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NYOIL to release "9 Wonders (the Digital EP)"

Hip Hop Artist and Activist NYOIL is set to release a new Digital EP titled "9 Wonders (NYOIL verses 9th Wonder)" February 20th 2008.

The release will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD at partnering websites and Blogs for the duration of the release. "I'm constantly trying to develop new strategies to market music and developing significant business partnerships with new media. This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize Blogger as the future of Hip Hop press. A good blog is usually written by someone that would do it, has done it because they have a legitimate love for the culture." Said NYOIL.

The project titled with the tagline (NYOIL verses 9th Wonder) contradicts rumored reports that the project was a diss to the group Little Brother and or the Grammy award winning Producer 9th Wonder. It is in fact a compilation of 9 songs to 9 previously released 9th Wonder Beats. Unlike mix CD's where the artist generally does his version of a pre-released song, NYOIL opted to give each track new life. "I felt like if I redid the songs it would be disrespectful to the people that originally rocked to them. Fact is I just treated each beat as if it had never been rhymed to. I wanted to show my mastery of this style of hip hop, my ability to still build solid ideas, a conscious message, and show the timeless quality of 9th Wonders production" This project has a decidedly mellower feel to his previous release "HoodTREASON the warm up album" but the lyrical content is no less poignant and honest.

Bald kommt ja sogar der Re-Release von der Scheibe (ich glaube über Babygrande), obwohl es ja eigentlich nur ein Pre-Album sein soll...

Ich bin ehrlich gesagt nicht so begeistert von der Scheibe als Gesamtwerk. Der Track "Ya'll shall all get lynched" ist zwar Pflicht und einfach klasse, aber der Rest ist für mich einfach zu standardmäßiger EC-Rap wie es Ihn gerade im Moment zuhauf gibt. Einfach viel zu viele Tracks, er hätte aus dem Ding eine schöne EP zimmern sollen mit 6 bis 8 Tracks, dann wäre es okay gewesen...

Staten Island, NY, native NY Oil is best known for his racy rhymes, social commentary and forthright observations pertaining to the state of black culture and hip-hop. NY Oil is best known for his raucous single and accompanying video for "Y'all Should Get Lynched," which features photos of A-list hip-hop luminaries Three 6 Mafia, Jim Jones, The Game, and 50 Cent juxtaposed with stark images of slavery and lynchings. The video was banned from YouTube within its first 48 hours of upload and generated an immediate firestorm of controversy. Both a divisive and unifying figure, NY Oil speaks unabashedly about the deplorable state of commercial hip-hop music and culture on his debut album "Hood Treason," which will now enjoy its inaugural wide release after a limited and spotty self-release by the artist himself.