Strange Music's Stevie Stone teams with Tech N9ne and Mystikal for the "Rain Dance" video. The clip features Stone, Tech and Mystikal taking sips of some sort of potion right before members of a marching band, twerking women, humans with animal heads and other bizarre incarnations start to show up
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When it’s time to generate publicity for a new project, many veteran rappers shamelessly laud their latest offerings with hollow phrases like, “This is my most personal project to date.” But Murs has built a career on authenticity, and when speaking of Have A Nice Life, his debut album for Tech N9ne’s Strange Music label, the MC's own testimony allows for a clearer picture of the music to follow:
The frontal lobes of the human brain are directly connected to an individual’s primary emotion, conscious thought, social conduct and sense of empathy. It’s with definite purpose that in the first 10 seconds of the introductory track (“The Procedure”) to Tech N9ne’s 15th studio album, Special Effects, that the listener finds themselves in an operating room with surgeons on the brink of incision in
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West Coast veteran and latest Strange Music artist Murs is still a boss in this game.
Words Jeff Weiss
Images Samantha Levi
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of XXL Magazine. Don't miss our cover stories on Meek Mill and Rick Ross right here.
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Two of hip-hop’s finest, Tech N9ne and Murs, chop it up before hopping on tour.
Images Samantha Levi
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of XXL Magazine. Don't miss our cover stories on Meek Mill and Rick Ross right here.
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XXL kicks off their new docu-series Step Into My World. The episodes will allow fans to delve into the worlds of hip-hop's elite rappers, as XXL travels to the place it is they call home. Want to know where your favorite rapper made the album that you ranked one of the greatest of all time...
While most fans are familiar with Jay Rock as a part of TDE, many forget that it was Tech N9ne's Strange Music that originally saved Jay from Warner Bros. purgatory and helped put his album out. Jay Rock, who signed a deal with Strange Music back in 2010, released his album Follow Me Home and toured extensively with the imprint. Dur
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