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Death Of A Pop Star is a collaborative album between Grammy Award winning Rapper/Producer/Actor David Banner and Grammy Award winning Producer 9th Wonder. Known also by the acronym D.O.A.P.S, the album will be released in the Summer of 2010 via BIGFACE. The album was originally planned as a free album.

Vision
David Banner explains the concept behind the album saying "Death Of A Pop Star is about the system in general replacing artists with concepts, thus taking the power to accumulate money away from artists. Basically the pop star has been reduced to a free download, making it so it is impossible for there to be another Michael Jackson unless we start making better music."

Banner also sees the project as a way to create more of a musical balance. "We need the balance just like we needed 2 Live Crew and A Tribe Called Quest at the same time."

9th Wonder agrees with Banner's sentiment. "Hip Hop needs this album because no one would ever put 9th Wonder and David Banner together. We want to give music a change of pace and give music lovers another option."

Collaborating And Creating The Theme
In a recent interview, David Banner spoke on where the idea for Death Of A Pop Star originated.

"We were talking about the death of black music, and how it was going to be hard for there to be another Michael Jackson or another Chris Brown, and then 9th Wonder said "That's what we should call it, Death Of A Pop Star, because we were talking about the death of contemporary black music.

Working with producer 9th Wonder was a choice David Banner made, explaining "9th Wonder is probably one of the most Soulful cats in our generation."

"David Banner and I both share the same views on topics such as manhood, being black in America in present day, and the state of black music in general. David and I hash out a lot of options before we do a song.  Once we get past all the options, the end result is always clear," says 9th Wonder.

Music
To date the songs "Strange", "Ain't No Denying", "Something's Wrong", and the lead single "Slow Down" have been released via the internet. The official video for "Slow Down" will be released in June, 2010. A Behind The Scenes trailer for the video hit the internet in May.