Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Is All City Chess Club going to stick around?


The All City Chess Club is a collective of diverse/talented lyricists formed by Lupe Fiasco. It includes The Cool Kids, Charles Hamilton B.o.B, Diggy Simmons, Wale, Blu and Asher Roth. The first song all of these artists have done together is the remix to Lupe Fiasco's single Im Beamin'.
Many are salivating at the potential impact this "supergroup" can have on the hip hop game. The only uncertainty is whether or not these mc's are actually banning together to make more than one song. If we refer to the trends of history, we see that large groups of talented rappers have a hard time getting and staying together. Recent history in particular presents evidence to discourage any real hope of these rappers producing a lot of music together.
A few years ago the hip hop community was excited to hear rumors of Kanye West, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco forming a group called Child Rebel Soldiers or CRS. A song called US Placers made its rounds on the internet and even had a music video produced to compliment the song. They also collaborated along with Pusha T for the remix to N.E.R.D's party jam "Everybody Nose". Besides the aforementioned songs these three artists did not make anything else as a trio; they never made an album, mixtape or EP.
"Chess Club" definitely has an undeniable amount of talent and artistic vision but they are young upcoming artists whose schedules may deter them from dedicating time to collaborating together. B.o.B and Wale both finished making performance rounds on all of the popular late night talk shows promoting their latest singles. Every single one of these artists may at one point take part in country or even worldwide tours and if that happens it will overtake this union of rappers on the priority list.
*Most intriguing player on this roster is Diggy Simmons. He is just so young.

 

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