Queens native and Weathermen emcee Yak Ballz has been due to release Gas Galaxy for sometime now. When Definitive Jux went on hiatus it threw a wrench in the mix, leading to Yak to think outside the box. Rather then release the album in the traditional manner, he will drop a new song each month this year. He explained the concept in a statement on his site.
“I have been talking about the progress of the Gas Galaxy album; writing/producing for what seems like an eternity with my partner Chapter 7. Well, we are in the final stages of it’s completion. HOWEVER, as the times change every day as we know it, so does everything from marketing a project to the way music is released.
So with a great deal of thought and deliberation, we (Chapter 7, Oliver Cartwright, and myself) have decided to bring you the Gas Galaxy LP over the span of this entire year. We will be doing an online only release via yakballz.net of one new song per month from Gas Galaxy for the rest of 2011 starting now in January.
yes ONE SONG PER MONTH FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR! It will not only allow us to focus and put our energy into each song every month as they individually deserve it, but to give YOU something to put in rotation on your monthly playlists with video’s and other cool additions surrounding the music to look out for all year long. By the end of the year you will have the first phase of the album in it’s entirety. Ultimately we will release it officially for purchase in the second phase with swagged out remixes and even more new songs.”
The first song “DSMU’ comes out today (Thursday January 27), and is available for free download at yakballz.net.
Ima sucker for innovation. Good shit Yak! Now pass da yak…
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I really hope it’s not like his last joint. I loved his older shit, but that last one was wack in my opinion.
I wondered what happened to this dude….
All the white rappers WERE or ARE on drugs
This guy really sucks? Yak Ballz? Really? that is the gayest stage name ever. He named himself after his testicles. Gucci Mane and Vinnie Paz will murk this nigga. Aesop Rock sucks dick too.
It’s Gucci Time!
Ya cus Gucci is hard? You friggin clown, get a clue and go blow yourself, up.
“Laughable, mang!”…sorry, MANE!
Cause THAT’S a better stage name.
This shits sick. If you don’t like it then good news for you, you don’t have to listen to it and you can just go listen to everything else that sounds the same. I think that artists like Yak are the ones who are taking hip hop and making it their own and doing something with it so it is still around tomorrow and the next day. Can’t let them waters get stagnant. His old stuff to me just sounded like the potential to be something better and it led to this and I am happy I stuck around.
I’ll have to check’em out.
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Weathermen for life. Yak ‘d Ballz . Too bad Def Jux is no more. Im a Jukie for life though and Ace Rock is a genius, just ask my literature professor.