House Of Abdul

Wednesday, September 1, 1999

Millenium: Right On! Magazine

It may not be the end of the world, but the beginning of the new rap generation. Youngsters whose first taste of hip hop was the Wu-Tang Clan. “I didn’t listen to much rap until I heard C.R.E.A.M.,” says the 18-years-old Millenium born in Baltimore and raised in D.C. “The joint was so beautiful, I immediately started writing.”
When Clinton Greene, a.k.a. Millenium started writing rhymes, he went out and got battle tested. He won his high school’s prestigious Blue & Gold talent show for 2 consecutive years.

On a local radio station, he dominated their weekend freestyle battle four months straight. His record is still unblemished – no one beat Millenium, he just stopped calling. “It was getting boring for me and the station.” He then called in to WPGC, one of the top radio stations in the country, and won the rhyme battle for the night. “I did not call again,” says Millenium. “People claiming to be me started getting on the air after that. It was so foul, that I no longer go by that name.” That was one of the reasons he wrote the first single, “How Far Will You Go” from the House Of Abdul’s debut album Kaos Theory.

Monday, August 2, 1999

Millenium: Vibe Magazine

Vibe Magazine Highlights

You know we’ve hit a strange point in history when rappers begin declaring that their introduction to hip hop was neither a late-‘70s Cold Crush tape nor the Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 “Rapper’s Delight” nor even Run-D.M.C.’s 1984 “Sucker MC’s” but rather the Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 hit “C.R.E.A.M.”

Eighteen-year-old Washington, D.C. product Millenium freely admits that the Wu’s paper-chase primer inspired him to pursue rap music seriously. Fortunately, the Chocolate City man-child has put this influence to good use. Witness Millenium’s own elegantly gruff “ Fantasia” (House of Abdul, 703-751-1313), the B side to his “How Far Will You Go” single. Celestial strings and the sampled voice of the forever-solid gold Dionne Warwick Crooning “This enchanted love of ours…” provide setting for a story line that traces young infatuation through betrayal and lost love to, ultimately, death. Life as a shorty shouldn’t be so damn difficult.

CHAIRMAN’’S CHOICE, AUGUST ’99

Tuesday, July 20, 1999

Millenium: CMJ New Music Report

MILLENIUM

Kaos Theory

Floating with ease over a diverse set of beats and tempos, this young lyricists from Virginia attacks the mic with the combined charisma of Notorious B.I.G. and Keith Murray. From gritty jewels like “Run, Run, Run,” to the souled-out “Fantastia,” Millenium proves age still ain’t nuthin’ but a number.

By Kyle Allen

Wednesday, July 14, 1999

Millenium: Rap Sheet

How far will you go to touch that green? That’s the question that House of Abdul recording artist Millenium asks the people of this unforgiving world.

He speaks a conscious and impressionable message in this first single off his soon to be released self-titled album. Millenium credits his first listen to Wu-Tang dimepiece C.R.E.A.M. for giving him his motivation for writing. His first track “How Far Will You Go?” tests that same Wu philosophy of the mission of that mighty paper chase with a subtle flip of the script. Millenium has thought provoking lyrics that impose the pivotal rule that stupidness and negativity don’t mix. The hook asserts: “Everybody want it/ but everybody can’t have it/ it’s amazing what people will do just to grab it.” Millenium is a welcome addition to the Rap game as he comes to the bat with music that inspires. Millenium ends on this pertinent question. “ How far would you go? Far enough to die?”

-- S. Jenkins

Monday, June 7, 1999

Millenium: The Source Magazine

Slide with me to DC for a minute while we check on a young’un whose gonna blow the lid off the Capitol building like Beanie Seagal cracked the Liberty Bell.

You might’ve never heard the name Millenium before, but ya’ might just have to if ya’ wanna keep ya’ “Hip Card” current. The 18-year old B-More born/Devil City residin’ MC’s got a 16 track portrait of the mind of an intelligent hood at a crossroads. M’mam is nice with his, point blank. And one listen to Kaos Theory, his debut on House of Abdul recordings, will show and prove why this kid won a local radio station’s weekend freestyle battle for four months straight!!!! Believe me, when you check cuts like “Run, Run, Run”, “How Far Will You Go?” and the title track, you’ll agree that this teen-aged terror’s got a very old soul.