This is the first EP/Mixtape since Mothership Decatur (not including the mash up project with George Clinton). Cosmic Valentine is a comprehensive love album made for galactic lovers.
Stories of happiness, joy, pain and love.
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Aleon Craft’s “Cosmic Valentine” Album Release Party @ Apache Cafe (Feb 14th a.k.a Valentine’s Day)
23.01.2012
What a great way to come back to Atlanta. For the first time in 3+ months Craft will be performing in Atlanta at the Apache Cafe, to celebrate his new album release, Cosmic Valentin. DETAILS BELOW
Bout Dat Lyfe Concert Series Presents “Hip Hop Is My Valentine”
Valentine’s Day (Feb 14 2012) @ Apache Café (Doors open at 9 pm)
Benefit Concert/Cell Phone Drive for Women’s Resource Center To End Domestic Violence
….Aleon Craft’s “Cosmic Valentine” Album Release Party
Featuring Aleon Craft, Amante Da Prez, Preston Banks, Athena Renee, Nefertiti aka Neftunes, Stanza, Dukes of DaVille
Hosted by David Freeman Jr.
Music by Dj Majestik aka Skenny Kravitz
For more details about Women’s Resource Center To End Domestic Violence
Please come out and support a great night for a great cause!!!
Thanks to Jake and the good folks at HipHopDX for the love and support!
As he makes an authorized project with an Atlanta Rap veteran, Uncle George says that the lawsuits stemming from his music are not from him, and urges Lil Wayne that a phone-call could save him money.
George Clinton’s career is the stuff of novels; the stuff of biopics; the stuff of legends. From Doo-Wop and Motown to Parliament Funkadelic to P-Funk to Hip Hop (Techno coming soon), “Uncle George” has literally seen it all and breathed it all. Many artists make great songs. Clinton makes great genres. Half a century-in and the P-Funk All Star is still pushing the margins off the page and off the charts.
Aleon Craft grew up idolizing George Clinton. The Atlanta-native splashed in the mainstream early as part of Da Backwudz in the mid-2000s. Nearly five years later – sans record-label abandonment – he’s creating some of his freshest material and feeling better than ever about it. Taking a nod from his idol, he released Craft Singles in 2011 – an eight-track adventure through Craft’s own original genre, Solar-Hop.
In a sense, Aleon Craft and George Clinton teaming-up on Mothership: The Decatur Connection is a reunion of sorts. The two worked together on the Da Backwudz‘ Wood Work. But beyond the obvious, Craft and Clinton seem like kindred-spirits: two musical minds that only see the boundlessness of sound, separated by decades only.
HipHopDX spoke with Aleon Craft and George Clinton individually in this interview, discussing the origins of their collaboration, Clinton’s current legal battles over copyright issues and his memories of Afrika Bambaataa, Beyonce, Eminem, Dr. Dre when they were teenagers, and what surprises them both about Hip Hop.
Check out your boy on two tracks from Super Market Knife Attack 2011… DL at LiveMixtapes
1) Spodee – Who Run It (Prod. SMKA)
2) Freddie Gibbs ft. Juicy J – St8 Slammin (Prod. SMKA)
3) Aleon Craft ft. Tuki & Grip Plyaz – My Girlfriend (Prod. SMKA)
4) Young Scolla – Alive (Prod. SMKA)
5) Jarren Benton – Get a Load of Me (Prod. SMKA)
6) Fashawn ft. Phil Ade – Feelin Free (Prod. SMKA)
7) REi ft. Short Dawg – Feelin Some Kinda Way (Prod. SMKA)
8 ) Kid Daytona ft. Big Remo & Jarren Benton – No Lies on the Verses (Prod. SMKA)
9) STS ft. Tony Williams & Freddie Gibbs – Cloud of Endo (Prod. SMKA)
10) Voli – Righteous Remains (Prod. SMKA)
11) Jus Nice ft. Aleon Craft – Valedictorian (Prod. SMKA)
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Producers Paul Forrest and Justin Padron deserve a lot of credit for putting together this Mothership Mashup masterpiece. The took elements from Parliament’s catalong, my mixtape Mothership Decatur and new recordings from both me and George Clinton… and they went AbraHAMl Lincoln on it.
Below is the full sample list used on the project…
“Song” – Album
* = album rights owned by George Clinton
Ball of Confusion
“Maggot Brain” – One Nation Under a Groove*
“One Nation Under a Groove” – One Nation Under a Groove*
Copyright Trolls
“We Hurt Too” – America Eats Its Young
“I Bet You” – Funkadelic
“Philmore” – America Eats Its Young
“America Eats Its Young” – America Eats Its Young
“Flash Light” – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
“Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention)” – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
“Ball of Confusion” – Mothership Decatur
“Ghetto Soul” – Mothership Decatur
“Look Twice” – Mothership Decatur
Donkey Kong
“Hit It And Quit It” – Maggot Brain
Ghetto Soul
“Qualify And Satisfy” – Funkadelic
“Good Old Music” – Funkadelic
“What Is Soul” – Funkadelic
“(I Wanna) Testify” – (The Parliaments)
Make It Out
“We Hurt Too” – America Eats Its Young
“That Was My Girl” – America Eats Its Young
No Strings Attached
“Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication” – Mothership Connection
“Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples” – Mothership Connection
On The Air
“P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” – Mothership Connection
“Elevators (Me & You)” – ATLiens (Outkast)
Places to Fly
“I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody’s Got A Thing” – Funkadelic
“Mommy What’s a Funkadelic” – Funkadelic
Look Twice
“Wake Up” – America Eats Its Young
Yoga Flame
“Mothership Connection (Star Child)” – Mothership Connection
“Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)” – Mothership Connection
FINAL LEAK off Mothership: The Decatur Connection…landing on 12/20
Aleon Craft & George Clinton – “Places To Fly” by SMKA
Check out the track list and get ready to DL the project off LiveMixtapes HERE
Link to full article… the project is dropping nest week 12/20. #savefunk
Musical icon and flamboyant Funkadelic frontman George Clinton has been in a royal funk for over a decade now. That’s how long he’s been in litigation with his former publishing company Bridgeport Music, which owns the entire P-Funk catalog. Despite providing the DNA for hip-hop hits ranging from De La Soul’s “Me, Myself and I” to pretty much the entire West Coast sound constructed by Dr. Dre on a mountain of P-Funk samples, Clinton still hasn’t seen one red cent of his royalties. To raise awareness about his plight and underscore Clinton’s role as a musical forefather, local production crew SMKA and Decatur MC Aleon Craft have joined forces on Mothership: the Decatur Connection, a mixtape that mashes up songs from Craft’s Mothership Decatur album with a collage of P-Funk samples. It culminates in a megamix that’s equal parts party soundtrack and homage to the Granddaddy of Funk.
“People have been sampling Clinton for years and he’s not being done fairly,” Aleon Craft says over the phone from a studio in Los Angeles. “I idolize George, he’s a pioneer — a legend that’s still walking the earth and it’s wacky to think that he hasn’t seen a dime for all of his work that’s been sampled.”
Disc Jockey Nappy got his hands on some Craft vocals from Mothership Decatur and put together a THUGSTEP version… more to come soon!
Motherhip: The Decatur Connection w/ George Clinton (Dec 20th)!!!!
Aleon Craft – Yoga Flame (Disc Jockey Nappy vs. Crushington Thugstep Mix) by Disc Jockey Nappy
Check out my TOP 5 funkiest moments from George Clinton on Refined Hype (LINK)
“Most of us will never get the chance to work with our heroes, but for his upcoming album “Mothership: The Decatur Connection”, hip-hop/funk artist Aleon Craft has joined forces with funk legend George Clinton. Consisting both of original recordings from Craft and Clinton, along with blends, of Parliament Funkadelic’s catalog and Aleon’s “Mothership Decatur” album, “Mothership: The Decatur Connection” is due to drop on December 20.
In order to get the populace properly prepared, Aleon Craft offers up the Five Funkiest Moments from George Clinton that inspired him to pursue a life of musical funk. Enjoy, and for music and video from “Mothership: The Decatur Connection”, along with information on Clinton’s groundbreaking copyright lawsuit, click here.” – Redefined Hype
Check out my TOP 5 funkiest moments from George Clinton on Refined Hype (LINK)
Thanks to Frank151 for reaching out. Here is the LINK to Frank151
We all know funk and hiphop is the best father-son relationship music has ever seen, but this upcoming project between Aleon Craft and George Clinton will have the world of music lovers completely googily-eyed! As the project Mothership: The Decatur Connection is vastly approaching – December 20th to be exact – the ATLien of the duo Aleon Craft took some time out for a Frank Discussion:
My name is… Aleon Craft a.ka. Smash Smashington! We drop Smashes!
And you might know me because…I’m also apart of the rap duo Da BackWudz
The best thing about what I do is…Being able to do what I love. Blending and creating sounds.
And the worst part is…I’ll be doing this forever, but is that really a bad thing though?
The most addictive thing in my life right now is…Music. The music. I’m too far gone on it right now!
More people should know that…No one owes us anything. The things that we want out of life have to be obtained through hard work, focus, and prayer. Follow your dreams.
I always notice when…The rain is coming…
It’ll always be in style to…Create songs. Music is life.
But never…Be fake and/or arrogant.
Someone from the past who will never forget me is…Any female who has ever touched my beard…
Something I will never understand is…Why Da BackWudz haven’t released, Wood Shop, the second LP yet….
The best thing about Atlanta is…The music, food, and hospitality.
And when you come here, you should check out…Anywhere the music is and where the 808 babies hang out – Star Bar, The Flying Biscuit, Two Thumbs Up, East Atlanta Village, and Little Five Points.
You haven’t lived until…You’ve been a blessing to someone else…
If…I was born at Grady… everything would be different.
The best frank advice I ever got was…keep it moving
Here is the LINK to Frank151