J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League’s J.U.S.T.I.C.E. For All project and its LSS Catalog Classics Vol. 1 sound kit shocked Hip Hop on Monday morning (January 25). Colione, Rook and Barto used both products to promote the launch of their Luxury Sound Society brand which offers services ranging from music and apparel to live video chat sessions. The Florida-based production collective’s first compilation project, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. For All features unreleased material from frequent collaborator, Rick Ross as well as Future, Drake, Kevin Gates and even Lupe Fiasco. In this exclusive conversation with HipHopDX, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League discusses the surprise release of their first album, working with newer artists and their relationship with Rozay. Here are Colione and Rook in their own words.
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. For All’s Unexpected Release
“We had a lot of material over the past decade of us doing music. So, we never really put together a project before of our own and we’re heading into a new future of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League where we’re going to be playing with a lot of sounds. We wanted to do a project together to launch Luxury Sound Society and give the people work that they haven’t heard before. [We] wanted to put these two products together to do something new.” – Colione
Luxury Sound Society
“Luxury Sound Society is a company we started and it’s the future of sound. We built our career on making music and a lot of these sounds that we’ve collected, over these years of making music, [were] sitting there at our disposal. Right now, we’re putting together these libraries for everyone to use. It’s a good thing because we have so much material throughout the years that we’ve held on to. Now we’re going to be giving it away and releasing it. We’re making it available to everyone from the up-and-comers to everybody.
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“I think nobody has ever done this before. Nobody has ever released a sound kit with sounds from our catalog along with an album. Nobody knew we were going to drop a sound kit or album. I think the songs were good enough and sounds were great. We might as well have just dropped it” – Rook
Lupe Fiasco’s “No Problems” Intended For “Tetsuo & Youth”
“It’s pretty cool because, that track was originally supposed to be on Lupe’s last album [Tetsuo & Youth], but it didn’t quite make it. I guess the label failed to clear it with Future’s people. It got mixed and everything. We just decided to keep it for ourselves. It’s a dope song. I’ve never heard that sound. With Future and Lupe, people are reacting really well to it.” – Colione
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Creating Hip Hop, Pop & R&B
“We just like making good music. Our third placement ever was with Mary J. Blige and before that, Young Jeezy and Juelz Santana. We’re producers and musicians so we can flip flop between Hip Hop, r&b and pop if necessary and we do it well. It’s not like anything we do is awkward. Sometimes you have a different style of beats and it can get awkward as fuck. So we pride ourselves on being musicians and real music guys” – Rook
Working With EarthGang, Pell & Keke Palmer
“Whatever we did last year will be out this year. We’ve been working on the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. For All project since November including Keke Palmer, unreleased stuff with Rick Ross, Pell and EarthGang. We’re trying to spread things out a little bit and not go after the already established artists. Every three or so years, you see that shift in new blood. That’s one of the things we’re getting into now. We’re doing a lot of stuff with new people.” – Colione
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Relationship With Rick Ross
“Our sound clicks. There’s a certain sound over the years that have compatibility and it doesn’t come around all the time. When it comes to J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League and Rick Ross, it’s a blessing to be a part of that sound because it’s really popular. Seeing him come from back in Tallahassee around 2005 when he dropped Port of Miami, which was successful, he started working with us for his follow-up. Our music relationship started there and after that, it’s been nothing but respect and honor to work with each other.” – Rook
Making “Maybach Music”
“I say the ‘Maybach Music’ series is the most intricate work we’ve done in my opinion. We had live orchestras, horns and bunch of shit. For the first ‘Maybach Music,’ we did that naturally. It was just a natural thing was born. When we decided to do ‘Maybach Music II’ we had it outlined in our minds to outdo what we did before. We’re going to try to make something that outdoes what we did before, but different. That’s why the ‘Maybach Music’ series is on its own and our favorite because we steer away from the style that we’re doing while still making it Hip Hop. It’s about doing something we’ve never done before.” – Colione
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“Just the organizational aspect of creating them made it intricate. It wasn’t like creating music out of just doing it. It was more like we built everything from scratch—kind-of like building a car from scratch. We were scoring a film. When you step out of your comfort zone or someone else’s shadow, it works. If you listen to the music on the ‘Maybach’ series, they’re really dope. But, can you hear any other rapper on there. Big ups to Ross. He was always able to pick out different views on music. We play a lot of music for other artists that sound like ‘Maybach Music’ and they don’t know what to do with them. Somehow, Ross just gets it.” – Rook
