Slum Village | Live in Manila

Tuesday, August 25 at 9:00pm

Black Market
WAREHOUSE 5, LA FUERZA COMPOUND 2, SABIO ST., Makati

www.slumvillageblackmarketmnl.com

Detroit’s own iconic hip-hop group Slum Village will be hitting the shores of the Philippines for the very first time! Witness a full live performance of their future classic tracks off their new album “Yes” and their timeless Fan-Tas-Tic classics at Black Market on August 25!

Supporting Sounds:

• DON P • RED-I • NIX DAMN P • TOLLO b2b BADKISS • CRWN X JESS CONNELLY [Live] • ANGELO MENDEZ b2b SCRATCHMARK • LIKE ANIMALS X RHXANDERS X ANKHTEN BROWN [Live] • MULTIFORM [Live]

• SLUM VILLAGE (Detroit, USA) [LIVE] •

Chances are, if you are anywhere near the Detroit music scene, you’ve heard of the influential hip hop trio that makes up Slum Village. The group was founded in the early 90′s by 3 childhood friends: Baatin, T3, rapper and producer J Dilla, who all grew up together in the Conant Gardens neighborhood of Detroit, MI.

Slum Village released their first album Fantastic Volume 1, independently. The album was an instant underground classic, later finding its way into the hands of A Tribe Called Quest’s own Q-Tip, who played it for some of hip hop’s elite, such as Busta Rhymes, Questlove, and D’angelo. After the group’s first national release, Fantastic, Volume 2 under their home label Barak Records, dubbed an immediate classic from fans and industry tastemakers. .

Slum Village is ever evolving, with the addition of Young RJ Rice to the line-up, T3 and Young RJ remained focused and ready to go to the next level.

In 2001, J Dilla made the decision to pursue his solo career, but still hung around helpingYoung RJ with production,T3, Baatin, and Elzhi started work on their next album “Trinity” released on Barak/Capital Records. This album would feature their first commercial single “Tainted” which featured an unknown Dwele, also “Disco” the remix produced by Timberland.

In 2002, “Dirty District”, a compilation of songs by Detroit rappers largely produced byT3 and Young RJ, was released.

2004 album, “Detroit Deli” (A Taste of Detroit), included the hit single, “Selfish”, produced by Kanye West and featuring John Legend.

2005, they released “Prequel to a Classic”, a mixtape and “Self-Titled” with production from Young RJ and Black Milk.
Tragedy struck in 2006 in the form of the loss of founding member J Dilla, to lupus

In 2009, T3, Baatin , , Illa J (of Yancey Boys fame and J Dilla’s brother), started production on their next album, “Villa Manifesto, Produced by Young RJ”.

While touring in Canada that year tragedy struck for a second time, claiming the life of Baatin at home in Detroit, his death was felt deeply throughout the Detroit Hip Hop scene.

In 2010, the album “Villa Manifesto” was released under Ne’astra/Koch Records, by that time Elzhi had decided to move on and focus on pursuing his own solo career.
In 2012/13 Slum Village new mixtape “Dirty Slums Vol 1 & Vol. 2”, presented by DJ Mick Boogie, featuring artists such as Rapper Big Pooh, De La Soul, Focus, Skyzoo, Phonte, and Phife,after 100,000+downloads.

In 2013 “B-Sides”and Evolution was release (Ne’Astra Music)

2014 “Vintage, were released (Ne’Astra Music).
Bringing them to 2015, Slum Village has found their niche, in giving that fiery flow that true hip-hop heads feel has been lost for a long time.

Never leaving their roots, Slum Village now gives their listeners the best of some of their unreleased material since Fantastic Vol. 1 & 2 with their album release titled “YES!”, produced by J Dilla and Young RJ.
Available on iTunes Now! http://radi.al/SlumVillageYES

Links:
http://www.slumvillage.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialSlumVillage