Sugar Hill Gang recently announced that they were working on their next album, their first release in over a decade. Speaking with BET.com, the crew said that it’s going to digress from Hip Hop trends and incorporate genres like rock, reggae and soul into the LP.
“We’re about halfway through with it,” said Wonder Mike. “Some of the stuff we did have we’re not gonna even put it on there because the new stuff is gonna musically crowd it out. It’s more sophisticated and we have a lot of different flavors on this CD. A little reggae, a little rock— real rock, not that just strumming the guitar and put some drums on it bullsh**— and some old school slow joints like Delfonics type stuff. We’re really mixing it up this time. I think the music industry needs to be shaken up and put on its head and awakened again.”
Additionally, the crew is the focus of the upcoming film I Want My Name Back, directed by Roger Paradiso. The film, premiering tomorrow (November 5th) at New York University, focuses on the group’s rise to success and subsequent battle to fight for their rights as artists.
“Even if they’re into hip hop and they think they know the story, there are things they will find out that they did not know,” said Paradiso. “And they will be surprised. There are amazing things and details in this story and I think people will be surprised by it.”
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Read the full interview at BET.com.
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