After working on solo projects for nearly four years, Boston-based Hip Hop duo 7L & Esoteric are back together to release their latest album 1212.
Describing the direction of their new album, Esoteric released a statement on his official site explaining, “1212 is about being honest with yourself and accepting your shortcomings. 1212 is about loosening your grip and extending a hand. 1212 is about finding yourself and maybe finding that special someone else along your journey.”
Keeping to their previous roots, he added, “It is also about taking the closest weapon and beating your opponent to a bloody pulp. 1212 sums up everything we want out of a rap album: hell, aggression, and truth.”
While the track listing for 1212 has not been finalized, expected features for their fifth studio album include Reef The Lost Cauze, Statik Selektah, Evidence, Inspectah Deck and Vinnie Paz, among others.
1212 will be released on Fly Casual Records, Esoteric’s own imprint label. (June 26)
UPDATE: The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Retrospects
2. Run This (feat. Celph Titled)
3. Aneurysm
4. 12th Chamber (feat. Inspectah Deck)
5. The Handle (feat. Sadat X)
6. For My Enemies
7. Drawbar 1-2 (feat. Evidence & Alchemist)
8. No Shots
9. Bare Knuckle Boxing (feat. Ill Bill, Vinnie Paz & Reef The Lost Cauze)
10. I Hate Flying
11. The Most Rotten (feat. Statik Selektah)
12. New Rapper
about time, I hope they don’t try to re-invent the wheel or male techno -like rap. just wanna hear hard beats and hard rhymes
you left out Alchemist, and Celph Titled… can’t wait for this album.
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Sounds good in theory. Hope they do it on a bigger scale… Esoteric’s dropped like three albums, and nobody knew.
Can’t wait.
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What the fuck is Eso talking about, “finding yourself and that special someone along the way, hell, aggression, truth” shit? I can get into that artistic shit sometimes, but not coming from 7L and Esoteric. Like that other dude said, hard beats and hard rhymes is all it should be.
solid features, but no Slaine or Termanology? he’s got a solid Mass representative with Statik Selektah, but he won’t be rhymin… gotta get a Boston rhyme spitter on that shit!
Hopefully it’ll be more like the Dangerous Connections albums than that A New Dope bullshit. Sounds dope from the article..
“1212 is about finding yourself and maybe finding that special someone else along your journey.â€
[..] “It is also about taking the closest weapon and beating your opponent to a bloody pulp.”
LOL.
nice
it’s funny how that so called ‘techno rap’ style that everybody hated on New Dope is practically everywhere now.
anyway i hope the new record is good, but considering it’s on Fly Casual, i doubt it’s going to get any more exposure than Eso’s solo records
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hell yea!!
Yo! Can’t wait for that 7L sound again!! Esoteric’s work lately has been weird as hell. Some of it has been dope, but that 70’s-sounding shit is wack. Their “A New Dope” album was tight though. I’ve just been missin that early, original 7L & Esoteric group shit, and that 7L production. Bring back that grimy shit!!
7l & eso pretty much started that electro-rap sound that all these hipster poser dudess are doing with their shit now. then eso went solo moved to japan and started doing even more off the wall shit rapping about his dog. hopefully this takes it back to the roots of good ol’ 7LES and by the single NO SHOTS it looks that way. it shits on wiz khalifa and drakey-pooh so u gotta luv it.
and honestly i don’t care what label its on because i know where i can find it and if you can’t find it its your tough luck. good music is out there, you just gotta search for it.
Just keep recording right? Only way to get better & more confident. MC Red Eye- Severance Package http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vnhLYiOmdw