All good hip hop: A Tribe Called Quest, BCC, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Slum Village, Gang Starr, D'Angelo, The Roots, Prince (THE GREATEST EVER), Lootpack, Biggie, Common, Mos Def, Pac, and so on and so on.
Personal favorite beat niggas: Primo, Just Blaze, Madlib, Kanye, Jay Dilla (G.O.A.T.), D'Angelo, Questlove, Neptunes (BANANAS), BLACK MILK NIGGA!!!
Favorite Old School Records: All James Brown LPs and 45s, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament, LTD, Ohio Players, The Meters, and other artists that are too rare to mention.
Favorite groups on that otha shit: Stereolab, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Tomita
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Tronic
CD, Digital, and Vinyl LP
Featuring guest appearances from
Pharoahe Monch, DJ Premier, Dwele, Sean Price, Colin Munroe, Royce Da 5'9", A.B. and Melanie Rutherford
Featuring guest appearances and production from
Busta Rhymes, Bishop Lamont, Slum Village, Royce Da 5'9", Ras Kass, Guilty Simpson, DJ Khalil, Jake One, Kardinal Offishall, Mr. Porter, Glasses Malone, Trick Trick, Mistah F.A.B., Planet Asia, Stat Quo, and more
Featuring guest appearances from
One Be Lo, Slum Village, Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson, and more
"Black Milk makes an early bid for '07's top tier with his sophomore LP." XXL
"Black Milk displays the necessary tools to carry Detroit hip hop on his back. A showpiece that should be in the Album of the Year talks come year's end." Ozone
Recording "Give the Drummer Sum" || Interview with Fader Magazine
Black Milk in the studio with Bishop Lamont and Sean Price recording "Caltroit" and the forthcoming Random Axe album!
Black Milk & Guilty Simpson tour Detroit with Current TV
In only a few years, producer/emcee Black Milk has quickly developed into one of the few hip hop artists who both carries an accomplished resume and is followed with widely-held optimism about what he can bring as one of the leaders of the modern hip hop movement.
Now 25 years old, Black (born Curtis Cross) earned his stripes both locally in his native Detroit and on a national level from his associations with Slum Village. After getting his first production credit for "What is This" on SV's sophomore album "Trinity" in 2002, he produced much of the popular group's next two albums both individually and as part of the production team BR Gunna, with whom he also released the album "Dirty District, Vol. 2." It wasn't until his self-released debut solo album "Sound of the City" in 2005 did he begin to achieve some notoriety as an emcee, and it was off the strength of the album that he signed his first record deal with Fat Beats Records in 2006.
Upon the release of his "Popular Demand" album in March 2007, Black Milk instantly became one of underground hip hop's ambassadors. In addition to becoming a go-to producer for commissioned beats on an independent level (he's placed beats on projects by Kidz in the Hall, Guilty Simpson, Strange Fruit Project, Genius/GZA, and many more), he's also worked with major label artists like Pharoahe Monch, Kardinal Offishall, and Busta Rhymes. He's also recently released two albums on his own Music House imprint (Fat Ray's "The Set Up" and "Black Milk presents Caltroit"), produced nearly an entire album for Elzhi from Slum Village ("The Preface"), and produces and rhymes as a member of the group Random Axe (with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson) who have a full length album scheduled for release in early 2009.
His new album "Tronic" shows that Black has grown tremendously as a producer, as he's adopted more live instrumentation and is introducing more complex arrangement than his previous sample-heavy work. He also shows marked improvement as an emcee, and carries most of the album himself with only 3 guest verses on the entire album (from emcee royalty Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5'9", and Sean Price). Not even two years removed from his breakthrough release, Black Milk proves on "Tronic" that not only is he growing as an artist, but that hip hop music as a genre still has room to grow.
Hands down y'all cats from Detroit are sick!!!! I'm from KY and 41. I'm glad that y'all are taking the reigns. Hip Hop ain't dead, it lives in the Dirty District!!!! Peace H
5/17/1991 nigga I'm here, but lemme fast forward bout 18 years...all I can say is amen to that. Beat almost made me cry man. Honest to God. I'ma keeping krump dancin to this joint. Keep up the good work man
"BLACK MILK" the best in the game!!!..just giving credit where its due..keep up the good work and God Bless..hit the north west on tour ASAP so we can show our support!!
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