“Why you wanna f*ck wit my Boot Camp?”

Don’t ask my why but this was the first song in my head this morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Confession: I’m one of those weirdos that doesn’t listen to leaks from albums I’m anticipating. That means I haven’t heard “Otis” yet. As of this morning, I hadn’t even heard the beat yet and wasn’t planning on it until WTT was available in its entirety.

That was until Heltah Skeltah got ahold of the beat. Read the rest of this entry »

They say if you can’t beat ‘em, you might as well join ‘em. And well-worn adage serves its place in Hip-Hop music as well — especially when you have artists of similar stature looking to move past that proverbial glass ceiling. Coming off his criminally slept-on compilation Port Authority, Marco Polo, the Canadian born producer with the knack for making boom-bap beats with a touch of bass, joins forces with Coney Island rapper Torae who gave his peers a stern talking-to on his inaugural outing 2008′s Daily Conversation.

Together, the pair construct Double Barrel, a moderately decisive effort which if anything else, reminds listeners the East Coast does still have a voice on wax. Read the rest of this entry »

Featuring Buckshot & Ruste Juxx, off the album D.I.R.T.

The decade between Heltah Skeltah’s last studio album Magnum Force has brought forth some significant changes that carried the possibility of altering the future of the group, if not ending it all together. Ruck, has developed a notable solo career under his government name Sean Price, while Rock is pending an attempted murder case. But if there was any doubts that their chemistry would be affected, they’re immediately washed away with the stellar D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) with enough witty one-liners and nonconforming flows to make up for the lost time. Read the rest of this entry »

Directed by Rik Cordero.

Buy some D.I.R.T. on 9.30.

Previous Posted — Heltah Skeltah – “D.I.R.T.”

With a beat by Khrysis, Da Incredible Rap Team is coming out blazin’ like the days of Magnum Force... Read the rest of this entry »

“Who break records ’round the world with no Guinness Books’n

My boy DJ Rev, let ya shit be bullshit

He break those too, just the other way

I got nothin’ nice to say, but I’ll say get it anyway

Fuck what my mother say

Somebody should bust yo face

Somebody should’ve told ya your rap career’s like your belt line –

Just a fuckin’ waste Read the rest of this entry »

Hosted by DJ Revolution. Hit the jump for tracklisting and back cover. Read the rest of this entry »

Generally, I try not to be boastful.

I feel like we do what we do, do it to the best of our abilities & aim to meet our high standards. If we entertain you all in the process, that’s great. If we receive a kind comment or our work spreads to other e-corners & more people are exposed to it, that’s even better.

But this week…I want to stand @ the mountaintop & say that Read the rest of this entry »

Previously Posted — TSS Presents 15 Minutes With Heltah Skeltah

Hosted by Peter Rosenberg. Doors open @ 8pm & admission is only $5 from 8-9pm.

Words By Khalid Strickland

The last time Ruck (a.k.a. Sean Price) and Rock (a.k.a. Rockness Monstah) released a full album together as Heltah Skeltah, the world was different.

The Twin Towers were still standing. CD was the most popular music format. Only chicks wore skinny jeans. And people may have scoffed at the notion of a Black man occupying the Oval Office. It was 1998 when Heltah Skeltah dropped Magnum Force, an album which produced the hit single “I Ain’t Havin’ That.”

Although the times have changed, the duo of Ruck and Rock are still making potent, adamantium-hard music. Heltah Skeltah’s new album, D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team), will be released by Duck Down Records on September 30th. That’s not to say that Ruck and Rock haven’t been keeping themselves busy since Magnum Force. Both emcees have been featured heavily on compilation albums and various projects released by their crew, the mighty Boot Camp Clik. Sean Price has earned a massive, die-hard following with his exceptional solo releases. Rock, who’s facing charges for an alleged attempted murder, recently locked the streets down with his latest mixtape, Shell Shocked. As the Hip-Hop nation becomes increasingly glitzy, the time is right for Heltah Skeltah to haul it back into the gutter.

TSS: How long have you guys been working on D.I.R.T.?

Sean Price: A couple of months.

TSS: What are you looking to accomplish with this new album?

Rock: First of all, we love Heltah Skeltah. We are Heltah Skeltah forever. It’s always fun to do a Heltah Skeltah project. We’re gonna always want to do one. We’re just also solo artists and we were trying to get that established. It just feels like it’s time…time permitted it. We be around each other but we be on our own missions or whatever. But now it seems like the time to reintroduce niggas to that shit right there. We ain’t expecting to take over the world, even though we are. We just trying to spread the gospel and get it out there. Because it don’t stop here, we’re working on other projects right now. Re-familiarize niggas with it.

TSS: It’s been about ten years since your last album together. Did ya’ll approach the making of this album any different than the others?

Sean: Not really. We found a dope beat and tore it down. That’s how it always go.

TSS: You both have a lot of new fans with all of the recent projects that you’ve done. For those who may not be familiar with ya’ll as a group, what do you bring to the table together?

Rock: Basically, me and my boy, we’re from that school of thought when rappers used to rhyme to impress you with the rhyme, not with what they’ve got and this, that and the third. You know, we like nice things; cars and all of that. But that’s not what we’re trying to impress you with. We’re trying to impress you with the rhyme, you understand? What we do is, we basically body every beat we hear. We get a beat that we like and we just body it. We disrespectinize and say the hardest, toughest, most disrespectful shit and combine it with the best flow in the world and that’s what we give niggas. Me and son, basically together we give you the yin and yang so we don’t leave no stone unturned. Whatever I don’t touch, he touch…you understand what I’m sayin’?

TSS: Being that it’s been nearly a decade since you’ve recorded an album together, do you feel that this is a debut album to a degree? Read the rest of this entry »

D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) in stores 9.30.08.

Heltah Skeltah’s D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) will be in stores 9.20.08.