MC billy woods and producer blockhead both spell their names in all lowercase letters. With History Will Absolve Me and Interludes After Midnight, these artists individually released what were arguably their respective genres’ best albums of 2012. “Tinseltown,” the first single off their forthcoming collabo, Dour Candy, finds Mr. woods spitting more of those BFG 9000 “obliterate everything in the immediate vicinity”-type lyrics, with lines like: “Pedal to the metal, enthusiastically peddle crack over instrumentals/ Only to backpedal when the narcs come knocking/ Any resemblance to actual events is merely coincidental/ Motherless child — Hansel and Gretel abandoned in the ghetto/ Fear not a Wicked Witch but a clever Gepetto/ Have ‘em holding the bag or on stage in stilettos/ Separating Canaanites from they shekels/ Nigger pennies add up if you the neighborhood Gordon Gecko.”
Forget about rap music or any other genre distinction. Seriously, all hyperbole aside, find me an active lyricist currently writing at that level. I’ll wait.
Dour Candy drops July 2. It will probably be my favorite album of the year.
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