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Budding star Jimi Tents is making his presence in rap known. His fearless bravado and hardened perspectives are annotating a golden chapter in hip-hop's history and re-packaging it for today's climate. And with his latest cut, Should've Called, Pt 2, I've become an instant fan who can't wait for more.
Should've Called, Pt 2 (ft. Saidbysed) is a damn great listen. Right out the gate the production is absorbing. Wooden clocky drums beat over fleshy hand drums and illusory chords. The sound is very tribal battling and dreamlike. The energy of the drums remind me of the man himself, Gil Scott Heron. There's a blackness and urgency in the sound that's inescapable. How the chords ring a sound of escape is telling. Then that beat drops and the frigid winds in the track are felt.
A slugging bass drum pounds around. Cracking kicks and lighter sparking 808s hold a fire under Jimi Tents' ass. The production emits a temperature of desperation. It leaves Jimi to display open wounds lyrically, and lyrically it couldn't be more dope.
Tents spits his bars as his life's log told through rapping. His model flow puts a subtlety forward and behind the emphasis of his last and first words. Jimi Tents' cadence carries a load of strength for everyone around him who has none. Sitting with the actual meat of the lyrics sound like plagued thoughts from a man with the world on his shoulders. The entire time I listened to his first verse, I was taken to a corner of a man's mind in a limbo of circumstance. I heard what's being done to us and it shakes the cage. The way Jimi raps about these harsh realities transports you to the thickness of the community's problems. Lyrically Tents points out doubt, loneliness, bitterness and aspirations. His verses are so adjectively heavy towards how he's feeling you inevitably feel it too.
Tents even offers sweet nooks of comfort with melodic speed downs from his second verse and beyond. The versatility in his rapping blends wonderfully with Saidbysed's hook. The cradling of it echos the idea of Emma Lazarus' sonnet, The New Colossus. His cotton vocals in the hook hit like a welcoming of people's problems to lift them up. Their overall sound is resilience. "I move with the weight of the world on my neck" is how the NY emcee kicks this joint off. It is a metaphor that welcomes the challenge and looks for an out all in the same breath.
Jimi Tents raps for the forced to grow up. Should've Called, Pt 2 is well beyond its years in content and it is inspiring to hear it coming from a 20-something. If you aren't listening, now would be the time. This cut is too deep to skip.
Listen to Should've Called, Pt 2 below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
Budding star Jimi Tents is making his presence in rap known. His fearless bravado and hardened perspectives are annotating a golden chapter in hip-hop's history and re-packaging it for today's climate. And with his latest cut, Should've Called, Pt 2, I've become an instant fan who can't wait for more.
Should've Called, Pt 2 (ft. Saidbysed) is a damn great listen. Right out the gate the production is absorbing. Wooden clocky drums beat over fleshy hand drums and illusory chords. The sound is very tribal battling and dreamlike. The energy of the drums remind me of the man himself, Gil Scott Heron. There's a blackness and urgency in the sound that's inescapable. How the chords ring a sound of escape is telling. Then that beat drops and the frigid winds in the track are felt.
A slugging bass drum pounds around. Cracking kicks and lighter sparking 808s hold a fire under Jimi Tents' ass. The production emits a temperature of desperation. It leaves Jimi to display open wounds lyrically, and lyrically it couldn't be more dope.
Tents spits his bars as his life's log told through rapping. His model flow puts a subtlety forward and behind the emphasis of his last and first words. Jimi Tents' cadence carries a load of strength for everyone around him who has none. Sitting with the actual meat of the lyrics sound like plagued thoughts from a man with the world on his shoulders. The entire time I listened to his first verse, I was taken to a corner of a man's mind in a limbo of circumstance. I heard what's being done to us and it shakes the cage. The way Jimi raps about these harsh realities transports you to the thickness of the community's problems. Lyrically Tents points out doubt, loneliness, bitterness and aspirations. His verses are so adjectively heavy towards how he's feeling you inevitably feel it too.
Tents even offers sweet nooks of comfort with melodic speed downs from his second verse and beyond. The versatility in his rapping blends wonderfully with Saidbysed's hook. The cradling of it echos the idea of Emma Lazarus' sonnet, The New Colossus. His cotton vocals in the hook hit like a welcoming of people's problems to lift them up. Their overall sound is resilience. "I move with the weight of the world on my neck" is how the NY emcee kicks this joint off. It is a metaphor that welcomes the challenge and looks for an out all in the same breath.
Jimi Tents raps for the forced to grow up. Should've Called, Pt 2 is well beyond its years in content and it is inspiring to hear it coming from a 20-something. If you aren't listening, now would be the time. This cut is too deep to skip.
Listen to Should've Called, Pt 2 below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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