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T.I. and Ciara will be the headliners for the 6th Annual Scream Tour starting in late July.

The tour, usually headed by boy toy types like Omarion, Bow Wow, etc, will hit 24 U.S. cities, including Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.

Supporting acts and a final itinerary are yet to be announced.

Last year’s Scream fest was headed by Omarion and Ne-Yo, and was billed as the “Ruff & Ready, Young & Sexy” tour. Pretty Ricky, One Chance, Mario, Jibbs, Young Joc, and Sammie were the supporting acts.

Hip-hop producer DJ Sharkey has teamed up with Indie rapper C-Rayz Walz for a concept album called Monster Maker. Sharkey, whose debut album, Sharkey’s Machine was named one of the Top 10 albums of the year by the Washington
Post and featured underground heavies like Grand Puba, Jean Grae, Cannibal Ox, The Pharcyde and Cherrywine (of Digable Planets), says his newest speaks to the breaking point in ordinary people.

“I feel like the world is the monster maker and I feel like everyone, no matter how good of a family you’ve been raised by, or how good of a person you are, is
capable of being that person that is sitting in the middle of bumper to
bumper traffic for an hour one day and on the verge of going out and
blasting people.  Everyone has that seed in them where they’re capable of doing something monster-ish.”

Walz, whose 1975: Return Of The Beast, dropped last year, broke it down frankly.

“Sharkey beats are everything,” Walz explains, “they’re rock, they’re synth, they’re techno, they’re Hip-Hop, boom-bap, they’re everything.  So he killed all those f*ckin’ producers, he made a monster and now he’s here to bite everybody’s f*ckin’ head off man.”

Babygrande Records will release Monster Maker in August 2007.

www.monstermakermusic.com
www.crackspace.com/monstermaker