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New interview with Lord Jazz of Lords of the Underground. You can catch LOTUG April 25th @ Nokia Theater with Naughty By Nature, EPMD and O.C.. Link

Pete the Meat: So what are you up to these days?

DJ Lord Jazz: Well, these days I’m out in Paris, France. I’m just touring all over the world, man. That’s what I’m doing. I’m DJ-ing worldwide. I was doing radio out here in Paris on a station called Generation Radio but I had stopped because I was never here. I was always on the road so I just took my show on the road, kept it moving. I still do a radio show on the internet people can check out on Friday nights. It’s www.conspiracyuk.com and basically, like I said, still just DJ-ing and I bring Lord DoItAll And Mr. Funke to Europe a lot. We do a lot of tours out here. That’s really what we’ve been doing for the past five years. We’ve been out in Europe, all these countries out here, even in Africa, we’ve been banging classic joints and new material. Speaking of Lords, we dropped an album called House of Lords in late December released on an indie label. Basically, there was really no promotion behind it. We basically just hit the road ourselves and we got it out there. It’s on the internet, you can find it on iTunes and all the digital downloads. We’re just working, man, just working.

Scheduled to perform on this tour are Rakim, Gza, De La Soul, Hieroglyphics, Blackalicious, Sage Francis, Little Brother, Murs, 9th Wonder, Buckshot, Supernatural, Scratch, Kidz in the Hall, Solillaquists of Sound, Yak Ballz, Braille and Bernard Dolan. Note that many of these cats are not performing the whole tour, just on select dates. Luckily, I’m in NYC so Rakim AND Gza. more info

Wednesday June 4 @ Nokia Theatre – New York, NY
Rakim, GZA, Blackalicious, Murs & 9th Wonder, Buckshot (Boot Camp Clik), Supernatural and Scratch, Kidz in the Hall, and Yak Ballz

Saturday June 7 @ Club Cinema – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Rakim, Little Brother, Blackalicious, Buckshot (Boot Camp Clik), Supernatural and Scratch, Kidz in the Hall, Solillaquists of Sound

Friday June 13 @ Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
De La Soul, Blackalicious, Sage Francis, Murs & 9th Wonder, Supernatural and Skratch, Kidz in the Hall, Yak Ballz, Braille, B. Dolan

Saturday June 14 @ Berkeley Community Theatre – Berkeley, CA
De La Soul, Blackalicious, Little Brother, Sage Francis, Hieroglyphics, Supernatural and Scratch, Kidz in the Hall, Braille, B. Dolan

As previously announced, GRANDGOOD is proud to partner with NYOIL to bring to you Conspiracy Theory, the first single from NYOIL’s upcoming project, 9 Wonders. The full Digital EP will be available for free download on February 20th right here on grandgood.com!

update: lyrics and analysis

NYOIL to release “9 Wonders (the Digital EP)”

Hip Hop Artist and Activist NYOIL is set to release a new Digital EP titled “9 Wonders (NYOIL verses 9th Wonder)” February 20th 2008.

The release will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD at partnering websites and Blogs for the duration of the release. “I’m constantly trying to develop new strategies to market music and developing significant business partnerships with new media. This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize Blogger as the future of Hip Hop press. A good blog is usually written by someone that would do it, has done it because they have a legitimate love for the culture.” Said NYOIL.

The project titled with the tagline (NYOIL verses 9th Wonder) contradicts rumored reports that the project was a diss to the group Little Brother and or the Grammy award winning Producer 9th Wonder. It is in fact a compilation of 9 songs to 9 previously released 9th Wonder Beats. Unlike mix CD’s where the artist generally does his version of a pre-released song, NYOIL opted to give each track new life. “I felt like if I redid the songs it would be disrespectful to the people that originally rocked to them. Fact is I just treated each beat as if it had never been rhymed to. I wanted to show my mastery of this style of hip hop, my ability to still build solid ideas, a conscious message, and show the timeless quality of 9th Wonders production” This project has a decidedly mellower feel to his previous release “HoodTREASON the warm up album” but the lyrical content is no less poignant and honest.

This project dropping around the same time Boot Camp is set to release a 9th Wonder/ Buckshot project begs the question: Was this planned to block their efforts? “Quite the contrary, Buckshot is my dude! Straight like that. If anything it’s just more on the plate for 9th Wonder Fans. Buckshot is a solid MC from a great lineage of MC’s there is absolutely NOTHING I could do to eclipse an artist of that magnitude. If anything we are working in tandem to flood the market with good music.”

The first release will be a hauntingly somber track titled “Conspiracy Theory” with a patented NYOIL style video to accompany it Feb. 6th and will debut on the websites hosting the free download. The Digital EP features the talents of Dan Wallace (from De La Soul’s album Grind Date song “Shopping Bags”) and a duet with his daughter “Big NAY” possibly the first Father/Daughter collab in the history of Hip Hop.

Partnering Blogs/Websites include:
Sitdownstandup.com
Hip-hop4blackunity.org
classichiphopllc.com
Grandgood.com
thesource.com
Rawkus.com

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NYOIL
9 Wonders (NYOIL verses 9th Wonder) the digital EP
online free download coming soon

I’ll write my wrongs in sad songs and sing symphonies of apologies
Begging pardons from persons and places and things
Praying for forgiveness, finding false hope in failed fantasy
trying to come to terms with what is Actually

I’ll write my wrongs and relate to the mistakes i’ve made
the games i’ve played
and lost
realize the price.. the cost .. of having fallen off

these wrongs i’ll write and scribe hoping to survive long enough to
divide the pain of loosing due to the choices i was choosing
the drum to who’s beat i was moving
and taking this into account may amount to me honestly being free of
the malcontent that consumes me

and dooms me

so i write these wrongs and scribble my pain to hide the shame of
the life i am living
and the pain i was giving freely with no hesitation’
and no comprehension of condemnation
not realizing Karma seeks compensation

so i spend today in sorrow
hoping to have no more wrongs to right tomorrow