Sometimes it takes the culture itself to reveal a collaboration so incredible you’ll beat yourself up for not thinking of it earlier!
This is one of those occasions. Two powerhouses in the same track, teasing an album on the way? What more can you ask for! Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand new single by MC THEMELLOS and Producer Vinyl Villain. Both have released an incredible set of music this year that has been critically acclaimed by the underground. Now with his short 1-minute and 17-second teaser track, we can see the magic that these two can bring to the table!
We’ll start with the production. Vinyl decides to bring an aura-filled skeletal track with those long-winded keys accompanied by a light yet immersive vocal humming melody that runs through the whole track, as well as this heavy and thudding drum beat that wraps the whole track together!
All these elements combined make for a raw yet spiritually powerful track. It’s minimalistic and atmospheric at the exact same time and perfect for a MC of this magnitude to set a blaze!
That MC is, of course, THEMELLOS, who wastes no time in getting his verse in. I love how his verse starts off with ‘Please be patient’, it gave me the same vibe of when Nas on ‘N.Y State Of Mind’ starts off his song by ‘I don’t know how to start this track’ and rips one of the best lyrical performances ever.
Same applies here, starts off humble then rips into this instrumental like the rent is due. He talks about his personal experience such as being illiterate and having a speech impediment but that he’s really living that life and he really is HIM.
As usual, he brings his precise and fast-paced wordplay and rhythm. He focuses his street poetry with advanced vocabulary and high energy that makes every word he says bounce with enthusiasm and passion and most of all CONVICTION.
I love his cadence on the song, he knows he has no time to fuck around so he makes every bar, pub and phrase sharp as a razor and brutal in execution!
This teaser got me SO HYPED! For the upcoming album. Will it be fully produced by Vinyl? I fucking hope so. But even if not, I know THEMELLOS is going to kill it and bring it home for the culture!
https://open.spotify.com/track/5sI13JhulTkBVsYzm4zJY0?si=0Y8PoMZGTMS2SpjRyNBO9w
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