Grammy-winning singer Evelyn "Champagne" King’s story reads like one of those rags-to-riches Hollywood fables. Discovered singing while cleaning the offices of Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International Records headquarters, she went on to stardom, riding the disco smash "Shame" all the way to the top. There were subsequent hits of course, but OPEN BOOK is her first album in quite a few years. Watch out for the remix of her new dance single "The Dance"! It has been remixed courtesy of the UK’s Soul Seekerz.

With San Francisco as Ground Zero, Charlie’s wickedly proficient bone-crushing rhymes take aim with nineteen blazing tracks that will make weaker MCs run for cover. Prior to this mission, Charlie was dropping explosive joints on Bay Area compilation albums. But now, Charles Williams aka Charlie Manhattan steps out into the solo spotlight.

Charlie’s home turf of the Bay View Hunters Point sections of San Francisco is the backdrop for Charlie’s rhymes. Charlie says "Gang violence, drugs - pretty much everything has influenced me. I'm a really a down to earth person, I’m not segregating myself off to one section of the city or a region of Cali, or one part of anything..."

Producers on this explosive project are Laid Black Productions, (Mr. Laid and Chill Black), Slo Burn of BAISS Entertainment and L7, a hot new female producer. Featured guests include the bay area’s Pho Balo, R&B Singer Omari Jelani, Calita Talley, and "Lil Brah" (Charlie's younger brother).

The first single is a remake of The Deele’s old school classic, "Two Occasions" which also includes samples of the original.

Charlie has already played a number of live shows. He points out, "I’ve done a lot of competitions with my camp. I remember a show we did with Mac Dre that was huge, about a year and a half ago. It was real shocking when he died. He was part of the Bay Area music scene, contributing for so long. The reaction to his death really showed how important the Bay Area is to people in hip hop. It was far and wide, which meant a lot to us."

"Esbee" was born Julian D. Blackmon in Marion, Indiana, and raised by a single mother who instilled in him a love of Gospel Jazz, Blues and R&B. While living in San Francisco’s bay area, and with the help and support of his older brothers Rob ‘B’, Cougnut and Baldhead Rick, Esbee decided to pursue his own music career, forming group U.N.L.V and being featured in over 200 underground CD compilations.
Growing Pains in his first solo CD.

Hostility takes a no-nonsense approach to aggressive, adrenaline-driven metal. Imagine having a root canal performed without Novocain, all the while strapped to the front-end of a speeding train, and you’ll get an idea of Hostility’s level of music. Their debut album was produced by Colin Richardson (Slipknot, etc.) and we think it’s the best rock album of the year. No accordions, no strings, no ballads, and true to its name, their debut release Uncompromised, has no "clean" or "edited" version on sale at Wal Mart. Lock up the kids and pets and Catch Hostility on tour this fall.

Rudy Ray Moore is to black comedy what a Hemi is to Mopar. That is, when it comes to being raw and rude, he was doing it way before Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and the rest. The Best of Rudy Ray Moore & Friends is a collection of his greatest skits, plus it contains long out-of-print performances from other comedians in his stable from back in tha day, like Billie McAllister, Lady Reed, and Jerry Walker. The iconic Moore, who is known as "Dolemite" and "The Godfather of Rap", has appeared in several of his own feature films, and has served as an inspiration to a slew of hip-hop and rap artists, including the late Eazy-E, Ice-T and Snoop Dogg (who enlisted Moore as guest in his 1994 music video for "Doggy Dogg World.") Snoop has stated, "Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg. And that’s for real."