Pre-Order: http://www.rappersiknow.com/legendary

Yes, it’s really us. It’s really happening. We’re finally releasing Legendary! Not kidding – you can pre-order it right from this page. There’s artwork and everything. $30 for your choice of color vinyl, digital download, a 11″ x 17″ poster, and a sticker. There’s even a video already. So it’s real. Seems like it’s taken forever, right?

Pretty sure everyone wants to know what took so long. Well, there’s no clear cut answer for that. People have been on our case about a follow up to Universal since the week after it dropped. Obviously, we took the longest way back home. We jumped into about 3 world tours to promote the album. The ARE dropped Hustler’s Theme while Big Mon and Damien came with The Black Album. Then we teamed up with Kay of the Foundation for Ethos. Then The ARE started producing for Keyshia Cole, Lil Kim and LL Cool J, to name a few. Mon and D brought 48 Seasons to life, along with the internet-breaking “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”. The ARE kept producing for people that you know, then released his Here, My Dear album flip to show you that he still got it. Damien got his hands dirty working with H.I.S.D., Radio Galaxy, and Kashmere Don (aka D Rose). The latter even resulted in a collaboration called RandleRose.

Which brings us back to Legendary. At some point a couple of years ago, we slowed down time long enough to begin putting together the much long-awaited OG trio follow up to Universal. We believe it’s a worthy successor, even if it feels like we took forever to get here. The cover was custom crafted by the extremely talented Houston based mixed media artist and painter Santos Guerrero. We’re even offering the vinyl in 2 colors, because no buying decision should be that easy. Just get both. You were going to buy 2 anyway. Of course, the download is included in the price. You wanna keep the wax clean, right?

Anyhow, this is the official start of the journey towards Legendary. Thanks for rocking with us for nearly a quarter of a century – (counts fingers) – yeah, almost 25 years! Now, we have to tell you – the vinyl pressing plant told us to expect the records in about 15 weeks, which means that we anticipate them going out to you in January. We’ll definitely let you know when the vinyl is on its way from the plant, and will ship everything IMMEDIATELY upon receiving it.

Oh – and we’re not blowing smoke here – ORDER IT NOW! We’re only doing 300 pieces. And if recent history has taught us anything, it’s going to go FAST. Thanks in advance for supporting this project, and we sincerely hope that you enjoy it.

via RIK