Here's more music from newly emancipated John Forte, this time with the help of my favorite BK MC and a Kanye beat. I'm rather impressed by the amount of activity we've seen from Forte already -- it's damn near more than we've seen from Dr. Dre in the last 8 years.  Two additional observations:   1. It's nice to see an mc (Talib) with a pen and a pad in the studio again. While improvisiation is an admirable skill, there's nothing wrong with taking the time to jot thoughts down and -- gasp! -- revising before you get in the booth and say some dumb shit (I'm lookin at you, Lil Wayne).   2. Doesn't John Forte kinda sound like Read More

  I told y'all back in November, famed Fugees producer, John Forte, would head straight to the studio after he was released from prison (and visited his mom and PO). Dude needs to get to working on some music that might help him pay back all the musicians and senators that pulled strings to get his sentence commuted by the Bush last November. Damn. That… Read More

Yesterday the White House released a list of 16 people whose convictions would be commuted or pardoned by President Bush.  One of those names includes The Fugee affiliated and Grammy nominated producer John Forte, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2001 for transporting over a million dollars worth of liquid cocaine.  

  Considering the Bush's… Read More