'It made me feel good that the rapport from the fans is ‘This is your best record.' I'm like ‘Woah, this late in the game.' I'm talking about only four more years and I'm doing my best record.” 'They (fans) actually dig all of the songs,” he said. Unlike 'The Storm,” Tech N9ne said early reaction to 'Planet” has been overwhelmingly positive. Those themes of love and unity filter through many of the 19 songs on 'Planet” as Tech N9ne raps his way through a varied musical soundtrack that ranges from the EDM-ish 'Fresh Out!” and 'Don't Nobody Want None” to edgy jams like 'Comfortable” and 'Habanero” to an epic track, 'Brightfall,” whose elaborate production could make Queen proud. It stands for peaceful youth unit neutralizing earth.” 'It's just a place of love and understanding each other, man. It has togetherness and not separation, like this earth,” Tech N9ne said. 'It's a place you can go mentally, and this place has more love than earth and (less) hate, because hate runs it (on earth). That description mirrors the purpose of 'Planet's” alternative world of Pyune. Tech N9ne considers Strange a label where music becomes medicine that, in his words, navigates listeners through the world of darkness. Meanwhile, Strange Music has grown into a highly successful label with more than a dozen acts on its roster. In the 19 years since, Tech N9ne - given name Aaron Dontez Yates - has become the leading indie rap artist on the scene, with a catalog of a dozen solo albums and another eight 'collabos” albums, on which he has worked with other artists - including many from the Strange Music roster - in writing and recording tracks. 'But I still had to get the song out of me.”Īnother big source of frustration was the indifferent response to his 2016 album, 'The Storm.” That's one of the few setbacks he has encountered since forming Strange Music with Travis O'Guin, and his 1999 debut album, 'The Calm Before the Storm.” ('The Storm” was actually meant as a sequel to that first disc.) 'We won the case and they changed the name,” Tech N9ne said. He had gone through a dispute with a start-up label that wanted to call itself Strainge Entertainment, a name far too similar to that of his own label, Strange Music. It wasn't just the problems of the world that had Tech N9ne yearning to mentally travel to a world of his own creation.
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