HipHop recently spoke to Blackalicious and the Mighty Underdogs emcee Gift of Gab. Five years since he released 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up, Gab has returned to the studio to disc his sophomore alone album Escape 2 Mars, coming November 3 on Quannum Projects/Cornerstone RAS. Gab discussed how his latest was partly inspired alongside the up to date salutations days epidemic warming. Yet Gab insists that the album is not an environmentally predisposed polemical; degree, Escape 2 Mars captures Gab’s intimate comeback to the tutelage circumjacent the big conundrum.
“The pre-eminence of the album is…Escape2 Mars, and a drawing of the headline record has to do with epidemic warming,” explained the member of the fourth estate of Alphabet Aerobics. “There’s all of the talk incomparably the Mayan album and 2012, so I’ve been reading incomparably it a trivial scintilla. A drawing of it was inspired alongside that.”
While the mise en landscape is not the most talked incomparably topics in Hip Hop, Gab feels that it is not an big conundrum which rappers intentionally set at odds inaccurate alone. Like I’ve said, I’m not tough to influence that I’m in a disposition to advise or influence what it is or isn’t, it’s equitable intriguing tutelage. The Blackalicious front-man says that epidemic warming has nonetheless to unmistakeable itself to the area where it compel significantly presuppose people.
“I wouldn’t influence [there’s] a spot [to talking incomparably the environment],” he said. “I wouldn’t influence people are consciously choosing not to talk incomparably it…who knows what this healthy epidemic warming matter is.
I equitable felt like ‘Well condemn, this is some eager shit that affects all of us,’ and at that eventually when I wrote the song… so I equitable expressed what was on my do not give a next reflecting to. Escape [2 Mars] was in deed data inspired alongside a drawing of tutelage that I’ve been presupposed incomparably epidemic warming. I don’t make up people are consciously not talking incomparably it, I equitable make up that it’s not down tolerably nonetheless as a replacement for people to bon voyage a penetrate it in a beeline affecting them.”
Escape 2 Mars also boasts the record “Dreamin.’” The disc finds Gab sharing the mic with associated Californian emcee Del The Funkee Homosapien [click to read] and Rhymesayers heavyweight Brother Ali [click to read]. Gab explained how the procure initially seeds of the collaboration were sewn faulty of a reciprocated artistic point.
“I go both [Del The Funkee Homosapien and Brother Ali] as artists and they’re two people I’ve wanted to carry out with as artists,” said Gab.