Black Milk, Album Of The Year preview

Although an old clip this is the most in depth preview of Black Milk in the studio, first talking about the forthcoming Random Axe collaboration (Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Sean Price), then an album he's doing with  vocalist Melanie Rutherford called Searching for Sanity then his own highly anticipated Album Of The Year.  Simply seeing the young Curtis Cross move nimbly in his own studio is electrifying, some of the best footage comes at the end though when his live drummer Daru comes into the studio and they work out a dizzying live beat.

Black Milk first Album of the Year single - Welcome (Gotta Go)

The first single off of Black Milk`s long anticipated Album of the Year is now available for download.

Download Welcome (Gotta Go) here

Inside Black Milk's Basement Studio Part 2

Inside Black Milk's Basement Studio Part 2 

You see?... I don't got no... this is like the pre pre pre pre-startup you know what I'm saying there ain't nothing alot goin' on here but the record, the MP and the turntable. Cats probably think I got hundreds of thousands or records, it ain't really like that. I just got good records man, I be searchin' for them good records and shit

- Black Milk

Inside Black Milk's Basement Studio Part 1

Based on Milk's referencing of 'being about to sign his first big record deal' this video might be safely placed as somewhere between Sounds of the City, two Pharaohe Monche records, Lloyd Banks, T3's Oleo Mixtape and the release of his definitive Popular Demand. Given that he is also working on predominantly an MPC 2000 it's likely from that period.

He lays down a track from Slum Village's Detroit Deli album (the track is one with Dilla - then Jay Dee - called Reunion). You can watch that clip/video on it's own here.



he introduces the listener to his love of The Sylvers (of whom Milk says 'they're right up there with The Jackson Five man'. At 6:00 Cross discusses the passing of J Dilla and Proof and the pause for thought it caused him and all of Detroit, indeed the world.

I don't even fuck with jazz records man.
- Curtis Cross aka Black Milk