Ghetto Rhymin' (Divine Allah album)

Infobox Album
Name = Ghetto Rhymin' (Pre-Release/Official Version)
Type = Studio album
Artist = DIVINE


Released = November 2007
Recorded = 2006/2007
Genre = Urban: Hip-Hop/Rap/R&B
Length =
Label = Supreme Records
Producer = Ill D, Prov P, DJ Whopper, Devastate, Bova, Agillaz, Mr. JPatt, Godspeed
Reviews =
Last album = "The Legacy Lives"
(2006)
This album = "Ghetto Rhymin"' (Pre-Release/Official Version)
(2007/2008)
Next album = "Godzillah"
(2008)

"Ghetto Rhymin"' is the forthcoming official debut and full-length CD album from Divine (Divine Allah). It will be released on the independent label Supreme Records. The pre-release version of the album officially drops worldwide online sometime in 11/07, being distributed by Perspective Music. The pre-release version of the album download will be available on iTunes, Rhapsody, etc. There will also be a physical official version of the album released to retail nationwide (USA), in the first quarter of 2008 (tentatively), and mail-ordering of the CD will be available through various online and retail outlets for those located overseas outside the US. There will be two online single releases; the first single release will be "I'm Back" b/w "New York City Nights", and the second rumored single will be "Let's Get It On" b/w "Ghetto Rhymin'". "I'm Back" will be officially released worldwide online on 7/7/07 and will be available on iTunes, Rhapsody, etc. via Perspective Music.

The release date was pushed back several times because of trying to find the right moment to release it, however Divine has stated that a pre-release version of the album will be released initially online in 11/07, which will then be followed by a nationwide retail release of the official version of the album in the first quarter of 2008; and that Ghetto Rhymin' will be a true representation and reincarnation of the "Golden Era" of Hip-Hop updated and modernized, and is an album to watch for in 2008.

Meaning of the title: Divine has said that "Ghetto Rhymin'" states the essence and origin of Hip-Hop itself, being from a street element and an extension of an impoverished life and living conditions. Adding the name of the artist (Divine), as in "divine ghetto rhyming", it is also a reflection of and reference to the action of a Godly and/or enlightened individual (such as Master Fard) bringing the spiritual light of Godly or divine knowledge to an impoverished (lacking) people in and through a poetical, stylistic, rhythmic and artistic form of speech/vernacular (rhyming). This also most likely reflects Divine Allah's membership in and ideology of The Nation of Gods and Earths (formerly the Five Percent Nation Of Islam).

Pre-Release Version (11/2007)

Official Version (2008)

Track listing (Pre-Release Version)

#The Wait Is Over: The Legacy Lives (Prelude)
#I'm Back
#It'z War
#Let's Get It On
#Hard Body
#Gun Talk
#New York City Nights
#Check It Out
#Smooth Don ft. Mr Means
#Where The Club At
#Embracing Eternity (Universal Love) ft. Mr. Means
#Ghetto Rhymin' ft. Sara Vahabi
#My Dudes
#Locked In The Stars
#Nobody Does It Meaner (Prelude)
#Brooklyn, Brooklyn
# [Bonus Track: To Be Decided]

Producers

"Ghetto Rhymin"' was produced by eight different new and up-and-coming producers both from the United States and Sweden (in no particular order):

Track 4: Produced by Devastate (Sweden);Track 5: Produced by Bova for MiddleMan Mgmt. (United States);Track 9: Produced by Godspeed (United States);Track 11: Produced by Agillaz (Sweden);Tracks 1 & 12: Produced by Dj Whopper (Sweden);Tracks 2, 6, 7 & 8: Produced by Prov P (Sweden);Tracks 3, 13, 15 & 16: Produced by Ill D (United States);Tracks 10 & 14: Produced by Mr. JPatt (United States).

The album was executive produced by Divine, Ill D and Supreme Records' A&R and Divine's manager D. Ayatollah.

External links

* Official Divine Wikipedia entry page
* [http://www.divineghettorhymin.com Official Divine "Ghetto Rhymin"' website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/divineghettorhymin Official Divine "Ghetto Rhymin"' MySpace website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/DIVINEGhettoRhymin Official Divine "Ghetto Rhymin"' YouTube website]
* [http://www.sonicbids.com/divineallah Official Divine "Ghetto Rhymin"' Sonicbids website]
* [http://www.perspectivemusic.biz Perspective Music Distribution website]
* [http://www.myspace.comperspectivemusicinc Perspective Music Distribution MySpace website]