two joints worth keeping an eye on.

first official album dropping somewhere around summer .. no label announced yet, but leaks have surfaced..and it might be a somewhat large label.







May 5'th. New album "Let The Children Die"

Virtuoso preps the final touches on WW3: The Final Conflict... No, Really

Been a long long.. looong.. wait. But apparently shit's not far from the launchtube.

here's the word from Virt himself.

Dear Everyone who reads this......

I hope these hectic times find you in good spirits and good health, I know everyone is stressing and your boy is no exception. We all hoped the election would offer a quick change in direction but I guess past transgressions can't be erased in a matter of seconds. So.....besides the obvious state of the unionverse let me digress and address the issues that I know best. namely what the fuck is going on with my life and my music.

As far as WW3, no I am not gonna let it die out again. I am doing my damndest to make it happen, the logistics are not as simple as some of you who are not in my shoes seen to think. First Blue Sky Black Death had the disk drive with all the beats on it break. I paid to fix it and that took a while. then after I got the beats finally and recorded most of the album worth of vocals...I had a disk drive get scrambled as in the files remanmed and corrupted as in UNFIXABLE. I took it to 11 different data recovery places and no one could fix it. I had to restart entirely. There was four songs on the record that were by another producer that they were unable to recreate, so I have had quite a fucking task remaking this record. on top of that just 6 months ago the graphic designer lost my cover during a disk drive problem, luckily he has been able to recreate it almost perfectly but i was scared for a couple months there....no Im not kidding, do I feel like this record has a black cloud over it?? sometimes yes.....but im gonna get it done if it kills me. believe that.

In the middle of that I have had so much crazy shit happen in my life that I cant even begin to explain and much of it is too personal but since I know my true fans may take it personal that I am so out of touch with them and in my own world these days I will just start with this....I recently left my new spot in LA to come back to NYC and get my sister out of a situation that is basically my worst fears of everything you dont want to happen to the women you love , some sociopath stalker domestic violence threating to kill my whole family shit.....real fucking talk. beyond that my mother is terminally ill and her health and financial situations are both deteriorating, and it falls on your boy to handle that. I dont think that this makes any of you obligated to sit around waiting for me to put out my shit, but all i can tell anyone is I am doing all I can in my present circumstances.
I planned to put out the single with C-Rayz and RA already but I recovered Crayz verse but havent been able to get RA's verse back so I gotta get him to re record it. I am now back on the east coast as i type and am going to try to get w him while im in NYC and get that done. Hopefully the video will follow shortly.

on top of that BSBD had babygrande take their album without permission and they got salted and didnt feel like working on much of anything at that moment when i was trying to finsh again. in these trying emotional times I have needed to work on something that makes me feel good, and with all the dissapointment that has happened so far with setbacks of WW3 it has been really hard to bring it together.....then whem I got a studio design job working for Luny Tunes and Daddy Yankee and all those dudes started saying how dope I was and offering me record deals. I cant deny that it was good to get some serious reinforcement from cats who were at the top of the game at that moment and it gave me a new perspective on my potential. I became close friends with Daddy Yankee's cousin EL Musicologo who is his main producer. dude is a fuckin genius he can make any kind of music and hes like a bro to me, we have a sick musical vibe that we both knew was something unique so we made the band VIRTUALITY together and decided to make a totally new sound. but i have always made all kinds of music, for my whole life. I spent much of my childhood in the dominican republic and latin music is a part of me. So I know its hard to deal with for a hard core underground fan but I have alot of shit in my life that is important to me besides underground hiphop. first off is fam, second is the fact that I love all music and have never been a one kind of style dude.
I know some of the diehard fans of the more rugged underground style are pissed that I am making something different, specifically my band Virtuality which is a mash up of everything on the map. but if you listen back to WW1 I have always been making all kinds of records. do yall remember "want me"??? club joint. remember "one"?? girl singin the hook on some peace shit. I am a diverse dude, thats just who i am like it or not. My father was an amazing rock musician, i literally grew up hanging out in big studios and backstage at Aerosmith and Cars concerts. At the same time this was happening I was blown away over records like LL "Radio" and B.B. "Licensed to Ill", but still the hard drums and rock edge of Rick Rubin (aka my hero) production was always a big part of it. I love hiphop, I love rock, I love latin music.......I fuckin love music!!! my name is Virtuoso it is self explanatory. , The formative moments of my music career involved a melting pot of music and thats how my life is to this day. If you got love for Virtuoso then try to understand that. If your hating on me and wishing me negativity, suck a dick but I love you anyway. I got nothing but love for everyone who has ever supported me and if I have let you down with my delays and crazy ways what can i say. I did it my way.

WW3 is coming.....sooner than I think. I will be posting some videos on youtube of me in the studio working on finishin touches in the next couple days. sorry again for the holdup. for real I love you motherfuckers, i know you dont have to be buggin me to release shit and i truly appreciate the fact that cats refuse to write me off. ONE MOTHERFUKCIN LUV!!!!!! I am trying to get ww1 and ww2 repressed in time to rerelease them with ww3. It will happen thank you for your patience!!!!

Sean Price - "Kimbo Price" .. oh the anticipation.

In other news.. this just in from IDE.

New album over 20 original tracks.. all blended together by DJ Connect and DJ Create. with guest appearances from: Planetary (AOTP/Outerspace), Jise (Arsonists), Many Styles, Critical, Alucard, and Relz.


we are doing an official press (no slimcase) There will be a special for the cd and new Ideology t Shirt.



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The rewards of some quick shopping today. Couldnt help myself.

Fedora by Goorin Brothers, scarf by [free]dom? and trackpants by ADIDAS.

And no, my version of the pants are dark blue.. I'd never rock some green shit.

In other news.. thank God for the first signs of springtime.

Introspective view on 2009's upcoming music.

I'll update along the way this year, so keep checkin back.

Should be quite a year. There's alot of interesting material coming out in 2009, and a shitload of albums I probably havent heard of just yet, but im making sure to keep my ear to the rails this year.. especially coming off the uncontrollable tailspin that was hiphop 2008; because let's be honest now.. it wasnt a good year.. sure Ill Bill dropped an album and all, but that shit wasnt all that. Sure Deltron had one lined up in the launchtube.. and we all know how that went.

But fuck it, enough griping about wasted money/time the 08 edition.

09 got some good shit coming out.. a couple of the joints Im still waiting on is the new jak progresso, but imma refrain from geekboy status on that one and leave it at that. but while we're on the topic of johnny23, it'll be ill finally getting that Will taubin album out too, the single was dope, plus that joint with lodeck was a blazer, so that should be dope.. with a little luck they'll finally drop that fuckin Paramount album too, storage my ass, shit needs to come out the vault. then there's the question of whether or not Virtuoso'll actually suit up and go break some rewind buttons.. word is he will, but coming off 4+ years of waiting.. i gotta admit im pretty fuckin skeptical about that. then there's the new C-rayz walz, which is sure to be ill, been needing new material from him for a grip.

heard a couple whispers about triple darkness doing a followup to 2008's modern day classic "anathema" - hopefully that'll happen, but as of yet nothings set in stone. there's also talk of mista sinita's 90's mix finally coming out on no sleep recordings, which is a fuckin ill label which y'all need to check out if you havent already. definately some of the illest albums out right now has come outta that whole camp, and half that shit aint even from this decade (which is a pretty big plus to me). then there's the brainstorm troopah album by SERUM coming out sometime this year too, the joints he's got up right now are fuckin bangers, so go check that shit out. he's also working on a sideproject with manifesto which should be ill as well.

AND HERE'S SOMETHING ELSE I FUCKING HOPE FOR OUT THIS LABEL!!!!!! namely the remaining Godfather Don shit thats been unreleased so far, this was mentioned in a label interview a couple years back, whether or not Bobbito stepped up and helped out is unknown, but one can fuckin HOPE!!

then there's the new qunique, and I gotta say I aint got high hopes for this, Necro's whiling out with the guitar shit and whatnot, and quite frankly i dont think that shit got no place in hiphop.. wanna sample some spanish acoustic? all good. wanna ruin a rap album by making shit sound like Cannibal Corpse anno 96? fuck off. But enough of that.. RASCO is coming out with Global Threat too, and the sampler is ill. check his myspace for that!!

Snak the ripper should be dropping a new LP this year too, and so far the singles have been bordering on crazy, so that's worth checking up on too if you havent already.

All I really need for this year to be great horizon-wise have to be that elusive Killa Sin album that cats has been talking about since the sun rose over Egypt lol. had to say it.

but down to the line, the shit im waiting the most anxiously for gotta be the new decomposers debut album that word is out about, the free ep and their solo stuff is absolutely mindblowing, and I want that fuckin album in 09!!

2009 - Audio, Visual.

A list of what I pick up during the span of the new year.

As much for myself, as for inspiration.

Will update along the way.

that anomos and stealth joint is worth every penny. peep that.

MUSIC:

murdoc - the troof mixtape
glue - seconds away l.p
c-rayz walz - who the fuck are you?!
blood of abraham - future profits
rob dougan - furious angels + instrumental cd
eternal meazure - reign supreme e.p
suffokate - oakland
bellaruche - turntable soul music
sir menelik - the einstein rosen bridge
scaramanga - seven eyes, seven horns
questionmark asylum - the album
anomos & stealth - from here on...
g.p wu - dont go against the grain
a.d.o.r - shock frequency

MOVIES:

ZOO (j-horror visual)
Red Eye (j-horror visual)
Hardware/Mark13
One Missed Call (j-horror visual)
Wind Chill
Into The Mirror (j-horror visual)
Wishing Stairs (j-horror visual)

and just for kicks