New Tech N9ne album K.O.D. drops October 27

What’s doing, beatfans. Zealous here.

My show has been facing big technical challenges lately, so we have not been rocking the mic recently. Just when you thought you got rid of me, we do a good old-fashioned blog post.

Underground rapper Tech N9ne will release his tenth studio album, K.O.D. (“King of Darkness”) on October 27, 2008. While Tech’s not your garden-variety hip hop, the album will feature some collabos with mainstream artists, such as Three 6 Mafia.

While Tech’s never been known for his sunny personality, “K.O.D.” takes his music to deeper depth of emotion than usual. Much of the album was inspired by his mother’s worsening health and other tramautic events going on in Tech’s life.

“K.O.D.” features the single “Show Me a God” (official video below), which pretty much sums up the emotional stuggle of the artist behind the album.

Look at all the visual symbolism in the video. English professors every where would have a field day with that shit. Rap’s getting all existentialist on you kids. Can you imagine Nietzsche or Kafka dropping a verse?

Also, Tech will be performing on Nov. 9 in Rochester at the Walter Street Music Hall. Definitely something you beatfans will want to see; shit, if I wasn’t broke, I’d go.