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Cover: Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto
Photo: Guilty Simpson by Eric Coleman
Photo: Guilty Simpson by Eric Coleman
Photo: Guilty Simpson by Doug Coombe
Ode to the Ghetto track list:
1. The American Dream
2. Robbery
3. She Won’t Stay At Home
4. Footwork
5. Ode To The Ghetto
6. Get Bitches
7. I Must Love You
8. The Future Feat. Med
9. Pigs
10. My Moment
11. Run Feat Sean P & Black Milk
12. Kinda Live
13. Yikes
14. The Real Me
15. Kill ‘Em
16. Almighty Dreadnaughtz, feat Super Mc, Krizsteel, Konnie Ross
1, 2, 8, 9, 13 produced by Madlib; 2, 6, 12 produced by Mr. Porter; 4, 5 produced by Oh No; 7 produced by J Dilla; 10, 11, 14 produced by Black Milk; 15 produced by DJ Babu; 16 produced by Konnie Ross
All cuts by Madlib, except #1-2 Cuts by J.Rocc
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert for Elysian Masters, Los Angeles, CA
Executive Produced by Peanut Butter Wolf
Produced for Stones Throw Records by Egon and Guilty Simpson
Project Coordination and A&R by Egon and Havana Joe
Photography by Eric Coleman
Art Direction by Jeff Jank
Guilty Simpson managed by Hex Murda
Discography
Jaylib - Strapped from Champion
Sound CD 2003
iTunes
Guilty Simpson & Marv - Dirty District Theme
from Slum Village's Dirty District CD 2003
Guilty Simpson - Git Up
from Bling 47's Best Kept Secret CD 2003
Guilty Simpson - Detroit Streets
from Cysion's The Icy Details CD 2003
iTunes
Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life (J Dilla Remix)
from Remixes CD 2003
J Dilla - Jungle Love, Baby
from The Shining CD 2006 iTunes
Dabrye - Special from One/Two CD 2006 iTunes
Guilty Simpson - Clap Your Hands
from Chrome Children CD 2006 iTunes
T3 - Heartbreaker from Olio (Mixtape) CD 2006
MonicaBlaire - Hey Hoe from Portraits CD 2006 iTunes
Cysion - Roll Call from Clinical Studies CD 2006 iTunes
Buff1 - Supreme from Pure CD 2007
Black Milk - Sound the Alarm
from Popular Demand CD 2007
iTunes
Guilty Simpson - Money Motivated Movements
from Chrome Children 2 CD 2007 iTunes
J Dilla - Take Notice from
Ruff Draft CD 2007 iTunes
Phat Kat - Nightmare from Carte Blanche CD 2007
Guilty Simpson - Man's World 12-inch 2007
Heliocentrics - Before I Die 12" 2007
Percee P - Watch Your Step from Perseverance CD 2007
Guilty Simpson - Make It Fast from B-Ball Zombie War CD 2007 iTunes
J Dilla - Mash's Revenge from B-Ball Zombie War CD 2007 iTunes
Caltroit - Mouth Music from "Caltroit" CD 2008 (Music House)
Fat Ray & Black Milk - Bad Man from "The Set Up" CD 2008 (Music House)
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Guilty Simpson
 VIDEO:
Guilty Simpson "Get Riches"
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 Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto
CD/LP
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 Guilty Simpson - Ode b/w Home Invazion
12-inch single
Available at Fat Beats
 Guilty Simpson - Stray Bullets (Mixed by Rhettmatic)
Stones Throw Podcast #25
MP3: Stones Throw Podcast on iTunes (Free)
Guilty Simpson - Man's World
Produced by J Dilla. Stones Throw Podcast Single
MP3: Stones Throw Podcast on iTunes (Free)
+ The Source: 4 mics for Ode to the Ghetto
+ Popmatters on Ode to the Ghetto Guilty Simpson is precisely the type of lyricist who can vividly capture the essence of modern Detroit lifestyle.
+ Guilty Simpson Graffiti
+ Video: "Get Riches"
+ The Verdict: Real Detroit (cover story)
+ XXL: Guilty Simpson Coming Out Hard
+ Hiphopdx.com: Guilty Simpson Interviewed
+ Allhiphop.com: Guilty as Charged
+ No Punk: Guilty Simpson in Vapors
+ Slinging Rap, on Nobody Smiling
+ Photos: Guilty Simpson, Percee P, Europe 2008
+ Hide in a trunk to play Canada, on Chart Attack
+ Guilty Simpson in Shook Magazine
+ Guilty Simpson in Pound Magazine
+ Video:
Guilty on the Stones Throw Bounce Tour
+ Guilty Simpson in Hip Hop Connection
+ Dazed & Confused on Guilty Simpson
+ Guilty Simpson & Black Milk on Current TV
+ YoRaps.com Guilty Simpson feature
+ One Week To Live: PBW presents Guilty Simpson
+ XLR8R: Welcome Back to Detroit
Guilty Simpson was born in Detroit, the son and grandson of the family’s performing musicians in his father and grandfather. At age four, Simpson and his mother began traveling with an aunt in the military, living in California and Birmingham, Alabama, before settling back in the Motor City at 15. Big Daddy Kane, N.W.A, and Scarface were all major influences, but it was Queens-bred street bard Kool G Rap who made the biggest impression. “That’s my crème de la crème rapper right there,” says Simpson, his own presence among the latest in a rich lineage of heavy-handed MCs.
For years Guilty Simpson has been a rock on the Detroit hip-hop circuit alongside those such as J Dilla, Slum Village, Eminem (whom Guilty still calls “Marshall”) & D12, Obie Trice, Proof, Phat Kat and Black Milk. A member of the Almighty Dreadnaughtz crew, Guilty emerged as a sound to be reckoned with after linking with producer Dilla in 2001. In the midst of recording an album’s worth of material on the MC – including the recently released duet “Take Notice” off of Dilla’s heralded Ruff Draft album – Dilla gave Simpson his first appearance on disc with “Strapped” (from 2003’s Jaylib album).
2006 marked his allegiance with Stones Throw Records – at Dilla’s behest – and appearances on both Chrome Children installments and subsequent tour. It’s taken years, but finally Simpson’s full-length solo debut, Ode to the Ghetto, brings him worldwide, chronicling a life led in the rough-hewn city that birthed him.
Featuring an all-star cast of producers normally reserved for those signed to six-figure deals (J Dilla, Madlib, Denaun Porter of D-12), Ode to the Ghetto marks an evolution, incorporating a more topical and thought-provoking persona in addition to the extra-savage braggadocio Simpson is known for. “I want to make the consumer care about the music again,” the 31-year-old explains.
Guilty’s testosterone-charged, inner city themes possess of a sense of humor at times so side-splitting, it only proves how serious he really is. This rapper was raised on the field of battle and he has more to say than just how fresh he is and how fresh “they” are not. As a matter of fact, he’s found that he’s here to remind the hip-hop world – currently captivated with that manufactured freshness – that life in the ghetto is real.
The evidence shows excessive use of double entendres, too much flavor on public grounds, microphone assault, and verbal harassment of an officer of the law. On the counts of freshness AND realness: The Court of Hip-Hop finds Mr. Simpson to be Guilty. |
