Da Beatminerz share the video for their De La Soul, Rasheed Chapell, Pharoahe Monch,  and Corey Glover-assisted “My Year.” The ’90s star hip-hop production duo is releasing their first album in 20 years. Brothers Mr. Walt and DJ Evil Dee have spent more time producing for others including their seminal work with the Boot Camp Clik and Smif-N-Wessun. They worked outside of their Brooklyn crew producing beats for Nas, Eminem, Rah Digga, and others proving that they had much more up their sonic sleeves than the jazz-funk sound they debuted on Black Moon’s first album. The boom-bap architects were recently heard on an episode of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga. “My Year” is the second single from Stifled Creativity and the video looks like a moving painting of all the artists. Mr. Walt explained how the single came together in a press release. 

“Been friends with De La since 88 and Monch since 87 so the relationship  was already there. I met them all at the record store I worked at (Music Factory in Jamaica, Queens) and this is the second song I did with both (De La “The Hustle” & Monch “Tight [REMIX]”). “My Year” was one of the first songs we worked on when we started the album and the order you hear them in is the order we made. It took a minute to get Dave’s vocals because of his health. When we got them, We were so grateful and  appreciative. He didn’t have to do the song but he came through & that the world to me.I met Rasheed through Kenny Dope. When I heard him, I automatically wanted to work with him, so when we put the blueprint together for the song, I knew he would fit perfectly. The icing on the cake was Corey Glover (Thanks to Guy Routte). Everything came together just how we wanted.” 

Stifled Creativity will be released on June 20th via Soulspazm. It can be pre-ordered, pre-saved, and streamed now.  

Corey Glover’s Hymns was his first solo album 10 years after being the vocalist for rock band Living Colour. The group disbanded in 1995 and Hymns was released in 1998. “Do You First, Then Do Myself” approached love atypically by comparing it to a curse. Glover’s soulful wail was a warning about passion from a serious romance inevitably driving a person insane. Peter Lord of The Family Stand wrote the song and the music had Living Colour’s heavy metal approach. The rest of Hymns was a mix of funk, blues and soul. Glover put on a performance in the video as a patient in a mental hospital driven mad by love. The brilliance of Hymns received no support from MTV and radio despite Glover’s contract with LaFace Records and having L.A.Reid and Kenneth Edmonds as executive producers of the album. Hymns found its audience amongst Living Colour fans and listeners outside of the mainstream. 

Corey Glover’s last solo project is the 2012 album The Pledge. In 2018 Glover formed the metal group Disciples Of Verity. Their debut project Pragmatic Sanction was released in 2020. They released their single “Remember The Living” in the fall of 2021 and went on a tour of the United States.

 

Living Colour are the latest to appear in the On Tour concert series which films artists performing at various East Coast venues and interweaves the show with interview footage. The band performed at the World Cafe in Philadelphia and Corey Glover discusses their origins, the rise of “Cult Of Personality” and their intensity as a group going forward.

Vernon Reid and Corey Glover of Living Colour appeared on That Metal Show last weekend. They discussed the first album they purchased, the problems with genre restrictions in the marketplace and their favorite new bands among other things.