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Ist genau wie der erste Teil aber sicherlich nur eine Slim Case CD-R.

As always folks I’ve been mega busy. Even busier than usual dealing with all the things I deal with but I’m happy to announce that both “Cool Aide” and “Robots with Hearts” are pretty much done. When I say pretty much I mean each project has one song on it that the kinks need to be worked out for. I don’t know when Robots with Hearts is gonna come out because like I’ve been saying from the beginning I don’t know anything about electronic music so I’m sure it’ll take me a while to find a worthwhile place to put it out. Either way it’s a very dope record and very much a “total > sum of its parts” type thing. With it finally put together it seems like so much more than I thought it actually was hahah.

Cool Aide is coming out March 2009. I got a lot of surprises in the works music-wise leading up to that so make sure you guys stay tuned.

CCFA Team Challenge - Half-Marathon in Miami - January 2009
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What's the good word people? This is iCON the Mic King. As you can see I've redirected my efforts towards something new. No I have not quit rhyming or anything to that effect but right now I'm involved in something that I feel is very important and I want to use my voice to make a difference.

Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are little publicized digestive disorders that 1.4 million Americans and even millions more worldwide suffer from. The symptoms are not glamorous in any way so I don't even want to get into them. Visit the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America website to learn more on the diseases themselves.

People keep asking me why I got involved. Do I have Crohn's or Colitis? The answer is no.

Let me tell you a story....I was in the train station in New York City on June 4th, 2008 just lost in thought. Kinda just lost period. I'd just got back to America from London, went straight to the studio with Louis Logic to do the "Dos Factotum" 80's Remix...but I just didn't feel like I was anywhere. I could have been anywhere. I felt like a ghost.

That's when I saw an ad on a trashcan for the CCFA Take Steps walk and I wrote down the website and said "hey, why not?" I just felt a need to do something positive, something mattered outside of me. So I got some friends together and we did it. We walked. In the 2-3 weeks between that time and the walk I found out that 2 of my friends in the city had one of these diseases and a member of my team, her brother was diagnosed just days after I convinced her to walk with me!! Wow, right?

We raised over $1000 and we had a fun time walking across the Brooklyn Bridge from the South Street Seaport. I honestly don't know how much of a difference we made, but whatever we did accomplish felt good!

Then I heard about the half-marathon. 13.1 miles. Sheeeit. I don't know, y'all! I haven't run in years!!!

Then I went to a meeting. They told me about the kids we'd be running for. Yes, I said kids. One of our kids is 9 years old. He loves baseball. Crohn's patients take a lot of pills and his parents give him his pills in a shot glass!! I thought that was tight. So next time I go on tour, I'm gonna collect shot glasses for him.

Again, I was compelled to say "hey, why not?"

Then I went to the kick-off party for our team and I heard more information. I heard that it's possible that a cure can be found in the next 20 years. But really left an impact was hearing some people with the diseases speak. They all had such fervor for life, they spoke as though every day is truly a gift! I was truly inspired! I just wanted to do something! Anything!

Why shoot the breeze about it when you can be about it? So this is what I'm doing. I'm training. I'm running. I'm lifting weights. I'm raising money. I'm donating my time. I'm donating my music. I'm donating the first 500 copies of the new record ("Flavor Ade" - the precursor to "Cool Aide"). The only way to get one is to donate $10 or more to CCFA. Once you do that, shoot me an email and I will send out your copy of "Flavor Ade" when they arrive. In fact you can't buy anything from me for the rest of the year. The only way to purchase something from my online store is to donate the value of what you want to CCFA. Even if you don't want music, I would appreciate you donating anything even a $1. The donations go directly to CCFA. I never handle the money.

Oh yeah one more thing. I'm having a pair of Nike IDs custom made for the race. I'm only gonna wear them once - the day of the race. After that I'm gonna put them up on eBay for auction. Yessir!

I'm keeping a blog of my training progress over at www.iconthemicking.com. So come by and drop some words of encouragement. And please help me spread the word.

Thank you for reading and thank you for helping me make a difference.

I gotta run. Run for your life.

Peace.

-iCON the Mic King 10/6/08

Check out the official video for the first song released as a part of iCON The Mic King's new Headphone Classics Series. The track, which was produced by up-and-coming beatmaker Vanderslice features fellow emcee Awar.

Noch ein neues Video:

iCON The Mic King feat Awar - Fall From Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmhnf5MRHo

Cool gemacht .. der Kopfschuss bei 1:07

Neues iCON The Mic King & Chum The Skrilla Guerilla Album, Flavor Ade, kommt am 8. 12. über Fake Four Records.



Tracklisting


1. Snake Oil (feat. Slug)
2. Gimme Some Sugar
3. I'm the Best Mayne (feat. Has-Lo)
4. About Time
5. I Am So Cool
6. Take Steps
7. Run For Your Life
8. Wordperfect (feat. Elzhi)
9. Neo Jack Swing
10. I'm All That 2009
11. Kind of A Woman

What's good? It's your friendly neighborhood MiC K!NG (aka iCON the Mic King) here with an update on the progress of the new album "Flavor Ade" featuring Slug of Atmosphere, eLZHi of Slum Village and Has-Lo!

As you may already know the album drops December 8th!

Stores have already put up links to pre-order, so if you want to ensure that you get your copy as early as possible feel free to use one of the links below to do so. If you're going to pre-order we'd prefer you cop it from Best Buy because if there is a lot of preorders they will pick up more, put them in more of the stores throughout the country, and they report to Soundscan. However we truthfully don't care where you buy it from because your support is just the same no matter when or where you get the record. If you're going to buy it on December 8th please support the mom & pops because they do the same thing we do and they are a dying breed! It will also of course be available on iTunes.

Best Buy

Access Hip Hop

UndergroundHipHop.Com

Don't forget to get involved in the "Ask Chum" video series. If you're not up on it check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8i025ol ... r_embedded

A word of warning before I go. Watch out for men in Batman masks in italian restaurants....and GO PHILLIES!

peace

-MK