After I reviewed his last single, I can honestly say this man rose straight to the top of the list of artists on my radar! He’s easily one of the most passionate and energetic rappers I’ve heard in the past few years, and this latest single proves that even further! Let’s talk about it!
So, this is the latest single by MC FAWKEM, and this time around, he’s determined to shake the whole world up with this banger! I’ve listened to this track five times in a row already, and I’m going to listen 100 times more because this thing goes HARD!
Let’s talk about the production first. This feels like an explosive combination of gritty, hardcore, OG trap, Southern 2000s Hip Hop! From that heavy bass to those melodic vocal harmonies to those 808 kicks going off!! The combination of these three elements reminds me of Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz and early Gucci Mane!
It’s raw, ruthless, groovy, infectious, and hard-hitting all in one! I haven’t heard an instrumental as tough as this in a minute! This brings back memories of my teen years when I first discovered this genre in its purest form, and it stacks up just as well as those artists back then!
Now onto the man of the hour. FAWKEM, as he’s notorious for, goes HARD. I love how he can fluctuate between sounding smooth and collected to hyped up and energetic! That back and forth complements this beat, and not only that, something I’ve noticed that he does, which very few artists pull off, is his ‘freelance’ form of rapping.
Pretty much, it sounds more like he’s just thinking out loud and speaking his mind in the booth rather than spitting written-down bars because of how organic, natural, and fluent the flow feels! He doesn’t have a pattern to when or where he drops bars and manipulates the beat to fit him best with his lyricism and pen game, and that’s what makes him unique!
Overall, I’d rank this two minutes and thirty-seven seconds of some of the hardest, most memorable Hip Hop I’ve heard in quite some time! FAWKEM has that unique ability to leave an impression on everyone he’s on the mic with, and I can’t wait to see what more he has in store!
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