Pharoahe Monch Doing Battle With Producers

Troy Donald Jameson knows how impatient his fans are. After waiting seven years between the release of his solo CDs, Internal Affairs and Desire, Pharoahe Monch has a boatload of music on the way.

“I have a concept record called the Verses Project with producers I’ve never worked with before,” Pharoahe told Nodfactor.com “It’ll come out like a comic book and be distributed digitally. It’ll be like Pharoahe vs. Premier and Pharoahe vs RZA. Then you can purchase the whole [series] for $5. “

The MC and producer, who laid the beat for his biggest hit “Simon Says,” is busy recording several projects at once. His first project, Let My People Go, should be out later this year and hopes to bridge the gap between some of today’s artists and fans of his peers.
“Music should be a little more free. We shouldn’t be criticizing as much as we do,” he explains. “The artist and the radio are just as much at fault. But here is a piece of music that you can like. There’s a lot of collaborations. Where as Desire was more just me holding it down, this is going to have some special appearances.”
He is also working on a double EP called Rock Vs. Disco. The concept CD is a period piece that takes place in the late 70s and early 80s when Disco emerged and challenged rock.
“I grew up on both so this project is like a double EP with a rock influenced side and a disco influenced side. I’m gonna have t-shirts that say Rock vs Disco: Which Do you love.”
In addition to preparing a “Making of Internal Affairs” (the ten year anniversary of the classic disc is next year) Monch will be releasing “The Hidden Years” which is the music he recorded between Internal Affairs and Desire.

Keep checking back to Nodfactor.com for a complete interview with Pharoahe discussing his own musical processes and the influence of producers like the late Paul C, Large Professor and Denaun Porter.

JLB

Jay-Z Talks About Producers for Blueprint 3

Angela Yee is getting all the juicy producer bits these days (pause). Jay-Z called into the Shade 45 Morning Show to talk about many things including juggling producers and their egos (ouch!) for his upcoming The Blueprint 3. [Read more]

Update: Double-O Speaks on Nightclub Assault

After being released from the hospital Kidz In The Hall producer Double-O performed on the Jones Beach stop of the Rock The Bells Tour. He spoke to Angela Yee at Shade 45/Sirius Satellite Radio about what happened in Arizona.

“Somebody in the hospital asked me if I cried, no…” he told the host. “I can’t fight the damage that was caused to me because I was outnumbered by a bunch of people…it was a ridiculous situation that they will make me pretty rich for.”

Listen to the rest of the interview here:

Daz Dillinger Slides to “The Left Side…”

On August 12th rapper/producer Daz Dillinger will be dropping his latest work, Only On The Left Side, on Fontanta Distribution. The disc features production from Swizz Beatz and Soopafly as well as guest appearances Keak Da Sneak, Snoop and Tyrese.

The former Death Row inmate and half of the Dogg Pound has been touring with his cousin Snoop but insists he was “on another bus” when two colleagues of Snoop were recently arrested for marijuana possession.

He is working with the new owners of Death Row Records to sell unreleased music that he recorded when he was with the Row and is still busy behind the boards.

“I’m doing a lot of producing, I just don’t be giving my beats out,” he says. ” I can make more money with my beats than the person I give it to. Because I put the records out, I’m seeing the money come in, I’m getting the ringtone money, everything.  I can make a song tonight and have it up on iTunes in 2 days.”

Check back next week for Nodfactor’s full interview with Daz.

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