Atlanta’s
V-103 DJ Greg Street has teamed with DJ Kay Slay to create The Champions: North
Meets South, a new compilation album which hit stores August 22.The
album’s first single "Can’t Stop The Reign 2006" features Miami
Heat basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, Papoose and Bun B, with a remix added
featuring Busta Rhymes. The
video was shot in South Beach, Miami.Street
and Kay Slay said their collaboration was an effort to create music for a more
eclectic group of Hip-Hop lovers and to bridge the gap between the northern and
the southern Hip-Hop scenes.“We’re
looking for support of real riders; people who don’t like listening to the same
songs in their CD players as they hear it 100 times a week on the radio,”
Street told AllHipHop.com. “We’re simply asking people to expand their minds.”Street
said the album was something that every Hip-Hop music lover could relate to, and
that it was important for he and Kay Slay to bring together different regions
of Hip-Hop and create songs for the music lover.“It’s
something we did out of respect for all parts of the country,” Street said.
“[It’s] like when you went to a club and you went crazy to Eric B. &
Rakim, Run-DMC, Big Daddy Kane, but at the same time you rocked to DJ Jimi, Luke,
Home Team, MC Thick, Chuck Brown, Madonna, Ice-T, World Class Wreckin’ Crew,
Jonzun Crew, MC Shy D, etc. We’re simply asking people to expand their minds.”Greg
Street’s album, 6 O’clock Vol. 1, went gold in 2001, selling over
100,000 copies with one single released. 26,000 copies of the album were sold
in Atlanta.The
Champions: North Meets South is in stores now on Shaquille O’Neal’s label
Deja34/Koch Records.