The CD comes packaged in a custom printed plastic casing which contains a full color printed wallet, 16-panel accordion style insert, and 20-page lyric booklet.

While Southsiders is a celebration of the group's fortitude, it is also a deeply introspective, and sometimes conflicted, work.

"It's a natural progression from the last record,The Family Sign, which was about growing my family," says Slug, now a father to three, who finds himself contemplating mortality.

"I'm starting to think, 'What is post-family man? What am I supposed to rap about now?' I'm sticking to my roots, rapping about what I'm doing, what I think about.

This record is, much like the other ones, a very detailed look at my life."