Beware! The Elevenocalypse is upon us! It doesn’t matter that you really don’t know how to pronounce that on the first try. All you need to know is that MC Eleven has been waiting his entire life for the upcoming date of November 11th, 2011. If he’s smart, on November 12th, he’ll immediately change his name to MC Twelve so that he can do it all again next year, but for now, witness ‘The Elevenocalpse,” a 9-MC supercut, produced by the Greenest of Willies (pause) Willie Green, and mixed/mastered by A.M. Breakups. (Which, by the way, is the best time to break up with someone. If you do it at midnight, they will keep you up ALL NIGHT LONG with their whining, “Oh Manny, don’t leave!” and “Oh Manny, but I just left my husband for you!” and “Oh Manny, but what about our 8 children?”)
Cry me a river, Octomom.
Anyway, “The Elevenocalypse” also features Hype Wonder, Teddy Faley, Esh the Monolith, Warren Britt, Premrock, Billy Woods, Elucid and L.I.F.E. Long. This means nothing if you don’t know who these cats are, but a) if you do, then you know the time, and b) if you don’t, that’s what we’re here for.
Listener-who-doesn’t-know-cats, meet cats. Cats, meet listener-who-doesn’t-know-cats.
Anyway, MC Eleven is dropping his debut mixtape M-Theory on .. wait for it…. yep, 11/11/11, and “The Elevenocalypse” is a frantic, gritty, lyrical onslaught from a baseball-team-worth of underground MCs that helps open the gates to the multiple circles of Eleven’s upcoming musical inferno.
Ok, enough clever working in of hyperbolic metaphoric allegories in a simple blog post. Who do I think I am, the leader of a new style of rap journalism? Well, yes, but enough about me. PREPARE FOR THE ELEVENOCALYPSE! (And by prepare, I mean if you’re a sexy chick, let’s boink before we all die, k?)
Oh, and on 11/11/11 of course, there will be a big release party/last day on earth maybe party over at Southpaw in Brooklyn. Go there. Check our NY-area hip hop events calendar for the details.
And if I’m there, buy me a drink dammit.