West Coast up and comers King Fantastic's debut album "Finger Snaps and Gun Claps" is released on the 15th of June. Whilst their fans wait they have been dropping the odd remix here and there and this cover of Ice-T's classic Colors. Listen to it with the embedded player below or visit them direct and get the low down on what they call; "Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic".
"That's right, DJ King Assassin honored Money & Music by first ever introducing and leaking out that he and ICE T Produced an album to be dropping this year in 2010, "The Godfather of Gangsta Rap", so call MTV, BET, TMZ, and all your local reporters, to let them know where you heard it FIRST!!!"
Last week we reported the Twitter post of DJ King Assassin and the subsequent update regarding his interview with Ice-T. Well we are happy to confirm that yesterday we sat down and listened to the interview in full, and The Hood Manual is Official!
In part two of the interview Ice-T states; "I'm doing a record called The Hood Manual, which really is a bunch of records I did, featuring on other peoples records. I got records with M.O.P, I got records with Kool Moe Dee, I got records with all kinds of artists."
At this point DJ King Assassin mentions a track he has featuring both Ice-T and 2Pac. Finger crossed he gets this over to Ice and we see it on the album! Ice has never, (unlike many others) talked a lot about his affiliation with 2PAC, but a simple YouTube search brings up numerous videos, from TV appearances and tracks that feature both artists.
The interview itself is the best we have heard in regards to Ice-T and his music, hell in regards to Ice-T and his world, for a long time! Give it a listen and please surf over to DJ King Assassins PodoMatic page and give him some love!
Yesterday via Twitter DJ King Assassin dropped this bombshell; "I'm mixing down the new ICE T release!"
Could this be the long awaited 'Hood Manaul'? First mentioned way back in 2007 via Rap Basement when they posted a video of Ice-T in the studio claiming him to be working on a new album!
Then in September 2008 came this picture posted on Ice-T's official MySpace;
Underneath were (and still are) the words "Hood Manual - Coming Soon". Then Ice-T posted the title track in August this year via Sound Space! Hopefully with Ice's new label via EMI, we may see the album drop soon, question is was it Hood Manual that DJ King Assassin was mixing down?
