Here’s something we did not expect, but welcome with open arms. Nothing wrong with Public Enemy samples.

From The Wonder Years, hitting Sept. 27th.

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From 9th Wonder’s IWWMG / JAMLA Records imprint, taken from the L.R.G. Presents “Robin Hood Re” project. Produced by Eric G, Directed by Kenneth Price.
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New ish from IWWMG artist Big Remo. Produced by 9th Wonder with the video being directed by Kenneth Price.

New flavor from 9th Wonder and L-R-G, as Big Remo takes a hold of this new release.

9th Wonder Presents Big Remo – “Robin Hood Ree” (Mixtape)

9th Wonder protege’ Big Remo drops the video for “Slumdog”. Check it out.

From Big Remo’s Entrapment, available now. Produced by 9th Wonder, directed by Kenneth Price.

Big Remo’s Entrapment is presented by 9th Wonder, but it is not one of the 9th’s collaboration albums, such as the ones he’s done with MURS, Buckshot and Jean Grae. Still, the production has a familiar laid back feel, and Remo, a Winston-Salem, N.C. native like 9th, has the smooth, relaxed flow to match.

Surprisingly, the few tracks produced by 9th (“The Game,” “Woop Woop,” “Wonderbread” and “Go Ladies”) aren’t the album’s highlights. Meanwhile, “What It Takes” produced by Khrysis is peppered with just the right amount of muted horn bursts, as Remo gets on his grind (“when the going got tough, I went and got hard”), establishing himself as a working man’s, no nonsense crime rapper. He invokes the Notorious B.I.G. on “Don’t Matter (Over There)” when he steps into an AMP produced scratched up track spitting, “It was all a dream/mad AKs and magazines/shit was hectic, salt and pepper, man I could feel the heat/I heard scriptures from my mom/Psalm 26, wifey sick, but she gotta hold on, damn.”

Remo is at his best when he’s giving us these reality-tinged life in streets nuggets–staying up all night, ducking police, people running up on his mom’s house. There’s some corny stuff conceptually, though, with songs like “Wonderbread” and “Girls Most Wanted.” Hooks aren’t Remo’s specialty and the “Woop Woop” refrain of “hop out of the car, woop woop, stand back” is particularly annoying. Is this really a chorus about the sound your car makes after you lock it? Woop woop? Errr…

“Entrapment” and “What Is Your Name” get back to Remo’s bread and butter, as the latter finds him telling tales of women in trouble: “So you had another child/your mom’s kicked you out/And you don’t wanna live with your father cause he shouts/and screams when he drink/he become a little freak/tried to rape you and beat you like a woman in the streets.”

One gripe that needs to be brought up with the production here is the continued use of sped up soul samples. Ka$h does it here on “Without You,” 9th does it on “Go Ladies” and “Wonderbread,” you can hear it in the backdrop of “Serenity” produced by Eric G. Give it a rest. It’s like auto-tune. Stop throwing it on everything.

Otherwise, it’s not a bad debut solo effort from Remo–he has some command of the form and a realistic perspective. It’s also good to see the North Carolina hip hop scene continue to produce. But Remo can do himself a favor by trimming some of this fat, maybe bringing someone in to write better hooks and laying off the dusty old samples.

Remo and 9th deliver the first single from Entrapment, due out in stores September 28th.

Grammy award winning producer 9th Wonder is set to release 9th Wonder Presents: Big Remo Entrapment on September 28th. The release is the first from 9th’s newly launched It’s A Wonderful World Music Group/Jamla.

With a history for introducing new MC’s to the world, 9th explains Big Remo’s sound, and what fans can expect from the North Carolina MC and his debut album.

“Entrapment is a play on words, running from the “trap”. Big Remo embodies that and has his own view of the South. His point of view is somebody who has lived a certain lifestyle, and is trying to make a way to get out of that lifestyle, while still reflecting on it. As you get closer to the end of the album, you can can start to see the change that I’m talking about,” says 9th Wonder. “Even with change there is a gradual process, which the soundscapes he chooses gives him the chance to show that process. Truth be told, there are a lot of cats like him who live in the south, Big Remo is their voice….. enter “Entrapment.”

LISTEN: Big Remo ft. David Banner “Wonderbread” (Produced by 9th Wonder)

Big Remo ft. David Banner “Wonderbread” (Produced by 9th Wonder) (MP3)

9th Wonder gets on the track with protege’ Big Remo for this single from Remo’s forthcoming 9th Wonder Presents: Big Remo:Entrapment.

A few mini documentaries here with 9th Wonder as he introduces his new label, It’s A Wonderful World Music Group (IWWMG). 9th also introduces us to his protegees’;Rapsody, Big Remo and Actual Proof below.

Another new track unleashed from 9thmatic (9th Wonder). This time it is from his protege Big Remo as he readies his release of a mixtape entitled Entrapment. Production from M-Phazes on this one.

LISTEN: Big Remo + 9thmatic – “Go”

Video action from 9th and Banner’s forthcoming Death Of A Popstar LP….

9th has been pretty prolific lately, unleashing new joints left and right. Today, we get a new song from his collaborative LP with David Banner, Death Of A Pop Star. Here, Banner and NC’s Big Remo discuss more important topics, as David Banner laments that he wants to music from the south to more than just ass and titties. But he loves ass and titties. Don’t we all?

David Banner + 9th Wonder + Big Remo – “Strange” (MP3)