Now, this is the kind of EP I want to see! Although this is only a new artist for me, after the first listen, I could not only hear the potential but become enlightened by his level of creativity and originality! Let’s get into it!
So. This is the latest EP by MC and Producer ‘th3prism’, and on this occasion, he dropped five tracks with one extra bonus track at the end, and all of this is only 11 minutes!
I’m going to start with the production because after what felt like an hour of trying to come up with the best sentence to describe the sound, this is the best I could think of:
‘An intergalactic one-man hip-hop show.’ If that doesn’t sound intriguing to you, then get the fuck outta here! If I read that anywhere on any review, I’d tune in immediately!
But this is how it sounds to me; it’s almost as if th3prism was involved in the events of space battles in ‘Star Wars’, but instead of fighting, he spent his time dropping hot bars and vibing! This EP has a beautiful arrangement of sounds from:
-Synth
-Ambient
-Noise
-Experimental
– Lo-Fi
-Trap
And the way he combines these influences makes for a project that is equally chaotic and hypnotic! This is the kind of EP you listen to if you want to go on a mental adventure and tune out the world around you! It’s absolutely immersive of an experience!
I love how fluent the music itself is. For 11 minutes, he doesn’t waste a single second. He makes sure every track progresses one after another without a single break or awkward transition (you’d expect in this day and age with the technology we have, for that not to be a problem anymore, but it still happens rather frequently), but in this case, his mastery of the music itself and his overall vision for what he wants this project to be, it came out fluently, riveting, and enveloping in all the best ways possible!
As far as the rapping goes, I can’t talk highly enough about what he was able to accomplish on that front! Not only was his production on point, but so was his infectious rhythm, energy, and delivery across these tracks!
He has this focused and intense tone across the beats, like he’s a man with a mission who has tunnel-visioned what he wants to say and preach upon the EP!
I’d consider his way of rapping similar to the likes of ‘R.A.P Ferreira’ or ‘Navy Blue’, with that nonchalant attitude, intense vocabulary, and often cryptic poetry-level bars that would take 50x re-listens to understand a verse.
This is the kind of rapping I grew up with in my teens, so it definitely made me happy to hear the rapping style of his, and combined with that truly atmospheric production, it combined beautifully for an out-of-this-world (literally) and stand-out performance on both fronts.
This EP really impressed me! I couldn’t even fault the project if I tried. The only thing I can think of is that it was too short! I can safely say he’s officially on my radar now, and I can’t wait to hear what he does next!
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KuA0MEckqRKWnJUe8rmtg?si=LlSW85pCSU-vklQ9qtACug
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