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REKS - Why Cry
Featuring: Styles P.
Producer: The Alchemist
Album: R.E.K.S. (Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme)
Label: Showoff Records
Though his last project, In Between the Lines (Vol. 2), has been a regular visitor to our Mixtape Chart, it’s been a few months since we actually heard something new from Boston mainstay REKS. Surely our favorite hip-hop malcontent has found a few more bones to pick since last November? Indeed he has. On album leak Why Cry, the grey-haired emcee once again gives the game a piece of his mind. Over The Alchemist‘s off-kilter beat, an ominous blend of queasy strings and boom-bap percussion, REKS bemoans our lack of true revolutionaries, laying the blame on a culture of superficiality and materialism. D-Block member Styles P seconds that emotion on the record’s latter half, shaking his head at today’s misguided youth: “They got me trippin’ cause they don’t know tradition, or they don’t know addition, just new clothes, but they know the limited edition of a new whip…” Think the collaborators have a point? You’ll be able to show your support in person March 18, when REKS rocks the stage at our Booth-sponsored Austin, Texas showcase The Rising. In addition, be sure to cop his latest album, Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme, when it drops on March 8.
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We often give artists sh*t for picking weak beats to spit over, but we don't applaud them enough for doing the opposite. REKS, more than most emcees, knows how to pick great production. "Why Cry," courtesy of Alchemist, is proof of that and then some. No offense to SP, but a guest wasn't needed.
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| Posted on Feb 22, 2011 |
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Gotta love REKS - production is mad crazy on this track and the rhymes are just alike. Styles was good on the track
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| Posted on Feb 22, 2011 |
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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Styles P was suited to be on this track, nothing special, but decent enough.
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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Hip Hop Lives!!! The Alchemist never dissappoints.
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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Damn. It's such a cliche to talk about "real rap", but this is as real as it gets. That beat's hard as hell without going overboard, and both REKS and Styles First 48 their respective mics. Dope.
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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I can't wait for the album. You know it's gonna be dope with production from Premo, Pete Rock, The Alchemist, Hi-Tek, Statik Selektah, & Nottz.
You guys should have featured 25th Hour (prod. DJ Premier). That track's a classic IMO. |
| Posted on Feb 23, 2011 |
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Has a good beat.
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| Posted on Feb 24, 2011 |
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Resident DJ  Total Ratings: 676 |
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This is what it's about......
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| Posted on Feb 24, 2011 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 18 |
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Pretty solid.......but no classic
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| Posted on Mar 10, 2011 |
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