Slim Thug

Der Slim Thugger scheint offenbar nicht sonderlich zufrieden mit seinem Label Star Track zu sein. Jedenfalls zieht der MC aus Houston in Erwägung sein neues Album "Boss Of All Bosses" nicht über Pharell's Label zu veröffentlichen. Die Gründe dafür sind laut Slim Thug die moderaten Verkaufszahlen von "Already Platinum" sowie die zu starke Ausrichtung Pharell's in Richtung Pop.:

"When I signed to Interscope, it was through [my own label] Boss Hogg Outlawz. Then [Interscope Chairman] Jimmy Iovine — this is before the Houston movement took off with myself, Paul Wall, Mike Jones and Chamillionaire — wanted to put me with Pharrell to make it pop. At the end of the day, [sales of my debut album, Already Platinum] didn't go how we expected it to go. It looked good on paper, I enjoyed it, had fun, but when I'm in the streets in my city, they like, 'We want to hear you on our shit. We don't want to hear you on Pharrell's shit.' I liked working with P though. Hopefully we'll still be able to do a record together or something."(mtv.com)

Slim Thug stehen momentan mehrere Möglichkeiten offen. Das Star Track Logo könnte also trotz allem auf seinem nächsten Longplayer zu finden sein:

"I don't know yet. It's either you do three songs with him and get the logo on the back of the CD, or you do one and the price of that one is crazy. Hopefully we'll be able to work that out. But I just been doing the record by myself; when I finish it, we'll figure it out."(mtv.com)

Auch will Slim, was seine nächsten Alben angeht, die völlige Kontrolle über den krativen Schaffensprozess behalten:

"I'mma be more on top of [my business].[With Already Platinum], at the beginning, they gave me the idea of working with Pharrell, and I left it up to them to handle everything. On this one, it's just me. Everything will be in my hands. I'll be making sure everybody is getting down like they supposed to."(mtv.com)

Für "Boss Of All Bosses" hat der Thugger unter Anderem mit folgenden Leuten gearbeitet:

"Mainly I been working with cats outta Houston, cats like Mr. Lee, cats I was with before I signed. But I got Jermaine Dupri, Timbaland, Jazze Pha, J.R. Rotem, Polow [Da Don] gave me some fire. I did something with DJ Toomp called 'Theme Song.'"

Selbst Dr. Dre hat Slim Thug bereits einen Beat zugesandt:

"I got the record. I'm waiting on Devin. I want Devin the Dude to sing the hook for me, but the bitch is jamming. I got the beat already. My A&R got the track. It ain't like I made the beat with Dre — he did it in Hawaii, he be doing beats out there and comes back with them."(mtv.com)

Das Album soll im frühen Sommer erscheinen. Da aber momentan noch die Albumaufnahmen stattfinden und das Werk noch abgemischt und gemastered werden muss, sind etwaige Verschiebungen möglich.

Mir egal, wann das Album erscheint. Hauptsache es wird ein guter Slim Thug zu hören sein.

By: BJ AN