Out Da Hood Available today!

Single and promotional poster artwork for the new Opium Black single on Full Eclipse/ IMG Recordings/ Bungalo/ Universal Records.

The catchy inspirational anthem Out Da Hood is produced by St Louis hitmakers Basement Beats (St Lunatics, Nelly, Diddy, Murphy Lee) with over 30 million records sold and features fast rising R&B quintet Ahmir. Please review previous post, The Blitz Cometh.

It's been a long haul for Opium especially in the last two years to get to this point. The Age of Opium is only getting started and you know where it's going....to the top!

Available on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Jamster and other music download services starting today. We thank you for your continued support.

Heist Radio Vol. 1 Mixtape download

Gotta loaf stuffed in the oven, two on the way,

married to the streets and my money two wedding cakes,

Robert Downey couldn't do these drugs, louie pill

put a hole in your brain like cd plugs

-Better Get Your Gun Freestyle

The long awaited mixtape barrage begins!

Heist Radio Vol.1 features remixes and freestyles over instrumentals that have impacted radio over the last few months.  Notable selections include a flip of Ryan Leslie's She's Got Something, mixshow favorite Bracelet over Gucci Mane's hit Wasted, Death of Rappa Boi, Hammer Bang over Drake's Forever (shout out to Tulsa, OK and Wilmington, DE for showing this love), and The Fear of Opium, over  DJ Green Lantern's ominous production that originally featured one Nasir Jones. If you don't download the mixtape for any other reason, download it for that one freestyle. Some of the best hardbody spitting of 2009, bar none.

Also kudos go to DJ Infidel for the stylish packaging of the mixtape (seriously folks, he can make your mixtape sound 10x better) and the guests on the mixtape: J.Gomes (Waterbury, CT representer and brother of Minnesota Timberwolves Forward Ryan Gomes), Drizz and fresh New Haven, CT talent Mack Million.

The mixtape has already been in the streets since last week. Shout out to the Heist Street Team putting in work at Hot 93.7's annual Jingle Jam concert. Even E. Joox and Snipes made it down to Hartford from New York last weekend to help promote.

Download Heist Radio Vol. 1

 Pain & Discipline, the other mixtape is also on deck. We will give it it's own entry so check back! 

The Blitz Cometh

Full Eclipse/IMG/Bungalo/Universal Records are proud to announce the arrival of Opium Black's national debut single Out Da Hood, available on itunes and other music download services late, 2009.

Out Da hood is produced by the St Louis production team Basement Beats responsible for 30 million records sold, many of them with Derrty Ent artists, Nelly and Murphy Lee among others. The Grammy Award winning team has delivered hits such as Over and Over Again and  Shake your Tailfeather.

It also features R&B group Ahmir, dubbed "The most popular R&B group on youtube." They were featured in Billboard Magazine, who termed them as "They're next" in the write up. Critical buzz was accompanied by the group making it into the top 35 in NBC's nationally televised summer talent extravaganza, America's Got Talent.

The early summer 2009 mixtape Halfway Home still continues to gain interest, but appetites should be whetted in a major way by the release of Pain & Discipline Vol. 1, a new mixtape featuring all new music in late November. Artwork will be released soon for all forthcoming releases.

Download Halfway Home

There have been a slew of Opium Black freestyles and remixes released over the last month and we salute all the DJs nationwide giving them burn in their mixshows. We shall start doing weekly shout outs to all the stations giving Opium Black their support.

He's home and ready to take over. Here are some new remixes to set things off!

Opium Black - Becky Freestyle (dirty). Radio link

Rihanna ft Opium Black - Russian Roulette Remix (radio)