The 12 Days of Wu-Mas #2: 9th Prince - Prince of New York (March 14, 2008)

This Boxing Day, I invite you to join me in a discussion about the Killarmy member who was voted “Least Likely to Release a Solid Debut Album”, Terrance “9th Prince” Hamlin, whose sophomore project, Prince of New York, was released on two wildly different dates in 2008 by two different record labels: 9th’s own Armyourself Entertainment, and the actual known company Babygrande Recordings, which reissued it with additional tracks after it managed to pick up some traction underground.

No, seriously, look past 9th's strange attempt at recreating the album cover for Bobby Digital's Digi Snacks (also released in 2008, weirdly) and keep reading. It'll be worth it, I promise.

9th Prince - Granddaddy Flow (May 28, 2003)

Terrance Hamlin, perhaps best known as 9th Prince from the Wu-Tang Clan offshoot Killarmy, wasn't the most obvious choice for a solo artist.  He certainly wasn't the first, anyway: his coworker Dom Pachino had released underground solo efforts ever since Killarmy effectively disbanded following the release of their third album, Fear, Love & War, on September 11, 2001.  (The group's never-official "breakup" was the result of both poor sales and the fact that a military-themed rap crew wasn't the best outfit to market after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the resulting war afterward that we're still fucking in.)