artist site: www.allfrumthai.com
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Track Listing Intro Runnin’
This -
Featuring Boo Kapone Lil’
Momma Can’t
Get Enuff
- Featuring 2Eleven Larger
Than Life
– Featuring Boo Kapone & Barbara Wilson Pump
Ya Fist Hero
– Featuring The Road Dawgs Dangerous
– Featuring G-Luv Why
They Wanna Keep Me Down
– Featuring Ebony Burks Hey
– Featuring 2Eleven Iz
U Wit It 12
Barz Skit –
Featuring Justin 12 Barz – Featuring
Cyphakon, Damani, Fuzz Priceless, Madame Brown, 2Eleven & K.G.
Superstar PRODUCED BY THE PRODUKT (TYCOON AND DONDOE aka DON DEEZY)
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For
Immediate Release
Contact: Betsy Bolte 818-508-9296 March
16, 2005
ALLFRUMTHA I RETURN WITH THEIR THIRD
ALBUM ‘LARGER THAN LIFE’ RELEASED ON FREE
AGENCY RECORDINGS APRIL 19, 2005
"This
new cd ‘larger than life’ is the best collaborative cd we ever
recorded and wish it was our introductory cd into the game,” Squeak
and Binky proudly speak about their new album.
“We took our time and the songs are bangin, our fans are going
to love it, it's classic allfrumtha
i. It’s a Hellava cd." They have
toured nationally for years spending many of them on the road with the
platinum selling group Westside Connection.
The 1998 release of allfrumtha i debut album ‘allfrumtha i’
gained critical acclaim and charted singles and mix show hits with
“County Jail”, “Fill My Cup” and “Dopest….”
The group made numerous TV appearances including The Jamie Foxx
Show, Motown Live, Soul Train, BET’s Rap City & The Basement and
more. Squeak Ru and
Binky’s West Coast affiliations run deep with appearances and
production work on Ice Cube’s ‘War
& Peace: The Peace Disc’, Mack 10’s ‘Based On A True Story’ and
‘The Recipe’ albums, ‘W.W.F.
Aggression’, ‘West Coast
Bad Boys 2’, ‘The
Player’s Cub’ and ‘I Got
The Hook Up’ soundtracks, and many more including a blazing
appearance on Westside Connection’s legendary ‘Bow
Down’ album. For more on
the duo, check out www.allfrumthai.com.
allfrumtha
i signed with Free
Agency Recordings, a
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allfrumtha i BIOGRAPHY There’s a West Coast hip-hop resurgence going on.
The debut major-label album from The next West Coast group set for a major
breakthrough is allfrumtha i, the allfrumtha i soaked up game from some of the music industry’s best acts and have applied that knowledge to their new album. “Right now, we’re feeling larger than life,” Binky explains. “Everything is going well. We don’t have any problems and we’re feeling good.” That excitement translates into allfrumtha i’s new material. Lead single “Lil’ Momma” is a thumping club track that celebrates women who show off their belly buttons on the dance floor. “It’s one of those singles that’s just party all the way through,” Binky says. “We took it to a couple of clubs, put it on and nobody left the dancefloor,” jokes Squeak-Ru. “I was like, ‘Hey, this might be something right here.’” allfrumtha i keeps the energy level high on the pulsating, guitar-propelled “Pump Ya Fist” and the menacing, forceful “Hero,” two odes to the West Coast rap’s significance. Elsewhere, Binky flexes an aggressive flow on his boast-heavy solo song, “Iz U Wit It.” allfrumtha i then gets personal on “ Squeak Ru examines his own life on the painfully personal “Why They Wanna Keep Me Down.” “I grew up in the ’80s and both my mother and father got exposed to drugs,” he reveals. “That kind of put a toll on my life, so I had to get out in the streets and get it done myself. Then, a lot of these West Coast rap dudes that’s eating already, they don’t turn around and want to share with a lot of dudes that’s up and coming. They’d rather try to keep the whole plate to themselves. Why you want to keep me down? Let’s get money together, get it rolling and get it to the next cat so he can get it to the next cat.” When Binky Mack and Squeak Ru conceived larger than life, they realized they needed a diverse collection of beats to match the wide range of subject matter they were addressing. So Binky and producing partner DonDoe, who work as The Produkt and produced the whole album, made a point to match the feel of the music with the topic at hand. It’s a plan executed to the fullest. “I said, ‘Let’s go after something that means something with each song,’ whether it’s having fun with the girls on ‘Lil’ Momma’ or the more serious ‘Why They Wanna Keep Me Down,’ where Squeak is talking about a whole bunch of serious issues,” Binky says. “We got really focused on what we wanted to do instead of just going in there and doing songs.” Binky and Squeak picked up that creative
perspective from the Westside Connection, the supergroup made up of Ice
Cube, Mack 10 and WC. After
their impressive work on Bow Down, allfrumtha i was signed by
Mack 10 to his then-fledgling Hoo-Bangin’ Records and in 1998 released
its self-titled debut album. Standout
cuts “ In 2001, allfrumtha i returned with Uncut and then took some time off before reconvening in 2004 to work on another album. “We’ve been going through a music phase, seeing what was going on and listening to everybody else,” Binky explains. “We were listening to some of the music that wasn’t hot and decided to get back on. During the layoff, I was just doing beats and listening to other people’s music. We were studying the game.” Squeak Ru has also been working on a number of independent projects and Binky Mack is working on a gospel rap album he is confident will put the genre on the map. But for now, allfrumtha i is focused on making sure larger than life is the biggest album of their career. “We’ve got another chance and we never really, really blew up, which is good to me because we’ve got the opportunity to do it now,” Binky says. “But before we do that, we’ve got to show them that we’ve got something you can bang, that you can feel good to and that you can have fun to. You can play this record around your grandmother, around your kid or with your homies.” No wonder they call it larger than life.
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