Smart Aleck Album Review
We're back before we officially wave goodbye to 2014 and cement the year as an absolute banger for our homegrown scene! Before we close the curtains we have one more review for our loyal readers, this time with a fresh face and sound we've not heard before. Known by the alias of Smart Aleck, a fresh face to the homegrown potent uk hip hop scene. After years of crafting and developing a style, he's ready to unleash it upon the world so let's jump into our review!
Kicking off the album is Welcome To The Grave produced by MOD The Black Marvel of the Godz Wrath team. An intricate beat with a nice violin involved. The lyrics have a decent flow and some good punchlines in their too. Cuts is a hard hitting track, produced by Bronze Nazareth. The lyrics follow a subject matter of old friends who are still heavily into drugs. Spotkiller is a graffiti based track, produced by Ciph Barker of the Godz Wrath team. The beat has a lot of heavy synth work and the lyrics are pure aggression. True To This is were the album starts to calm down. Produced by Smart Aleck, featuring a guest verse from Cyrus Malachi. The beat has a hard-hitting, yet hypnotic feel to it and works well with the added scratches on the hook. Born With A Dream produced by Fred Fades, is carrying on with the calm-ish vibes. Smart Aleck presents a more relaxed style of flow, that accompanies the beat nicely.
Who’s My Love a self produced and written track, covers a depressing subject. An eerie piano loop and deep bass line are the back drop to this song. Sun Kiss Interlude is the instrumental break of the album. A simple yet effective beat of big drums and a crazy guitar sample! What They Didn’t Know is a straight out of the 90’s type of track. A faster pace beat to the rest of the album, working well with the cleverly structured wordplay. Welcome To The Grave Part 2, see’s the 2nd track produced by Ciph Barker. An aggressive style of beat with lyrics to suit it. Muddy Bars, is a slower stranger style of production and lyrics. With a huge bass line and distorted violin, this makes for an original type of song.
Ego Death includes another feature from Cyrus Malachi and Thirstin Howl III. This track is just straight rhyming bar after bar, with some dope scratching to finish it off. The End, produced by Mac Dusty. The beat is filled with big drums and gritty samples, accompanied by a well delivered cynical view of life. Back On Track, the second song produced by Fred Fades. A more up beat type of production, with some slow flowing style of lyrics on top of it. I’ll Be Fine, the second song produced by Bronze Nazareth. A slow melodic beat with depressing pen game, on a straight up getting shit off your chest tip!
