Willie Isz – Georgiavania

Willie Isz – Georgiavania (re-upped 7/12/09)

Willie Isz is the collaboration album between Khujo Goodie from Goodie Mob and producer-rapper Jneiro Jarel (aka Dr. Who Dat? [my bad, this is getting hella obscure]). It’s a side project in the same vein as Gnarls Barkley but on first listen, sounding less pop-conscious (both in terms of music and marketing ploy) and a little more focused. I ain’t mad.

I don’t really do this ever but I think the usual bootleggers are still sleeping on this, even now five days after its official release. Also, it looks like the record label was hella trash on the distribution end of it. I went to Best Buy and it was the weirdest thing where the store had definitely ordered it for the June 30 release date but for some reason, the shipment never came in. It kinda reminds me of the days when I was rocking the Sega Saturn. Towards the end of its short lifespan, Sega started dropping really classic games like Panzer Dragoon Saga (literally the best RPG ever) and Shining Force III but only shipping them in painstakingly small amounts (for Panzer, try 8,000 copies for the entire North American territory). My brother had pre-ordered the game and STILL had to wait until a second shipment came in weeks later.

I couldn’t say yet whether Georgiavania is classic but it’s good. It definitely deserves to be heard by those few people who are actually checking for it but just can’t drive 60 miles to the nearest retailer to get a copy yet (you can also pay for the digital download somewhere but why the hell would you ever pay for an album without liner notes and cover art?).

That said, this is entirely for promotional purposes. If you like this album and have some easy access to it (to my LA friends, there’s probably no excuse with Amoeba down the block), you better buy this. Hell, if you bootleg as much as me, you better buy one out of respect for the fact that it didn’t leak like everything outside of Korean-language rap does. If anyone from Lex Records reads this and would like me to take it down, I will do so gladly. Also, if anyone from Lex Records reads this, please step your distribution game up.

Proof of purchase after the jump. Yes, more fold-out liner notes except this also doubles as what should be the jewel case.

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