Despite a 15-plus year career on record, Long Beach, California’s Crooked I had been very careful about album releases. The former Death Row Records hopeful-turned-Slaughterhouse star has never officially released a solo full-length LP. Despite two group albums with Slaughterhouse, which followed other such efforts with 19th Street and C.O.B., Crooked has only ever released EP projects, along with Death Row’s unofficial Hood Star album after he left the label.
All of this may be changing, as today the Treacherous Records artist announced his Apex Predator release date and artwork. The album, which is slim on details at the moment, will release July 30 on the aforementioned label, as confirmed by Empire Distribution’s spokesperson today. The cover art is below:
(June 27)
UPDATE: The tracklist to Crooked I’s debut album, Apex Predator, has been released. According to UndergroundHipHop.com, the 11 track album features Tech N9ne and K-Young, and includes the following songs:
1. YODO
2. Vegas On Biz featuring K-Young
3. Let Me Get It featuring Tech N9ne
4. Apex Predator (My Gun Go)
5. Nobody Cares featuring Tena Jones
6. Crowns
7. A Lady Fell In Love
8. No Sleep Gang
9. Sumthin For Nuthin (BeatBox)
10. Crook n Porter
11. Tell Them MF’s We Made It
(July 8)
UPDATE #2: DJBooth.net has Crooked I’s Apex Predator, which released today (July 30), available for full stream:
RELATED: HipHopDX Release Dates
ive followed his career very closely and this is great news. his album was supposed to be called million dollar story when he announced it, and he had a duo album with king tech called group therapy, which also appears to never be coming out. and he was gonna release b.o.s.s., which he recorded on a major about 6 years ago and got shelved, but was gonna do it the way saigon and cormega did and get it released anyway. well this is a start, who knows maybe it will be successful
flopper house is wack yelawolf is horrible shady 2.0 is weak and irrelevent ymcmb shits on these wack niggas drake will have more sucess than all of flopper house
Die you ignorant nigga – Die
ignore the trolls, they’re like thought beggears
beggar*
I gotta agree, Slaughterhouse is made up of 4 guys who can spit well, but they can’t put together projects for shit. Everything they’ve touched has been a flop and Yelawolf is alright but still a huge flop.
As for Drake having more success, it depends what you consider success, because I think all of Slaughterhouses solo achievements would outweigh Drakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCD8Bc_02c
Dope cover sumthing different better than him on there mean mugging it WC style
Big fan of Crooked i, but his solo shit is always stuck in like 2004-2006. i think people are over the thug/ gangster phase.
top 10 MC right now tho.
we way past the gangsta phase
remember paul wall and mike jones
its a new era
That’s my homegirl Kim, she’s gorgeous!!! -TalentDisplay
dope, i will most likely be coppin this
I thought this was an EP? When did that change?
bout time he got a record
flows better be tight
The WWE’s Apex Predator…Randyyyyy Orrrrrrton!
The rap game’s Apex Predator…Crookeeeeeed IIIIII!
Crook usually has my fav verses in slaughter projects, but never got into most of his solo ep’s or death row projects. Hope this will be good
FUN the fuck TASTIC! First, Hopsin steals my idea in creating a track that exposes the corruption of Modern Rap. Second, Macklemore takes away my idea in rapping using poetic and educational devices. Now Crooked I steals the name of my future album. I love rap.
you snooze, you lose.
How do you steal ideas from a loser with no career?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA9gUspn6gc
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who’s the girl on the cover?!?!
https://twitter.com/kkboogie
thx!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcOR2UyzPzM
what a cheap cover. looks like its done by a 14 year old
this will be a flop, dude has skillz but cant make an album
Co-sign
I can’t wait to hear this, I just can’t picture what it’s gonna be like. Crooked has skills but I don’t see how they would really form an album, and he better not dumb his shit down for the mainstream. Dude just needs some sick beats and to lay verses upon verses of straight fire over them. There’s no way this dude could tell stories or bring any kind of concepts to it. All he’s good for is witty lyrics and that’s it, he’s a rapper not an artist.
Aye man shut tha hell up. u sound stupid ! go kill yaself for that dumbass shit u just wrote. u think u a hip hop analyst or sum shit. go listen to yo favorite actor kanye or weezy. u fuckin idiot.next time u about to comment, dont. crooked a MC period
#fuck yo life bitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExH5VU5iq9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhkB95J5c9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fibtRFnLs
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hj8Qi7ed8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1tG-m4NSU
Randy Orton fan callin you out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckER5Ijn0-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-KjVLS6Uk
Who’s the chic? Damn…
chicks hott but for a debut ALBUM the cover should be better. more artistic and expressing what the album sounds like
dope definitely coppin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMKXheW_pZ4
can’t wait
i have just noticed when you are talented and a real artist you dont tend to have many features.
woman couldn’t be uglier. and putting any woman on the damn cover of your solo lp debut isn’t going to help you sell copies, people need to see that shit on the shelf they’re going to think its a femcee album
Mami look beautiful there is nothing wrong with her. My P Rican ass would take her. I bet if she was white the black nigga’s would be slobbing all over this cover, plus dudes boring anyway he did try though lol.
man what happened to tracklists anymore…11 songs! I remember albums typically had 14-17 tracks average..now everyone releases little 8-12 song albums which are really e.ps anyways or mixtapes
That womoan looks pretty damn good to me..id rather see that than crooked I mean muggin a motherfucker on the cover.Like countless other Rap albums
Been waitin on this since his last EP. Should be dope
11 songs after this long. Fuck outta here
He stole that title from the Movie Chronicle. I am the Apex Predator!
That’s my homegirl, she’s even more gorgeous in real life and her character is amazing. Mad love Kim! -TalentDisplay (@TalentDisplay)
This right here gonna be a Classic Crooked always comes correct in his music Everyone make sure you support real hip hop like this and buy his album He well deserves it. #COB 4 Life
did he jack that title from 50 cent? I heard him say he was an apex predator in that major distribution song where they had gunplays chain!!!
its an old phrase wwe wrestlers been using that phrase for a while.
The fuck?! That fool stole my nickname!!
who the fuck is Randy Orton?
i dont judge records based on track-list and album cover but idk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPBKtyE0X9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28uibSLdfg
wait he been in the game for 15 years and never put out 1 album yet? LOL
One of the best spitters ever. I just really hope he doesn’t drop a lemon like those two slaughterhouse albums.
first Slaughterhouse album is dope if you’re looking for bars, cant stand that song “Cuckoo” though.
and good idea on his part in keeping his ugly mug off the cover. one of the reasons he never broke through i think. he has a big ass head.
Laughterhouse, Royce and Budden flopped already. diz nigga is no differente. old ass niggaz keep floppin hard. Shady is gay. Weezy da GOAT. swag
go home
lol you sound stupid joe budden album is better than lil wayne inahb2 is trash, and crooked i has ntn to proove hes a legend without a album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVuiM3dmw3Y
666
Get out of here Satin!!!
dope album title….
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lol is this really his album though….11 tracks…*sigh*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45D55h0DGNo
Looking forward to this. Crooked I is raw. The track with Tech N9ne will be fire. They kill it on their own and when on the same track it’s always dope.
i thought he would have more tracks 11 aint shit wtf
we wait 15 years for your first LP and it’s 11 songs deep? that’s cold.
To be fair this shit sounds a million times better than Nacerima dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SCtyEOJy0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-cIzI4iQA
Let Me Get It featuring Tech N9ne
Why Won’t Em Return My Calls feat. Eminem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUGpOjswDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IN_QgrLxPM
15 years = no official solo albums. Guess he’s pacing himself.
horrible cover
This shit is going be hot and probably one of the most underrated album ever crooked I don’t fuck around on the mic most underrated mc these days
guy is the definition of a bum. been rapping for 20 years and i cant name ONE song of his ppl wanna hear. oh but he can drop 4000 irrelevant freestyles that get him nowhere. he was a part of the slaughterhouse failure. yeah he’s a fucking bum. swollen head from being an alcoholic 40 yr old rap nigga. look at that head piece. nigga wear a sized 9 fitted cap?
not one release im excited for. rap music has never been worse. for retarded kids and lazy internet geeks that follow trash on twitter.
ignorant fuck, turn off hip hop music because it clearly turned you off awhile ago, learn your shit an speak TRUTH not hate you miserable slave
its true though i cant name 1 song of his without slaughterhouse
True, but what do ya’ll expect when he was on Death Row records looong after Pac and Snoop left? He shouldn’t even be on at this point but he is, thanks to those appearances Sway and King Tech, Soul Assasins and Alchemist compilations.
This guy is a joke. A bum is a broke mofo. Crooked stays relevant to real rap fans. He’s not some sold out mainstream radio rapper. I’m thinking you’re bumpin’ some Kanye an JayZ. That shit is never in my rotation.
You need to stop listening and even bothering with hip hop then. because you clearly have no idea what good or pure hip hop is. crooked’s a beast.
you real rap fans are some extinct motherfuckers you are irrelevent
I cannot fuck with this shit lol. It’s alright but the shit is stale. The album cover is hot tho who is this hot black mami on the cover any of you nigga’s know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guxSfb_P0i8
I’m definitely ready for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiGBFzfof-I
Not Feelin The Cover not at all man Apex Predator As A Title It Should Inspire Like A Level Of Dont Fuck With Me On The Cover Not A Misleading Cover Of An Ugly Chick That will Make Most People Assume its A Femcee
The chick look fine to me nigga ya eyes need checking, to many bland ass light skin girls fuck up your eyes. I agree tho with the title but the album cover is pretty basic nigga.
quality over quantity ladies
Looking forward to this. It might be his first solo release but Crooked has given us real West Coast fans so much heat over the years. I’ll be spending my money on the release date, not downloading for free.
About time for the hardest rapper in the game to release his album. Y’all lames better buy his album.
Really liking this. Been waiting on it a while. House Gang!
You’ve been waiting 15 years to put out your debut solo and you put the most random broad on your cover…SMH. Has to be one of the worst covers for a debut album ever. Still looking forward to hearing the album though, but damn…lol.
for real!! i was sayin the same thing. shit makes me smh
da fuck! yo if u like lyrics > swag. check my shit out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1sRsqFrWY
and here’s another cornball. worried about a picture but ain’t saying a damn thing about the music posted underneath the picture.
The broad is hot tho and I see nothing wrong with it. The album cover is pretty average dude.
I think the Album cover is dope! stop that hating man.
me too
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RICK ROSS is the Best Lyricist in the game
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Kill yourself bitch
dumbest album cover ever. WTF crooked. this is ur album why the cover look like a corny mixtape. smfh. hope the music is better then the cover art. psalm 82v6 from last year was dope as fuck
I personally think its a dope cover, not that cliche “throw your mug on the cover and try and look hard”. The only thing is to someone would see that in a store and instantly assume it was some female rapper and not look twice to notice it was a Crooked LP. but its not like an album cover is gonna keep me from buying as long i fuck with the artist anyway.
Cant wait to get this album!!! Nice one Crook… LETS GET IT!!! Another loose quarter keeping Hip Hop alive.
I’m really disappointed, as a slaughterhouse fan, this wasn’t that dope, he can make something better, YODO is the best song im my opinion, other ones aren’t that great.
dude has skillz but this shit has no replay value
11 tracks smh
HI QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. LET IT GROW ITS A CLASSIC
this nigga will flop he is so irrelevent no1 gives a fuck i bet it sells less than 5k bum ass nigga.
nigga you so gay for drake it’s sick, fag ass nigga
excellent
the beats sound like they’re produced by the big time producers
he is keepin the west coast breathin right now
i’d love to hear him do a joint with ice cube
yeah that would be dope
nobody cares – one of the realest on the album
yall need to give this a listen if you’re not buyin the album
yo this shit fire….apex pradator baby
man he need a joint with ice cube and snoop dogg produced by dr dre
that would be a banger
its sad such a gr8 album won’t sell that much but ima tell erry1 to cop this
top album of the year so far
agree
yeah me too
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this is fire
Y’ALL SAYING THAT ACE HOOD FLOPPED BUT THIS GUY WILL BARELY PUSH 5K AND NOBODY WILL CALL IT FLOP. Y’ALL DELUSIONAL AND HYPOCRITICAL. AND THIS ALBUM IS STRAIGHT TRASH, I HAD A PROBLEM WITH LISTENING IT ONCE.
You’re fucking retarded. Crooked I is one of the best lyricists in the rap game. He flexed all over this album. You’re ears are trash @King Yebo
Crooked aint got no big songs on the radio with features from Ross, Meek Mill, T.I., Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Future, Chris Brown, French Montana, Birdman etc…. Ace WOOD most definitely flopped and you cant even compare the two
Crooked doesn’t need feature’s with those garbage artist, the only mainstream artist that are good, Drake, Meek, Kendrick. Underground is where it’s at. Crooked will slaughter any mainstream artist do research.
I’m buying this even though I can download, I only support real rap. Follow me on twitter @Troy_The_Man
Hot $hit!!!…Yodo Remix by Bank Of I$Real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tllc1ePCE6M