PAUL WALL IS THE #1 CHAMP

09.22.05

THE PEOPLES CHAMP, the new album from SwishaHouse/Asylum recording artist Paul Wall, is this week's undisputed chart champion, making a triumphant debut in the #1 spot on the Billboard 200. The Houston-based rapper's highly anticipated major label debut also scores a career best, with first-week sales of over 176,000 copies.

The initial limited edition two-CD release of THE PEOPLES CHAMP features a bonus 'Chopped & Screwed' CD. 'Chopped & Screwed' is the innovative sound that puts a hip-hop groove to a slower pace by pitching down the mix until a lumbering, often eerie, tone is achieved. Wall, a master of the technique, has Chopped & Screwed such albums as T.I.'s URBAN LEGEND and the Transplants' HAUNTED CITIES.
A star-studded group of Wall?s colleagues make special guest appearances on THE PEOPLES CHAMP, including Kanye West, T.I., Lil' Wayne, Mike Jones, Trey Songz, BG, and others. The album's first single, 'Sittin' Sidewayz,' features original Screwed Up Clique member Big Pokey and pays homage to both the Screw legacy as well as Wall's hometown, Houston.

Wall has already garnered much critical praise for THE PEOPLES CHAMP. New York's Daily News wrote that Wall is 'the most credible, deeply embedded-in-the-hip-hop-community, Caucasian rapper since Slim Shady himself,' while VIBE believes that among all Houston rappers on today's scene, 'Paul may be the one to rise above the rest.'

'My music is about hustling, not just hustling in terms of the block,' explains Wall. 'It's music that inspires you to go out there and get it - doing whatever you gotta do.' Now that's a number one champ!

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