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British rapper lowkey is rated as one of the best in the underground scene, known for his intelligent and punchy writing abilities, Dear Listener is a great example of Lowkeys style of rhyme. Lowkey tackles the notion that all rappers wear expensive jewellery, politics, racism and peoples egos - Lowkey produces mind opening tracks touching on real subjects in the world which is engages the listener.
Lowkey has had a number of great producers help with the album such as Scram Jones, Styalz Fuego and Q-Tones, the album also features a handfull of sick rappers such as Logic, Mic Righteous, Wretch 32 and more.
Dear Listener features a total of 12 tracks which range from showcasing his lyrical ability to his intense story telling abilities.
Alphabet Assasin is a great track which showcases Lowkeys word play and lyrical abilities, rhyming intensely while moving his way through the Alphabet.
- I’m an anarchist and an angry academic activist,
- axe and assassinate the alphabet in an ambulance
A great track to experience Lowkeys story telling abilites and emotional music has got to be Relatives which features Logic from The Peoples Army. The track features Lowkey and Logic going back to back storytelling about the life of a British Soldier and an Iraqi Boy during the war.
- Logic: Before my uncle left us, he gave me his gun
- Lowkey: my girl just gave me a son
If you're a fan of Lowkey, conscious hip hop or storytelling then you will enjoy this album, every release Lowkey puts out is always a step up from the last.
Rise And Fall by Lowkey
Rise And Fall Lyrics
- Back in the days, I had dreams of rapping on stage
- Imagined listening to radio when my track would get played
- Its tragic I never fathomed that the magic would fade
- Lets take it back to the days when I established my name
- I was over hungry for beats, like the melody was something to eat
- Bars a 100 a week was nothing to me
- Long as I had something deep to crush a sucker and see
- I won battles but in a couple I fumbled; suffered defeats
- I was grinding hard, way harder than other artists did
- At 17 on Choice FM, I went bar for bar with Swiss
- Lyrics for 45 minutes, ready and prepared
- No lie, you can ask anybody that was there
- Simple and plain my CD got critical acclaim
- I began to build an official position in the game
- Quicker than I could think I was fulfilling all my aims
- I miss them days and now its difficult and shit isnt the same
- Everything that goes up must come down
- I was alright before, but Im fucked up now
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- If its not your destiny then its not meant to be
- In the mirror face to face with my worst enemy
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- Before volume 2 dropped, my brother died
- I never stopped I just carried on busting rhymes
- Putting on a brave face but it was still tough at night
- I Couldn't sleep, cos my nightmares were nothing nice
- Volume 2 came out, got love in the press
- Regardless, I was still stressed and fucking depressed
- More successful, the more I felt stuck in a web
- Pain ate away at my soul till nothing was left
- There were rumours about, I heard the dirty sound
- They even tried to say that chance has turned me down
- Everyday they were on the phone tryna get me on that show
- Till I had to tell them straight, look I didn't wanna go
- But I didn't wanna blow, had nothing to prove brother
- In '05 I won an award for best newcomer
- But that shit's all irrelevant
- They say the only thing worse than not getting what you wish for is getting it
- Everything that goes up must come down
- I was alright before, but Im fucked up now
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- If its not your destiny then its not meant to be
- In the mirror face to face with my worst enemy
- Got a bit of success, didn't like it at all
- Its time that I document my rise and my fall
- I just can't handle the chinswagging and the lips chatting
- My issues have me making decisions to quit rapping
- Its funny (why) cos that almost really did happen
- I changed my mind everyday, kept zigzagging
- But Im a lyricist, I live for this, I tried to stop
- Got volume 3 of my chest and hit writers block
- Very pissed, I was getting sick of my topics
- A pad and paper, I couldn't fill a line of it
- Seeing rappers in magazines, I know Im better then
- Cussing has-beens when really Im just a never-been
- Me and my clique would be rich if we were American
- Those negative times are so clear when I remember them
- I hope you heard a bar you can maybe relate with
- Life is strange, it never remains the same; it changes
- It wasn't just memories that made me make this
- Cause we all rise and fall on a daily basis
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