Kurupt, Sir Jinx, King Tee, Jayo Felony, Gangsta, MC
Eiht And Tha Chill Form "1st Generation"
by Omar Burgess
Back in February, MC Eiht announced he would be joining fellow CMW member Tha
Chill as part of a super-group named 1st Generation. Nearly two months later,
the collective—also comprised of Kurupt, Sir Jinx, King Tee, Jayo Felony,
Gangsta—has released their first video, “Killen Me Softly.”
Few emcees can say, “We either made it crack or grew up on N.W.A.,”
as Kurupt does on the chorus, but few groups can boast founding members of Tha
Dogg Pound, Likwit Crew, Compton’s Most Wanted and The Comrades.
How did they manage to fit so many different egos and musical tastes on one
project?
“With music, everything else is irrelevant,” Kurupt told HipHopDX
during a similar pairing with DJ Quik in 2009. “The music is what the
key is, and the music is the set. So we’re all from the same set as far
as this music game goes. The love you have for someone can outweigh your neighborhood
politics and all the rest of that. You’re gonna see more of that, just
to let you know that it’s not just us older cats doin’ it.”
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