As we have been reporting all year westcoast veteran MC Eiht is back with his nineteenth album release; “Affiliated” – his first release through Paid In Full/Koch; due out on April 4. This album will feature his first enhanced disc; the special product will contain 14 album tracks, exclusive interview footage and a new music video starring MC Eiht performing the song “Say Nothin.”
Among the albumﾒs authentic Compton born and bred tracks is the radio single, “CPTﾒz Bac” (159 Remix Featuring CMW), produced by Raw Steel.
The song was well received when premiered right here on dubcnn and was added into airplay at the legendary Los Angeles radio station KDAY by Julio G after he heard it right here on dubcnn. Throughout “Affiliated” MC Eiht comes back strapped with his trademark style on new songs like “Where U Frum” (Featuring Gangsta Luv of the Road Dawgs) where as on “Just Lean” he adopts a laid back track by Chill and DJ Subflo, a drum and bass producer, who is also a well-known rave DJ. MC Eiht says: “I got down with my man Sub, because I wanted people to know that we got all types of flavors, not just hiphop, but we got all kinds of diversity. So I did this one on the strength of how we lean in Compton.”
MC Eiht states the track is reminiscent of much of the feel of his classic album with Comptons Most Wanted, “Music To Driveby” due to the amount of slow grooves on it: “A lot of down South niggas like to hear their stuff slow and screwed and chopped, so that was my focus when I heard the beat; the first thing I thought about was Texas and down South, and how they be chopping and screwing their shit. I wanted for them to get down, because theyﾒve always been supportive of MC Eiht, and what I do, so I just wanted to throw some of that back.”
Other tracks on the album include “Gangsta Minded” which features Jaz and Chill; Jaz being a new female rapper. Eiht explains: “Chill made the beat, and she wanted to rip it, so we let her get down, and we decided to hop on down there with her. Her flow is tight, and she is real gangsta with it. No fur coats and talking about sex and diamonds, because sheﾒs hood with it. If a female raps, I want to hear her come like me. When she did it, I was amazed. A nigga didnﾒt have to direct her, or tell her what to write about, because she knows where she was from. On a solo project, it is the first time I ever got down with a female, and she put it down tight.”
The long anticipated track “Smoke This” features Chill and Jayo Felony; althought it was produced by Silk some time ago it was never released. Eiht remarks: “It describes what weﾒre seeing in street rap, gangsta rap right now. At the time we recorded it, people were rapping about happy stuff like partying and chains and planes and stuff. We were expressing our frustration in the music, and we were fed up with people not wanting to deal with the real in their music. Now people are trying to be hard and trying to be where theyﾒre not even from. So it is still just perfect for today.” When Eiht was asked about the inspiration behind the track “2 Compton MFﾒz” featureing Big2DaBoy he explained: “I was an old school NWA, Eazy-E fan. Eazy and Ren had a song back in the day called ﾓ2 Hard MFﾒs,ﾔ so I wanted to say two Compton motherf*&^%$s, ﾑcuz itﾒs introducing the upcoming artist Big2daboy at my label, West Music. I wanted to showcase it with us both being from Compton. With his being the young generation and me being like the older generation, I wanted to show that we still have it on lock.”
On “Affiliated” MC Eiht addresses the fact that corporate sponsored hiphop artists have misconstrued and misrepresented West Coast gang culture. MC Eiht revealed: “A lot of what youﾒre seeing in the videos out there is fake. Because a lot of these niggas who are doing this now were not even doing this shit, gangbangin.ﾒ For me to be the age I am, and to know gangbangin’ in Compton since I was 12 years old, a lot of these cats, who are claiming this and that, ainﾒt but 26 years old. So a lot of them werenﾒt even around when it started. Also, theyﾒre not even in the geographic areas, the sections that gang banging was even involved in. Like it just evolved a couple years ago in certain areas, and now niggas run with it, and pretend like they grew up with it. To have niggas thirty years later start gangbanging, and saying that theyﾒre original with it is just ludicrous. The corporations are just trying to market our culture. So now itﾒs marketable to major corporations to wear tattoos and wear a rag, and claim to be from a neighborhood.”
So next week ensure you grab a copy of MC Eiht’s latest release “Affiliated” to see if he adds more tracks to his existing Compton Classics. Geah! For now; remind your self of the single to the album; “CPTﾒz Bac” which we premiered this year
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