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Blackalicious member Gift of Gab is set to release his new solo album ‘Escape 2 Mars’ on October 27th. Production on the album was mainly by the Bay Area’s DNAEBEATS, with a few tracks also helmed by Hednodic. Del the Funky Homosapien and Brother Ali, another two undeniably iconic MCs, are featured on ‘Dreamin”. Gab also recruited some of the talent from the Quannum Collective he helped pioneer, including Joyo Velarde, Lateef The Truthspeaker, and Honeycut’s vocalist Bart Davenport.
His hopes of keeping things close to home set the stage for the album’s inspiration. “People are gonna think this is about Martians, but it’s not,” Gab explains. “It’s more so about taking care of the planet we’re on. We might have to escape to Mars or somewhere else if we keep taking the planet we live on for granted. I’m not trying to preach to anyone,” he continues. “I just think it’s important for us to raise the level of consciousness and consideration of these things.”
The Mighty Underdogs, comprised of Lateef the Truth Speaker of Latyrx, The Gift of Gab of Blackalicious and producer Headnodic, are out with the video to 'Want You Back', off their debut full-length album 'Droppin' Science Fiction', out now on Definitive Jux. Watch it below.
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Blackalicious, Common, GLC, Kanye West, and Twista performed during day two of Lollapalooza 2006 on Saturday (August 5) at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. Check out pictures from PRPhotos (
Common /
Gnarls Barkley),
FilmMagic,
RexFeatures,
GettyImages, and
WireImage. Watch several clips from the event at
YouTube.
Blackalicious are out with the video to their new single 'Powers', from the album 'The Craft'. Watch it online below the fold.
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The process of recording Blackalicious' new album 'The Craft' stretched the duo creatively. "With this record everything starts with the drum machine and I sketch out a general idea that I'll bring the guys, and they'll pretty much replay what I did verbatim and then take it their own directions," Chief Xcel tells Time Off magazine. "And then I'll take that inspiration back and synthesize it back into song format and then give it to Gab to write to. That was pretty much how everything went down on this album."
Blackalicious are out with the video to their new single 'Your Move', from the just-released album 'The Craft'. Watch it online below.
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Blackalicious visited Current TV on Tuesday (September 27) at their studio in Los Angeles, California. Check out pictures from
WireImage.
Blackalicious member The Gift Of Gab is out with his debut solo video 'Rat Race', from the album '4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up'. Watch it online below.
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DJ X-Cel of Blackalicious tells The New Zealand Herald he finds beats from everywhere, rock, classical, jazz, soul. "It's about how to best depict a vibe, how to throw an emotion or a situation out there and do it in a fun way that hasn't been done before - that's what I want my music to be," he said. "Like I wrote the song 'Chemical Calisthenics' [where Gift of Gab goes through the periodic table getting increasingly faster] in one night while waiting for Cut Chemist [from Jurassic 5] to show up to the studio. It was hard out trying to arrange chemical elements, all this new language and making it into something that would be fun."
Blackalicious took their act to Alaska performing at the Egan Center in Anchorage. Tiehesha Taylor of the Anchorage Daily News was on hand for the show. She writes, "Xcel keeps the music flowing with great beats and mixes that you nod your head to as you drive. Gift of Gab's tongue-tying rhymes and rhythmic flow leave you with your mouth hangin' open... The crowd participation, the dancing, the background vocals all made for a night to remember. Two songs into the show, the crowd began yelling "freestyle!" to Gift of Gab. The words he spoke just pulled at you inside. The line that I loved the best was 'Drinking MCs like cans of Shasta!' There was so much truth to it. Many MCs just don't know about true music anymore."
