Sean Price – “Planet Apes”

Sean Price‘s upcoming Songs in the Key of Price is slated to release on August 21st, and his “Planet Apes” track has unearthed. Aside from the song, DOOM released a short yet heartfelt video to Sean. RI”P”

Mr. Price was born in Brooklyn on March 17, 1972, and never left. In the mid-1990s, under the name Ruck, he was part of the duo Heltah Skeltah, which in turn was part of the extended Brooklyn crew Boot Camp Clik. For them, Brooklyn was “Bucktown,” a place of street warfare and menacing talk.

At that time, New York rap was at its grittiest, in part a reaction to the smoothing-out that was already happening in West Coast rap. Mr. Price had an ideal voice for the sound — sneering, barrel-shaped and nimble — which he applied to rhymes that were breezily, alarmingly tough.