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Are you familiar with the Ghetto Fighters? How about the newest social media site, We-R-You? Do the names TaharQa Aleem and Tunde Ra Aleem mean anything to you? Me neither, well, not until today. Mark your calendars, because this isn’t going to be the last time you hear these names in the coming months.

Ghetto Fighters was the name of the group that included Jimi Hendrix and twin brothers Arthur and Albert Allen, who now go by the name TaharQa Aleem and Tunde Ra Aleem. TaharQa and Tunde lived with Hendrix and worked on the albums, Cry of Love, Rainbow Bridge and War Heroes. These close friends worked on a number of projects with him as the Ghetto Fighters and now after 40 years of being stashed away, they’ve decided to share them with the world.

That’s right, new Hendrix material, and a lot of it. Strangely enough, this vaulted material isn’t limited to just unreleased music. It also includes a full-length feature film script, an autobiography, animated shorts created for TV (and now the web), and self portrait drawings by Hendrix. “Jimi was a true visionary, whose creativity went far beyond music. He saw the future and while he may not have understood computers or known about digital technology and virtual worlds, he knew that things like this were coming and created material that would work in that world,” TaharQa Aleem told marketwatch.com.

This could very well be rock’s greatest buried treasure. If that’s the case, how it gets released into the world is going to be tricky. That’s where We-R-You Corp. comes in. The folks over at We-R-You have stepped in and set up a deal with the Aleems. Each piece of material will be given its own release into whatever medium it’s best suited for (literary, film, online, etc). There is already a huge buzz in both the music industry and in the business world about the upcoming releases.

Of course no one will be impacted as much as die hard Hendrix fans. A whole batch of unreleased material? A movie penned by Hendrix himself? An autobiography penned by the greatest guitarist to ever grace this earth? Though I hate to get my hopes too up high, I can’t help but be giddy at the mere thought that this stuff exists somewhere.

To think a few months from now I could be reviewing the latest Hendrix album is almost too good to be true. Bring it on!

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