Underground emcee Mr Pen reigns from Dorset and is a new name to come across our hip hop radar, having only discovered his output when he got in touch about his "Talking To A Brick Wall" album featuring 15 tracks. Always eager to discover new heads we delved right into the release and was quickly converted into a believer, completely packed with an abundance of wordplay, conscious rhymes, an array of flows and thought provoking content throughout, it's hard to not find your head bobbin along. Crafted with a variety of producers with the likes of DJ Harmless, Illskam, Tozu, DJ33UK, JJ Beats and plenty more producing for the release you've presented with an album that draws a variety of influences, sounds and genres mixing it up along the way, allowing Mr Pen to showcase his versatility and that's exactly what happens from the moment you hit play! We're going to cherry pick a couple of our favorites from the release below, keep scrolling further to get your free copy of Talking To A Brick Wall below!
One of our favorites is definitely track 5 titled Madness featuring overseas rapper Potent P alongside Mr Pen, delivering hard hitting potent rhymes to the frontal lobe, riding the beat with lucid unstoppable flows they're guaranteed to get your neck snappin! Hit play on Madness below.
Track 9 is also another favorite of ours, titled Pen With The Flo featuring DFlo lacing the uplifting and funky production by Don Producci with fast paced delivery, quality pengame and great humor! It's great to hear emcees just having fun with their skill sets and that's exactly what this track says to me! Check out the official video for Pen With The Flo below!
The last track we're going to pick from the release is track 11 titled Death and Life with yet another quality feature getting busy with Mr.Pen and that's MDB. The production is laid back and reflective oozing consciousness with every sound, both emcees en-light the beat with plenty of thought provoking rhymes, great wordplay, head noddin flows and yet again shows off another side to Mr.Pen. Check it out below!
If you've never heard of Mr.Pen before then correct your selfish ways right now and redeem yourself by copping his Talking To A Brick Wall album below featuring a variety of producers totaling 15 tracks! The release is available for free download and you're also able to specify if you do want to pay! So if you're feeling the release ensure to do that and show Mr.Pen some love! Stay tuned for more this year.