Jurassic 5 members Soup and Marc7 formed Portable Payback  and released their debut single “Relax” earlier this year.  The self-titled EP was just released in late October.  The focus of the former underground hip hop artists is clearly moving toward a more mainstream hip hop audience with production by John “BiggJohn” Myers (Ludacris, Usher, David Banner, Britney Spears).  A clear example of this is “Slick Talk” which is probably the most commercial sounding track any J5 member has ever made.  The club-banger style beat and the auto-tune singing are a serious departure from the classic style hip hop Marc7 and Soup are well known for creating.  Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on your own personal taste…
Check out the behind the scenes footage from the video shoot below.

MP3: Portable Payback – “Relax” (Download)

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Portable Payback – EP (October 2009)