Single Minded Pro’s 'From Now On' album

Single Minded Pros (DJ Rude & Doc West) are a two man DJ/production crew hailing from the windy city of Chicago.

To date they’ve released 2 critically acclaimed 12” singles, presided over the turntables on the nationally televised Jenny Jones Show and been tapped by Urb Magazine and placed into their “Next 100” for 2003. S.M.P.’s production has also been featured on highly regarded projects such as Tony Touch’s Last of the Pro Ricans.

S.M.P.’s debut, From Now On (which will be released on 10-19-04), is a production album headlined by some of the heaviest hitters in underground hip hop; Kool G. Rap, Pace Won, Mr Lif, Akrobatik, Louis Logic, C-Rayz Walz, J.U.I.C.E., Breez Evahflowin, Binkis, and more. And as DJ Rude One explains, From Now On is a four year vision that has finally been realized and one that has been intricately constructed “One day we were sitting around talking about all the emcees that we’d like to collaborate with and we each made a list. Then we pared it down to the ones we actually thought we had a realistic chance with and started reaching out from there. We DJ at a lot of shows in Chicago so we’d hook up with cats as they’d pass through town or just show up on their doorsteps one day like we did with Kool G. Rap.”

As Doc West laments the objective of From Now On was to make custom tailored songs for each artist “We’re both DJ’s and we’ve been listening to most of these cats for years, admiring their signature sounds and in some cases wondering what they’d sound like over a different type of track. I think we’ve got the best of both on this album. Whereas we followed Kool G. Rap’s classic recipe on his track, we experimented with something completely different with Akrobatik on his particular song.”

Far removed from the days of sending 4-track tapes and cassettes from Boston to New York to the Berkshire County Correctional Facility to Chicago and back, Single Minded Pros now find themselves with a worldwide following. As prominent turntable technicians, S.M.P. has shared the stage and toured internationally with the likes of Outkast, Ice Cube, Rakim, M.O.P., Pharoah Monch, J-Live, Pace Won, Atmosphere and Last Emperor.

It’s a new chapter in the era that is S.M.P. The album title says it all…

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Single Minded Pro’s - From Now On