Pharaohe Monch’s Flood Of Upcoming Albums

Via The Urban Daily

I don’t normally like to just quote large sections of interviews, but my man Jerry Barrow posted an excerpt of an interview with Pharaohe Monch with some info about Troy’s upcoming projects. After 7 years of waiting, the floodgates are opening, holy shit:

His first project, Let My People Go, should be out later this year and hopes to bridge the gap between some of today’s artists and fans of his peers.
“Music should be a little more free. We shouldn’t be criticizing as much as we do,” he told The Urban Daily. “The artist and the radio are just as much at fault. But here is a piece of music that you can like. There’s a lot of collaborations. Where as Desire was more just me holding it down, this is going to have some special appearances.”
His second project is a double EP called Rock Vs. Disco. The concept CD is a period piece that takes place in the late 70s and early 80s when Disco emerged and challenged Rock.
“ I grew up on both so this project is like a double EP with a rock influenced side and a disco influenced side. I’m gonna have t-shirts that say Rock vs Disco: Which Do you love?
“Then I have a concept record called the Verses Project with producers I’ve never worked with before. It’ll come out like a comic book and be distributed digitally. It’ll be like Pharoahe vs. Premier and Pharoahe vs RZA. Then you can purchase the whole [series] for . “
In addition to preparing a Making of Internal Affairs (the ten year anniversary of the classic disc is next year) Monch will be releasing “The Hidden Years” which is the music he recorded between Internal Affairs and Desire.

While we wait for brand new Pharaohe, here’s a few new-ish Pharaohe tracks I’ve been digging lately (the last track is from ’07 but I hadn’t heard it until a week ago.)

Download: Pharaohe Monch – Broken Heart

                       Erykah Badu – The Healer (rmx ft.Pharaohe Monch)

                      King Reign  – One More Time (ft.Pharaohe Monch)