Daily Archives: June 20th, 2008

The long awaited album by Skillz – The Million Dollar backpack will drop – July 22nd. This is HIP HOP.

Tracklisting:

01. Million Dollar Backpack (Intro)
02. Where I Been
03. Don’t Act Like You Don’t Know (Featuring Freeway)
04. So Far So Good (Featuring Common & Talib Kweli)
05. Sick
06. (For Real) He Don’t Own Me
07. My Phone
08. Yeah Ya Know It
09. Hold Tight (Featuring The Roots)
10. Crazy World
11. I’m Gon Make It
12. Be Alright
13. Hip Hop Died
14. Preaching To The Choir

EVACUATION NOTICE TO BE RELEASED ON JULY 22, 2008 AND FEATURES LIL KEKE, PAUL WALL, SLIM THUG, Z-RO, TRAE, BIG MOE AND BUN B

(June 19, 2008) – New York, NY – KOCH Records is happy to announce the addition of yet another Houston legend to its burgeoning hip-hop roster. Houston rapper Big Pokey will release his new album, Evacuation Notice, on KOCH Records on July 22nd, 2008. The album features Lil Keke, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Trae, Big Moe and Bun B.  Evacuation Notice is the prequel to Pokey’s next KOCH Records release, Hurricane Sensei, due later this year.

Pokey’s new single “Boss Hogg on Candy” features Slim Thug and is impacting now at radio.  The single can be heard at: http://kochent.edgeboss.net/download/kochent/radiohits/01_boss_hogg_on_candy_clean_1.mp3.

Big Pokey hooked up with DJ Screw in the early ’90s and started dropping rhymes on the DJ’s many mixtapes. His first full-length album, Hardest Pit in the Litter, appeared in late 1999 and ended up being one of the better underground hip hop albums to come out of the South that year. Big Pokey returned a year later with D-Game 2000, another album of mid-tempo 808-driven beats featuring several of his Houston peers as guests. In 2001 he collaborated with the Wreckshop Wolfpack for Tha Collabo.

Pokey has recorded with a who’s-who of southern rap icons including Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Big Hawk, Big Moe, Lil’ Flip, Lil’ Keke, and Chamillionaire. In 2005, he was featured on “Sittin’ Sidewayz” by Paul Wall which reached #93 on Billboard Top 100.

For more info on Big Pokey go to:

www.myspace.com/sucbigpokey or www.kochrecords.com