Video: ESSO & Woody Discuss Off The Wall
I’ll let the homie ESSO tell it:
This is one of the hardest things that I’ve ever had to do in my career. I was scheduled to announce this project on Wednesday of this week, but in light of Michael’s passing on Thursday Woody & I feel like the world needs to know what we’ve been working on for the last few months and why this has been so hard for me to deal with. I’ve been recording my own version of MJ’s Off The Wall album for the last few months now in honor of it’s 30th Anniversary which is on August 10th, and will release it 30 years to the day his original album came out. We were working on this project long before his passing, and will not change the date to even 1 day earlier given the signifigance of August 10th.
Here’s their first single: ESSO – Don’t Stop (Produced by Woody) [via]
Related: Rest in Peace Michael Jackson, Long Live The King Of Pop
Hit the jump to see the front and back covers for the project.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
what a coincidence
June 29th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Woodys [II] nice wit the production, shud b good
June 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
*takes sweater off and folds over shoulders and ties in front*
June 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
it was crazy. Esso was in my office playing me his completed version of “Off the Wall” THE DAY BEFORE MJ passed. it was surreal.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Farouq (ya thats my government) aka Nah’s Ving Rames in Baby Boy Says:
June 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
what a coincidence
^ Let the digging commence.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
who?
June 29th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Rob getcho’ ass back over to XXL!
June 29th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
This leak is pretty dope. I think it’ll be a great tribute
June 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
hahaha Yo TheCo!!inB:
you aint know i was a Nahright stan. Im on here like 10 times a day.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
No disrespect to ESSO and Woody, but who doesn’t see a fucking deluge of M.J. Tribute Tapes on the way?
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
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