News: KOCH Records New Albums

This self-titled album will be the sixth Bone album in a stellar career in which all of the group's previous albums have gone either gold or platinum.

This album reunites Bone with KOCH Records' General manager Alan Grunblatt, who quarterbacked the marketing and promotion on their multi-platinum albums Creepin On Ah Come Up and E. 1999 Eternal.

"I can't tell you how excited I am to be working again with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony," Grunblatt states. "I saw them perform a cappella in Eazy E's office 3 weeks after they got off the bus from Cleveland. When 'E. 1999' debuted #1 on the Billboard charts and scanned 340,000 units the first week, it was one of the proudest days of my life. I was there when we stripped the Crossroads remix to the album, taking it from 2 million to 5 million sold. I also did the Mo Thugs deal with the group, scoring 2 platinum albums with the Mo Thugs family and gold albums for Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone. When I started here at KOCH my first album was a Mo Thugs compilation which scanned 50,000 units week one, launching our new hip hop venture with a bang. My relationship with the group has been a long and successful one. I simply love this new album which drops in September. It is full of the melodic hood anthems the group is famous for and should return them to the top of the charts."

The first single is called "Fire," which will be serviced to radio in July. This is Bone's first album as a trio (Bizzy bone no longer in the group). The Swizz Beatz-Bone album is currently in production and will be released by Interscope in the future.

The son of a drill sergeant turned pastor, and a product of the rugged College Park streets of Atlanta, one can say that he is the living, breathing embodiment of good and evil combined into one dangerous human being.

His huge reputation in the South has gotten him the opportunity to work closely with super-producers Timbaland, Jazze Pha and Lil' Jon. Troy's first major label album "Face Off" debuted in 2001 at #7 on the Billboard Rap Charts, followed up by Universal Soldier in 2002 which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rap Charts.

The hit Timbaland-produced single "Are We Cuttin'," was so successful that it was used as the lead single from the soundtrack to the blockbuster film XXX starring Vin Diesel in 2002.

With the first single, "Pop a Few Bottles," rapidly building buzz on the album, Pastor Troy's "By Choice or By Force" builds on a career that has sold over 1 million records and counting.