Grammy Award nominated rap group Nappy Roots, the five-man hip hop collective responsible for the multi-platinum smash Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, is currently at Dungeon East Studios working with the impressive Organized Noize production team on a new CD that will be released on a joint venture with AVJ Records.

Organized Noize is the Atlanta based multi-platinum-selling award-winning trio of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown that helped to shape Southern Hip Hop with OutKast’s ground breaking Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik album. “We’ve been credited with creating the “Sound of the South,” and Nappy Roots is considered the “Conscience of the South,” so it’s great that Nappy wanted to work with us,” says Rico Wade of the Noize team. “People are going to be impressed by this album.”

The Nappy Roots project marks the first time the trio has worked on an entire album in quite some time. Nappy Roots rapper Skinny DeVille speaks on the excitement. “It’s an honor to be working with legends like Organized Noize. Nappy Roots is a family and Organized Noize is like our older cousins that we haven’t seen in a while, so the [sessions are] like a family reunion. We stayed true to ourselves, but Organized Noize has pushed our limits and taken the music to the next level.”

The new album will be the first Nappy Roots project on AVJ Records, an urban imprint run by Jason “Boogie” Brown and Shannon Houchins of Average Joe Entertainment (Colt Ford, Montgomery Gentry, Corey Smith). Shannon Houchins states, “We’re happy to be partnering up with Nappy Roots on the next stage of their career. They are an important part of Hip Hop history and we are honored to continue their legacy.”