Listen to Cities Aviv. However, I caution you to continue with only a single expectation; get ready to experience another variance of what you think hip hop is or should be. His music is a hybrid of multiple influences melded into shape shifting beat-song. But more importantly, let the music do what it do. Let it move you. We’re on the cusp of an age, an age when labels and categories are shredded and lay bleeding in a ditch. Rap is evolving into whatever its various DIY practitioners need it to be at any given moment. And further, rap will not be contained, it’s busting out at the seams and running naked and rampant towards your eardrum. It is a good time to be alive, and like a surfer let’s ride this Tsunami until the mothafuckin wheels fall off. Peace
Check out Spin Magazine’s Brandon Soderberg as he chronicles Rap’s New Underground. Also, peep Cities Aviv at bandcamp for a “WetDream” personified.
Sample the sample
Scratch the vinyl
Watch the rap ramble
Lyrics like a scalpel, watch ’em bleed.
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