9th Wonder and Pete Rock are gearing up to drop a brand new music offering with The Musalini.
On Monday (May 15), the Jamla Records artist went to Instagram and announced his new single titled “Carmel City 2” featuring Pete Rock. Production for the single was handled by 9th Wonder.
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“MU$ x PETE ROCK x 9TH WONDER …,” The Musalini said. “Back in the days I use to go on youtube and download Pete Rock beats to rap on now my next single features @realpeterock [Face palm emoji] @9thwonder is a musical genius how he flipped this record is ridiculous Hip Hop at its Finest. Artwork created by the God @hueyp_art “Carmel City 2” coming soon The Don & Eye [Goat emoji] JAMLA RECORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The Musalini borrowed the song title for the record and cover art from Pete Rock and C.L .Smooth, who released their single “Carmel City”off their second album The Main Ingredient in 1994.
9th and The Musalini have partnered on many tracks over the years, and most recently collaborated on 2022’s The Don and Eye.
In related news, 9th Wonder recently broke down the three beat changes on Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 track DUCKWORTH. off his record-breaking 2017 album DAMN.
“The first beat I made was for Game because he said he was working on The Documentary 2,” 9th began. “The second and third beat, I made for Common. But he didn’t take those either. Kendrick took those three random ass beats and made them into one song. So he sent it to me. He sent me this session. He said, ‘I don’t want nobody else touching your drums, I don’t want nobody else touching your samples. I want you to mix the record.’ ”
He continued: “So he sent it to me. Ya’ll. The first time I heard that record from top to bottom, I was blown the fuck away. Because at the time, Dave said, ‘Man, I need the sample information for two samples for two beats.’ Then he called me back and said, ‘Now I need it for three.’ Now, I’m thinking, ‘Shit, I’m on the album three times?’ So I called him back and said ‘Wait a minute man, I’m on this album three times?’ He said, ‘No, no, no. You on there once.’ Like what? Why do you need three different samples? He said, ‘Because the beat change three times.’ He said, ‘9th when you hear it, it’s the most incredible shit.’ ”
“I don’t take none of this shit for granted. And to say I got one of the best Kendrick Lamar songs of all time is crazy to me. But, that’s Duckworth. That’s Duckworth.”
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The Chocolate Boy Wunda had few words of wisdom to offer and instead opted to criticize the direction producers have taken, in which they are flipping more recent tracks — many of which were already hits to begin with.
“They are resampling rap and r&b records that was made only 3-4 years ago [crying laughing face emoji] no diggin for the hits they sampling what was already a hit recently lol [shrug emoji],” he wrote via Twitter.
