Rolling Stone article, April 18th 2016

Strange Music CEO Tech N9ne has revealed his plan to drop his eleventh solo studio album, The Storm, on September 9. Taking to Instagram, the independent powerhouse posted a photo with this caption: “I don’t fit the part for mainstream cause I’m rougher only time they wanna look like me is Halloween muthaf*cka! ( I GET IT NOW) THE STORM, 9/9/16.”

he released three songs from the album a few hours ago.

check out this official youtube playlist with all three songs and a short introduction

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKoILF7azzD1RNYupdwa57vyWsKnIHdK

The only one I kinda liked was I Get It Now and even then the feeling was mixed. (Meh...I get it...heh) Him calling himself a wicked clown seemed a little...bitey to me and him talking about wicked shit made me want to listen to real wicked shit; aka- someone other than the dude that raps with Two Chains. 

Dunno if that means that he's doin what he always did and my music taste has changed OR he's changed and doesn't have the same hunger he use to have ("Not hungry like you was. In fact you even said 'fuck food'" -Q Strange). 

Any more active fans of him care to chime in and give their thoughts on the tracks Strange dropped?

Erbody but me was boring to me. The beat didn't have enough to it.

I Get It Now was just as boring to me when I first listened to it. It eventually grew on me after a few listens and became my jam. Reminds me of an Absolute Power Tech with signature Seven orchestra production.

What If It Was Me was dope. Really reminded me of Anghellic too.

Seems a lot like Tech is going through a midlife crisis or something, he is bringing up his past a lot. I predict this album will have a lot of nostalgia in it with him bringing back the skull paint and the jumpsuit. What if this is his last album?

CellE2057 said
The only one I kinda liked was I Get It Now and even then the feeling was mixed. (Meh...I get it...heh) Him calling himself a wicked clown seemed a little...bitey to me and him talking about wicked shit made me want to listen to real wicked shit; aka- someone other than the dude that raps with Two Chains. 

Dunno if that means that he's doin what he always did and my music taste has changed OR he's changed and doesn't have the same hunger he use to have ("Not hungry like you was. In fact you even said 'fuck food'" -Q Strange). 

Any more active fans of him care to chime in and give their thoughts on the tracks Strange dropped?  

I'm like 50/50 with him these days. I loved the track what if it was me. Usually he'll have some dope tracks on an album and then some tracks I don't feel. 

The wicked clown shit is old hat to him. When he was in high school he had drawn up sketches of him as a demonic clown because there was an urban legend in his hood of some clown dude killing people gacy style and he wanted to be scary. When he became a rapper he said every time he had an idea for anything, he would be strolling through a music store and he'd see a tape or cd by ICP that already did it and it made him made lol.

I do agree that he doesn't seem as "hungry" anymore, but that's probably mostly just because he's getting old and comfortable. I'm OK with that. I wish he would change his shit up more and do something different, I always feel like his shit is super predictable. 

I think it's really funny when he is like man i'm so evil look at all these chicks i fuck and all the alcohol i drink i'm so hard and evil and scary cuz i fuck so many girls man

If you have Ghost you have everything

agree with rob...tech for me has always been hit n miss...i love his dark shit and dont like much of his mainstream party/fuck tunes...Tech is very predictable ...I thought i get it now is great track...the others might grow on me more  but right now not feelin it much.

deathmetaljuggalo said
you guys should check out this sweet tech n9ne mask i found at the dollar store. 

  

Your dollar store is clearly a 5.99 store sir.

OCJ_Brendan said

Your dollar store is clearly a 5.99 store sir.  

You ever been to a dollar store that actually sticks to its name? They are really just cheap shit stores, but cheap shit store don't sound as good as dollar store.