Grammy Award nominated rap group Nappy Roots, the five-man hip
hop collective responsible for the multi-platinum smash Watermelon, Chicken
& Gritz, is currently at Dungeon East Studios working with the impressive
Organized Noize production team on a new CD that will be released on a joint
venture with AVJ Records.
Organized Noize is the Atlanta based multi-platinum-selling award-winning trio
of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown that helped to shape Southern Hip
Hop with OutKast’s ground breaking Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik album.
“We’ve been credited with creating the “Sound of the South,”
and Nappy Roots is considered the “Conscience of the South,” so
it’s great that Nappy wanted to work with us,” says Rico Wade of
the Noize team. “People are going to be impressed by this album.”
The Nappy Roots project marks the first time the trio has worked on an entire
album in quite some time. Nappy Roots rapper Skinny DeVille speaks on the excitement.
“It’s an honor to be working with legends like Organized Noize.
Nappy Roots is a family and Organized Noize is like our older cousins that we
haven’t seen in a while, so the [sessions are] like a family reunion.
We stayed true to ourselves, but Organized Noize has pushed our limits and taken
the music to the next level.”
The new album will be the first Nappy Roots project on AVJ Records, an urban
imprint run by Jason “Boogie” Brown and Shannon Houchins of Average
Joe Entertainment (Colt Ford, Montgomery Gentry, Corey Smith). Shannon Houchins
states, “We’re happy to be partnering up with Nappy Roots on the
next stage of their career. They are an important part of Hip Hop history and
we are honored to continue their legacy.”
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