WELCOME TO GENIUS' AUGUST 2016 ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR!!!

This page highlights the notable albums, EPs, mixtapes, etc, released in all genres throughout August 2016. Each corresponding annotation lists a tracklist, complete with links to the lyrics, hosted here on Genius. The number to the right of the title serves as a counter of how many songs are up on Genius.

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For the Free Design remix project, Murs and Danger Mouse took on the band’s song “To a Black Boy” and turned it into an anthem about Marcus Dixon, a student who was charged with child molestation in 2003.

Danger Mouse explained:

This true story took place in rural Rome, Georgia, USA just last year 2003! Marcus Dixon, an 18-year old African American high school senior was accused of rape by a classmate (a white girl only a few months shy of 16, a sophomore). The Jury quickly came back with Not Guilty verdicts on all rape & use of force, they agreed the sex was consensual (only took them 15 minutes). However, the prosecutor added the charge of child molestation since the girl was under 16. He was found guilty by this charge by definition and sentenced to a mandatory 10 year sentence.

No high school boy or girl has ever been charged with child molestation of a classmate less than three years his or her junior until Marcus. Marcus was a star on the football team, an Honor Student (3.96 GPA) and had a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University.

After a year in prison Marcus' conviction was overturned. He was released on May 3, 2004

The picture below shows (left to right) DM and Murs promoting an old website dedicated to the case.

Almyghty Myghty Pythons is a collaboration between California supergroups Souls of Mischief and a post-Fatlip-and-Slimkid3 The Pharcyde. The group released a vinyl single “AMP” featuring three songs and their instrumentals. When asked about their name, Souls' Tajai explained how “it just sounded like a really raw ass little league team like bad news bears.” For the AMP project, members received the new nicknames Rod Sterling, Squirt Reynolds, Dick Vitál, Blair Thunderwood, Tony Boner, and Danny Libido.

In an interview with The Find, Phesto and Opio of Souls of Mischief said:

We do have a project that we were working on, but it’s not finished. So I think word got out – we put the single out and it got a lot of people hyped. We did that as a pre-cursor to the album, but the album never really got finished. We’ve been working on stuff though, so hopefully one day. … I think the more that people know and talk about it, and if the interest grows then it’ll definitely come out. The music is there, we do have a lot of material that we worked on, but it’s been a long time now since it was actually recorded. But, if people want to hear it then it’s going to come out.

For Noisey, The Pharcyde’s Imani stated:

It got ahead of itself. We didn’t realise the power at the time. Word got out and then people were like “oh my garsssh, it’s gonna be so great”. Hype kills. That’s another t shirt. Sometimes a project can get ahead of itself and people start talking but we don’t have any music. Everybody thought we had an album when we actually had about 6 songs. Scheduling didn’t happen the way it was meant to happen and that was the end of it.