I came to know of Lyrics Born via his guest spots on Blackalicious’ albums, N.I.A. and Blazing Arrows, as well as through his remixes of R.L. Burnside’s “Goin’ Down South” and “Someday Baby” on A Bothered Mind. While I’ve know of Lyrics Born for years, I’d never managed to pick up any of his albums, so with the recent release of Everywhere At Once I decided to remedy that.
Lyrics Born comes outta Berkley, California with (imo) one of the best rap voices/deliveries in the game. That, matched with tight beats, and then fused with hiphop, funk and a dash of electro/rock resulted in an album that is as fun as I wanted it to be and makes me wanna start scooping up his back catalog. LB, Blackalicious and the entire Quannum Projects label are what’s right with hiphop. The fact that hardly anybody knows who they are is what’s wrong.
R.L. Burnside – Goin’ Down South (Lyrics Born remix)
R.L. Burnside – Someday Baby (Lyrics Born remix)
Blackalicious – Do This My Way (feat. Lyrics Born)
Lyrics Born – Don’t Change
Lyrics Born – I Like It I Love It
Lyrics Born’s Official Site, Lyrics Born on myspace, Buy Everywhere At Once
Autopsy IV
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Assuming you haven’t heard it, you should google party ben and get the mash up of “callin out” over the sunay bloody sunday beat.
Lyrics Born – “I Like It, I Love It” premiered on mtvU this week. Here’s the video:
http://www.mtvu.com/music/video_premiere/lyrics_born/