One old day some vague weeks back I was droning through yet another marathon of the mundane, pacing the overworked cursor in my PC monitor down email after trite Microsoft Outlook email about another 'please advise approval', as one does. It's at times like these, which seem to have become many of late!, that I reach for my compact music player around here somewhere. You know how it goes, the 'man's' routine had bled the feeling out of me and left me frighteningly in limbo. Just a dose of that good music, that good sheeet would afford me that coveted revival. And a kiss of life it was.
Enter into the hallowed listening room power house producer, CEO, ambassador for the NAACP (& Duke University Prof!) 9th Wonder clad in his recent offering, The Wonder Year's. This take on the mix tape is coming up unmatched at this moment in my world with an old soul retrospective layering in the production. Its a deft and sufficing mix of beat-making and hook lacing played to part obnoxious, part romantic, part erotic, part sinister, part uplifting all aspirational all mad skills rhyming and MC-ing. Featuring the ever prolific likes of Phonte of Phontigallo and Foreign Exchange fame, Terrace Martin and Marsha Ambrosius among a host of talent and hip hops newest and finest this here is 9th Wonder's ace production and it comes out highly recommended... and highly repeated on said compact music player!
Tracks to check out (but definitely not limited to these) include Streets of Music, Never Stop Loving You and One Night. Click on the link to catch a glimpse of the man behind the greatness.
Enter into the hallowed listening room power house producer, CEO, ambassador for the NAACP (& Duke University Prof!) 9th Wonder clad in his recent offering, The Wonder Year's. This take on the mix tape is coming up unmatched at this moment in my world with an old soul retrospective layering in the production. Its a deft and sufficing mix of beat-making and hook lacing played to part obnoxious, part romantic, part erotic, part sinister, part uplifting all aspirational all mad skills rhyming and MC-ing. Featuring the ever prolific likes of Phonte of Phontigallo and Foreign Exchange fame, Terrace Martin and Marsha Ambrosius among a host of talent and hip hops newest and finest this here is 9th Wonder's ace production and it comes out highly recommended... and highly repeated on said compact music player!
Tracks to check out (but definitely not limited to these) include Streets of Music, Never Stop Loving You and One Night. Click on the link to catch a glimpse of the man behind the greatness.
Also please be advised dearest hip hop head and newcommer to diarise an April future date for the imminent pulling-in of one 9th Wonder and your favourite said MC Phonte. Seasoned crooner, rhymer and word smith Kabomo is set to pave the way for an auspicious night. Stage set up downtown Joburg at the Bassline. Unremitting thanks to the chaps at Urban Phenomenon Entertainment. Their on Facebook. Perhaps I might just put to good use those 'poke' and 'like' buttons afterall.
Listen Up. Drink Up.
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