One of my most anticipated releases on December, Slum Village's Villa Manifesto EP, will be available starting tomorrow. Here's a Madlib-produced track off that project. I can't exactly say that anyone catches the beat all that well, but my expectations for the project remain relatively high.
Last time I dropped the Focus-produced joint "Homage to Premier," but I didn't know too much about the track. Turns out Focus is working on a project paying homage to some of his favorite artists. This track is dedicated to the late great James Yancey, as three years ago today was the tragic day that Dilla passed away. Slum Village, Frank Nitti, and Illa J (J Dilla's younger brother) hop on this track to pay their respects.
In my last SV post, I threw up one of their other older demo tracks. Now, T3 let loose another one from the archives, titled "5 Ela," and coincidentally also featuring rapper 5Ela, as well. Hit up T3's blog for his story of SV's lazy song-naming habits, as well as some other commentary.
T3 of Slum Village recently got up in the blog game (check his site). Via his site, T3 dropped a vintage demo SV track from back in the day.
