It doesn’t matter though – a spam filter will block new messages about what Danity Kane is up to these days. I’ve asked them six different times to change my e-mail address on their mailing list and have been ignored. Hip-Hop doesn’t seem like a top priority for the label in general these days. Obviously somebody at Atlantic is smart enough to scout out Southern talent like Little Brother, Nappy Roots and Trina yet nobody at Atlantic seems saavy enough to keep them under contract once signed. It’s telling that after such an interminably long delay the group is no longer with Atlantic Records, choosing instead to go their own way on a self-distributed imprint. Five years ago this promising Kentucky crew had done the nearly impossible in hip-hop – they made a strong statement on their debut album “Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz” and then released an even BETTER sophomore album with “Wooden Leather.” Success may have been their undoing, because the pressure to produce ever doper albums year after year may have been impossible to deal with. The word “overdue” is not just an understatement in Nappy Roots case, it’s a GROSS understatement.
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