Music is a rare form of art where we get to hear new works even after the artist’s death. Two years after Sean Price‘s death, the world will be presented with a new posthumous album from the Brooklyn spitter. Earlier this week, his label Duck Down tweeted out a video that announced the release date as August 8 for Imperius Rex.
The video shows a coin that magically comes back to life and starts spinning on a surface. You then hear Sean’s voice as he talks about the state of the rap game: “What do I love about rap? Me! You know, you really had to be saying something to say it well, when I first came in the game. Now they say anything, so I can tell these kids don’t have a lot of schooling, man. They sound like idiots. I’m nice. I don’t care what they say as long as they go yell it. Sean P go in. I can live with that.”
The title of the album might refer to a battle cry from a Marvel character Namor the Submariner. Although it doesn’t seem P has ever mentioned Namor in his lyrics, Ras Kass does name drop him on a song that Sean Price is featured on called “Impossible Dream.” That song comes off of Ras Kass and Apollo Brown’s Blasphemy album.
Since P’s death, we’ve slowly been treated to new material like the song “Definition of God,” collectible items like the Sean Price Silverback Gorilla Box Set and a music video for “Rap Professor.” His daughter has also helped keep his spirit alive by standing in for him and rapping his lyrics in the “Soul Perfect” video.
You can watch the video Duck Down posted today, below.
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Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:50 pm
by Rhyme 4 Rhyme
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:25 pm
by Employee
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:36 am
by clark bent
can someone school me on non monkey barz sean price
are any of mic tyson.....jesus price or imperius rex 1) even close to as good as MB and 2) worth getting....and when i say getting i mean like paying full price for the cd
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:44 pm
by Clean Hobo
clark bent wrote:can someone school me on non monkey barz sean price
are any of mic tyson.....jesus price or imperius rex 1) even close to as good as MB and 2) worth getting....and when i say getting i mean like paying full price for the cd
No. I’d download if I were you.
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:55 pm
by gusty wingers
Mb and Jesus price are definitely worth the purchase, anything else maybe not
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:04 pm
by drizzle
So apparently they started this album before Sean P died, and then it took years of drama to finish it. Some of the verses may have been mined for that Duck Down album. Supposedly it's meant to be the definitive Sean P posthumous album but who knows.... you can tell the producer padded some of this out with his friends who nobody else really cares to hear, so that dampens it right off the bat imo.
there's like an ep's worth of really solid Sean Price material here with good production, but it's padded with a bunch of rappers who either I didn't enjoy at all or they just don't sound good alongside him. not mad at it but doubt I will get much replay out of it beyond 1-2 standout tracks
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:57 pm
by gusty wingers
drizzle wrote:there's like an ep's worth of really solid Sean Price material here with good production, but it's padded with a bunch of rappers who either I didn't enjoy at all or they just don't sound good alongside him. not mad at it but doubt I will get much replay out of it beyond 1-2 standout tracks
Re: New Sean Price album August 8th
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:08 pm
by Beastly Swagger
Yea not sure I want to hear a bunch of random rappers polluting a SP soundscape.