Posts Tagged ‘Empire State’

I never thought this album would have added up for me. First off, anyone teaming up with Vast Aire would most likely foil in comparison to what was done with Megallah on the Cannibal Ox LP. And secondly, fourteen tracks with eleven different producers can sometimes lead to an incoherent mess of an album. Turns out my assumptions have been proved wrong by Vast and his new teammate, Karniege, who form together as Mighty Joseph to put out the solid effort, Empire State. Truth be told, not since The Cold Vein have I heard another emcee compliment and contrast Vast’s style as nicely as Karniege, and to be even more honest, I haven’t heard an album produced as well as this one in a long time.

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VAST AIRE: HEADIN FOR THE TOP OF NY.

In 2001 something happened that even transcended Philip K Dick’s imagination. The mighty Twin Towers, the biggest symbols of American economy went down and the world would never be the same. An album that visionarily (it came out before 9/11) expressed that feeling of uncertainty and apocalyptic doom-thinking was Cannibal Ox’s (Vast Aire and Vordul Mega) ‘The Cold Vein’. A few projects and solo endeavours later, Vast Aire is now back with Karniege to release the Mighty Joseph album, inspired on the King Kong theme, Both artists are headin for the top of NY, like King Kong was headin for the top of another American symbol, the Empire State Building…

You’re about to release ‘Mighty Joseph’ through Urchin Studios, please tell us more about that project…When is the release date?

It should be out by February 12th 2008, the project is on I.G.C. Rec/Urchin Studios. This is a dope LP, it’s just raw and fun hip-hop that needs to come to the forefront! Vast Aire is bringing that raw again!

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