That Realness Is Now Closed!!!

For the past decade MarQ Spekt has been underground hip-hop's Bobby Fischer. Popping up on tracks and ripping them to shreds before melting back into the night. Half-myth, half-legend, Spekt has somehow been a part of every significant movement in the east-coast underground for ten years, without ever fully emerging from the shadows. Originally signed to Subverse with MF DOOM and The Micronauts, his 2001 Liquid Smoke b/w Shoplifter 12" is an Ebay classic. Add to that his blazing cameos on Big Jus' [Company Flow] albums, the Broady Champs group album that dropped on Day by Day Entertainment at the height of their success, and his never-officially-released Pretty Weapons solo album, and you have the makings of an underground legend. In 2008, Spekt stepped out of the shadows and teamed up with prolific NYC fixture, Karniege, as the Invizzibl Men. The result was a futuristic banger of an album, The Unveiling, that sported guest spots from Cannibal OX, C-Rayz Walz and Billy Woods, amongst others.

Now Backwoodz Studioz is proud to present Guilty Party, a brand new collaborative project with MarQ Spekt and producer Lex Boogie From the Bronx. One producer, one MC; Guilty Party is a stylistic return to the gritty mid-nineties basement sessions that Spekt hones his craft in. It's a return to lo-fi, extra filthy samples and hard-as-granite lyrics. Spekt is an Mc's MC, but on this project he expanded his palette by co-producing beats with Lex Boogie as the two came to boil down the essence that is Spekt.

MarQ put it best saying "This free album is a dedication to raw hiphop coming from the heart. No million dollar studio tricks or Autotune, or even big name collaborations. This is just sky diving with the pen."

01. GUILTYLUDE1
02. Guilt Scott
03. The Shine
04. BangLadesh
05. BOBBY WO
06. Dusk feat. H-PONE aka NYCE aka Black Assailant
07. Homicide Written feat. Akil Nuru & Karniege
08. GUILTYLUDE1.5
09. Jetlag
10. Guttersniping feat. Lex Boogie
11. GUILTYLUDE2
12. Dissident Factions
13. Unborn feat. QUDRAT (Messiah & Point God)
14. GUILTYLUDE3
15. DIRTYDRUMS BIRTHDAY PARTY feat. Buddy Leroy & Ozy Reigns
16. Black Soul
17. out

The covers are finally coming off The Unveiling, the debut LP from Marq Spekt and Karniege as the Invizzibl Men. The result is a ferociously hard rap record bristling with gunmetal beats and lyrics still dripping spray-paint. The collaboration might be new but the duo has earned their stripes as solo artists; Karniege did a stint on the Definitive Jux roster, dropping the memorable ‘Make News’ 12”, toured the world with Vast Aire several times over and kept his name ringing in the underground by popping up on projects by everyone from DJ Ese to Dub L to the Reavers as well as forming Mighty Joseph with Vast Aire. MarQ Spekt ‘s lineage is equally storied if a little grimier; signed to the legendary Subverse Records alongside artists like MF DOOM and the Micranauts, prominently featured on all of Bigg Jus of Company Flow’s solo albums, the brain behind the streetwise Broady Champs’ ’05 debut… Spekt has already cemented his place in the underground pantheon without stepping out of the shadows, until now. Guests on The Unveiling include Cannibal Ox, C-Rayz Walz, billy woods (of Super Chron Flight Brothers), and the Broady Champs.

01. Introcutlery (The Warm Up)
02. Futurama
03. Zookeeper feat. Vordul Mega
04. HipHopPSA
05. 52 Lashings feat. Billy Woods
06. Jimmy Swagger
07. T-Rex feat. C-Rays Walz
08. Darkroom
09. Thin Air
10. Mighty Broady feat. Broady Champs & Vast Aire
11. Stories of a Ghost
12. Neon Mud
13. Ten Years Later feat. Akile Nuru & Access Immortal

Re-up for the sleepyheads!!!



"T-Rex" feat. C-Rayz Walz


"Jimmy Swagger"

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Return to Gotham. The five boroughs represented; precious few albums have been able to do so with authenticity. The Empire City redefined in sound and vision; still fewer records have been able to pull such a feat off. Except Postcards From The Third Rock goes deeper. On this album as it is in real life, New York City is a microcosm of planet Earth: an endless coil of movement along which dreams are crushed as matter-of-factly as they become true, and time is a primate fairytale, a molten pocket-watch in a Dali painting. LoDeck has been plying his trade steadily for the last decade via battles, cameos and a couple of albums that sent him into on-the-low cult status. But with Postcards From The Third Rock, he shifts the focus beyond his surroundings and trains a wide-lens camera on the big picture, rapping like a man who just woke up from a month-long out-of-body experience in the NYC subway system. And it's been a long time since we've heard an emcee and a produccer that compliment each other better than LoDeck and Omega One, who throws melodies that simultaneously manage to be psychedelic and really catchy over appallingly solid drumwork, giving Deck a platform on which he can pretty much go everywhere his stone heart desires, which he does, to the listening public's extreme enjoyment. Postcards From the Third Rock is 2008's official response to the phrase 'hip hop is dead.'

In the great tradition of Guru and DJ Premier, Aceyalone and RJD2, Madlib and MF DOOM, comes this collaborative effort between an MC and a top-notch producer. An escape from our contemporary urban world. A trip across the globe, from isolated Pacific islands and the streets of New York City, all the way to bars in Copenhagen. A collection of Earth Stories, both personal and global. Staring out the mundane windows of the 9-to-5 trap. Reflecting on past experiences over a vast landscape. A twisted vision of our decrepit planet, where a quiet moment can turn chaotic in an instant. Creating a new standard for intelligent hip hop, while bringing the multi-genre fan-bases of electronica and boom bap together.

1. Postcards From The Third Rock
2. No Rims
3. On A Path
4. A Day In The Triangle
5. Other Worlds (Interlude)
6. Wipe Out Zone
7. Nice Kids feat. Marq Spekt, Karneige & C-Rayz Walz
8. Understand U
9. New York (Interlude)
10. Shrimp
11. Still Cambodia feat. Jak Progresso
12. Maui
13. The Safari
14. Titanium feat. Invizzibl Men (Marq Spekt & Karneige)
15. Postcards From The Third Rock (Remix)