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There is hiding the medicine in the music, and then there is directly adding gold shavings to the medicine so there are no grounds to hide it in the first place. San Francisco-hailing artist Larry June does exactly that throughout his wise project, "Adjust to the Game." But if the Jay-Z quote "You can't afford something unless you can buy it twice" had a song to expound on that game it would be the concluding record, "A Million Not Enough."
Produced by TJ Murphy, the song's production pops in a cassette-like quality using a lead synthesizer melody -- presumably a sample going off sound. Murphy's indenting drums and lightly salted 808s yield a slackened rhythm swaying Larry June's monotone rapping. June's stoical flow draws out his monetary syllables like a verbal highlighter annotating the countless gems from his pen -- contract negotiations, a line cleverly implying the importance of a 10-year plan and multiple descriptive bars padding the image of a lifestyle representative of his moil and preparation helping him to buy it twice. And that only comes by knowing a million dollars isn't as much as you think.
A Million Not Enough as a song is straightforward game, connecting like a morning breeze carrying the cool freshness of the ocean. Which is to say it keeps a calm head in order to make the proper moves beyond that first million. We can think bigger and we can attain higher. A valuable Larry June lesson we can all take with us moving forward.
Listen to "A Million Not Enough" & "Adjust to the Game" in full below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
There is hiding the medicine in the music, and then there is directly adding gold shavings to the medicine so there are no grounds to hide it in the first place. San Francisco-hailing artist Larry June does exactly that throughout his wise project, "Adjust to the Game." But if the Jay-Z quote "You can't afford something unless you can buy it twice" had a song to expound on that game it would be the concluding record, "A Million Not Enough."
Produced by TJ Murphy, the song's production pops in a cassette-like quality using a lead synthesizer melody -- presumably a sample going off sound. Murphy's indenting drums and lightly salted 808s yield a slackened rhythm swaying Larry June's monotone rapping. June's stoical flow draws out his monetary syllables like a verbal highlighter annotating the countless gems from his pen -- contract negotiations, a line cleverly implying the importance of a 10-year plan and multiple descriptive bars padding the image of a lifestyle representative of his moil and preparation helping him to buy it twice. And that only comes by knowing a million dollars isn't as much as you think.
A Million Not Enough as a song is straightforward game, connecting like a morning breeze carrying the cool freshness of the ocean. Which is to say it keeps a calm head in order to make the proper moves beyond that first million. We can think bigger and we can attain higher. A valuable Larry June lesson we can all take with us moving forward.
Listen to "A Million Not Enough" & "Adjust to the Game" in full below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
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