Who knew Hip-Hop could be found on American Idol? the hit television show recently hosted a collaboration between Blake Lewis, one of it’s contestants and Hip-Hop legend Doug E. Fresh. Later, Lewis explained that this is not the last Hip-Hop (mainstream or underground) has heard from him.
“That was Doug E. allowing me to hang out with him onstage, and that was an honor. Forever etched in my brain. It was one of the hottest times I will ever have onstage. It was just a dream come true. Hopefully I’ll get to get him in the studio, and we’ll have to do, like, a beatbox track, you know? Get something really down,” he told MTV of the performance.
Later, he spoke on his upcoming album.
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You know, I can only hope in the next, like, two weeks or before the tour that I get signed and get management. Things take [their] course, it seems, from the show. Hopefully I get represented by the creative people I surround myself with and get to make the album I’ve always wanted to. I’ve tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I’ve represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show. So I’m excited to do that even more so singing my own songs I’ve written and, you know, just be me 110 percent.
What about future Hip-Hop collabos?
There’s so many amazing producers out there that are more underground. I like DJ Shadow, I love Dan the Automator. Will.I.Am is an amazing producer, and he lives in that realm of hip-hop, dance and pop. … I’d love to work with anyone that would really want to work with me. I’d love to work with Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley and Cee-Lo. Robin Thicke … The possibilities are endless. I’m putting it out there. If you want to do something, call me!
