Slaughterhouse – “Woodstock”

Slaughterhouse set the streets ablaze with their “D.O.A.” freestyle just a few days ago. If that freestyle session taught us anything, it’s that the quartet of Royce, Joell, Budden, and Crooked are efficient in an unrestrained setting. Just give these fellas a beat and a mic and they’ll make miracle with words.

However, freestyles don’t put food on the table. Freestyles don’t necessarily make great MCs. I’ve been skeptical about this “supergroup” because I’m curious to see how much of their lyricism would translate onto an album of 3 or 4-minute songs. Their most notable track thus far, “Move On,” was 8 minutes long. That one worked, mostly because of the beat. “Fight Club” (runtime: 4:33) is another highlight in their young catalog.

Those two songs allowed them to do what the do best — rap. Though “Woodstock” meets industry standard at 3:39, it comes with a hefty price. It may be the first time we’ve seen the fellas struggling to compress all that firepower into a 3-minute song. *Yawn* Wake me up when they drop another freestyle.

The boys from Slaughterhouse are putting their first music video together from their upcoming, self-titled release set to come out August 11, 2009. Yesterday at the Night Hotel  in New York City, Slaughterhouse shot their first official music video directed by Rik Cordero. The theme? Well, peep the pictures after the jump but if you’ve seen The Hangover it’s going to be pretty obvious.
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Slaughterhouse – “D.O.A.” Freestyle

Between Andrew’s post and this monstrous freestyle I am officially looking forward to the Slaughterhouse album. They slaughtered the “D.O.A.” beat. Literally.

When I heard rumblings of Slaughterhouse being formed I got excited, I mean these guys are the Fantastic Four of the rap-game. Gargantuan lyricists all roped together to form an even bigger, harder hitting, deeper rap entity that’s mission was to rid the scene of emcees who weren’t carrying the banner of hip-hop the way it should be. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse, enter at your own risk. Read the rest of this entry »

Behold your favorite hip-hop supergroup announcing a new deal with E1, which I gather is the new and improved Koch Records (thanks for exposing my ignorance in the comment section). Honestly, I don’t care if they drop the album on Dr. Seuss Records, just make sure it exceeds the hype. Anything short of a masterpiece would be considered an epic failure.