Rittz - Geronimo

Artist: Rittz

Producer: DJ Burn One

Album: Unreleased

Label: Slumerican/Strange Music

Though Geronimo is best known as “that guy whose name people yell when jumping from really high up,” Geronimo actually got his moniker through a misunderstanding, when English settlers overhead Mexican soldiers praying to St. Jerome (“Jeronimo!”) in response to the Chiricahua Apache leader and anticolonial fighter’s tenacity in battle. With that semi-unrelated (but interesting, right?) history lesson out of the way, Rittz latest effort finds the Slumerican emcee using the historical figure/exclamation as a springboard for two lyrical portraits of life at the bottom. DJ Burn One mans the boards, delivering a tension-fraught live-band beat as the Georgia repper tells the stories of two individuals chained by poverty, psychological baggage and alcoholism—one of whom bears a striking resemblance to Rittz himself, as portrayed in Nowhere to Run. Heavy stuff, but the artist’s own triumphs over adversity suggest that there’s hope no matter how low one’s fallen. Those digging this outtake can find more fresh, thought-provoking tunes on Rittz and Burn One’s White Jesus mixtape, as well as checking out their contribution to DJBooth & PUMA‘s recent Uncontested EP.

This song first appeared on the Independent Chart on August 8, 2011

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Caveman 305 Tastemaker Total Ratings: 9567	Rating: Caveman 305's Top Rated Songs Rittz is doing good things...
	Posted on Aug 01, 2011

DJ Z DJ Booth Crew Total Ratings: 11856	Rating: DJ Z's Top Rated Songs Burn One told me the story of how this song was created - Rittz heard the beat, and even though Burn had floated the record out to a local ATL group, Rittz recorded over it anyways. And now its on our homepage, so the rest is history. There is a reason we've been co-signing dude hard for the last year plus. Follow @DJBooth
	Posted on Aug 01, 2011

d.C. DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 116	Rating: d.C.'s Top Rated Songs Good stuff.
	Posted on Aug 01, 2011

Leon D Tastemaker Total Ratings: 1069	Rating: Leon D's Top Rated Songs Its a cool smooth listen
	Posted on Aug 01, 2011

Testie McTest DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 17	Rating: Testie McTest's Top Rated Songs Rittz is incredibly talented and noone else in the game is like him. I like how he slows down his flow on this one, it shows versatility.
	Posted on Aug 01, 2011

PrIc3Le$$ Tastemaker Total Ratings: 1306	Rating: PrIc3Le$$'s Top Rated Songs Rittz is on the climb. His "White Jesus" mixtape was very good. But then he does his last single "Triumphant" which was hands down classic material, and this single is on that same level. It shouldn't be long before the volcano erupts in the music industry.
	Posted on Aug 02, 2011

Sunbear DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 699	Rating: Sunbear's Top Rated Songs Yes Rittz is doin good things, I was skeptical at first, but always good to be proven wrong...
	Posted on Aug 03, 2011

Aussie_Accents Tastemaker Total Ratings: 2949	Rating: Aussie_Accents's Top Rated Songs This has a Tech N9Ne feel to it, don't you agree? Not sure if I'm on the Rittz bandwagon yet but I'm really enjoying this track.
	Posted on Aug 03, 2011