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Asher Roth is about to release his newest mixtape with some big names on it including Madlib, RZA, 9th Wonder, Kanye West, Jacke One, J. Dilla, Just Blaze, Will.I.Am., Ryan Leslie, Timbaland and The Neptunes on the tune ‘Public Garden‘. Don’t get me wrong but, this could be just a freestyle to a Neptunes produced track since it’s a mixtape and I have my doubts that Asher really has all those producers lined up to produce for him for the mixtape, but it could be one of the tunes they produced together since Asher said back in february that they did “A Couple Joints”, we shall see on March 23rd.

Asher Roth – Seared Foie Gras With Quince & Cranberry (2010) (March 23rd)
01 – Muddy Swim Trunks (Madlib)
02 – Toni Braxton feat. Boyder (RZA)
03 – Public Garden (The Neptunes)
04 – Vagitables (9th Wonder)
05 – Fuck The Money feat. B.O.B. (Kanye West)
06 – What Up Truck feat. Truck North (Jacke One)
07 – Trash Minutes (J. Dilla)
08 – Ash & Dem (Table For Four) (J. Dilla)
09 – Con-fid-ence (Kanye West)
10 – I’m Eddy (The Heatmakers)
11 – Rick Smiths (Just Blaze)
12 – Fuck Your Ringtone (J. Dilla)
13 – Hot Wangs (Will.I.Am.)
14 – Diamond Girl feat. (Ryan Leslie)
15 – Cumbaya feat. Boyder & Brain Bagley (Timbaland)
16 – Calling Me feat. Brain Bangley (Younglord)
17 – Hellafaded feat. Pac Div (Chad Hamilton)
18 – Sour Patch Kids feat. Talib Kweli & Blu (Travis Barker Remix)

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Two Years ago (July 22nd 2008) David Banner confirmed on sohh.com that The Neptunes have been working with Quincy Jones for his Remix album “Legendary producer Quincy Jones has employed The Neptunes to work on a new album featuring remixes of his greatest hits, according to producer David Banner. Banner said “Quincy Jones got me, Akon, Pharrell Williams and T-Pain,” he explained. “[He] allowed us to choose and remake our favorite songs.”, well two years later it looks like the Remix Album is finally getting a release date (due this spring) from Interscope Records.

’Q: Soul Bossa Nostra’ features some of my favorite artists and producers on the scene today from the Pop, R&B and Hip Hop worlds performing selections from my catalog that people really loved when they were originally recorded,” said Q, who also serves as the album’s executive producer. “Each artist picked a song that really resonated with them for different reasons – some of them having a connection because they remembered their parents playing the track when they were growing up.”

“I am honored that everyone wanted to be a part of this celebration of these songs. They all made them their own, and knocked them out of the park.” Star Trak Artist Robin Thicke will have 2 tracks on the album, he’ll be on the Remix of Michael Jackson’s P.Y.T remixed by T-Pain and on the Jermaine Dupri Remix off Secret Garden featuring Usher, LL Cool J, Trey Songz, Tyrese, Tevin Campbell & Barry White. The set’s first single, available March 24, will be Akon’s interpretation of the 1977 Brothers Johnson classic “Strawberry Letter 23.”  ‘Q: Soul Bossa Nostra,’ features contemporary versions of popular recordings from Jones’ massive catalog. Other artists on the album include Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia, David Banner, Bebe Winans, Mervyn Warren, DJ Paul, and Scott Storch.

*eurweb.com
*sohh.com
*theneptunes.org

Quincy Jones – Q: Soul Bossa Nostra (2010) (Spring)
Producers & Guests: David Banner, The Neptunes, Akon, Usher, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia, Bebe Winans, Mervyn Warren, Jermaine Dupri, DJ Paul, Scott Storch, Naturally 7, Warryn Campbell, Trey Songz, Tyrese, Tevin Campbell, Barry White, Ted Chung, Terrence Martin…
Confirmed Tracks:
- Brothers Johnson – Strawberry Letter 23 (Akon Remix)
- Jennifer Hudson – You Put A Move On My Heart (Scott Storch Remix)
- Ludacris – Soul Bossa Nostra (Naturally 7 Remix)
- Usher, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, Trey Songz, Tyrese, Tevin Campbell & Barry White – Secret Garden (Jermaine Dupri Remix)
- Give Me The Night – Jamie Foxx (David Banner Remix)
- John Legend – Tomorrow (Ted Chung Remix)
- Robin Thicke – P.Y.T (T-Pain Remix)
- Mary J. Blige – Betcha Wouldn’t Hurt Me (Q-Tip Remix)
- Bebe Winans – Everything Must Change (Mervyn Warren Remix)
- Wyclef Jean – Oluwa (Many Rains Ago) (Wyclef Jean Remix)
- Snoop Dogg – Get The Funk Out Of My Face (Terrence Martin Remix)
- Talib Kweli – Ironside (Quincy Jones Remix)
- Three 6 Mafia – Wrath of Katrina (David Banner Remix)

Here are The Neptunes March Releases, (sorry i forgot to post the January & February releases though).

Ludacris – Battle Of The Sexes (2010) (March 9th)
- Sexting

Game – R.E.D. (RE-Dedication) (2010) (March 23rd)
Confirmed Tracks:
- L.A. Girl feat. Chris Brown + 8 Tracks

Memphis Bleek – The Process (2010) (March 23rd)
- Untitled feat. Pharrell

When Sara Bareilles finally finished touring behind her major-label debut Little Voice and sat down to start her next album, she was overcome with one dominant emotion: panic. “There’s that cliché phrase, ‘You have your whole lifetime to do your first record and you have to do your second one overnight.’ I was really torn with the writing,” she admits. Her pal Matt Hales from Aqualung gave her some valuable advice — “You can’t polish a turd, you obviously need more time” — so she scrapped the tunes she’d written over the summer and started from scratch. Though she dismisses her first stabs at the new album as simply “shitty,” early songwriting sessions introduced her to an eccentric slate of potential collaborators, including Mr. Slave 4 U, Pharrell: “I drove up in my bird-shat-on, banged-up Honda Accord, and I was like, ‘Is that your Ferrari outside?’ ”

She jammed with The Roots in New York, and teamed with Weezer at a Los Angeles show (”It was rad, I felt like I joined the band for 4.2 seconds”). She also spent time listening to Phoenix and Kings Of Leon, soaking up what she praises as the “bombastic sonic quality” of Only By The Night. But her most fruitful team-up has been with producer Neal Avron (Fall Out Boy, Say Anything), who has helped her shape the new batch of songs into an uptempo, layered album she describes as “revitalizing,” packed with attitude and sonically darker than her previous work. Bareilles reports she’s a little past halfway done recording the still-untitled album, which is due this summer. And while she doesn’t have any special guests on the LP yet, there’s a standing invitation for Bono, Chris Martin or Beyoncé to pop into the studio. “Lady Gaga, Sir Elton John, Paul McCartney while we’re at it — we’ll bring all the Sirs,” she jokes. “Ben Kingsley — he can be on my record, too.”

*rollingstone.com

Sara Bareilles – 3rd Studio Album (2010) (Summer)
- Untitled

Looks like fans are going to have to wait a couple more months for Bun B.’s new album Trill O.G. to hit stores. The Southern rap vet recently told XXLMag.com that he’s switching label homes. “We’re gonna be moving from the Warner Bros. system to the Universal system,” he told XXL. The UGK rapper will now be going through Fontana, which is a subsidiary of the Universal Music Group. “[This new situation] works better for me,” Bun continued. “I work better in the small system. When you’re in the big system it’s really about breaking you and exposing you and I think I’ve been able to build a career as far as just associating myself.

We’re pretty good with that in-house with Rap-A-Lot. But with Universal we are gonna use their distribution legs and promotional chain, because they do have access that we haven’t been able to have before.” The Port Arthur, Texas rep has already recorded a lot of material for the follow-up to 2008’s II Trill, including tracks with Drake, Jamie Foxx, Young Jeezy, Trey Songz and DJ Premier, among others. Yet, now as he awaits the paperwork to be finalized, he can work on more music for his upcoming disc. “It gives me time to work with people that I thought I was gonna miss, like Pharrell,” he shared. “Pharrell and I have been trying to get together for this album but we’ve been having scheduling conflicts, which actually just opened up a nice window for us to record. And it also gives me a chance to finish up recording with Premier.

We was supposed to do two, but I only got one done. We were worried we weren’t gonna get the second one done but we got time to get that done. It’s also given me another chance to do another one with Drake and fine tune that whole situation.” There was one collaboration that Bun remained tight lipped about but promised it would turn a lot of heads. “I got a song that’s just kinda crazy,” he said. “All I can tell you is that it’s a legendary song; literally it’s three legends on this song. Two of them is hip-hop and one of them is a cultural icon.” Thanks to DrAmAtIc.

*xxlmag.com

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Group member Dawn Richard let it slip on Thursday that the album should be out some time this summer and that they worked with Pharrell for the debut. “We’re saying sometime in June,” she told S2S exclusively. Diddy has been telling music lovers for months that Train is coming, but he hadn’t hammered down a tentative drop date as the group continued to push the album back. With this news fans at least have an idea when Last Train To Paris will be pulling into the station. While some may speculate that the album delay has been nothing more than a marketing ploy, Dawn said that’s not so.

She explained that the reason no release date had been announced before this was because they’re taking their time put together a spectacular album. In fact, Dirty Money Crew is so dedicated to that mission that they even skipped the Grammy’s to lay down more tracks in the studio. “We just want to make sure that when we put it out that we’re blowing people out of the water. It’s imperative that we tell the story right,” Dawn said. “As of right now we’re saying June, but we’re not putting any dates on it because we want it to be special. We don’t care about dates, we care about making a great product. But we’re super excited because we are at the tail end.”

All the extra hours they’ve been putting has garnered at least 100 songs that could go on the album. And with producers like Will.I.Am, Rodney Jerkins, Pharrell and Guy Gerber working their magic, Dirty Money has a lot of material to choose a track listing from. Dawn dished that at last count they had actually narrowed down the field of songs for Last Train To Paris down to about 30 tracks. Fans seemed to receive “Angels” and “Love Come Down” pretty well, so we asked Dawn if she could dish about the group’s next single. Unfortunately, all she could tell us is that Ditry Money Crew hasn’t picked one out just yet. “We have five to six possibilities. That’s how many #1 singles we have,”

*s2smagazine.com