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"Super Lowkey"
JGivens udgav Fly Exam sidste år, som jeg anmeldte til 5.5/6, hvilket sikrede den en førsteplads på min top 10 liste over 2015s bedste hiphop-udgivelser. En måbende fænomenal plade med et gennemgående skyhøjt niveau. Bedst blev det på "Super Lowkey", der nok står som 2015s stærkeste nummer i min bog, og som i anmeldelsen blev beskrevet som "...en næsten unødvendigt respektindgydende tour-de-force i alle facetter af rap som håndværk". Nummeret rummer en kompleksitet, der næsten er ubegribelig. Intet siges let og ligetil, alt pakkes ind i indviklede analogier, metaforer og referencer. Selv strukturen er snørklet! Første vers, der i forvejen kræver rigelig fordybelse og bearbejdning, har en indbygget "alfabetisk rækkefølge" fra J til W (prøv selv at find den!). - Ikke fordi det er nødvendigt for sangen, sikkert bare fordi han kan. JGivens har nemlig overskud i overflod. Han er en teknisk sublim rapper, der helt og aldeles overlegent leverer sine lyriske guldklumper med så meget teknisk elegance, at kun få kan lege med på hans stadie.
Produktionen er meget passende fuldstændig mageløst komponeret. Det er Courtland Urbano (1/3 af Humble Beast's in-house producer-team Beautiful Eulogy) der står bag, og hold så fast for et monster af et beat han har kreeret! Elektroniske elementer runger rustent imens solar plexus masseres støt af de dybe slag fra bas og trommer. Ind fra højre kommer et manipuleret vokalsample der giver gåsehud, imens nytilkomne lag af elektroniske lydflader fylder baggrunden ud. Det er både balstyrisk og rasende smukt sat sammen, og jeg klapper stadig hæmningsløst af begejstring hver gang jeg hører det. Men det stopper ikke engang her! Der er lavet en video til, der er så minimalistisk og simpel at det næsten er frustrerende, - frustrerende fordi den fungerer så sindsygt godt, nærmest uden at der sker noget i videoen, i bogstaveligste forstand. Og som en youtube-bruger helt korrekt skriver til videoen (og nummeret): play it load, real loud.
Usually the 'J' is with a designated shooter
So don't do it
Don't add space
Leave a 'G' close to the 'J' like "Shoot it!"
No one laugh. That's a 'jk'
No example of an automatic-47-blast-in-your-residential way,
But the flow bananas, 'K?
Go "potassium-symbol." That's a JK-eLeMeN'
Spending all my days on the Westside, O!
Oh, PQR—'S' is for Son.
On set, I'm a son from the left coast
Dubs up for the place where the sun sets.
'Cause I can only dream of why the sun goes west,
But I can't even see just what the Son sees best,
Died on a tree in the shape of a 'T,'
He emits 'UVs' just to get 'W'
(You, you)
(2 you)
And you just might get to know me
A little mo' better
I usually like to move slowly,
But do you know super low?
Super lowkey.
He's the season approaching,
West whenever I'm coasting,
Duck like on-the-pond-floating.
I'm Icarus trapped in a life lackluster,
Women and religion and a glass pipe
Living in a ziplock bag
Full of Sprite-colored bite-size nuggets
Full of trees like a white guy running
(Forest...Forest...)
You livin' locked up!
Lukewarm earthling
living for the twerk team
First thing in the morn'
View porn, hurting
Super low.
But do you know?
What do you do when the biblical view you learned when you was two and the option "to-lose" drops a toxin in you, and you're choosing to cruise with the doctrine of "her, a few brews, and a hot tub"?
And then some bad news for you pops up:
Phone call on the way to your job
Gotta pray to the God that you played "runaway" 'cause the same Lois Lane said
you got her knocked up.
And you just might get to know me
A little mo' better
I usually like to move slowly,
But do you know super low?
Super lowkey
But do you know?
What do you do when the biblical view you learned when you was two and the option "to-lose" drops a toxin in you, and you're choosing to cruise with the doctrine of "her, a few brews, and a hot tub"?
And then some bad news for you pops up:
Phone call on the way to your job
Gotta pray to the God that you played "runaway" 'cause the same Lois Lane said
you got her knocked up.
And you just might get to know me
A little mo' better
I usually like to move slowly,
But do you know super low?
Super lowkey
"That's Okay"
Og nu til noget, helt, helt, HELT andet! Red Pill udgav sidste år et af de mest uforfalskede og ærlige billeder af en mands grå og triste liv med Look What This World Did To Us, der sørme fik en andenplads på min top 10 liste over 2015s bedste hiphop-udgivelser. Jeg er til stadighed imponeret over i hvor voldsom grad Red Pills tekster har påvirket mig, og hvor længe de har rumsteret i mit hoved. Red Pill skriver med et mod og en frygtløshed som de færreste rappere tør udvise, og stiller skarpt på sin egen livslede, og han gør det på en sådan måde, at det giver genklang i lytterens egen sårbarhed. Dét i sig selv er en helt unik oplevelse.
Der er mange ufattelig stærke numre på Look What This World Did To Us, og det har ikke været nemt at vælge ét til Leftovers2015. Skulle det være "Drown"; fantastisk produceret af Hir-O og med de uforglemmelige linjer "I'm not a victim I'm a pussy / Unlimited potential, only half of what I could be"? Eller hvad med "Rum & Coke"; flot produceret af Red Pill selv, med geniale linjer som "All I do is get drunk and stare at this carpet like....... I should probably vacuum". Et oplagt valg kunne også være den muntert svingende "Leanord Letdown", hvor Red Pill begiver sig ud på en absolut mindeværdig tour-de-force i komisk selv-afsky. Der er mange perler, men valget er faldet på "That's Okay", der ikke umiddelbart er pladens mest iøjenfaldende nummer, men som alligevel har gjort et uudsletteligt indtryk og som derfor er det, der har sat sig mest fast. Over et jazz'et og dæmpet beat fra L'Orange, hvor et klaverspil klinger bedrøvet, og hvor et fint, lidt slørret melodistykke, tilføjer noget sart og smukt til et ellers gråligt beat, begiver Red Pill sig ud på en af sine utallige formålsløse køreture igennem Detroits trøstesløse gader, i endnu et håbløst forsøg på at finde mening med livet. Red Pill er en mester i at balancere mellem det melankolske og det selvironiske. Det er gråt, trist og deprimerende, men ikke uden humor, og det skaber en fantastisk spænding, at man kan le over Red Pill's næsten nihilistiske syn på verden, og samtidig kunne relatere mere end man har lyst til hans historier.
And there's some mornings that I want to cry
Feel like I'm mourning but nobody died
Put on some music take a morning drive
Try to remember that there's more than I
I made a promise and I swore to God
I'll break that promise around four or five
Me and you we got some more to hide
Feel like I'm losing but the score is tied
I hit the drive thru and I order fries
A burger and I watch the server pour the ice
Gotta imagine she's as poor as I
I know she wonders if there's more to life
She thinks about the future and she's mortified
Tells herself tonight she's getting organized
Having a crisis at a quarter life
Onions on my quarter pounder, didn't get my order right
But hey, that's okay
Tomorrow is another day
It's like, that's alright
Maybe in another life
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Come here and we can sit together
Sit around and just forget together
Getting older, we don't live forever
I think this world could use some empathy
I don't think this world was meant for me
Now I believe that to the nth degree
I wasn't fit for this shit mentally
But it'll all work out eventually
I'll be seventy, reminiscing sentimentally
Assuming I achieve my life expectancy
And don't fall victim to heredity
Shit I'm just trying to live authentically
Respectably and find my own serenity
Feel like I'm walking this world endlessly
Dependency and failure of identity
But hey, that's okay
Tomorrow is another day
It's like, that's alright
Maybe in another life
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
And there's some mornings that I want to cry
Feel like I'm mourning but nobody died
Put on some music take a morning drive
Try to remember that there's more than I
I made a promise and I swore to God
I'll break that promise around four or five
Me and you we got some more to hide
Feel like I'm losing but the score is tied
I hit the drive thru and I order fries
A burger and I watch the server pour the ice
Gotta imagine she's as poor as I
I know she wonders if there's more to life
She thinks about the future and she's mortified
Tells herself tonight she's getting organized
Having a crisis at a quarter life
Onions on my quarter pounder, didn't get my order right
But hey, that's okay
Tomorrow is another day
It's like, that's alright
Maybe in another life
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Come here and we can sit together
Sit around and just forget together
Getting older, we don't live forever
I think this world could use some empathy
I don't think this world was meant for me
Now I believe that to the nth degree
I wasn't fit for this shit mentally
But it'll all work out eventually
I'll be seventy, reminiscing sentimentally
Assuming I achieve my life expectancy
And don't fall victim to heredity
Shit I'm just trying to live authentically
Respectably and find my own serenity
Feel like I'm walking this world endlessly
Dependency and failure of identity
But hey, that's okay
Tomorrow is another day
It's like, that's alright
Maybe in another life
I'm just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
Just trying to get my shit together
2 kommentarer:
SuperLowkey er et af de bedste numre jeg nogensinde har hoert, syntes alt gaar op i en hoejere enhed der :) fedt valg !
Helt enig! :D
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