Skyzoo - Frisbees
Artist: Skyzoo
Producer: Illmind
Album: Live From the Tape Deck
Label: The Faculty Inc./ Duck Down Music
OK, raise your hand if you expected Skyzoo‘s latest single to be a diss track in which the Brooklyn native compared other rapper’s CDs to every fratboy/golden retriever’s favorite toy. I did, anyway. The truth, however, is considerably more creative: this joint finds Sky tossing out cryptic, tightly-wound punchlines like Frisbees, and challenging listeners to catch them with their brains. (Figuratively, of course.) Illmind mans the boards, creating a gritty synth backdrop for rhymes that’ll take their share of repeat listens to unravel: “Upper echelon, sketch a song, stretch the batter up, call the beat the lactose, pray it keep you padded up…” Lyrics like this might not score Skyzoo a spot in the Top 40, but they’ll certainly earn him a place in the iPods, and hearts, of hip-hop heads on the intellectual side of the spectrum. If you fall into that category, you’ll most definitely want to pick up a copy of Skyzoo and Illminds’s forthcoming collaborative LP, Live From the Tape Deck, set to hit stores and online retailers this October via Duck Down Records.
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Tastemaker Total Ratings: 2065 |
This is a solid effort, Skyzoo brings his best to the mic and it really shows here, the productions matches his flow very well.
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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Tastemaker Total Ratings: 687 |
Good track on the surface. I feel like I need to listen a few more times to really appreciate this. I don't think I caught all his frisbees.
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member |
this is really good. i would buy the EP any day
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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Tastemaker Total Ratings: 2919 |
Skyzoo, I didn't get his album or mixtape when it was released. This though might get me to check it out. His flow reminds me of someone put can't put a name on it.
Production is simple but effective, I mean I'm sitting here nodding and smiling in a daze. Also at the end how they switch it up really brings it for me, lovin' it Skyzoo... |
| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew Total Ratings: 11677 |
What a great musical combo on display. I am looking forward to this album after "Frisbees."
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew Total Ratings: 2476 |
I'm digging Skyzoo's lyrical concept on this - beginning each line with the last word of the previous line - the man's obviously one of the better writers in the game right now, and he's got the flow to match. Dopeness.
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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Banger. Sky is def an asset and illmind is gross! nice track.
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| Posted on Jul 15, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Member |
I have not listened to much Skyzoo but from what i have heard in this song and a few others... He sounds like a beast
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| Posted on Jul 23, 2010 |