Of the album, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach said 'no samples were used on the record, it's all live instruments and live vocals.' For more information, please visit, where new content will be added every Friday until release. Produced by and featuring The Black Keys, BlakRoc also hosts a star-studded line up including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Jim Jones, NOE, Nicole Wray and Billy Danze. The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc Records will release BlakRoc on 'Black Friday,' November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed 'Blak Friday' by the independent record stores that will sell the album).

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For a project that could have gone drastically wrong, ‘Blakroc’ is best summarised by Raekwon: “The Blakroc project is brilliant acid. Produced by and featuring The Black Keys, BlakRoc also hosts a star-studded line up including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Ol Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe. The Black Keys’ sparkling music (healthily informed for this project by working with producer Danger Mouse on ‘Attack And Release’) works best when linked to an MC’s specific style.Ĭhorus hooks are supplied by the sweet falsetto of Dan Auerbach, adding a continuity and coherence that ‘Judgement Night’ completely lacked. The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc Records will release BlakRoc on Black Friday, November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed Blak Friday by the independent record stores that will sell the album). A song title like ‘Coochie’ brazenly echoes Willie Dixon’s ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ and - though exhibiting vulnerability is a rarity in hip-hop - here, the music of ‘Tellin’ Me Things’ sees protagonist RZA galloping across a wild, desert plain lyrically dissecting a perplexing relationship. Whereas the 1993 ‘Judgement Night’ soundtrack fused rap and metal artists to convivial effect, this savoury concoction draws neatly on the very real connection between blues and hip-hop. Adding a soupçon of funk, a splash of psych and a handful of fine rappers means that the result is a deftly realised album of collaboration. Much like Muddy Waters’ psychedelic ‘Electric Mud’ recordings, the musical soul of Blakroc is rooted deep in the blues. It would be clever if it were planned in some way. A digital dream come true, Blakroc was born. That Blakroc's lone album happens to follow Rdio do Canibal in my collection, alphabetically, is pure coincidence, but it's kind of an amusing one. Since then, the collaboration spearheaded by Damon Dash and The Black Keys has been sucking up cyberspace as rumours that hip-hop luminaries Mos Def, Q-Tip, Ludacris and even the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard were amongst those drafted in to spit verse over the Keys’ beats.

On 4th June, 2009, Jim Jones’ Twitter stated that he’d created “some dope music with Black Keys and Mos Def…a good rock and roll experience”. When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies.

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