Tortoise 1.5

Tortoise 1.5 is an EP released by rapper Clayton Jokythur on June 18th, 2013, coinciding with the release dates for Kanye's "Yeezus" and J. Cole's "Born Sinner" and Mac Miller's "Watching Movies With The Sound Off". The name of the EP, "Tortoise 1.5", continues the saga started with "Tortoise - EP" and that is to go even further with "Tortoise II".

Promotion
To promote the record, Clayton posted news on Twitter every once in a while, including a single release of the song "1, 2, 3... Jah" featuring Jah Rules. On June 4th, along with revealing the EP's name and that it would be free due to his being "so nice and also because of sample clearing issues", announced he would release new information every one and a half days, in allusion to the aforementioned name.

The list of what was revealed/released is as follows:

06/04: EP's name and announcement of 1.5-daily info

06/06: Exclusive 15-questions interview with Clayton

06/07: Complete update to this very Tortoises' Wiki

06/09: Chorus of the song "Clayton"

06/10: Old songs uploaded to Hulkshare for free (can be found here along with Tortoise 1.5 itself)

06/12: Reveal of the things to be revealed on the last days before the EP release

06/13: Cover art for the EP (seen below)

06/15: Back cover (Tortoisean version)/tracklist for the EP (seen below too)

06/16: 2nd single: "Clayton's Copula"

06/18: EP release

This strategy proved itself to be very successful, making the fans very anxious about the EP and causing an enormous (not-yet-revealed) number of downloads of the record when it came out

Tracklist
The EP features both old songs (not released officially or not even recorder, but previously rumored for the mythical Tortoise II album) and new material, and is also a relativaley big EP. The songs were all co-produced by BRZ and Clayton, except "Clayton" which was also co-produced by B. R.

1. Clayton's Copula

2. C&J

3. Leave Me Alone (Feat. Matt)

4. We Run This (Feat. BRZ and AMD)

5. Spirits

6. Dark Forces (Feat. The Very Evil Tortoise)

7. 1, 2, 3... Jah (Feat. Jah Rules)

8. Party

9. My Girls

10. With Life Comes Pain

11. It Is All Wrong (Feat. Matt)

12. Learn To Lose (When To Give Up)

13. I Want Peace

14. Clayton

15. Prepare Your Coffin ("Freestyle")

The sample credits (although not officially cleared) are:
 * G.O.O.D. Music's "New God Flow" (adapted) on "Clayton's Copula" and "1, 2, 3... Jah"
 * Jay-Z's "If I Should Die" (adapted) on "We Run This"
 * Sean Paul's "Temperature" and "Gimme The Light" (adapted and quoted and quoted, respectively) on "1, 2, 3... Jah"
 * The Lonely Island's "Jizz In My Pants" (quoted) on "1, 2, 3... Jah"
 * Eminem's "Hell Breaks Loose" (quoted) on "Party"
 * Linkin Park's "Hit The Floor" (adapted) on "Learn To Lose (When To Give Up)"
 * Lil Wayne's "Drop The World" (quoted) on "I Want Peace"
 * Jay-Z's "Run This Town" (interpolated) on "Clayton"
 * Tortoise's "Prepare Your Coffin" (used as beat) on "Prepare Your Coffin ('Freestyle')"

Reception
As the EP is free, and also because of Billboard's messy rules, Tortoise 1.5 didn't compete against "Born Sinner", "Yeezus", etc., giving them a chance to be 1st place.

The critics for Tortoise 1.5 have been overall very good, with even amd. agreeing it is a very nice record. More information will be added when more reviews surface.