/index/10
Little Brother

Little Brother, an American hip hop group from North Carolina that consists of Phonte, Rapper Big Pooh, and Producer 9th Wonder. 9th Wonder was a part of the group since its inception, but left before recording the album Getback. Their debut album The Listening (2003) was highly acclaimed, and was followed by The Chitlin Circuit 1.5 mixtape in 2005 and the group's second album, The Minstrel Show, also released in 2005 and received a "XL" from XXL magazine and 4.5 Mics from The Source.
Phonte explained the origins of his group's name: "Tribe, De La, P.E....were like our big brothers in the game so now we are the little brothers of that movement...carrying on the tradition of good music."

Little Brother formed in Durham, NC at North Carolina Central University in 1998. The group began as a trio, featuring members Phonte (Phonte Coleman), Big Pooh (Thomas Jones), and producer 9th Wonder (Pat Douthit). They are founding members of the North Carolina hip hop collective called The Justus League, under the umbrella music group The Hall of Justus.
Their official debut came in August 2001 with their first recording, "Speed". They continued to work the local scene and were picked up by ABB Records. In 2002, they released the cult hit 7" single Atari 2600, with lyrics centering around video games. In 2003, the group released their first full length album, The Listening. This record boosted the group to higher acclaim, but national recognition came when Jay-Z tapped 9th Wonder for the song "Threat", off of his eighth studio album The Black Album.

Outside of the group, Phonte collaborated with producer Nicolay as the Foreign Exchange, on Connected. Rapper Big Pooh released a solo album entitled Sleepers. 9th Wonder has produced songs for major artists like Jay-Z, De La Soul and Destiny's Child, as well as underground artists such as Sean Price, Hieroglyphics, Splash, and fellow members of The Justus League.

In addition, 9th has produced whole albums for Jean Grae (Jeanius), MURS (Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition), Buckshot (Chemistry) and a remix album of Nas' God's Son entitled God's Stepson. In this way he has helped to facilitate the return of albums done entirely by one MC and one producer, which have seen something of a resurgence (RJD2 and Aceyalone's Magnificent City, the upcoming DJ Premier and Royce da 5'9" joint album). He is also working on a second Buckshot/9th album, to be called The Formula.

On October 23, 2007 Little Brother released "Getback," the long awaited follow-up to the Minstrel Show. With no major video or radio airplay, Getback moved about 9,600 copies during its first week in stores and will land at No. 89 on the Billboard 200 charts. Little Brother is currently working on becoming completely independent artists and putting out records on their own. Big Pooh is quoted as telling L.A. Record in a April 2008 interview that "For the next record, we definitely want ownership—the first record we’ll have 100% ownership of."
After releasing "Getback" Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh decided to officially release their 2007 mixtape "...and Justus For All" This time it will be released through Hall Of Justus and they will have 100% ownership of the project.

Phonte and Big Pooh are scheduled to release about 5 albums in 2008 but only one as "Little Brother" (And Justus For All). Phonte Plans to release the follow-up to his album with Nicolay as "The Foreign Exchange" titled "Leave It All Behind". Phonte then plans to release an album of 80's covers with Detroit Producer Zo! Titled "Zo! & Tigallo Love The 80's".
Rapper Big Pooh is planning his second solo album "Dirty Pretty Things" due in fall 2008. He is also planning a album with another Detroit based producer Young RJ with their collaboration "The Recipe". Then, Big Pooh is planning a mixtape with DJ Mick Boogie in promotion of "Dirty Pretty Things". The mixtape is still untitiled but Pooh held a contest on his myspace page for his fans to name the project. Then he plans to record an album with Virginia producer Nottz Called "Home Sweet Home" sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.

Login form

Statistics

Search


[ Full Size ]

Worth a visit

ads ads ads ads ads ads