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Baby Elephant
Turn My Teeth Up!
(GodForsaken Music)
Released: September 11, 2007

**Press Release**

Baby Elephant "Turn My Teeth Up!" is Prince Paul's first project following his smash collaboration, Handsome Boy Modeling School, with Dan the Automator.

With Baby Elephant, Prince Paul teams up with one of his musical idols- eccentric keyboard mastermind and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bernie Worrell (P-Funk, Talking Heads). Long-time Prince Paul collaborator, Newkirk, rounds out the hyper-skilled Baby Elephant trio.

As a teenager Prince Paul would skip school just to listen to his P-Funk records. The chance to make music with Worrell proved to be an opportunity of a lifetime. These two legends met while promoting the Worrell documentary "Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth", and they hit it off immediately. Together with Worrell, Prince Paul was able to create the funk/soul album that has been dancing in his head all of these years.

"He's an accomplished musician and I'm some B-boy cat," said Paul. But that formula doesn't necessarily equal your typical hip-hop plus jazz formula. "I don't want people to think it's like some hip-hop beats over him playing. We're trying to invent something."*

Most importantly for Prince Paul seems to be showcasing Worrell's immense talents. On "Turn My Teeth Up!" Worrell does just that. He provides the musical bedrock on an array of vintage keyboards, synthesizers and pianos, as well as single handedly adding his oft-imitated (and sampled) string sections and Moog bass lines. Worrell, a New Jersey native, has created sonics that over the years have become the foundation for the West Coast Hip Hop sound (see Dr. Dre's "The Chronic"). It seems fitting that an East Coast producer has brought Worrell's sounds back home.

"Turn My Teeth Up!" is arguably the most creative and musical album of Prince Paul's storied career and a landmark achievement for Worrell. True to form, Prince Paul has assembled an amazing and diverse cast of co-conspirator's. "Turn My Teeth Up!" features classic turns by David Byrne, George Clinton, Yellowman, Shock G, Nona Hendryx, DJ Roc Raida, Reggie Watts, Gabby La La and more.

The result of this inspired odd-ball alchemy is Baby Elephant "Turn My Teeth Up!".

*<small>Quote taken from PitchforkMedia.com (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/35685-prince-paul-talks-post-handsome-boy-plans) </small>


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**Links**

godforsakenmusic.com (record label)
myspace.com/babyelephantmusic (myspace)