Shadow Incredible
Real Hip Hop with a positive vibe.
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Intro Intro
Just Listen Just Listen
Best Friend Worst Enemy Best Friend Worst Enemy
I speak life I speak life
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Shadow Incredible
The "New Duo" Bringing new and hot music to your area!!!
Consisting of (producer) Shadow Apocalypse and (Emcee Bncredible)Band/artist history
**Nasforum.net Exclusive - ShadowIncredible - Interview**
killa queens2: What's up?
(Albemarle)- sup
killa queens2: First of all, we want to know how did the album come about?
(Albemarle) - Well first of all Shadow and myself have been sending each other tracks that we have done for a good minute now. I’d come up with a new track and send it to him for critique and visa versa. I got a lot of respect for him. We saw a lot of emcees were on the board so we decided to come up with a mixtape for nasforum with me and Shadow splitting the producing up between ourselves. At the time we were not getting a lot of feedback or signs of interest. I had already did like 2 tracks that were supposed to be on the mix-tape (Love the original version, The essence, and another one that wasn’t meant to be on it)and the vibe felt so good.
(Shadowapocalypse) - Yeah, that's pretty much what happened. We just started vibin' with each others music while we were compiling the beats for the mixtape. He did the chorus for the Essence and spit on it, and I knew then it was a golden partnership. It was just a beat before he spit on it. He made it a song. Then it was curtains from there. We just started sending each other stuff back and forth. All the beats for Food For Thought are newly crafted beats within the last year...
killa queens2: Do you two have a name as a collective group and if so, how did it come about?
(Shadowapocalypse) - Yeah, we are known as ShadowIncredible and it's probably pretty obvious how that came about, lol. It's just the first part of my name, which everybody calls me "Shadow" anyway for short, and the 2nd part of his name as an emcee (Bncredible), only were using the actual word "Incredible". Hence, ShadowIncredible.
killa queens2: How does ShadowIncredible come together on a song?
(Albemarle) - Well on this album starting off, I’d have an Idea or a title of a song and be like yo, shadow make something out of this track and then he sent me the instrumental for Blame it on my love. Sometimes Shadow would send me 4 tracks and be like this is what I came up for the album and I would just go from there.
(Shadowapocalypse) - Yeah, I'm constantly working on beats because stuff just pops in my head at random, and I'll put it down, and now that we are a collective group, it's always with Albemarle in mind first. I'll be listening to some classic Ahmad Jamal, or some Roy Ayers or something like that, and hear something in the song, do the beat and be like: "This is perfect for the album and perfect for Albe", then I'll send it to him with the idea, or like he said, he'll send me a sample to see if I can make something out of it and I'll send it back.
killa queens2: With you, Albemarle being from NC and you, Shadowapocalypse being from Detroit, how does your sound mesh so well?
(Albemarle) - I think it’s because we both got similar taste in music . NC is a melting pot of Good emcees. Shadow makes it easy with the beats he provides me with. I think the main reason why we mesh so well is because we both want to see the greater good come out of our music.
killa queens2: Your debut album "Food For Thought" is hitting the board on March 25, 2008. How's the album coming?
(Albemarle) - It’s coming. I got all the beats and I still got a few songs to record and mix. (You don’t really want to know how many, lol, 7). Matter of fact I’m ma start writing as soon as I finish this interview.
killa queens2: How many joints are there and do you have any features on the album?
(Shadowapocalypse) - There are 13 joints on the album and that includes a bonus joint which is "The Essence". We have 2 features on the album and they are Nasforum.net's very own p[dot] a.k.a youcancallmepatti a.k.a MVPatti (that's what we call her, lol) and Deadly Sin a.k.a Sinematic. He's on a joint called "The Warning". He actually came up with that song title. Good lookin' out Sin!
killa queens2: What inspired "Keep Pushin' On?"
(Albemarle) - After doing the original version of “Love” and “I Speak Life, Shadow said he had an idea for a song in the same vein of I speak life. He sent me the instrumental and said let’s see if we can get MVPatti on it. (lol) It took her a minute to get back to us. Shadow sent me the instrumental and then he went away on Hiatus, so I had to come up with something that matched the vibe that Patti and Shadow had already put down on the track. Sometimes I write rhymes and it takes me a minute to comeback and actually use it. That’s what happened on this song.
(Shadowapocalypse) - I was listening to Mary J. Blige's album "The Breakthrough" and I was bumpin' Take me as I am, and you know it has the same sample that Dead Presidents uses which is Lonnie Liston Smith's "A Garden of Peace". I kind of cut it up in a different way though and added some soulful drums and strings to it. Before I even did the beat, Patti had put up something that she was singing on, so when I finished the beat, I remembered that she sang, so I asked her if she wanted to get on a hook for us and she was down. So I sent it to her and the idea behind the song and about where she should start singing. She sent us back what she did and I was blown away. I sent it to Albe and it was done. I love how it came out.
killa queens2: Are you two happy with the responses you got from "Keep Pushin' On?"
(Albemarle) - I’m very pleased
killa queens2: How does your album differ from the rest of them out today?
(Shadowapocalypse) - I think a lot of albums that are out today follow the same mold, so they sound the same. When you listen to Food For Thought, you can tell that we love what we do and we ain't tryin' to do it for money. You can also tell that the different flavors we bring to the table perfectly meshes to make a great product. We ain't got no deadlines, no label heads pushin' us, we ain't worried about giving in to the masses to make money, none of that. We're just doing what we like to do, how we like to do it and you can tell with this album. When you hear it, you WILL feel it in your heart and in your gut. Also, there's no profanity on this album, no B's and Hoes, no guns bussin', no crack slanging, no weed smoke, nobody gettin' murked or none of that. I'm not comin' down on any emcees that do that stuff because they're doin' what they know (or claim to know). We're doing what we know or have experienced and making it so that EVERYBODY can listen to it, ya mom dukes, ya dad, ya grandma, ya cousin, ya daughter, son, EVERYBODY.
killa queens2: What do you two think of hip hop game today?
(Albemarle) - I think Hip-hop is dead. I personally don’t want to be considered hip-hop because I’m more than just hip-hop but I think you can breathe life into the game. Hip-Hop needs balance. Right now there is too much buffoonery going on. A lot of people don’t like music from the South and out of Atlanta but if you were to strip the guns and drugs talk from the rhymes then you would realize it is hip-hop at its essence. The simplicity reminds me of rap back in the early 80’s. I think Hip-hop is being pimped right now. For every wannabe Nas who thinks he can just drop out of school and spit bars for a living, that’s really a hard thing to accomplish. Then after you see it’s hard to get put on most kats don’t have to many options to choose from other than to go to crime or drugs. I want to inspire the youth especially the young males that it’s cool to graduate and there are more ways to get paid than just by trying to emcee. Don’t fall victim to the rap game. We supposed to have a freedom of speech but most people are scared to speak of the truth. Let’s sugar coat it by making songs they can dance to. Let’s market certain artist to the black youth so they would rather superman this ho instead of treating our little sisters like queens. I don’t think we have to be all preachy all the time. But I do believe we need preaching in the game with the same exposure as the Soljah Boys , Jay-z, TI, and all the top 20 artist. I mean keep it real the radio and tv don’t play music that we want to hear they play what they are paid to play.
(Shadowapocalypse) - Wow, (sighs). It kind of gives me a sick feeling in my stomach when I think about it. The biggest problem like Albe said is there's no balance in the game. Materialism and uncreative music has taken completely over. The formula now is do a beat that took you about 5 minutes to do while you were hittin' your blunt, make a dance to the song and spit meaningless bars, and you got a hit. Or spit about how many cars or homes or money you got. Or we can go to the other extreme where peeps are trying to be TOO creative where you can't even understand what the song is about or follow it. Remember back about 13-15 years ago when you had Tribe out, De La Soul, KRS-One, Rakim, and you had Mobb Deep, Kool G. Rap, and you had Cube, Dre, Snoop, and the Ghetto Boys, Outkast, Bone Thugs? See how much diversity that is? At any given moment on the radio, you can get any one of their songs. Now? lol, it's a joke. You either get Souljah Boy, MIMS, Young Joc, Jeezy, T.I., Lil Wayne, etc., in which all of them are similar emcees. But on the flipside, there's always peeps that bring me joy to listen to their stuff like Slum Village, Nas, Royce Da 5'9", Strange Fruit Project, Justus League, Common, etc. Those are the people that make it worth while...
killa queens2: What's the next move for ShadowIncredible?
(Albemarle) We’re going to reverse the feeling on the whole world lol!
(Shadowapocalypse) - Actually, he wasn't playin' when he said that, lol. Our next joint is called "Reverse The Feeling" and it's already about 50% done. The beats are crafted already. It's hittin' the board next year. Y'all ain't heard nothin' yet, TRUST ME ON THIS....
killa queens2: What do you two want to say to everybody?
(Albemarle) - I want to give a shout out to Vamp and Killa for giving usHave you performed in front of an audience?I emcee live and I enjoy doing shows.
Your musical influences
Nas, Krs-1, Gangstarr, Little Brother, Justus League, 9th Wonder, Premo, Pete Rock, Kev Brown, Alchemist, De La Soul, Slum Village, J-Dilla (R.I.P.), Black MilkWhat equipment do you use?
Fruity Loops, Pro tools, Motif
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