Stankonia Sessions was launched in 2011 during the A3C Hip-Hop Festival, and has become a creative outlet and essential stop for A3C artists. The collaborative project was recorded in three-days during the A3C Festival and includes more than 25 artists on over 15 records.

Artists featured on Stankonia Sessions were hand-selected from the 2012 A3C line-up and include King Chip a.k.a Chip Tha Ripper, Los, Phil Ade, CunninLyguists, Two9, Chuuwee, Emilio Rojas, Neako, Boldy James, Thurz, Bizarre, Rapper Big Pooh, Torae, Skyzoo, Slum Village, Kris Kasanova, Dee Goodz, Los Rakas, Scolla, J.Nics, Dreamer, Scotty and more.

“The Sparks” Featuring Thurz, Los & Skyzoo Produced by The Flush is available as a free download & unlimited stream

New Video from two of our friends… Young Lyxx and Skyzoo. You can check out Young Lyxx on Saturday at our Anniversary Party!!! Gonna be wild!!

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DRINKS on US: Whynatte & PBR are sponsoring an open bar from 830p – 10p.

Performances by…
Skyzoo, Jarren Benton, Tom P, Tuki, Ben G, Donny Goines, Young Lyxx, REi, Zaid, Reign & Judicial

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SEA will also be releasing a special edition SEAxGMAD snapback benefiting the American Cancer Society. 25% from each sale benefits ACS – pick one up at the show for $20.

* Jean Grae
* Murs
* Kaze
* Actual Proof
* Away Team
* Skyzoo
* Buckshot
* Big Remo

It all goes down Oct. 7 at 9 pm on The Red Bull Music Stage.

A3C = $20/day @ Door (or) $33 for 3-Days in Advance…Do the Math (http://bit.ly/a1j36n) Code = “smka” for $25 tickets

Check IT!!!

DOWNLOAD SONG HERE

I love Albums that don’t have a lot of features….cause I bought the album to hear YOU, not all your homies. One or two features, is what makes it unique and A FEATURE…otherwise its just jumbled and blah blah blah.

(Catch SKYZOO a couple days after the release @ the A3C Festival in Atlanta)

Tracklist
1. The Opener produced by Cyrus Tha Great
2. Return Of The Real produced by Just Blaze
3. The Beautiful Decay produced by 9th Wonder
4. My Interpretation produced by Best Kept Secret
5. Popularity produced by Nottz
6. Like A Marathon produced by 9th Wonder
7. The Shooter’s Soundtrack produced by Cyrus Tha Great
8. Under Pressure produced by 9th Wonder
9. Penmanship produced by Black Milk
10. Dear Whoever produced by Illmind
11. For What It’s Worth produced by Eric G
12. The Necessary Evils(produced by Needlz
13. Easy To Fly featuring Carlitta Durand produced by 9th Wonder
14. Bottom Line produced by Eric G
15. Metal Hearts produced by 9th Wonder
16. Maintain produced by Nottz

The fifth episode in the Saving Our Grace weekly series, this is The Strength. Directed by Mills Miller. Remember, The Salvation drops September 29th on Jamla Records/Duck Down Records.

“I feel like people know I’m dope, people know I’m a lyricist, people know they are going to get top notch lyricism,” Skyzoo tells me on a breezy afternoon in early September. The air, much like his tone is calm and fluent. This isn’t a boastful claim for the Bedstuy rapper, but comes off more as a researched and understood statement such as who won the last World Series, or even the current temperature. Skyzoo also communicates an understanding of where that may classify his music, and who is believed to be the intended audience.

While Skyzoo grew up in “Ready To Die, that was our neighborhood,” his home was one of the few with both parents present, and with hopes of him getting a better education, they sent him to school in Manhattan thus providing Skyzoo with a second home as far as friendships, experiences, and outlets. Much like a traveler who picks up trinkets from places on his journey and brings them back home to show those that didn’t make the trip, it seems as though Skyzoo took the best of a his Manhattan project and presents it for those that haven’t been. “A lot of my music is for people who never stepped foot in a college or on a graduation stage,” Sky stresses. “A lot of my music is for them…it just requires listening and paying attention.”

Skyzoo’s debut album, The Salvation, will hit stores on September 29th, via indie label Duckdown records. It is a record grounded in duality that sees Skyzoo juggling opposites. And while the title may lead some to think that Skyzoo is placing a superhero moniker on himself, swooping in to save Hip Hop, Skyzoo is really out to save himself. “The album is not about saving Hip Hop or New York, the album is about me.”

We caught up with Skyzoo to learn more about the emcee who recently garnered an XL rating for the piece of work which he sees as “my Illmatic, my Reasonable Doubt.” And just as those albums weren’t cemented in first listens or first week sales alone, Skyzoo also hopes to present something that people understand more with each listen. “The Salvation isn’t a ‘one listen’ album, I made it like that. It’s an album that you love on the first listen, and you fall in love with by the third,” he told me via email after learning of his rating. And let me be the first to tell you that Skyzoo’s right…Now, read on and he’ll tell you why in the full interview below.

RubyHornet: Where’s your head at right now with the album coming out later this month? Are you kind of crossing days out on the calender?

Skyzoo: Definitely. I’m excited. This is what I wanted forever. Everything I’ve ever done, the mixtapes, EP’s and stuff I do with 9th Wonder, was for this. It was all to get to the debut album. And this is the debut, so I’m just really happy to get it out there for people to hear what I wanted to create and what I wanted to present to them.

CHECK OUT THE WHOLE INTERVIEW HERE