What's Happening is the second album from the Australian hip hop artist, Katalyst

Katalyst (musician)

Katalyst is an Australian DJ/Producer. He won awards at the 2002 Australian Dance Music Awards for Best Album and Best Producer.- Biography :...

 (aka Sydney based producer Ashley Anderson). It is a follow up to Katalyst's award-winning debut album, Manipulating Agent. What's Happening was released by Invada Records on 25 August 2007. The album features guest vocalists from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia - including Stephanie McKay, J-Live

J-Live

J-Live is an MC, DJ, and producer from New York.-Early career and The Best Part:...

, Steve Spacek, Diverse

Diverse

Diverse is an American rapper. An underground hip-hop artist, he has received critical acclaim "from knowledgeable heads worldwide".-Career:...

 Katie Noonan

Katie Noonan

Katie Anne Noonan is an Australian singer-songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she sings in the groups george and Elixir, duets with her mother, Maggie Noonan and is currently playing with support from the group The...

 (george

George (band)

George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...

), Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt

Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially known as Deer Bubbles and then The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in...

's Adalita and Beautiful Girls

The Beautiful Girls

The Beautiful Girls are an Australian band, predominantly playing roots music. They have released three EPs, Morning Sun, Goodtimes and Weight Of The World. Plus four full length albums, Learn Yourself, We're Already Gone, Ziggurats and Spooks. They played at Dusty Days on 15 March 2008 in Wagga...

' Mat McHugh.

The album was selected as Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

's featured album of the week in August 2007 and was nominated for the 2007 J Award

J Award

The J Award is an award given by influential Australian youth radio station Triple J to Australian Album of the Year. It is judged by a panel of members of the music industry, led by Richard Kingsmill...

 .

The album was also nominated as 'Best Urban Release' at the 2008 ARIA awards.

The first single lifted from the album was "All You've Got" which enjoyed rotation nationally as well as receiving rave reviews from overseas. The video clip features some of Australia's top skaters and was on rotation on Channel V

Channel V

Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...

, MTV Australia

MTV Australia

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 and in the top 20 on J-TV

Jtv

triple j tv is the name given to a series of Australian television programmes which started broadcast in July 2006 as a television spin-off of national radio broadcaster Triple J. They are broadcast on ABC1 and ABC2 as well as available online...

. The single features Ru C.L, Hau (Koolism) and Yungun

Yungun

Yungun is a UK hip-hop artist. He released his debut album The Essance on Janomi Records in 2004. He was born in North London where he currently works and resides.-Bio:He was educated at Eton College....

 (UK MC). It was released as a 12", with an extended version of the song featuring Nfa, The Sleeping Monk, Mr Clean, Xela, The Tongue, as well as new verses from Hau & Ru C.L. It was also released as a digital download.

The second single "Say What You Feel" features New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 soul artist Stephanie McKay. This is not their first collaboration, Katalyst and McKay have worked together in the past collaborating on "Rising Tide" on her first album entitled McKay which was released by Polydor/Universal in 2003. The film clip for "Say What You Feel" features protest footage from the 1960s, 1970s and current day.

Original Release

1. "How Bout Us" (featuring Steve Spacek) - 3:43
2. "All You've Got" (featuring Ru C.L, Hau (Koolism), and Yungun
   Yungun
   Yungun is a UK hip-hop artist. He released his debut album The Essance on Janomi Records in 2004. He was born in North London where he currently works and resides.-Bio:He was educated at Eton College....
   
   ) - 3:54
3. "I Know A Place" - 4:57
4. "Say What You Feel" (featuring Stephanie McKay) - 3:27
5. "Over And Over" (featuring Mat McHugh)) - 3:55
6. "May Have Been James Brown" - 4:26
7. "Loaded Gun" (featuring Joe Volk) - 3:37
8. "Dedicated" (featuring Diverse) - 3:22
9. "What Are We Talking About" - 4:17
10. "Step Up" (featuring Ru C.L) - 3:34
11. "War" - 1:00
12. "To Dust" (featuring Katie Noonan) - 3:17
13. "Killing Ya Self" (featuring J-Live) - 3:57
14. "He Is Society" - 3:55
15. "Bladewalker" (featuring Adalita) - 3:41

UK Version

(released in 2008 on BBE Records

Barely Breaking Even

Barely Breaking Even is a British record label started by two DJs, Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly. The name BBE comes from The Universal Robot Band's 1982 track `Barely Breaking Even'. It has two sublabels: Deep Funk, and Urban Theory...

)

1. "Introductions"
2. "How Bout Us" (featuring Steve Spacek)
3. "All You've Got" (featuring Ru C.L, Hau (Koolism), and Yungun)
4. "I Know A Place"
5. "Say What You Feel" (featuring Stephanie McKay)
6. "Over And Over" (featuring Mat McHugh)
7. "Dedicated" (featuring Diverse)
8. "What Are We Talking About"
9. "Step Up" (featuring Ru C.L)
10. "War"
11. "Killing Ya Self" (featuring J-Live)
12. "He Is Society"
13. "Non-Stop" (featuring Supernatural)
14. "May Have Been James Brown"
15. "Loaded Gun" (featuring Joe Volk)