at da end of da day, ya can't speak on what ya don't hear...i'd bet guap fat joe's earlier album's are just footnotes for ya and ya neverheard em...and ya just assume duke is wack.....
oh and me, myself, and I >> kingdome come
at da end of da day, ya can't speak on what ya don't hear...i'd bet guap fat joe's earlier album's are just footnotes for ya and ya neverheard em...and ya just assume duke is wack.....
oh and me, myself, and I >> kingdome come..
[h1]Sheek Louch: Point Blank[/h1]
March 19th, 2008 | Author: Francesca Djerejian
A member of one of rap's most respected and enduring groups,
The L.O.X.,
Sheek Louch could fallback, survey the imitators, and enjoy his legacy. But experience in the rap game and the pursuit of a solo career has only made him hungrier.
After a personal introduction as a solo artist,
Walk Witt Me,
Sheek incorporated much more of the industryon his sophomore release,
After Taxes. On his newest album
Silverback Gorilla, dropping March 18th,
Sheek has features from
Bun B,
Fat Joe,
The Game,
DJ Unk,
Jim Jones,
Hell Rell,protégé
Bully, and his
L.O.X. family.
Excited about the production, conceptual range and growth on the album,
Sheek combines the enthusiasm of a new jackwith the outlook of a seasoned veteran. While discussing major labels, disgruntled artists, the music grind, and the impact of
The L.O.X.,
Sheek still gives it to you point blank.
HipHopDX: Walk Witt Me seemed like a more personal album, you didn't have any features besides D-Block, and thenon After Taxes you brought in a lot more of the industry as far as concepts and features. Where is Silverback Gorilla going to be compared tothose first two albums?
Sheek Louch: You're right about that,
Walk Witt Me was the breaking out of, "
Let me show people I can do that too, besides thegroup." Then I felt like everything you just said , with
After Taxes. This one, I'm more grown- I'm older now, been through more,touched on more topics, experimented with different songs. Like for example, my lead single, "Good Love," that's not usually my style of a songthat I would do. But
Red Spyda brought the track to me and he was like "
Yo Sheek, if you bang this out, you out ofhere." It had the feel to me of that
Erick Sermon record "(Just Like) Music," when he had
Marvin Gayecoming in. I said "
This is hot, everybody loves that Betty Wright," so it's just different.
DX: You have a lot of non-New York features on the album, how did you choose them?
S: These are people like I respect. Fat Joe, I like his growth, I like that he's still inthe game grinding. Just when you count Joe out, he'll come with a "Lean Back" or Top 10 record. Bun B isdefinitely a legend in this game, just like myself I feel. And [
DJ]
Unk, I liked his grind, and it wasn't just becausehe's on
Koch as well. He came to me with these tracks. Like a lot of people that I dealt with are people that I speak to anyway. Like[
Fat Joe] could call me like, "
Yo, Louch I got this video, come and fly down man, I got you," it'slike that with us. Even though
Ghostface ain't on this album, that's another brother that I speak to on the regular, it's not evenabout music.
like it or not, plenty of rappers respect fat joe, its sad alot of newbie fans who aren't familiar wit his albums shortchange him.