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| by kenn on 5/17/2004 04:42:00 PM |
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****** M.O.P. ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES PRESS RELEASE ******
 M.O.P. SET TO "MASH OUT" WITH ROCK, RAP ON FIRST MAJOR U.S. TOUR IN 4 YEARS
"WEAPONS OF MIC DESTRUCTION" TOUR FEATURES PHAROAHE MONCH & SCRATCH,
FORMERLY OF THE ROOTS
MASH OUT POSSE ROCK ALBUM AND MARXMEN CINEMA MIXTAPE DUE IN MAY; GHETTO
WARFARE LP DUE OUT ON ROC-A-FELLA THIS SUMMER
BROWNSVILLE, NY - April 8, 2004 -M.O.P. has announced the schedule for the first leg of their "Weapon's Of Mic Destruction Tour" with the notorious wordsmith Pharoahe Monch and Scratch, formerly of The Roots.
The tour will kick off tomorrow at the Middle East in Boston, and will continue through the northeast and heading south and west, through the Carolinas, Texas, and on to California. Additional summer tour dates will be announced shortly.
It1s been a two-year hiatus since M.O.P. hit the road with Cam'ron, Freeway and the crew on Roc-A-Fella's 2002 "Paid In Full Tour," and going on for years since the group headlined a national club tour in support of it's last studio album Warriorz, but Brownsville's bravest haven't been sleepin'. After peppering the streets and mixtapes last summer with the banger "Put It In the Air (feat. Jay-Z)," the band has
been hard at work completing their highly-anticipated Roc-A-Fella debut Ghetto Warfare, which has now been slated for a late-summer release. To keep the streets satisfied until then, M.O.P. will drop a double-CD mixtape on May 11th; Marxmen Cinema and Marxmen Classics will feature new, unreleased, and classic material from M.O.P.
Following a recent string of raucous, sold-out New York gigs - including an acclaimed, exclusive introduction to M.O.P.'s rock side-project Mash Out Posse at the downtown hot-spot Joe's Pub - the duo went into the studio with musicians from the NYC band Shiner Massive to create The Mash Out Posse, a collection of blazing hard rock interpretations of M.O.P. classics like "Ante Up," "Downtown Swinga," "G Building," "Ground
Zero," "100%" and more. The Mash Out Posse LP is set for release on May 25th on the group1s own label, Family First. M.O.P.'s long-time producer, manager and "5th Beatle" Laze E. Laze puts it bluntly, "We're the first niggas to really get it right since Run DMC and Aerosmith."
The band will incorporate the both the rock element of Mash Out Posse and their own trademark brand of smashmouth, hardcore hip-hop into their hour-plus live set. Along with classics from their much-revered catalogue like "How About Some Hardcore," "4 Alarm Blaze" and "Cold As Ice," fans can expect brand-new material from the forthcoming Ghetto Warfare like "Put It In The Air," "Fire," "Fuck M.O.P.," and "All Of The Above."
Dates for the "Weapons Of Mic Destruction Tour" are still being confirmed, but the tour will be extensive, hitting every major and secondary market nationwide. M.O.P. is clearly up for the task. Says Fame, "I love the grind. I won1t change nothing that we did. A lot of niggas came and went but we still here. You can throw on any one of our records and love it today like you loved it when you first heard it."
5/13 - Boston, MA - Middle East
5/14 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
5/15 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
5/20 - Brooklyn , NY - Volume
5/21 - Philadelphia, PA - The TLA
5/22 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
5/23 - New York, NY - BB King
5/25 - Wilmington, NC - Marrz
5/26 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
5/27 - Asheville, NC - Stella Blue
5/28 - Charlotte, NC - Amos's South End
6/4 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
6/5 - Houston, TX - Engine Room
6/6 - Austin, TX - Stubbs
6/8 - Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre
6/9 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
6/10 - Scottsdale, (Tempe)AZ - The Venue at Scottsdale
6/11 - Anaheim, CA - Xalof Bar
6/12 - Los Angeles, CA - Q-Topia
6/13 - San Diego, CA - 4th and B
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