After over a year in delays, Akrobatik’s second album will finally see the light of day early next year. Absolute Value, the Boston rapper’s first solo endeavor since 2003’s Balance, and originally scheduled for release in the fall of 2006, drops February 19 on Fat Beats Records.
Guests on Absolute Value include Little Brother, B-Real, Chuck D., Bumpy Knuckles (a.k.a. Freddie Foxxx) and Mr. Lif, Akrobatik’s partner in the Perceptionists. Beat contributors include Illmind, 9th Wonder, the Beatminer, Perceptionists’ producer Fakts One, J-Zone and Hezekiah.
“Put Ya Stamp On It!”, a track featuring Talib Kweli and a beat by the late James “J-Dilla” Yancey, is currently posted on Akrobatik’s MySpace player. “I met Dilla once. It was in L.A. right around the time the Jaylib album dropped. I’m glad I got the opportunity to congratulate him and thank him for all the classics he’s dropped over the years with Tribe, Slum, De La, Common, Madlib, and countless others,” Akrobatik wrote in a MySpace blog post. “Big up to my man Carlos at Fat Beats for giving me access to one of my favorite Dilla beats ever for this song.”
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