Saga x Thelonious Martin - "Infomercial (Freestyle)" is Geared for Battle

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The year 2016's lifespan has nearly flatlined everywhere. Artists/producers are planning their moves for 2017 in hopes of a more catapulting year musically. But this year isn't dead yet. Sonically speaking, extra guts are falling out from various bodies of work we've come to know. Juicy guts like Saga x Thelonious Martin's Infomercial (Freestyle).

Infomercial (Freestyle) is frankly sweet bars over King Theo's instrumental Infomercial off his album Late Night Programming. Infomercial sounds like an aggressive battle beat. The production constructs its own arena. Martin's intro is fine tuning TV and radio soundbites. The flipping static between channels brings an impressionable sound of looking for good content. His elements of a laid back kick, snare and hi-hat conversation implements a sound of patience -- a sound destined to be disrupted by the beat's true drop.

This cut leaps into the fray. Thelonious Martin's head-butting drums have a simultaneous pop clock sound. The charged guitar chords stew in its own ferocity. The vibrato to the sound snaps your neck harder. The sound is loud. His guitar chords practically dare someone to tackle this instrumental. So, Saga does. A worthy foe to say the least.

Saga rips through this track with his self-proclaimed "gutter bars." He truly raps a hostile climate to life. From bar to bar Saga spits from a gritty perspective of adversity, running through descriptive words to make his story that much easier to read. There are doses of braggadocious blows, imprinting wordplay, like with what he does with "Run-DMC." I got a real kick out of that line. Saga has a bit of a battle rap flow, his cadence is almost defensive. He hits a lot of the notes rappers should hit. I really enjoyed it.

Infomercial (Freestyle) is a dope song. I felt the frigid temperature in his storytelling when needed. I felt I could take the hits and keep fighting when needed. Saga can spit. And by this point we should all know Thelonious Martin has some of the nastiest production. Some things don't belong together, but I can tell y'all that these aren't two of those things.

Check out Infomercial (Freestyle) below.

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