Someone told me about Blakroc shortly after the Black Keys hit single, "Tighten Up" came out. He said that it was the Black Keys and various hip-hop artists. It caught my interest and eventually it was on my Ipod.
Here's the story, as I understand it. Damon Dash, co-founder of Rock-a-fella records heard a few songs and fell in love with the Black Keys sound. He reached out to them while in Atlanta to record a song with Jim Jones. Somewhere along the lines, Mos Def interupted them and ended up on the song. This worked out so well that they decided to do a couple more tracks. They ended recording for eleven days and ended up with eleven tracks featuring Ludacris, ODB, Raekwon, and others. One of my favorite side projects ever.
Now, that was released in 2009 and I bring it to your attention now not only because it's fuckin rad but because I hear there's a follow-up coming. On said follow-up, artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Curen$y, and the Cool Kids are said to be involved. It's definitely worth keeping an eye out for and who knows, it could be amazing.
-N. Sanders
Here's the story, as I understand it. Damon Dash, co-founder of Rock-a-fella records heard a few songs and fell in love with the Black Keys sound. He reached out to them while in Atlanta to record a song with Jim Jones. Somewhere along the lines, Mos Def interupted them and ended up on the song. This worked out so well that they decided to do a couple more tracks. They ended recording for eleven days and ended up with eleven tracks featuring Ludacris, ODB, Raekwon, and others. One of my favorite side projects ever.
Now, that was released in 2009 and I bring it to your attention now not only because it's fuckin rad but because I hear there's a follow-up coming. On said follow-up, artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Curen$y, and the Cool Kids are said to be involved. It's definitely worth keeping an eye out for and who knows, it could be amazing.
-N. Sanders
^^They also have a series of webisodes to take a look at^^