With his debut album The Sound of Revenge garnering chart-topping success and numerous awards, the pressure is on for Chamillionaire as he gears up for his sophomore effort, Ultimate Victory, which is due out in September.
"I put the album together like a motion picture,"  Chamillionaire told. "Victory'is like a continuation. On my last album, I got 'revenge,' everybody praises you for getting revenge, everybody is happy you got revenge, but revenge is bad. I think 'victory' is when you realize what's really important, that's when you really win. All the nonsense is irrelevant."
On Ultimate Victory, Chamillionaire claims to reach much deeper than his previous work, addressing such current issues as the Bush administration and Hurricane Katrina.
"I could easily take the safe route (but) I'm rolling the dice. I decided to push the envelope. The way I made the album was, I made two albums worth of material and I took the safe records off, just because I want to be different," Cham explained. "That's actually harder to do. It's easier to write a club record about being in the VIP. I can do that all day. I just decided not to. I'm in a space where I don't care, I'm doing what I feel is dope. I create what I think should be cool instead of just following what everyone else says is cool."
While Ultimate Victory features appearances by Lil' Wayne, Krayzie Bone, Pimp C, Lloyd and Devin the Dude, as well as production from The Runners, David Banner and Play N Skillz, Cham insists he wasn't about getting big names.
"People thought I had 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Dr. Dre - that's safe," he says. "I got Devin the Dude, Pimp C, my artist Famous, and Slick Rick. I can't name an album that came out in the past year that got Slick Rick on there.
Cham's first single, "Hip-Hop Police" featuring the old school legend and produced by J.R. Rotem, is scheduled to drop next week. Much like his smash hit "Ridin," "Hip-Hop Police" speaks to pertinent issues on multiple levels.


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