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Live guests – DJ PREMIER – JOE BUDDEN – SLUM VILLAGE – ELZHI – BISHOP LAMONT – DIRT NASTY – SIMON REX – WORLD EXCLUSIVES and more!
Broadcasted Aug 6th 2010
the german Splash Magazin had a talk with El…you already know the topic…
Elzhi on…
…Plans for a new Slum Village…
From 2002 to 2010 you had that era of Slum when El was a part of the group. Problems started around the Villa Manifesto EP time. At this time they threatened to take me out of the group. I had the feeling they were trying to brand a new Slum Village at this time and take it in a direction which was more like a pop kind of fanbase. Don’t get me wrong- I think Slum will always make great music, but those popfans don’t know nothing about the Slum Village legacy or Dilla, Baatin and me. They just care about songs played in the radio.
Elzhi visited WJLBs studio to address his “beef” with T3 and the Slum Village break up, on the same show where T3 got approached by
Phat Kat and DJ Dez yesterday (listen to T3s interview here).
Part 1 Elzhi blames RJ Rice of Barrak records for group breaking up
PART 2: Elzhi reacts to our interview w/ T3; calls T3 “A LIAR”
PART 3: How Elzhi got in such a messed up contract in the first place
FINAL PART: Elzhi discusses relationship w/ Kanye, Dwele & other affiliates
listenin to Elzhi on FM98WJLB right now and he just stated he is not making any money off Villa Manifesto… woooow
anyway.. XXL interviewed El yesterday and asked him about the whole SV situation…
Let’s cut right to the chase; are you in Slum Village now or not?
Elzhi: Am I in Slum Village or am I not? As far as what’s going on… As far as, like, me not having any say so to any treatments to videos being shot, or me not going to do the interviews to promote this new Slum Village album, or [Barack Records and T3] not contacting me or my management, and… as you can see in the “Reunion 2” video, I would say I wasn’t in the group. And at the same time, them taking me off records, so now I’m on a minimal amount a records for the [Villa Manifesto] album, I would say I wasn’t in the group. Read the rest of this entry »
It was all good just a week ago
I interviewed SV about 3 years ago, back then the main topic was already Villa Manifesto and i was expecting it to drop much much sooner and I definitely didnt expect it to be their last album.. reading or hearing the interview you will understand what i`m talking about…Both T3 and Elzhi were very excited about the record at the time and said it would be one of the illest records ever.. well.. I thought it would be interesting to read this now, considering everything thats going on with SV right now..
Listen to the podcast featuring the interview here:
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(I apologize for the poor sound quality of the interview, it was recorded backstage in a VERY noisy room lol)
Read the full Interview after the jump
although this is a pretty dope track..i cant shake this uncomfortable feeling listening to this with all the drama goin gon with SV.. this is one of the joints Elzhi was not on..anyway…villa manifesto in stores now…Purchase here
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damn..this is goin on a whole other level.. so… T3 came into the WJLB Morning studio to promote Villa Manifesto.. but it turned into a Drama session.. Upon T3 stating that “until him or Elzhi make an official statement, the group is still together” Phat Kat called in to call him out: “The whole little Slum Villa thing is over. Keep it real man. Be real with the listeners man. Elzhi aint messin with yall man. Yall been playin him for years. Keep it real dog. Put it out there. Let the fans know dog… Ive been hearing the sideways things you’ve been sayin bout me man. You have single handedly dismantled the whole group dog. Keep it real dawg… You kicked Dez (DJ Dez-an original member) out of the group!”
Listen to Pt 1 (T3 vs Phat Kat) Read the rest of this entry »
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and El isnt even in this…man…how the hell did this happen
