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Paul White - Rapping With Paul White (One Handed Music)
In a Hip-Hop world of free mixtapes, the album format seems to be dying. Recent ‘mixtapes’ (they’re rarely mixed) like the excellent Danny Brown’s XXX on Fools Gold sometimes set the artist’s audience up with such expectations that they can only fail when it’s time to release something with a price tag on it. Producer albums can suffer a different fate. Often at the mercy of budgets, too many rappers hand in substandard verses or deliberately choose weird beats for the producers albums and pick the bangers for their own records, ultimately leaving the listener with a mixed bag of collaborations with little heart or chemistry and no real album flow. It’s no surprise then, that a guy whose career has been made from creating a flow out of the most disparate influences, should come correct with his first full length vocal LP. Rapping With Paul White by (you guessed it) Paul White takes the best parts of vocal Hip-Hop like witty, rude, playful and clever wordplay, oddball and at times very humorous skits, beats that bang and some weird indulgences and makes it all work by way of his unique palette. Imagine medieval minstrels from Detroit being locked in an 8 Bit video game set in Africa with a power Rock soundtrack and you’re getting close to some of the sounds found on this record. Guests Homeboy Sandman, Moe Pope, Danny Brown, Marv Won and Tranqill all dominate the mic with some highly quotable verses on this record, which just came out this week. If you’re looking for a truly innovative slice (remember when you first heard Jaylib?) look no further than this.
