Dujeous Readies Day In Day Out For April 3rd Release

March 21, 2012 - PRLog -- The acclaimed New York hip-hop band Dujeous (doo-jee-us), are gearing up for their sophomore LP, Day In Day Out. With an exponentially growing buzz, coupled with album cameos that include John Legend and Sharon Jones (among others), the album is set to take Dujeous to new heights upon its April 3rd release, through Empire/Dujeous.

Friends since pre-K, Dujeous came up through the NYC underworld while still in high school, graduating from talent shows to sold-out clubs, worldwide tours and superstar collaborations. In 2004, the group released their debut album, City Limits, moving nearly 20,000 units via nonstop touring.  This album was followed up with the release of two acclaimed mixtapes, Game 7 (2007) and No Clearance in (2009), both of which garnered thousands of downloads. Top DJs, including DJ Enuff (NYC’s Hot 97) and DJ Skee (KIIS, Los Angeles) gave the Duj crew massive support.  Shortly thereafter, critics jumped on the bandwagon, calling Dujeous "groundbreaking" (AllHipHop.com) and "a producer's dream" (Time Out NY), while XXL last year named them one of the top five hip-hop bands. The buzz made Dujeous a music supervisor’s fave, with synchs in films such as Half Nelson and Blue Crush as well as TV shows such as Entourage and Crank Yankers (for which Dujeous produced the Rhymefest-featuring theme song). Meanwhile, onstage, the Duj busted out of the boroughs to rock across America, Europe, and Asia, with the likes of Kanye West, Tom Petty, The Roots, Funkadelic and Wale.

As word of the band’s skills spread, they snagged some serious collabos, playing both onstage and on-wax for Kanye, Mark Ronson, Big K.R.I.T and Amy Winehouse, while producing for the likes of Talib Kweli, Dip Set and Jean Grae. Last year, Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg requested Dujeous to be the house band for his famed Noisemakers series, where he has interviewed icons such as Q-Tip and Diddy, while the Duj would perform cover versions of their classics. It’s easy to see why Ronson called Dujeous "NYC’s only hip-hop band worth talking about."

With their sophomore release underway, Dujeous is aiming to up their résumé as they take both their music and message a quantum leap forward.  “We expanded and stepped out of the old formulas, both our own and hip-hop’s,” says Mojo, lead vocalist, of the album. “New instruments, new guests, and new topics—we really challenged ourselves musically and lyrically.”

Despite the band’s growth, one constant has remained: the goal of redefining what it means to be hip-hop. MC-singers Mojo, Mas D, and Rheturik keep the rhymes to-the-point and provide stellar three-part harmonies. Bassist Apex and guitarist Taylormade (the group’s main producers), create lush backdrops that effortlessly blend melody with a boom-bap bounce.  Meanwhile, trumpeter Dave Guy (also a member of funk-soul outfits The Dap Kings and Menahan Street Band) brings an ethereal jazz texture to the proceedings. Day In Day Out is also stocked with contributions from the Duj’s talented extended circle, including John Legend, rap provocateur Immortal Technique, and funk queen Sharon Jones, who appears on the video for the album’s inaugural single, “Spectacular,” an inspirational banger punctuated by horn swells and a throbbing backbeat. The video has received heavy airplay on BET’s Centric as well as Video Music Box.

In promotion for Day In Day Out, Dujeous released an au-gratis mixtape this past February titled Dusk Till Dawn, which features appearances from Skyzoo, Smoke DZA and Potluck.  Meanwhile, last October, Taylormade and Mojo’s side project, The Next, released “This American Life,” featuring Talib Kweli and Immortal Technique, which became a blog favorite via 2DopeBoyz and Okayplayer. To say that fans’ ears have been primed for the release of Day In Day Out would be an understatement.  

With a new-and-improved sound, a new focus, and a new album, Dujeous is ready for new eardrums, new stages, new continents and new levels of success.

Tracklist:

01.  "Day In Day Out"
02.  "Spectacular" (feat. Sharon Jones)
03.  "Research"
04.  "Death & Taxes"
05.  "The Band That $#%@&_'d My Girl"
06.  "Pro Choice" (feat. John Legend)
07.  "Same Ol' Sh*t"
08.  "Enough"
09.  "The New Beer Song"
10.  "I Witness" (feat. Immortal Technique)
11.  "Unchanged" (feat. Akir)
12.  "Mishap" (feat. Jigsaw The Puzzler & Immortal Technique)
13.  "Break Bread"

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