Four Albums Every TRUE Hip-Hop Fan Should Own
My favorite underground group and artist are both dropping new albums this month. I already have the group’s new drop, and the solo piece I have on pre-order.
The group is called DEEPSPACE 5 and their latest album is dubbed, “Unique, Just Like Everyone Else.” Lyrically, these cats are some of the sickest I have ever heard in my 10 years or so as a Sunday-morning rap critic. Playdough has the illest flow in hip-hop: a bold claim, but anyone that listens to DS5’s instant-classic first drop, “The Night We Called it a Day” will agree wholeheartedly. ManCHILD is another ridiculous wordsmith, one with a biting sarcasm that tears flesh from the fat-ass of commercial culture as if itwere a pitbull let loose in a post office. Not to mention that emcees Sintaxtheterrific and Sivion are ridiculously gifted up-and-comers in their own rights.
But my favorite emcee of the group - the MOST CREATIVE AND WITTY EMCEE that I have ever heard - has to be The Listener. Who could ever think of writing a verse in which all the punctuation is enunciated and rhymed with (”Stick This In Your Ear” off “The Night We…”)!? And if “Train Song” off his solo debut, “Whispermoon” doesn’t make you cry instantly, then your tear glands are stopped up.
Well, Listener and another emcee (who I’ll be honest, I have never heard of), EQ, are dropping an album this month called, “Ozark Empire.” PICK IT UP. PICK ALL FOUR OF THESE ALBUMS UP.
Not only will you be blessing yourself with suttin’ sick to rock in the iPod, but you will be supporting TRUE, UNDERGROUND, HIP-HOP at its best.
Do it. As Listener notes,
BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING, AND RAPPERS HAVE TO EAT TOO.