With parts of the world still settled into their quarantine and many having the urge to rush back into some sense of normal, Blakk Soul is encouraging everyone to ‘Take Your Time’ with the release of his debut album.

Blakk Soul’s ‘Take Your Time’ album

Led by the two singles “Help” and “Smoke N Chill”, the 12-song album features guests such as Joell Ortiz of Slaughterhouse, Amaal, Cocoa Sarai, and Nana. Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum producers such as Wyldfyer, J. LBS, DrewsThatDude, and Symbolyc One contribute to the colorful backdrop that combines R&B, Neo-Soul, and Hip-Hop to perfection on the album’s first half; while much of the project’s second half slows things down for the bedroom with a sultry fusion of ’90s R&B and Trap/Soul.

‘Take Your Time’ debuts shortly after Blakk Soul was awarded his first platinum plaque for his contribution to Playboi Carti‘s “Kelly K“.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/132707697

For context, Blakk Soul is managed by Rapper Big Pooh of Little Brother,  and he’s been credited for his songwriting, background vocals, and co-production on work by industry heavyweights like Playboi Carti, Dr. Dre, Anderson .Paak, and Macklemore, Little Brother, and more.

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“STOP” is the first deep cut from the forthcoming Words Paint Pictures album from Rapper Big Pooh of the mighty Little Brother crew out of North Carolina. I don’t care if they haven’t made music as a collective in a while, they are still LB to me. So while they figure out their music group future, all three members are on the pursuit to make the best tunes to enlighten and engage your mind. Up first for 2015 is Rapper Big Pooh who has announced his signing to the most slept on, quality producing hip-hop label out, Mellow Music Group. Connecting with Detroit beat master, Apollo Brown for the 9 song project, Pooh floats on AB’s tracks, which set the sonic stage for Pooh’s theme of politically and socially conscience lyrics on the plight of the young black male. “STOP” in particular addresses the climate that Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown had to endure in their lives and through their passing. Powerful work. Take a listen and go to iTunes to preorder the album dropping on March 24th.

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Tomorrow, the legendary rap group Slum Village will release their new project Dirty Slums 2.  Realistically, this isn’t the same Slum Village that gave us classics like “Closer,” “Climax,” “The Look of Love,“ etc.  The group now consists of T3, Illa J, and Young RJ.  But, in the same spirit, listeners will get a new project from the group featuring: Rapper Big Pooh, Joe Scudda, Focus and more.  Giving fans an appetizer before the album, Slum Village releases their new track “The World is Yours” paying respect to the classic by Nas.  The song also features an posthumous appearance of deceased member Baatin. 

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Bronsolinho comes with a more laid-back, raspy delivery than usual. The guitar-bass driven groove comes off of Mick Boogie’s Represent The Stripes mixtape. Kids These Days, Rapper Big Pooh, King Louie, Troy Ave and Slum Village are just some of the artists featured on this project, which is available for download here.

Action Bronson always comes with the odd titles for his tracks. To help make sense of it all, the in-track reference to the title went like this:

“Shoot eagles on a Jack Nicklaus course

Porsche with the triple exhaust,

Seats soft like a midget’s cough…”

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