite says its not a case of hypocrisy; rather, it’s a recorded version of a changed man. “Kind of like how God changed Saul to Paul,” he quips. Others will hear his changed direction and think, ‘He’ll be back. It’s a phase,’ to which he plainly says, “To the people saying ‘he’ll be back,’ stop plotting my downfall and consider your condition with Christ. This isn’t the phase; that other stuff is the phase.”
“I’m not gonna stop rappin’ because I feel like God built up my story so that glory can be given to him, and people can see that God can really do anything with anyone. My thoughts are different so my music is different.”
So, on February 28, we get to hear God Save the King, but the artist and man is looking forward to sharing the story and the music of how God saved Copywrite.
View the tracklist below for Copywrite’s God Save the King album, available for download on February 28. Follow Copywrite on Twitter (@copywrite).
1.Post-Apocalyptic Request Box (p### by Jason Rose)
2.Love Featuring Tage Future (of MHz) (p### by Bronze Nazareth)
3.Swaggot Killaz Featuring Jakki da Mota Mouth (of MHz) (p### by Illmind)
4.Sorrow Featuring Illogic (P### by Stu Bangas)
5.Man Made Featuring Rockness Monstah (of Heltah Skeltah) (p### by Jason Rose)
6.J.O.Y. Featuring Jason Rose & Torae (p### by Jason Rose)
7.Union Rights Featuring MHz (Tage Future & Jakki da Mota Mouth) (p### by Khrysis)
8.YO! Mtv RAP Featuring Jason Rose (p### by Jason Rose)
9.Blue Ribbon (p### by Bronze Nazareth)
10.Miracle (p### by S.G. on the Trax)
11.G$k (p### by Stu Bangas)
12.Workahol (p### by Stu Bangas)
13.White Democrats Featuring Mac Lethal (p### by Jason Rose)
14.Golden State (of Mind) Featuring Casual, Evidence (of Dilated Peoples) & Roc Marciano (p### by Vanderslice)
15.Synesthesia (p### by RJD2)
16.Got to Make It Featuring Tage Future (of MHz) (p### by Stu Bangas)
17.A Talk with Jesus (p### by Poetiq Beetz)
Steve Patton is a contributor to AllHipHop.com and is also a Senior Writer for Rapzilla.com.
Mary J. Blige is p’ed off that she didn’t get an Oscar nomination for the upcoming 84th Annual Academy Awards. Many people thought Mary was a shoe-in for the Best Original Song category for “The Living Proof,” the ballad she penned for The Help.
She vented her frustrations on Twitter. Check out her tweet below:
The singer was understandably disappointed by the snub, especially since the category typically has four to five nominees, and this year only two songs were nominated. Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown were recognized for “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio and Bret McKenzie received a nod for “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets.
Blige was previously nominated at this year’s Golden Globes, but lost in the category to Madonna. Does Mary have a right to be upset, or should she just get over herself?
Rihanna is one crazy girl, I tell you! The tattoo obsessed, free spirit got some fresh ink added to her body this week at the Shamrock Social Club Los Angeles, and get this, she tatted the words “Thug Life” across her knuckles. Ummm…..why??? Check out the photo she tweeted below:
“All these b###### screaming that 2pac back ♫ #THUGLIFE,” she tweeted.
To top it off, Ri Ri tweeted out another photo in which she appeared to be getting another tat on her back from famed tattoo artist, Mark Mahoney, all the while holding a beer bottle. Classy!
This marks tattoos #15 and #16 for the Bajan princess, who already has her best friend’s birth date on her shoulder and another on her chest that reads “Never a failure, always a lesson.” I’m really started to feel like she’s addicted to tattoos!
While at the tattoo parlor, she also ran into Grindhouse actor, Danny Trejo. Now that’s “Thug Life”!!!
(AllHipHop News) Although it has yet to be confirmed if Beanie Sigel has signed with 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records, the rapper is actively working with at least one artist on the roster.
Super producer Ty Fyffe, who has crafted tracks for artists like LL Cool J, Jadakiss, Ja Rule, Nas, Fat Boy Slim, Jay-Z and numerous others, recently told AllHipHop.com that Tony Yayo and Beanie Sigel have recorded a new single together.
Due to contractual reasons, Ty Fyffe could not play the single, nor could he speculate on Beanie Sigel’s official status with the G-Unit Records.
He did discuss the track however.
“Me and Yayo been in the studio the past year,” Ty Fyffe told AllHipHop.com. “We have a lot of strong material that could be singles. We did a track with Beanie Sigel that’s pretty tight.”
The single with Beanie Sigel and Tony Yayo is just one of a number of projects that Ty Fyffe is actively working on.
According to Ty, Jay-Z, who recently dropped the tribute song “Glory,” to his daughter Blue Ivy Carter, is also in the studio working on a new music.
“I’ve been submitting tracks to him weekly, so we will see what happens,” Ty Fyffe told AllHipHop.com
In addition to his duties as a producer, Ty Fyffe will try his hand as a member of a yet to be named experimental Hip-Hop group, that is due to be released later this year.
The material is being recorded at Ty Fyffe’s new recording studio, The Music Factory, which is located in mid-town Manhattan.
“We were originally based on Long Island, but moving to the city was a good move, better networking,” Ty Fyffe told AllHipHop.com.
“I’m true to the craft, I wake up early and leave late. We are here handling business, recording and doing production.”
Off the heels of the President’s State of the Union address, today’s Daily Word is dedicated to Doing Things Yourself! I said this three years ago, and I will say it again! President Barack Obama is only one man! Yes, he is the leader of the free world, and yes, as the leader he has a great responsibility of moving our economy forward. But ultimately, the onus is on you to change yourself, and do the things that will help you move forward!
Often times, we are too reliant on a person, a system, a job, a relationship… You name it…. We tend to think that things are owed to us, and that we must wait until they are given! If you want it then Take it!! If it’s yours, then go get it!! Whatever you believe is possible is possible! Whatever roadblocks you foresee will be roadblocks!
Understand that you are in control, and you are the only person that you can rely on for sure! Give up your power if you will, but don’t sit and complain when life is not exactly how you want it! Only you can make your life better! Begin today to put the actions in place that will give you everything you want! As Gandhi said, “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” I know that the dictionary says that ‘change’ starts with ‘C,’ but in reality, Change starts with you!!! (Haaaa!! Get it….. Ok…. Never mind.) -Ash’Cash
“If you think you can do it, or you think you can’t do it, you are right.” – Henry Ford
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.” -Patricia Sampson
“You don’t have to worry about burning bridges, if you’re building your own.” -Kerry E. Wagner
“Whatever you want out of life, you have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. The key to success is to work out your own salvation.” -Charles E. Popplestone
“Blessed is he who expects nothing from anyone, for he shall never be disappointed.” -Alexander Pope
“Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself.” -Marty Rubin
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” -Napoleon Hill
“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.” -David Gemmell
TO HEAR THE AUDIO VERSION OF THE DAILY WORD – CLICK HERE.
Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com.
(AllHipHop News) AllHipHop.com presents a live Ustream of #BarackTalk, its panel discussion and State of the Union watch party, held in partnership with national noprofit organization The League of Young Voters Education Fund, and Rock The Vote.
Tune in below at 7:30PM for the live Ustream from Busboys and Poets, one of our capitol’s cultural hotspots in Washington, D.C.
During the #BarackTalk discussion, participants are encouraged to engage directly with panelists by asking questions via Ustream at www.BarackTalk.com and LYVEF’s Twitter handle, @TheLeague99. Viewers asking questions on Twitter are encouraged to use the hashtag #BarackTalk.
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About #BarackTalk:
Tonight (January 24), AllHipHop.com will partner with national nonprofit organization The League Of Young Voters Education Fund and Rock The Vote for the second annual #BarackTalk, a State of the Union roundtable discussion and watch party.
Panelists include Goldie Taylor, leading news correspondent at TheGrio.com (MSNBC); Chuck Creekmur, influential urban entertainment journalist and co-founder of AllHipHop.com; Andreas Hale of TheWellVersed.com; rappers Dee-1 and Rhymefest; Shaheem Reid, Editor-At-Large of XXL; and Michael Skolnick, Political Director of GlobalGrind.com.
“You see me out, I rep my gang/ Used to serve that John McCain / That John McCain, hold up/ They don’t know my name?”
When people hear “Taylor Gang,” they naturally might think about Wiz Khalifa. Well, the times, they are a changin’ because it’s officially Chevy’s turn.
After seeing the meteoric rise that Taylor Gang founder, Wiz Khalifa, had in 2011, Chevy Woods is declaring 2012 as not only the year of Taylor Gang, but also the year of C.W. The Pittsburgh rapper is ready to take the reins and truly declare his own lane within the industry, all while riding or dying with his captain.
Chevy spoke with AllHipHop.com about his upcoming mixtape, Gangland, his debut album, and the Taylor Gang mentality. He also touched on Amber Rose’s music, and the question on everyone’s mind – who smokes more weed, Chevy or Wiz? Read on:
AllHipHop.com: Hey, Chevy. How are you doing?
Chevy Woods: Good, man, good.
AllHipHop.com: So, everyone knows that you and Wiz are partners in crime, but how did you two first link up?
Chevy Woods: Well, we didn’t grow up together; I’m actually six years older than him. I was looking for a recording studio and I found ID Labs, and he happened to be recording one day in the back room, and I was recording in the front. And, he’ll tell you the same story – that he wasn’t recoding with no artists down there, and he said he heard my music. We had a little green party, and we started doing music together right after that.
AllHipHop.com: Green party, I like that. So with that being how you two first met, how did Taylor Gang come to be?
Chevy Woods: Taylor Gang was all his idea. He was the one that always wore the Chuck Taylors and always did the different things than everybody else, but he was still relevant and a part of us no matter what, but he was always different. He just came up with this off of wearing the Chuck Taylors, and then he liked to have his clothes fit, so it was all about the Taylors and Taylor Gang. It just went like that.
AllHipHop.com: Fair enough. How have the Taylors, fans, and industry responded to your last project, The Cookout, in the months since its release?
Chevy Woods: Actually, it was a good response, that’s why I keep up and try to make sure I just please everybody and put out stuff for people to listen to. The response is great. I go to places, even though I’m starting from the bottom as far as doing my own thing, people still show up. And, I like going from the bottom to the top, and they’ve seen me before with Wiz, and now with just me up there. I’m just doing what t I like to do.
AllHipHop.com: I saw in a past interview you said that with The Cookout you wanted to “take listeners to your backyard with your mom on the grill and your homies around.” What sound are you trying to create with Gangland?
Chevy Woods: It’s more of an edgy sound, more of a street sound. Just not too long ago, whether people know it or not, I was just running around the streets just doing what people do, and this was just an opportunity for me. When Wiz first went on tour, I was still in the streets running around, and he had seen that, and he was just like ‘I’m go out on my own and just do this first part of the tour until you get your stuff together.’ I just told him that I didn’t want to be doing that stuff no more or doing that sh*t. I would rather just go on the road. So, I just dropped everything and rode.
AllHipHop.com: Does Gangland have any tentative release date right now?
Chevy Woods: No I don’t got a release date yet. I’m just working on it. I really want it to be that mixtape before the album that everybody loves. So I’m really trying to hone in all the songs and make it like real songs and run them past Wiz and see if we need to add anything or do anything to them. That’s all I’m doing right now. I’m still recording for it, just in case I can put more stuff on it, but I’m just ready to let it out whenever it’s done.
AllHipHop.com: How far into the project would you say you are right now?
Chevy Woods: I’m overboard, actually. I’m overboard on music from recording so much. I’ve been going to the studio and recording like five songs a night. I can do like five or six songs in like a four- to five-hour period. I just been going hard.
AllHipHop.com: Other than Cardo and Wiz, who are some of the people that you’ve worked with, or plan to work with, on Gangland?
Chevy Woods: Well, of course I got a few beats from Lex [Luger]; some Drumma Boy beats. I got a couple of my homies from around the way. I’m really keeping it more home-based. I haven’t really ventured out to other artists. I’ve just been doing little things here and there, trying to get the attention of these people and at the same time, let them know that I want to work with them over Twitter or whatever social site.
AllHipHop.com: Not necessarily for this project, but if there was anyone you could think of that you’d love to work with, who would it be?
Chevy Woods: Um, that’s a good a*s question.
AllHipHop.com: I’ve got to keep your on your toes.
Chevy Woods: Yeah, you definitely did that. But really, whether people may like or not or know it or not, I’m a Black Rob fan. I’m not looking for the top person; I’m just a fan of people that do their art at their best, and I feel like he is one of those people. He should have a shot from whoever is at the label.
AllHipHop.com: That’s definitely one of the more interesting answers I’ve gotten.
Chevy Woods: Just the way his flow pattern is and the stories he tells. It’s like a reflection off of what I lived. He’s just a little bit older.
AllHipHop.com: Changing it up a little, you and Wiz closed out 2011 by signing Juicy J to Taylor Gang. What is the label and brand’s plan for 2012?
Chevy Woods: We’re working on a Taylor Gang compilation right now, and everybody is putting in crazy work. The music is ridiculous to me. I listen to it everyday, and I’m probably not going to get enough of it. So for 2012, we’re just all working together and it’s cool to have – we call him Uncle Juice – it’s cool to have Juice there to just look over things. Him and Wiz are real brainiacs with the music, so they pinpoint things that we need to do, and it helps to have two heads like that – one that’s been in the game for a while, and one that’s starting and still climbing up the charts. It’s just success for everybody.
AllHipHop.com: I can only imagine the “green parties” that the three of you throw.
Chevy Woods: [laughter] Man, I’m telling you, by next year I might turn into a plant.
AllHipHop.com: [laughter] I actually saw a video a couple of weeks ago of you and Wiz and some people hanging out backstage drinking large amounts of gin. I have to ask, out of you and Wiz, who is the “Gin champion,” and who is the bigger smoker?
Chevy Woods: I think he got both of those. He has both of those, because when people drink or when they smoke, a lot of people go down, like to sleep or whatever, and he doesn’t do that. You’ll know that he’s f*cked up, but you wouldn’t know it while he’s doing music or while he’s making a business decision. It doesn’t even affect him. I’m always like, ‘Damn dude, how the f*ck are you still going?’ Meanwhile I’m like,‘I’m going to bed, peace.’
AllHipHop.com: That’s wild, and you have some time to catch up ‘cause I know your hitting the road on your own tour at the end of the month. Do you prepare any differently for something like that, as opposed to when you’re on the road opening for Wiz or whoever?
Chevy Woods: Well, I always do it the way I do it, and being that I did it with him from the bottom up, it’s a big deal to have my own tour, but it’s not that big of a deal for me to get ready for it. Mostly because I have already done this, and like I said before, the people know who I am from the Taylor Gang status, so I don’t really prepare no differently. It’s just maybe less people and a closer environment for me to get intimate with the people real close up.
AllHipHop.com: Since we’re back on Taylor Gang, I have to ask about some of the comments Wacka Flocka made a few weeks back about Wiz. I was wondering how the team handles things like that. If someone goes after one of you, are they technically going after all of you? How do those situations get handled?
Chevy Woods: We to the dirt with this thing, and it’s not that he’s not saying nothing back. It’s just like, ‘Why even address that?’ It’s a point where, I’m not speaking for myself, I’m just speaking on what I see, and that’s my homie. There’s a point where he doesn’t have to talk about nobody. He doesn’t have to respond to nobody, because that’s not going to make him or break him. So whatever they’re saying is just whatever they feel, and that’s their emotions. They can have their opinion – everybody is entitled to that – but we don’t give a f*ck about none of that sh*t. That sh*t doesn’t bother anything. We do what we do over here, and Wiz is a great leader for everyone of us, so it’s to the dirt with that.
AllHipHop.com: Fair enough. Other than being an artist, do you have a larger role in Taylor Gang?
Chevy Woods: No. We running like a militant type of thing, so it’s really like he’s the captain, I’m the general. We got soldiers that people don’t ever see, and guys that just come around sometimes. There’s a lot of us. People only see the music part of us, but there’s a lot of people doing music that’s still affiliated with us that people don’t know yet, but will get to know.
AllHipHop.com: Any thoughts on the music that Wiz’s girlfriend, Amber Rose, released recently, and is there any bad blood between her and the first lady of Taylor Gang, Lola Luv?
Chevy Woods: They’re sisters, you know, so there’s not no bad vibes or nothing. We’re all a family. That’s what the difference is between us, like everybody says that sh*t, ‘Oh yeah, we’re a family,’ but a lot of people end up not liking each other for real, and everybody has animosity between each other. With us, nobody wants to be nobody, and everybody is getting put out into their own lanes. Lola has her own lane, I have my own lane, Wiz does what he does, Amber does what she does, and Juicy J does what he does. Everybody just has their own thing to do.
As far as her song goes, I heard it before anybody else even heard it. I was there when Wiz recorded his verse and everything, and I was blown away by her voice and how she sounds on the song. Then he put his little touches on it, and then it’s just a great song. You gotta understand that she is universal. She can do a lot of things, so she can go worldwide with that. It’s not just for the United States.
AllHipHop.com: Is there anything else you want the fans and readers to know?
Chevy Woods: I’m working real hard on my album. I been sitting down with Wiz, and we been going in and doing the real music part of things, ‘cause you know, just jumping into it, I was putting out mixtapes, but I never knew how to put out a project. That’s what I did with The Cookout; I rounded it out and made sure everything was clean before I put it out. Everything else, I just record, mix it a little bit, and just throw it out there. Now, I like really get the music and business side just from being around Wiz.
It’s just regular sh*t. Taylor Gang or Die 2012. Everybody get rich.
AllHipHop.com: Thanks again, Chevy. Looking forward to Gangland, for sure.
Chevy Woods: Thank you. I appreciate the love, man.
(AllHipHop News) A media company has announced they have acquired the rights to two unreleased DMX albums, that will be released nationwide in 2012.
Seven Arts Entertainment has announced that they have acquired the assets of Michery Music, a production company owned by industry vet David Michery.
In addition to producing a variety of platinum albums, Michery has held numerous executive positions at a number of labels including Scotti Bros.
Records, MCA Records and Zoo/BMG.
Michery is also the founder of Breakaway Entertainment and American Music Corporation.
Under terms of the new deal, David Michery will become the CEO of Seven Arts Entertainment, which will release Undisputed, which was acquired in the deal.
“Dave Michery represents a significant addition to Seven Arts’ business, and we are very excited about the revenue and earnings potential of DMX and
Dave’s other music assets,” Seven Arts Entertainment CEO Peter Hoffman said.
The potential revenues to be derived from the DMX albums are very significant.
The rapper’s first five albums consecutively topped the Billboard 200 Chart and have generated over $35 million per album in the United States, according to SoundScan data.
Seven Arts is also hoping to launch new talent for the label, in the genres of Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Dance and Rock.
Both of the DMX albums will be distributed by Fontana Distribution, which is a division of Universal Music Group.
