In “Jewelz”, secondo album del 1997 di O.C., Freddie Foxxx (a.k.a Bumpy Knuckles) era già apparso come guest. Bumpy, rapper di Long Island compariva infatti nei pezzi “M.U.G.” e “Win the G.” entrambe prodotte da DJ Premier. 15 anni dopo Bumpy Knuckles ha annunciato in un’intervista della settimana scorsa per HipHopDX che al momento sta lavorando proprio assieme ad O.C. per un LP in collaborazione.
“Me and O.C. are working on an album together right now, that’s gonna be insane. Like after performing ‘M.U.G.’ with O.C. at my [The Kolexxxion] album release party [al New York City’s B.B. King’s] everybody knew it was evident, we had to do it. That’s the beauty of it, O.C. came into my studio recently and he said ‘Wow, what a powerful energy is in this room, Foxxx.’ He said, ‘Yo, I wanna do my [next] album here.’ He got a mixtape he wanted to do at my place. The conversation progressed to the duo planning to do something together.”
Bumpy Knuckles, la cui carriera è iniziata nel lontano 1986, è convinto che questa collaborazione potrebbe aggiungere un riconoscimento notevole alla sua già navigata carriera. “When you get the opportunity to work with O.C. and all of a sudden that magic just comes right back together, that’s the sign of a true artist. I’m not walking off of no assembly line saying, ‘I used to be a rapper,’ I’m not parking my taxi and jumping out—I’ve been doing Hip Hop since I started [and] I kept doing it. Yeah, we go through our financial ups and downs and all that but this is real art, man, we’re doing real art here. I’m like a painter, I’m not gonna stop painting just because I’m not selling paintings, that don’t mean I’m wanna stop painting I still have a desire to do it.”
