Crooked I Talks Next ALBUM, Death Row, Shady Records

[EnzoUK]

Crooked I discusses everything under the sun, including his next solo venture and his former and future labels.

Slaughterhouse emcee Crooked I recently sat down with Conspiracy Worldwide Radio to discuss a myriad of topics, including his next solo album.

"I have a lot of albums," said Crooked, laughing. "I probably could put out an album a day for thirty days...This Million Dollar Story is very close to me. What I'm doing is I'm working on it right now...a lot of people hear the title, and they're like, 'Million Dollar Story? Is this another dude talking about bling?' It's not really about that. It's more about the story of my life, and some of the priceless experiences that I've gone through, and some of the priceless inspiration that people can get when they can hear about all the struggles and adversity that I've been through, and that I'm continuing to push. Sometimes that's all you need to hear - that somebody's going through some of the similar things that you're going through. To me, those are the million dollar stories."

Crooked I added that the album would drop at the beginning of next year, though material from it would be leaked beforehand.

The west coast rapper also discussed the infamous label he was formerly signed to, Death Row. "One thing that people don't know though...that there was a good side [to Death Row]. There's Yin and Yang. We regularly [performed] acts of being positive in the community. Suge [Knight] had Mother's Day dinners where he would get all these mothers out of the ghetto, in low-income neighborhoods, bring them to Beverly Hills...and just feed them [and the kids] all day, give out prizes and have guest artists perform. Even on Father's Day, he would bring around this bus, get a lot of the kids who had fathers in prison and don't get a chance to see their fathers, go get the kids and get them clothed, get them to the penitentiary to see their fathers."

Finally, Crooked discussed his current status with regards to Shady Records, as it was reported that Slaughterhouse would be signing to the label. "I'mma tell you like this," said Crooked when asked whether the deal had been officially completed. "I don't know about the rest of the group, but I'm on Shady!" he said, before breaking out laughing. "I'm just playin'. This is a note to any up-and-coming artist who's out there...any aspiring rapper or producer: when you sign a contract with a label, make sure that you have certain freedoms. Try to negotiate."

"We got four dudes, we got separate contracts with different labels, and some labels kinda blocking. They kinda blocking. But we're getting over those obstacles now, and we're negotiating...It's worse than LeBron going to The Heat. It's crazy how long it's taking, but it's going to happen. Absolutely it's gonna happen, and absolutely we will be in the studio with Eminem, recording probably the greatest music of our lifetime."

Source: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12024/title.crooked-i-talks-next-album-death-row-shady-records

[SheraZ]

great read!! thanx!!

i hope million dollar story drops tho.. and he should release the rest of the BOSS album for free or as a mixtape or whatever.. even if it sounds outdated.. but deff good to hear someone sayin sumthin positive about death row.. good lookin!!

peace

[OG Hack Wilson]

waits for the same group of 5-10 fag haters to flood the thread in 3...2...1....

[EFFeX]

waits for the same group of 5-10 fag haters to flood the thread in 3...2...1....

Na man... you're early.

The trolls don't come out until after dark. 

[dnjp4life]

Hurry up and close the deal.  I want a new Slaughterhouse album on Shady Records damnit 

[papa-smurf]

i hope they sign to shady.the mainstream need these type of artist in the lime light,really crooked i.

[Anonymous.]

shouldnt the thread title say 1ST Album instead of NEXT

[Gamestarr]

Thanks for this!


Just like some other Crook interviews I read this was a whole lot of nothing..

[Al Bundy]

shouldnt the thread title say 1ST Album instead of NEXT

lmao

[aaamusicgroupwest]

Dope..this is an album to get excited about....

[LONDON!!]

thats a good look for crooked, joell too, i hope em signs the 4 horsemen as a group aswell, but it probably won't happen because of the canibus and em beef, sad shit, because kurupt, bis, killah priest & ras kazzy over major budget production, like working wit the likes of premo, pete rock, alchemist, 9th wonder, muggs wit features from em, going back and forth, bar for bar, back to back, just bullying the mic, just major merkage going on, that would be too sick, yes surr, that would be a classic, no question

[doggfather]

shouldnt the thread title say 1ST Album instead of NEXT

 
+1

[love33]

Realistically doubt this will ever drop. If they do happen to even get the labels to sell their contracts to Interscope for big paper, they will prob just be put in purgatory like busta and rakim.  Dre cant even come up with a single for his own album, how in the world is he going to promote an artist? Funny how Crook was talkin smack about Eminem on "Did You Ever Think Remix" and now he's jumpin for joy signing with him.  Funny how these clowns just chase the man with the big sales cause they can't do it on their own.

[Eddz]

Would be nice if the BOSS album was a bonus disk with the album 

[KrazySumwhat]

 Hopefully it all happens.