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Superlative MCs, the Addisjah Hip Hop Supergroup releases Debut
"This is a one time thing," says Ibn bin Islam
Addisjah, Duchy of Vrassa
April 24, 5663


Superlative MC's Debut Album "Letter to Addisjah" debuts at Number 1

The hip hop supergroup Superlative MCs, made of the duo of Learned Teacher and Ibn bin Islam, who is better known in the Addisjah boutique hiphop scene as Ill Will, have released their debut album Letter to Addisjah on LCR in Sulari. Both MCs are well known in the Hip Hop scene in Addisjah and decided to join forces and talents to create a hip hop masterpiece.

It looks, however, like this supergroup will be a shortlived limited life project. "Learned is my brother," said Ibn bin Islam, who recently became Ahmadi in Addisjah. "But this is a one time thing for me. Our album is kind of my farewell to hip hop, as I study my faith. We wanted to do at least one album together, but by the time we were big enough to score a distribution deal with LCR, God had other plans for me."

Both MCs are quite famous in their hometown, but the nature of the "Boutique Style" of Hip Hop, a movement which emerged from the conscious rap movement a couple decades ago, led these two artists to focus their efforts at home. "Learned Teacher and I both do a lot of cyphers, which are a lot of times freestyles and battle raps, but they involve playing off one another. The result is that the rhyme schemes get pretty complex. Lots of multi syllable words and that kind of stuff. Its hard to translate this stuff into a profession, if you know what I mean."

But bin Islam also added that both rappers have made records under their own names as well, as well as appearing on other people's raps. "We don't just stand outside some store and freestyle all day," he said with a laugh. "That would be ridiculous." Bin Islam, as Ill Will, also plays supporting roles in a number of films before converting to Ahmadism.

With both rappers so well known for their complex wordplay and illustrative bars, the success of their team-up was almost guaranteed. "We were approached by three different labels and a handful of independents," said Learned Teacher. The only one who gave us the kind of studio time, distribution and back end deal that we were comfortable with LCR, who already is a huge name in Hip Hop production. That's really the best thing for us, because we just wanted to make the dopest joint in the history of Hip Hop. I knew my brother Ibn was making some changes in life, and I basically was like 'Dude, we ain't ever gonna have another chance to do this.' We had the deal, we went into the studio, and we treated it like a cypher, brought in some friends and it came out better than we could have dreamed. And LCR was as good as their word. And now, the record debuted at Number 1. I mean... prayer works, you know?"

Indeed, Letter to Addisjah, which has been eagerly anticipated by hip hop fans did indeed debut at Number 1 on the Album charts, and is well on its way to being certified gold: It has sold more than 145,000 copies already, selling out of its first printing on Day 2 across the Empire. And this album is also a critical smash. It has an aggregated score of 96% favorable on chartz.com 5/5 on KRTVN Reviews.

The consensus report reads "Superlative MCs live up to their name in this magnum opus of Boutique Hip Hop, where the words come fast, they require several listen throughs to pick up, and they require quite a bit of thought to actually get. This is not your High School Dropout's hip hop album. It's a cerebral, extremely well produced and masterfully delivered album: There is so much wordplay and complex rhyme scheme stacked in this record, it is sure to be on constant repeat for any hip hop fan for the next six weeks."

Bin Islam was flattered at the praise. "I am not going to say I didn't think that we had something here," he said. "I'd say me and Teacher have been paying our dues for ten years now. We ought to be at the top of our games, respectively. But otherwise, I didn't expect this level of acceptance for our kind of hiphop. Its very location specific, you know. You won't find a single reference to anything but Addisjah on Letter... So I imagine a good part of the country won't get most of it. But I think it also kinda fills a void in Hip hop right now, and so a lot of things happened right that made this success possible, and a lot of it had nothering to do with either me or Learned Teacher. We're just grateful and I am moving into this new phase of life on a very high note."

You can check out all of Letter to Addisjah right here, or watch their first video recorded as a promotional movie for the single "One Two Three" on KRTVN and right here:

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJaStSL0xM]

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