The Product 'One Hunnid' album

KOCH Records and The Underground Railroad Movement are proud to announce the new release from Scarface and The Product titled One Hunnid. Scarface is arguably the South’s most admired rapper. After his stint as a member of the legendary Geto Boys, Scarface went on to an extremely successful solo career in 1991. Since then, Scarface has sold close to 10 million records. Virtually every Southern rapper - including Ludacris and T.I. - cites Scarface as the authority in modern Southern rap.

One Hunnid is the introductory effort from Face’s new company - The Underground Railroad Movement - and is the result of an alliance he’s formed with two of the most talented artists that the mainstream hip-hop world has yet to hear of: Bay Area rap veteran Will Hen and Jackson, Mississippi native Young Malice. Wil Hen has been developing his skills with Scarface’s ‘twin ear’ producer Tone Capone and his street credibility is built from his unique Bay Area flow coupled with his real life tales of being a street pimp. Complementing Wil Hen’s West Coast flava is a voice from the South, Young Malice. Young Malice proved to have the raw Southern style that Scarface recognized as one of the most promising voices of the hood. The Product wasn’t created necessarily by design; it’s more so the byproduct of one of rap’s elder statesmen feeling he had something special on his hands.

And while as an emcee Scarface appears on roughly 90 percent of the songs on Scarface Presents The Product, he also joins famed producer The Alchemist, longtime Geto Boys contributor John Bido, and Oakland-native Tone Capone to man production duties on a good portion of the project.

Biography

As the saying goes, all that glitters ain’t gold. For Brad Jordan, otherwise known to the hip-hop world as reality rap icon Scarface, the statement bears more credence as the days pass. See, the pioneering Southern rap legend and former member of the Houston-based rap outfit The Geto Boys is fed up. Having topped the charts, been regarded by the harshest of critics as one of the game’s realest, and fawned over by his peers as a mythic totem of everlasting musical inspiration, it appears that Face has little ammunition for being mad. But then again, for someone who once penned poignant tales in his diary about having never seen a man cry until he seen a man die, it’s obvious that the game’s glaring shortage of honest thought-provoking material is getting to him. But alas, with his exciting new collaborative effort, Face is about to undoubtedly deliver what the game’s been missing- The Product.

The introductory effort from Face’s new company- The Underground Railroad Movement- Scarface Presents The Product is the result of an alliance he’s formed with two of the most talented artists that the mainstream hip-hop world has yet to hear of: Bay Area rap veteran Will Hen and Jackson, Mississippi native Young Malice. But The Product wasn’t created necessarily by design; it’s more so the byproduct of one of rap’s elder statesmen feeling he had something special on his hands.

“I met Malice in Mississippi at a little party. He rapped for me and I thought he had skills. I dug what he was saying. Tone Capone from California was working with this cat named Willie Hen and I really dug his shit. I attempted to work on these two cats by themselves. I just put the combination together and thought I’d love to hear them on a track together. And from there, I just wanted to keep hearing what they sounded like on tracks together. And they gel. It’s a rare combination to get cats to sound like that together, from two different areas. I was looking for a third member to their group and I couldn’t find anyone anywhere. So I jumped on a few songs with them, and ended up doing an album.”

For the Infamous Willie Hen and Young Malice, both who had been putting it down locally for years, and who had each experienced tumultuous industry rollercoaster rides trying to get on in the game, the opportunity to hop on board with a legend wasn’t one they’d likely pass up.

“I throw Scarface in there with Biggie, Pac, Nas, Jay-Z. I grew up listening to the Geto Boys… I was excited,” says 30-year old Willie Hen, who at the time was also being courted by then Roc-A-Fella VP Kenny Burns, as well as an independent investor who played for the Oakland Raiders. Instead, Hen opted to deal with Face after he was handpicked by the Houston rap stalwart, along with Young Malice, to partake in a soundtrack he was working on for an indie film.

“Face had been telling me about him and vice versa,” says Young Malice, 25, who had known Scarface for a period of time prior to a forming the group. “We met up at Face’s house and we recorded a couple songs. It was about eight cats that Face had called out to work on the compilation, but it was really like an elimination process to see who could really hold their own weight. Me and Hen were the last two standing.”

And that, coupled with the fact that they just flat out sound different than anything else right now, is what really attracted Face to working with the two hungry upstarts.

“I think they may be better than me,” says Scarface, who claims he scouts new talent on platforms such as XM Radio and mixtapes instead of traditional industry means. “The only way I’d consider fucking with someone is if I felt they were on the same level. You’ve got to be able to compete, because I’m coming.”

And while as an emcee Scarface appears on roughly 90 percent of Scarface Presents The Product, he also joins famed producer The Alchemist, longtime Geto Boys contributor John Bido, and Oakland-native Tone Capone to man production duties on a good portion of the project.

“Working with a musical genius just makes it easier than working with a cat who doesn’t understand the game,” says Malice of Brad Jordan, a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar and piano among other traditional instruments. “The game becomes that much more simplified. Our chemistry is perfect.”

Devoid of any undesirable guest appearances, or joints that are irrevocably aimed at appeasing radio station program directors, the album is a refreshing ode to the days of hardcore reality rap and true tales of hood survival.

“I think with fucking with The Product, I’m definitely filling a void that’s in this music game,” offers Face. “Because don’t nobody really speak from the heart anymore. Don’t nobody really spill their guts on what they really go through in their life. Motherfuckers are really leaving the game out of rap. Rap has turned into a dance show, a pop show. I wouldn’t be surprised if motherfuckers just started opening up clubs, and the name of the club be “Rap.” Cause it’s not hip-hop, hip-hop is a way of life.”

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