Что же касается текущего топика, то вот здесь можно прекрасно узреть обилие буков на тему Алхимика и Оу Ноу.

The current economic downturn has artists rethinking their budgets, while others are seeing their projects delayed until 2009. But, to hear Alchemist tell it, this could be exactly what the game needs.

"With this era in rap, where SoundScan is all horrible, it’s like, 'What’s going on?'" Al tells HipHopDX. "Being able to just do this with Oh No out of thin air makes me feel like we’re past that hump. We didn’t make records with radio in mind; it was just fun and creative. I’m seeing the power, because we don’t have to wait to get commissioned every time."

The pair met in LA after Oh No and Roc C opened up for a show that Alchemist and Evidence [click to read] were headlining. They exchanged beats and rhymes online, and rechristened themselves as Gang Green, due to their mutual love for a certain form of "herbal refreshment" enjoyed by many artists. Al and Oh No have already finished the album, which features them alternating between rapping and producing for each other. Given the fact that Oh No is Madlib's younger brother, Alchemist says he and Oh drew a different kind of inspiration from the critically acclaimed collaboration Champion Sound.

"We were definitely inspired by [Dilla and Madlib]--not so much musically, but the way they collaborated from not really knowing each other like that at first," Al adds. "The fact that me and Oh didn’t really know each other as well gave us that same kind of mutual respect from a distance. They’re the big brothers to us, and to even be considered on that level of collaboration is great to me."

Известный продюсер и калифорнийский MC долгое время обменивались в Интернете рифмами и битами и наконец решили объединиться в проект Gang Green. Альбом дуэта уже записан, причем оба участника проекта на равных занимались звуком и речитативом. Alchemist сообщил, что источником вдохновения для них служил альбом J Dilla и Madlib "hampion Sound". Альбом Gang Green выйдет сразу после январского релиза Alchemist "Chemical Warfare".

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