Slum Village [click to read] emcee T3 recently spoke on their new album, Villa Manifesto, Baatin‘s lyricism, and an unreleased project that features J Dilla beats.
“Manifesto, I think, sounds like a mixture of all our albums. I am definitely very picky about who we use. This time out, we used a lot of outside producers, but people that we’ve already had relationships with,” he told the Detroit Free Press. T3 subsequently stated artists in that inner circle include Hi-Tek [click to read], Black Milk [click to read], Pete Rock [click to read], Illa J, and Madlib, among others.
With Baatin’s recent passing [click to read] during the process of creating their new album, T3 touched on the emcee’s penmanship. “[Baatin] had all this creative stuff building up for so long but didn’t have an outlet for it. He had this book, like a super group of verses; he was just stacking rhymes for a long time…I would tell him a concept that I wanted to do for this record and he’d just flip through his book and find a rhyme that would fit and then he’d ask how I liked it. It was crazy. Every time we would go in the studio he would cut two or three songs. I have a lot of Baatin lyrics.”
Grateful of the experience to reconnect with his close friend and rhyming partner, T3 added, “It was hard for me to keep it going after his passing, but at the same time I am happy I took the time out to record with him, you know?“
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While their main focus is VillaManifesto, T3 also mentioned the group will be releasing a full album with unheard J Dilla beats in the near future. “That’s a whole separate project we want to do, and that is probably one of the next projects we will do. But yes, that is in the works,” he stated.
