Queensbridge veteran and The Firm alum Nature has announced a new album dropping November 18 on Beast Records. “It’s been a few years since I been back out, this is the first part of a two part series,” said Nature. “Pain Killer is classic Queensbridge material for the true Hip Hop fan.It delivers something that is lacking right now.The title is exactly what it says, something to numb you from what is out there.”
Pain Killer will feature appearances from Kool G Rap [click to read], Doo Wop [click to read], N.O.R.E. and Prodigy [click to read].
In other news, after releasing in late October, The Knux [click to read] have admittedly been off to a slow start with their debut Remind Me In 3 Days [click to read]. While the album did not chart in it’s first week out despite Interscope Records-backing, the duo of Krispy Kream and Rah Amillo is hardly concerned about it affecting their significance in Hip Hop.
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“[Interscope] want[s] to have an organic, slow build, like a Rock album. We got
cross-marketing at Interscope because you have the Hip Hop and the Rock
dudes working together. We have seven singles. So, you’ll hear probably
like five more. When we finally get to the seventh single, the second
album will be dropping,” said Kream to Rhapsody.com [click to read]. Rah reminded, “The Fugees‘ The Score didn’t take off until ‘Killing Me Softly’ came out. I loved that album;
it was one of the best hip-hop albums ever. I say in my top five
because I feel like it’s one of the albums that really made our genre
respected. A lot of musicians don’t respect Hip Hop. When you put an
album out like The Score, it’s like, ‘Fuck y’all. We can do this shit for real.‘”
On November 19th, Blitz The Ambassador [click to read] will be performing at New York’s historic Knitting Factory. The live band stage set will also include HipHopDX featured blogger Amanda Diva [click to read].
Lastly, New Zealand-born rapper Savage announced yesterday that he surpassed the million mark for combined digital and mobile sales. The Universal Republic achieved the feat, a first for his country in Hip Hop, with the force of “Swing,” his cross-over single. Both Soulja Boy [click to read] and Pitbull [click to read] have appeared on remixes to the iTunes hit.
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The Samoan rapper’s Savage Island is slated to be released on December 23.
