A Story of Hiphop Perseverence: Percee P Drops His Debut Rap Album

Yo, I just wanted to drop some jewels on you this evening. For those that don't already know, Hiphop IS a beautiful Kulture. I was wondering what I should blog about today and I came across the TUNETOURIST. There was an interesting commentary on the re-issue of the Wild Style movie soundtrack. It will be the 25th Anniversary this year of the movie and soundtrack which is a must-have movie for any true Hiphoppas collection.

The next article really caught my eye though. It was about the new debut album by Hiphop legend Percee P. Many people have heard of Percee P from his work with various artists but a full-length album has never been released. The author of the article even took some shots at Percee but he managed to redeem himself toward the end.

TUNETOURIST: "It’s a long story but somehow Percee managed to play his part in both the late 80s and mid-90s hip hop boom periods and this album, appropriately titled “Perseverance”, manages to summarise much of the best of both. Stones Throw’s special weapon, Madlib, steps up to produce and sounds great delivering a more straight-up set than his recent jazz and beatstrumental excursions, making this one of the strongest artist albums the label has released in a while."

Basically, the author originally took a shot at Percee saying the album is long overdue by 10 years. Well that may be true but being a Hiphoppa is not just about putting out albums. That's part of what we do but that ain't all emcees do and Percee is an EMCEE.

There are too many politics to list about the inner workings of the music business but I will state this truth: Before the rap deal, had to come the rapper and the rap. Hiphop doesn't care how many albums you put out. Some of the dopest cats haven't even put out an album yet and may not even plan to.

Although I did do a show with Percee P on the bill a few years ago, I don't know him personally but I do know that what he is doing personifies Hiphop and is a 100% total expression of it. What type of drive do you have if you are in front of Fat Beats in Manhattan daily, pushing your goods for years? That's that kind of drive he has. Most people would have given up.

So hats off to you Percee P for staying true to Hiphop and congrats on your debut album!

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