^^ No worries man. I'm going to aim to drop one of these once a day/every two days.
MC LARS – 21 CONCEPTS
MC Lars describes his music as ‘post-punk laptop rap’ and when you listen to his music it quickly becomes clear why.
The 23 year old has an interesting background with a mix of American, Australian and Swedish backgrounds. Throw this into a history which involves graduation from Oxford University, England, and you know this will not be your average hip-hop experience.
21 Concepts is a cleverly scripted track which (in my opinion) is the standout track (and dare I say it, the only good track) from his album The Graduate. Lars compiles a list of tracks with a concept behind them, which he may or may not have recorded contrary to the claims of the chorus (“I’ve got a list of songs here I once thought were the bomb, but when I laid them down in Pro Tools they all came out wrong.”).
The result is a bit of a paradox really: a bunch of failed concept songs to make up the body of a concept song. Some are more amusing than others, but they all gel with the ingenuity of a beat made from a mix of electro distortion and the Tetris theme. Allusions to Jay-Z’s '99 Problems’ are clear and warrant no further clarification to those familiar with the track from the Black Album
His music is loved by magazine columnists who claim Lars is the front man of a 'new underground' hip-hop scene that has been bubbling under the surface for years. But you can’t help but second guess that they love it because they are amongst the minority who get the obscure academic references like the name dropping of Jean-Paul Sartre.
A step away from the gangster scene is always refreshing; his approach is brave and his creativity laudable. But sadly throughout the rest of the album Lars slides into the fatal situation common to parodies - the emo and gangster jokes are obvious enough, but it still feels as if MC Lars ends up being the parody himself. Fans will argue that this was the intention, but quite simply, tracks like ‘Generic Crunk Rap’ are un-listenable and reinforce that the premise of parody ensures a limited lifespan for this ‘style’.
It is undeniable that the MC has some moments of brilliance, but these moments exist only as a line from a song or an idea. At the end of the day, MC Lars exploits what we already know is going on, but the depth is lacking… however 21 Concepts is a good 2:49 of fun.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ndit6
MC LARS – 21 CONCEPTS
MC Lars describes his music as ‘post-punk laptop rap’ and when you listen to his music it quickly becomes clear why.
The 23 year old has an interesting background with a mix of American, Australian and Swedish backgrounds. Throw this into a history which involves graduation from Oxford University, England, and you know this will not be your average hip-hop experience.
21 Concepts is a cleverly scripted track which (in my opinion) is the standout track (and dare I say it, the only good track) from his album The Graduate. Lars compiles a list of tracks with a concept behind them, which he may or may not have recorded contrary to the claims of the chorus (“I’ve got a list of songs here I once thought were the bomb, but when I laid them down in Pro Tools they all came out wrong.”).
The result is a bit of a paradox really: a bunch of failed concept songs to make up the body of a concept song. Some are more amusing than others, but they all gel with the ingenuity of a beat made from a mix of electro distortion and the Tetris theme. Allusions to Jay-Z’s '99 Problems’ are clear and warrant no further clarification to those familiar with the track from the Black Album
His music is loved by magazine columnists who claim Lars is the front man of a 'new underground' hip-hop scene that has been bubbling under the surface for years. But you can’t help but second guess that they love it because they are amongst the minority who get the obscure academic references like the name dropping of Jean-Paul Sartre.
A step away from the gangster scene is always refreshing; his approach is brave and his creativity laudable. But sadly throughout the rest of the album Lars slides into the fatal situation common to parodies - the emo and gangster jokes are obvious enough, but it still feels as if MC Lars ends up being the parody himself. Fans will argue that this was the intention, but quite simply, tracks like ‘Generic Crunk Rap’ are un-listenable and reinforce that the premise of parody ensures a limited lifespan for this ‘style’.
It is undeniable that the MC has some moments of brilliance, but these moments exist only as a line from a song or an idea. At the end of the day, MC Lars exploits what we already know is going on, but the depth is lacking… however 21 Concepts is a good 2:49 of fun.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ndit6
tu) and the man himself. Fans have been waiting for more Deck production and nows the time. U-God and Masta Killa feature on the mixtape, along with Decks crew, The Housegang. This will be dropping on Urban Icon Records on 24th July In Europe, 25th in USA.
requel cover, that shit was dope as fuck. Then they ended up changing it with the baby crushing the city "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid" style. But this album is sounding really nice, not vintage Meth but a new directed Meth with re-energised flows and rhymes.