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NECRO’s New Video “Mutilate the Beat” online NOW!!

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Necro’s new album, Death Rap, is poised to reinvent hip-hop and aggressive metal music as we know it. Not many other artists have managed to strike a balance between the two styles of music without watering down one or the other. Death Rap pushes both genres to their extremes, far surpassing anything Necro or anyone else has done in the past.

While Necro is an underground hip-hop legend, his first musical project was playing guitar in a death metal band. However, his love of rap music soon set him on the path of writing, recording, and releasing albums on his own label Psycho+Logical-Records. Necro created a cult following, based on word of mouth and clever street promotion. His first two albums: I Need Drugs and Gory Days each sold over 30,000 copies and are highly regarded in the underground hip-hop community. Necro started to show his metal roots with 2004’s Prefix for Death, an album that featured collaborations with members of Hatebreed, Slipknot, Obituary, S.O.D. and was even more successful than anything he had done before. His past successes have enabled Necro to build up a strong online following with over 130,000 friends on MySpace and a massive YouTube presence.

Now in 2007, Necro is concentrating on his career, rigorously touring the world for the first time and releasing his most ambitious album to date. Death Rap features more of what fans love about Necro: raw lyrical skill, dirty hip-hop beats and an array of guest stars of the current and classic metal scene. Guest appearances include Mark Morton of Lamb of God, Brian Fair of Shadows Fall, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Steve DiGiorgio of Death, and Adam Jackson from Twelve Tribes. Death Rap is truly going to be a genre defining record for hip-hop and metal fans everywhere.

Audio stream of first single “Some Get Back (Revenge):”

http://www.ferretstyle.com/necro/player/NECROdeathrap/somegetback.mp3

You can download the Necro assets (album cover, logo, photos and press release) here:

http://www.specialopsmedia.com/assets/Necro/assets.zip

Preferred retail link:

http://www.mymusicandvideo.com/necro

Join Necro’s 130,000+ friends at MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/necro

Bring it.

\m/

Walter

Major US tour with Insane Clown Posse:

o 10/15 – Philadelphia , PA

o 10/16 – Norfolk , VA

o 10/19 – Worcester , MA

o 10/20 – Hartford , CT

o 10/21 – Cleveland , OH

o 10/23 – Sauget , IL

o 10/24 – Tulsa , OK

o 10/26 – Milwaukee , WI

o 10/27 – Noblesville , IN

o 10/28 – Chicago , IL

o 10/30 – Columbus , OH

o 10/31 – Detroit , MI

Tracklisting

1. Creepy Crawl

2. No Remorse

3. Some Get Back (Revenge)

4. Belligerent Gangsters feat. Harley Flanagan of The Cro-Mags

5. Suffocated To Death By God’s Shadow feat. Brian Fair of Shadows Fall, Mark Morton of Lamb of God, Mike Smith of Suffocation, & Steve DiGiorgio of Death/Sadus

6. Mutilate The Beat

7. Keep On Driving

8. Technician Of Execution

9. Keeping It Real feat Adam Jackson of Twelve Tribes

10. Exploitation feat. Mr. Hyde

11. As Deadly As Can Be feat. ILL Bill

12. Evil Rules feat. Scott Ian of Anthrax, Dave Ellefson formerly of Megadeth & Ray Alder of Fates Warning

13. Forensic Pathology

14. Portrait Of A Death Rapper




Keyshia Cole’s “Just Like You” 2nd Best-selling CD in America

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Santa Monica, CA Oct 04, 2007 R&B sensation Keyshia Cole’s sophomore CD, Just Like You (Imani/Geffen Records) is the 2nd best-selling CD in the nation debuting at #2 on the “Billboard 200” chart and is the #1 R&B CD in the country on Billboard’s “Top R&B/Hip- Hop Albums” chart selling close to 300 thousand copies in its first week of release. The CD is executive produced by Keyshia Cole, her manager Manny Halley, and Geffen Chairman Ron Fair.

Keyshia beats out other 1st week-sellers: Jill Scott, Melissa Etheridge and the Foo Fighters. This makes for the best sales week of Keyshia Cole’s career following her 2005 debut album The Way It Is which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Just Like You includes her #1 single “Let It Go” produced by Missy Elliot and featuring Missy and Lil’ Kim. Keyshia recently shot the video for her second single “Shoulda Let You Go,” introducing Amina, her new artist on Imani Entertainment, the label she co-owns with her manager Manny Halley which is distributed by Geffen Records.

Just Like You has received rave reviews in the press. Here is what some outlets have to say:

“Keyshia Cole seems to have her [stuff] together. [Just Like You] is a work of engaging pop-wise R&B.” -Rolling Stone

“Call Ms. Cole a triple threat. Her voice has the flexible range of pop, the muscular punch of soul, and the hard character of Hip-Hop.” – New York Daily News

“Between signing a record deal at 21, and this, her second CD, the rugged-but righteous soprano, whose silken voice never lost its feel for the real, conquers the R&B/Hip-Hop world.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

“With a voice like raw honey, R&B singer Keyshia Cole taps the pain of her past to script songs that are beautiful, honest and unflinching.” – Essence

Season 2 of her highly-watched reality series on BET, “The Way It Is” (which Cole and Halley executive produced) begins airing on October 30th. She will also make her movie debut in the upcoming MTV film “How She Moves” due to be released in 2008.

Keyshia, who is currently on the cover of the October issue of Essence magazine, headlined her own 20-city House of Blues tour in the summer, and she performed the National Anthem at the kickoff of the 2007 NFL season as the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts hosted the New Orleans Saints on September 6th.

The Oakland native established herself as a fan and critic favorite with one of the biggest hits of 2005, “I Should Have Cheated,” followed by one of the most played songs of 2006, “Love”- both from The Way It Is. Keyshia earned the Vibe Next Award and a 2007 ASCAP Award for R&B/Hip-Hop Song for “Love.” She also received numerous nominations at the BET Awards, Soul Train Music Awards, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and Teen Choice Awards. She recently made history as she became the first female ever to land three consecutive number one chart positions on the 14-year-old Nielsen BDS- based urban chart: “Let It Go,” and hits from her first CD, “I Should Have Cheated,” and “Love.”




Wu-Tang Clan And Rifkind Together Again

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NEW YORK- October 4, 2007—Wu-Tang Clan will release 8 Diagrams, their eagerly awaited first new studio album in six years, December 4, on Steve Rifkind’s revived Loud Records label through Universal Records, marking a reunion between the legendary hip-hop group and the pioneering rap entrepreneur.

The first single, “My Heart Gently Weeps,” described as “an interpolation” of George Harrison’s classic Beatles song, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” is now available exclusively on www.Loud.com. Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison, Erykah Badu and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante guest on the track.

The release of Wu-Tang’s 8 Diagrams marks a reunion with Loud founder
Rifkind, who launched the hip-hop icons’ very first album, Enter the Wu-Tang
(36 Chambers), nearly 15 years ago on his label. The group proceeded to create one of the most distinctive catalogs in rap history, its nine members going on to success not only in music, but also acting, scoring films, video games and clothing lines.

“What a thrill to be able to work with Wu-Tang again,” enthused
Rifkind, who broke such acts as David Banner and more recently, Akon, into
multi-platinum sellers on his SRC label. “Over the last few years, the group has developed
a whole new following of people in their 20s who never saw them perform.”

The band will begin a month-long U.S. tour on Oct. 20 in Miami, which runs through Hawaii on Nov. 23.

Rifkind was one of the first to employ corporate and label synergy by bringing in major corporations to sponsor individual artists within the hip-hop community.

“This is the perfect time for us to get back together, the stars are aligned,” says one of the band’s three founders, RZA, who started the group with GZA and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, adding six other members from Brooklyn and Staten Island, including Method Man, Raekwon the Chef, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa and U-God, taking their
name from one of their beloved Hong Kong martial arts films.

The roots of Wu-Tang’s reunion took place last year, when the band was
rapturously received at a rare live performance in California before more than 10,000 fans.

From the start, Wu-Tang Clan represented a hip-hop collective, its individual members all pursuing individual careers, then coming back to their base. The group’s 1997 breakthrough, the two-CD Wu-Tang Forever, set a record for hip-hop acts by selling 600k in its first week, debuting at #1 on its way to 4 million in U.S. sales.

8 Diagrams, also named after a kung fu epic, will be the first group
recording since the death of Ol’ Dirty Bastard in Nov. 2004, and RZA
promises the new album will include a performance of O.D.B. “in his rawest
form” from the vault “which will show you why he was considered one
of the illest MCs ever.” There is also a tribute song to O.D.B., “Life Changes,” that has been in the can for awhile. “Hopefully, it will provide some closure for the fans,” says RZA.