NEWS:

After the successful release of the Brooklyn Academy Album "Bored of Education" this past September and his highly regarded appearances on Jedi Mind Tricks "History of Violence" Album, (GODFLESH, DEADLY MELODY) shortly thereafter, Block is ready to make this year, his year!!! Check out all the upcoming projects he has scheduled so far!!

UPCOMING RELEASES

Snowgoons presents: Block Mccloud - Four Walls (Solo EP) featuring exclusive production by Snowgoons , appearrences by Reef The Lost Cauze, King Magnetic, and many more this EP promises to to be a Prelude to the Madness that is to come in this upcoming year and what will soon be known as the Era of the "Crazy Man", aka Block Mccloud!!

Dr.Ama aka "The Dark Skin Assasin" : Split Personali-D- Dr.AMA of Wu Tang fame is officially back on the scene after recording this monster of an album at Block's Mcclouds Pro Music Lab, Land of the Lost Studios!! Back in 1996 with his self released EP - Lock Shit Down/ Gotta Get the Cream, the artist known as Dark Skinned Assassin garnered a huge buzz. With a Wu-Tang affiliation, and support from Funkmaster Flex, Dame Dash, and many other industry heavies, he was well on his way to enjoying a brilliant career when all his dreams came crashing down in the form of a prolonged stay at a NY State correctional facility. After serving his 3 year term, his return to freedom was bittersweet when he found the music game had passed him by. He then resorted to non-musical career choices, but never lost his ear for Hip-Hop. A mysterious figure, rumors even emerged that he was incarcerated in Russia. However, during this time his artistry and name was slowly rediscovered by a new generation of fans, and his return to Hip-Hop was sparked by a new hunger to express himself. He appeared on Kay Slay tapes, and created within himself, an alter ego, Dr. Ama (Deadly Rhyme Alters Man's Attitude), which he created to represent the amount of personal drama he had been through, as well as a tribute to Amadou Diallo, the young student accidentally gunned down by NYC police in 1999. Split Personadli-D marks his official return to the Hip-Hop game, as he presents both his personas vying for exposure over a veritable cascade of instrumental backdrops by genius producer Falling Down (Killarmy/Lil' Flip). With strong hooks, and rugged street soundtracks, this album promises to be a classic in the history of Rap music.
• Album features: Foxy Brown, Block McCloud (Brooklyn Academy), BlakkStarr, Fresh Jones & J Maul.
• Production by:100 Grand (Salt n Pepa), and Kwiz (T.I.)

Army of the Pharaohs: (untitled)- Block Mccloud has officially been made a member of The AOTP crew and is slated to bless the latest installment by the Illadelph Supergroup, ARMY OF THE PHARAOHS! Long-time collaborators Vinnie Paz, Jus Allah, Block Mccloud, Reef, Mag, Doap Nixon, Outerspace and the rest of the AOTP gang will hit the studio in the next few months putting together what is expected to be the Craziest, Rawest and most Brutal Pharaohs album to date!!!

Lost Soulz: Asylum- Block continues his successful trend of discovering and uniting Incredible talent ie:Brooklyn Academy, Skeme Team with his latest incarnation: The Lost Soulz. Members Fresh Jones, Raw Doggz, Castro Fidel, War Bixby and of course Block, join forces to create one of the most anticipated, most creative , and refreshingly different albums of the year, guarenteed! Think Gravediggers meets Outcast meets Wutang and you may come close to understanding what is in store for the listener when this album drops in late 2009!

Brain Cell : Block Mccloud -

"This will be my greatest work ever!!! It will be an in depth look at the mind of a madman!!!
I dont think like ya'll, I plan to show everyone how much more different than you i truly am...and i brought some serious heavyweights with me to prove it"
-Block Mccloud
I cant really get into specifics on this album other than to say that it will feature the biggest producers and MC's in the game right now, it will be a Hip-Opera, and it will be the Sickest Underground Album of The Year!

Other Scheduled releases include: Lost Soulz-Purgatory, Lost Soulz- Asylum, Block Mccloud- All hooks, No Jabs, Lost Soulz- Rise of the Imperfects, Block Mccloud and Castro Fidel - Invasion and many more.

Upcoming Apppearences/Collaborations for 2009:

- Army of the Pharaohs Album
- Stoupe "The Decalogue" Album
- J.J. Brown Album w/ King Magnetic
- IDE and DJ Connect Album: Ideology
- King Magnetic Album
- Doap Nixon Album
- Why So C-rius? Album w/ Wordz, Rhymes and Celph Titled
- Masstapeace Album
- Awkword Album
- Killah Priest Album
- Sicknature album
and many many more.

Lastly, look out for Disturbia Music Group (America/ Canada) , Block's Independent label to be released before the end of 2009.

Upcoming tours and Dates will be listed in the events section above

"The term legend is thrown around loosely in hip-hop. It sometimes seems that any stumblebum who has made it past 30 without dying is entitled to the adulation of internet boys and the various rags they support. But what of one Mr. Block Mccloud? He has innovated lyricism and founded one of the most seminal crews in New York's second golden age. He plotted one of the most successful underground concept singles ever released, and most importantly, he survived the inevitable soul grinding shadiness that the talented seem to always suffer at the hands of the unscrupulous. Through all of this he has refined his writing, his business acumen, and kept spitting the verses that make future generations of dope MC's smack rewind till the button breaks."

"Born Ismael Diaz Jr., in Park Slope, Planet Brooklyn, Block certainly was in the right place to absorb cultural and stylistic influences. Like every rapper reared in the sacred borough, he is quick to credit its social collage as key in spurring his development. " I was raised in Park Slope which was and is still  a very eclectic and culturally and economically diverse neighborhood," Block explains. " North of 5th avenue, very paid. South of 5th avenue, strictly ghetto"".

"His snarling, growling, syllable-heavy, cannon flow mad him a distinctive presence on wax; the type of MC other MC's strive to emulate. He and His Brooklyn Academy brethren had the lyrics and the dark charisma needed to dominate...
      ...But dispite the lack of access to his material, he has achieved cult-like international fame as one of the most brutal spitters alive."

"Now with the benefit of over a decade and a half in the game he is ready to claim the prizes he so rightfully deserves...
      — Daniel Muessig, Elemental Magazine, 2006.

"I never thought going in that id have an opportunity to work with some of the cats ive worked with and to be procclaimed a *"legend" , thats certainly an honor and something that i look forward to solidifying within this game, this year"
      — Block Mccloud
      *see article below, Elemental Magazine, 2006. (Buster Rhymes on the cover)

Growing up in Park Slope Brooklyn,  Block Mccloud first made his name with a group called  Zooty Zoo, appearing on the Ecko Unlimited MixTapes that they'd give out for free with a purchase of a T-shirt. He then went on to appear on The Lyricist Lounge Volume 1 Compilation Album with Talib Kweli and Shabamm Sadik and of course his other group Word a mouth. By then Block Mccloud had already embedded his name on the Underground Asphalt with his gritty and unmistakable flow and complex rhyme skemes. Speaking of Skeme, he then founded the "Super Group" Brooklyn Academy and released a single with 321 Records called Plan A. Skeme Team was their alter ego on that single and it went on to sell 30,000 units and was the biggest selling single for that label. Brooklyn Academy soon caught the attention of Mammoth Records and if not for the labels untimely buy-Out by Disney, would have signed a $300,000 deal and God only knows where they'd be today.

Block Mccloud kept it moving, recording Jean Grae's, Pumpkinhead's, and Black Panther's next few albums (Attack of the Attacking Things, Code Red, Beatiful Mind, The Darkest Night Ever) and begins establishing himself as a premiere Engineer.

In 2006, He officially assumed his rightful place in the Underground Hip-hop Hall of fame when he released his classic solo albums, "Spitting Image" and "I was Drunk when i made this".

From There Block Begins his onslaught of the Chorus Game writing such classic hooks as Style Wars(Jean Grae), Mess You Made (Sean Price) and Outlive The War, Deadly Melody and God Flesh (Jedi Mind Tricks). You can also find him on MF Grimm's American Hunger Album, Soul Purpose, Diabolic and Thirstin howl albums and many more (See Discography).

And its no wonder they call him "Captain Hook" now, with upcoming choruses for Poison Pen, Doap Nixon, Killah Priest, Snowgoons, King Magnetic, Autism (Australia), Demunz (Canada), Sick Jacken (Cali), and many many more, he has easily become the Akon of the Underground scene and soon to be Mainstream. As an official member of Army of The Pharaohs!!, you will also hear him all over the upcoming AOTP release in 2009.

He has contributed to the success of so many in this game. Now, its his turn. Block Mccloud has begun re-"Educating" the masses with his group Brooklyn Academy / Bored of Education(EMI/Goldust), " Tearing it Down" on every stage across the country and the world. With two solo albums(Four Walls produced by Snowgoons and Perversion in D minor as well as two Lost Soulz full length LP's(Purgatory/Asylum) scheduled to be released through his independent label Disturbia Music Group in association with Well Done Entertainment, He will be hitting the industry like a Hurricane in 2009!! ... Block Mccloud, The storm is coming!! .

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