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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.
The Essence by Lowkey
The Essence Lyrics
- I don't know exactly when it started going downhill
- Let's take it back to the days it was about skill
- Before it was sweet boys parading as tough geeza's
- Educated men naming themselves after drug dealers
- When it was a way to vent a mans pain
- Before it became a tool for presidential campaigns
- Before the 50's, Lil' Wayne's and Rick Ross's
- I'm about to show you the essence of what Hip-Hop is
- Before it was about street credibility
- When it was he's alright but he's better lyrically
- Think about the zombies your bad words influence
- Before Hip-Hop became an advert for ignorance
- Before it became Kamikaze
- I'm half Gil Scott-Heron and half Talib Kwelli
- You think getting shot makes you the next best thing
- For every 50 cent there's at least 50 MF Grimms
- And that's grim
- I know you think that this is easier
- But don't believe the flippin' media
- Or what you read on Wikipedia
- It used to be all for the love
- Now pricks are greedier
- This business is sicker than an infant with leukaemia
- I live Hip-Hop, don't disrespect my household
- I'm about to kill these rappers sales like internet downloads
- We've come a long way from the old timers
- Now it's all 360, deals and fucking ghost writers
- Am I controversial cause I'm not commercial?
- Or cause I don't rap like a rapper that wants to hurt you?
- Every man's bragging, making anthems with gang-banging
- I'm like a man standing, over the Grand Canyon
- Hip-Hop broke down barriers like skin tone
- Hip-Hop 2008 is selling ring tones
- Hip-Hop even had your son dressing up in pink clothes
- Is Hip-Hop responsible for your kids soul?
- I think so!
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