All good hip hop: A Tribe Called Quest, BCC, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Slum Village, Gang Starr, D'Angelo, The Roots, Prince (THE GREATEST EVER), Lootpack, Biggie, Common, Mos Def, Pac, and so on and so on.
Personal favorite beat niggas: Primo, Just Blaze, Madlib, Kanye, Jay Dilla (G.O.A.T.), D'Angelo, Questlove, Neptunes (BANANAS), BLACK MILK NIGGA!!!
Favorite Old School Records: All James Brown LPs and 45s, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament, LTD, Ohio Players, The Meters, and other artists that are too rare to mention.
Favorite groups on that otha shit: Stereolab, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Tomita
Sounds Like
Tronic
CD, Digital, and Vinyl LP
Featuring guest appearances from
Pharoahe Monch, DJ Premier, Dwele, Sean Price, Colin Munroe, Royce Da 5'9", A.B. and Melanie Rutherford
October 28, 2008
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The Set Up
CD, Digital, and Vinyl LP
Featuring guest appearances from
Guilty Simpson, Elzhi, NameTag, & Phat Kat
Featuring guest appearances and production from
Busta Rhymes, Bishop Lamont, Slum Village, Royce Da 5'9", Ras Kass, Guilty Simpson, DJ Khalil, Jake One, Kardinal Offishall, Mr. Porter, Glasses Malone, Trick Trick, Mistah F.A.B., Planet Asia, Stat Quo, and more
Featuring guest appearances from
One Be Lo, Slum Village, Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson, and more
"Black Milk makes an early bid for '07's top tier with his sophomore LP." XXL
"Black Milk displays the necessary tools to carry Detroit hip hop on his back. A showpiece that should be in the Album of the Year talks come year's end." Ozone
Recording "Give the Drummer Sum" || Interview with Fader Magazine
Black Milk in the studio with Bishop Lamont and Sean Price recording "Caltroit" and the forthcoming Random Axe album!
Black Milk & Guilty Simpson tour Detroit with Current TV
In only a few years, producer/emcee Black Milk has quickly developed into one of the few hip hop artists who both carries an accomplished resume and is followed with widely-held optimism about what he can bring as one of the leaders of the modern hip hop movement.
Now 25 years old, Black (born Curtis Cross) earned his stripes both locally in his native Detroit and on a national level from his associations with Slum Village. After getting his first production credit for "What is This" on SV's sophomore album "Trinity" in 2002, he produced much of the popular group's next two albums both individually and as part of the production team BR Gunna, with whom he also released the album "Dirty District, Vol. 2." It wasn't until his self-released debut solo album "Sound of the City" in 2005 did he begin to achieve some notoriety as an emcee, and it was off the strength of the album that he signed his first record deal with Fat Beats Records in 2006.
Upon the release of his "Popular Demand" album in March 2007, Black Milk instantly became one of underground hip hop's ambassadors. In addition to becoming a go-to producer for commissioned beats on an independent level (he's placed beats on projects by Kidz in the Hall, Guilty Simpson, Strange Fruit Project, Genius/GZA, and many more), he's also worked with major label artists like Pharoahe Monch, Kardinal Offishall, and Busta Rhymes. He's also recently released two albums on his own Music House imprint (Fat Ray's "The Set Up" and "Black Milk presents Caltroit"), produced nearly an entire album for Elzhi from Slum Village ("The Preface"), and produces and rhymes as a member of the group Random Axe (with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson) who have a full length album scheduled for release in early 2009.
His new album "Tronic" shows that Black has grown tremendously as a producer, as he's adopted more live instrumentation and is introducing more complex arrangement than his previous sample-heavy work. He also shows marked improvement as an emcee, and carries most of the album himself with only 3 guest verses on the entire album (from emcee royalty Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5'9", and Sean Price). Not even two years removed from his breakthrough release, Black Milk proves on "Tronic" that not only is he growing as an artist, but that hip hop music as a genre still has room to grow.
Milk what happened? I was forced to watch the GymClassHeroes at Ram's Head..after I drove a few hours to see y'all rock..and they told me you Elzhi and Guilty weren't coming when I got to the door...gas prices are little too high for that..I'm a still support the movement though
So, I moved to DC from Detroit. I was so excited to see you, Elzhi, Guilty, etc. were playing in Baltimore. So I drove my ass up there for a lil piece of Detroit. Instead, I got some whack ass MC battle for 3 hours. I couldn't even stand it long enough to wait to see if Royce went on. WTF happened? Are you guys really coming back?
Negroooo Lecheeeee! Dude, in case you don't already realize: The Matrix is the epitome of what siiiiiick hiphop should sound like. Every verse was redic... you set a high standard with a sick first verse... Pharoahe brought the ill metaphors like always.. Sean Price is insane, and Preem cut the hook like only Preem can. BETTER BELIEVE I'm gonna be at that release party on the 24th in BK!!!!!! "Tronic... two thousand... EIGHHHHT!...... That means we takin over this year, ya hearrrr?!???"
Hi, what's up.....I'm an italian producer......not a famous producer........I do my thing in my house only with my akai mpc 1000 & some good samples......please come listen my new beats.....4 new tracks: FilsSoGudTuMi - 96-BPM Something - 92.5-BPM Carnival - 93.5-BPM NTSMDM - 96-BPM
Black the Matrix is iLL as f**k, but that joint that plays for a little bit after it sounds ridiculously insane... I can't wait for the album to drop... Ima cop three one for the ride, the crib and just an xtra one for support man your ish inspires me keep doing your thing man... oNe!
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