As the discharge date for Ice Dice’s Everythang’s Corrupt album inches nearer, the N.W.A legend is busy doing the press rounds. On Monday (December Three), Dice FaceTimed Zane Lowe for an interview on his Beats 1 Radio present.
Throughout their dialog, Dice opened up concerning the lengthy awaited album and named “That New Funkedelic” producer T-Combine as his “secret weapon.”
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“I acquired to do what I do greatest,” he says. “While you an artist that’s been within the recreation, you understand, I’m on my tenth album, solo album, so I’ve been within the recreation some time. You bought to do what you do greatest. You’ll be able to’t go chasing traits. You’ve acquired to provide them what they anticipate and what they need.
“My man T-Combine produced the beat. We’ve been working with him by way of Tony Draper outta Houston. If all people keep in mind Suave Home and 8Ball and MJG. They created that you understand that new age house form hip-hop. T-Combine been only a nice producer for years. He did ‘Cheddar’ for WC. He’s been form like a secret weapon for years.”
Dice has been dangling a solo album in entrance his followers for years, nevertheless it by no means fairly got here to fruition. Dice defined he’d merely been buried in his different endeavors and couldn’t give the album the eye it deserved.
“I believe my final report dropped in ’08, no ’10. Yeah, so, it’s been eight years,” he says. “I needed to put this mission down a number of occasions, as a result of I needed to deal with doing the Straight Outta Compton film. I’ve been engaged on loads Three-on-Three basketball the final couple years, too.
“I didn’t need to cheat the report, so I’d put the report down, and choose it again up once I had the time to focus solely on music. It ended up taking longer than anticipated, however I’m glad it did, as a result of the timing is ideal. As a result of when you go searching, the whole lot is corrupt. For those who have a look at the state of affairs on each stage, there’s corruption.”
Whereas the lead single from the mission — “Arrest The President” — is a scathing, politically-charged affair, Dice isn’t solely targeted on authorities corruption — it’s a lot greater than that.
“It’s cool to simply convey consciousness to it and it’s not simply corruption the system,” he explains. “Loads folks … we’re corrupting our our bodies. We corrupting our neighborhoods. We corrupting our minds. There’s loads corruption happening that we acquired to determine what form world we need to reside in.”
The Hip Hop mogul additionally touches on his determination to have only one characteristic on the album — the inimitable Too $hort.
“I believe whenever you purchase a solo report you need to hit artist and it’s not a compilation report or will not be a producer-driven album,” he says. “He’s all the time had his personal model and caught with it. To me, he’s the proper instance artist realizing what they do greatest, staying of their wheelhouse. You respect him for that.
“He my homeboy, so doing a report with him is pure and simply having homies within the recreation for this lengthy and nonetheless having the ability to to make music with them and go on tour with them and hang around with them, and discuss a bit shit is all the time cool.”
Everythang’s Corrupt is predicted to reach on Friday (December 7) and, judging by the lead singles, will adhere to the West Coast G-Funk sound that’s made Dice a Hip Hop staple.
“I attempt to be trustworthy on my data,” he says. “They do, don’t get me fallacious, are likely to lean in the direction of west solid hardcore Hip Hop, however on the finish the day, I’m making an attempt to simply inform my fact as I see it. And no one’s exempt on my data. You recognize, I speak about all people, even myself. I believe each pencil must be sharpened once in a while, so hopefully my report is a pencil sharpener.”
Hearken to the total interview beneath, together with “That New Funkadelic.”