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3/14/2006
Oakland's Slumplordz Release New L.P. After Four Year Hiatus.
Oakland, Ca 03/10/06 The Slumplordz are set to release their new album, The Sweeps in Sav City, on April 20, 2006. The album is now available for preview and purchase at www.slumplordz.com, and will be available nationally on itunes.com, napster.com. yahoomusic.com, rhapsody.com, and at Bay Area retail outlets. Distribution to national retail chains is expected in the coming months.
Sav City is a fourteen-track opus, which Slumplordz fans will recognize as the third installment in their thematically entitled works. Although widely influential in the underground and among the rank and file hip-hop set, The Slumplordz have maintained and embraced the anonymity of their sub-underground hip-hop status.
Although they had limited distribution in the states by WarnerElektraAtlantic, you are more likely to see the Slumplordz featured on a South African website, than you are a state-side publication. When we dropped it was like people felt us. What we didnt have in promotions, we made up with in networking and technology. We built a world wide fan base, and had heads in random places checking for us harder than Dr. Dre or Radio Head.
After releasing 2000s The Slumplordz Present The Yakuza in Dont Worry About The Caliber and 2001s re-release of their 1998 seminal LP SunnMoonSekt, The Slumplordz literally went M.I.A. Among the reasons purported, was a rumored legal battle with the groups former distributor, Stray Records. When asked about their hiatus, group member Hard Rard said, The main reason we havent done anything in four years iswell... we had other shit to do! When pressed about why they were no longer with their former imprint Stray Records, Dave Doses responded, Basically...Stray no longer operates in the Bay (Area). They had a malfunction, and at the end of the day, certain people werent getting paid!
Dave Doses and Hard Rard are the primary producers of Sav City, and are together known as The Sweeps. The album features the entire Slumplordz' camp and special guests including Azeem, Sunnmoon Sekt, Gravanaught, J. Jonah, Tha Littist, Beeda Weeda and L.U.Cien. Of special note is a performance by Danny Sundance Harris, who is an original 1970s Oakland beat poet and father to Hard Rard.
Critics have called them the underground of the underground. Vice Magazine called them too dope for you to understand. The San Francisco Examiner called them, one of the most refreshing takes on bay area hip-hop in years. Ryan Sommers aka Fritz da Cat said, These guys are their own genre. forget crunk. forget grime. get slump.
Get a full press kit, photos, bio and discography info@: www.slumplordz.com
(full press kit at bottom of Bios page or click here)
Daniel Phelan : Launch Fighters Media : (510)774-8309 : dphelan@launchfighters.com
Supporting Artist Independence through Media and Technology.
CONTACT:
Daniel Phelan
Launch Fighters Media
(510) 774-8309
dphelan@launchfighters.com
www.slumplordz.com
Sav City is a fourteen-track opus, which Slumplordz fans will recognize as the third installment in their thematically entitled works. Although widely influential in the underground and among the rank and file hip-hop set, The Slumplordz have maintained and embraced the anonymity of their sub-underground hip-hop status.
Although they had limited distribution in the states by WarnerElektraAtlantic, you are more likely to see the Slumplordz featured on a South African website, than you are a state-side publication. When we dropped it was like people felt us. What we didnt have in promotions, we made up with in networking and technology. We built a world wide fan base, and had heads in random places checking for us harder than Dr. Dre or Radio Head.
After releasing 2000s The Slumplordz Present The Yakuza in Dont Worry About The Caliber and 2001s re-release of their 1998 seminal LP SunnMoonSekt, The Slumplordz literally went M.I.A. Among the reasons purported, was a rumored legal battle with the groups former distributor, Stray Records. When asked about their hiatus, group member Hard Rard said, The main reason we havent done anything in four years iswell... we had other shit to do! When pressed about why they were no longer with their former imprint Stray Records, Dave Doses responded, Basically...Stray no longer operates in the Bay (Area). They had a malfunction, and at the end of the day, certain people werent getting paid!
Dave Doses and Hard Rard are the primary producers of Sav City, and are together known as The Sweeps. The album features the entire Slumplordz' camp and special guests including Azeem, Sunnmoon Sekt, Gravanaught, J. Jonah, Tha Littist, Beeda Weeda and L.U.Cien. Of special note is a performance by Danny Sundance Harris, who is an original 1970s Oakland beat poet and father to Hard Rard.
Critics have called them the underground of the underground. Vice Magazine called them too dope for you to understand. The San Francisco Examiner called them, one of the most refreshing takes on bay area hip-hop in years. Ryan Sommers aka Fritz da Cat said, These guys are their own genre. forget crunk. forget grime. get slump.
Get a full press kit, photos, bio and discography info@: www.slumplordz.com
(full press kit at bottom of Bios page or click here)
Daniel Phelan : Launch Fighters Media : (510)774-8309 : dphelan@launchfighters.com
Supporting Artist Independence through Media and Technology.
CONTACT:
Daniel Phelan
Launch Fighters Media
(510) 774-8309
dphelan@launchfighters.com
www.slumplordz.com
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